Hi all,
I'm new in this forum and have just installed vSphere ESXi 5.1 (free version) for testing. Now I have tried to migrate one physical and two new virtual machines onto the server. the migrated system (SLED 10) is running but is not able to retrieve a DHCP IP . When I configure it staticaly everything is fine. But that's not the prefered way in our infrastructure. What wrong?
Thanks in advance!
Best,
Gregor
Hi,
To begin with, sorry for my bad english.
I wish to know if it is possible to install ESXi on the material listed below :
Is the raid 1 fully compatible with the version 5.1 of ESXi ?
Are the 2 NIC recognized without any "hacking/patching" of the installation ?
Potentially, the ESXi will virtualize 4 win2008r2 servers (one of them will be a RDS Broker with about 10 clients), 3 debian and some Win7 and 8 OS (only for testing).
Thanks a lot for your advice !
Good morning,
I just wanted to share information on how I resolved an issue with "Host Hardware Voltage" errors across several of my blades in case anyone else comes across the same issue.
One of my virtual datacenters contains the same blades we use throughout our environment, same firmware, same vSphere version(821296), and the same enclosures. However, the blades in this environment keep throwing "Host Hardware Voltage" errors in relation to the CMOS battery.
Speaking with VMware support, it was agreed that since all firmware is equal across my environment, that I should upgrade the CIM providers that IBM provides for the IBM HS22V blades. This did not resolve the issue.
Yesterday, the 11th, IBM released new firmware for the Integrated Management Module which is responsible for reporting hardware data back to the vSphere host. Despite nothing being in the release notes about resolving voltage threshold issues, I flashed to 1.35 from 1.33 this morning and my issue is resolved.
This screenshot illustrates what I was seeing. For some reason, the UpperThreshold is set to 0. You will see with 1.35 firmware, there is no longer an UpperThreshold even listed.
EDIT: I want to make a correction, at first I mentioned other blades in my environment did have the 1.33 IMM firwmare, in fact, they did not, only these new blades I built a few weeks ago did. I'm going to do some testing, but it sounds like the 1.33 IMM firmware may be the cause of this issue.
I hope this helps anyone else that comes across a similar issue.
Dear all,
I am reading the document Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service in order to understand to design a clustered setup spread over several ESX hosts running vSphere 5.0 Enterprise.
Any idea what is the best setup?
My suggestion was:
* 2 VM's running Win2K8 R2 - SQL 2008 R2 Active Passive cluster - vm's are running on RAID10 iSCSI box
* Present dedicated Volume via MS iSCSI initiator to 2 vm's to host SQL Database - also running on RAID10 iSCSI box
However this guide mentioned Pass-through RMD disks on clusters across physical machines and also mentioned clustering on iSCSi disks is not supported ...
Kind regards,
Kenny
I got a purple screen when I start up a vm with a pci device
With Esxi5 was working fine.
I tested it with 2 vm on different hosts ( but same hardware)
i7 2600 32gb
mb: dq67sw
What can I try
I have a Windows VM that I ported over from Virtual Box. I told Virtual Box to export as "OVA 9.0". Added to VM inventory on the ESXi host and booted it up. After playing with the VM for a little bit, I decided to reset the virtual machines power. Upon reset of the VM, the entire ESXi 5.1 host to PSODs on me. Any idea why this would happen? I did it 3 times in a row to make sure it was the only resaon for PSOD.
This clip below is all in the same second that the host crashes.
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Hi, I have been trying to figure out why there is insufficient resources to power just one small VM in my vSphere cluster.
2 X ESXi 5.1 hosts
Each host has
2 X Processors (8 cores each) with HT enabled
192GB RAM
vSphere HA has been turned on.
Admission Control Policy set to "Host failures the cluster tolerates" with the value of 1.
Created a VM with 2GB vRAM and 1 vCPU. No memory and CPU reservation.
I put one of the host into maintenance mode and try to power on the VM but it failed to power up with the "Insufficient resources to satisfy configured failover level for vSphere HA" error.
Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Alex
Hi Everyone,
I was hoping to replace my ESXI 5.0 host (DQ45CB Core4Quad) with a DQ57TM (Core -7 860), both systems have 8GB of memory. I was able to boot from the CD and install ESXi 5.1, but upon reboot it starts to load ESXi and it stops at Loading /onetime.tgz. The only optin at this point is a hard reboot.
I have the latest BIOS release 50 and I tried another system with BIOS release 38. BIOS is configured with defaults, but with UEFI Booting enabled. Anyone have any suggestions ?
I can upgrade the Core2Quad to ESXI 5.1 and use the Core i7 for Windows 8.
Best Regards,
Paul
I've acquired a new ESX environment with a job change, trying to wrap my head around what was done in the past so have a question re: BBWC...
vCenter 5.0
Host consists of one 3.5, most are 4.1 and some 5.0
100% Local Storage, no SAN as of yet.
Trying to determine if my hosts have BBWC installed. Short of cracking the case which I can't do since all my hosts are at a remote location.
When I look at the "Hardware Status" some list "Battery" while some don't.
If BBWC IS INSTALLED...is there any way or reason why it wouldn't show up in the Hardware tab?
Is there a command within ESX4.1 / 5.0 that I can run that will tell me if BBWC is connected?
I was once told that "Without write-cache you might see ~5-10MB/s compared to ~80-100 MB/s with BBWC/FBWC", however what Performance counter should I be looking at. Again, this is ALL local storage.
Datastore? - don't think this since all I see there are latency rates
Disk? - And if disk, what object? the <servername>? and then what measurement, guessing Write Rate?
If there is an easier way to find out, I am all ears...
Hi, I do not currently use resource pools but often feel I should look more in to it. On our four node 5.1 cluster we have 16 web servers (among other VM's) that are exactly the same and perform the same function. I was wondering if those would be good candidates to add to a resource pool so they can grab resources as needed? I tend to statically overcommit the RAM and CPU on those "just in case", but maybe that is foolish if there is a better way. Thank you.
HI
I am new in Vmware . I have started practise in Esxi 5. Now i want to upgrade my self in Command line .So can u please help me to learn Command line for Vmware .
Regards
Sumit Sharma
Hi,
I have installed vCenter server 5.1 in one physical machine. Using vCenter converter I am taking backup of my vCenter server. It is working ok. But after p2v when I start my virtual machine, vCenter server is not working even ODBC conncection is fine.
Can anybody suggest that any setting I need to do for that.
Thanks
I want to monitor the raid status of my esxi 5.0 system within the vSphere client. Afaik the built in controller is an adaptec 5405 (http://www.adaptec.com/de-de/downloads/vmware/vmware_esx/productid=sas-5405&dn=adaptec+raid+5405.html). On the adaptec website are only drivers for vphere 4.1.
I searched on the vmware website and found a couple of driver packages here: https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/searchresults/?client=my_download&site=my_download&proxystylesheet=my_download_en&gsa_lang=en&c=All&q=adaptec+5405
Does anybody know if one of these drivers will allow me to monitor the raid status within the vSphere client?
I am using windows 2003 active directory.
first I install a esxi 5.0 without vCentor, and config to use AD authentication.
when login in the with the vSphere Client, I check the "use windows session credentials" box, it can login.
now, I install a esxi 5.1, the same config as the esxi 5.0.
but when login in the with the vSphere Client, I check the "use windows session credentials" box, it can not login.
the login format is : "domain-name\user-name"
if I type uncheck the "use windows session credentials" box, and type the use name as "user-name@domain-name", and the user active directory's password, it can login.
it is my problem or the esxi 5.1 problem?
We have two ESXi 5.0 clusters that are connected to two unique HP 24K SANs and those SANS are replicated between each other. We have a need to transfer all of the VMs from one Cluster to the other. The idea was that we would use SAN replication to block copy the LUNs from one SAN to the other and present them to the cluster on the other side. We have done this and the ESXi hosts can see the storage but when I try to add them as a datastore the only option I have available is to format the LUN. It seems as if it is not reading the file system on the replicated datastore. The DS's are formatted with VMFS 5 and the SAN is back in Simplex mode after the replication. Has anyone seen this before or will this not work for some reason? Any ideas?
Hi all,
vSphere client remembers all connections that it ever had made, even those to servers that are gone for a long time.
Where is that information stored? I checked the registry and could not find it.
Olaf
Can anyone tell me Use Case Scenario of IQN and EUI?
Hi,
I have a ESXi 5.1.0 799733 server which hosting three VMs (one is AD+SQL2008R2, one is a SharePoint 2010, one is XPP3+Veeam+Vsphere).
I am trying the free Veeam Backup but it failed on two manual backup (I attached a 2TB harddisk to the ESXi HOST and the XPP3 VM use it as a E: drive)
Veeam reported that the SharePoint2010VM is 150GB and the exteranl USB HDD is 2TB
Please advise
If possible, please share your Backup software / solution...
On top, I am considering to either acquire the Essential Plus or the Essential (as they included the Data Protection software ?). Any comment on this ??
Thanks in advance ...
Looking to enable jumbo frames on several of our ESXi 5.0.0 VM's which are doing iSCSI to an IBM Gen2 XIV.
The XIV supports jumbo frames -- but only at MTU 4500 rather than the more common 9000.
Our VM's are using vmxnet3 vNICs and these apparently only lets us choose between an MTU size of 1500 and 9000. Any way to adjust this to 4500? Would 9000 work and just auto-drop down to 4500 at the TCP/IP level thanks to MSS? Should we use the E1000 driver instead which appears to have more MTU size options?
Thanks!
Hi guys,
I installed a new 5.1 ESXi Server from Scratch and there is no network activity!
Through boot process I can see the Intel E1000 driver is loaded.
The physical Link is up and shown correctly on Console too.
But there is no way to ping another host!
The Server was running with 5.0 before without any issues...
It happens with another Testserver too. Both with Intel Nics that were supported in 5.0.
Is there a new trick to get it work? ;o)
I gave it a static address...
Thx for any suggestions.
CAT