ESXi 5.1 install can not find disks
I am running a Adaptec 6405 raid card with a Intel S5500HVCR motherboard and when I try to install esxi 5.1 it does not show any available drives to use for the install. I have updated both the...
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How can I make LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i working under ESXi 5.0?
Hi guys, I've read a lot of discussion all around the Internet, mostly found some issues regarding LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i, which differs from mine card just by having 2 mini-SAS ports instead of one,...
View ArticleSchedule VM's to restart...
Hello, I have the need to restart certain VM's on a regular basis. There are three in particular. My question is; How do I set up a schedule to restart each of the VM's. I would also like to create...
View Articledatastore/memory overcommit questions
I' use Alan Renouf's vCheck to receive a daily cluster health report. It reports how much overcommit I have for datastores and memory. What is the best way to know how much datastore storage is really...
View ArticleCan ESXi 5.1 VM runs on ESXi 5 Hosts ?
Hi, We have updated one of the ESXi Hosts to Release 5.1. VMs running on that Host are updated with the latest VMWare Tools as well. However, we have to migrate one VM to a cluster of ESXi 5 Host. We...
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Problems doing a v2v from ESXi 4 to 5
Hi Guys, I am having problems migrating a vm from a ESXi 4 host to a ESXi 5 host using vmware converter. So, I installed the newest available version 5.0 for converter and found out that it crashes...
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 ArticleAMD bulldozer
Hi, We are in the process of going to vmware esxi 5 update1. We have built two new hosts, both running AMD opteron 6238 (bulldozer) and 128GB RAM. We have around 20 VMs (mainly windows) running on...
View ArticleBackups fail after upgrading from v5 to v5.1
Hello Everyone, Recently we upgraded our vCentre & ESXi boxes from v5 to v5.1, then upgraded guests tools to latest version. Since then, our linux machines back up ok, but we have not been able to...
View Articlenewly added disk is not visible inside /dev/
Hi All, I am a newbee to ESX. Now we are developing a non PCI storage device (RAMDisk) driver for ESXi 5.0 . 1. Normally in Linux we can see the available disks and hardwares inside the /dev/...
View ArticleMonitoring VM network
Hi, I just installed ESXi 5.1 and try to monitor virtual machine. I can't find where I can get the incoming and transmitted bytes count for a virtual machine port. I found how to get it for a physical...
View ArticleMoving from PXE to gPXE causes fatal error: 10 (out of resources)
Folks, I have four servers with 16Gb RAM for which I had a PXE install environment. The PXE environment used DHCP, TFTP, PXE and then HTTPD for kickstart.All four servers instaled correctly every...
View ArticleVirtual Machine disk consolidation needed
I have an issue with a linux VM. VDR bit me again. Thanks to the wonderful reporting in VDR (haha) I did not realize the appliance still has vmdk's still attached to it from my VM. This is where I am...
View ArticleCreating a linked clone in VMware ESXi
In VMware Workstation I can create a 2linked clone" of an exisating VM saving time and disk space.Is the same feature available in VMware ESXi?Regardsmarius
View ArticleIs the the inside H/W compatible w/ ESXI 5 ?
HiI plan upgrade my PC and buy some new stuff for entering to vSphere 5 world and I will buy the follwoing: ProcessorIntel i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHZ 8MB cache MBGigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H socket 1155...
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Storage Addition Challenge
Hello, I am trying to show my company the benefit of utilizing VMware. I recently installed ESXi 5 on an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 (service tag 2M214102KB). The server currently has 6 SAS HDDs in a RAID 1...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 free on a 2 processors, 32 GB RAM HP Server?
Hi, I have ESXi 5 free edition installed on a HP DL380 G7 with 2 processors (total of 12 cores) and 32 GB of RAM.If I upgrad it to ESXi 5.1 free edition will I be able use all the hardware I'll have to...
View ArticleGrow System Datastore
I am added a new drive to my main raid 0 virtual disk to increase the size of the primary datastore.I followed this guide since there are special instructions due to it also being the system...
View ArticlePersistent Firewall rules on ESX5i
Hi,I have made an XML with the ports I need open and stored in a local storage.Im using rc.local to copy this xml to /etc/vmware/firewall also using rc.local to refresh the firewall rules here is the...
View ArticleIntel DQ57TM and ESXi 5.1 - total lockup at Loading/onetime.tgz
Hi Everyone, I was hoping to replace my ESXI 5.0 host (DQ45CB Core4Quad) with a DQ57TM (Core -7 860), both systems have 8GB of memory. I was able to boot from the CD and install ESXi 5.1, but upon...
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