ESX 4 U1 Hosts Lock with SD 0:0:0:0 still retrying after 360s
We just upgraded fro ESX3.5 to ESX 4 U1 a few weeks back. We are running on a IBM Blade Center S with HS21-7995 blades and using the SAS RAID Module for Storage. On two occasion all the ESX hosts...
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General 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 ArticleHow do I shrink and reclaim this space?
I'm trying to shrink a Linux guest which once needed 10GB of space but now only needs 4GB. I've resized the partitions but no matter what I do the size of the VMDK files are always the same - 10GB....
View ArticleESX 4.1. Disable TCP Checksum offload
Hi All,This is my first post on this forum. We have problems with connection between application server and sql server. Both servers are running Windows server 2008 R2 and are hosted on the same ESX....
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...
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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 ArticleAllocating 2TB to a VM - 2 Questions
Hi, We are using ESX 4.1 - with SAN Storage. I need to create a VM, that has a (D) data drive of 2TB - Is this the correct way of doing this? Create the VM - OS Disk on an existing data store...
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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 ArticleNeed VMware Admin Daily activities
Hai, Can anybody please send me VMware admin daily activities.
View ArticleRunning vmdk in memory (Host ramdisk)
Hi, I am trying to run a FreeBSD VM on a VMWare ESX4 Server. I am able to create a vmdk file on the LocalDataStore on the ESX Host. I want to run this vmdk file in the ramdisk of ESX Host. So, I...
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 ArticleHardware iSCSI on evaluation of vSphere
Hi. I am currently using the evaluation version of vSphere, but I've been having problems enabling hardware iSCSI. The ESX server has a QLogic 405 HBA that is listed on Configuration -> Storage...
View Articlevmkernel: No FS driver claimed device '480fc96b-84ab6e9b-7560-002264075878':...
I notice there are error log in the vmkernel: vmkernel: No FS driver claimed device '480fc96b-84ab6e9b-7560-002264075878': Not supported It is vshpere host system. and I find these device...
View Articledocs on terminal services on VM
Hi, Wondering if there are any updated presentations, whitepapers, documentation, etc. on running Microsoft Terminal Services 2003 on VSphere? Also, any docs on TS 2008 on Vsphere? Thanks
View ArticleSCSILinuxAbortCommands Failed, Driver qla2xxx, for vmhba1
Hi, My customer encountered a situation, sometimes RAID storage disconnect. it cause the applicationexchange server no response. Simplize the config. two ESX 4.0 servers, they are created as a...
View ArticleMemory required Physical server Vs Virtual Machine
Is there a white paper explaining why we we need less memory in Virtual Machine as compared to Physical Machine. The problem here is my boss wants to know why it is so. It is very difficult for me to...
View Articlehow to convert VM to OVF .
hi friends, I want to convert my windows virtual machine installed on Vsphere ,vm hardware version 7 to ovf format to be used at other location .Is there anywayi can do it in GUI .if no then how to ....
View ArticleESX host keep disconnecting
I installed Workstation 7 on my laptop and then i installed ESX4 and i installed Win 2008 server DC, and XP as client, its a small network within workstation 7 i installed vcenter on xp. i added esx...
View ArticleExport OVF template & deploy OVF template
Hi,I'm having an issue deploying OVF template. Basically what I want to do is copy a VM from one host to another. The host I want to copy the VM to is just a standalone ESXi host. I exported the VM...
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