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...
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 ArticleNFS config issue for secondary NIC card
I'm trying to get my NFS moved to a secondary network (with only my VM host) to try to help with performance. My primary network is 192.168.2.0/23 with a gateway of 192.168.3.1. My VM Host is...
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 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 ArticleAdd Hard Disks for Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
Hi all,We plan to create an Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster in vSphere 4.xHere is the requirements: 1.Node1 should have the following disks during normal operation C drive (VMDK) P...
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 ArticleVMWare tools ESX 4 for Windows 7 x64
I'm trying to install VMWare tools for Windows 7 x64 on ESX 4. The OS installed just fine, but when I try to load the tools I get almost all of the way there and then get the error: Error: 25030....
View ArticlevSphere Client Can't Connect Over SSH Tunnel
I have a couple of ESX 4.0 servers sitting in a lab on campus, which is usually not where I am. Typically, I set up an SSH tunnel to connect remotely to my network and forward some ports over the...
View ArticleLun 0 and our IBM DS3400 SAN. Peripheral Qualifier 0x3 constantly in vmkernel...
Hi, We have the following configuration: IBM x3650 running ESX 4 (Cluster) IBM x3650 running ESX 4 (Cluster) IBM DS3400 SAN Each IBM server has 2 direct attached Fiber connection through to the san...
View ArticleNetwork Uplink Redundancy Lost
I have 3 ESX 4.0 servers in a cluster and one of them is reporting "Network Uplink Redundancy Lost". 2 NICs one the server are configured as a DMZ vswitch. One of the NIC's (vmnic6) "Observed IP...
View ArticleIBM x3850 and vSphere - Host Battery status Warning (yellow)
I'm having this warning in hardware status for battery on Controller 0, it says "Battery on Controller 0 Discharging... (Learn Cycle Active) it just appears every 3 or 4 months... we just even...
View ArticleIIS performance 50% slower on a VM?
I've got a cluster of IIS Servers that we host our web application on. Recently, we converted several of our web servers from physical machines to virtual machines. By converted, I mean we built a...
View ArticleSAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 changer does not appear on the VM's Device manager
Hi All, I have an ESX 4.1 host and a VM that is running Windows 2008R2 OS. And a SAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 and HP SAS controller is pluged in to host machine. On the VM's device manager there is a...
View Articleconvert old pc into thin client
hi We would like to convert old pc's into thin clients.Where can I get free linux thin client supported PC-over-IP?
View ArticleBrowse Datastore button greyed out?
Hi All Ive got a problem whereby i cant seem to grant a specific user Browse Datastore rights in our ESX 4 Update 2 environment, i have followed this :- http://communities.vmware.com/thread/136468 And...
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