Broadcom 57810 CNA
I have a Project where the customer has purchased Broadcom 57810 dual 10GB SFP+ CNA adaptors. When ESXi is installed how many NICs will it see by default through one of these and how do I set up the...
View ArticleESXi support for HP R3000 XR battery backup
I have an older HP R3000 XR battery backup. Does anyone have any idea if there is a plugin for ESXi free? I don't have a network management card - only a serial connection. Otherwise I'm assuming I...
View ArticleSlow write perf-only in vmware
I have a rack of dell 2950's that are all cooperating using ESXI5.1 connected to an ISCSI lun on another 2950 running FreeNAS with 6x2TB 7200RPM Seagates. I just added another 2950 with a LSI 9240 that...
View ArticleCom port redirector for ESXi5
HelloI need to redirect the com port from a Windows 2008 VM to a serial device. Has anyone been successful doing this and what have you used? I have purchased a Lantronix EDS4100 device to provide the...
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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
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esxi5 VM won't start after running out of data drive space
Running esxi5.0.1 with the latest patches. VM is running windows 2008 Server standard, C: = 80GB, D:=200GB Both THIN Provisioned (why is water under the bridge). Anyway, there were two snapshots on...
View ArticleCPU Ready Time
I'm trying to understand why I am seeing high CPU ready time. I have a host with 32 physical processors (no HT). I have 8 VMs each with 4 vCPUs so a total of 32 vCPUs. From time to time I see very...
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AutoDeploy - Filename: tramp Could not chain image: Operation not supported
Trying to setup AutoDeploy with vSphere 5.1 on my Dell T310's utilizing the documentation for the Auto Deploy Proof of Concept Setup from the Install and Setup guide. Using Windows DHCP, specified the...
View ArticleGuest network customization via API/script ?
I've been poking around the various myriad APIs and SDKs for about a week, and I can't find the answer to a simple issue: When I clone a template/VM via the GUI or Web client, it gives me the option to...
View ArticleUSB Passthrough cannot connect any longer "Device was not found".
The set up is a Dell R610 with ESXi 5 and a Seagate USB External drive connected locally. I was able to use USB passthrough to connect the drive to an Linux VM, but that OS failed to recognize it so I...
View ArticleLinux vm had a LUN 2 paths to LUN one was missing , then rebooted ESXi and...
Hello There was a VM working fine then i found unable to view or reboot or do anything to so rebooted ESXi and all vms were showing after I tried to power on that vm with no luck and got a message that...
View ArticleDisk reads performance
Hi, I have 4 esxi on Hp servers, with HP A5800 switchces and 2 Lefthand P4500G2 storages with raid5 + 10. On virtual machine I have this values of bench. hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached...
View ArticleCan't open console of virtual machine
Currently I using vSphere Client 5.0.0 build 623373 I try to open console of virtual machine on this host.But I always got error message/ An internal error occurred in vSphere Client.Detail: Exception...
View ArticleRHEL 6 and VMware Tools
Hi All,I have some Linux RHEL 6 servers in a vSphere 5 environment. There's something with RHEL 6 that doesn't start VMware tools automatically. Has anyone run into this? Any thoughts? Thanks!
View ArticleESX5i hypervisor and PowerCLI
I just installed PowerCli on a VM that is hosted by my ESXi5 hypervisor host. When I try to use it...I keep getting errors. It's as if the PowerCLi can not see the host . Am I missing something?...
View ArticleRecent Tasks missing some items
tl;dr: What permissions allow a non-admin user to see tasks? As an admin, I see everything. One of the users recently cloned a VM from a template. It was SDRS'ed around before it was ready, and the...
View ArticleVM Ping/ARP issue
We are having a problem with some of our virtual machines intermittently losing communication with each other, and I’m at a loss as to the source. We have about 250 VM’s running on about 20 HP BL465C...
View ArticleSteps to upgrade to ESXi 5
Hi. I am in a process of upgrading from VmWare ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5. I would like to know if there is a guide which could best describe me the process for doing this, starting with upgrading th vCenter,...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 (914609) not manageable anymore
I made an update from ESXi 5.0 to the build mentioned in the topic.Also a custom VIB was created and installed. After this I made an reboot of the ESXi host. So far so good, ESXi is pingable, VMs are...
View ArticleMgmt network ping test fails.....
I have 2 esxi 5 U2 hosts just spun up. I set the management IP & DNS etc... So when I go to do the "Test Management Network" thing from the console, the ping test for pinging the DNS name fails....
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