The 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...
View Articleunable to remove dead path from HBA ports vmhba1/2
Hi all, I have a dead path on both the hba ports vmhba1 and vmhba2. I tried rescanning it but no go.I am not sure how to proceed on this ... Please assist me. Here are the details [root@xxxxx...
View ArticleUnable to connect to ESX 4.1 Host
Bare with me. I have some experience using VMWARE but less on the hardware side of things. Someone else setup our environment so I am learning as I go here. I have a Dell blade chassis with 4...
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General questation about NLB
Hi ,sorry for my bad Englisch . I have basic questation about NLB in the Vmware . I have two virtual machines with created unicast NLB . I set notification switches off .Now I have trouble with connect...
View ArticleCannot do Storage Vmotion of an VM which has RDM attached
Hi, Iam unable to to storage vmotion for an Virtual Machine which has around 8 RDM attached to it. I see the error incompatible device backing specified for device '0'. can anyone let know why is the...
View ArticleVM's not starting after reboot vSphere 4 update 2 server
Hello, After reboot of a vSphere 4 update 2 server the VM's are not started and connecting vSphere client not possible.If running the vmware-cmd command following error comes:...
View ArticleWindows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit - Unable to connect to the MKS:Internal Error
Hi there I found out, when i connect to a freshly installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bits English with SP1 Computer where i did install the vSphere Client (latest Release) and i connect to the Virtual...
View ArticleCan't Migrate VM
I am having trouble migrating a VM from a datastore. I am trying to decommission this SAN and I have been able to move all other VM's off except one. I am not able to move it powered on on or off....
View ArticleSOLUTION: Error moving RDM from one VM to another
SOLUTION: Error moving RDM from one VM to another Shutdown both VMs (NOT a MSCS cluster)Removed Virtual Compatibility Mode RDM from old VMAttempted to add to new VMGot: "a general system error...
View Article"Add Storage" only sees 185 GB instead of 8,18 TB
Hi. We are using ESX 4.0 on a x3850-M2. Have some internal disc (400 GB), one external DS3400 (500 GB), then a DS3000 extension (800 GB) and another new DS3400 (3 times 1,64 TB).The x3850 has a Brocade...
View ArticleCreate VM image and deploy at customer site
Complete newbie here -- my apologies if this has been answered elsewhere. I have an application running on Linux on a physical server. We have an ESX4 server in our environment running a couple of...
View ArticleSCSI Error
I'm building a VM and using the Paravirtual SCSI controller for my additional disks and I keep getting this error after I restart the server. I configured the system using all LSI Logic SAS and did not...
View ArticleLogs "Long VMFS3 rsv time on..."
Hello, I’m running in the following trouble few weeks ago about my infrastructure, VMware vSphere 4.1 on HP blade BL460G1 and storage HP EVA 6400. Description:The VM symptom is slowdown in accessing...
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 ArticleIBM HS22 - High latency to shared datastore over FibreChannel
Hi, I've just installed and configured two new hosts for our environment, ESX13 & ESX14. They're identical IBM HS22 blade servers both with ESX 4.1 U1 installed. In order to make sure everything...
View ArticlePlaying games on vmware. The best way to do it?
Hello, I am a little bit new in the whole VMware scene. But really my goal was to have an ESX 4.1 server with virtual machines on it with the purpose for remotely gaming. I heard that de vmware view...
View Articlewindows OEM license in virtual environment
i have a physical server with windows OEM license installed. now i want to install ESX on it and leverage the key to install a windows guest OS.i have found a physical key and virtual key with this...
View ArticleWindows Server machines getting stuck in reboot loop after adding extra disk
Hi, I'm having a problem with some VM's in an ESXi4 environment(the free version), the problem is that some VMs have got into a state where they permantently reboot if you power them on. They will boot...
View ArticleTP AutoConnect/VC Gateway Services showing up on Servers after VMware tools...
Hi All, Since upgrading to ESXi 4.1 then upgrading VMware tools on our Windows servers we have noticed two services being created - TP AutoConnect Service [Stopped|Manual|LocalSystem] TP VC...
View ArticleTried to fix "Invalid" VM issue and now can't add it to inventory
We had an unexpected shutdown of our ESX environment and were able to recover most of the VMs.Two, unfortunately, came up with the dreaded "invalid vm" description. I looked for some suggestions on...
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