VMware ESX 4.1 U2 unable to mount USB
Hi, I plugged the USB drive to the server containing ESX 4.1 U2 but the USB drive was not detected (which is the same procedure for mounting as mentioned in different articles). I tried to locate what...
View ArticleHow to mount Usb Hdd on Redhat 5.4 vm running on ESX 4.0 Host.
Hi All, I want to mount USB HDD to Esx 4.0 host.My infra is.1)IBM blade HS22.2)vmware esx 4.03)one of the blade having redhat 5.4 os. I want to mount my usb drive to redhat virtual machine.Please...
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 ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS: Failed to connect to server XXXXXX:903
Today I got the error like "Unable to connect to the MKS: Failed to connect to server xxxxx:903" What shall i do
View ArticleUnable to connect to MKS: vim.fault.nohost
I have a standalone IBM x3400 server configured as host with ESX4. I installed 3 VM: VM1: Windows server 2003 R2 - Secondary domain controllerVM2: Windows server 2003 R2 - Application serverVM3:...
View Articlenic link down but nic shows status lights (esxi)
Hello all, I have a bit of a weird problem and I'm not having much luck with the search option. Let me describe how I got to the point I am at with this: We have about 29 VM's running on our vmware...
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Get all VMs with "vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms"
hello! I have following problem.I have a shell-script and want to get all IDs and Names of virtual machines: for i in `vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | sed '1d' | awk '{print $1":"$2}'` all is fine,...
View ArticleProper settings for disabling Offloading.
Can someone tell me the proper settings for iSCSI NICs to disable the following? Our storage provider would like to see these settings in place. Large Receive OffloadReceive Side ScalingTCP Checksum...
View Articlemsg.hbacommon.corruptredo (vmdk is corrupt)
Hi, Virtual machine has been running smoothly for quite a while now, and suddenly I get a call at 7am that the machine is down. I hop on our ESXi 4 box, and notice "msg.hbacommon.corruptredo:The...
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....
View ArticlevSphere Client could not connect with server
Hi there, I've just built a new ESX 4.0 (update1) server and tried to connect to it directly from the VI Client. It keeps failing with the following error message: Vsphere client could not connect...
View ArticleA general system error occurred: @&!*@*@(msg.fileio.generic)Error
Hi everyone!Last week an ESX 4.1 host (1 of 2 included in a HA Cluster) was blocked, I mean, I was unable to access it. Then I tried to migrate the VM's to other host, it was impossible too. The only...
View ArticleBlack console screen
Hey guys, I recently created a vmware server on ESXi 5.1.0 and installed 4 VM running XP with different IE versions. Everything was going fine up to today when I cant seem to see them via the console...
View ArticleDisappearing virtual network device under Windows 2008 R2 SP1 in vSphere 4.1
Has anyone seen an issue where after an upgrade from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2008 R2 SP1 the virtual network device suddenly and somewhat randomly ejects itself from the VM causing the virtual...
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VMware error Host is not responding
Dear VMware Team I'm problem of ESX 4 U1 and vCenter Server 4 U1.The vCenter Server error log Host is not responding.That the attachment. What caused the problem. How is the way how to solve....
View ArticleCan't Install Windows Server 2008 R2 (i have 64bit processor!?)
Hi sorry for my english i'm italian. I have free vsphere 4 on intel server motheboard S500psl with 2 processor ( E5345SL9YL) and from specific of processor have Intel® EM64T...
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vSphere 4.0 Update 1 and MSCS (Microsoft Clustering) on iSCSI
I have spent the past week collecting as much information as I can about MSCS (Microsoft clustering) on VMware using a iSCSI SAN. iSCSI is making a lot of grounds as a legitatmate SAN solution but it...
View ArticleDisk alignment VMFS + NTFS
Hi I have created a 600GB volume on a Dell Equalogic PS 6000x SAN.I have created a VMFS Datastore on this volume.I have insalled a Win2k8 Virtual Machine on this VMFS datastore with 40GB operating...
View ArticleFlow Control
We have been requested by Cisco TAC to enable flow control on all our servers. Is there a way to enable flow control on our ESX 4 servers or the VM's themselves? We tried searching for this but we...
View ArticleCannot increase Datastore
Hello, We have an ESX 4.0 cluster with 2 hosts, EMC Clarion SAN storage with 10 LUNs. We have added 2 new 400 GB LUNs. All the LUNs are visible from both hosts. I have extended an existing 500 GB...
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