newly added disk is not visible inside /dev/
Hi All, I am a newbee to ESX. Now we are developing a non PCI storage device (RAMDisk) driver for ESXi 5.0 . 1. Normally in Linux we can see the available disks and hardwares inside the /dev/...
View ArticleVmware ESXi 5.0 Pci passthrough gives LINT1 motherboard interupt
Hello , I have installed Vmware Esxi 5.0 update 1 on my server and on top of that I am running windows 2008 R2 as a guest operating system. Initially everything was fine but when i tried to passthrough...
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Error by passthrough pci netcard Intel82579LM on Fujitsu server
Hello!I try to enable passthrough mode for netcard as on picture below.After restarting server, it assigned on free VM, without OS.VM start and on server displayed message as on second picture.Is it...
View ArticleNo snapshot in Snapshot Manager but have growing delta-file
Hi, Today I ran out of space on my vSphere 5 host but I couldn't figure out why at first because I had the drive in Thick Provisioning and it was just half-full.I started to look around and couldn't...
View ArticleCan ESXi 5.1 VM runs on ESXi 5 Hosts ?
Hi, We have updated one of the ESXi Hosts to Release 5.1. VMs running on that Host are updated with the latest VMWare Tools as well. However, we have to migrate one VM to a cluster of ESXi 5 Host. We...
View ArticleUSB Passthrough 5.1
Hi all, Just upgraded to 5.1 and now the USB passthrough is having some strange problems. One of the machines is a file server and I pass a USB RDX drive through for backups, but its started...
View ArticleAdd Host Cluster in Datastore Cluster
How can i add Host/HostCluster in Datastore Cluster after the datastore cluster is created. I Know we can add it at that time when you are creating the datastore cluster but how can we add it once it...
View ArticleCores, vCPU and Windows
I've read a bunch about cores and vCPU but have a question I have a server with 2 physical processors each with 6 cores. in vCenter I see 12 CPUs. So far so good. Can I put 2 CPU with 3 cores ( 6...
View ArticleAMD bulldozer
Hi, We are in the process of going to vmware esxi 5 update1. We have built two new hosts, both running AMD opteron 6238 (bulldozer) and 128GB RAM. We have around 20 VMs (mainly windows) running on...
View ArticleCollecting performance information
I need to collect performance information (i.e. memory counters, CPU counters and so on) for a long period (days and weeks) in order to analyze them.What is the best tool I can use to collect...
View ArticleProblems with VMware Replication
We're having a bit of trouble with the VMware Replication. What we're trying to do is to have VMs replicating between hosts at the same site so we can quickly should we have a host failure (something...
View ArticleLSI 9266-4i cim problem
Having a very strange problem. I have the latest vib installed and everything works fine. I can see the card under the health status using the vsphere client and I can connect from a remote workstation...
View ArticleIs the the inside H/W compatible w/ ESXI 5 ?
HiI plan upgrade my PC and buy some new stuff for entering to vSphere 5 world and I will buy the follwoing: ProcessorIntel i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHZ 8MB cache MBGigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H socket 1155...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 95% Power On when using FC HBA Storage
I have 2 boxes, a PE2900 with openfiler and a QLA2642 and a PE2950 with esxi 5 (no u1) and a QLA 2460. I have a FC setup with LUN 0 pointing to a VG on the openfiler box. I can read and write to the...
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Problems doing a v2v from ESXi 4 to 5
Hi Guys, I am having problems migrating a vm from a ESXi 4 host to a ESXi 5 host using vmware converter. So, I installed the newest available version 5.0 for converter and found out that it crashes...
View ArticleSchedule VM's to restart...
Hello, I have the need to restart certain VM's on a regular basis. There are three in particular. My question is; How do I set up a schedule to restart each of the VM's. I would also like to create...
View Articledatastore/memory overcommit questions
I' use Alan Renouf's vCheck to receive a daily cluster health report. It reports how much overcommit I have for datastores and memory. What is the best way to know how much datastore storage is really...
View ArticleVM Ping/ARP issue
We are having a problem with some of our virtual machines intermittently losing communication with each other, and I’m at a loss as to the source. We have about 250 VM’s running on about 20 HP BL465C...
View ArticleIntel DQ57TM and ESXi 5.1 - total lockup at Loading/onetime.tgz
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...
View ArticleBackups fail after upgrading from v5 to v5.1
Hello Everyone, Recently we upgraded our vCentre & ESXi boxes from v5 to v5.1, then upgraded guests tools to latest version. Since then, our linux machines back up ok, but we have not been able to...
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