shared iscsi, inaccessible vm's after host reboot -
Looking for a way to make my ESXi setup more robust. I am using three ESXi 5.0 servers in free mode - no HA, no vCenter. I've configured a single iSCSI target with 5 VM's sharing 3TB of...
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IBM x3650 M3 Slow HDD performance?
Hey guys I've been getting puzzled at the slow HDD performance I'm getting when installing Windows Server 2008 in a VM. This is the scenario: I'm creating a VM with these settings:20 GB HDD (SCSI...
View ArticleGuest shows dropped packets but nic does not
I have a quad port gig nic in the host and vcenter shows zero dropped xmit / rcv packets. But in vcenter when viewing each of the guests, I am seeing some dropped receive packets. So far xmit packets...
View ArticleBlog post: How much CPU ready is OK?
How much CPU ready is OK? Checkout my blog post on the topic http://wp.me/p2lYCN-fh
View ArticleESX 5 network drops randomly
I have a new Dell PE R810 that we have deployed ESX on. It is version 5.0. The reason I am using 5.0 is because there was not a hard lock on the maximum physical memory. Server specs...4 x 2.0GHz...
View ArticleHow ESXi detects network card during installation
How does esxi 5.1 detects the network cards ? I am trying to use script (kickstart) installation there are mutliple vlans and different nics cards, I want few nics to bind to Management network and few...
View ArticleUnable to create the datastore form Local Storage
Hi,I have installed Esxi 5.1, when i am trying to create a datastore from local HDD, i am getting the following error "The capacity value must be at least 1.3GB"Please find the attachment for more...
View ArticleManagement and vMotion on same nic
Hi, we are having 10 nics cards in a ESX host. 5 goes to primary switch and 5 goes to secondary switch. Earlier, we had 1. 2 Nics for Service Console2. 2 Nics for vMotion3. 6 Nics for Virtual Machine...
View ArticleESXi and AD authentication
I am configuring my hosts to use AD authentication. I created the ESX Admins AD group and put myself in it. I joined my hosts to AD successfully. I can connect directly to a host using the vsphere...
View ArticleChange default options of a NEW VM in ESXI 5.1
Hello,i am looking for a solution to change the "default" options of a new VM created in ESXI 5.1 I want to have settings like "cpu/Memory HOT-add" default on Enabled instead of Disabled.Maybe there...
View ArticleStorage I/O Control
benefit of storage i/o control on the individual datastore that is not in any datastore cluster
View ArticleESXi 5.0 and older Emulex FC
Just a warning about upgrading or testing ESXi 5.0 on (older) servers with Emulex LP10000-S.(This FC card is not on the HCL list for both Vmware 4 and 5). I have two servers with this working fine...
View Articlevmware host profile host requires reboot before previously applied config...
Hi All, hope this is the correct place for this. I have autodeployed two hosts. I have created the host profile from the reference host and applied it to the second host. This has all been working...
View ArticleSil3124 or 3132 controllers support in ESXi 5.x?
Sil3124 or 3132 controllers support in ESXi 5.x? I found a lot of references to these controllers working in ESXi 4.1, but not ESXi 5.x? Anyone work on this? Have a solution?
View Articletagged SSD device does not show as SSD host configuration storage
Hi, vsphere 5.0 I have tagged a device as SSD using esxcli on the host. When I list the device on the host, it says IS SSD=true but when I look at it in the host configuration->storage it says...
View ArticleMultiprocessor initialization failed - noobie here
Hello First post - I'm a total vmware noobie. I'm trying to install vmware esxi 5.0.0 on an hp xw8400 workstation with a Xeon CPU 5130 and bios v02.38. I don't believe it is on the hcl but it would...
View ArticleEsxi 5.1 + n40L errors
Hello,I am using EsXi 5.1 and followed the instructions in http://blog.davidwarburton.net/2010/10/25/rdm-mapping-of-local-sata-storage-for-esxi/ to mount my hard drives to the VM(Solaris 11)when I ssh...
View ArticleDeleting a Virtual Machine
I have three VM's loaded. The first one i loaded didnt work for whatever reason. Its just sitting there taking up space and resource allocations which im trying to free up. When I select that VM, the...
View ArticleCan anyone advise on ESXi on this laptop..
Hello, Could I please get some advise on installing ESXi on this laptop: http://www.ebuyer.com/411061-zoostorm-laptop-7873-9042 Will it work with the network card? I tried to search on the chipset of...
View ArticleHP xw8400 workstation, integrated sata raid, and vmware esxi 5.1
Good afternoon I'm trying to install esxi 5.1 natively on a hp xw8400 workstation using the integrated sata raid mode as described here:...
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