Error "a component of this virtual machine is not accessible on the host"
Hello All, after migrating a VM from one host to another, getting the above error whilst attempting to register the VMX file. Can't seem to spot the issue, no physical devices such as CDROMS, etc...
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IBM RSA II daemon on Esx 4.0...
Hi, In order to monitor some xSeries (3550/7978) servers with ESX 4.0 (/!\ not ESXi 4.0 /!\), I enabled snmp trapping on hosts. Traps from ESX works. Next step is to "forward" hardware traps,...
View ArticleVMDirect Path FC attached Tape Library
Hi allI need a major help Is it possible to use VMDirect path to connect the fibre attached tape library to Virtual Machine to use VM as a backup server. RegardsManic
View Articleextpart problems
In the past, I have never had any extpart issues. Yes, once in a while I might need to go to safe mode to run it, but that wasn't often. Recently I started working with a new environment at another...
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iscsi-target server has two NICs question
Hello Our iscsi-target server has two NICs (A,B) and three LUN (1,2,3). I want to assign NIC A to LUN a and NIC B to LUN 2 and NIC A also to LUN 3. After added iscsi-target I saw the following: So I...
View Articlehow to monitor HDD (s.m.a.r.t.?) status for hdd from esxi 4.1?
Hello, We have a testing server (proliant dl380g5) with esxi4.1 installed. one datastore on local SATA HDD constantly fails at random time, e.g. when doing storage vmotion to another datastore on...
View ArticleUploaded 210GB .bkf file to datastore...
Good morning Everyone! New to the forum, hope to stick around and give some knowledge and take some as well!! the question I'm having a problem with this morning:I uploaded a 210gb titled SBS09.bkf...
View ArticleESX 4.0 reboots once in1 or 2 weeks - Aggregate version Overflow ha-host...
Hi, We have Dell PowerEdge R710 on which VMware ESX 4.0 has been installed CPU - 8CPU x 2.127 GHzMemory - 32 GB # vmware -vVMware ESX 4.0.0 build-164009 I have around 10 VMs running on this and we...
View ArticlePowerChute Network Shutdown v3.0.0 (now free for ESX/ESXi)
Not sure if the community is aware yet, but the latest version of APC PCNS, v3.0.0 is now free. Albeit you need to have a supported Management Card installed in the UPS to use it. It has a release date...
View ArticlePlaying games on vmware. The best way to do it?
Hello, I am a little bit new in the whole VMware scene. But really my goal was to have an ESX 4.1 server with virtual machines on it with the purpose for remotely gaming. I heard that de vmware view...
View ArticleESX host drops out of communication
Ok this one is a little unusual. Here are the symptoms that i've been seeing. The host has had two losses of communication in the past 7 days. One loss of communication was at about 7:30 pm and the...
View Articlenetapp missing paths
Hi, I have an odd problem where one of the controllers on our netapp fas3140 died over the weekend, everything failed over to the remaing controller as it should. However, the failed controller is now...
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 ArticleDiskLib_Check() failed for source disk The system cannot find the file...
I am running a virtual machine on vSphere 5 which is having multiple snapshot. Now found that the server is not responding properly and tried to restart but could not. Ultimately had to restart the ESX...
View ArticleService Console vs Management Network ports
We have one cluster with two ESX 4.1.0 hosts. In trying to mount an NFS share, it turns out that Server-A can mount it, but Server-B can not. Server-A has a VMkernel Port named "Management Network"...
View Article503 service unavailable on vsphere 4.0 access web to download client
anyone know why i got this 503 service unavailable when connected to newly installed vsphere 4.0 and ask for certificates and if i click continue to ignore it it just throw that error. please help
View ArticleHigh Host RAM usage for Win2k8 and Win7 Guests
Hi I find that with Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7, the host RAM usage is always just under the RAM assigned to those guests. I.e. Win2k8-host-1 (4GB assigned) - Host usage 4085MB, Guest...
View Articlehow to convert VHD to VMDK SCSI device.
hi, i have converted VHD file to VMDK file and put it into SCSI strogae. when i powering on the VM it says disk read error occur. i found that virtual device node is IDE it should be SCSI so that the...
View ArticleThree VMs with same SID, what to do?
I deployed three Win2008 R2 VMs from the same template and made the mistake of not using customization to change the SID. I have verified using PsGetsid that all three have the same SID. These three...
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Can you reboot nfs storage WITHOUT rebooting ESX hosts?
Hi community I wanted to know what your experience was of rebooting nfs storage devices WITHOUT rebooting the ESX servers. I can shutdown the VMs that use the storage but would like to avoid shutting...
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