cannot connect the specified host. the host may not available on the network
hi, when i try to connect ESX 4.0 into VC 4.0 i get the below message "cannot connect the specified host. the host may not available on the network". can anybody help on this. this is the regular...
View ArticleCan storage VMotion TO NFS datastore, but not FROM NFS datastore.
Hi, interesting problem. I have an NFS datastore which I am able to live storage vmotion VM's to, however when I try to Vmotion anything off it I get the error: "A general system error ocurred: Source...
View ArticleInfo on VMware DirectPath I/O?
I am having trouble finding definitive support information for this feature. Is this a supported feature or experimental? What are the device vendor and VMware supported devices which can be passed...
View ArticleNic Teaming with Enterasys network switch
Just wondering if anyone has had any experience using Nic Teaming with Enterasys network switches ? Running a HP c7000 blade chasis using HP virtual connects, the switch and virtual connects reconize...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R Standby Memory
Hi there, I have a question about running Windows 2008 R2 machines on vSphere. In 2008 R2 there is such a thing as standby memory. I have a couple of 2008 R2 vm's running and they consume al lot of...
View ArticleESX 4 - Mounted CIFS, Not showing up under Storage
Hello, I'm attempting to mount a CIFS share on a ESX 4.0 host. The CIFS share exists on a SAN that is not licensed for NFS. I want to store the vmdk files on the SAN. The SAN will be mirrored off-site...
View ArticleWindows 7 VDI password reset screen issue on zero client
Hi, I'm doing VDI for windows 7, which will be access by a zero client, everything is working fine, except one thing. In our AD there is a setting for each user "user must change password at next...
View ArticleSysprep fail during virtual machine clone attempt
When cloning a virtual machine, I choose to use the guest custimization wizard. I enter the information necessary to complete the steps, cloning starts, it takes a few minutes, the newly cloned machine...
View ArticleHP NC532i (Broadcom 57711E) network adapter from flex-10 caused a hard crash,...
Is anyone else having this issue? We just had 3 servers crash due to a bnx2x_panic_dump. Once the network cards crashed the ESX server had to be rebooted to come back. Even though only a few vmNICs...
View ArticleConvert using cold clone process into VMware Workstation
hi We would like to convert a physical Unix in our Branch abroad using cold clone process with VMware Converter.In this Branch, there is no ESX, so we will try to convert into VMware Workstation.Then...
View ArticleVMFS 3.31 vs 3.46
Hi, does anyone know about the changes from VMFS v3.31 to 3.46?Are the improvements worth upgrading a whole bunch of 80 datastores? Regards, daniel
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 Article2008 R2 VM's taking upto 30 minutes or more to shut down.
Hi All, I'm having an issue with Windows 2008 R2 VM's taking a long time to shut down. This seems to take longer the more RAM they have allocated. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and tell me...
View ArticleESX Host disconnects from vCenter
I have a homelab setup. Its running ESX 4.0 Server on top of Workstation 7. The ESX Server has 3 additional servers on it. Windows 2003 for AD, Windows 2003 for View Connection Server, and Windows...
View Articlefailed connecting esx4 host to vcenter
Need of your help. i have a 3hosts cluster. 1 host was acting funny and connection with vI client fails.i dissconnected it from the Vcenter and now reconnecting it fails. it comes back with request...
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 ArticleServer 2008R2 automount issue
Heyhas anyone had trouble getting the automount disable command in diskpart working properly on Server 2008R2? I have ran the commands Diskpart > automount disableandautomount scrub rebooted and the...
View ArticleExtend C: Drive
We use gparted to extend our C: drives on 2003 and 2008 servers. I'm trying to find out of there have been any new/better methods to do this with no downtime. Anyone have any good tools? Thanks,Scott
View ArticleDelta changes during P2V
HI Friends, I want to do a P2v for one of my file server which is of 500 GB size.Users will be using the server during conversion process my main concern is during the conversion process whenever...
View ArticleInstalling guest os from USB
We have windows pe based bootable USBs that we use for our operating system deployments. These include both Windows Embedded Standard 7 and Embedded Windows Server 2008R2. When I power up a vm...
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