Unable to connect to ESX 4.1 Host
Bare with me. I have some experience using VMWARE but less on the hardware side of things. Someone else setup our environment so I am learning as I go here. I have a Dell blade chassis with 4...
View ArticleVirtual Machine redundancy
Hopefully this is the correct forum as i am using esx 4.1 Here we go: I have x number of hosts. (ill be using 2 to explain but know i have more)I have 1 vswitch that runs all of our VMs bound to 2...
View ArticleAdd vCPUs to Linux 2.4 guest to speed it up?
Hello, I was hoping someone could answers some questions for me. I'm running vSphere 4.0 with about 5 32-bit Linux guests running kernel 2.4. All have 1 vCPU. Everything has been fine for years but...
View ArticleMigrate VMs from 3.5 esx to 4.1 esx need urgent help
Dear Team,I have one esx3.5 and running 2 production VM which are stored on local storage, no fc connectivity available , Standard License is used.we are in procees to migrate these VMs on esx4.1, but...
View ArticleVMICTimeProvider?
I'm investigating a time shift issue with several 2008 R2 guests on vSphere 4.0. Time synch between guest and ESX has been disabled in VMTools but one of the customers engineers has asked me to...
View ArticleBulk change ESX hosts console IP address
Hi, I have about 200 ESX 4 hosts, and I have to change the IPs of every hosts vswif0 Console Interface.Has somebody any suggustion, best practice? (if available, I would welcome a gui based solution,...
View Articleissues with data transfers and speed copying data into virtual machine
i have as small vmware 4.1 enviroment. I have 30gb id like to transfer into a vm on my host. My san has 10gb iscsi connectivity. My front end switch where my VMs connect is 1gb. if i connect a usb...
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PSOD issue ESX4.1 (following Array have Missing or Rebuilding or Failed...
Dear Team, We have got PSOD issue on one of the esx host, after hard reboot are getting this error and boots then after every 30Mins reboots or PSOD Need ur urgent assistance on the same. regardsMr...
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...
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 ArticleHow to recreate teh file esxconsole.vmdk
Hello, I removed the file "esxconsole.vmdk" and without this file the ESX 4 do not start, how can I recreate/recover this file ? Can I retreive the file from another ESX 4 server ? Best regards....
View ArticleDrobo Setup with ESX4
I am trying to set up a DROBO raid configuration. The initial problem I am having is that I am using the second network card on my PowerEdge 2950 server for the iSCSI connection. The NIC is using...
View Article"A specified parameter was not correct" error when modifying networking
I've got 5 identical ESX hosts that I just built. I'm not sure what has changed on one of them, but I can no longer modify network settings. If I try to add a port group, link a NIC, or almost...
View Articlenic link down but nic shows status lights (esxi)
Hello all, I have a bit of a weird problem and I'm not having much luck with the search option. Let me describe how I got to the point I am at with this: We have about 29 VM's running on our vmware...
View Articleesxi 5.1 - Unable to connect to NFS server - FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-x86
I get "Unable to connect to NFS server" when I try to connect to FreeNAS NFS share using ESXi 5.1, but both can connect to NFS share on linux. Further linux can connect to the share on FreeNAS. I...
View ArticleMonitoring ESX 4.1 with Nagios XI
We are running Nagios XI 2012R1.1 and are trying to monitor our ESX 4.1 hosts. I ran the Nagios XI vmware monitoring wizard but I can't seem to get Nagios XI to monitor a vmware ESX 4.1 host service...
View Articleunable to remove dead path from HBA ports vmhba1/2
Hi all, I have a dead path on both the hba ports vmhba1 and vmhba2. I tried rescanning it but no go.I am not sure how to proceed on this ... Please assist me. Here are the details [root@xxxxx...
View ArticleESX 4 upgrade confussion
Hello All; Well like the the title says, I'm truly confused. I have vCenter 5.1 running for 3 hosts. 1 of the hosts was set up with VMware ESX4.1, Build 1363503. I'm finally upgrading the host but...
View ArticleCreate 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...
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