Monitoring 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...
View Articlemulti core vcpu settings and confusion RDS / Terminal Services
I have a few terminal servers.I run office apps, ie and a few other small things currently. The VMs were setup with 2 vCpus from the start (i would have started with 1 however it wasn't me that set...
View ArticleESX mount command
Hi All, We have a mixed environment of 2 ESX 4.1 and 1x ESXi . I am running the mount command on the the two ESX 4.1 servers and it doesn't show the san storages which have been mounted under the...
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 ArticleDell 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 ArticleSCSI Error
I'm building a VM and using the Paravirtual SCSI controller for my additional disks and I keep getting this error after I restart the server. I configured the system using all LSI Logic SAS and did not...
View Articlehot add memory - windows 2008R2
Hi, Vsphere 4 update 1 - I need toincrease memory on my windows 2008 R2 enterprise box. Is hot add memory supported for windwos 2008R2 enterprise edition? Is hot plug CPU supported?...
View ArticleLogs "Long VMFS3 rsv time on..."
Hello, I’m running in the following trouble few weeks ago about my infrastructure, VMware vSphere 4.1 on HP blade BL460G1 and storage HP EVA 6400. Description:The VM symptom is slowdown in accessing...
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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 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...
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 ArticleNeed VMware Admin Daily activities
Hai, Can anybody please send me VMware admin daily activities.
View ArticleCall "HostNetworkSystem.UpdateVirtualSwitch" for object error when trying to...
Hi there - first post in here, so please be gentle :-). We're just in the process of rolling out a clean deployment ESX4.1 into our environment (no previous VMWare installation) using Dell M610 blades...
View Articlehow to install Esx 4.1 host on SATA hard disk (BAre metal installation)...
Hi TEam, Please help me to install Esx 4.1 host on SATA hard disk BAre metal installationProcessor XeonMB Intel DH77KCHDD Seagate 1 TB Sata16 GB RAM
View ArticleWhat is VSphere?
What is VSphere?, EXS4? and Cloud Computing or Cloud Operating system? Could anyone please explain there terms in single line, I mean single line definitions? Are VSphere and Virtual...
View ArticleRestart VMhost with VCenter on it
Hi Folks I have got a standalone host (ESX 4.1), hosting Virtual Center which is managing the host itself.I want to automate restart of ESX host without using root credentials of ESX host. Here is...
View ArticleVirtual Machine redundancy
Hopefully this is the correct forum as i am using esx 4.1 Here we go: I have x number of hosts. (ill be using 2 to explain but know i have more)I have 1 vswitch that runs all of our VMs bound to 2...
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How can I correlate a spike in datastore latency to an event or trigger?
I notice once in awhile on one of my NFS file systems I will see a random spike in datastore latency. Like 1739 ms write latency was the spike on filesystem vm4-sas at 8:30:20 AM. However its just a...
View ArticleDefining additional iSCSI Software Adapters
My setup is two VMware ESXi 4.1 servers which are clustered. I have a iSCSI software adapter installed and setup on one of my VMware ESXi 4.1 servers. It works fine and I can access the SAN from both...
View ArticleLinux Kernel 3.10 in ESX4?
I would like to run a newer linux distribution (Slackware 14.1) in ESX 4. Is this possible if its using Kernel 3.10.17? Will ESX4 run kernel 3.x ok?
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