Specify virtual disk size beyond 256 GB
I'm editing the seetings on a VM to have another drive.When I create a disk I select the disk size, 1TB. I point to the datastore location of LUN 30 (2TB).When I click next I get the following message:...
View Articlenetwork error on x3850
HiI am receiving the following errors on all our IBM 3850 in our cluster: Task: Remove snapshot info 03/05/2012 10:06:57 virtaul-machine AD\VMNBThe port 570 link was up in the vNetwork Distributed...
View ArticleHow to add a LUN storage into the rhel guest(the iscsi has attached to...
Firstly,I have no concept about the kinds of storage,so the questions seems stupid,please forgive me.I have two questions?<1>add a LUN storage into rhel guestI have mounted the iscsi storeage...
View ArticleAfter P2V, Windows 2003 cannot open control panel
Hi All, I ran a P2V last weekend. The Phycical Server is a Windows 2003 Standard Server and improted it to ESX. The P2V seems to complete successfully; but when a Domain User logs on they cannot open...
View Articlevmware 4.1 and hooking up 2 different iscsi SAN units
I am stumped. Ive got a 4.1 enviroment that is using 2 SAN units 1 is a SATA SAN isolated on its own pswitch using iscsi on 10.10.10.1 all running over the software iscsi adapter...over 1gbe...
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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...
View ArticlePast few days all guests have slowed to a crawl.
For some reason, in the past few days, all the guests on my esx box have slowed to a crawl. According to the resources though, I have plenty left. I have about 25 machines but I have 48GB of ram. THe...
View ArticleBest Practice to install VMware Tools
Dear Team, I want to install / upgrade VMware tools on Rhel and SUSE Linux VM, have following queries on the same 1) Before installing / upgrade VMware tools shall i take a clone or snapshot first, if...
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 ArticleOpenManage 6.5 on Dell PowerEdge 6800 does not seen physical disks (VMware...
I have a Dell PowerEdge 6800 server which running vmware esx 4.1, i've installed OpenManage 6.4 to monitor the physical devices in the server, but in the Storage option of the OM 6.5, it does not show...
View ArticleVMWare tools ESX 4 for Windows 7 x64
I'm trying to install VMWare tools for Windows 7 x64 on ESX 4. The OS installed just fine, but when I try to load the tools I get almost all of the way there and then get the error: Error: 25030....
View ArticlePage Fault exceptions since upgrading to vSphere 4
I've filed an SR about this but I'm still working through the 'maybe it's your hardware' stuff with the support reps. We upgraded one of our ESX 3.5 hosts to ESX 4 and ran for a couple of days with no...
View ArticleChanging block size of datastore from 1 MB to 4 MB
Hi, I've installed an ESX. The system automatically partition to have the block size of 1 MB which is 256 max virtual hardisk. How can I change to 4 MB Block Size taking into consideration there...
View ArticleWindows Guest disk defrag necessary? VSphere 5.x
Is there a recommended solution for defragging disks on Windows guests in this type of environment? --- VSphere, ESXi, Version 5, using iSCSI SAN environment (both RDM and LUN to LUN utilized), Windows...
View ArticleResources currently in use by other operations. waiting
I am getting this message when vmotioning a machinbe to different host. Also a svmotion is currently running too.
View ArticleConvert using cold clone process into VMware Workstation
hi We would like to convert a physical Unix in our Branch abroad using cold clone process with VMware Converter.In this Branch, there is no ESX, so we will try to convert into VMware Workstation.Then...
View ArticleProblems PXE Booting ESX 4.1 VMWare - Error "0xc0000001"
I am trying to PXE boot a VM that is running on ESX 4.1 and while the VM is booting up the PXE image I get the error seen in the attached screenshot. The VMs that I am trying to PXE have either the...
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...
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 ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Slow Mouse After Sysprep
So,I know installing VMware's WDDM driver in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\wddm_video will fix slow mouse problems normally and it does. I've installed this into a VM and converting this...
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