Problem with Vmware Networking
Hi Everyone, Good Morning! I am newbie to VMware. I am using Vmware Vsphere 4.0 ESXi on a server having two physical NIC adapter. I am confused with a scenario in networking that it like below: 1. I...
View ArticleESX 4.1.0 Unable to mount NAS
Hey all, I'm currently trying to add a NAS datastore (Ubuntu Samba server) to my ESX machine and am having some issues. I am able to ping the NAS server using vmkping, I have the NFS Client added under...
View ArticleWill HA and DRS work if Vcenter is down?
Hi Guys, I just wanted to know whether HA or DRS will work if my vcenter goes down for some reason. If yes how does it have the cluster information with itself for restarting the machine and to adjust...
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 cluster with shared VMDKs
The way we have our SAN cut is front end Celerra handing out NFS file systems visible to our 5 ESX hosts (one is actually ESXi). Anyway, physical luns are only handed out to our physical servers, so...
View ArticleESX 4.1 582267 Vmware Tools
I moved a vm (server2003) to this host and I get: "No VMware Tools package is available.The VMware Tools package is notavailable for the guest operatingsystem "Other"." vCenter 4.1 can't install the...
View Articlebackup failed with DiskLib_Check() failed for source disk The file specified...
Hi all, I'm working with a backup script on my ESX4 hosts. Unfortunately one of the new created VM's won't to be backup.I allways get this error message: DiskLib_Check() failed for source disk The file...
View ArticleIntel i350-T4 not recognized
Hey folks, Just installed a new NIC, Intel i350-T4. esxcfg-nics -l does not show the NIC, but lspci shows this: 0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1521 (rev 01)0e:00.1...
View ArticleLost SNMP Access
I've just upgraded our ESX cluster by adding 10G NIC's. One of the hosts required me to swap two cards around (one quad port Gb NIC moved to a PCIEx4 slot to free up the PCIEx8 slot for the 10G...
View ArticleFailed ESX 4.1 Host need to move Guest
Hi I ran into an issue today when I came into work. We have a 2 ESX Hosts in a cluster with HA turned on. One of the Servers in vCVenter was disconnected and when I looked at the Host Console it had a...
View Articleesxi 5.1 - Unable to connect to NFS server - FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-x86
I get "Unable to connect to NFS server" when I try to connect to FreeNAS NFS share using ESXi 5.1, but both can connect to NFS share on linux. Further linux can connect to the share on FreeNAS. I...
View ArticleDatastore 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 Articleenable incoming SSH as root user on ESX 4
hi Howto enable incoming SSH on ESX 4 to connect from any PC in LAN as root user via putty?In vSphere Client under Security Profile -> Firewall SSH Server und Client are already enabled but it...
View ArticleVMDirectPath USB settings not sticking
When I try to configure USB devices for VMDirectPath passthrough, everything seems to work fine. My hardware appears to support this, I can check the USB devices, and the administrator tells me to...
View ArticleCreate New Virtual Machine is greyed out
I can't create a new virtual machine in vSphere client. Right clicking the host or going to File > New Virtual Machine is greyed out. It seems like most administrative functions are greyed out,...
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Recovering accidental deleted VM's in ESX4.0
Hi, I accidently deleted a VM (centos) in ESX-4.0 and was not able to recover the data on the same. Could any one please help on this. ESX server was configured with RAID-1 (DISK MIRRORING) which is a...
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Issue with iSCSI device not showing up under "DataStores"
I really don't know what I did, but I was trying to extend a iSCSI LUN. Using OpenFiler. I have a cluster, currently mixed w/ ESX 4.1 and ESX 5 hosts. My ESX 5 hosts I was able to get the iSCSI LUN...
View ArticleVeeam and NFS
Hello, Trying to get some more understanding of the architecture. I did some reading on the Veeam site but still a little vague. I have used NFS years ago with a linux machine attached to the share....
View ArticleFedora 18 desktop half mess in virtual machine
Hi, I installed virtual machine - Fedora 18 by all default configuration , in my ESX server 4.0. After install success, I login and found that desktop is half mess. This mess never happened in previous...
View ArticleCould not find any recognizable digits.
After downloading an .OVA to a VM server. I try using the Deploy OVF Template tool, but when I hit the next button from the deploy from file selection I receive the following message Error The OVF...
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