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help need to passtrough device
Dear Team, I have one tape drive card installed on my ESX, then added the same as passthrough by following this KB article KB: 1010789 following is the snap then I have added that a PCI device on one...
View ArticleESX4.1 installation need help
Dear Team, We are planning to install ESX4.1 on following Hardware where ESX4.0 already installed and running fine. Just want to know before installing esx4.1 what needs to be take into an account ESX...
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...
View ArticleHELP : VM Machine RDP Freeze
hi, I am using VMware ESX 4.0.0. win serv 2003 as vCenter and win 7 as host. and I have had problems for some hosts.when the host application to retrieve data from a different server, the windows would...
View ArticleAPIC 1703: Thermal Interrupt PCPU 0
One of my ESX servers is getting continue errors: APIC 1703: Thermal interrupt on pcpu 0. I have been unable to find any info on this - help anyone? ESX 4.1.0 kernal build 260247. Running on HP...
View ArticleGuest OS changes to 32bit after I run it?
I'm running a Other (64 bit) guest under ESX4. Its a Linux guest running kernel 3.10 SMP. It works fine. I noticed when the virtual machine is powered down the ESX Summary tab says Guest OS: 64 bit,...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008R2 install - device driver is missing
I'm trying to install a Windows Server 2008R2 VM and getting this message in the Load Driver Window. A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing.Reading some posts on Friday indicated it may be a...
View ArticleHow do I shrink and reclaim this space?
I'm trying to shrink a Linux guest which once needed 10GB of space but now only needs 4GB. I've resized the partitions but no matter what I do the size of the VMDK files are always the same - 10GB....
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Get all VMs with "vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms"
hello! I have following problem.I have a shell-script and want to get all IDs and Names of virtual machines: for i in `vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | sed '1d' | awk '{print $1":"$2}'` all is fine,...
View ArticleNeed help on the memory limit setting for VM
Hi All, I am new to the vmware technology, Please help me out to understand the Limit attribute on vm memory setting. I just refers through some site and made a conclusion that , the limit is the...
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General questation about NLB
Hi ,sorry for my bad Englisch . I have basic questation about NLB in the Vmware . I have two virtual machines with created unicast NLB . I set notification switches off .Now I have trouble with connect...
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Using a USB pin drive to boot ESXi? Use a SLC rated USB/Flash.
Are you using a USB or SD media as a boot device for ESXi? This is a great solution, but there are a few things that you may not be aware of. We use this configuration on all our ESXi hosts. All was...
View ArticleSnapshots invalid after expanding disk on ESX
While trying to expand the hard drive of our virtual Ubuntu Server I accidentally it. Since its field of service was expanded I wanted to expand the disk size from 10 GB to 50 GB using "vmkfstools"....
View ArticleI'm seeing cpu freezes at random in most of my VMs ESX4.0.0
I'm seeing CPU soft lockups in most of my VMs. Some of them freeze completely, some of them require rebooting after a freeze, some of them shake it off and keep running. I'd really like to understand...
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 ArticleUrgent - How to check VM logs?
We had some issue during weekend, some one deleted few files or something happened? How to find out the root cause analysis? I have exported the logs from vcenter and I got almost 3 GB logs locally?...
View ArticleVM \ CPU \ SQL License Question - Urgent
Hi, The ESX host has x2 6 Core Processors in a Blade Server. 12 cores in total. We have assigned 4 CPU's to a SQL Server. See pic: Customer is trying to figure out what SQL licence they require per...
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....
View ArticleError occur when use esxupdate installed a patch
Hi All Can someone give me a hints about these error? While I would like to install a patch and use esxupdate comment. Hoever, it prompt another message as below and could not start to install. May I...
View ArticleMigrate VMs from 3.5 esx to 4.1 esx need urgent help
Dear Team,I have one esx3.5 and running 2 production VM which are stored on local storage, no fc connectivity available , Standard License is used.we are in procees to migrate these VMs on esx4.1, but...
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