Dell R710 Enable HyperThreading on vSphere 4.1
Hi all VM expert, I just purchase Dell R710 server and installed Vmware ESX 4.1 on it. on the vmware configuration, I found that the "HyperThreading" not enable. but I check on BIOS, it already...
View ArticleConsole Window Becomes Unresponsive
Hi All, I am currently in my trial for ESX 4.1 (moving from VMWare Server 2), and I am running into one slight issue that effects 2 of my 5 virtual machines that I can't seem to explain and Google has...
View ArticleUpgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1
hi Howto upgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1 using esxupdate?BTW which zip file do I need to download from www.vmware.com/go/downloadpatches to do an upgrade?
View ArticleCannot do Storage Vmotion of an VM
Hi All, I cannot do a storage vMotion of an Powered ON VM to different Datastore, it is reporting error (VMware Tools installation is in progress on this Virtual Machine. Virtual DVD/CDROM devices...
View Article"required client support files" problem when connecting using vSphere via SSH...
I am trying to connect to my ESX server using the vSphere client tunneled over SSH. I have done this in the past, but it isn't working now. I am fwding the appropriate ports (443, 902, 903) and have...
View ArticleStarting IPMI driver failed (OpenManage) for DELL PowerEdge 2950 ?
We are running vSphere 4.0 on a DELL PowerEdge 2950 Server. We get the message saying that "Staring IPMI driver failed" when we start up OpenManage. We have tried both OM 5.5 and OM 6.1 but still...
View ArticleUnable to access file since it is locked
Hi, I am running 2 ESX Hosts. On each host I was running just the 1 virtual machine (both of which connect to disks on the same SAN). I have now created another Virtual Machine to run on each host (4...
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 Articlecontact Web service of a vCenter
Hello, I'm not sure, it the good location for my post.. anyway, I'm begining using webService to interact with my esx 4.1.This one is under a vCenter.I'm interacting through php script with soap...
View Articlethe /etc/security/access.conf file on all ESX 4.1 servers gets overwritten
the /etc/security/access.conf file on all ESX 4.1 servers gets overwritten to original configuration upon server reboots and Unix Team (as well as VMware Team once accounts have been created for them)...
View ArticleNetwork uplink redundancy fake alert
Hi there, Do you all encounter false alert for network uplink redundancy alarms and network connectivity lost? Everytime the alarm triggered, customer will call and request me to check onsite, but the...
View ArticleRevert automatically to snapshot on restart
Hi all,I would like to know if it's possible that the guest OS on ESXi 5 could revert to a snapshot on restart automatically .Thanks in advance
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...
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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 ArticleAdd Hard Disks for Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
Hi all,We plan to create an Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster in vSphere 4.xHere is the requirements: 1.Node1 should have the following disks during normal operation C drive (VMDK) P...
View Articleissues with data transfers and speed copying data into virtual machine
i have as small vmware 4.1 enviroment. I have 30gb id like to transfer into a vm on my host. My san has 10gb iscsi connectivity. My front end switch where my VMs connect is 1gb. if i connect a usb...
View ArticlevServer - tomcat6 memory usage HIGH
I have installed vSphere vServer on a virtual machine with 2GB RAM and I am noticing that Guest Memory is at 99%. According to taskmanager, tomcat6.exe is using 729MB RAM. Anyone know how I can fix...
View ArticleWindows Guest disk defrag necessary? VSphere 5.x
Is there a recommended solution for defragging disks on Windows guests in this type of environment? --- VSphere, ESXi, Version 5, using iSCSI SAN environment (both RDM and LUN to LUN utilized), Windows...
View ArticleWindows w32time vs. VMware tools NTP -- Which one?
I'm trying to decide the best way to configure time synchronization for our Server 2003 VMs. In our environment most of the Windows servers are physical, but we are slowly migrating to VMs. All Windows...
View Article"A specified parameter was not correct" error when modifying networking
I've got 5 identical ESX hosts that I just built. I'm not sure what has changed on one of them, but I can no longer modify network settings. If I try to add a port group, link a NIC, or almost...
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