Migrate VMs from 3.5 esx to 4.1 esx need urgent help
Dear Team,I have one esx3.5 and running 2 production VM which are stored on local storage, no fc connectivity available , Standard License is used.we are in procees to migrate these VMs on esx4.1, but...
View ArticleVMICTimeProvider?
I'm investigating a time shift issue with several 2008 R2 guests on vSphere 4.0. Time synch between guest and ESX has been disabled in VMTools but one of the customers engineers has asked me to...
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help need to passtrough device
Dear Team, I have one tape drive card installed on my ESX, then added the same as passthrough by following this KB article KB: 1010789 following is the snap then I have added that a PCI device on one...
View ArticleIncrease VM disk size in vsphere client?
If I increase the disk size of a guest in the vSphere client by going to the VM's Edit Settings shown in the screenshot - is that the equivalent of the command line "vmkfstools -X 100GB whatever.vmx"?...
View ArticleESX mount command
Hi All, We have a mixed environment of 2 ESX 4.1 and 1x ESXi . I am running the mount command on the the two ESX 4.1 servers and it doesn't show the san storages which have been mounted under the...
View ArticleHow to install Broadcom NetXtreme II Ethernet Network Controllers drivers on...
Hi All, Can anybody let me know how to install Broadcom NetXtreme II Ethernet Network Controllers drivers on ESX 4.1.0, 800380? Specific commands pls let me know, Installing from ILO HP Blade Proliant...
View Articlelost access to volume (local disk) on hp gl 380 g6
We've had this box crash 3 times on us. I found this error with it not being able to talk to its local hard drives. If you look at the drives physically, there is no activity. Anybody see this? Any...
View ArticleDetected Invalid Snapshot Configuration Error
I had a vm with two virtual disks. One of the virtual disks was stored with the vm and other one on a different datastore. The vm was running on two snapshots. The snapshots were taken using both the...
View Article"A specified parameter was not correct" error when modifying networking
I've got 5 identical ESX hosts that I just built. I'm not sure what has changed on one of them, but I can no longer modify network settings. If I try to add a port group, link a NIC, or almost...
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...
View Articleunable to read the block at offset
I am attempting to Convert a physical Windows 2003 Server to VM Server and after it starts and says it's starting to clone volume "C" I get "Warning": Unable to read the block at offset xxx,xxx,xxx on...
View ArticleESX4.1. Installation – No standard keyboard supported on hardware platform,...
Hi, I am trying to install ESX 4.1 on one of our bord, but we are getting below error, During the ESX 4.1 installation, we observed that it reports error “i8042.c: No controller found. “ For this...
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 ArticleSwap: vm 5342: 2457: Failed to open swap file...
Hello, we're running ESX 4.0 on our hosts. when i backup or copy larg file (More than 1TB) the host is disconnect and vCentter acnnot connect guest but guest it can run normally.We can use SSH to login...
View ArticleDatastore Increase Button Greyed out
Hi All, I checked couple of articles and could not find any solution, I have VMFS 3.21 & 3.31 which are showing Increase button greyed out. I am able to increase other few datastore on the same...
View ArticleDatastore Free Space Best Practice
Hello, I have a question relating to the amount of free space to leave on a datastore. I recently upgraded to vCenter and with that came along some datastore usage alarm definitions. I see they were...
View Articlehot add memory - windows 2008R2
Hi, Vsphere 4 update 1 - I need toincrease memory on my windows 2008 R2 enterprise box. Is hot add memory supported for windwos 2008R2 enterprise edition? Is hot plug CPU supported?...
View ArticleMy Microsoft cluster service keeps failing
I have two virtual machines on two separate ESX 4 hosts. Each VM is running Server 2008 Enterprise with Failover Clustering installed. SQL 2008 Enterprise is installed on the cluster. MSDTC and SAP...
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 ArticleCannot delete corrupt vswp file
Hi, I have an "ESX 4.0.0 build-193498" system which I am trying to recover after a power outage. One of my VMs won't power on because of a problem with the swap file. The vmware.log file shows:...
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