No such device, secondary drive gone?
I have a virtual machine with 4 drives, two normal virtual disks and 2 raw mapped luns. Each on their own luns. We recently did a Fiber switch migration and every since the power down of the esx, im...
View ArticleFastest way to copy vmdk
Hello, I have a 200GB vmdk I wou ld like to backup. This vm is shutdown. I would like to know what is the fastest possible way to backup this vmdk. I have a very limited time to get this file. I am...
View Articlebackup failed with DiskLib_Check() failed for source disk The file specified...
Hi all, I'm working with a backup script on my ESX4 hosts. Unfortunately one of the new created VM's won't to be backup.I allways get this error message: DiskLib_Check() failed for source disk The file...
View ArticleUnable to revert snapshot: Detected an invalid snapshot configuration
I am dealing with a situation where a VM on an ESXi 4.1 host (standalone, no vcenter server) had data loss after making changes to it and the snapshot cannot be restored due to the above error....
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 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...
View ArticleUrgent - How to check VM logs?
We had some issue during weekend, some one deleted few files or something happened? How to find out the root cause analysis? I have exported the logs from vcenter and I got almost 3 GB logs locally?...
View Article"Operation timed out:The VM failed to resume on the destination during early...
During migration to another host I came across 2 Vms that gave an error :" Operation timed out:The VM failed to resume on the destination during early power on". Restarting management agents on the...
View ArticleWhat is Runtime Name
I have just installed vSphere 4.0 and VC 4.0. I have noticed something called Runtime Name. I have tried to figure out what that means but without luck. Can anyone explain what vmhba2:C0:T3:L0...
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...
View ArticleCheck ESX Hosts via SNMP
Hi @ all i want to check my esx hosts systems via snmp. (snapshots/drive usage, etc...)In our environment i use snmpget to fill my "checkssystem" nagios. So i search for some doc´s to configure it,...
View ArticleMounting NFS on ESX using WD Sharespace device
I'm having a weird issue with my WD Sharespace device. I use a WD Sharespace to mount as an NFS device to store all of our ISO and install files. I have one ESX 4 cluster with 5 servers, and two...
View ArticlevSMP on 12-core AMD/16-core AMD
Hi All, I have been seeing relatively poor performance on a CPU intensive 8-vCPU VM (W2K8) compared to a 4-vCPU VM (W2K8) on a HP DL585-G7 server with 4 x 12-core AMD Opteron 2.1GHz processors. I have...
View Articleabout vmware converter and /boot/efi
Recently I tried to convert a physical machine to vmware VSphere 4.1 U1 ,but it failed,and the error is in this step: can't copy data from volome /boot/efi the os is SUSE linux 11, the partion table...
View ArticleHELP : VM Machine RDP Freeze
hi, I am using VMware ESX 4.0.0. win serv 2003 as vCenter and win 7 as host. and I have had problems for some hosts.when the host application to retrieve data from a different server, the windows would...
View ArticleCannot do Storage Vmotion of an VM
Hi All, I cannot do a storage vMotion of an Powered ON VM to different Datastore, it is reporting error (VMware Tools installation is in progress on this Virtual Machine. Virtual DVD/CDROM devices...
View ArticleMissing X drivers for Ubuntu 13.10?
I'm setting up a Ubuntu 13.10 guest on an ESX 4.1.0 host. While installing the VMGuest tools, I get this message" "Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used." "Skipping X configuration...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 / ERP (semiramis) environment on ESX 4.0 - list of...
hello, we like to install our new ERP environment completely in our VMware vSphere Datacenter. The new ERP database is running on SQL Server 2008 Ent. Server. The front end needs five application...
View ArticleProblem USB device VMware ESXi 4.0.0 - 4.1.0
Dear, I have a problem for my server to recognize USB devices.VMware ESXi is installed 4.0.0 and 4.1.0 and in both cases these devices do notrecognize me.The machines I tested on Windows Server 2003,...
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