Lose a storage path, Lose an entire ESX Server
OK, I have a flakey iSCSI Storage path/device. That's not relly the part that bothers me, rather that when I loose the path/device I loose the entire ESX and all of the VMs which are running on it!...
View ArticleCannot open the disk '*.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on....
I have 4 virtual servers running on a ESX 4 host. 3 are running OK but 1 gives the following error when selecting Power On from Vsphere client. Cannot open the disk '*.vmdk' or one of the snapshot...
View ArticleCopy and Paste
Hi, Is it possible to copy and paste from a PC to a virtual machine. I'm running ESX 4.1 (update 2) and understand that the default for this is to disable copy and paste. Therefore, I have tried the...
View ArticleVsphere 4.0 VMotion and seperate VLANs
Hi All, i am new to VMware community, i think this right place to post this. recently in our company we seperate the Management and VMotionin to seperate VLANs with different IP scope for both...
View Articleissues with 10gbE and speeds in 4.1
Ive got a bit of a problem here.WE just picked up a new IBM san and hooked it up with 10gbE via ibms recommendations and best practices. Here is my situation; HostsHP dl360 g7 servers currently...
View ArticleSteps to upgrade esx3.5 Update 5 to ESX4.1 Update 3
Dear Team, Planning to upgrade my esx3.5 Update 5 207095 to esx 4.1 Update 3, planning to follow below steps, please correct me if i am wrong.Procedure1:1) download...
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Hurry!!!Need a help!! VM is orphaned after reboot esx while vm is running!
Hurry!!! VM is orphaned after reboot esx while vm is running! esx is 4.1 and vcenter is 4 After reboot esx while vm is running1.vm is orphaned2.in this esx, I can't find vm's vmdk or vmx3.in this esx...
View ArticleUrgent! Cannot Remove Snapshots Data store Full
Good morning, Setup:+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Vcenter Server 5.0 running on physical serverESX1 - Vsphere 4.0 LOCAL STORAGEESXi - Vsphere 5.0 iSCSI shared storageESXi - Vsphere 5.0 iSCSI...
View ArticleUPS and ESX
Hello All I have UPS (APC) and I will going to configure both. Normally I installed agent in operating system (windows server) and If power off the agent will shutdown window server. How can I in...
View ArticlevSphere Web Access
Hi, for some reason standard users are able to enter the web access and see the vm machines I gave them permissions on but the remote console is not working for them. Of course if I give them...
View ArticleVCB and pre-freeze/post-thaw scripts in Linux VMs
hello, i'm trying here to implement pre/post-snapshot scripts for backuping up some Linux-based VMs using VCB. i need to quiesce databases inside VM during snapshotting. according to VM backup guide...
View ArticleHeart beat for MSCS on distributed vSwitch
Hi all , I have a problem in setting up the MSCS Heart beat Network , I have the following Configuration 2 ESX Server with 6 NICs , 1 DV Switch 2 Physical Nics are teamed and used for vMotion...
View ArticleHelp with Init version 2.86 reloading error
Hello All, I currently have 1 stand alone ESX 4.0 Build 164009 server that randomly will hang with the following error: Init version 2.86 reloading. The ESX server will still ping however the virtual...
View ArticleCannot synchronize host "host name" Operation timed out.
Hallo We have 2 customers on vSphere 4.1 on the VC(Virtual Centre) and on the ESX side. They both keep on getting the below error: “Cannot synchronize host "host name" Operation timed out.” Checked...
View ArticleTroubleshooting ESX 4.1 Disk Latency
Greetings, We see high latency for SQL IOs esp. when large IO sizes are involved. ESXTOP output shows SPLT CMD / S for most of the IOs showing high latency. Unfortunately, am not able to find much...
View ArticlevServer - tomcat6 memory usage HIGH
I have installed vSphere vServer on a virtual machine with 2GB RAM and I am noticing that Guest Memory is at 99%. According to taskmanager, tomcat6.exe is using 729MB RAM. Anyone know how I can fix...
View ArticleChanging block size of datastore from 1 MB to 4 MB
Hi, I've installed an ESX. The system automatically partition to have the block size of 1 MB which is 256 max virtual hardisk. How can I change to 4 MB Block Size taking into consideration there...
View ArticleASUS Motherboard and VMWare ESX 4.0
Has anyone been able to install ESX 4 on a ASUS motherboard model P5E WS Professional? I've been trying to get a clean install at work but no luck. I'm using RAID to recognize 2 partitions. I can't...
View Articleextpart problems
In the past, I have never had any extpart issues. Yes, once in a while I might need to go to safe mode to run it, but that wasn't often. Recently I started working with a new environment at another...
View Articlep2v sbs2003 to ESX 4.1 vm freeze on network connections.
After a successful P2V from a SBS2003 SP2 box to ESX 4.1 using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, the resulting VM starts but freeze on access of the Network Connections in Control Panel.Device...
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