Veeam and NFS
Hello, Trying to get some more understanding of the architecture. I did some reading on the Veeam site but still a little vague. I have used NFS years ago with a linux machine attached to the share....
View ArticleTroubleshooting ESX 4.1 Disk Latency
Greetings, We see high latency for SQL IOs esp. when large IO sizes are involved. ESXTOP output shows SPLT CMD / S for most of the IOs showing high latency. Unfortunately, am not able to find much...
View ArticleI'm seeing cpu freezes at random in most of my VMs ESX4.0.0
I'm seeing CPU soft lockups in most of my VMs. Some of them freeze completely, some of them require rebooting after a freeze, some of them shake it off and keep running. I'd really like to understand...
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...
View ArticleGeneral questation about NLB
Hi ,sorry for my bad Englisch . I have basic questation about NLB in the Vmware . I have two virtual machines with created unicast NLB . I set notification switches off .Now I have trouble with connect...
View ArticleHelp: can't start VM - invalid argument when I try to start it, view the flat...
My raid controller card crashed the other day and I had to "Power Down" the VM which is running Windows 2008. When I tried to start it back up, I get the error "Message from thematrix.cafeyoyo.com:...
View ArticleNetwork Uplink Redundancy Lost
I have 3 ESX 4.0 servers in a cluster and one of them is reporting "Network Uplink Redundancy Lost". 2 NICs one the server are configured as a DMZ vswitch. One of the NIC's (vmnic6) "Observed IP...
View ArticleBuild a vSPC (Virtual serial port concentrator) for vSphere 4.1
Has anyone been able to figure out how to build a vSPC (Virtual serial port concentrator) for vSphere 4.1? I am looking to build one vs. buying a 3rd party product. Thanks. -C
View ArticleConsole Window Becomes Unresponsive
Hi All, I am currently in my trial for ESX 4.1 (moving from VMWare Server 2), and I am running into one slight issue that effects 2 of my 5 virtual machines that I can't seem to explain and Google has...
View ArticleESX 4.0 reboots once in1 or 2 weeks - Aggregate version Overflow ha-host...
Hi, We have Dell PowerEdge R710 on which VMware ESX 4.0 has been installed CPU - 8CPU x 2.127 GHzMemory - 32 GB # vmware -vVMware ESX 4.0.0 build-164009 I have around 10 VMs running on this and we...
View ArticleNeed VMware Admin Daily activities
Hai, Can anybody please send me VMware admin daily activities.
View ArticleError validating datastore for vmotion fault.systemerror.summary
I want to vmotion a machine to a new datastore and in the past I've done numerous vmotion tasks from server to server or datastore to datastore without problems. When I click next through the migrate...
View Articlealert from host
hello everybody i have e strnge massage thet came from vcenter for ine of my host . i could not explain this message . The massage is as below: test trap received from Vcenter with SNMP Varbinds...
View Articleimpact of restarting esx management service
Dear team, in my environment i have esx 3.5.0 (64607),4.0,4.1 hosts, just want to know is there any impact if i restart management service on production esx hosts 3.5.0, 4.0,4.1 be fore restarting this...
View ArticleTask in Progress does not clear
A recent task called 'NetApp Storage Discovery is stuck on 'In progress' and will not clear. How do I go about clearing this task from the 'Recent Task' tab? This task is not running. The vsphere host...
View ArticleWindows 2008R2 snapshot problem on 4.1
I have problem with snapshots on one of my VMs. And what's strange it started only last friday. One of my DC's on Win2008R2 refused to take quiesced snapshot after clod migration from one cluster to...
View ArticleEssentials Plus vCenter linked mode to vCenter standard?
Is it possible (and allowed) to install the vCenter foundation version from the essentials plus bundle in a linked mode to connect to vCenter standard in our central location? like this...vCenter...
View ArticleSAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 changer does not appear on the VM's Device manager
Hi All, I have an ESX 4.1 host and a VM that is running Windows 2008R2 OS. And a SAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 and HP SAS controller is pluged in to host machine. On the VM's device manager there is a...
View ArticleProblems PXE Booting ESX 4.1 VMWare - Error "0xc0000001"
I am trying to PXE boot a VM that is running on ESX 4.1 and while the VM is booting up the PXE image I get the error seen in the attached screenshot. The VMs that I am trying to PXE have either the...
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