Unable to add ANY NFS datastores
So I've somewhat already resolved this, but I wanted to make sure that I didn't more harm than good. So first a little history... On one of my hosts I had removed a number of NFS datastores that we had...
View ArticleDomain account being locked out by vSphere
After I changed my domain password and rebooted my pc... my domain account locks after a minute or so of establishing network connection to one of the vSphere vCenters The event log in the vSphere...
View ArticleDatastore failed on SAN and esx4 errors vmw_psp_rr:...
Hi I have had a LUN failure on SAN so datastore became inactive . I did a rescan hba and rescan datastores ... host is constantly thowing this on syslogs I have manually removed the datastore by...
View ArticleThe hard disk is blank.
hi I have ESX 4.0.0 installed and if I try to add a new storage (SCSI Volume, Raid5) then I get this message: "The hard disk is blank."Error during the configuration of the host: Failed to get disk...
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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 ArticleCannot power on virtual machine: Unable to access file since it is locked
I'm having this trouble (this is the second time now) where I cannot power on a virtual machine. The message "Unable to access file since it is locked. Since the filename is unspecified, it makes it...
View ArticleCheck ESX Hosts via SNMP
Hi @ all i want to check my esx hosts systems via snmp. (snapshots/drive usage, etc...)In our environment i use snmpget to fill my "checkssystem" nagios. So i search for some doc´s to configure it,...
View ArticleIIS performance 50% slower on a VM?
I've got a cluster of IIS Servers that we host our web application on. Recently, we converted several of our web servers from physical machines to virtual machines. By converted, I mean we built a...
View ArticleServer 2008R2 automount issue
Heyhas anyone had trouble getting the automount disable command in diskpart working properly on Server 2008R2? I have ran the commands Diskpart > automount disableandautomount scrub rebooted and the...
View ArticleHow to disable memory trimming on ESX 4.1
Can anyone help me how to disable memory trimming on esx 4.1 for specific VMs ? thanks
View ArticleInconsistent 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 ArticleDisk out of space - best practices
Hi, running vspher 4.0 update 2 - windows 2008R2 enterprise guests. the log drive 100GB e:\ is quickly running out of disk space and I need to grow it larger.The e: drive LUN is presented by a dell...
View ArticleConsole Window Becomes Unresponsive
Hi All, I am currently in my trial for ESX 4.1 (moving from VMWare Server 2), and I am running into one slight issue that effects 2 of my 5 virtual machines that I can't seem to explain and Google has...
View Articlevmotions failing at 78% - a general system error occurred source detected...
Hi everyoneAfter upgrading from vmware 3.5 to vsphere 4.1, we are experiencing lots of vmotion failures ( VM tools are up to date and VM's HW are at level 7).The error message is :a general system...
View ArticleFailed VM
Hi Guy’s I currently have a VM that won’t power on! The problem was that the DataStore went offline because the SAN had a problem with the RAID set that the DataStore was on, I was able to get this...
View ArticleRDM is really required ?
RDM is really required because of performance reason I have veeam backup repository , the repository partion is an RDM , recently we faced disastor suddenly RDM lost and also the data ? Please advise
View Articlenetwork error on x3850
HiI am receiving the following errors on all our IBM 3850 in our cluster: Task: Remove snapshot info 03/05/2012 10:06:57 virtaul-machine AD\VMNBThe port 570 link was up in the vNetwork Distributed...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions
Dear team, ESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions. Need to understand LAHF and SAHF, and how it's work? RegardsMr VMware
View ArticleUpgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1
hi Howto upgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1 using esxupdate?BTW which zip file do I need to download from www.vmware.com/go/downloadpatches to do an upgrade?
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