NFS config issue for secondary NIC card
I'm trying to get my NFS moved to a secondary network (with only my VM host) to try to help with performance. My primary network is 192.168.2.0/23 with a gateway of 192.168.3.1. My VM Host is...
View ArticleCannot do Storage Vmotion of an VM which has RDM attached
Hi, Iam unable to to storage vmotion for an Virtual Machine which has around 8 RDM attached to it. I see the error incompatible device backing specified for device '0'. can anyone let know why is the...
View Article2nd Datastore missing after physical Harddisk failure
Dear all, Need some advise for the following; ESX4.1One of the physical harddisk is spoilt on 2nd partition (red light) Replaced with hot swap Using 2 Partition, 3 disks raid 5, 5 disks raid 52...
View ArticlevSphere on Power On Virtual Machine: Reason: 22 (Invalid argument)
Hey, guys.Saturday morning I had a issue with one of my virtual machines: I could not access its console via vSphere client, so I sent a poweroff command (button). The virtual machine stuck at 95%, and...
View ArticlevServer - tomcat6 memory usage HIGH
I have installed vSphere vServer on a virtual machine with 2GB RAM and I am noticing that Guest Memory is at 99%. According to taskmanager, tomcat6.exe is using 729MB RAM. Anyone know how I can fix...
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ESX4 Install from USB Flash Drive
So apologies if this is already covered somewhere I have spent half the day today working out how to do this I have some servers which have no DVD/CD Drive and hence I want to use a bootable USB...
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Unable to extract the OVA file
Hello, i just tried to convert a vm guest (win2003 windows box with 150gb single partition) toan .OVA File. The Export itself was ok, no errors. Run VMware vCenter Converter again to upload the OVA...
View ArticleHost IPMI System Event Log Status
I've rebuilt this HP DL380 G5 Host twice and I have this alert when it first add it to vCenter (see attachment). Has anyone else seen this or can provide an explanation?
View ArticleRemoving iSCSI Dynamic Target
Hello, Long story short I have been trying to get my Infortrend ES16-R1130 iSCSI array to work with vSphere but thus far have not been able to. I am able to map the LUN and at one point I was able to...
View ArticleP2V win2008 with GPT partition
vmware converter is not support gpt partition. Anyone have work around to p2v win2008 with GPT partition?
View ArticleCancel Storage Vmotion Task
Dear All, Due to some reason, I have tried to stop storage vmotion.But it seems that the process is stuck at 18%. I have tried to restart the VC management service but didn't work. Please help....
View ArticleCan't Migrate VM
I am having trouble migrating a VM from a datastore. I am trying to decommission this SAN and I have been able to move all other VM's off except one. I am not able to move it powered on on or off....
View ArticleNLB using CISCO ports as trunks ports to VSphere 4.0
Does anybody know how to configure NLB for virtual servers within the following senarios? CISCO 6509 with multiple Gigabit Ethernet ports defined as TRUNK ports and directly connected to one's ESX...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS : VIM fault invalid login
Following a hardware fault we rebuilt our VC and now the hosts have a wee exclamation mark and show the error "Unable to connect to the MKS : VIM fault invalid login"
View Articlehp xw9300 - install hangs 34.storage-drivers
I've been trying to install esx on a hp xw9300. when i use the dvd, it gets to loading system drivers but handgs on 34.storage-drivers. web searches suggest its a problem with the storage controller;...
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?...
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xxx-flat.vmdk : where is it ?
The strangest thing i came across today (or maybe not). I am running ESX 4.0 in my test environment. I try to create a new Virtual Machine. Everything seems to go well. Once the VM is created - i...
View Article[Question] - Why does the Virtual Machine always like to come back or stay or...
Hi Expert, In my environment, I have 5 hosts. Host A, B, C, D, E. One day host A down, and inside host A there are VM1, VM2, VM3. When host A was down, all VM1, VM2, VM3 migrated to other hosts(I...
View ArticleVMICTimeProvider?
I'm investigating a time shift issue with several 2008 R2 guests on vSphere 4.0. Time synch between guest and ESX has been disabled in VMTools but one of the customers engineers has asked me to...
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...
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