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Windows 2008 R2 + ESX4 + vCenter Client Console = FREEZE
Hello, i reproduced this several times now and also found a coressponding thread in the microsoft newsgroups, (...
View ArticleMidnight Commander for ESX 4 COS
Hello, I am using MC (mc-4.6.1a-26.ker.rhel3.i386.rpm) in ESX 3.5 and I'm looking for verified version for ESX 4 COS. I know that ESX 4 COS in based on 2.6‐based Linux kernel and is compatible with...
View ArticleLSI logic Parallel, LSI logic SAS, Buslogic parallel (Not recommended for...
Infrastructure:vSphereESX 4Dell R710 Server I'm installing WIN 2003 x64 as a virtual server on ESX 4, when I'm selecting LSI logic SAS & LSI logic parallel it is not detecting hard drive, do I...
View ArticleESX 4 Host disconnected from VC and Can't connect to ESX Host via vSphere client
I Also can't connect to the default Webpage of the ESX Host I have tried to restart the VC agent and the SC with the following commands service vmware-vpxa restart service mgmt-vmware restart I...
View ArticlevSphere Web Access - Web Service not available
Hello! I've upgraded ESX & VC to vSphere 4.0. Everything is now working fine, except vSphere Web Access. The first page displays correctly, but after inserting the credentials I'm getting the...
View ArticleBasic question regarding VMHA
Hi All, I just want to clear that, does HA uses the concept of vMotion for the migration of the failed over host VM's to another host or does it have its own functionality to move the VM'sto the...
View ArticleCan not attach host CD to VM in Vcenter 4.0
Hi, i have a interesting problem, if i connect to Vcenter from my PC (using client) and try to attache CD or ISO image to any VM i get error "A connection to the host could not be established". I...
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Best way to monitor ESX with zabbix
Hi, I have about 10 ESX 3.5 host and I would like to monitor them with zabbix (www.zabbix.com). For the moment, I installed zabbix agent on the ESXs and I monitor them like a standard Unix OS (disk...
View ArticleHow many VM's per datastore do you typically have?
I know that the performance really varies based on the disk I/O activity of the VM's that you have, but I'm curious to know; Whats the common number of VM's per data store that most of us have? In my...
View ArticleJune 2010 Microsoft Update KB980773 Breaks Vsphere Client
I installed the Microsoft June 2010 security updates this morning and after the required reboot I was unable to login to the vsphere client this morning. I got two errors. The first one was "Error...
View ArticleCan't mount NFS through client - can on host though.
Hi, I'm having trouble presenting an NFS volume to ESX 4.1 as a datastore. I can mount the NFS volume on the host direct from the command line.I was not able to do it on the command line for a while,...
View ArticleMcafee or Trend Micro?
hi We should buy a new high-performance and good virus scanner for our company.We'll setup 100, mostly WIN2008 R2 server, Exchange 2010 and about 500 Windows7 clients.All server we would like to...
View ArticleESX unable to find root partition
Hello, after a disk change of our RAID-5 array ESX 4.0 refuses to start. The error occurs in the script 69.mount-root: The root partition specified (UUID=...) was not found on COS VMDK that specified...
View ArticleHelp: Not initialized: vim.host.DiskPartitionInfo.BlockRange[] partition
I've run into the following error when calling a vCenter 4.1 using vSphere4.1 SDK Java API to get disk partition information from a ESX server 4.0. All LUN presented to the ESX hosts are 500 GB LUNs....
View ArticleHosts on Distrubuted Virtual Switch can't ping each other
on vSphere 4.0 host A, set up 2 vSphpere B and C hosts and put all of them into a distruduted switch for VMkernal network. Only the host A can vmkping a VM that put into same switch and the VM also...
View ArticleVMXNET2/VMXNET3 boot problems with Microsoft WDS
Hi, We're currently using vSphere 4.0 and we're in the process of migrating our VMs from the nic driver e1000 to VMXNET3. We're also using Microsoft Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to deploy new...
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License not available to perform the operation
Hi Guys Sorry this is probably quite a simple one but I've got a bit lost and could do with some help. My environment is: 1 x vCenter1 x ESXi 41 x ESX 3.5 Now the problem is with the ESX 3.5 server. I...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 VM Failed to Start
You remember how in Server 2003/XP you could power down a VM and attach the boot VMDK to a helper VM as a secondary drive and read/write to it? Then you could power down the helper VM, remove the...
View ArticleDell PERC H200 Passthrough Mode
Hello Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong I am trying to put the H200 SCSI Card into passthrough mode so that I can get the tape drive that is connected to it working correctly If I goto...
View ArticleConverting Hyper-V to ESX
I've been supplied what I think is a Hyper-V virtual machine (could be Microsoft Virtual server though), anyway it's VHD. I converted this into ESX but get the Blue screen of death 0000007B when it...
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