SAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 changer does not appear on the VM's Device manager
Hi All, I have an ESX 4.1 host and a VM that is running Windows 2008R2 OS. And a SAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 and HP SAS controller is pluged in to host machine. On the VM's device manager there is a...
View ArticleBest Practices to increase disk space inside a 2003 Guest while transforming...
Hello there, I have been asked to increase disk space inside a Windows Server 2003 Guest. The Virtual Machine Virtual Disk is a single Thick 150 GB Virtual Disk. Maximum Virtual Disk size allowed...
View ArticleAfter 4.0 Upgrade - Alarm: "Status of other host hardware objects"
I've been trying to search around and see if anyone else has gotten this error message and can't find the meaning behind what this cryptic message means. Warning on Host: Status of other host...
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No network adapters were detected.
Since I had troubles for configuring passthrough, I had changed server, and I met other problems.. Installing ESX4.0 by graphical mode is unable, and when I select Graphical one, text mode was just...
View ArticleGold Build Tuning Windows 2008 R2
Hi Guys I'm currently trying to create a fresh gold build of Windows server 2008 R2 for our templates, looking for some tuning tips to speed up, tweak, tune, optimize, generally make the image as fast...
View Articlerandom network Performance on host, inter-host
network performance issue between host communication etc. we have 3 esx4 host in infras. lets say esx 1/2/3 esx 1 has VM A B C D esx 3 has VM F G H I When copying files from vm A to F , noticed speed...
View ArticleChanging block size of datastore from 1 MB to 4 MB
Hi, I've installed an ESX. The system automatically partition to have the block size of 1 MB which is 256 max virtual hardisk. How can I change to 4 MB Block Size taking into consideration there...
View ArticleWill HA and DRS work if Vcenter is down?
Hi Guys, I just wanted to know whether HA or DRS will work if my vcenter goes down for some reason. If yes how does it have the cluster information with itself for restarting the machine and to adjust...
View ArticleDoes ESX 5 support NFS version 4.1
just curious to know if ESX 5 supports NFS version 4.1 -srinivas
View Article[VMware vCenter - Alarm Network uplink redundancy lost] Lost uplink...
I often get these alerts on one of our servers in our environment. We run VMware ESX 4.1 on 5x Dell PowerEdge Servers each of similar spec, they all have 2x NICs that plug into a Cisco Infrastructure...
View ArticlePhysical to Virtual Conversion with No Downtime
With vSphere 4, much of the documentation totes P2V conversions without any downtime... Could someone please explain this process to me? As far as I can tell, there still must be a time when no data...
View ArticleHow to find all UUID for VM
HI, I want to login to esx console and find all UUIDs assigned to VMs. How can i do that? thnx, kaushik
View Articlenic link down but nic shows status lights (esxi)
Hello all, I have a bit of a weird problem and I'm not having much luck with the search option. Let me describe how I got to the point I am at with this: We have about 29 VM's running on our vmware...
View ArticleCan't logon to the vCenter Server
Just had a strange problem. Been able to logon to our vCenter server without any problem. All of a sudden I am getting this message Call "ServiceDirectory.QueryServiceEndpointList" for object...
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Windows 2008 R2 + ESX4 + vCenter Client Console = FREEZE
Hello, i reproduced this several times now and also found a coressponding thread in the microsoft newsgroups, (...
View ArticleCheck ESX Hosts via SNMP
Hi @ all i want to check my esx hosts systems via snmp. (snapshots/drive usage, etc...)In our environment i use snmpget to fill my "checkssystem" nagios. So i search for some doc´s to configure it,...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 VM hangs
Hi vPros; I've got a problem running af Windows Server 2008 R2 on a vSphere4 host. The installation completes, but certain simple opperations will cause the OS to hang (at a Windows level). One such...
View ArticleNeed help on the memory limit setting for VM
Hi All, I am new to the vmware technology, Please help me out to understand the Limit attribute on vm memory setting. I just refers through some site and made a conclusion that , the limit is the...
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 Articleinfiniband and esxi 5.0
I have an infiniband card in my esxi 5.0 server I'd like to utilize. I see mellanox only provides drivers for esxi 4.0. Can someone point me in the right direction to find drivers for esxi 5.0?...
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