esx 5.1 phys switch
helo, i am new to this world. i want to connect one esx 5.1 and one with win 2008 r2 with hp procurve 2800 series.what can i do to connect with switch.configure the switch ?because i cannot see esx...
View Articleunmapped lun and remapped now showing as inactive
I unmapped a lun and then remapped to a esx cluster but now all the hots are showing this lun as inactive. tried rescanning all hbas and refreshing but still showing as inactive. any ideas?
View Articleesxi and gtx680
Hello.I understand that there is no official support, but I want to try and I need help.My test systemP8Z77-VCore i7-3770VGA-adapter GeForce GTX680 (display connected on DVI)ESXi 5.1 Test on Windows 7...
View ArticleIs ESXi/vSphere the right product for me?
Hi:I am new here and don't have experience with VMware, so I respectfully request patience if my questions are simple or inapproriate for this particular sub-forum. We have an internal test lab that...
View ArticleHP r/t3000 and ESXi 5.0
Hello, I have a question about shutdown the virtual machines and free version of ESXi 5.0 with my HP R/T 3000. The HP Power Manager is install on Windows server 2008 R2 and also connected with USB...
View ArticleSCP SSH not working between ESXi hosts
Hello, I have two servers with ESXi 5, both I can access through ssh (putty) but I if try prompt the one of ESXi5 to other ESXi I can´t access, my ping works, I try use SCP between two but don´t work,...
View ArticleNumber of VM s per cpu and core
hi all, im currently working on esx and esxi i'm working via GUI adminstration. I'm not that deep in to esxi virtualization. My doubt it how many guests can i create on a server with 2 cpu and 4 cores...
View ArticleUSB Boot - Logging to Datastore
We recently upgraded to ESXi 5.0 U1 and are utilizing booting to USB. For this reason, we have chosen to have our logs redirected to a datastore on our SAN. My understanding was that all we needed to...
View ArticleghettoVCB does not work in ESXi 5.1
Hi there I have a problem with ghettoVCB. When i try to backup a virtual machine it fails with following output: /ghettoVCB # ./ghettoVCB.sh -f vms_to_backup -g ghettoVCB.confLogging output to...
View Articlemultiple networks in single vswitch.
hi, i have around 4 esx4.1 hosts, each has it's own network, recently due to my requirement i had to migrate one or two vms to another host, may be due to resources and other reasons, but there should...
View ArticleLocal Storage Question
Is there a way for me to determine how the local storage on one of my ESXi5 hosts was configured / allocated? I have one HP DL host that has 8 local 146 gig drives and I have a need to re-create the...
View ArticlePSOD on Dell R515 BIOS 2.0.2 - ESXi 5.0 Updatetd
Hi, today i had a Purple Screen on a new Dell R515 with the latest BIOS (2.0.2).We bought 2 of these machines in 2012 with BIOS 1.10.0 and had no problems. Yesterday i installed 2 additional R515 with...
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Replacing Current Switches and General Config
We are currently in the process of replacing our current switches used for iSCSI/vMotion. The original config of how things are arranged and connected is pretty bad, and I wanted to fix this. I would...
View ArticlevSphere web client OSX plugin
hi, when will the firefox or safari or chrome plugin for the web client to view the remote console of a vm for OSX be available? The new web client looks great and a perfect sollution for us as a mac...
View ArticleESXi 5 Storage DRS
We are implementing Storage DRS for a two host vSphere 5 (HP Image 5.0.0 623860). This is connecting to a P2000 FC MSA. To conserve space we were considering thin-provisoning the OS C: vmdks. Research...
View ArticleCan't connect to guest - Server 2012 - on ESXi
I have my first ESXi installation working and I installed server 2012. I enabled remote access and it told me it made the firewall modifications. I can't ping the server nor can I remote access it....
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Intergrating Esxi 5.1 With Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory
Trying to intergrate esxi 5.1 with Active Directory, my domain is everytime I enter it I get. DNS is set correctly
View ArticleBooting ESXi from USB performance
Hello, I've read a few times that once booted most of ESXi is loaded into memory so the performance of the boot media is not so important once it's up and running. Would this be fair to say? Has anyone...
View ArticleKickstart Troubleshooting - Static IP - ESXi 5
I cannot seem to set a static IP address in the "firstboot" section of my kickstart script. Everything else-- DNS, Hostname, Local datastore name, etc-- works great. The servers always come up using...
View ArticleHP4300 G2 SAN and getting a 10gb nic
hey all. We are looking at getting more performance out of our san. Currently we have 4 HP DL 360's running ESX 5.1 with around 40 vm's. On the network side for the san each ESX host has 2 nic's on the...
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