Losing pings during creation/deletion of snapshots
We are using Vizioncore vReplicator to replicate one of our file servers every hour. This server is experiencing network timeout in applications/reporting services that connect to other servers. I just...
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 ArticleEnabling Sound on Virtual machine hosted on ESX 4.1
can you please answer the query below: 1. I have a physical desktop at remote location with Vmware workstation 6.5 installed and a Vm running (W2k3 Std). And now i want to take RDP of my VM and play...
View ArticleESX 4x with IBM TS3100 Tape Library through FiberChannel
Here is my current setup:ESX 4.0 U2 or ESX 4.1 U1 (neither works)IBM Blade HS22Tape Library TS3100QLogic Fiber Channel We have tried reformat the same server earlier with Windows Server 2008 R2 and it...
View ArticleUpgrade ESX 3.5 to 4.1
Hi All, I am planning to upgrade ESX 3.5 to 4.1, so could you please share your thought Is it possible to upgrade ESX 3.5 to 4.1 directly ? What is the best way to upgrade the ESX 3.5 to 4.1 through...
View ArticleHow to mount Usb Hdd on Redhat 5.4 vm running on ESX 4.0 Host.
Hi All, I want to mount USB HDD to Esx 4.0 host.My infra is.1)IBM blade HS22.2)vmware esx 4.03)one of the blade having redhat 5.4 os. I want to mount my usb drive to redhat virtual machine.Please...
View Articleunable to remove dead path from HBA ports vmhba1/2
Hi all, I have a dead path on both the hba ports vmhba1 and vmhba2. I tried rescanning it but no go.I am not sure how to proceed on this ... Please assist me. Here are the details [root@xxxxx...
View ArticleDead Paths on ESx4
We have ESX4 on HP C7000 enclosure and EVA storage in our environment. 3 LUNS were inaccessible due to dead paths which caused reset virtual machine instance stuck at 95% and created issues with LUN...
View ArticleSCSI Error
I'm building a VM and using the Paravirtual SCSI controller for my additional disks and I keep getting this error after I restart the server. I configured the system using all LSI Logic SAS and did not...
View ArticleExpanding virtual hard disk didn't go the way it should
Hi there, Last night I wanted to expand the data HDD on one of our servers. Because it was not the first time that I have done something like this, I was confided that it would go well. Expanding the...
View ArticleTP AutoConnect/VC Gateway Services showing up on Servers after VMware tools...
Hi All, Since upgrading to ESXi 4.1 then upgrading VMware tools on our Windows servers we have noticed two services being created - TP AutoConnect Service [Stopped|Manual|LocalSystem] TP VC...
View ArticleSteps to upgrade esx3.5 Update 5 to ESX4.1 Update 3
Dear Team, Planning to upgrade my esx3.5 Update 5 207095 to esx 4.1 Update 3, planning to follow below steps, please correct me if i am wrong.Procedure1:1) download...
View ArticleTimekeeping problem: can't read pseudoperformance counters with rdpmc
Hi, I have recently become concerned about obtaining accurate (non-drifting) and precise (fine-grained) timestamps within a Windows guest VM running on ESXi 4.0. I felt like I need to read real time...
View ArticleExchange on vSphere
Just have a couple questions regarding Exchange on vsphere. We have a relatively small shop (100 users) and we are running Exchange 2010 on a Windows 2008 R2 server. The server is configured with 8GB...
View ArticlevMotion with Raw Device Mappings ESX 4.1?
Is this possible yet? I have a customer running a management VM on an HBA equipped server that needs to talk to an EMC backend. There are two ESX hosts in the cluster with HBA cards. Is this a good...
View ArticleIntel Pro/1000 ET quad port adapter iSCSI problem
We just run into a very weird problem with Intel Pro/1000 ET quad port adapters. These ET adapters are newly purchased. We have three different type of servers - Dell PoweEdge 1950, Dell PowerEdge...
View ArticleExtending a Windows 2008 R2 Disk
Good Morning, I'm running a Windows 2008 Standard Virtual machine which has SQL 2005 installed, on VMWare ESX 4.0 (Update 2) I need to extend one of the SQL drives as it's starting to run low on...
View ArticleDisk out of space - best practices
Hi, running vspher 4.0 update 2 - windows 2008R2 enterprise guests. the log drive 100GB e:\ is quickly running out of disk space and I need to grow it larger.The e: drive LUN is presented by a dell...
View ArticleRecovering a lost partition table on a VMFS volume
Dear all, Since Friday we have some drastic problems on our VMWare Infrastructure (3.5). Situatuation: 2 ESX servers enterprise edition.We needed to reboot one of the ESX servers. After reboot one...
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