2nd Datastore missing after physical Harddisk failure
Dear all, Need some advise for the following; ESX4.1One of the physical harddisk is spoilt on 2nd partition (red light) Replaced with hot swap Using 2 Partition, 3 disks raid 5, 5 disks raid 52...
View ArticleSAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 changer does not appear on the VM's Device manager
Hi All, I have an ESX 4.1 host and a VM that is running Windows 2008R2 OS. And a SAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 and HP SAS controller is pluged in to host machine. On the VM's device manager there is a...
View ArticleMixed memory sizes in Dell R710 to achieve 1333mhz speeds versus 800mhz
We have some Dell R710's that were originally ordered with 48GB in a 12x4GB 1333mhz config (RDIMMs). We ordered 6 additional 4GB 1333mhz memory sticks to fill out all 18 banks for a total of 72GB. The...
View Articlehdparm error on esx-console?
Hello all, after having very poor IO performance on ESX 3.5 update 5 we've just installed ESX 4.1 now when we run hdparm to measure the througput from the esx-console we get a warning...
View ArticleVMXNET2/VMXNET3 boot problems with Microsoft WDS
Hi, We're currently using vSphere 4.0 and we're in the process of migrating our VMs from the nic driver e1000 to VMXNET3. We're also using Microsoft Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to deploy new...
View ArticleESX 4.1 - Unable to Delete Datastore
I have 3 ESX 4.1 servers managed by vCenter ( not clustered ). I have moved all VMs off of ESX1 and am attempting to delete a secondary datastore. The datastore is empty and I have the server in...
View ArticlevMotion background
Hi, When we do a Hot vMotion, what exactly happens at the background. What files is created, what file is moved from where to where, what file is deleted if any applicable? Thanks,jK
View ArticleSCSI Error
I'm building a VM and using the Paravirtual SCSI controller for my additional disks and I keep getting this error after I restart the server. I configured the system using all LSI Logic SAS and did not...
View ArticleDisk out of space - best practices
Hi, running vspher 4.0 update 2 - windows 2008R2 enterprise guests. the log drive 100GB e:\ is quickly running out of disk space and I need to grow it larger.The e: drive LUN is presented by a dell...
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ESX 4.1 U1 - Guest network stops responding
Hi All, Our system has been working fine for 8 months without any issue until installing ESX 4.1 U1 and the latest network driver. We have 2 x HP DL580 G7 each with an inbuilt NC375i Quad port NIC and...
View ArticleMem.VMOverheadGrowthLimit suggested value?
Hi, i've been searching around a lot and I wasnt able to find an answer on what should be the value of this advanced setting: Mem.VMOverheadGrowthLimit We took over an infrastructure and the value of...
View Articlewindows OEM license in virtual environment
i have a physical server with windows OEM license installed. now i want to install ESX on it and leverage the key to install a windows guest OS.i have found a physical key and virtual key with this...
View ArticlevSMP on 12-core AMD/16-core AMD
Hi All, I have been seeing relatively poor performance on a CPU intensive 8-vCPU VM (W2K8) compared to a 4-vCPU VM (W2K8) on a HP DL585-G7 server with 4 x 12-core AMD Opteron 2.1GHz processors. I have...
View ArticleSpecify 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...
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