Upgrade 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 configure GNS3 virtual machines with ESXi
Today I can set up virtual machines with VMware workstation and connect there NIC in GNS3 (Network Emulating) , I can create NIC card by using VMware workstation and assign each virtual machine I have...
View Articlevmware vcenter 5.1 converter plugin
hii upgraded vcenter from 4.1 fo 5.1a , hosts still running esx4.1 i dont see the vmware converter plugin anymore cant p2v within vsphere client ? is it still there or do i have to use the standalone...
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 Articleissues with 10gbE and speeds in 4.1
Ive got a bit of a problem here.WE just picked up a new IBM san and hooked it up with 10gbE via ibms recommendations and best practices. Here is my situation; HostsHP dl360 g7 servers currently...
View ArticleRescan doesn't show new LUNs on FC HBA...need to reboot?
On our ESX 4.1.0 boxes, we attached an unused FC HBA from each server to a new SAN and presented LUNS. The HBA's always did show up in vCenter, but I expected that after doing a "Rescan All" the new...
View Articlevmware 4.1 and hooking up 2 different iscsi SAN units
I am stumped. Ive got a 4.1 enviroment that is using 2 SAN units 1 is a SATA SAN isolated on its own pswitch using iscsi on 10.10.10.1 all running over the software iscsi adapter...over 1gbe...
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Recovering accidental deleted VM's in ESX4.0
Hi, I accidently deleted a VM (centos) in ESX-4.0 and was not able to recover the data on the same. Could any one please help on this. ESX server was configured with RAID-1 (DISK MIRRORING) which is a...
View ArticlePast few days all guests have slowed to a crawl.
For some reason, in the past few days, all the guests on my esx box have slowed to a crawl. According to the resources though, I have plenty left. I have about 25 machines but I have 48GB of ram. THe...
View Article"Operation timed out:The VM failed to resume on the destination during early...
During migration to another host I came across 2 Vms that gave an error :" Operation timed out:The VM failed to resume on the destination during early power on". Restarting management agents on the...
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Esx 4.1.0 error vCLI when configuration backup
Hi, I have a Esx 4.1.0 Build 260247, when I try do configuration backup with the command vicfg-cfgbackup.pl --server <insert IP address of name of server here> -s <Where you want it saved...
View ArticleUNABLE TO CONNECT TO THE MKS : COULD NOT CONNECT TO PIPE
Hi All im getting the following error while trying to open a virtual machine console through thev vcenter client. UNABLE TO CONNECT TO THE MKS : COULD NOT CONNECT TO PIPE .\PIPE\VMWARE-AUTHDPIPE:...
View Articlex3650 M2's found Vusb0
Hi, I have a new x 3650 and found tha tthe virtual switch detected Vusb0. What is this NIC used for and when it should be used? Thanks
View Articlecpu0.0 Numa 836: Significan imbalance between NUMA nodes
Ok... so I did the upgrade to ESX 4.0.0 on 4 DL385 G5's and now i get this error.When we upgraded the RAM the dumb server makes you stack memmory from greatest to lowest makeing it impossable to...
View Articlehostd.log error log
Hi, Recently, I began receive an error log from hostd.log as below. Load: Loading existing file: /etc/vmware/license.cfg Unexpected fault reading property: vim.LicenseManager,IsSourceAvailable:...
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...
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ESX 4, MD3000 - Virtual Disk Not On Preferred Path
Hello All, I have two clusterred ESX 4 working on Dell R805 each and it works with Dell MD3000 Matrix. Each ESX has two iscsi controllers, one is with "red" ip range and one with "blue" ip range, then...
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...
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No network adapters were detected.
Since I had troubles for configuring passthrough, I had changed server, and I met other problems.. Installing ESX4.0 by graphical mode is unable, and when I select Graphical one, text mode was just...
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...
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