Cleanup: Unable to delete generated zip file
I am finding the following message in the jointool-0.log in D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\temp 2011-11-30 14:49:28 INFO] Creating new record with data: id: '1073743327' data_type:...
View Articleesxi 5.1 - Unable to connect to NFS server - FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-x86
I get "Unable to connect to NFS server" when I try to connect to FreeNAS NFS share using ESXi 5.1, but both can connect to NFS share on linux. Further linux can connect to the share on FreeNAS. I...
View ArticleVM monitoring alert info needed
Hi All, Below is the alert that I received for a VM [VMware vCenter - Alarm Virtual machine high availability error] Cannot reset in cluster Datacenter due to a guest OS error. I checked and verified...
View ArticleVeeam and NFS
Hello, Trying to get some more understanding of the architecture. I did some reading on the Veeam site but still a little vague. I have used NFS years ago with a linux machine attached to the share....
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 Articlemsg.hbacommon.corruptredo (vmdk is corrupt)
Hi, Virtual machine has been running smoothly for quite a while now, and suddenly I get a call at 7am that the machine is down. I hop on our ESXi 4 box, and notice "msg.hbacommon.corruptredo:The...
View ArticleVM \ CPU \ SQL License Question - Urgent
Hi, The ESX host has x2 6 Core Processors in a Blade Server. 12 cores in total. We have assigned 4 CPU's to a SQL Server. See pic: Customer is trying to figure out what SQL licence they require per...
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 ArticleThick disk capacity issue
Hi,We have a Windows Server 2008R2 VM running at ESX 4.1, but one disk (C:) of 80GB are detected like 40GB disk although the OS view the 80GB. Any Ideas?
View ArticlevSphere Client Can't Connect Over SSH Tunnel
I have a couple of ESX 4.0 servers sitting in a lab on campus, which is usually not where I am. Typically, I set up an SSH tunnel to connect remotely to my network and forward some ports over the...
View ArticleInsufficient video RAM event on Windows 2008 64-bit guests
When powering on or migrating a Windows 2008 64-bit guest, we are seeing the following "info" level Event in vCenter: Message on <guest> on <host> in...
View Articlecpuid.coresPerSocket
How can you determine in windows OS that the settings about the corespersocket is working? I have tried in both ESX3.5 and ESX4 to set up a 4vCPU VM and put cpuid.corespersocket=2 in the VM config to...
View ArticleThe VMotion failed because the ESX hosts were not able to connect over...
Hello together, we setup a vShere infrastructure with 4 DL380G6 and a VLAN concept, when I try migrate a machine to a other Host I get following Error The VMotion failed because the ESX hosts were...
View ArticleMirrored VMFS volumes
Basic question: Is there a way with ESX 4.x to "mirror" your VMFS volume? In other words, for high-availability, I would like to have twoentirely separate storage arrays each have a 300GB LUN, and...
View ArticleVirtual IP feature of Windows 2008 R2 does not work on ESX 4
Hi, Windows Server 2008 r2 supports a virtual IP in terminal server sessions.The virtual IP can either be attached to individual sessions or applications. Together with the MS support we saw, that...
View ArticleP2V conversion, now getting "Error loading operating system" message upon...
I performed a physical machine-to- virtual machine conversion on a desktop PC running Windows XP Pro with SP3, and now I am getting a "Error loading operating system" message upon boot up of the new...
View ArticleHP DL145 compatible?
Hello,i have a chance to get a second hand HP server. Is it possible to install ESX 4 on this machine. FOllowing the characteristicsThanks in advance Server HP Proliant DL145 G2 DUAL OPTERON 2,6 Ghz...
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 ArticleHigh CPU util by vmtoolsd.exe
Hi All, I've got a problem with vmtoolsd.exe consuming large amounts of CPU on a 2003R2 XenApp VM which I can't get to the bottom of. Basically vmtoolsd.exe spikes to 40% every 30 seconds. As the...
View ArticleP2V win2008 with GPT partition
vmware converter is not support gpt partition. Anyone have work around to p2v win2008 with GPT partition?
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