Extend partition of a VM c:\ partition
Dear Experts, We recently installed a product of HP operation manager for windows on a virtual machine having 4vCPU, 4GB Mem and 50GB HDD as C:\ partition. The storage is not local but a SAN. So the...
View ArticleRemoving RDMP file from vm Datastore
Dear Friends, we had a issue with rdmp.vmdk file. There is a Guest VM mapped with rdmp vmdk file. we had a issue with that VM so we removed from inventory and crerated new one with...
View ArticleIncredibly stubborn vm won't power down
Hi Everyone, I have a VM that I cannot shutdown. It's causing "Update child resource configuration" tasks every second on the host it resides on. I have tried to shut it down from the GUI - no luck I...
View ArticleProblem with root password
Hi, I have few ESXI's 4 connected to a vcenter, all is working ok.My problem is that someone here have changed the root password to one of the ESXI's machines and forgot what is it.That machine is...
View ArticlevSphere ESX 4.1 changing default ports 80 and 443 ???
Hiya,I'm having problems trying to change the default ports so that i can move my exchange server into VM. I've tried what it says on the forums here but i just can't get it to work. VMware KB article...
View ArticleCannot create a quiesced snapshot
Hi all, Environment:Fat ESX4.1U2Dell Equallogic SANDatastores: 500Gb on 1MB block size Bit of an issue to backup (Symantec BE 2010 R3) and replication to DR site (Veeam 6.5). (Our DR provider leases...
View ArticleVM Multiple NIC VMOTION problem
Curently running ESXi and have the following setup with 3 virtual machines; Nic1 = 10.10.10.10 to 12/24 GW 10.10.10.1 - VLAN 50 (Layer 3)Nic2 = 192.168.99.10 to 12/24 No GW set - VLAN 60 (Layer 2) The...
View Articlerecover vmdk + delta vmdk after disk crash
Hi, last week we had a serious disk crash. Of course no backup, so we starten to repair/recover the disk. We where able to recover the whole folder with all files. But files do look a bit weird. For...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 issues with audio - No Audio output device detected
We are still on 4.0 update 3 and will be moving to 5.1 here in the next couple of months but we are testing a new Citrix xenapp environment on 2008 R2 servers and noticed that there isn't a sound card...
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 ArticleVirtual IP feature of Windows 2008 R2 does not work on ESX 4
Hi, Windows Server 2008 r2 supports a virtual IP in terminal server sessions.The virtual IP can either be attached to individual sessions or applications. Together with the MS support we saw, that...
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Crazy Snapshots!!!
Anyone know why a VM would create all of these snapshots automatically? I didn't build this vm, and am not responsible for this environment, but want to know for my own sake.
View ArticlevSphere client memory leak
Just upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1 and now if I allow the vSphere client (build 258902) to run overnight it consumes over 1.2Gb of memory and eventually throws an "Out of memory" message on the screen and...
View ArticleHitting maximum number of LUNs
Hi all, Just thought i would bounce an idea or 2 off some people here.Basically looks like I will be hitting the 256 LUN limit for ESX, The issue is to do with P2Ving all the MSCS boxes. I have a...
View Articlevcenter goes down , what are the feature will not work ?
my vcenter goes down , i had 5 cluster each cluster having 5 hosts , and i had configured HA and DRS and 5 fault tolerance , is ever thing work well ? please help me for solving this issue.
View ArticleWindows 2008 has event id 2012
Hello, Our Windows 2008 R2 SP1 has event id 2012 "srv warning", it casued network drives disconnect or very slow to browse. I searched this forum...
View ArticleNetwork uplink redundancy fake alert
Hi there, Do you all encounter false alert for network uplink redundancy alarms and network connectivity lost? Everytime the alarm triggered, customer will call and request me to check onsite, but the...
View ArticleAfter P2V, Windows 2003 cannot open control panel
Hi All, I ran a P2V last weekend. The Phycical Server is a Windows 2003 Standard Server and improted it to ESX. The P2V seems to complete successfully; but when a Domain User logs on they cannot open...
View ArticleRescan doesn't show new LUNs on FC HBA...need to reboot?
On our ESX 4.1.0 boxes, we attached an unused FC HBA from each server to a new SAN and presented LUNS. The HBA's always did show up in vCenter, but I expected that after doing a "Rescan All" the new...
View ArticleVM \ CPU \ SQL License Question - Urgent
Hi, The ESX host has x2 6 Core Processors in a Blade Server. 12 cores in total. We have assigned 4 CPU's to a SQL Server. See pic: Customer is trying to figure out what SQL licence they require per...
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