Trying to Install ESX 4.0 on Dell Optiplex 380 machine - NIC driver issue
Trying to Install ESX at home on a Dell Optiplex 380, with Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @2.93 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM. Installation discontinues saying the NIC detection failed. not getting NIC drivers for ESX....
View ArticleThree VMs with same SID, what to do?
I deployed three Win2008 R2 VMs from the same template and made the mistake of not using customization to change the SID. I have verified using PsGetsid that all three have the same SID. These three...
View Articlevpxd.exe locking out account
Hey, for some reason the vpxd.exe, which is running as SYSTEM is trying to authenticate with my AD account. The problem is that it has an old password cached and is causing my AD account to lock out....
View ArticleHigh %SWPWT vs. almost zero SWR/s & SWW/s?
Hi, according to esxtop our VMs are heavily bound by Swap I/O ('c'-> %SWPWT close to 100%). However, SWR/s and SWW/s (memory view, 'm') are almost always zero. Has anyone observed such a behaviour?...
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VCenter Login Sessions
Hi Everybody, I have a query that whenever I am checking for the Home--> Administrator --> session tab , there I get numbers of users connected and idle for which I have a dought that from where...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS: The remote host certificate has these problems:
Hi, We have a 4 ESXi host cluster all running vSphere 4.1. Recently i started to upgrade them to update 2 and all the additional patches. After upgrading the vCentre Server to the latest version (or...
View ArticleCold Clone CD - Adding Drivers?
Is there a way to add many NIC / Storage drivers at one time to the Cold Clone Boot CD? Maybe some kind of driver pack?
View ArticleVM’s DNS registration deleted when upgrade VMtools
Hello. We're having issues in one environment with some Windows VMs. I'm going to explain the scenario: Previous scenario:- All the hosts were ESX 4.0.- VMs had several E1000 NICs.- VMware Tools were...
View ArticleUnable to remove old snapshots
Hello all, Our backup software (BE), have left apprx 13 snapshots behind, I was able to find outfirst snapshot's .vmdk file is in lock state and more are filling up. They are not available in snapshot...
View ArticleExtracting the latest VMware.log file from the VM datastore without downtime
Hi All, Can anyone please assist me in extracting the latest vmware.log file from the VM datastore which should contains the most recent Error log the VM directory ? I'm in the process of...
View Articlemultiple swap files
How to troubleshoot if multiple swap files occurred in virtual machine o esx host?
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 issues with audio - No Audio output device detected
We are still on 4.0 update 3 and will be moving to 5.1 here in the next couple of months but we are testing a new Citrix xenapp environment on 2008 R2 servers and noticed that there isn't a sound card...
View ArticleBad write-performance on iSCSI SAN
Hello community, I've got a question to the following infrastructure: ESX 4.1 U1 on a HP ProLiant DL380G5 with the DLink DSN 2100 10 in iSCSI mode. The SAN is configured to present 3 LUNs to the ESX....
View ArticleDefining additional iSCSI Software Adapters
My setup is two VMware ESXi 4.1 servers which are clustered. I have a iSCSI software adapter installed and setup on one of my VMware ESXi 4.1 servers. It works fine and I can access the SAN from both...
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 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 ArticleRestore Windows Server 2008 in vsphere
Dear all, I read a document state that we can backup Windows Server 2008 and restore to another server. I test it on VMware workstation is fine but when I do the same in vsphere esxi 4.1 then it does...
View Articlehow to import vmdk file (created on vmware workstation) to vsphere ?????
Hi, how to import vmdk file (created on vmware workstation) to vsphere ????? to get working as a virtual machine. Please reply in steps. ~Rashid
View ArticleVirtual Machine Swapfile stuck on "Getting data", never loads
After making iSCSI changes now unable to set Virtual Machine Swapfile Location. Swapfile Location: shows Getting data... but never loads. Cannot use this host as it needs access to the Shared Swapfile...
View ArticleSNMP trap: This trap is sent when a virtual machine detects a loss/regains in...
Hello, I am implementing System Center Operation manage 2007 R2 with Quest QMX extension for VMware.I started monitoring SNMP traps from ESX servers over QMX tool after that I recieved from all virtual...
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