How to make ESX 4 and IBM Tape Library TS3200 work together ?
HW config: IBM BladeCenter H ( + Brocade(R) 20-port 4Gb Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter ) 3 x IBM Blade Server HS22 ( 2 x Xeon 4C E5540 + QLogic 4Gb Figre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv)...
View Article2008 R2 mouse movements are jumpy. PVSCSI issues also.
I am running ESX 4.0 Update 1 build 208167 and vCenter build 208111. I am building a Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise VM. The OS and VMware Tools get installed without any trouble. When I log into the...
View ArticleDatastore Free Space Best Practice
Hello, I have a question relating to the amount of free space to leave on a datastore. I recently upgraded to vCenter and with that came along some datastore usage alarm definitions. I see they were...
View Articleunable to create vmkernel dump file
I have here 4 IBM X3650 M2 (7947-52G) with a clean install ESX 4.0.0 244038 - UEFI 1.07 D6E145FUS (upraded from 1.04) IMM YU0057H 1.10 (upgradd from 1.05) Diagnostics v233 - All 4 have the...
View ArticleLogs "Long VMFS3 rsv time on..."
Hello, I’m running in the following trouble few weeks ago about my infrastructure, VMware vSphere 4.1 on HP blade BL460G1 and storage HP EVA 6400. Description:The VM symptom is slowdown in accessing...
View Article[VMware vCenter - Alarm Network uplink redundancy lost] Lost uplink...
I often get these alerts on one of our servers in our environment. We run VMware ESX 4.1 on 5x Dell PowerEdge Servers each of similar spec, they all have 2x NICs that plug into a Cisco Infrastructure...
View ArticleSoftware iSCSI adapter will not see storage array. vmkiscsi.conf missing!
I am trying to connect to iSCSI array (MD3200i) from a ESX4.1(Dell R710). The storage array has already been configured, and is working with another similar host(ESX4.1 on a R710 through the software...
View ArticleVsphere 4.1 with two Dual Port HBA
Hi I want to design a vsphere solution with two dual port HBA ,two san switch and two Storage Array with single SP is this design valid? do we have some thing like "four I/O per VM ? "
View ArticleUpdate Manager Download Service-limitation for database.
Hi Experts,Is there any limitation in using Microsoft SQL Server Express Instance as database?It is mentioned as for small scale deployments, can anyone explore what is the limit. Thanks in advance.
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Datastore disconnection from storage
We have two datacenters (Vcenter server in linked mode) - A & B Servers in site A and B are being replicated over san (by storage end not SRM) Notes -What is the known issue in the enviornment -...
View ArticleCannot install ESX 4.1 Complete Update 3 through Update Manager
I would like to install the VMware ESX 4.1 Complete Update 3 (ESX410-Update03 dated 8/30/2012). However in Update Manager I get a yellow triangle with "Conflict" next to it. The text when highlighted...
View Articlemultiple swap files
How to troubleshoot if multiple swap files occurred in virtual machine o esx host?
View ArticleReset administrator password for machine client
Hello experts, I have a client machine and installed Windows 2008 OS. and I using vsphere client to connected to the server. How to do to reset administrator for this client via vsphere client? Any...
View ArticleDefining additional iSCSI Software Adapters
My setup is two VMware ESXi 4.1 servers which are clustered. I have a iSCSI software adapter installed and setup on one of my VMware ESXi 4.1 servers. It works fine and I can access the SAN from both...
View ArticleVMICTimeProvider?
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 ArticleHas anyone installed LSI MSM in ESX 4 successfully?
My ESX host has an LSI 8708ELP SAS/SATA RAID controller whose firmware has been flashed to the latest version available from the LSI website. It is fully supported in ESX 4 according to the HCL. I...
View Articleerror upgrading vmware tools in windows since vSphere 4.1 upgrade
Hi, since we upgraded to 4.1 (from 4.0 U2) our windows vmwaretools automatic upgrades have been failing with "error upgrading vmware tools" Anyone else seen this? Going to the VM's console and...
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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 ArticleUnable to access file since it is locked
Hi, I am running 2 ESX Hosts. On each host I was running just the 1 virtual machine (both of which connect to disks on the same SAN). I have now created another Virtual Machine to run on each host (4...
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