Network uplink redundancy fake alert
Hi there, Do you all encounter false alert for network uplink redundancy alarms and network connectivity lost? Everytime the alarm triggered, customer will call and request me to check onsite, but the...
View Articleconnecting local CD/DVD drive hangs
Hi! I have seen this problem several times in the last days: When trying to connect my local DVD drive through vSphere Client with a VM, the CD/DVD button shows "connecting..." but never actually...
View ArticleHelp: can't start VM - invalid argument when I try to start it, view the flat...
My raid controller card crashed the other day and I had to "Power Down" the VM which is running Windows 2008. When I tried to start it back up, I get the error "Message from thematrix.cafeyoyo.com:...
View ArticleAdded CPU's seen by Device Manager but not by rest of windows 7
Hello, have an issue that is perplexing us. Have a windows 7 Pro guest that we added 2 cpu's to up from 2 to 4. They were added by shutting down guest adding the 2 new cpus and starting guest back up....
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 VM hangs
Hi vPros; I've got a problem running af Windows Server 2008 R2 on a vSphere4 host. The installation completes, but certain simple opperations will cause the OS to hang (at a Windows level). One such...
View ArticleVmware Esxi Unexpected Reboot
Hi EveryBody; I use VMware ESXi 1.4 u2. Saturday night was a server reboot for some reason can not be determined. could not make something clear look at its log files. Dec 16 02:22:13...
View ArticleDatastore failed on SAN and esx4 errors vmw_psp_rr:...
Hi I have had a LUN failure on SAN so datastore became inactive . I did a rescan hba and rescan datastores ... host is constantly thowing this on syslogs I have manually removed the datastore by...
View ArticleDomain authentication silently dropping away
Hi all, I've noticed that since setting up my ESX 4.1.0 server to authenticate via remote active directory it seems to randomly lose it. The permissions disappear and trying to add them in again I can...
View ArticleP2V a Windows 2003 DC + WSS 2.0
I've spend all morning looking at many posts here in the community and reading up on VMware KB's and Microsoft TechNet regarding the conversion of DC's. I'm posting this because it seems my scenario is...
View ArticlevSphere ESX 4.1 changing default ports 80 and 443 ???
Hiya,I'm having problems trying to change the default ports so that i can move my exchange server into VM. I've tried what it says on the forums here but i just can't get it to work. VMware KB article...
View ArticleVM NIC Adapter type changed from VMXNET 3 to Flexible
Hi,Recently i have deleted some hidden windows network adapter from few VM and suddenly i came to know that vm has lost it's connectivity and they were out of domain. i checked the adapter type and...
View ArticleUpgrade from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5
Hi everyone.... I have 4 ESX 4.1 servers and i want to migrate them to ESXi 5. What would be the best way, an upgrade or a fresh install server by server by moving virtual machines to other host?Can i...
View ArticleUnable to reconnect a vSphere host in vCenter
vSphere version 4.0.0.261974vCenter version 4.0.0.258672 I have been installing physical memory upgrades on our vSphere servers but have a problem with a particular vSphere host. Before placing in...
View ArticleVisualizing a Physical Server
Hi, I need a quick answer back on this - if possible? We have a Physical Server and we need to virtualise this server asap. Server has 4 LUNS allocated on the SAN listed below: Windows 2003.Drive 1:...
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VMware used Memory KB = Guest OS Pysical Memory -> 2008R2:free...
Hi, so the descrioption field says it almoust. It wanted to test the porting of an Software from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008R2.I wantet to test the memory usage when both VM have the...
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 ArticleDisks bigger than 2TB - 512B are not supported.
My 2tb rdm disks that worked in 3.5 do not work on 4.0. Is that by design or am I doing something wrong. Please Help..
View ArticleVMWare tools ESX 4 for Windows 7 x64
I'm trying to install VMWare tools for Windows 7 x64 on ESX 4. The OS installed just fine, but when I try to load the tools I get almost all of the way there and then get the error: Error: 25030....
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After rebooting ESX 4.0 no vSphere Client access for 15+ minutes?
It seems that in the first 15-20 minutes after a reboot, the ESX 4.0 host server is unreachable by the VI client. Also, running the vmware-cmd –l command from the console as root produces a similar...
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