VMICTimeProvider?
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...
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Notification when NTP setting in vCenter is changed/invalid
Hi, We're helping a customer to prepare them for an PCI audit for their virtual environment. One question we have to answer is refering to PCI requirement 10.4.2.b:"10.4.2.b - Review system...
View ArticleCreate VM image and deploy at customer site
Complete newbie here -- my apologies if this has been answered elsewhere. I have an application running on Linux on a physical server. We have an ESX4 server in our environment running a couple of...
View ArticleESX 4.1 kickstart automation - host variables
I am trying to automate my Kickstart build process. I'd like to keep my host variables in a csv file, which would contain information like mgmt_ip, vmotion IP addres, NFS vmkernel IP address, active...
View Article2nd Datastore missing after physical Harddisk failure
Dear all, Need some advise for the following; ESX4.1One of the physical harddisk is spoilt on 2nd partition (red light) Replaced with hot swap Using 2 Partition, 3 disks raid 5, 5 disks raid 52...
View ArticleIdentifying Disk Model
Hi, we have an older system (that we're migrating off of, but still is in production at the moment) running ESX 4.0.0 build 171294. Today during routine checks, a predictive drive failure was noticed...
View ArticleService Console vs Management Network ports
We have one cluster with two ESX 4.1.0 hosts. In trying to mount an NFS share, it turns out that Server-A can mount it, but Server-B can not. Server-A has a VMkernel Port named "Management Network"...
View Article503 service unavailable on vsphere 4.0 access web to download client
anyone know why i got this 503 service unavailable when connected to newly installed vsphere 4.0 and ask for certificates and if i click continue to ignore it it just throw that error. please help
View ArticleESX 4.0 installed on Intel DQ45ek with SATA drive but no networking (and a...
Trying to Install ESX 4.0 on Intel DQ45ek board with SATA drive. ESX installation identifies the onboard Gigabit Ethernet card 82567LM-3, but does not idenfoty the link(installation shows no link,...
View ArticlevSphere 4 and HP MSA2012i
Anyone tried this yet? It's not on the HCL yet, but I reeeeeeaally hope it will be. We just got this SAN last year, and getting a different one would be a hard sell right now.
View ArticleESX 4 boot fails at vsd-mount
Hi, we have two ESX4 hosts connected to an IBM DS3400 storage system.With FC cables plugged in both the ESX stops booting at vsd-mount. With FC cables pulgged out, the ESX boot is ok.After the ESX...
View ArticleESX 4 Host disconnected from VC and Can't connect to ESX Host via vSphere client
I Also can't connect to the default Webpage of the ESX Host I have tried to restart the VC agent and the SC with the following commands service vmware-vpxa restart service mgmt-vmware restart I...
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 ArticleCan't Install Windows Server 2008 R2 (i have 64bit processor!?)
Hi sorry for my english i'm italian. I have free vsphere 4 on intel server motheboard S500psl with 2 processor ( E5345SL9YL) and from specific of processor have Intel® EM64T...
View ArticleHard Drive Monitoring for ESX in vCenter
If I go to the hardware status page of the ESX server in vCenter (ESX 4.0 U1), it shows the hardware status info. It shows processor, memory etc, but isn't showing anything about the array controller...
View ArticleHP NC532i (Broadcom 57711E) network adapter from flex-10 caused a hard crash,...
Is anyone else having this issue? We just had 3 servers crash due to a bnx2x_panic_dump. Once the network cards crashed the ESX server had to be rebooted to come back. Even though only a few vmNICs...
View ArticleESX 4 VM Guest drops access to RDM and locks up
I'm having an issue with a win2k3 guest with 2 RDM's. Periodically (but not on a regular schedule) the VM will lose access to one of the disks (Event ID's 11 (The driver detected a controller error on...
View Articlevmkcore partition
hi guys, i have a vsphere machine, i am trying to see vmkcore partition using "fdisk -lh". it is showing that "vmware vmkcore" partition was mounted to /dev/sda2 partition. But i am not able to...
View ArticleIPMI / sfcbd-watchdog Freespace problem
Hiya, I have a problem with one of our hosts. /var/log/ipmi/0 fills up in less than a day. The files selsel_raw getting massive and I cannot seem to find a reason for it. The only way to get the host...
View ArticleClone VM with RDMs?
Hi All Has anyone done a clone of a VM which has RDMs attached? I need to take a clone of a production server into test, the production server has RDMs and i want to clone it into VMDKs for dev, in the...
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