VMICTimeProvider?
I'm investigating a time shift issue with several 2008 R2 guests on vSphere 4.0. Time synch between guest and ESX has been disabled in VMTools but one of the customers engineers has asked me to...
View ArticleHow to use Aero in Guest OS Windows Server 2008 R2
Hi, I´m a newbee to VMWare.Since last week I got my hands on a vSphere 4.0 Installation for testingpurpose. I managed to create a VM and installed a Windows Server 2008 R2 into it.So far so good. Now...
View ArticleVMXNET2/VMXNET3 boot problems with Microsoft WDS
Hi, We're currently using vSphere 4.0 and we're in the process of migrating our VMs from the nic driver e1000 to VMXNET3. We're also using Microsoft Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to deploy new...
View ArticleMultipath questions
Just a few questions on multipathing, which multipath technique would give the best performance, is it MRU, fixed or Roundrobin. Also if you are using a fixed policy, with 4 available paths and have...
View ArticleDisappearing virtual network device under Windows 2008 R2 SP1 in vSphere 4.1
Has anyone seen an issue where after an upgrade from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2008 R2 SP1 the virtual network device suddenly and somewhat randomly ejects itself from the VM causing the virtual...
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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 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 ArticleRDM disk filesystem got changed in vmfs
Dear All,I have mounted RDM disk on some of VMs like mail server and database server.But I notice that the RDM LUN which is add to exchange server and database were formated as VMFS file system. And...
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 ArticleThe hard disk is blank.
hi I have ESX 4.0.0 installed and if I try to add a new storage (SCSI Volume, Raid5) then I get this message: "The hard disk is blank."Error during the configuration of the host: Failed to get disk...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008R2 install - device driver is missing
I'm trying to install a Windows Server 2008R2 VM and getting this message in the Load Driver Window. A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing.Reading some posts on Friday indicated it may be a...
View ArticleESX 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...
View ArticleStorage path redudancy alert
Dear All, We are having two ESX 4.1. server with NETAPP iSCSI storage attached. We are getting freqauent storage path redudancy alert for one of server. However data store is connected and no issue...
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 ArticleUnable to connect to MKS: vim.fault.nohost
I have a standalone IBM x3400 server configured as host with ESX4. I installed 3 VM: VM1: Windows server 2003 R2 - Secondary domain controllerVM2: Windows server 2003 R2 - Application serverVM3:...
View ArticleIBM HS22 - High latency to shared datastore over FibreChannel
Hi, I've just installed and configured two new hosts for our environment, ESX13 & ESX14. They're identical IBM HS22 blade servers both with ESX 4.1 U1 installed. In order to make sure everything...
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...
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 ArticleNeed VMware Admin Daily activities
Hai, Can anybody please send me VMware admin daily activities.
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...
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