ESX4 + Nehalem Host + vMMU = Broken TPS !
Since upgrading our 2 host lab environment from 3.5 to 4.0 we are seeing poor Transparent Page Sharing performance on our new Nehalem based HP ML350 G6 host. Host A : ML350 G6 - 1 x Intel E5504, 18GB...
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 ArticleMidnight Commander for ESX 4 COS
Hello, I am using MC (mc-4.6.1a-26.ker.rhel3.i386.rpm) in ESX 3.5 and I'm looking for verified version for ESX 4 COS. I know that ESX 4 COS in based on 2.6‐based Linux kernel and is compatible with...
View ArticleVMmware Converter 4 Standalone (coldclone.iso)
Hi I'm looking for a download link of the newest VMmware Converter 4 Standalone (coldclone.iso). I'd like to burn it as bootable CD for cold clone process. Under...
View Articlenic link down but nic shows status lights (esxi)
Hello all, I have a bit of a weird problem and I'm not having much luck with the search option. Let me describe how I got to the point I am at with this: We have about 29 VM's running on our vmware...
View ArticleError: 25030. Setup failed to load a kernel driver (vmrawdsk)
I am trying to install VMware tools on a Windows 2008 R2 Standard (64-bit) and when I run the Vmware_Tools64.msi installer I get the error: Error: 25030. Setup failed to load a kernel driver (vmrawdsk)...
View ArticleLosing 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 ArticleCan't boot from ISO in vSphere
Hi all, I'm having a problem with a new infrastructure that has just been set up..... The machine that has the vSphere installed on it is in a remote location to the actual ESX 4 host and there is a...
View ArticleHow to move a vm to another datastore on the same host
HiI have a single ESX4 host with 3 Datastores and I need to move one VM to another datastore, how can I do this since I dont have the option to migrate the vm when I am connected directly to the host...
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Power down or migrate disconnected VM (on disconnected ESX server)
We've got 4 ESX servers in our infrastructure. After power failure three of them powered on, but one didn't (esx-02).On this host we've got virtual machine called f12-dns-02. Now esx-02 is...
View ArticleTeaming 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 ArticleP-2-V Cluster Validation issues with 2008 R2 and MPIO
I am trying to cluster a Physical box to a Virtual box hosted on ESX 4.0. Everything passes the validation tool except MPIO because of course I don't have MPIO or my IBM DSM installed on the Virtual...
View ArticleVM Create Snapshot task stuck, have no progress bar.
ESX 4.0U2SLES 10/11 I was testing virtual machine snapshot backup method, sometimes the task to create virtual machine snapshot issued(stucked), the task has no progress bar .What's the matter, please...
View Articlehdparm error on esx-console?
Hello all, after having very poor IO performance on ESX 3.5 update 5 we've just installed ESX 4.1 now when we run hdparm to measure the througput from the esx-console we get a warning...
View ArticleInstall vCenter in a Workgroup instead of joining a Domain cause warning and...
I am having the following problem on our Virtual Center, if you know how to solve this, please kindly let me know, many many thanks in advance! EventID 1000[VpxdLdap] Failed to search OU=Instances...
View ArticlevMotion background
Hi, When we do a Hot vMotion, what exactly happens at the background. What files is created, what file is moved from where to where, what file is deleted if any applicable? Thanks,jK
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The virtual machine could not start
Hi, I have installed ESX on VM Workstation, on ESX, i configured windows 2003 server ent. but im not able to start the guest im getting error "A general system error occured: The virtual machine could...
View ArticleRemove all snapshots timeout?
Hey again gang! Is there a documented timeout on snapshot removal? I've got a vm thats been @ 99% for around 5 hours. It has 4 attached disks on a 4GB fc san so I am ruling out disk issues, but this vm...
View ArticleWin2008 Restores failing to boot DecoderIsInvalidInstruction:691
We use a backup/recovery solution called esxpress. When we recover our VMs, they essentially put back the original .vmdk and .vmx files. Then you just re-register, and boot. However our Windows 2008...
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Slow performance on SAN with 10Gbe via VMXNET3
We have built a SAN using Nexenta and 10Gbe for our VMWARE environment and with some tweaking and testing I am able to hit up to 1GBytes (not Gbps) per second to the SAN using iSCSI from a Win 7 Guest...
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