Storage Vmotion stops at 18%
HI all, Got a problem with storage VMotion in a Cluster of 4 esx host (vsphere 4.0.0,208167) VMotion works ok. no errors/warning in the host's vmkernel or vmKwarning logs. Checked storage and paths no...
View ArticleIPMI / sfcbd-watchdog Freespace problem
Hiya, I have a problem with one of our hosts. /var/log/ipmi/0 fills up in less than a day. The files selsel_raw getting massive and I cannot seem to find a reason for it. The only way to get the host...
View Article-flat.vmdk Failed to lock the file (67)
Hi, I'm doing some tries on a test VM as i appeared to have over 30 (!) snapshots... (which wher to be seen ine the snapshot manager).I removed the snaphots (via the "vmware-cmd VmTest1...
View ArticleMem.VMOverheadGrowthLimit suggested value?
Hi, i've been searching around a lot and I wasnt able to find an answer on what should be the value of this advanced setting: Mem.VMOverheadGrowthLimit We took over an infrastructure and the value of...
View Articleinfiniband and esxi 5.0
I have an infiniband card in my esxi 5.0 server I'd like to utilize. I see mellanox only provides drivers for esxi 4.0. Can someone point me in the right direction to find drivers for esxi 5.0?...
View ArticleVMFS recovery after kind of a disk crash
Hey there! Following scenario: We are running three seperate ESX 4.1 servers, all connected to a SAN via fibre channel. A week ago we restarted one ESX server, it has since lost the connection to one...
View ArticleAdd Hard Disks for Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
Hi all,We plan to create an Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster in vSphere 4.xHere is the requirements: 1.Node1 should have the following disks during normal operation C drive (VMDK) P...
View ArticleVMmware Converter 4 Standalone (coldclone.iso)
Hi I'm looking for a download link of the newest VMmware Converter 4 Standalone (coldclone.iso). I'd like to burn it as bootable CD for cold clone process. Under...
View ArticleIIS performance 50% slower on a VM?
I've got a cluster of IIS Servers that we host our web application on. Recently, we converted several of our web servers from physical machines to virtual machines. By converted, I mean we built a...
View ArticleReset administrator password for machine client
Hello experts, I have a client machine and installed Windows 2008 OS. and I using vsphere client to connected to the server. How to do to reset administrator for this client via vsphere client? Any...
View Article"Unable to connect to the MKS: Cannot connect to host [servernamehere] failed...
Anyone has this problem? I loaded vSphere 4.0 from ESX 3.5 host and all seems working fine yesterday, after resume more testings and this error popped up:"Unable to connect to the MKS: Cannot connect...
View ArticleVMDirectPath of an Adaptec 39160 on an HP DL380 G5
Hi, I Install ESX4 on an HP DL380 G5 with an Adaptec 39160, hoping to use it for a tape library. Unfortunately ESX informed that the host does not support VMDirectPath, although the machine CD-ROM...
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...
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Windows 2008 R2 + ESX4 + vCenter Client Console = FREEZE
Hello, i reproduced this several times now and also found a coressponding thread in the microsoft newsgroups, (...
View ArticleVM is frozen - can't kill it with several different methods!
Greetings! I have an Ubuntu Server VM running on 1 of my ESX 4.0 boxes that I can't do anything with. It shows that it is running, but I am not able to turn it off, reset it, snapshots, backup with...
View ArticleESXi 4 - RAID Issues - ASUS RS700-E6/RS4
I've dabbled with virtualization for a few years now, but must admit up front that I am new to the world of ESXi. Our company is wanting to replace 4 aging servers with a new beefier setup running...
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 ArticleError when Installing Windows 2008 R2 64 on ESX4
I have an ESX4 server installed with the patches1 installed. When I start the installation of WIN 2008 R2 64 bit, there is an error: "a required cd/DVD drive device driver is missing". I install...
View ArticleProblem with VM Heartbeat / Heartbeat Alarms - Alerts all the time?!
I have had this issue for a long time, but it's finally getting annoying enough that I thought to check into it more thoroughly. I have set up an alarm with alerts for VM heartbeat and essentially I...
View ArticleLSI logic Parallel, LSI logic SAS, Buslogic parallel (Not recommended for...
LSI logic SAS driver for windows 2003R2 x64, how to download & how to copy these driver into flp file ?????????? I've downloaded LSI logic SAS driver for win 2003 x64 but my question is how can...
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