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NetApp iSCSI best configuration?
Hello ... I own 3 esx servers 4, connected to a NetApp 2020th cabin, dual controller active / active. Each controller has 2 interfaces (e0a and e0b)NetApp reading the documentation, have two connection...
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 ArticleESX server - Maintenance Mode
What all are the things happened, when i put an ESX server in maintenance mode? Don't simply say that all VMs are migrated to others. I want much deeper deeper deeper information on it. Can anyone ? ?...
View ArticleESX 4 Host disconnected from VC and Can't connect to ESX Host via vSphere client
I Also can't connect to the default Webpage of the ESX Host I have tried to restart the VC agent and the SC with the following commands service vmware-vpxa restart service mgmt-vmware restart I...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Slow Mouse After Sysprep
So,I know installing VMware's WDDM driver in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\wddm_video will fix slow mouse problems normally and it does. I've installed this into a VM and converting this...
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After rebooting ESX 4.0 no vSphere Client access for 15+ minutes?
It seems that in the first 15-20 minutes after a reboot, the ESX 4.0 host server is unreachable by the VI client. Also, running the vmware-cmd –l command from the console as root produces a similar...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 - becomes UNresponsive - can't remote desktop - can't...
Environment: ESX server 4 Update 1VM: Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit with vmware tools installedProblem: vm becomes completely unresponsive - can't remote desktop - can't even login via vcenter...
View Articlemultiple swap files
How to troubleshoot if multiple swap files occurred in virtual machine o esx host?
View ArticleChange IP address of ESX 4 from VSphere Client
Hi there. I initially set the static ip address of our esx 4 (production) server during the installation process. Now I would like to change the ip address to a different one. I was told I can...
View ArticleVisualizing a Physical Server
Hi, I need a quick answer back on this - if possible? We have a Physical Server and we need to virtualise this server asap. Server has 4 LUNS allocated on the SAN listed below: Windows 2003.Drive 1:...
View ArticleHow to connect USB Dongel to ESXi 4.1 VM
Hi All, I have many VM's running on the ESXi 4.1 and one of the VM server has the requirement to connect USB Dongle and the software which is installed on it will work once it detect the USB dongle...
View ArticleSlipstreaming with ESX4.1 ISO
Hi Folks! I am in the process of trying to get some new Intel 10Gb drivers slipstreamed into the ESX4.1 ISO. I've found Patrick VanBeek's blog that shows how to do it in the version 4 of the ESX...
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 ArticleMixed memory sizes in Dell R710 to achieve 1333mhz speeds versus 800mhz
We have some Dell R710's that were originally ordered with 48GB in a 12x4GB 1333mhz config (RDIMMs). We ordered 6 additional 4GB 1333mhz memory sticks to fill out all 18 banks for a total of 72GB. The...
View Articleperformance tab not working
In vsphere (vmware esx 4.0.0) when I click on the performance tab on any device, host vm etc I get nothing or more specifically on the overview sub-tab: This program cannot display the webpage Any...
View ArticleESX4 + Nehalem Host + vMMU = Broken TPS !
Since upgrading our 2 host lab environment from 3.5 to 4.0 we are seeing poor Transparent Page Sharing performance on our new Nehalem based HP ML350 G6 host. Host A : ML350 G6 - 1 x Intel E5504, 18GB...
View ArticleDoes ESX 5 support NFS version 4.1
just curious to know if ESX 5 supports NFS version 4.1 -srinivas
View ArticleBest practices for Terminal Server 2008 R2
Is there a doc with best practices for Terminal Servers under ESX 4.1? I have a DL 380 G6 with 98 GB of RAM and running 1 Win2K8 R2 64 VM. The server has a reservation of 4 GB of RAM and a max of 24 GB...
View ArticleVmxnet3 network adapter change?
Hi, Recently planned to upgrade network adapter from e1000 to vmxnet3 in windows 2008 Os. As a action in a test machine, I modified the vmx file ethernet(n).virtualDev = "vmxnet3" then reregistered...
View ArticleBest Practices to increase disk space inside a 2003 Guest while transforming...
Hello there, I have been asked to increase disk space inside a Windows Server 2003 Guest. The Virtual Machine Virtual Disk is a single Thick 150 GB Virtual Disk. Maximum Virtual Disk size allowed...
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