ESX5.0 Windows 2008R2 VM Hangs
We recently deployed a Windows 2008 R2 VM in our environment. The server is also running Microsoft SQL and Microsoft SCCM. We have noticed that the server tends to hang or freeze every couple of days...
View ArticleActive Monitoring VMWare ESXi Host
Hi all, I want to monitor a VMWare ESXi Host in a active manner. In other words, I want that this host send performance informations to my monitor machine instead of my monitor machine ask for these...
View ArticleHP Flex 10 - Received Dropped Packets
VMware Community, We are having a strange issue, which so far VMware/HP support has not been able to solve. We have an environment where we are using 2 x 10GBps and 2 x 9Gbps adapters on a single DVS....
View ArticleESXi 5.0 & DELL R720 Network Connectivity Loss
Ok there have been a lot of threads about trying to get the Dell R720 working with the Broadcom 5720 daughter card. You can inject the drivers post build or you use the DELL recovery cd...
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SSD cache + iSCSI storage
Hello, I was just wondering if I could a setup like this:ESXI 5 on USBiSCSI for storageSSD for cacheIf that is possible, how can I do it?Thanks
View ArticleMaximum Performance - 1 Socket / 4 Cores / 8 Logical Processors
Variations on this question are asked fairly often, but I'd like to get further clarification for my scenario. I have an ESXi 5.1 test server with a single i7-3720QM processor, with 4 cores, and 8...
View ArticleGroups missing after upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0 Update01 b623860
I did my first upgrade to 5.1 yesterday on a test system and all that appears to be wrong is this situation. Anyone have any thoughts?
View ArticleHow to retrieve data returned by a target using vmk apis?
I am a newbie to VMWare plug-in development. I have written code to issue a SCSI READ 10 command to a target. After allocating memory for all the variables, I am calling vmk_CreateSCSICommand() to give...
View ArticleVMware ESXi on Hs23 blade server IBM
Hello all Im facing some issues while installing ESXi on my HS23E blade servers, it gets stuck in the middle of the installation, mostly on TG3 modules, is there any way i can get this sorted out, is...
View ArticleDeploying OVF Template in ESXi v5.1
Hello All, I am trying to deploy an OVF template that was created from a Windows XP SP3 VM in VMWare Workstation v9.0.1 to an vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) v5.1 located on a Dell Poweredge server. Every...
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Couldn't shrink vmdk with converter
I've red a lot of posts on how shrink a vmdk, but I don't know how to proceed. I have a 450GB vmdk containing only 40GB, ESXi 5.0 U2 and 2 datastore (500GB + 250GB). So this is what i've done: i've...
View Article/dev/sda sdb disk to vm disk mapping
how do I find out which vmdk disk is mapped to which /dev/sdxx disk on linux?
View ArticleEsxi5 has no ifconfig
I would like to test ESXi5 hypervisor. I wanted to test some of the commands I'm used to and immediately discovered that I could not use ifconfig. Where is ifconfig?
View ArticlevSphere Client cannot connect to ESXi Server on Workstation 9
I am setting up a vm lab for testing at my home. I installed Workstation 9 on my home PC with Windows XP Professional, and installed ESXi in Workstation 9, then I installed vSphere Client on the same...
View ArticleESX Host Max Network Throughput Ether-channel
HI all..I have a question regarding Maximizing throught put of my ESX servers..For those intensive applications like SCCM when 1000 clients try to get Updates simultaniously... I have been reading up...
View ArticleMultiple .vmdk but No Snapshots
ESXi5.14 VMs One of my VMs has multiple .vmdk files, as follows: sf2000-2.vmdk 84GBsf2000-2-000001.vmdk 84GB eager zeroed thicksf2000-2-000002.vmdk 84GB eager...
View ArticleSoftware iSCSI HBA, NetApp, and NIC failover (*crash*)
Hello - I am vSphere newbie and reading thru all documentation. Ran into crash situation on ESXi 5.1 host yesterday: 1. NetApp storage on backend direct-connect to SAN switch. NetApp filer heads setup...
View ArticleESXi 5.X drivers
I am trying to find how to identify the default drivers included with ESXi 5.X and how they compare to 3rd party drivers such as HP-Offline bundle. I understand the HP-Offline bundle will have enhanced...
View ArticleVMware Tools event log 1000
I just upgraded from esxi 5.0 to 5.1 to get rid of constantly crashing VMtools on my 2008r2 terminal server. Well, errors are back, just in different form. At first I got this:[ warning]...
View Articlewill ESXi run on server with more than 32 GB memory?
I understand ESXi 5.1 is limited to/capped at 32 GB of memory, but will it run on a host if it does have more than 32 GB of memory?
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