The warning bar "Number of active connections has changed" keeps popping up...
Hi guys, While running ESX 4 with any OS VM I keep getting the "number of active connections has changed. There are now 2 active connections to this console" message. I know in ESX 3.5 if you...
View ArticlevSphere Web Access
Hi, for some reason standard users are able to enter the web access and see the vm machines I gave them permissions on but the remote console is not working for them. Of course if I give them...
View ArticleChanging block size of datastore from 1 MB to 4 MB
Hi, I've installed an ESX. The system automatically partition to have the block size of 1 MB which is 256 max virtual hardisk. How can I change to 4 MB Block Size taking into consideration there...
View ArticleNon-compliant ACPI BIOS Error when installing WIndows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
I've having a problem on my vShpere / ESX4 server -- when I attempt to installe Win Server 2008 R2 x64, it blue screens loading setup with a STOP Error of 0xA5 Microsoft Descrides the piticular error...
View ArticleScripts - Cloning - Scheduled Tasks for VM's
Scripts - Cloning - Scheduled Tasks Hello... I would like to use scheduled tasks to clone my production VM's on a nightly bases as a form of backups. As i noticed though testing this process, the...
View ArticleConvert ide disk to scsi
I p2v a PC with IDE drive controller to a virtual machine on the ESX 4. In the convert procedure,the "driver controller" configuration is "preserve source".of course,the VM would not start up on the...
View ArticleInstall vmware Vsphere 4.0 on HP dl160 G6
I must install vmware vsphere 4.0 on Hp dl160 G6, i have enable Raid1 on sata controller on board, HP SMART ARRAY B110i, i have two hd sata 160GB each. Installing vmware on storage configuration i see...
View ArticleHow to you Monitor your Environment?
I have been exploring monitoring my 4.0 environment for a little while now and I am just curious how other people are doing it... Are you monitoring each ESX server and pulling VM monitoring from host?...
View ArticleCan and How can I add 4 CPU's to a Netware Guest OS
I am working with a client Where they are moving 46 Physical Netware/GroupWise servers to a virtual environment. The problem we are experiencing is that the current Physcial Server's utilize 4 CPU's so...
View Articlehow to convert VHD to VMDK SCSI device.
hi, i have converted VHD file to VMDK file and put it into SCSI strogae. when i powering on the VM it says disk read error occur. i found that virtual device node is IDE it should be SCSI so that the...
View ArticleCannot complete operation due to concurrent modification by another operation
I keep getting this in vcenter when modifying a vm. and there is no other operation going on. any idea?
View ArticleBrowse Datastore button greyed out?
Hi All Ive got a problem whereby i cant seem to grant a specific user Browse Datastore rights in our ESX 4 Update 2 environment, i have followed this :- http://communities.vmware.com/thread/136468 And...
View ArticleNot able to sftp to server
HI, I am trying to connect to my ftp server from vsphere 4.1 esx box. I am getting following error message # sftp 192.29.75.160Connecting to 192.29.75.160...ssh: connect to host 192.29.75.160 port 22:...
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Second Service Console?
I'm looking at a basic 2 host "stretch cluster" with a basic layout as follows: The cloud is our existing flat LAN, everything above is vSphere with dedicated switches to deal with iSCSI and vMotion....
View ArticlevMotion background
Hi, When we do a Hot vMotion, what exactly happens at the background. What files is created, what file is moved from where to where, what file is deleted if any applicable? Thanks,jK
View ArticleESX 4x with IBM TS3100 Tape Library through FiberChannel
Here is my current setup:ESX 4.0 U2 or ESX 4.1 U1 (neither works)IBM Blade HS22Tape Library TS3100QLogic Fiber Channel We have tried reformat the same server earlier with Windows Server 2008 R2 and it...
View ArticleDisappearing virtual network device under Windows 2008 R2 SP1 in vSphere 4.1
Has anyone seen an issue where after an upgrade from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2008 R2 SP1 the virtual network device suddenly and somewhat randomly ejects itself from the VM causing the virtual...
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 ArticleTCP dup acks in VM guests
ESX 4.1I'm in the process of setting up a loadbalanced exchange cluster. I've 2 CAS servers, 1 Blackberry Enterprise Server and use a Virtual Appliance (loadbalaner.org) as the loadbalancer.As soon as...
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...
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