alert from host
hello everybody i have e strnge massage thet came from vcenter for ine of my host . i could not explain this message . The massage is as below: test trap received from Vcenter with SNMP Varbinds...
View ArticleVM Unresponsive on every Monday,
Hi , I Recently found one issue that, VM that Running W2k3,vCPU -3 Nos,RAM-12GB,VMware Tools Running,CPU Limit : 1.34 GHZ(Worst case Allocation : 2.35 GHZ) This is a Beefy VM, that use 60+ Scheduled...
View ArticleESX 4.1 cannot found lun after change Lun WWN
Hi,guys Our ESX4.1 connected to IBM DS4700,all the lun WWN(not HBA WWN) had changed due to some reasons,while after reboot ESX4.1,we cannot found the Lun(esxcfg -volume -l,returns empty).So do you...
View ArticleBad write-performance on iSCSI SAN
Hello community, I've got a question to the following infrastructure: ESX 4.1 U1 on a HP ProLiant DL380G5 with the DLink DSN 2100 10 in iSCSI mode. The SAN is configured to present 3 LUNs to the ESX....
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BOOTMGR is missing in Windows Server 2008
Hi Everyone, One of our SQL Servers became completely unresponsive so it was Powered Off. I know, not exactly the best thing to do, but it's been done and since the VM was Powered On, we're getting an...
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 ArticleVCB and pre-freeze/post-thaw scripts in Linux VMs
hello, i'm trying here to implement pre/post-snapshot scripts for backuping up some Linux-based VMs using VCB. i need to quiesce databases inside VM during snapshotting. according to VM backup guide...
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 ArticleBest Practice to install VMware Tools
Dear Team, I want to install / upgrade VMware tools on Rhel and SUSE Linux VM, have following queries on the same 1) Before installing / upgrade VMware tools shall i take a clone or snapshot first, if...
View ArticleIntel 82575GB QuadPort NIC down
Hi, just by an Dell R410 Server with an additional Intel QUadPort VT adapter. Physical switch an VLAN are correctly configured, but openening vsphere client showing mw status of these 4 ports as...
View Articlevpxd.exe locking out account
Hey, for some reason the vpxd.exe, which is running as SYSTEM is trying to authenticate with my AD account. The problem is that it has an old password cached and is causing my AD account to lock out....
View ArticleESX unable to find root partition
Hello, after a disk change of our RAID-5 array ESX 4.0 refuses to start. The error occurs in the script 69.mount-root: The root partition specified (UUID=...) was not found on COS VMDK that specified...
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 ArticleVm wont Power Off, (esx host shows as being powered on) - Also Pid keeps...
I have followed all docs. How do I get the right PID? The below command outputs a different Pid each time...... ps auxfww | grep -i servername.vmx
View ArticleFastest way to copy vmdk
Hello, I have a 200GB vmdk I wou ld like to backup. This vm is shutdown. I would like to know what is the fastest possible way to backup this vmdk. I have a very limited time to get this file. I am...
View ArticleNIC Driver Intel 82559
Hi Im trying to add 2 network cards to my ESX4 host. Though it appears that they have removed support for these cards in version 4 I can still seem them via a lspci.What is the easiest / quickest...
View ArticleVMToolsd.exe CPU spike
Hello guys, Not sure if anyone have seen this sue before. I have VM that have a very high CPU caused by VMToolsd.exe.VMwareTools was re-installed, that seem to solve the CPU spike temporarily. The CPU...
View ArticleSpecify virtual disk size beyond 256 GB
I'm editing the seetings on a VM to have another drive.When I create a disk I select the disk size, 1TB. I point to the datastore location of LUN 30 (2TB).When I click next I get the following message:...
View ArticleESX 4 U1 on IBM x3100 M4
Hello, I'm trying to install the ESX 4 server on IBM x3100 M4 with software LSI Megaraid SATA RAID (2 HDD 1Tb in RAID1 configuration). The installation process described by IBM here :...
View ArticleVCenter Server Not accessible
Hello, The vcenter server network is not available, therefore I cannot connect to it, I cannot use the AD logon to access the Esxi Host, the lockdown mode was enabled on the host and DCUI disabled, How...
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