Question about Fake NUMA
Hi all,I there a question about Fake Numa. What is the best practices with fake numa ? I run health check and return follow informations: HOST# NODESTYPENUMA NODE INFOvmware01.aaa.bbbb2Fake NumaNODE...
View ArticleRealtek Nic support for ESX 4.1 U1
Dear Guys, I will install Vsphere ESX 4.1 U1 on a new PC with an Asus motherboard with Intel I5 CPU for test purpose. I have a problem in the Installation Process because Vmware ESX 4.1 didn't...
View ArticlevSMP on 12-core AMD/16-core AMD
Hi All, I have been seeing relatively poor performance on a CPU intensive 8-vCPU VM (W2K8) compared to a 4-vCPU VM (W2K8) on a HP DL585-G7 server with 4 x 12-core AMD Opteron 2.1GHz processors. I have...
View ArticleSpecify virtual disk size beyond 256 GB
I'm editing the seetings on a VM to have another drive.When I create a disk I select the disk size, 1TB. I point to the datastore location of LUN 30 (2TB).When I click next I get the following message:...
View ArticleRestart Management Service
Hello!i have a problem with a snapshot-task. I want to delete a snapshot and get the message that another task is running.Now I found that I have to restart the esx management services. But from this...
View ArticleRDM is really required ?
RDM is really required because of performance reason I have veeam backup repository , the repository partion is an RDM , recently we faced disastor suddenly RDM lost and also the data ? Please advise
View ArticleNetwork Redundancy - HP c7000 - GbE2c Switches
Hi, We've recently taken delivery of a c7000 BladeSystem Enclosure and I'm in the process of getting it up and running and integating it with our existing VMware vSphere environment. At present all I...
View Articleipmi_si_drv module cannot loaded and server hangs
hi all, I installed VMWare ESXi 4.0 in Sun Fire Machine and used for quite a long time. But suddenly following error occured."initialization for ipmi_si_drv failed"Once the server booted it will loaded...
View ArticleI'm seeing cpu freezes at random in most of my VMs ESX4.0.0
I'm seeing CPU soft lockups in most of my VMs. Some of them freeze completely, some of them require rebooting after a freeze, some of them shake it off and keep running. I'd really like to understand...
View Article[Question] - Why does the Virtual Machine always like to come back or stay or...
Hi Expert, In my environment, I have 5 hosts. Host A, B, C, D, E. One day host A down, and inside host A there are VM1, VM2, VM3. When host A was down, all VM1, VM2, VM3 migrated to other hosts(I...
View Articlemount root partition of esx 4.1 in rescue mode from livecd
Hi guys! I have problem with recovering esx 4.1 upd 3 server. To my shame i deleted /lib64/libc-2.5.so -->/lib64/libc.so.6 link and rebooted a server. So now esx makes a core dump and won't start...
View ArticleProblems making changes in console, don´t refresh in vpshere graphical client
First, thanks in advance.When you make a change to one of the disks using vmkfstools (vmkfstools - eagerzero / ******* / Cluster1/Cluster1_2.vmdk) do not see the change on the client.The same disc is...
View ArticleRestore Windows Server 2008 in vsphere
Dear all, I read a document state that we can backup Windows Server 2008 and restore to another server. I test it on VMware workstation is fine but when I do the same in vsphere esxi 4.1 then it does...
View Articleutilizzo memoria
se guardo l'allocazione di memoria di un server virtuale (windows server 2008 R2 virtualizzato in esx 4.1)dalla console di vmware vsphere mi dice che alloco 4 gm di ram , se invece faccio un bel task...
View ArticleESX 4 U1 Hosts Lock with SD 0:0:0:0 still retrying after 360s
We just upgraded fro ESX3.5 to ESX 4 U1 a few weeks back. We are running on a IBM Blade Center S with HS21-7995 blades and using the SAS RAID Module for Storage. On two occasion all the ESX hosts...
View ArticleVFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0
I was trying to make kickstart iso for unattended installation of ESX 4.1. I followed the procedure mentioned here: http://www.vmprofessional.com/index.php?content=kickstart_2 But this step we need to...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 NTP client fails to synchronize with local (WIN2K8 DC or WIN2K8) NTP...
I have recently deployed 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts and added our virtual machines on it. Everything went smooth except for NTP client configuration : There is no synchronization happening, ever. Our Windows...
View ArticleVMs Intermittently Loosing Connectivity with other VMs on the same VLAN
Folks, I had posted this question before as part of a similar situation another member had been experiencing. I'll repaste my situation as well as include the link to that post. Here's the deal: We are...
View ArticleError when trying to create Windows Home Server 2011 VM on ESX4.1
I'm running ESX 4.1.0 (build 348481), and I'm trying to create a VM for Windows Home Server 2011. I set it up as a standard Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, with 4GB memory and a single processor. I...
View ArticleESX 4.1. Disable TCP Checksum offload
Hi All,This is my first post on this forum. We have problems with connection between application server and sql server. Both servers are running Windows server 2008 R2 and are hosted on the same ESX....
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