Dell R910 + Equallogic in ESX 4.0
Dear all, We are after some advise on setting up our new ESX hosts.We have just purchased 3 new Dell R910's to replace our old 2950 hosts. One thing we are struggling to work out is how to allocate the...
View ArticleDisk out of space - best practices
Hi, running vspher 4.0 update 2 - windows 2008R2 enterprise guests. the log drive 100GB e:\ is quickly running out of disk space and I need to grow it larger.The e: drive LUN is presented by a dell...
View ArticleIBM HS22 - High latency to shared datastore over FibreChannel
Hi, I've just installed and configured two new hosts for our environment, ESX13 & ESX14. They're identical IBM HS22 blade servers both with ESX 4.1 U1 installed. In order to make sure everything...
View ArticleEsxi 4.1 /var/lib/vmware/hostd/stats/hostAgentStats-20.stats size too big
Hellorecently i have faces a issue in which vspere esxi server started going to ont connected state in vcenter one by one . when i checked disk utilization and found that hostdstat was100% filledmight...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS: The remote host certificate has these problems:
Hi, We have a 4 ESXi host cluster all running vSphere 4.1. Recently i started to upgrade them to update 2 and all the additional patches. After upgrading the vCentre Server to the latest version (or...
View ArticleVMtools Upgrade
Hi, Quick question on this as I haven't got a test environment to hand to try it out. If I enable the vm settings option to upgrade vmware tools on a power cycle, will it check for an upgrade when a VM...
View ArticleESX 4.1 SNMP Problem
Hi I have a couple of hosts that are not longer communicating with our monitoring system through SNMP. Is there a recommended way for restarting the snmp agent on the host? Thanks in advance
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how to check where the ESX i 4.1 is installed
Hi, Greetings, We are in a process of upgrading ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5. while going through the ESXi 4.1, not able to see the local VMFS datastore of that ESXi server, but if i go though the storage...
View ArticlevCenter Server linked Mode. Error 28039. Setup cannot join vCenter Server to...
Hello, I have the next error when I try to configure the server linked mode: "Error 28039. Setup cannot join vCenter Server to the linked mode group. Refer to C:\documents and...
View ArticlePromiscuous mode does not work
Hello all. Please correct me if I am wrong. But we have this setup; one vSwitch is connected to one vNic. This vSwitch has two PortGroups. Each portgroup only has one VM. PG1 has Promiscuous Mode...
View ArticleNIC unseen by ESX but seen by lspci
This may be a simple solution but I am failing to find resolution. Running ESX 4.0 on Dell R710 with a quad-port NIC on Motherboard and quad-port NIC in PCI1, powered down the system to add a second...
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 ArticleAPIC 1703: Thermal Interrupt PCPU 0
One of my ESX servers is getting continue errors: APIC 1703: Thermal interrupt on pcpu 0. I have been unable to find any info on this - help anyone? ESX 4.1.0 kernal build 260247. Running on HP...
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 ArticleMixed memory sizes in Dell R710 to achieve 1333mhz speeds versus 800mhz
We have some Dell R710's that were originally ordered with 48GB in a 12x4GB 1333mhz config (RDIMMs). We ordered 6 additional 4GB 1333mhz memory sticks to fill out all 18 banks for a total of 72GB. The...
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Slow performance on SAN with 10Gbe via VMXNET3
We have built a SAN using Nexenta and 10Gbe for our VMWARE environment and with some tweaking and testing I am able to hit up to 1GBytes (not Gbps) per second to the SAN using iSCSI from a Win 7 Guest...
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 ArticleDiskLib_Check() failed for source disk The system cannot find the file...
I am running a virtual machine on vSphere 5 which is having multiple snapshot. Now found that the server is not responding properly and tried to restart but could not. Ultimately had to restart the ESX...
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 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...
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