Cannot 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 ArticleDell PowerEdge R610 Bios Settings for Vsphere ESX 4.0 (Vmware)
Hello Community I have now two new PE R610 Servers and looking for a best practice Bios-Guide for my new two R610's. Quick Spec: r610, 2x E5540, 16GB RAM (8x 2GB Udimm), 2x73GB SAS 15K with Perc6i,...
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 ArticleDell Openmanage 6.3.0 on ESX 4.1 error
hi I am trying to install Dell Openmanage 6.3.0 (OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-6.3.0-2075.ESX40.i386_A00.11.tar.gz) on my R900 server which has ESX 4.1 installed on it but it fails with the following error:...
View ArticleCould not find any recognizable digits.
After downloading an .OVA to a VM server. I try using the Deploy OVF Template tool, but when I hit the next button from the deploy from file selection I receive the following message Error The OVF...
View ArticleVmware ESX 4.1.0 - Alarm System Chassis 2 MCK Card or Link 0 : Undetermined...
Hi Friends, I am new to this Technology, Can you please advise the solution for this below alarm in out VMware Environment. please find the attached screen shot of this . during this failure all the...
View ArticleUnexpected Shutdown Of Guest - Legacy API Shutdown
Hi, We currently have 8 ESX servers with vSphere 4.4.0/vCenter 4.0.0 One of our guests unexpectedly shut its self down. I got the following error in the event viewer. The guest is running Server 2008...
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Get all VMs with "vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms"
hello! I have following problem.I have a shell-script and want to get all IDs and Names of virtual machines: for i in `vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | sed '1d' | awk '{print $1":"$2}'` all is fine,...
View ArticleHelp needed updating BIOS on a Dell R710
Guys, I need help. I have a Dell PowerEdge server running ESX 4.1 and I'm trying to update the BIOS from 1.3.6 to 2.1.15. I downloaded the correct package but when I run the install it fails and I...
View ArticleAlarm-Host Hardware power Status
Hi All,I am getting the red alert "Host Hardware power status" in Vsphere 4.0, what does these error means, can someone please let me know is it a hardware error, or any issue with the esx,what should...
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Slow performance on SAN with 10Gbe via VMXNET3
We have built a SAN using Nexenta and 10Gbe for our VMWARE environment and with some tweaking and testing I am able to hit up to 1GBytes (not Gbps) per second to the SAN using iSCSI from a Win 7 Guest...
View ArticleExchange 2010 DAG cluster failover when SMVI snapshot is taken
Hi Everyone, We have set up a DAG cluster with 3 nodes. Each time the daily SMVI snapshot is taken, the DAG cluster fail over the datastore to our backup store. Anyone else having this problem ? Any...
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VM showing up as invalid - failed to find a host for powering on
Hi folks. I have a good sized ESX cluster, with about 20 hosts and Enterprise Plus licensing. I recently did a power down/up of my entire setup, and all but a handful of VMs came back up cleanly. About...
View ArticleError validating datastore for vmotion fault.systemerror.summary
I want to vmotion a machine to a new datastore and in the past I've done numerous vmotion tasks from server to server or datastore to datastore without problems. When I click next through the migrate...
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 ArticleUpgrade ESX 3.5 to 4.1
Hi All, I am planning to upgrade ESX 3.5 to 4.1, so could you please share your thought Is it possible to upgrade ESX 3.5 to 4.1 directly ? What is the best way to upgrade the ESX 3.5 to 4.1 through...
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...
View ArticleRescan doesn't show new LUNs on FC HBA...need to reboot?
On our ESX 4.1.0 boxes, we attached an unused FC HBA from each server to a new SAN and presented LUNS. The HBA's always did show up in vCenter, but I expected that after doing a "Rescan All" the new...
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...
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