Removing iSCSI Dynamic Target
Hello, Long story short I have been trying to get my Infortrend ES16-R1130 iSCSI array to work with vSphere but thus far have not been able to. I am able to map the LUN and at one point I was able to...
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ESX 4, MD3000 - Virtual Disk Not On Preferred Path
Hello All, I have two clusterred ESX 4 working on Dell R805 each and it works with Dell MD3000 Matrix. Each ESX has two iscsi controllers, one is with "red" ip range and one with "blue" ip range, then...
View ArticleCisco IP communicator Compatability with Vmware
Hi, I was trying to deploy a vmware View 4.5 infrastructure for a customer with Cisco IP Communicator. I was using PCoIP . But on thin client I am facing an error of "unable to find a proper sound...
View ArticleESX SNMP Configuration (for HP SIM) & sending an ESX Test Trap via SNMPTRAP
Greetings. I recently needed to configure / fix my ESX servers to communicate properly over SNMP to my HP SIM server. Note: This is for ESX 4.1 and HP SIM 6.2. There were many problems I needed to...
View ArticleSpecify virtual disk size beyond 256 GB
I'm editing the seetings on a VM to have another drive.When I create a disk I select the disk size, 1TB. I point to the datastore location of LUN 30 (2TB).When I click next I get the following message:...
View ArticleIncreasing netapp lun size
we have esxi4. 1 hosts connected to netapp filer via FC. On the netapp we have luns on volumes, and these luns on esx are mapped as vmfs datastores on ESX. One of the luns is running out of space,...
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 ArticleCreate New Virtual Machine is greyed out
I can't create a new virtual machine in vSphere client. Right clicking the host or going to File > New Virtual Machine is greyed out. It seems like most administrative functions are greyed out,...
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 ArticleCannot do Storage Vmotion of an VM which has RDM attached
Hi, Iam unable to to storage vmotion for an Virtual Machine which has around 8 RDM attached to it. I see the error incompatible device backing specified for device '0'. can anyone let know why is the...
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Error: Unable to mount this VMFS volume due to duplicate extents found
Posting this here in the hopes that someone, by some stroke of luck, has a workaround while I twiddle my thumbs and wait for VMware to actually get back to me with the details of my support entitlement...
View ArticleHost IPMI System Event Log Status
I've rebuilt this HP DL380 G5 Host twice and I have this alert when it first add it to vCenter (see attachment). Has anyone else seen this or can provide an explanation?
View ArticleInconsistent Folder Name - Folder Name Does Not Match VM Name
I have several VM defined where the associated folder name does not match the VM name. Is there a way that I can rename the folder name to match the VM name. Also, is there a way that I can rename...
View ArticleESX 4.1. Disable TCP Checksum offload
Hi All,This is my first post on this forum. We have problems with connection between application server and sql server. Both servers are running Windows server 2008 R2 and are hosted on the same ESX....
View ArticleINIT: version 2.86 Reloading error - Cause?
Hi Expert, I am experiencing this error at one host:INIT: version 2.86 Reloading Due to this the host is disconnected from vCenter. Tried ssh, reconnect back to vc, and http but all failed. The only...
View ArticleCold Clone CD - Adding Drivers?
Is there a way to add many NIC / Storage drivers at one time to the Cold Clone Boot CD? Maybe some kind of driver pack?
View ArticleUnable to reconnect a vSphere host in vCenter
vSphere version 4.0.0.261974vCenter version 4.0.0.258672 I have been installing physical memory upgrades on our vSphere servers but have a problem with a particular vSphere host. Before placing in...
View ArticleIncrease VM disk size in vsphere client?
If I increase the disk size of a guest in the vSphere client by going to the VM's Edit Settings shown in the screenshot - is that the equivalent of the command line "vmkfstools -X 100GB whatever.vmx"?...
View ArticleThree VMs with same SID, what to do?
I deployed three Win2008 R2 VMs from the same template and made the mistake of not using customization to change the SID. I have verified using PsGetsid that all three have the same SID. These three...
View ArticleMy Microsoft cluster service keeps failing
I have two virtual machines on two separate ESX 4 hosts. Each VM is running Server 2008 Enterprise with Failover Clustering installed. SQL 2008 Enterprise is installed on the cluster. MSDTC and SAP...
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