vSphere ESX 4.1 changing default ports 80 and 443 ???
Hiya,I'm having problems trying to change the default ports so that i can move my exchange server into VM. I've tried what it says on the forums here but i just can't get it to work. VMware KB article...
View ArticleLost 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 Articleupgrade esx 4.1 to esxi 4.1 in a cluster question
We have a cluster with 4 hosts. All hosts are running ESX 4.1. This Cluster has HA and DRS turn on. Now, I am planning to upgrade those host from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 4.1 one by one. Do I have to turn off...
View ArticleVirtual Machine redundancy
Hopefully this is the correct forum as i am using esx 4.1 Here we go: I have x number of hosts. (ill be using 2 to explain but know i have more)I have 1 vswitch that runs all of our VMs bound to 2...
View ArticleStrange IP behaviour
I have a reoccurring problem, wanted some other eyes on it. We have multiple IP's assigned to virtual nic1. It also has a Vswitch VLAN assignment. We have other virtual nic's in the VM. OS is Windows...
View ArticleAdd vCPUs to Linux 2.4 guest to speed it up?
Hello, I was hoping someone could answers some questions for me. I'm running vSphere 4.0 with about 5 32-bit Linux guests running kernel 2.4. All have 1 vCPU. Everything has been fine for years but...
View ArticleNFS 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...
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Server powers off randomly, but only if ESX is loaded, not in Bios setup mode
Hi, I have ESX 4.1 installed with vCenter. After a rough week with 2 heavy storms and a lot of power failures (and no UPS ...) my machine began to act weird. At first it did a uncontrolled power off....
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 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 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 ArticlevSphere Client 4.0 "Unable to Connect to the MKS: Connection Terminated by...
Hey all, I just began having this issue with a new installation. I am running ESX 4.0 on IBM Blade Center (MT 8730). The VM's are Windows Server 2008 and have recently started giving me this error...
View ArticleChanging block size of datastore from 1 MB to 4 MB
Hi, I've installed an ESX. The system automatically partition to have the block size of 1 MB which is 256 max virtual hardisk. How can I change to 4 MB Block Size taking into consideration there...
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 ArticlettyS0: 1 input overrun(s)
Hi, every 5-30 minutes I found a "ttyS0: 1 input overrun(s)" with "dmesg | grep tty" on the service console. The Serial Port /dev/ttyS0 is used in a Ubuntu Server 10.04 x64 VM. Every time when comes...
View ArticlevSphere 4.1 - iSCSI Hardware Offloads
I have been waiting for ESX to support iscsi offload onto capable NICs. it seems they are starting off their support for only 2 NICs? vSphere 4.1 enables 10Gb iSCSI hardware offloads (Broadcom 57711)...
View Articleconvert old pc into thin client
hi We would like to convert old pc's into thin clients.Where can I get free linux thin client supported PC-over-IP?
View ArticleESX 4.1 patch roll back
Hi Guys, I have one UAT host in our infra which I have upgraded to ESX 4.1 from ESX 4.0 . Today I have installed ESX 4.1 update 1(VMware ESX 4.1.0 build-348481) patch on this host using esxupdate. But...
View Articlepowerchute network shudown 3.0 non shutdown virtual machine
good eveningi have installed powerchute network shutdown for esxi in my host esxi 4.1i have following the procedure from apc http://nam-en.apc.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11144/related/1 the virtual...
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ESX 4.1 and vCenter only allows use of 1 Fibre Channel LUN
Hi,I have 8 ESX 4.1 (build 348481) blades in a Cisco UCS 5108 chassis. Each blade has 2 x HBAs available. I also have a Fiber channel storage array that is configured to provide 2 1.8 TB LUNs (for now...
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