Problem with Vmware Networking
Hi Everyone, Good Morning! I am newbie to VMware. I am using Vmware Vsphere 4.0 ESXi on a server having two physical NIC adapter. I am confused with a scenario in networking that it like below: 1. I...
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Server powers off randomly, but only if ESX is loaded, not in Bios setup mode
Hi, I have ESX 4.1 installed with vCenter. After a rough week with 2 heavy storms and a lot of power failures (and no UPS ...) my machine began to act weird. At first it did a uncontrolled power off....
View ArticleMissing X drivers for Ubuntu 13.10?
I'm setting up a Ubuntu 13.10 guest on an ESX 4.1.0 host. While installing the VMGuest tools, I get this message" "Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used." "Skipping X configuration...
View Articlehow to install Esx 4.1 host on SATA hard disk (BAre metal installation)...
Hi TEam, Please help me to install Esx 4.1 host on SATA hard disk BAre metal installationProcessor XeonMB Intel DH77KCHDD Seagate 1 TB Sata16 GB RAM
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...
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Issue adding iSCSI visable storage via vSphere (direct on host or vCenter)
Hello all, I am having a strange issue when I try and add a second iSCSI disk to my ESX 4.1 host. The storage is visable but when I go to add it via the add storage wizard I get the following error...
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 ArticleHow to set DHCP for VMs in VMware ESX 4?
Dear Friends I create three host that all of them configure in VLAN 2 that is not in DHCP and never configure auto IP for the machines that in that VLAN.In one of these hosts, I have two vswitches, one...
View ArticleESX 4.1 cannot found lun after change Lun WWN
Hi,guys Our ESX4.1 connected to IBM DS4700,all the lun WWN(not HBA WWN) had changed due to some reasons,while after reboot ESX4.1,we cannot found the Lun(esxcfg -volume -l,returns empty).So do you...
View Articlemount root partition of esx 4.1 in rescue mode from livecd
Hi guys! I have problem with recovering esx 4.1 upd 3 server. To my shame i deleted /lib64/libc-2.5.so -->/lib64/libc.so.6 link and rebooted a server. So now esx makes a core dump and won't start...
View ArticleCan I change the uuid.location and uuid.bios by vCLI command?
Can I change or generate the uuid.location and uuid.bios by vCLI command? Or I have to use the VMware API function? When I copied a virtual machine, from the "Answer Question" menu, I have to choose "I...
View Articlevcenter goes down , what are the feature will not work ?
my vcenter goes down , i had 5 cluster each cluster having 5 hosts , and i had configured HA and DRS and 5 fault tolerance , is ever thing work well ? please help me for solving this issue.
View ArticleSQL Server CALs and vSphere
Hi. I know that SQL is licesned either by physical socket or Server/CAL. I have a customer who has been running all VMware related DB's within SQL Express. They would now like to create two SQL server...
View ArticlevSphere Client Connection Error
I'm trying to log into one of ESX v4.1 servers. When I connect i get the error: Connection Error: The request failed because the remote server 'IP ADDRESS' took too long to respond. (The command has...
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Slow performance on SAN with 10Gbe via VMXNET3
We have built a SAN using Nexenta and 10Gbe for our VMWARE environment and with some tweaking and testing I am able to hit up to 1GBytes (not Gbps) per second to the SAN using iSCSI from a Win 7 Guest...
View ArticleVFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0
I was trying to make kickstart iso for unattended installation of ESX 4.1. I followed the procedure mentioned here: http://www.vmprofessional.com/index.php?content=kickstart_2 But this step we need to...
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 ArticleStarting vmware-aam:Timed out waiting for vmware-aam to startup......
VMware ESXi 4.1.0 build-260247 -- This server is out of the management of my virtual center... the server is up and functional.. tried restarting the mangement agents on the server using...
View ArticleVMDK backup using vstrorage API and netbackup
Guys, we are going to start backup of the vmdk files using API and netbackup. So, what all I have to do from vmware side, is that API i have to install or it will be with my setup already. I have ESX...
View ArticleDell Precision T7500
I've inherited a Dell Precision T7500 which seems to include an integrated Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5761, I know that the T7500 isn't supported for esxi and that there are issues with the nic. I'm trying...
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