Adding VM Into Inventory Shows Unknown (invalid)
Hello, First of all Happy new Years to everyone! I recently upgraded my vmware esxi 4.0 server to 5.1. For one reason or another I had to downgrade the OS back to 5.0. This involved installing esxi 5.0...
View Articleupgrade ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.1
Hi All, I have an IBM (x3630 7377) server with a USB key with ESXi 5.0.0 . The usb stick was provided by IBM. The server is in the ESXi 5.1 HCL. I have no HW monitoring (on current ESX 5.0) so I was...
View ArticleQuestion about VMDK read/write requests (IOPS?)
Hi, I see the following metrics under "Virtual Disk" at the VM level Average read requests per secondAverage write requests per second They are defined on the VMWare docs as follows: Average read...
View ArticleOptimum setup scenario for ESXi 5.1
Hi All, Ive got a new DELL T110 II i-3 server that will be used to backup virtual machines on a ESX 4.0 host. Im running ESXi 5.1 from a USB flash drive on an internal slot, but here is where Im...
View ArticlePatch ESXi510-201212401-BG - Network and disk driver problem
Hi, I was experiencing the "purple screen" passthru problem in esx 5.1 and I installed the above patch, recommended to solve this problem. After the installation, all my network drivers vanished and I...
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Cannot view Maximum Size (GB) in properties on server
Hi, I am running a vSphere 5.1 cluster with ESXi hosts version 5.1.0, 799733. If I chooses an "edit settings..." on a server, I can choose "Hard disk 1" on the "Hardware" tab and view a value in...
View ArticleCPU and SMP Question
Hi, I came across the following point in a CPU Best practice document. "Having virtual machines configured with VCPUs that are not used still imposes resource requirements on the ESX server. In some...
View ArticleAPI to convert VHD to VMDK
I need to convert VHD to VMDK programatically. Is there any Java API to convert VHD to VMDK in vCenter SDK? I don't want to convert using tool
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HP Offline Bundle/Installation Media fills /root
Hi Community We have two ESXi Hosts wich runs on HP DL380 G7 Servers. We used the HP Installation Media.Now we are running VDI Clients on this Servers. But they freezes sometimes. that error we get in...
View ArticleFirewall Disable Question
I am having problem keeping my custom firewall when the host reboots. I have the following in /etc/local.profile I have the xml file located on my datastore cp location of xml file/etc/vmware/firewall...
View ArticleCustom firewall configuration not persistent across ESXi host reboot
I have followed the istructions in this KB http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007381 When my host reboots it still does not add my...
View ArticleVirtual Machine moved or copied message after ESXi 5.1 upgrade
I upgraded a ESXi5.0 host to 5.1 and when I rebooted the VMs the all gave me a message about asking if they were moved or copied. I didn't see this on the 4.1 to 4.1U2 upgrade I did last time. Why does...
View ArticleESXi CPU question
I have a server/computer running ESXi 5.1 (was originally set up with 5.0, then upgraded to 5.1, if it makes a difference).I have two VM's on there - a Windows 7 Pro VM, and a CentOS/cPanel VM.I have a...
View ArticleSuspend on Solaris guest not enabled
I am running Openindiana 1.51a7 (Solaris 11 64) and the suspend icon is greyed out. The hist is esxi 5.1.0 799733 and the guest has the lastest vmware tools installed. Other guests have the suspend...
View Articleesxtop replay mode problems
I've been attempting to run esxtop in replay mode to do some studying for VCAP-DCA. My problem is with esxtop in replay mode.As I understand it, you would run the vm-support -s > filename.tgz to...
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Problem with USB WiFi device assignment in ESXi 5.1
Hi,I have a USB WiFi adapter that I would like to pass through to a virtual machine.But I am not able to make this work correctly. My setup is like this:ESXi 5.1.0.799733 running on a Supermicro...
View Articleissues with host profile in 5.0
Hi, I seem to be seeing some strange behaviour on host profiles and autodeploy in 5.0. I have now edited the profile, gone to security and set an administrator password numerous times, applied the...
View ArticleiSCSI in ESXi 5.0 performance poor, MS iSCSI initiator fast
Hi all, I suppose i'm not the only one posting performance issues. I really did try a search, but couldn't find anything usefull. So, here it goes. I have a ESXi 5.0 box configured with a software...
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Memory reclamation with balloon driver in CentOS 6
Hi, I have problem with memory reclamation. See output of free bellow. What I muset set to faster reclamation balloon memory to host? It is LAMP server. [root@wh01 ~]# free -m total...
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