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Restrict access to specific hosts/vC servers on vSphere Client
Hi community, I'm not sure if I'm right here, since there is no sub forum for the vSphere Client itself, so I'm sorry in advance if I hit the wrong one My questions is if I can restrict the vSphere...
View ArticleWindows Computer account not present in AD
System logs - Error eventSource: NETLOGONEvent ID: 5721description: The session setup to the Windows NT or Windows 2000 Domain Controller \\DomainControllerName for the domain DomainName failed because...
View Articlethe /etc/security/access.conf file on all ESX 4.1 servers gets overwritten
the /etc/security/access.conf file on all ESX 4.1 servers gets overwritten to original configuration upon server reboots and Unix Team (as well as VMware Team once accounts have been created for them)...
View ArticleNetwork uplink redundancy fake alert
Hi there, Do you all encounter false alert for network uplink redundancy alarms and network connectivity lost? Everytime the alarm triggered, customer will call and request me to check onsite, but the...
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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 ArticleVm's crash
Stange issue, few VM's have the below logs and were crashed. Sep 22 07:00:26.552: vmx| GuestRpc: app toolbox's second ping timeout; assuming app is downSep 22 07:05:22.730: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut:...
View ArticleUpgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1
hi Howto upgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1 using esxupdate?BTW which zip file do I need to download from www.vmware.com/go/downloadpatches to do an upgrade?
View ArticleLost communication with ESX module
Hello, I have the following problem. We have a View farm with 5 servers. We have installed vShield for use with Symantec Endpoint Protection.When I start vShield Manager and select one of the view...
View ArticleESX mount command
Hi All, We have a mixed environment of 2 ESX 4.1 and 1x ESXi . I am running the mount command on the the two ESX 4.1 servers and it doesn't show the san storages which have been mounted under the...
View ArticleVMWare tools ESX 4 for Windows 7 x64
I'm trying to install VMWare tools for Windows 7 x64 on ESX 4. The OS installed just fine, but when I try to load the tools I get almost all of the way there and then get the error: Error: 25030....
View ArticleChanging block size of datastore from 1 MB to 4 MB
Hi, I've installed an ESX. The system automatically partition to have the block size of 1 MB which is 256 max virtual hardisk. How can I change to 4 MB Block Size taking into consideration there...
View Articleunable to create vmkernel dump file
I have here 4 IBM X3650 M2 (7947-52G) with a clean install ESX 4.0.0 244038 - UEFI 1.07 D6E145FUS (upraded from 1.04) IMM YU0057H 1.10 (upgradd from 1.05) Diagnostics v233 - All 4 have the...
View ArticlevSphere Client could not connect with the vCenter Server "servername"
Details: The server took too long to respond. (The operation has timed out) We have an existing ESX3 environment with vcentre server 2 managing.I have built 3rd ESX server ESX4, and installed vcentre...
View ArticleCannot 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....
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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 ArticleVMmware Converter 4 Standalone (coldclone.iso)
Hi I'm looking for a download link of the newest VMmware Converter 4 Standalone (coldclone.iso). I'd like to burn it as bootable CD for cold clone process. Under...
View ArticleESX 4 U1 Hosts Lock with SD 0:0:0:0 still retrying after 360s
We just upgraded fro ESX3.5 to ESX 4 U1 a few weeks back. We are running on a IBM Blade Center S with HS21-7995 blades and using the SAS RAID Module for Storage. On two occasion all the ESX hosts...
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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 Articlevmxnet3 driver / vmotion / 10gb ex4500 switches
We are seeing issues when vmotioning a VM using vmxnet3 drivers. The VM is running CentOS 5.6 and we are using the vmxnet3 driver to take advantage of 10000mb (10gb). When we vmotion, the VM gets to...
View ArticleNo 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...
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