Inconsistent Folder Name - Folder Name Does Not Match VM Name
I have several VM defined where the associated folder name does not match the VM name. Is there a way that I can rename the folder name to match the VM name. Also, is there a way that I can rename...
View Articlewhat is sfcb-vmware_raw?
Hi, Hoping someone could point me in the right direction for some info on the following log (in var/log/messages): servername sfcb-vmware_raw[4722]:IpmiIfcSelGetAll:no record count I'm getting quite a...
View ArticleESX 4.0 reboots once in1 or 2 weeks - Aggregate version Overflow ha-host...
Hi, We have Dell PowerEdge R710 on which VMware ESX 4.0 has been installed CPU - 8CPU x 2.127 GHzMemory - 32 GB # vmware -vVMware ESX 4.0.0 build-164009 I have around 10 VMs running on this and we...
View Articlevmxnet3 driver / vmotion / 10gb ex4500 switches
We are seeing issues when vmotioning a VM using vmxnet3 drivers. The VM is running CentOS 5.6 and we are using the vmxnet3 driver to take advantage of 10000mb (10gb). When we vmotion, the VM gets to...
View ArticleVM destroying a NIC
I am having some instances of a VM losing it's NIC. I have checked other discussions about this saying the user had stopped the device the same way you stop a USB device, but the users do not have...
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...
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PSOD on Fujitsu BX630S2: COS Panic: Fatal Exception @ esxsc_panic+0x43/0x4f
Hi!BX630 S2 issues:Dumpfile: 52:19:50:02.667 cpu4:4221)ScsiScan: 110: Path 'vmhba32:C0:T6:L0': Peripheral qualifier 0x1 not supported52:19:50:02.667 cpu4:4221)ScsiScan: 1059: Path 'vmhba32:C0:T7:L0':...
View Articleerror in P2V
Hi , i am trying to convert windows XP Guest Virtual machine which is installed on ESXi 4 to other Esxi 4 using Vmware converter online. below is the error message when i try to start converting....
View ArticleSwap: vm 5342: 2457: Failed to open swap file...
Hello, we're running ESX 4.0 on our hosts. when i backup or copy larg file (More than 1TB) the host is disconnect and vCentter acnnot connect guest but guest it can run normally.We can use SSH to login...
View Articleinfiniband and esxi 5.0
I have an infiniband card in my esxi 5.0 server I'd like to utilize. I see mellanox only provides drivers for esxi 4.0. Can someone point me in the right direction to find drivers for esxi 5.0?...
View ArticleHow to configure GNS3 virtual machines with ESXi
Today I can set up virtual machines with VMware workstation and connect there NIC in GNS3 (Network Emulating) , I can create NIC card by using VMware workstation and assign each virtual machine I have...
View ArticleEsx host disconnect Vcenter
Hi, i have a HP server which is installed ESX4.0.0 build 164009.once i connect the host to vcenter couple of minutes later its disconnect from the vcenter. even though i restarted the management...
View Articleipmi_si_drv module cannot loaded and server hangs
hi all, I installed VMWare ESXi 4.0 in Sun Fire Machine and used for quite a long time. But suddenly following error occured."initialization for ipmi_si_drv failed"Once the server booted it will loaded...
View ArticleHow to add hot swap sata hard drive
Specs:Server:33650 M3OS: ESXi 4.1.0RAID config: RAID 0 Hi Everyone, I just bought a 500GB hot swap hard drive, based on the above specs, how do i configure it to become a data store? VM host cant seem...
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 ArticleUsing a USB dongle on a VM in an HA cluster
I need to install some software on a VM in a ESX 4.0 cluster, that requires a USB dongle to be attached in order to run in non-evaluation mode. I have just come across a product called AnywhereUSB...
View ArticleESX 4 U1 Hosts Lock with SD 0:0:0:0 still retrying after 360s
We just upgraded fro ESX3.5 to ESX 4 U1 a few weeks back. We are running on a IBM Blade Center S with HS21-7995 blades and using the SAS RAID Module for Storage. On two occasion all the ESX hosts...
View ArticlePSOD - Esx4.1 HP Proliant DL 385 G7
I've a very strange problem on seven new HP PROLIANT DL385 G7 (latest firmware and upgarde) with ESX 4.1 installed, in a random manner, in different time and unexpectedly system crash and happens PSOD,...
View ArticleCan't Snapshot a VM
We are running into a problem snapshotting a VM on one of our ESX hosts (vSphere 4 Standard). We get the lovely "operation is not allowed in the current state" and this is stopping us from backing up...
View Articlevpxd.exe locking out account
Hey, for some reason the vpxd.exe, which is running as SYSTEM is trying to authenticate with my AD account. The problem is that it has an old password cached and is causing my AD account to lock out....
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