Lost communication with ESX module
Hello, I have the following problem. We have a View farm with 5 servers. We have installed vShield for use with Symantec Endpoint Protection.When I start vShield Manager and select one of the view...
View ArticleVeeam and NFS
Hello, Trying to get some more understanding of the architecture. I did some reading on the Veeam site but still a little vague. I have used NFS years ago with a linux machine attached to the share....
View ArticleBest Practice to install VMware Tools
Dear Team, I want to install / upgrade VMware tools on Rhel and SUSE Linux VM, have following queries on the same 1) Before installing / upgrade VMware tools shall i take a clone or snapshot first, if...
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 ArticleHow to add hot swap sata hard drive
Specs:Server:33650 M3OS: ESXi 4.1.0RAID config: RAID 0 Hi Everyone, I just bought a 500GB hot swap hard drive, based on the above specs, how do i configure it to become a data store? VM host cant seem...
View ArticleCan't connect to NFS server.
We have an ESX 4 environment with 3 hosts (esx1, esx2, and exs3) all with the same exact network settings (except their IP's, obviously). Along with those 3 hosts we have a NetApp FAS2040 set up as an...
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Power down or migrate disconnected VM (on disconnected ESX server)
We've got 4 ESX servers in our infrastructure. After power failure three of them powered on, but one didn't (esx-02).On this host we've got virtual machine called f12-dns-02. Now esx-02 is...
View ArticleQuestion about Passthrough..
Well, I put additional PCI on server, and I configured Passthrough with it. My manager told me that our next step is simulating whether vmware can get virtual interface or not. He mentioned inner ping...
View ArticleScripting an ESX host shutdown
We need to simulate a power loss at our central office for DR purposes. I would need to run the shutdown scripts from a Windows server (physical server) which is connected via serial cable from our...
View ArticleINIT: version 2.86 Reloading error - Cause?
Hi Expert, I am experiencing this error at one host:INIT: version 2.86 Reloading Due to this the host is disconnected from vCenter. Tried ssh, reconnect back to vc, and http but all failed. The only...
View ArticleAdvanced parameter Disk.DiskMaxIOSize ???
Customer has ESX 4 hosts. they have all of their servers set with advanced parameter = Disk.DiskMaxIOSize set to 32. The default value is 32767. I can't find documentation on this parameter. Does...
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 ArticleUrgent - How to check VM logs?
We had some issue during weekend, some one deleted few files or something happened? How to find out the root cause analysis? I have exported the logs from vcenter and I got almost 3 GB logs locally?...
View ArticleCannot delete consolidated helper 0 snapshot due to full HDD
HI, I need some help resolving this issue of deleting snapshot. There is a consolidated helper 0 snapshot in snapshot manager which is hogging all disk space. Now VM is in error state due to full hdd....
View Article"required client support files" problem when connecting using vSphere via SSH...
I am trying to connect to my ESX server using the vSphere client tunneled over SSH. I have done this in the past, but it isn't working now. I am fwding the appropriate ports (443, 902, 903) and have...
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...
View ArticleWhat is VSphere?
What is VSphere?, EXS4? and Cloud Computing or Cloud Operating system? Could anyone please explain there terms in single line, I mean single line definitions? Are VSphere and Virtual...
View ArticleWindows w32time vs. VMware tools NTP -- Which one?
I'm trying to decide the best way to configure time synchronization for our Server 2003 VMs. In our environment most of the Windows servers are physical, but we are slowly migrating to VMs. All Windows...
View Articleoperation time out - another task already in progress
during clone creation of VM, a timeout has occurred.After this, it is not possible to do any operation with this VM, all operations finish with another task already in progress. Other VMs on the same...
View ArticleCisco interface - Port Flapping
Our switch displaying the following when turning on terminal monitor (This is just a few of the offending ports) 46w3d: %C4K_EBM-4-HOSTFLAPPING: Host 00:50:56:98:48:86 in vlan 10 is flapping between...
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