Datastore failed on SAN and esx4 errors vmw_psp_rr:...
Hi I have had a LUN failure on SAN so datastore became inactive . I did a rescan hba and rescan datastores ... host is constantly thowing this on syslogs I have manually removed the datastore by...
View ArticleQuery on ESX 4.1 update
Dear My ESX version is esx4.1 260247 , please let me know if i want to upgrade what series we have to follow i.e. Series 1 downlad direclty update1 ,2 & 3 then install update 1,2,3) following is...
View ArticleESXTOP confusion
I am a bit lost and im hoping someone can help me. For the sake of simplifying what i have i will try explain my issue. Ive got esx 4.1I have my storage nics using the iscsi software adatper (vmhba37)I...
View ArticleLost communication with ESX module
Hello, I have the following problem. We have a View farm with 5 servers. We have installed vShield for use with Symantec Endpoint Protection.When I start vShield Manager and select one of the view...
View ArticleTroubleshooting ESX 4.1 Disk Latency
Greetings, We see high latency for SQL IOs esp. when large IO sizes are involved. ESXTOP output shows SPLT CMD / S for most of the IOs showing high latency. Unfortunately, am not able to find much...
View ArticleReplacing a Virtual Center Server
Morning, I want to replace my current vCenter server (vCentre 4.1 Update2) with new hardware and was wondering about the best way to decommission the current machine. The new vCenter server will be...
View ArticleBest Practice to install VMware Tools
Dear Team, I want to install / upgrade VMware tools on Rhel and SUSE Linux VM, have following queries on the same 1) Before installing / upgrade VMware tools shall i take a clone or snapshot first, if...
View ArticleBad write-performance on iSCSI SAN
Hello community, I've got a question to the following infrastructure: ESX 4.1 U1 on a HP ProLiant DL380G5 with the DLink DSN 2100 10 in iSCSI mode. The SAN is configured to present 3 LUNs to the ESX....
View ArticleCannot do Storage Vmotion of an VM
Hi All, I cannot do a storage vMotion of an Powered ON VM to different Datastore, it is reporting error (VMware Tools installation is in progress on this Virtual Machine. Virtual DVD/CDROM devices...
View ArticleMy Virtual Machine will automatic shutdown, when I login in the windows,why?
My Virtual Machine will automatic shutdown, when I login in the windows,why? when I login windows， 2secends later ，the vm will shutdown also in windows save mode. the os is windows 2003 .and esx 4.1.0...
View ArticleAll VMs in the host machine is powered off
Hi All, All the VMs in our host machine is powered off frequently. Hyper visor is vSpeare 4 . I went through the log file and found error for'Mar 10 15:27:13.817: vcpu-0| CPU reset: hard.Any idea why...
View Articlecannot remove NFS datastore
I noticed that there is a duplicate nfs datastore showing up on one of my ESX hosts. When I try to delete the dastore the VI client throws an error saying "The object has already been deleted or has...
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Unable to extract the OVA file
Hello, i just tried to convert a vm guest (win2003 windows box with 150gb single partition) toan .OVA File. The Export itself was ok, no errors. Run VMware vCenter Converter again to upload the OVA...
View Articlehow to convert VHD to VMDK SCSI device.
hi, i have converted VHD file to VMDK file and put it into SCSI strogae. when i powering on the VM it says disk read error occur. i found that virtual device node is IDE it should be SCSI so that the...
View ArticleUnable to connect to MKS: vim.fault.nohost
I have a standalone IBM x3400 server configured as host with ESX4. I installed 3 VM: VM1: Windows server 2003 R2 - Secondary domain controllerVM2: Windows server 2003 R2 - Application serverVM3:...
View Articleunable to create vmkernel dump file
I have here 4 IBM X3650 M2 (7947-52G) with a clean install ESX 4.0.0 244038 - UEFI 1.07 D6E145FUS (upraded from 1.04) IMM YU0057H 1.10 (upgradd from 1.05) Diagnostics v233 - All 4 have the...
View ArticleVM Defrag
Wondering what people out there are using for defraging Windows Guest OSes running on vSphere (Wondows Defrag or 3rd party)? Is it a good idea to do this like you would a physical machine? I have read...
View ArticleProblems PXE Booting ESX 4.1 VMWare - Error "0xc0000001"
I am trying to PXE boot a VM that is running on ESX 4.1 and while the VM is booting up the PXE image I get the error seen in the attached screenshot. The VMs that I am trying to PXE have either the...
View ArticleUnable to access file since it is locked
Hi, I am running 2 ESX Hosts. On each host I was running just the 1 virtual machine (both of which connect to disks on the same SAN). I have now created another Virtual Machine to run on each host (4...
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ESX 4, MD3000 - Virtual Disk Not On Preferred Path
Hello All, I have two clusterred ESX 4 working on Dell R805 each and it works with Dell MD3000 Matrix. Each ESX has two iscsi controllers, one is with "red" ip range and one with "blue" ip range, then...
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