udev & scsi_id with rhel guests
I was looking at creating some udev devices on rhel5.5 in a guest VM on ESXi 4.1 update 1 and was noticing when I run : scsi_id -g -u -s /block/sdc Nothing is coming back at all. I tried: scsi_id -g...
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iSCSI Performance Problem under 10 Gbps
We got an new iSCSI SAN (HP Lefthand P4500) running on 10 Gbps.Server HW HP Prolinat DL 380 Gt with 2 CPUs Intel X5660 and 96 GB ram, HP NC550SFP dual Port Lan adaptor. All Server and Networking...
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Unable to connect to the MKS: Internal error
Can anybody help me with this error "Unable to connect to the MKS: Internal error" It's appear on my console, when i want to install my first Host. I'm using Vmware ESX Thanks,
View ArticleRecycle Bin corrupt after adding a second disk to a Windows 7 virtual machine
hi i have added second disk (NAS) then after i am getting error "recycle bin corrupt do you want empty the recycle bin" if i say yes then contents will not delete and geting error access denied. tried...
View ArticleIncreased Memory Usage on ESXi 4.1 from ESX 4.0
Hi All, Recently we have migrated around 130 virtual machines from a ESX 4.0 U2 Cluster to esxi 4.1 u1 cluster and noticed the memory usage is much high on the hosts compared to 4.0. The 4.0 u2 cluster...
View ArticleESX 4 U1 on IBM x3100 M4
Hello, I'm trying to install the ESX 4 server on IBM x3100 M4 with software LSI Megaraid SATA RAID (2 HDD 1Tb in RAID1 configuration). The installation process described by IBM here :...
View ArticleESX 4.0 - Time Synchronization Failure
Hello I just finished installing ESX 4 in a Test environment within my company. The Test environment is currently running out on VMWorkstation 8.0 - That is, the environment itself is virtualized....
View ArticleDelete .vmdk file from esx host
I delete .vmdk file from esx host,any way to recover this file? Terrible day!
View ArticleCPU ready time 0.4% = ~ 8000 ms ?
Hey Guys, I was checking this vm which had an average of 8450 ms ready time for the past 1 month. This is a 6vcpu vm running on esx 4.1 Now the customer was asking me that his vm had to wait 8.4...
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Unable to connect ESX host via vsphere client
Dear team, once i tried to connect ESX host via vsphere client i m getting the following error. Vcenter version : 4.1.0 345043vSphere client : 4.1.0 345043ESX Version: 4.1.0 721871 Request you to help...
View ArticleCan view LUNs but not Datastores
Our SAN controllers craped themselves and the IBM tech had to restore from the metadata and run some scripts to rebuild the SAN. Good news is all the data is there but our ESX hosts cannot view the...
View Articlevmware vcenter 5.1 converter plugin
hii upgraded vcenter from 4.1 fo 5.1a , hosts still running esx4.1 i dont see the vmware converter plugin anymore cant p2v within vsphere client ? is it still there or do i have to use the standalone...
View ArticleUnable to start restored Win2003 guest
I am using veeam to backup and restore VMs and I am not having any problems with other VMs either restoring to the problem host or on other hosts. The issue is this: I restore a VM after making a...
View ArticleError occur when use esxupdate installed a patch
Hi All Can someone give me a hints about these error? While I would like to install a patch and use esxupdate comment. Hoever, it prompt another message as below and could not start to install. May I...
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All Path Down issue when trying to upgrade the ESX 4.1 server ?
Hi, Can anyone here please assist me with the issue that I'm currently facing when trying to upgrade one of the ESX 4.1 host into ESXi 5.1u1 by mounting the .ISO file through ILOv2, it is currently...
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 ArticleNon-compliant ACPI BIOS Error when installing WIndows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
I've having a problem on my vShpere / ESX4 server -- when I attempt to installe Win Server 2008 R2 x64, it blue screens loading setup with a STOP Error of 0xA5 Microsoft Descrides the piticular error...
View ArticleGold Build Tuning Windows 2008 R2
Hi Guys I'm currently trying to create a fresh gold build of Windows server 2008 R2 for our templates, looking for some tuning tips to speed up, tweak, tune, optimize, generally make the image as fast...
View ArticleThree VMs with same SID, what to do?
I deployed three Win2008 R2 VMs from the same template and made the mistake of not using customization to change the SID. I have verified using PsGetsid that all three have the same SID. These three...
View ArticleTCP Segmentation Offload - Can we disable it?
Hi,Want to find out either we can disable TCO as I am looking at the option to move back packets processing back to server CPU as currently the CPU are under utilized. VM that we have most of the time...
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