Vmware 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...
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Where is list of certified motherboards?
Hello, Perhaps I am overlooking the motherboards somehow? When I explore the VMware Compatibility Guide, I see only "Systems", which appear to be complete systems. For example I was searching for a...
View ArticleExtend partition of a VM c:\ partition
Dear Experts, We recently installed a product of HP operation manager for windows on a virtual machine having 4vCPU, 4GB Mem and 50GB HDD as C:\ partition. The storage is not local but a SAN. So the...
View Articleissues with data transfers and speed copying data into virtual machine
i have as small vmware 4.1 enviroment. I have 30gb id like to transfer into a vm on my host. My san has 10gb iscsi connectivity. My front end switch where my VMs connect is 1gb. if i connect a usb...
View ArticleWhat is VSphere?
What is VSphere?, EXS4? and Cloud Computing or Cloud Operating system? Could anyone please explain there terms in single line, I mean single line definitions? Are VSphere and Virtual...
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 ArticleVM’s DNS registration deleted when upgrade VMtools
Hello. We're having issues in one environment with some Windows VMs. I'm going to explain the scenario: Previous scenario:- All the hosts were ESX 4.0.- VMs had several E1000 NICs.- VMware Tools were...
View ArticleHow to Mount VMFS datastore without formatting.
Hi, We have one legacy environment where we have formatted local hard drives to use as VMFS datastore. Now one of our HDD failed and we have replaced it with new one and data rebuild has been...
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 ArticleCorrupt redo log freezing VM
Hello, We use an ESX4 environment with 3 host and fiber attached datastores. We have a VM that is freezing up, when I click on it in VCenter this message comes up: “Virtual Machine Message...
View ArticleWant to know about vApp
Hi All, Good day!!! I would like to know about vApp in vSphere. I did not understand the exact functionality of vApp even after I had gone thorugh couple of articles in google. Below is what they...
View ArticleDRS - Active vs Consumed CPU usage
We've recently upgraded our ESX farm from 3.5Update1 to ESX4 build 175625. After doing so, we've experieced a 60% drop in host CPU utilization (what used to consume over 40% on 4 hosts now cosumes...
View ArticleNon-compliant ACPI BIOS Error when installing WIndows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
I've having a problem on my vShpere / ESX4 server -- when I attempt to installe Win Server 2008 R2 x64, it blue screens loading setup with a STOP Error of 0xA5 Microsoft Descrides the piticular error...
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Unable to extract the OVA file
Hello, i just tried to convert a vm guest (win2003 windows box with 150gb single partition) toan .OVA File. The Export itself was ok, no errors. Run VMware vCenter Converter again to upload the OVA...
View ArticleUnable to run 64bit guests with Intel Xeon 5130 CPU
Hi All, We have a small cluster of two DELL boxes. One newer PowerEdge R710 with Intel Xeon 5550 CPU's and one olderPowerEdge 2950 with Intel Xeon 5130 CPU's.Both run ESX 4.0 both platforms should...
View ArticleCan't vMotion from one Datacenter to other datacenter
Hi all. There is a problem when i want to do the vmotion from one datacenter to another.Firstly , i will introduce some background of our enviroment. 1 ESX 3.5 existed in a datacener and 2 ESX4.0...
View ArticleHost IPMI System Event Log Status
I've rebuilt this HP DL380 G5 Host twice and I have this alert when it first add it to vCenter (see attachment). Has anyone else seen this or can provide an explanation?
View ArticleHow to set DHCP for VMs in VMware ESX 4?
Dear Friends I create three host that all of them configure in VLAN 2 that is not in DHCP and never configure auto IP for the machines that in that VLAN.In one of these hosts, I have two vswitches, one...
View ArticleUnable to create vmfs partition using vmkfstool command
Hi All, I am playing with vmware ESX 4.1 with openfiler, I have created LUNs in openfiler and mapped to targets. I see those LUNs in vmware s/w iscsi initiator and create vmfs partition through...
View ArticleVirtual disk cloning failure
I had OVA package, from which I could import into esx (4.1.0, 348481) successfully.But when I tried to clone the virtual disk in OVA package with vmkfstools, it always failed.Following is the verbose...
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