PowerChute 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 ArticleDurch SSH-Pipe Befehle mit su - an ESX absenden
Hallo Leute,ich habe folgendes Problem:Ich habe einen esx4 am laufen.Ich möchte folgendes per Shellskript realisieren: mittels SSH-Pipe eingepacktes TAR-ARchive an den ESX senden und dort entpacken;...
View Articlerecover vmdk + delta vmdk after disk crash
Hi, last week we had a serious disk crash. Of course no backup, so we starten to repair/recover the disk. We where able to recover the whole folder with all files. But files do look a bit weird. For...
View ArticleVMotion using iSCSI LUN on OpenFiler
Does anyone know if it is possible to "share" a LUN on an OpenFiler iSCSI target so I can use VMotion? So far I can't get my second ESX server to connect to the LUN.
View Articleafter install esx 4.1 ... in the console a red line
Hello, after installation completed esx4.1 in the display i can see an additional line in RED: Proliant bla bla bla Console http://blablablalb 0:00:00:50:879 cpu2:4711)intrvector:290:Out of...
View ArticleUnable to startup multiple VMs. Maybe I corrupted the Template
We have been having disk space issues, and I was looking around the Datastore to see if there was garbage left over. I'm really quite new to VM, but even though I'm new I'm tasked with helping to...
View ArticlePlease Help! ESXi Configuration to get Cisco Surv. Media Software to work.
Quick overview of what I am doing: I am running VMWare ESXi on a Dell Poweredge R710 Server. My virtual machine is Linux SuSE 10, Service Pack 1, the recommended platform of the Cisco Video...
View ArticleESX 4.1 setup
New to ESX and just installed it on a HP 7900. Had a 2TB HDD inside. As I'm new and not sure what I'm doing I just told it to install and all seems fine. I also have a 500GB USB HDD plugged into this...
View ArticleThin Provision VMs not shrinking with sVmotion
Hello -- I have a number of VMs which have changed functions and things and have a lot of space I want to re-claim from them. I've done the usual sdelete -c for all of the drives and the OS is showing...
View ArticleWhy RDM need space on VMFS Storage ?
Hello, I will virtualize a file server. Regarding data side I've 2 solutions : 1) Migrate datas in my LUN on a VHD inside VMFS --> Boring, Time consumming solution 2) Attach LUN as a RAW...
View ArticleESX or ESXi
I know some of the differences between ESX and ESXi, but I want to know when would I recommend esxi to a client and when should i recommend esx. I want to know when is each version suitable for each...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 missing SSH stuffs
Everything is working fine on this ESXi 4.1 host and I have created over a dozen of Windows 2008/Win 7/RHEL6 on this 8Gig HP Quadcore PC except I noticed all my SSH stuffs are missing. Already login as...
View ArticlePublic/Private IP addresses
Hello, I am trying to setup the VCL application. On one configuration page, it asks for public & private IP addresses. On my home network, I always have the management network as the private....
View Articleinsufficient resources after upgrade
Just upgraded from ESX4.0 to 4.0 update 2 (build 261974). everything looks like it went OK but when i try to power on the VMs after the update i get an "insufficient resources" error displayed on...
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All Path Down issue when trying to upgrade the ESX 4.1 server ?
Hi, Can anyone here please assist me with the issue that I'm currently facing when trying to upgrade one of the ESX 4.1 host into ESXi 5.1u1 by mounting the .ISO file through ILOv2, it is currently...
View Article"Unable to connect to the MKS: Cannot connect to host [servernamehere] failed...
Anyone has this problem? I loaded vSphere 4.0 from ESX 3.5 host and all seems working fine yesterday, after resume more testings and this error popped up:"Unable to connect to the MKS: Cannot connect...
View ArticleWhat is Runtime Name
I have just installed vSphere 4.0 and VC 4.0. I have noticed something called Runtime Name. I have tried to figure out what that means but without luck. Can anyone explain what vmhba2:C0:T3:L0...
View ArticleAuto power on VM's at Boot
I have just done a stand alone installation of a single ESX 4 server and want to configure my VM to auto boot at power on but can't seem to find the options in the VM properties, can anyone point me...
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...
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