Newly installed ESXi 5.1 on HP DL360p gen 8 gets yellow light
We recently purchased a pair of DL360p gen 8 and install ESXi 5.1 using HP-provided image and everything goes fine. But after logging into it using vSphere client, there is a yellow light says "Host...
View Article"Failed to Lock File" SCSI device keeps VM from starting
Was trying to move a SCSI tape drive from one VM to another. Somehow I think it got locked in limbo. If I add the device to either the new server or the server it was originally on, it fails to start...
View ArticleReduce the Hard disk size allocated by you to the VM
How to Reduced the Hard disk size allocated by you to the VM? Like 100Gb is given by me by mistake i want to reduce it to 50Gb and OS and data is already there in hard disk
View ArticleSupportability statement for ESX 5.1 and VM with 16vCPU
Question:Customer hardware is 4 socket, 16 cores per socket with total of 64 cores. I would like to know if its possible to present 16 vCPU to a VM and how that works with vmware hardware emulation?...
View ArticleThe file table of the ramdisk 'root' is full on ESXi 5.1
Good Afternoon, Since upgrading to ESXi 5.1 last fall, we have been experiencing a problem with the ramdisk filling up on our hosts. I have not yet been able to determine the cause, but when the...
View ArticleHow do you set the location?
I need to sync the times of my ESXi hosts, but when I go to the Configuration tab, then Time Configuration, there is no option for location.Consequently, my hosts have their time set for Pacific Time...
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again PSOD on ESXi 5.0
I have ESXi server (not production yet).Two days ago, the server again stopped with a PSOD with a message saying:After rebooting the server started with no problems, but the server stopped with a PSOD...
View ArticleUnable to bind iscsi port. [force = 0]
any ida why I am not able to bind my iscsi vmk interfaces to the iscsi hba? ~ # esxcli iscsi networkportal add -A vmhba32 -n vmk3Unable to bind iscsi port. [force = 0]~ # esxcli iscsi networkportal add...
View Articlemoving iscsi vswitch to dvswitch
what is the best way to move my iscsi ports currently binded to the iscsi hba from a standard vswitch to a dvswitch? It will not let me move them without unbinding the vmkernel ports
View ArticleGetting the Zimbra appliance onto a VSXi server
I'm trying to install the Zimbra appliance onto a VSXi server through the VMware vSphere Client running on a Windows 7 Workstation The VSXi server is well established here and I'm in fact using this...
View ArticleIs there any issues with VMware ESXi 5.x and SMVI backup/restore when the...
I'm trying to find out if there is any issues with VMware ESXi 5.x and SMVI backup/restore when the VMware NFS datastores are of NetApp LUNs on the same NetApp Volume. Any insights are much...
View Articlehow do i connect openfiler
Hello i am using a testing environment.i have installed vmware workstation 9.On Vmware workstation i have installed vcenter on windows 2003 x64 and i have installed 2 esxi5 servers i have one network...
View ArticleUpdate Manager issues
Can't get updates to stage or remediate on a host... google searching a few things didn't get any results so hopefully someone here can shine some light on my issue. here's the esxuplate.log on the...
View ArticleESXi 5 host shut down from vCenter 5
Hi, I am supposed to shut down one ESXi 5 host in order to add more memory. I know how to do it in vCenter and this is where I am going to do it. But one question is do I have to be in Maintenance...
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multi displays setup
Hi, I have successfully setup ESXi 5.1 and install guest OS Win 7 ultimate x64 after following the steps given in http://communities.vmware.com/message/2177388#2177388. The mobo is GA-Z77x-D3H. The...
View ArticleAdding another cpu
Hi, I chave an esxi 5.1 server with 1x quad core cpu inside. I want to add another quad core so i will have 2x quad core cpu inside. I rang vmware and the lady told me i should be able to do this with...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Disk grows extremely due to large vmware.log
Dear all, We have a couple of Ubuntu 10.04 64 bits guests installed on vSphere 5.0 on two separate physical machines (HP DL380 G5).All servers are running OK, except two specific servers, one on each...
View ArticleDVPort - Manually assign the Port No. while creating VM
Hi, In my set up in once of the VLAN DV Port group there were 128 ports were assigned. Yesterday we found that all the ports have been used, so that we have increased the port counts from 128 - 512,...
View Articlereset Non-FLR pci devices
Greetings, I've got an esxi 5.1 w/patch 1 host running niceley with out any issues but i've got the need to build a win7 vm with a PC DVR card passed through it via DriectPath which i've successfuly do...
View ArticleCannot upgrade virtual hardware v7 to vmx-09
Hi All, I'm trying to upgrade the virtual hardware of version 7 VM.I right click it from the vSphere client and choose "upgrage virtual hardware". And in the taskpane everything seems to be fine, but...
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