After upgrading virtual hardware to version 7 from ver 4 guest is extremely...
Good day all,I recently upgraded our virtual center guest to hw version 7 and now it is extremely slow and not working well at all. Has anyone else seen this? any tips?ThanksDavid
View Articleissues with data transfers and speed copying data into virtual machine
i have as small vmware 4.1 enviroment. I have 30gb id like to transfer into a vm on my host. My san has 10gb iscsi connectivity. My front end switch where my VMs connect is 1gb. if i connect a usb...
View ArticleVmware ESX 4.1.0 - Alarm System Chassis 2 MCK Card or Link 0 : Undetermined...
Hi Friends, I am new to this Technology, Can you please advise the solution for this below alarm in out VMware Environment. please find the attached screen shot of this . during this failure all the...
View ArticleAPIC 1703: Thermal Interrupt PCPU 0
One of my ESX servers is getting continue errors: APIC 1703: Thermal interrupt on pcpu 0. I have been unable to find any info on this - help anyone? ESX 4.1.0 kernal build 260247. Running on HP...
View ArticleInstalled one PCI card on ESX4.1 host
Dear Team, We have installed one PCI card on one of the ESX 4.1 host, with the help CLI (SSH ) just want to how to check wheather the PCI card is detected or not , if detected then how to check driver...
View ArticleIncrease VM disk size in vsphere client?
If I increase the disk size of a guest in the vSphere client by going to the VM's Edit Settings shown in the screenshot - is that the equivalent of the command line "vmkfstools -X 100GB whatever.vmx"?...
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 Articlebig eror : deleted a Datastore on storage
Hi all, I'm a little bit disappointed with my big mistake : I've deleted the LUN mapped to our ESX 4.0 infra."fortunaly", there was only 1 usefull VM.The issue is tha Datastore is still in Datastore...
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How to install Samba server on ESX 4 (vSphere 4)
VMWare does not support samba server and do not include the required RPMs in the ISO image. As we know samba is riddled with security problems and it's usage is frowned upon However, if used in a...
View Articlehow to import vmdk file (created on vmware workstation) to vsphere ?????
Hi, how to import vmdk file (created on vmware workstation) to vsphere ????? to get working as a virtual machine. Please reply in steps. ~Rashid
View ArticleUnable to access FTP server in ESX 4.0
HI,I am using ESX 4.0 on HP Proliant bl 460c server, the problem i am facing is, neither VSFTPD installed in it not ESX server is able to access Filezilla FTP server so that i can put HP System...
View ArticleOld vmware-XXX.log files
It seems as if all of the virtual machines on one of my ESX4 hosts do not rotate their vmware.log files. Normally 6 old files are kept but each VM on this host has 73 old log files kicking around. The...
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 ArticleSQL Server 2008 / ERP (semiramis) environment on ESX 4.0 - list of...
hello, we like to install our new ERP environment completely in our VMware vSphere Datacenter. The new ERP database is running on SQL Server 2008 Ent. Server. The front end needs five application...
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 ArticleInstall vCenter in a Workgroup instead of joining a Domain cause warning and...
I am having the following problem on our Virtual Center, if you know how to solve this, please kindly let me know, many many thanks in advance! EventID 1000[VpxdLdap] Failed to search OU=Instances...
View ArticleMemory Hot Add, windows 2008 R2 standard?
Hey guys, reading some conflicting documentation on this, should I be able to Hot add memory in Windows 2008 R2 Standard on Vsphere 4.0 without a reboot? I did the hot add in vcenter, but the memory...
View ArticleSound Card on vmware esx 4.1
Would it be possible to add a soundcard to esx 4.1 host and share them with Windows VMs ? Thanks
View ArticleAlarm-Host Hardware power Status
Hi All,I am getting the red alert "Host Hardware power status" in Vsphere 4.0, what does these error means, can someone please let me know is it a hardware error, or any issue with the esx,what should...
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....
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