Create VM image and deploy at customer site
Complete newbie here -- my apologies if this has been answered elsewhere. I have an application running on Linux on a physical server. We have an ESX4 server in our environment running a couple of...
View ArticleCall "HostNetworkSystem.UpdateVirtualSwitch" for object error when trying to...
Hi there - first post in here, so please be gentle :-). We're just in the process of rolling out a clean deployment ESX4.1 into our environment (no previous VMWare installation) using Dell M610 blades...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 PSOD when performing certain Linux disk operations
Hey all, I am running ESXi 4.1 on an Intel server and I get PSOD's whenever I perform certain disk operations. It seems to happen when I partition a disk or once in a while when writing to disk. It...
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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 Articlealert from host
hello everybody i have e strnge massage thet came from vcenter for ine of my host . i could not explain this message . The massage is as below: test trap received from Vcenter with SNMP Varbinds...
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Lan Card for ESX i 4.0 / ESX-4.0
Hi Friend, I have Dlink DFE-520TX Lan card in my PC which support Linux 2.6 & 2.4 kernel. I want to Evaulate at my home ESX i 4.0 ESX-4.0.0-update01-208167 But when i installed any of the above...
View ArticleProblems with networking
Hi, We have a vmware infrastructure still in version 4 over a HP Blade Center working for some years without problems. However, 2 days ago we noticed the vms were very slow. We have narrowed down the...
View ArticleLinux guest cannot see more than 4GB memory
Anyone know why my linux guest in VMware ESX4 cannot see more then 4GB of memory? I have tried to set the guest mem to 5GB or 6GB and boot with lilo.conf having: append=" mem=5120M...
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 ArticleESX not responding
Hi.One of my ESX 4.0 hosts appeared as "not responding" this morning. I looks lika all the VM's on that host is running OK, but they are of course Disconnected. I restarted the management agents this...
View ArticleVCB and pre-freeze/post-thaw scripts in Linux VMs
hello, i'm trying here to implement pre/post-snapshot scripts for backuping up some Linux-based VMs using VCB. i need to quiesce databases inside VM during snapshotting. according to VM backup guide...
View ArticleHelp recreating .vmdk descriptor files **André**
The datastore where my vm is located became "full" and it has corrupted the vmdk files and now my vm will not "Power On" I receive the error "File <unspecified filename> was not found. I believe...
View ArticleESX 4.1. Disable TCP Checksum offload
Hi All,This is my first post on this forum. We have problems with connection between application server and sql server. Both servers are running Windows server 2008 R2 and are hosted on the same ESX....
View ArticleESX Host Failure
Good Afternoon, We have recently taken delivery of 4 HP Proliant DL580 G7's and installed ESX 4.0 (Update2) 3 of the 4 servers are running fine, however 1 of the servers keeps crashing almost every day...
View ArticleNIC ports being reconfigured after host machine reboot
I have a ESXi 4.1 Server with 4 physical NIC ports. I have NIC1 set up as the management port. After a reboot, NIC1 physically changes location to one of the other NIC ports on the back of the...
View ArticleLive Conversion RDM to VMDK
Hi all,i've a VM (which can't be powered off) on Esx 4.0 and i wanna use storage vmotion to convert a disk (the VM has multiple disks) from RDM to VMDK.Any advise or experience? Many Thanks
View ArticleVery slow performance after P2V
Hi All, We have done a P2V of a server and after converting, it is having very high CPU usage and extremely slow performance as a VM. We have done, 1. All cleanups after P2V.2. VMware tools update.3....
View ArticleINIT: version 2.86 Reloading error - Cause?
Hi Expert, I am experiencing this error at one host:INIT: version 2.86 Reloading Due to this the host is disconnected from vCenter. Tried ssh, reconnect back to vc, and http but all failed. The only...
View Articlecontact Web service of a vCenter
Hello, I'm not sure, it the good location for my post.. anyway, I'm begining using webService to interact with my esx 4.1.This one is under a vCenter.I'm interacting through php script with soap...
View ArticlevApp and Multiple Hosts
We are just experimenting with creating vApps, and this is looking a useful feature. One thing I am not clear about ... the documentation states that: The vApp metadata resides in the vCenter Server's...
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