Monitoring VM network
Hi, I just installed ESXi 5.1 and try to monitor virtual machine. I can't find where I can get the incoming and transmitted bytes count for a virtual machine port. I found how to get it for a physical...
View ArticleMoving from PXE to gPXE causes fatal error: 10 (out of resources)
Folks, I have four servers with 16Gb RAM for which I had a PXE install environment. The PXE environment used DHCP, TFTP, PXE and then HTTPD for kickstart.All four servers instaled correctly every...
View ArticleVirtual Machine disk consolidation needed
I have an issue with a linux VM. VDR bit me again. Thanks to the wonderful reporting in VDR (haha) I did not realize the appliance still has vmdk's still attached to it from my VM. This is where I am...
View ArticleCreating a linked clone in VMware ESXi
In VMware Workstation I can create a 2linked clone" of an exisating VM saving time and disk space.Is the same feature available in VMware ESXi?Regardsmarius
View ArticleGrow System Datastore
I am added a new drive to my main raid 0 virtual disk to increase the size of the primary datastore.I followed this guide since there are special instructions due to it also being the system...
View ArticleError registering VCenter Server 5.0
I'm getting an error "VMWare ESX and VMWare ESXi hosts are not supported with Vsphere Web Client 5.1.0" (see screenshot) when I'm trying to register my Vcenter Server with Vspher administration...
View Articlelsi 9260-8i and esxi 5.1
i've installed esxi 5.1 as a virtual machine on usb stick using vmware workstation 9.0. everything went smoothly and then downloaded vsphere client after configuration of esxi 5.1. in the configuration...
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Storage Addition Challenge
Hello, I am trying to show my company the benefit of utilizing VMware. I recently installed ESXi 5 on an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 (service tag 2M214102KB). The server currently has 6 SAS HDDs in a RAID 1...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 free on a 2 processors, 32 GB RAM HP Server?
Hi, I have ESXi 5 free edition installed on a HP DL380 G7 with 2 processors (total of 12 cores) and 32 GB of RAM.If I upgrad it to ESXi 5.1 free edition will I be able use all the hardware I'll have to...
View ArticleEXSI V5u1 on Dell 2850 Not Working
Hey guys, I am tring to install this os on my poweredge 2850 off USB and I know its a 64bit cpu yet when it gets to the end of the install if flags with a pink screen and says this install requires a...
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vmware with public ip?
Hello, Just wondering if it makes any sense to put out a management network interface to the internet securely or not. The problem (not a problem btw a really good thing) : I have my gateway/firewall (...
View ArticleVMWare product that supports promiscuous mode
We have Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V which doesnt support promiscuous in the Virtual NIC / Switch...I am trying to find an alternative in VMWare that supports promiscuous mode in the NIC /...
View ArticleESXi 5 single iSCSI vs multiple iSCSI
Hello, I am new to ESXi, recently I setup new server ESXi 5.1, my hardware conf. is:MB: Intel DQ77MK (2x 1Gb NIC)i5-3470T32 Gb RAM1Gb NIC (intel 82574L)1Gb NIC (intel 82574L) - VMKernel Port for iSCSI...
View ArticleVMware Tools Installation under Collax on VMware ESXi 5.1.0
See a detailed howto (in german) how to install VMware Tools under a Collax VM v 5.5.x VMware Tools Installation under Collax on VMware ESXi 5.1.0...
View ArticlevMotion Fails At 14%
Hi Everyone, Having a bit of a strange issue with vMotion today. It's been working in my lab for months, and was still working fine after I upgraded to 5.1 last week. Now, today, for whatever reason,...
View ArticleCan't start vSphere Client
I moved a VM from a 4.1 U2 host to a 5.1 host and now I can't start the vSphere Client on that VM (Server 2008 R2). I am getting the following error - 'The type initializer for...
View ArticleHA detected that this host network isolated from cluster
Hello , HA detected that this host network isolated from cluster" i am facing this issue and not able to ping this server ,not able to reconnect to vcenters but VM running on this host were able...
View ArticleRead part of resource management, few q's about CPU resources
Hi, I dont have a solid ground in infrastructure however i like to dabble at home with virtualisation. At my work one of our app's that we "own" uses a SQL server guest which is constantly suffering...
View ArticleESXi 5 port mirroring (possible)?
Hi All: Is it possible to configure port mirroring on a virtual switch on ESXi 5? I heard the feature is supported on vSphere. I would like to mirror traffic between guest OS's as well as between...
View Articlevmware tools under osx 10.8 keeps crashing on esxi 5.1
hello, i have installed esxi 5.1 on a macpro (finally supported) and it works like a charm. installed an osx mountain lion virtual machine.but when installing the vmware tools, it shows the virtual...
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