determining which ESX host a vm is on from script?
Hello, I have a need to be able to determine which ESX host server a vm is running on from a script... Existing script infrastructure is in WSH/vbs for windows vm's. Is this possible? I know vmware...
View ArticleSizing Estimate ESX tool
I'm building a brand new farm with 4 HP BL460 hosts. I will be building VM's from scratch and wanted to know if there was a sizing calculator that will help figure out if I have enough resources to...
View ArticleESX host get "URB timed out - USB device may not respond" during reboot ?
We are running vSphere on a DELL PowerEdge Server. We have lost access to Service Console. When we reboot that server, we get the following error message:"URB timed out - USB device may not respond"...
View ArticleChanging vCenter Password
Hi I need to change my vCenter server admin password, the one which I use to log into the vCenter client with too. The vCenter server is a Windows 2008 Virtual machine, which has a remote SQL server...
View Article-flat.vmdk Failed to lock the file (67)
Hi, I'm doing some tries on a test VM as i appeared to have over 30 (!) snapshots... (which wher to be seen ine the snapshot manager).I removed the snaphots (via the "vmware-cmd VmTest1...
View ArticleCorrectable ECC logging limit reached - Assert
Hello, I've upgraded RAM for server X3550M3 (running ESX 4.1.0). But when we start server and check Healthy Status on vCenter, I reciveded warning about memory Correctable ECC logging limit reached -...
View ArticleIncrease Disk Size of VM (Windows 2003)
I have a Windows 2003 Server that is running low on disk space. Is there a procedure that I can follow in order to increase the size of the disk. The drive having space issue is the C: drive...
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 ArticleHow to create a OVF image to be deployed on ESXi
Hi,We would like to create ready to be deployed VM images using the OVF files.Please could some one help me to know how to create the OVF files.I have the following basic questions related to OVF: What...
View ArticlevSphere auto start VM
Hello, I want to start the vm automatically as we can define in vSphere client connected directly to ESX. is there any option that we can define this to vm in Cluster.
View ArticleHow to remove a hard disk from a VM
Hi I have installed a Windows server 2003 x64 Virtual Machine and gave it 4 x hard disks: C:\ System D:\Data E:\More Data F:\Backup of data Now I dont need...
View ArticleNetwork Uplink Redundancy Lost
I have 3 ESX 4.0 servers in a cluster and one of them is reporting "Network Uplink Redundancy Lost". 2 NICs one the server are configured as a DMZ vswitch. One of the NIC's (vmnic6) "Observed IP...
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Best way to monitor ESX with zabbix
Hi, I have about 10 ESX 3.5 host and I would like to monitor them with zabbix (www.zabbix.com). For the moment, I installed zabbix agent on the ESXs and I monitor them like a standard Unix OS (disk...
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Get all VMs with "vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms"
hello! I have following problem.I have a shell-script and want to get all IDs and Names of virtual machines: for i in `vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | sed '1d' | awk '{print $1":"$2}'` all is fine,...
View ArticleESX 4.1 and LSI Megaraid Storage Manager
Hello everyone! I am testing a move from VMWare Server to vCenter for my organization and I am running into a problem. In my test environment, I have a Supermicro H8DME-2 motherboard with an LSI...
View ArticleUnexpected Shutdown Of Guest - Legacy API Shutdown
Hi, We currently have 8 ESX servers with vSphere 4.4.0/vCenter 4.0.0 One of our guests unexpectedly shut its self down. I got the following error in the event viewer. The guest is running Server 2008...
View ArticleChange root password on esxi host which is a member of a cluster
1) How to change root password on esxi host which is a member of a cluster.2)Do i need to add again once the root password change ?3) is there any other concerns to change the password
View ArticleTask in Progress does not clear
A recent task called 'NetApp Storage Discovery is stuck on 'In progress' and will not clear. How do I go about clearing this task from the 'Recent Task' tab? This task is not running. The vsphere host...
View ArticleAdd virtual sound card to virtual machine
Hello, for demonstration purposes a user needs to produce sound from a virtual machine and stream the sound through remote desktop connection and have therefore requested that I should provide a...
View Articlehow to convert VM to OVF .
hi friends, I want to convert my windows virtual machine installed on Vsphere ,vm hardware version 7 to ovf format to be used at other location .Is there anywayi can do it in GUI .if no then how to ....
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