Host agent Pre-Upgrade Checker error
I am preparing to upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5 update 1. When I run the Host Agent Pre-upgrade Checker and it scans all 8 of my Host it gets a connection error on each one. It does not give you very...
View ArticleAccess to resource settings on the host is restricted to the server 'x.x.x.x'...
Attempting to create a new vm on an ESXi 5 host using vSphere API produces the following error:"Access to resource settings on the host is restricted to the server 'x.x.x.x' which is managing it." This...
View ArticleSlow Performance Storage on VNXe3300
Hi people,we have a cluster with 3 hosts (ESXi 5.0.0 623860) and EMC VNXe3300 (sw 2.1.3) connected to same switch (Juniper ex4200) in bonding (2 Gbit). Performance during vMotion, Storage vMotion and...
View ArticleESXi - free version
Hi , Can any one please provide me a link for official documentation where I can find the limitation on free ESXi 5.1 version . Thanks ,Shashi
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Auto Deploy - Unable to properly boot ESXi 5.1 properly on HP Blade Servers
We have recently upgraded our vCenter to 5.1.0b, and ofcourse I wanted to update our running (stateless) ESXi blades right away. It appeared this is a little harder then I expected it to be. The image...
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SSD Disk show as non-ssd UCS B-230 Blade
It appears that the SSD disk in B-230 Blades show up as non-ssd in esxi5.If you want to use this as Host Cache you have to change the disk via cli following the following procedure : First get the naa...
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ESXi 5.0.0, 623860 and HP Procurve 2810-48G Teaming/Trunk
Hello, I have a VMware ESXi 5.0.0, 623860 host running two Windows VM's pretty well. The host hardware is an HP Proliant DL 380 G5 server. This host is GBit Ethernet connected to an HP Procurve...
View ArticleMCSC Shared Storage Type
This may be a simple question but I know you can use an FC or iSCSI connection to shared storage from the 2 cluster servers but can you use a SAS connection? We have a DAS with SAS connections to the...
View ArticleWhat else do I need?
Hi, after much consideration - i decided to go for Blades. 2 x BL460c with 2 x 8 physical cores with 128GB RAM each + 2x600GB HDD RAID1C7000 Chassis Can i check if only 2 blades allows VMotion and...
View ArticleRDM .vmdk file in Browse Datastore
Why the RDM .vmdk file in Browse Datastore is equal to the LUN attached by you with the VM?
View ArticleWhat is Recommended for the vCenter Server Deployment
vCenter In Each Branch office and Head Office / vCenter Only in Head Office ?
View ArticleMemory Compression Memory Reclamation Technique
How Memory compression can detect the idle pages those are inside the VM?
View Article10 GB iscsi realistic throughput
Hi All, For our Iscsi network( 10gb*2), during SVmotion we are getting a throughout of 300 to 500 MBps. Is this the max I can get from Esxi ?backend storage is VNX 5300 with SAS and FC SSD tier....
View ArticleESXi 5.1 on a Adaptec 6405
Hi there...I'm having trouble installing ESXi on this RAID card. It's not seeing any discs at all. Are there no drivers in ESXi 5.1 for this card?Are there any SIMPLE instructions to get the drivers...
View ArticleCan't See Storage on BladeCenter S
Hi There, I have a HS23 blade with an embedded ESXi 5.0 USB stick and I am having problems adding storage in the vSphere Client. The BladeCenter chassis has redundant SAS RAID modules. Using the IBM...
View ArticleVsphere 5.1: Virtual Machine not sharing Host RAM
Hi,I am using Licensed Vsphere 5.1 (Upgraded from Vsphere 4)I am facing a problem after upgrade, Virtual machines are not sharing RAMLike if i have two machine with 2 GB RAM then total RAM Usage on...
View Articlethe object or item referred to could not be found power on virtual machine
i cannot start some vms. and its giving me this error the object or item referred to could not be found power on virtual machine
View ArticleVMFS5 max heap size?
Hi all, Does anyone know what the max heap size for VMFS5 is or if it shares the maximum for VMFS3?I've found this KB article:http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004424 but I'm not sure if it is just for VMFS3...
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connecting two vswitches
Hey All ; We are having an intermittent connectivity issue from one site to another. And we have been able to isolate the issue( we think) to the vswitches setup in vsphere. So as the diagram below...
View ArticleHP P4300 storage
Is there any documentation about the best way and the best practice to configure an HP P4300 cluster to host vShpere V 5 datastores connected via iSCSI?Regardsmarius
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