Problem update Firmware emulex card (FCoE) thought One command Manager
vCenter 4.1ESX 4.1 update 2OneCommand Manager 5.2.12.2-1 << install on ESX using esxupdateCIM Provider << install on ESX using rpm OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter 1.1.0...
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VM showing up as invalid - failed to find a host for powering on
Hi folks. I have a good sized ESX cluster, with about 20 hosts and Enterprise Plus licensing. I recently did a power down/up of my entire setup, and all but a handful of VMs came back up cleanly. About...
View ArticleNetwork uplink redundancy fake alert
Hi there, Do you all encounter false alert for network uplink redundancy alarms and network connectivity lost? Everytime the alarm triggered, customer will call and request me to check onsite, but the...
View ArticleRDM is really required ?
RDM is really required because of performance reason I have veeam backup repository , the repository partion is an RDM , recently we faced disastor suddenly RDM lost and also the data ? Please advise
View ArticleSystem Management Software 1 SEL Fullness: Log almost full
Hi, I am runing IBM system x 3690 ESX 4.1.0,433742 and getting a following warning "System Management Software 1 SEL Fullness: Log almost full" I could not find any issue by looking at the IMM logs....
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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 Articlenetapp missing paths
Hi, I have an odd problem where one of the controllers on our netapp fas3140 died over the weekend, everything failed over to the remaing controller as it should. However, the failed controller is now...
View ArticleAligned vmdk on NFS datastore become unaligned
Can aligneed vmdk on Netapp NFS datastore become unaligned after sometime? One of our script reported vmdk as aligned last week but without making any changes it reported as unaligned in latest...
View ArticleDatastore failed on SAN and esx4 errors vmw_psp_rr:...
Hi I have had a LUN failure on SAN so datastore became inactive . I did a rescan hba and rescan datastores ... host is constantly thowing this on syslogs I have manually removed the datastore by...
View ArticleVM Still showing up as Invalid in Vcenter
Doing some Host maintenance and had a running VM that would not vmotion to another Host. There seems to be a snaphot accosiated with the VM and it must be from the Netapp backup that failed. Snapsot...
View ArticleCreate New Virtual Machine is greyed out
I can't create a new virtual machine in vSphere client. Right clicking the host or going to File > New Virtual Machine is greyed out. It seems like most administrative functions are greyed out,...
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how to check where the ESX i 4.1 is installed
Hi, Greetings, We are in a process of upgrading ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5. while going through the ESXi 4.1, not able to see the local VMFS datastore of that ESXi server, but if i go though the storage...
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how to confirm vm is powerdoff and vmfs release all locks
Dear Team, I have two problem related to one VM. Problem1:-I have one SLES SP1 VM on esx 3.5, when we we perform any task (Clone / imagebackup / Create snapshot / add HDD / CPU / Memory) we r getting...
View Articlemac address change issue
Hello All, I am trying to change the mac address of a linux vm with a mac address that is outside the "00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ" rage by following these steps:-remove from the vmx config:...
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...
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Esx 4.1.0 error vCLI when configuration backup
Hi, I have a Esx 4.1.0 Build 260247, when I try do configuration backup with the command vicfg-cfgbackup.pl --server <insert IP address of name of server here> -s <Where you want it saved...
View ArticleVMware is stuck.
Hi, we I've got a problem during creation of backups of a virtual machine (linux) to another using rsync utility.I am not able to login in to WMware machine neither using console nor client nor ssh....
View ArticleDefining 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 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 ArticleCannot do Storage Vmotion of an VM which has RDM attached
Hi, Iam unable to to storage vmotion for an Virtual Machine which has around 8 RDM attached to it. I see the error incompatible device backing specified for device '0'. can anyone let know why is the...
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