VM showing up as invalid - failed to find a host for powering on
Hi folks. I have a good sized ESX cluster, with about 20 hosts and Enterprise Plus licensing. I recently did a power down/up of my entire setup, and all but a handful of VMs came back up cleanly. About...
View ArticleIn vMotion which files moves to the destination ESX Host?
Dear VMware Experts, VM stores on a Shared Storage, While moving VM from one ESX Host to another, i want to know that VM any files are moved to the destination ESX Host, once vmotioned process...
View ArticleIncreasing netapp lun size
we have esxi4. 1 hosts connected to netapp filer via FC. On the netapp we have luns on volumes, and these luns on esx are mapped as vmfs datastores on ESX. One of the luns is running out of space,...
View ArticleESX mount command
Hi All, We have a mixed environment of 2 ESX 4.1 and 1x ESXi . I am running the mount command on the the two ESX 4.1 servers and it doesn't show the san storages which have been mounted under the...
View ArticleNeue Datenbank / New Database
Hallo NG, meine Datenbank vom ESX 4.1 ist defekt und möchte eine neue Datenbank erstellen und mit dem Virtual Center verbinden.Wie kann ich dies erledigen und was muss ich dabei beachten.Danke im...
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vmss2core - unable to create memory dump - "Cannot locate cpu.cpu:numVCPUs"
Can anyone help me on an issue when trying to convert a snapshot file.I am trying to create a memory dump from a vmss file capture from a Windows 7 Virtual Machine that is hanging at startup.When i run...
View ArticleCan SSL Accelerators be used with ESX 4?
Thinking of converting a handful of physical web servers to VM's for use in a small 2 server ESX 4 cluster. Each server has an internal pci SSL Accelerator card. Can these be used in ESX hosts? Or...
View ArticleVirtualizing Windows Server 2008 R2?
After a few months of evaluating ESX vs. Hyper-V the company I work for has decided to license ESX Essentials. One of my tasks is to migrate all of the Virtual Machines from Hyper-V into our new ESX...
View ArticleHow to configure Broadcom 5709 NIC as iSCSI Hardware Initiator
Hey vmware-Folks, I'm having some trouble to setup an iSCSI Hardware Initiator within ESX4. The host-machine has a "Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX" NIC which supports TOE and can be used...
View ArticleMaximum storage limit
If somewone knows what is the maximum storage space for esx 3.5u5 and vsphere; I am trying to install a storage server and I need to know what is the limit. Thanks
View ArticleDell Openmanage 6.3.0 on ESX 4.1 error
hi I am trying to install Dell Openmanage 6.3.0 (OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-6.3.0-2075.ESX40.i386_A00.11.tar.gz) on my R900 server which has ESX 4.1 installed on it but it fails with the following error:...
View ArticleAlert Description : The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0.
Alert Description : The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0. Alert source : Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition Path : IL06TRM1011.ds.mot.com Alert Rule : NTFS -...
View ArticleSAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 changer does not appear on the VM's Device manager
Hi All, I have an ESX 4.1 host and a VM that is running Windows 2008R2 OS. And a SAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 and HP SAS controller is pluged in to host machine. On the VM's device manager there is a...
View Articleslow machine relocation from 4.0 to 4.1 esx host
Hi. I recently had to rebuild one of my two esx hosts due to a drive failure. I was able to restore the machines from the failed host to the other esx machine while I swapped out a backplane and...
View ArticleAdding Active Directory Groups to ESX/i 4.1
I have seen many post about the Active Directory feature introduced in 4.1. One of the "requirement" is to create the Active Directory group "ESX Admins", and then join the host to AD Domain. All...
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unable to delete the virtual disk file. Zombie fils
Even after running "service mgmt-vmware restart" on all the esx hosts, I am still unable to delete the virtual disk file. The original machine has been destroyed and am trying to free up space by...
View Article'Virtual machine Heartbeat' alarm/VMtools heartbeat keeps going to sleep only...
Hi all, We have the 'Virtual machine Heartbeat' alarm setup on our infrastructure of around 35 VM's of a good mix of operating systems all with the latest version of VMtools. 2 of them are Windows 7...
View ArticleHigh Disk Latency
All hosts in our vSphere cluster, we are seeing "Physical Device Write Latency" with many peaks on several VMFS stores between 200ms and 3000ms (yes, 3 seconds). As you would expect, our users are...
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 Articlegeneral system error occured : login as domain user
my esx servers are on the domain but when i try to login as a domain admin user in the domain directly to the server via the viclient it gives me an error A general system error occured. any idea?
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