Teaming FC cards
Hi, We are just looking at redundancy in our environment and I am wondering if it is possible to team FC cards in an ESX host? Thanks Adam
View ArticleVMFS 3.31 vs 3.46
Hi, does anyone know about the changes from VMFS v3.31 to 3.46?Are the improvements worth upgrading a whole bunch of 80 datastores? Regards, daniel
View ArticleUnable to access file since it is locked
Hi, I am running 2 ESX Hosts. On each host I was running just the 1 virtual machine (both of which connect to disks on the same SAN). I have now created another Virtual Machine to run on each host (4...
View ArticleESX 4.1 - Unable to Delete Datastore
I have 3 ESX 4.1 servers managed by vCenter ( not clustered ). I have moved all VMs off of ESX1 and am attempting to delete a secondary datastore. The datastore is empty and I have the server in...
View ArticlevSphere Client Connection Error
I'm trying to log into one of ESX v4.1 servers. When I connect i get the error: Connection Error: The request failed because the remote server 'IP ADDRESS' took too long to respond. (The command has...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 DFS Failover Cluster Question
Hi, I'm looking to implement a DFS failover cluster on ESXi 4.1. I've read various doc's, none of which are the clearest in the world. We have put together a new 3 node cluster, each node running 4.1....
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 ArticlePerformance Monitor only User Roles
Hi everyone, I am trying to give permission to a specific domain user to view a vm's performance monitor on vCenter.Checking the vcenter roles and in edit section I cannot see any checkbox refers to...
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 ArticleSpecify virtual disk size beyond 256 GB
I'm editing the seetings on a VM to have another drive.When I create a disk I select the disk size, 1TB. I point to the datastore location of LUN 30 (2TB).When I click next I get the following message:...
View ArticleESX 4 U1 on IBM x3100 M4
Hello, I'm trying to install the ESX 4 server on IBM x3100 M4 with software LSI Megaraid SATA RAID (2 HDD 1Tb in RAID1 configuration). The installation process described by IBM here :...
View ArticleAdvanced parameter Disk.DiskMaxIOSize ???
Customer has ESX 4 hosts. they have all of their servers set with advanced parameter = Disk.DiskMaxIOSize set to 32. The default value is 32767. I can't find documentation on this parameter. Does...
View ArticleVmware Esxi Unexpected Reboot
Hi EveryBody; I use VMware ESXi 1.4 u2. Saturday night was a server reboot for some reason can not be determined. could not make something clear look at its log files. Dec 16 02:22:13...
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 Articlemac address change issue
Hello All, I am trying to change the mac address of a linux vm with a mac address that is outside the "00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ" rage by following these steps:-remove from the vmx config:...
View Articlemulti core vcpu settings and confusion RDS / Terminal Services
I have a few terminal servers.I run office apps, ie and a few other small things currently. The VMs were setup with 2 vCpus from the start (i would have started with 1 however it wasn't me that set...
View ArticleStorage vMotion + vmdk files in different folders
Hello, Will storage vMotion move the vmdk files [in 2 different folders on the same datastore at the moment] into the same folder while migrated into the different datastore? Why the vmdk files are in...
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 ArticleComment mettre un serveur de fichier de production de 16 To via ESX4
Bonjour Petite question technique, je cherche a savoir comment mettre en serveur de fichier de production de 16 To via ESX4 Voilà les alternatives que je vois, mais j'aimerai ne pas changer l'infra du...
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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