Unable 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 ArticleCreate New Virtual Machine is greyed out
I can't create a new virtual machine in vSphere client. Right clicking the host or going to File > New Virtual Machine is greyed out. It seems like most administrative functions are greyed out,...
View ArticleUnable to reconnect a vSphere host in vCenter
vSphere version 4.0.0.261974vCenter version 4.0.0.258672 I have been installing physical memory upgrades on our vSphere servers but have a problem with a particular vSphere host. Before placing in...
View ArticleCannot create a quiesced snapshot
Hi all, Environment:Fat ESX4.1U2Dell Equallogic SANDatastores: 500Gb on 1MB block size Bit of an issue to backup (Symantec BE 2010 R3) and replication to DR site (Veeam 6.5). (Our DR provider leases...
View ArticleUnable to connect to ESX 4.1 Host
Bare with me. I have some experience using VMWARE but less on the hardware side of things. Someone else setup our environment so I am learning as I go here. I have a Dell blade chassis with 4...
View Articlemulti core vcpu settings and confusion RDS / Terminal Services
I have a few terminal servers.I run office apps, ie and a few other small things currently. The VMs were setup with 2 vCpus from the start (i would have started with 1 however it wasn't me that set...
View Articlemount root partition of esx 4.1 in rescue mode from livecd
Hi guys! I have problem with recovering esx 4.1 upd 3 server. To my shame i deleted /lib64/libc-2.5.so -->/lib64/libc.so.6 link and rebooted a server. So now esx makes a core dump and won't start...
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 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 Article[ESX 4.0 U2] Change Both Host and Datastore grayed out
Hi, We have a VMware 4.0 U2 environment with 4 ESX hosts. We have 2 clusters with 2 hosts located in each cluster. Each cluster defines a physical building and both buildings are about 4KMs appart....
View ArticleRestore Windows Server 2008 in vsphere
Dear all, I read a document state that we can backup Windows Server 2008 and restore to another server. I test it on VMware workstation is fine but when I do the same in vsphere esxi 4.1 then it does...
View ArticleCan't connect to NFS server.
We have an ESX 4 environment with 3 hosts (esx1, esx2, and exs3) all with the same exact network settings (except their IP's, obviously). Along with those 3 hosts we have a NetApp FAS2040 set up as an...
View ArticleCannot power on virtual machine: Unable to access file since it is locked
I'm having this trouble (this is the second time now) where I cannot power on a virtual machine. The message "Unable to access file since it is locked. Since the filename is unspecified, it makes it...
View ArticleCannot Download .vmdk files from VM - "Storage expected but message Got: ERROR"
Hi I have some VMs, that i cannot download the .vmdk using Datastore Browser. I get "Storage expected but message Got: ERROR" This only happen with some VMs, not with all my VMs.It seems that the VM...
View Articlewe need to know in which slot or DIMM memory got failed and also size of the...
We found that one of the ESX server, memory got failed. total size of the memory is 64 GB. we are using HP DL 560 g3 model. we found in the IML log that one of the memory is failed in the server. we...
View Articlehot add memory - windows 2008R2
Hi, Vsphere 4 update 1 - I need toincrease memory on my windows 2008 R2 enterprise box. Is hot add memory supported for windwos 2008R2 enterprise edition? Is hot plug CPU supported?...
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 ArticleUnable to add host in VC
Hi, I've installed ESX 4.0, in DMZ net work. When I tried to add this server in Virtual center I get "Request timed" out error, but Im able to manage this server using vSphere client and able to...
View ArticleVFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0
I was trying to make kickstart iso for unattended installation of ESX 4.1. I followed the procedure mentioned here: http://www.vmprofessional.com/index.php?content=kickstart_2 But this step we need to...
View Articleedition of vcenter on supports 3 host(s)
Hi all. Vcenter essentials plus.3 hosts, each with 2 sockets Then I have another Datacentre within my inventory with another host running vmware vsphere 4 enterprise as a standalone host. AFAIK - my...
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