Defining 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 ArticleRunning vmdk in memory (Host ramdisk)
Hi, I am trying to run a FreeBSD VM on a VMWare ESX4 Server. I am able to create a vmdk file on the LocalDataStore on the ESX Host. I want to run this vmdk file in the ramdisk of ESX Host. So, I...
View ArticleVmware ESX 4.1.0 - Alarm System Chassis 2 MCK Card or Link 0 : Undetermined...
Hi Friends, I am new to this Technology, Can you please advise the solution for this below alarm in out VMware Environment. please find the attached screen shot of this . during this failure all the...
View ArticleUPS and ESX
Hello All I have UPS (APC) and I will going to configure both. Normally I installed agent in operating system (windows server) and If power off the agent will shutdown window server. How can I in...
View ArticleLocal Hard drive health in "Hardware Status" tab
Hi Guys, Running vSphere virtual center 4.0 update 1;Variety of hosts 3.5 update 4 and ESX 4.0 update1, segregated in separate clusters. Question: When reviewing Hardware status tab of the selected ESX...
View ArticleCheck ESX Hosts via SNMP
Hi @ all i want to check my esx hosts systems via snmp. (snapshots/drive usage, etc...)In our environment i use snmpget to fill my "checkssystem" nagios. So i search for some doc´s to configure it,...
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 ArticleDell R910 + Equallogic in ESX 4.0
Dear all, We are after some advise on setting up our new ESX hosts.We have just purchased 3 new Dell R910's to replace our old 2950 hosts. One thing we are struggling to work out is how to allocate the...
View ArticleESX SNMP Configuration (for HP SIM) & sending an ESX Test Trap via SNMPTRAP
Greetings. I recently needed to configure / fix my ESX servers to communicate properly over SNMP to my HP SIM server. Note: This is for ESX 4.1 and HP SIM 6.2. There were many problems I needed to...
View ArticleESX 4.1 AD integration - lsassd segfault, anybody experiencing the same?
Hello, I would like to see if anybody in the community has seen the same issue. I have already placed a call to VMware support, and I am told that this may be the first incident, which I have hard time...
View ArticleSCSI Error
I'm building a VM and using the Paravirtual SCSI controller for my additional disks and I keep getting this error after I restart the server. I configured the system using all LSI Logic SAS and did not...
View ArticleDisk out of space - best practices
Hi, running vspher 4.0 update 2 - windows 2008R2 enterprise guests. the log drive 100GB e:\ is quickly running out of disk space and I need to grow it larger.The e: drive LUN is presented by a dell...
View ArticleCan't Migrate VM
I am having trouble migrating a VM from a datastore. I am trying to decommission this SAN and I have been able to move all other VM's off except one. I am not able to move it powered on on or off....
View ArticleAdvanced parameter Disk.DiskMaxIOSize ???
Customer has ESX 4 hosts. they have all of their servers set with advanced parameter = Disk.DiskMaxIOSize set to 32. The default value is 32767. I can't find documentation on this parameter. Does...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS: The remote host certificate has these problems:
Hi, We have a 4 ESXi host cluster all running vSphere 4.1. Recently i started to upgrade them to update 2 and all the additional patches. After upgrading the vCentre Server to the latest version (or...
View Article45.00 B snapshot space in Storage Views (is it normal?)
When I update the storage views tab in the Datastores view in vSphere Client connected to our ESX 4.1 servers, The snapshot space for most of the servers are 45.00 B, some are 44.00 B, and some are...
View ArticleStorage path redudancy alert
Dear All, We are having two ESX 4.1. server with NETAPP iSCSI storage attached. We are getting freqauent storage path redudancy alert for one of server. However data store is connected and no issue...
View ArticleHow to do mapping between disks(OS level) and vmdks?
HI All, I have thre disks(vmdks) having scsi no as: scsi3:4 scsi1:0 scsi2:12 In the vmx file they are listed in the above manner.But when I am seeing this in Diskmgmt.msc(Windows OS),I am...
View ArticleOpenManage 6.2 on VMWare ESX 4.0 (u1)
I installed OpenManage on six of my Dell PowerEdge 6850 servers. I noticed today that one of the hard drive lights was blinking amber. I logged into OpenManage to look at the error and noticed that I...
View ArticleNLB MultiCast and Flex 10/Virtual Connect
Hi all, Im not sure if anyone can help me here or point me to some good doco, but cant hurt to ask. I administer quiet a large ESX environment and this environment hosts a heap to windows NLB...
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