System Management Software 1 SEL Fullness: Log almost full
Hi, I am runing IBM system x 3690 ESX 4.1.0,433742 and getting a following warning "System Management Software 1 SEL Fullness: Log almost full" I could not find any issue by looking at the IMM logs....
View ArticleHow to configure GNS3 virtual machines with ESXi
Today I can set up virtual machines with VMware workstation and connect there NIC in GNS3 (Network Emulating) , I can create NIC card by using VMware workstation and assign each virtual machine I have...
View ArticleProblem with root password
Hi, I have few ESXI's 4 connected to a vcenter, all is working ok.My problem is that someone here have changed the root password to one of the ESXI's machines and forgot what is it.That machine is...
View ArticlevSphere Client Console Display Resolution
I'm running ESXi 4.1. When I open a console from vSphere client, I cannot use a resolution higher than 1280 x 800. Once I go to 1280 x 924, I cannot click on the task bar. I want to use a resolution...
View ArticleUnable to start restored Win2003 guest
I am using veeam to backup and restore VMs and I am not having any problems with other VMs either restoring to the problem host or on other hosts. The issue is this: I restore a VM after making a...
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Recovering accidental deleted VM's in ESX4.0
Hi, I accidently deleted a VM (centos) in ESX-4.0 and was not able to recover the data on the same. Could any one please help on this. ESX server was configured with RAID-1 (DISK MIRRORING) which is a...
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 ArticleIncrease VM disk size in vsphere client?
If I increase the disk size of a guest in the vSphere client by going to the VM's Edit Settings shown in the screenshot - is that the equivalent of the command line "vmkfstools -X 100GB whatever.vmx"?...
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 ArticleLinux guest cannot see more than 4GB memory
Anyone know why my linux guest in VMware ESX4 cannot see more then 4GB of memory? I have tried to set the guest mem to 5GB or 6GB and boot with lilo.conf having: append=" mem=5120M...
View Articleextending Windows 7 primary disk partition
Hi, I'm running Vsphere 4.1, and I have VM that is a Windows 7 with just one disk as its primary partition.I want to extend the size of that partition, but after turn off the VM and edit its...
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...
View ArticleBlueScreen 0x0000008E (vmx_fb.dll)
Hello! I have a problem with one of our Server. We have a lot of virtual Servers based on the same image. But at on server I have following problem: Each time I want to connect with RemoteDesktop...
View Articlevim-cmd and snapshot reverting
I want to rever an snapshot of a VM in an vSphere 4 host. With the vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get i take the snapshot tree as: -ROOT (Snap1) -- CHILD (Snap2) -ROOT (Snap3) -- CHILD (Snap4) --...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 - becomes UNresponsive - can't remote desktop - can't...
Environment: ESX server 4 Update 1VM: Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit with vmware tools installedProblem: vm becomes completely unresponsive - can't remote desktop - can't even login via vcenter...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 HA configure error!!!
I have 2 esxi 4.1 hosts ,when configure the HA ,the error apears bellow:HA agent on xx.xx.xx.xx in cluster xx in xx has an error:cmd addnode failed for primary node:error creating ramdisk for HA agent...
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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 ArticleHow to find the esx host name in Linux VM.
Hi All,we unable to the find the VM in VCenter and ESx hostAny option to find the esx host name in Linux VM.Cheers,Vinoth
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 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...
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