adding a new host to existing cluster
Hi All, The existing cluster has a SAN connected. What caution should I look into before adding a new host to existing cluster? I have done research that we should disconnect HBA physically before...
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 ArticleCannot power on VM -
Hi everyone, Im getting a confusing problem when powering on a VM. I select the VM, click power on, the task for powering on completes sucessfully, then another task comes up which unregisters the VM...
View ArticleDo these switches support route based on IP Hash?
All, I have spent days reading official documentation and I am familiar with LACP and Cisco Port Channel. I understand that in order to really use aggregation in ESXi you must use "Route Based on IP...
View ArticleProblem USB device VMware ESXi 4.0.0 - 4.1.0
Dear, I have a problem for my server to recognize USB devices.VMware ESXi is installed 4.0.0 and 4.1.0 and in both cases these devices do notrecognize me.The machines I tested on Windows Server 2003,...
View ArticleEXSI 4.1 Installation
Hello all, please help me with this.I have a hp proliant 165 G7 server running with windows server 2008 R2. I decided to install ESXI 4.1 on it and it seems ok, i installed the vsphere client on...
View ArticleHelp with missing and/or corrupt vmx/log files please!!!
Ok so let me start off with I did a stupid thing that I've seen others have done but the solutions didn't seem to work for me so I tried to fix it another way.I mistakenly deleted the .vmx & log...
View ArticleDisappearing virtual network device under Windows 2008 R2 SP1 in vSphere 4.1
Has anyone seen an issue where after an upgrade from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2008 R2 SP1 the virtual network device suddenly and somewhat randomly ejects itself from the VM causing the virtual...
View ArticleVMFS recovery after kind of a disk crash
Hey there! Following scenario: We are running three seperate ESX 4.1 servers, all connected to a SAN via fibre channel. A week ago we restarted one ESX server, it has since lost the connection to one...
View ArticleBroadcom 57711 + ESX/ESXi 4.1 + Jumbo Frames
Having some issues getting Broadcom 57711 NIC working on ESX/ESXi 4.1 with MTU 9000. On ESX/ESXi 4.0 U2 I have no problems getting and MTU of 9000 working, I can push our EQL PS6010 SAN pretty hard and...
View ArticlePSOD - Esx4.1 HP Proliant DL 385 G7
I've a very strange problem on seven new HP PROLIANT DL385 G7 (latest firmware and upgarde) with ESX 4.1 installed, in a random manner, in different time and unexpectedly system crash and happens PSOD,...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Slow Mouse After Sysprep
So,I know installing VMware's WDDM driver in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\wddm_video will fix slow mouse problems normally and it does. I've installed this into a VM and converting this...
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 ArticleVmachine lost network connectvity after a host vmtion
i am running ESX 4.1 OS and recently I host vmotion 100 Vmachine from existing hosts to new hosts, all vmachine are working fine except one machine. After migration, the machine lost netwrok...
View Articlevum
hi guys, need help in configuring vum, can any one tell me what all the prequesite and which all ports to be opened for it.
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HELP! Raw Mapped LUN unreadable after Migrating VM from 3.5 to 4.0
This is a great thing to wake up to on Easer: I have been migrating VMs from our ESX 3.5 server to our ESX 4.0 server in preparation for an upgrade. We have 2 Dell Equalogic arrays connected to each...
View ArticleGraphics card, Virtualization?
can graphics card be virtualized over ESX 4.0 hypervisor, i mean to ask can we create many VM's and over a high configuration machine(desktop and servers) for playing high quality games?
View ArticlevCenter is down - What can/can't I do?
Can anyone point me to the definitive list of tasks which can and can’t be performed when vCenter is unavailable?I already know a fair few but I’ve spend ages searching the web some an official VMware...
View ArticleHyperthreading in vSphere 4.1
Hi folks, I'm running SAP Solution Manager application in ESXi 4.1. When they started using their application the VMs CPU utilization is directly hitting to 100% and it is consistence. But when they...
View ArticleESX 4.0 to ESX 4.1 - migration
Guys, I have ESX 4.0 and Vcenter 4.0 in my environment. VC server is windows server 2003 64bit and with oracle database. I have to migrate all of my hosts to ESX 4.1 and I think I must have to migrate...
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