ESX host drops out of communication
Ok this one is a little unusual. Here are the symptoms that i've been seeing. The host has had two losses of communication in the past 7 days. One loss of communication was at about 7:30 pm and the...
View Articlealert from host
hello everybody i have e strnge massage thet came from vcenter for ine of my host . i could not explain this message . The massage is as below: test trap received from Vcenter with SNMP Varbinds...
View ArticleAdd Hard Disks for Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
Hi all,We plan to create an Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster in vSphere 4.xHere is the requirements: 1.Node1 should have the following disks during normal operation C drive (VMDK) P...
View ArticleDefining additional iSCSI Software Adapters
My setup is two VMware ESXi 4.1 servers which are clustered. I have a iSCSI software adapter installed and setup on one of my VMware ESXi 4.1 servers. It works fine and I can access the SAN from both...
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 Article"Unable to connect to the MKS: Cannot connect to host [servernamehere] failed...
Anyone has this problem? I loaded vSphere 4.0 from ESX 3.5 host and all seems working fine yesterday, after resume more testings and this error popped up:"Unable to connect to the MKS: Cannot connect...
View ArticleGuest OS AIX on ESX4 Server
Hello : I have one AIX server in which Lotus Domino Application has installed and i want to move this server in virtualize envrionment .As i have explored , VMware ESX server doesnt support AIX Guest...
View ArticleWindows 2008R2 snapshot problem on 4.1
I have problem with snapshots on one of my VMs. And what's strange it started only last friday. One of my DC's on Win2008R2 refused to take quiesced snapshot after clod migration from one cluster to...
View ArticleUnable to start restored Win2003 guest
I am using veeam to backup and restore VMs and I am not having any problems with other VMs either restoring to the problem host or on other hosts. The issue is this: I restore a VM after making a...
View ArticleUnable to connect to MKS: vim.fault.nohost
I have a standalone IBM x3400 server configured as host with ESX4. I installed 3 VM: VM1: Windows server 2003 R2 - Secondary domain controllerVM2: Windows server 2003 R2 - Application serverVM3:...
View ArticleEssentials Plus vCenter linked mode to vCenter standard?
Is it possible (and allowed) to install the vCenter foundation version from the essentials plus bundle in a linked mode to connect to vCenter standard in our central location? like this...vCenter...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions
Dear team, ESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions. Need to understand LAHF and SAHF, and how it's work? RegardsMr VMware
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 ArticleUrgent - How to check VM logs?
We had some issue during weekend, some one deleted few files or something happened? How to find out the root cause analysis? I have exported the logs from vcenter and I got almost 3 GB logs locally?...
View ArticleTP AutoConnect/VC Gateway Services showing up on Servers after VMware tools...
Hi All, Since upgrading to ESXi 4.1 then upgrading VMware tools on our Windows servers we have noticed two services being created - TP AutoConnect Service [Stopped|Manual|LocalSystem] TP VC...
View ArticleSCSI Error
I'm building a VM and using the Paravirtual SCSI controller for my additional disks and I keep getting this error after I restart the server. I configured the system using all LSI Logic SAS and did not...
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 Articlex3650 M2's found Vusb0
Hi, I have a new x 3650 and found tha tthe virtual switch detected Vusb0. What is this NIC used for and when it should be used? Thanks
View ArticleVirtual Machine unavailable during Snapshot
Hello, I wanted to check in with others to see how snapshots affect your VMs. I work in several small VMware environments and have been seeing similar effects when snapshotting VMs. Today I...
View ArticleAlerts and warning in vCenter.
I logged into vCenter this morning and I've found 2 alerts and 1 warning they are below. 1. Alert - Memory Device 12 DIMM 12 Status: Uncorrectable ECC CurrentState: Assert2. Alert - Processor...
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