Can't Migrate VM
I am having trouble migrating a VM from a datastore. I am trying to decommission this SAN and I have been able to move all other VM's off except one. I am not able to move it powered on on or off....
View ArticleVM destroying a NIC
I am having some instances of a VM losing it's NIC. I have checked other discussions about this saying the user had stopped the device the same way you stop a USB device, but the users do not have...
View ArticleIs it safe to delete VMNAME-rdmp.vmdk ?
Hi All, When I perform manual scan from the PowerGUI to cleanup my hard drive from orphaned VMDK, I noticed that I found some VM files with "VMNAME-rdmp.vmdk" ? is it safe to delete that or better left...
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Strange problems with one my ESXi 4.1 U1 servers
Hi admins, I have alot of problems with one of my HP DL385 G7 servers.This host will randomly disconnect itself from my vCenter. (vCenter 4.1 u1)When this happens i try to restart the managment agents...
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ESX 4.1 and vCenter only allows use of 1 Fibre Channel LUN
Hi,I have 8 ESX 4.1 (build 348481) blades in a Cisco UCS 5108 chassis. Each blade has 2 x HBAs available. I also have a Fiber channel storage array that is configured to provide 2 1.8 TB LUNs (for now...
View ArticleVMware network serial port concentrator
I configure network serial ports to three VMs for vSPC.py serial port concentrator.For certain VM, vSPC.py works, but for certain VMs, vSPC.py does not work.In the failure case, when I type some...
View ArticleHow CLoning Process works in the background???
Dear VMware Experts, I want to know " How CLoning Process works in the background???" , as per my understanding is it work like this1) Snapshot a Cloned VM2) Registering a VM to a destination...
View ArticlePerformance metrics using esxtop in batch mode
Hi Team, I have esxtop in batch mode for around 14 servers, can some one please tell me what are the CPU and Metrics that I need to look at to get the CPU and Memory usage? I found that %Processor Time...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions
Dear team, ESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions. Need to understand LAHF and SAHF, and how it's work? RegardsMr VMware
View ArticleCommand not found in service console ESX 4.0 u2
Hi all, I have a very simple question. I haven´t accessed the service console of ESX 4.0 for a little while and today I needed to run some commands to verify information about some HBAs. I logged in as...
View ArticleDataStore file format has changed from VMFS to W95 Fat32
We are running vSphere Enterprise Plus edition and have a Datastore thats file format changed from VMFS to W95 FAT32 (LBA), this Datastore appears to be running in cache mode on all other existing...
View ArticleRDM with more than 2TB LUN
Hi all, we have a ESX4 environment with 4 Hosts. Now we have to buy new storage and I would like to add more than 2 TB Volumes to the Windows Server 2008 Guest.As i remember this is not supported by...
View ArticleDefragment VM (vmdk) on ESX 4.1
Hi All, I have few Windows 2008 Servers running as VM on ESX 4.1.SCOM/Microsoft reports that we need to we need to defragment the VM's.Can you please let me know the way on how can I defragment the...
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...
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Issue with iSCSI device not showing up under "DataStores"
I really don't know what I did, but I was trying to extend a iSCSI LUN. Using OpenFiler. I have a cluster, currently mixed w/ ESX 4.1 and ESX 5 hosts. My ESX 5 hosts I was able to get the iSCSI LUN...
View ArticleUnable to reconnect a vSphere host in vCenter
vSphere version 4.0.0.261974vCenter version 4.0.0.258672 I have been installing physical memory upgrades on our vSphere servers but have a problem with a particular vSphere host. Before placing in...
View ArticleNeed help in ESX 4.1 update3 :- facing " ['ResourceGroup' warning] Skipping...
Hi, I have a host with ESX 4.1U3 installed with two VM’s ,one is RHEL and other is WINDOWS. As soon as I powered on the VM and execute command esxcfg-info –a(or -r) | grep <any thing> it...
View ArticleCould not find any recognizable digits.
After downloading an .OVA to a VM server. I try using the Deploy OVF Template tool, but when I hit the next button from the deploy from file selection I receive the following message Error The OVF...
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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