vicfg-vmknic and vicfg-vswitch not available?
I have (2) ESX 4.1 servers. Neither one allows vicfg-vmknic or vicfg-vswitch commands to work from command line -- yet the iSCSI guide tells me to use those... Issuing those commands results in...
View ArticleHow do i get the SAN ports ESX is able to see?
I am trying to get details on how to get the SAN ports (WWNs) that ESX can see. I know I can check the LUNs which are available, but I am more interested in SAN port WWN than LUN information. This is...
View ArticlevMotion with Raw Device Mappings ESX 4.1?
Is this possible yet? I have a customer running a management VM on an HBA equipped server that needs to talk to an EMC backend. There are two ESX hosts in the cluster with HBA cards. Is this a good...
View ArticleSound Card on vmware esx 4.1
Would it be possible to add a soundcard to esx 4.1 host and share them with Windows VMs ? Thanks
View ArticleNo space left on device
hello,Im newbie here.. I wanna ask about "No space left on device". im setup VM ESX4 8MB block. Im was setup samba server for recent space in my storage. This server use on lan only. when i copy my old...
View ArticleLooking for detailed info on Config.Defaults.cpuidMask.mode.1.eax
Looks like it mask the CPUID, but why would you want to do that? What do the different settings mean? "mask, clobber" Google hasn't been much help.
View ArticleESX 4x with IBM TS3100 Tape Library through FiberChannel
Here is my current setup:ESX 4.0 U2 or ESX 4.1 U1 (neither works)IBM Blade HS22Tape Library TS3100QLogic Fiber Channel We have tried reformat the same server earlier with Windows Server 2008 R2 and it...
View Articleunable to connect to vCentre server and to Host
Need urgent help from anyone........my environment conprises of 3 hosts ESX4.1 and vCentre 4.1currently I can ping vCenter but cannot RDP to the virtual machine,, cannot connect to the host using...
View ArticleUnable to create large iscsi volumes on ESX
Hi All, I have 2 brand new fresh install ESX 4.1 u1 servers directly connected to fresh install HP P2000 iscsi storage.HP Storage has 4 1gb iscsi ports.They are:PortA1: 10.0.0.1PortA2: 10.0.0.2PortA3:...
View ArticleVM 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 ArticleNetperf/Netserver working in one direction only
Hi, I have setup two ESX hosts and I am running two VMs in them. Now what happens is that if I run netserver in one particular VM and netperf in another particular VM, it says: establish_control: are...
View ArticleWindows 2003 basic disk 0, c drive expansion revisited.
All, I have a Windows 2003 Standard VM with the following configuration; Basic Disk 0 - C 30GB, D 5GBBasic Disk 1 - E 20GB What is being requested is to expand C from 30 to 60GB and E from 20 to 60GB....
View ArticleGetting a availability Report for the ESX-Host
Hello Everyone, my Teamleader wants a report from the ESX-Host to Show the Availability about the full runningtime since the Installation. For the beginn we used the report saved/created on every host...
View ArticleServer is not responding
Hi, Today when i looked for server status, one of the server was in disconnected state. Tried connecting directly through vsphere client & putty - it didn't help. When I connected physical console...
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 Articleone host in my cluster gives me problems FS3: 3001 FS3: 3099
I have the strangest phenomenon I would like to share and hopefully get solved. For a couple of weeks I have one host in my cluster wich doesn't show his cpu in the vcenter or even in the viclient....
View Articlevmotions failing at 78% - a general system error occurred source detected...
Hi everyoneAfter upgrading from vmware 3.5 to vsphere 4.1, we are experiencing lots of vmotion failures ( VM tools are up to date and VM's HW are at level 7).The error message is :a general system...
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ESX on HP Blades using Virtual Connect
I have two HP c Class blade chassis, configure in a stacking link via Virtual Connect. I am looking for some input here. We don't have LACP on the ports where these chassis are connected into, we were...
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 ArticleVM’s DNS registration deleted when upgrade VMtools
Hello. We're having issues in one environment with some Windows VMs. I'm going to explain the scenario: Previous scenario:- All the hosts were ESX 4.0.- VMs had several E1000 NICs.- VMware Tools were...
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