MIGRATING VM on Local Storage to SAN
Hi, I've setup two temproary ESX with production VMs. Now the new SAN is in with two new esx. The temproary ESX have no SAN, thus VM reside in local hardisk. If I setup a new virtual...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R Standby Memory
Hi there, I have a question about running Windows 2008 R2 machines on vSphere. In 2008 R2 there is such a thing as standby memory. I have a couple of 2008 R2 vm's running and they consume al lot of...
View ArticleProblems PXE Booting ESX 4.1 VMWare - Error "0xc0000001"
I am trying to PXE boot a VM that is running on ESX 4.1 and while the VM is booting up the PXE image I get the error seen in the attached screenshot. The VMs that I am trying to PXE have either the...
View ArticlevMotion background
Hi, When we do a Hot vMotion, what exactly happens at the background. What files is created, what file is moved from where to where, what file is deleted if any applicable? Thanks,jK
View ArticleESX SNMP Configuration (for HP SIM) & sending an ESX Test Trap via SNMPTRAP
Greetings. I recently needed to configure / fix my ESX servers to communicate properly over SNMP to my HP SIM server. Note: This is for ESX 4.1 and HP SIM 6.2. There were many problems I needed to...
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 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...
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Error: Unable to mount this VMFS volume due to duplicate extents found
Posting this here in the hopes that someone, by some stroke of luck, has a workaround while I twiddle my thumbs and wait for VMware to actually get back to me with the details of my support entitlement...
View ArticleWindows 2008R2 snapshot problem on 4.1
I have problem with snapshots on one of my VMs. And what's strange it started only last friday. One of my DC's on Win2008R2 refused to take quiesced snapshot after clod migration from one cluster to...
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...
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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...
View ArticleVM Priority in a 2 node cluster
Hello,I'm new to this forum and have a question... I have a 2 node cluster. Each node has 192GBNode A has the Production VMs (USING 192GB)Node B has the TEST VMs (USING 192GB)If I reserve 192GB of...
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 ArticleCan't format VMs 0x80070057 Synology DS210j NFS
Just want to ask if anyone of you here had an experienced with Synology DS210j running NFS. I had no problem to configure NFS, mount it from ESX & create virtual machines. However, during Windows...
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 ArticleEmulex OneConnect OCE10102-NX - network adapter - 2 ports
We are looking at implementing 10GB to our front end vSphere cluster for our Guest network/SC. I've seen the Emulex OneConnect OCe10102-N, (listed under IBM partner) OCe10102-NX-X, and (listed...
View ArticleESX 3.5 and ESX4.0
1) briefly explain what is difference between esx3.5 and esx4.0?2) briefly explain what is the difference between vc2.5 and vc4.0?3)how many luns can we have for an ESX4.0?4)In DRS cluster if a VM is...
View ArticleDell R710 Enable HyperThreading on vSphere 4.1
Hi all VM expert, I just purchase Dell R710 server and installed Vmware ESX 4.1 on it. on the vmware configuration, I found that the "HyperThreading" not enable. but I check on BIOS, it already...
View ArticleVMware Infrastructure Client unrecoverable error
Hi. I'm using vSphere Client (version 4.1.0, build 258902) and vCenter Server (version 4.0.0, build 208111) with an IBM BladeCenter. I am trying to upload files to a satastore, however, just as it...
View ArticleInconsistent Folder Name - Folder Name Does Not Match VM Name
I have several VM defined where the associated folder name does not match the VM name. Is there a way that I can rename the folder name to match the VM name. Also, is there a way that I can rename...
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