ESX 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 add hot swap sata hard drive
Specs:Server:33650 M3OS: ESXi 4.1.0RAID config: RAID 0 Hi Everyone, I just bought a 500GB hot swap hard drive, based on the above specs, how do i configure it to become a data store? VM host cant seem...
View ArticleThe warning bar "Number of active connections has changed" keeps popping up...
Hi guys, While running ESX 4 with any OS VM I keep getting the "number of active connections has changed. There are now 2 active connections to this console" message. I know in ESX 3.5 if you...
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 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 Articleesx 4.1 syslog2remote
Good afternoon, I faced such problem: I want to send a log to the remote machine, to the custom port 1530.I opened proceeding port:Opened ports: syslog : port 514 udp.out...
View ArticleUPS and ESX
Hello All I have UPS (APC) and I will going to configure both. Normally I installed agent in operating system (windows server) and If power off the agent will shutdown window server. How can I in...
View ArticlevSphere Web Access
Hi, for some reason standard users are able to enter the web access and see the vm machines I gave them permissions on but the remote console is not working for them. Of course if I give them...
View ArticleNetwork Uplink Redundancy Lost
I have 3 ESX 4.0 servers in a cluster and one of them is reporting "Network Uplink Redundancy Lost". 2 NICs one the server are configured as a DMZ vswitch. One of the NIC's (vmnic6) "Observed IP...
View ArticleVsphere Permissions to "Delete from Disk"
I have a select number of users that need to be able to delete VMs from Vsphere. I created a new role with the virtual machine > Inventory > Remove privledge. The problem is, these users are also...
View ArticleSet the size of the first storage volume during ESX4 install
How does one set the size of the first storage volume created by the ESX4 installer? As far as we can see the installer insists on creating a VMFS3 volume which consumes all remaing free space on the...
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 ArticleUpdate Manager: "Host cannot download files..."
I'm currently unable to scan, stage or remediate any of my ESX hosts using Update Manager. I get the usual error: Host cannot download files from VMWare vCenter Update Manager patch store. Check...
View Article[vSphere ESX 4.1] Windows Server 2008 R2 Memory Utilisation
Good afternoon, I see a number of open threads regarding this topic, but not specifically related to vSphere 4.1. As part of an implementation of an entirely fresh vSphere 4.1 deployment, a series of...
View ArticleESX 4.1 - Unable to Delete Datastore
I have 3 ESX 4.1 servers managed by vCenter ( not clustered ). I have moved all VMs off of ESX1 and am attempting to delete a secondary datastore. The datastore is empty and I have the server in...
View ArticlevCenter 4.1/ADAM issues
Hi all, I have had issues adding two vCenter servers to linked mode since upgrading to 4.1. Hoping to get it fixed I have uninstalled vCenter, removed ADAM and attempted to reinstall. But I keep...
View ArticleESX SNMP Configuration (for HP SIM) & sending an ESX Test Trap via SNMPTRAP
Greetings. I recently needed to configure / fix my ESX servers to communicate properly over SNMP to my HP SIM server. Note: This is for ESX 4.1 and HP SIM 6.2. There were many problems I needed to...
View ArticleStarting vmware-aam:Timed out waiting for vmware-aam to startup......
VMware ESXi 4.1.0 build-260247 -- This server is out of the management of my virtual center... the server is up and functional.. tried restarting the mangement agents on the server using...
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ESX 4.1 and vCenter only allows use of 1 Fibre Channel LUN
Hi,I have 8 ESX 4.1 (build 348481) blades in a Cisco UCS 5108 chassis. Each blade has 2 x HBAs available. I also have a Fiber channel storage array that is configured to provide 2 1.8 TB LUNs (for now...
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