VM destroying a NIC
I am having some instances of a VM losing it's NIC. I have checked other discussions about this saying the user had stopped the device the same way you stop a USB device, but the users do not have...
View ArticleDisappearing virtual network device under Windows 2008 R2 SP1 in vSphere 4.1
Has anyone seen an issue where after an upgrade from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2008 R2 SP1 the virtual network device suddenly and somewhat randomly ejects itself from the VM causing the virtual...
View ArticleUpgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1
hi Howto upgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1 using esxupdate?BTW which zip file do I need to download from www.vmware.com/go/downloadpatches to do an upgrade?
View ArticleCannot power on virtual machine: Unable to access file since it is locked
I'm having this trouble (this is the second time now) where I cannot power on a virtual machine. The message "Unable to access file since it is locked. Since the filename is unspecified, it makes it...
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ESX 4.1 and vCenter only allows use of 1 Fibre Channel LUN
Hi,I have 8 ESX 4.1 (build 348481) blades in a Cisco UCS 5108 chassis. Each blade has 2 x HBAs available. I also have a Fiber channel storage array that is configured to provide 2 1.8 TB LUNs (for now...
View ArticleEssentials Plus vCenter linked mode to vCenter standard?
Is it possible (and allowed) to install the vCenter foundation version from the essentials plus bundle in a linked mode to connect to vCenter standard in our central location? like this...vCenter...
View ArticlevCenter Server linked Mode. Error 28039. Setup cannot join vCenter Server to...
Hello, I have the next error when I try to configure the server linked mode: "Error 28039. Setup cannot join vCenter Server to the linked mode group. Refer to C:\documents and...
View Article503 service unavailable on vsphere 4.0 access web to download client
anyone know why i got this 503 service unavailable when connected to newly installed vsphere 4.0 and ask for certificates and if i click continue to ignore it it just throw that error. please help
View ArticleWhat is VSphere?
What is VSphere?, EXS4? and Cloud Computing or Cloud Operating system? Could anyone please explain there terms in single line, I mean single line definitions? Are VSphere and Virtual...
View ArticleVMFS 3.31 vs VMFS 3.33
Hello all, I recently notice after the upgrade to vSphere that there was a new version of VMFS version 3.33. Is there anyone that can tell me what the diffence is between ver. 3.31 and 3.33. And is it...
View ArticlevCenter Memory Alert
I've been getting memory alerts on some hosts in our cluster once it reaches 75%. I run reports every week using the performance tab to determine how much memory we are using. I check max and average...
View Articlehow to convert VHD to VMDK SCSI device.
hi, i have converted VHD file to VMDK file and put it into SCSI strogae. when i powering on the VM it says disk read error occur. i found that virtual device node is IDE it should be SCSI so that the...
View ArticleTrouble uninstalling HP management agents
I am trying to perform a clean uninstall of version 8.3.1 of HP's management agents for ESX 4. I tried running the 8.3.1 script with the --uninstall command, as well as the 8.4.0 script with the...
View ArticleAdaptec 29160 no showing up in ESX 4.1
I have a whitebox host with ESX 4.1 installed, everything is working fine, except that the Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller does not show up under configuration in VCenter for this host. There is an...
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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 ArticleHA/DRS: Memory Usage Warnings
After reading some fo the memory management docs I am still not clear on the result of running hosts with a memory warning. At what point will HA fail? I have the default settings for alarms so when...
View ArticlevExpert should be A VCDX? or VCP?
Hai, I have doubt regarding to gain vExpert, A person should be VCDX or VCP or No need to be certified?
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PSOD on Fujitsu BX630S2: COS Panic: Fatal Exception @ esxsc_panic+0x43/0x4f
Hi!BX630 S2 issues:Dumpfile: 52:19:50:02.667 cpu4:4221)ScsiScan: 110: Path 'vmhba32:C0:T6:L0': Peripheral qualifier 0x1 not supported52:19:50:02.667 cpu4:4221)ScsiScan: 1059: Path 'vmhba32:C0:T7:L0':...
View ArticleSwap: vm 5342: 2457: Failed to open swap file...
Hello, we're running ESX 4.0 on our hosts. when i backup or copy larg file (More than 1TB) the host is disconnect and vCentter acnnot connect guest but guest it can run normally.We can use SSH to login...
View ArticleHost memory usage reaching limit
Hi all, Our infrastructure is configured with 1 Cluster of 8 hosts on DRS fully automated (5 Resource Pools)- . Each host (Dell R710 - ESX4.1U1) has 64Gb of memory. The usage on each host is reaching...
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