vSphere Client could not connect with the vCenter Server "servername"
Details: The server took too long to respond. (The operation has timed out) We have an existing ESX3 environment with vcentre server 2 managing.I have built 3rd ESX server ESX4, and installed vcentre...
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 ArticleStateless event alarm - False Alarm
Hello, We are receiving false alarm from our vCenter for a particular hosts. I have been receiving this alarm few months backup on all my hosts, after re-configuring the alarm would stop generating...
View ArticleVMXNET2/VMXNET3 boot problems with Microsoft WDS
Hi, We're currently using vSphere 4.0 and we're in the process of migrating our VMs from the nic driver e1000 to VMXNET3. We're also using Microsoft Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to deploy new...
View ArticleHow to set DHCP for VMs in VMware ESX 4?
Dear Friends I create three host that all of them configure in VLAN 2 that is not in DHCP and never configure auto IP for the machines that in that VLAN.In one of these hosts, I have two vswitches, one...
View ArticleWindows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit - Unable to connect to the MKS:Internal Error
Hi there I found out, when i connect to a freshly installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bits English with SP1 Computer where i did install the vSphere Client (latest Release) and i connect to the Virtual...
View ArticleDisappearing virtual network device under Windows 2008 R2 SP1 in vSphere 4.1
Has anyone seen an issue where after an upgrade from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2008 R2 SP1 the virtual network device suddenly and somewhat randomly ejects itself from the VM causing the virtual...
View ArticleHost swap memory error
I am using veeam monitoring 5 tool for monitoring the ESX host machines in which i am receiving following message "Host swap memory error” Please help out that how can fix this issue.
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 ArticleESX 4 NTP Client Will Not Synchronize with NTP Server on 3Com Switch/Router
ESX 4 (and this also applies to ESX 3.5) uses version 4 of the Network Time Protocol by default and will not synchronize with 3Com switches and routers running 3Com Comware 5, e.g. the 5500G switch...
View ArticleDisk alignment VMFS + NTFS
Hi I have created a 600GB volume on a Dell Equalogic PS 6000x SAN.I have created a VMFS Datastore on this volume.I have insalled a Win2k8 Virtual Machine on this VMFS datastore with 40GB operating...
View ArticleSNMP trap: This trap is sent when a virtual machine detects a loss/regains in...
Hello, I am implementing System Center Operation manage 2007 R2 with Quest QMX extension for VMware.I started monitoring SNMP traps from ESX servers over QMX tool after that I recieved from all virtual...
View ArticleLosing pings during creation/deletion of snapshots
We are using Vizioncore vReplicator to replicate one of our file servers every hour. This server is experiencing network timeout in applications/reporting services that connect to other servers. I just...
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SAS connected Library support
Hallo We have a client that would like to put a HP Data Protector Cell Manager and Media server on a VM on 4.1 According to HP the Cell Manager is supported on a VM. We would just like to find out if a...
View ArticleUnexpected Shutdown Of Guest - Legacy API Shutdown
Hi, We currently have 8 ESX servers with vSphere 4.4.0/vCenter 4.0.0 One of our guests unexpectedly shut its self down. I got the following error in the event viewer. The guest is running Server 2008...
View ArticleCleanup: Unable to delete generated zip file
I am finding the following message in the jointool-0.log in D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\temp 2011-11-30 14:49:28 INFO] Creating new record with data: id: '1073743327' data_type:...
View ArticleDefragment VM (vmdk) on ESX 4.1
Hi All, I have few Windows 2008 Servers running as VM on ESX 4.1.SCOM/Microsoft reports that we need to we need to defragment the VM's.Can you please let me know the way on how can I defragment the...
View ArticleMonitoring ESX 4.1 with Nagios XI
We are running Nagios XI 2012R1.1 and are trying to monitor our ESX 4.1 hosts. I ran the Nagios XI vmware monitoring wizard but I can't seem to get Nagios XI to monitor a vmware ESX 4.1 host service...
View ArticleHost showing as disconnected
hi all, ****************************Environment: 1 ClusterHosts: 8x ESX4.1U2**************************** I have a bit of issue with one of our hosts. vCentre is seeing the host as disconnected even...
View Article[ESX 4.0 U2] Change Both Host and Datastore grayed out
Hi, We have a VMware 4.0 U2 environment with 4 ESX hosts. We have 2 clusters with 2 hosts located in each cluster. Each cluster defines a physical building and both buildings are about 4KMs appart....
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