ESX4 inexpensive hardware, CPU and MOBO suggestions
I'm putting together an estimate of the hardware costs for a vSphere ESX4 project. Imagine a google-like rack with just motherboards and power supplies in trays probably booting off USB sticks or PXE...
View ArticleMissing X drivers for Ubuntu 13.10?
I'm setting up a Ubuntu 13.10 guest on an ESX 4.1.0 host. While installing the VMGuest tools, I get this message" "Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used." "Skipping X configuration...
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VM showing up as invalid - failed to find a host for powering on
Hi folks. I have a good sized ESX cluster, with about 20 hosts and Enterprise Plus licensing. I recently did a power down/up of my entire setup, and all but a handful of VMs came back up cleanly. About...
View ArticleVMICTimeProvider?
I'm investigating a time shift issue with several 2008 R2 guests on vSphere 4.0. Time synch between guest and ESX has been disabled in VMTools but one of the customers engineers has asked me to...
View ArticleVm wont Power Off, (esx host shows as being powered on) - Also Pid keeps...
I have followed all docs. How do I get the right PID? The below command outputs a different Pid each time...... ps auxfww | grep -i servername.vmx
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PSOD issue ESX4.1 (following Array have Missing or Rebuilding or Failed...
Dear Team, We have got PSOD issue on one of the esx host, after hard reboot are getting this error and boots then after every 30Mins reboots or PSOD Need ur urgent assistance on the same. regardsMr...
View ArticleI increased hard drive space on a win svr 08 vm, by going to edit settings on...
I increased hard drive space on a win svr 08 vm, by going to edit settings on the vm, I am not seeing the new space on the vm do I need to reboot the vm to see the space?
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 ArticleVMDirectPath of an Adaptec 39160 on an HP DL380 G5
Hi, I Install ESX4 on an HP DL380 G5 with an Adaptec 39160, hoping to use it for a tape library. Unfortunately ESX informed that the host does not support VMDirectPath, although the machine CD-ROM...
View Article4.0.0 Build 171294
Does anyone has more information regarding this? Release notes? Fixes? Very sneaky....
View Articlevmtools adn timesync timezone question
I have a question with regards to vmtools and timezones and the host. When using the timesync feature of vmtool, does it matter what the timezone is set to on the host? Meaning if the vm is eastern...
View ArticlevSphere + Hardware Monitoring Software
Hi Does anyone have any suggestions for vSphere monitoring software which will also monitor ESX server physical hardware. The software would need to alert on hardware failure such as a HDD failing...
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 ArticleScripts - Cloning - Scheduled Tasks for VM's
Scripts - Cloning - Scheduled Tasks Hello... I would like to use scheduled tasks to clone my production VM's on a nightly bases as a form of backups. As i noticed though testing this process, the...
View ArticleCompatibility guide - difference between SAS 9211-4i and SAS 9211-8i
Hi, I have to buy a compatible external PCI RAID / SAS Controler for a server (NEC Express 5800 Rg1). The LSI MegaRAID SAS 9211-4i corresponds to my needs. I've checked the I/O compatibility guide, but...
View ArticleDatastore Free Space Best Practice
Hello, I have a question relating to the amount of free space to leave on a datastore. I recently upgraded to vCenter and with that came along some datastore usage alarm definitions. I see they were...
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 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 ArticleDell Openmanage 6.3.0 on ESX 4.1 error
hi I am trying to install Dell Openmanage 6.3.0 (OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-6.3.0-2075.ESX40.i386_A00.11.tar.gz) on my R900 server which has ESX 4.1 installed on it but it fails with the following error:...
View ArticleHelp needed updating BIOS on a Dell R710
Guys, I need help. I have a Dell PowerEdge server running ESX 4.1 and I'm trying to update the BIOS from 1.3.6 to 2.1.15. I downloaded the correct package but when I run the install it fails and I...
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