ESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions
Dear team, ESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions. Need to understand LAHF and SAHF, and how it's work? RegardsMr VMware
View ArticleThe hard disk is blank.
hi I have ESX 4.0.0 installed and if I try to add a new storage (SCSI Volume, Raid5) then I get this message: "The hard disk is blank."Error during the configuration of the host: Failed to get disk...
View Articleunable to remove dead path from HBA ports vmhba1/2
Hi all, I have a dead path on both the hba ports vmhba1 and vmhba2. I tried rescanning it but no go.I am not sure how to proceed on this ... Please assist me. Here are the details [root@xxxxx...
View ArticleNeed help in ESX 4.1 update3 :- facing " ['ResourceGroup' warning] Skipping...
Hi, I have a host with ESX 4.1U3 installed with two VM’s ,one is RHEL and other is WINDOWS. As soon as I powered on the VM and execute command esxcfg-info –a(or -r) | grep <any thing> it...
View ArticleStrange IP behaviour
I have a reoccurring problem, wanted some other eyes on it. We have multiple IP's assigned to virtual nic1. It also has a Vswitch VLAN assignment. We have other virtual nic's in the VM. OS is Windows...
View ArticleESX 4 and IPMI / Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
Does anybody else use the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator software on their ESX hosts? I am doing a clean/new install of ESX 4 on a Dell PowerEdge R900 server. I have installed the OMSA without...
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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 Article"required client support files" problem when connecting using vSphere via SSH...
I am trying to connect to my ESX server using the vSphere client tunneled over SSH. I have done this in the past, but it isn't working now. I am fwding the appropriate ports (443, 902, 903) and have...
View ArticlevSphere on Power On Virtual Machine: Reason: 22 (Invalid argument)
Hey, guys.Saturday morning I had a issue with one of my virtual machines: I could not access its console via vSphere client, so I sent a poweroff command (button). The virtual machine stuck at 95%, and...
View Article"failed to connect: cannot connect to host localhost: connection refused" on...
This is on ESX 4.0.0 Update 1. When I issue a command such as "vim-cmd /hostsvc/hostsummary | grep inMaintenanceMode" or vimsh –n –e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter” / “vimsh –n...
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Windows 2008 R2 + ESX4 + vCenter Client Console = FREEZE
Hello, i reproduced this several times now and also found a coressponding thread in the microsoft newsgroups, (...
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 Articlequestion about RDM using local disk ESX 4
Hello, I'm trying to create a raw disk mapping using local storage in ESX 4 but somehow I don't succeed. I'm using a HP P400 SAS/SATA controller with 4 1TB SATA drives in RAID 5. I created 3...
View ArticleIntel Dual Port 1000 MT NIC, only 1 NIC detected
Hi all, We needed more NIC's in our ESX4 host so we bought an Intel Pro 1000 MT Dual port NIC. Booted the server but only 1 of the NICs detects (Port B). Am I missing something? The NIC was from Ebay...
View Articlehow to import vmdk file (created on vmware workstation) to vsphere ?????
Hi, how to import vmdk file (created on vmware workstation) to vsphere ????? to get working as a virtual machine. Please reply in steps. ~Rashid
View Articleesxcli swiscsi error trying to remove nic
I had implemented iscsi multipathing had no problems adding the nic to vmhba36, but when trying to remove the nic I get the following error, I have two nics that I bound to vmhba36 and get the error on...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 - becomes UNresponsive - can't remote desktop - can't...
Environment: ESX server 4 Update 1VM: Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit with vmware tools installedProblem: vm becomes completely unresponsive - can't remote desktop - can't even login via vcenter...
View ArticleHP NC532i (Broadcom 57711E) network adapter from flex-10 caused a hard crash,...
Is anyone else having this issue? We just had 3 servers crash due to a bnx2x_panic_dump. Once the network cards crashed the ESX server had to be rebooted to come back. Even though only a few vmNICs...
View Article[vSphere ESX 4.1] Windows Server 2008 R2 Memory Utilisation
Good afternoon, I see a number of open threads regarding this topic, but not specifically related to vSphere 4.1. As part of an implementation of an entirely fresh vSphere 4.1 deployment, a series of...
View ArticleConvert using cold clone process into VMware Workstation
hi We would like to convert a physical Unix in our Branch abroad using cold clone process with VMware Converter.In this Branch, there is no ESX, so we will try to convert into VMware Workstation.Then...
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