VM’s DNS registration deleted when upgrade VMtools
Hello. We're having issues in one environment with some Windows VMs. I'm going to explain the scenario: Previous scenario:- All the hosts were ESX 4.0.- VMs had several E1000 NICs.- VMware Tools were...
View ArticleIn-Guest iSCSI vMotion Support
Hi, we're using in-guest iSCSI using Microsoft iSCSI Initiator to host our Exchange 2010 volumes. We just noticed that snapshots are not supported, can anyone advise if vMotion is supported with this...
View Articlenetapp missing paths
Hi, I have an odd problem where one of the controllers on our netapp fas3140 died over the weekend, everything failed over to the remaing controller as it should. However, the failed controller is now...
View ArticleRescan doesn't show new LUNs on FC HBA...need to reboot?
On our ESX 4.1.0 boxes, we attached an unused FC HBA from each server to a new SAN and presented LUNS. The HBA's always did show up in vCenter, but I expected that after doing a "Rescan All" the new...
View ArticleUnable to connect to ESX 4.1 Host
Bare with me. I have some experience using VMWARE but less on the hardware side of things. Someone else setup our environment so I am learning as I go here. I have a Dell blade chassis with 4...
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All Path Down issue when trying to upgrade the ESX 4.1 server ?
Hi, Can anyone here please assist me with the issue that I'm currently facing when trying to upgrade one of the ESX 4.1 host into ESXi 5.1u1 by mounting the .ISO file through ILOv2, it is currently...
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...
View Articleissues with data transfers and speed copying data into virtual machine
i have as small vmware 4.1 enviroment. I have 30gb id like to transfer into a vm on my host. My san has 10gb iscsi connectivity. My front end switch where my VMs connect is 1gb. if i connect a usb...
View ArticleCannot do Storage Vmotion of an VM which has RDM attached
Hi, Iam unable to to storage vmotion for an Virtual Machine which has around 8 RDM attached to it. I see the error incompatible device backing specified for device '0'. can anyone let know why is the...
View ArticleHelp recreating .vmdk descriptor files **André**
The datastore where my vm is located became "full" and it has corrupted the vmdk files and now my vm will not "Power On" I receive the error "File <unspecified filename> was not found. I believe...
View ArticlevServer - tomcat6 memory usage HIGH
I have installed vSphere vServer on a virtual machine with 2GB RAM and I am noticing that Guest Memory is at 99%. According to taskmanager, tomcat6.exe is using 729MB RAM. Anyone know how I can fix...
View ArticleWindows Guest disk defrag necessary? VSphere 5.x
Is there a recommended solution for defragging disks on Windows guests in this type of environment? --- VSphere, ESXi, Version 5, using iSCSI SAN environment (both RDM and LUN to LUN utilized), Windows...
View ArticleWhat is VSphere?
What is VSphere?, EXS4? and Cloud Computing or Cloud Operating system? Could anyone please explain there terms in single line, I mean single line definitions? Are VSphere and Virtual...
View ArticleESX v4.0 - Recvd. ACPI power event from the vmkernel
I am running a xServer x3550 with VMware 4.0.0 as shown below : + + + # vmware -vVMware ESX 4.0.0 build-164009 + + + In the middle of past Sunday, 10 am, nobody working (in theory), the machine...
View ArticleHow to make ESX 4 and IBM Tape Library TS3200 work together ?
HW config: IBM BladeCenter H ( + Brocade(R) 20-port 4Gb Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter ) 3 x IBM Blade Server HS22 ( 2 x Xeon 4C E5540 + QLogic 4Gb Figre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv)...
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 ArticleCisco interface - Port Flapping
Our switch displaying the following when turning on terminal monitor (This is just a few of the offending ports) 46w3d: %C4K_EBM-4-HOSTFLAPPING: Host 00:50:56:98:48:86 in vlan 10 is flapping between...
View ArticleCan't Migrate VM
I am having trouble migrating a VM from a datastore. I am trying to decommission this SAN and I have been able to move all other VM's off except one. I am not able to move it powered on on or off....
View Articleunable to remove dead path from HBA ports vmhba1/2
Hi all, I have a dead path on both the hba ports vmhba1 and vmhba2. I tried rescanning it but no go.I am not sure how to proceed on this ... Please assist me. Here are the details [root@xxxxx...
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...
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