DRS for Microsoft cluster
Hi , Is DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules are mandantory while creating a microsoft cluster over VM?
View ArticleRight way to shut down ESX with APC UPS
Hi.About my setup: I have about 20 servers across 3 different ESX, to these to ESX server are 2 APC 3000 UPS (With management card) connectedI think I have searched quite a bit and right know, as I can...
View Articlehow to check for hardware vmware esxi 5 is installed on
Hello I took over a vmware esxi 5 server. I need to evaluate on which hardware esxi 5 server is installed on. Is there any way to do it - apart from opening the case? thank you very much for any...
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 ArticleVery slow write speeds on Perc H700 and RAID5 5x2TB drives
Hi guys, I've been playing out with a new dell R515 server here with a H700 controller that has 1GB cache. The RAID10 container with 4x 600GB 15K RPM works quite well, and on the same controller I've a...
View Articleesx hosts connect fc sw and storage
hello,i have 2 esx 5.1 hosts clustered.i have 2 brocade 300 fc switches and 1 hitachi hus storage with 10 luns.i must first group the luns in one port in the storage for fc? how do i make...
View ArticleDPM Behaviour
DPM Checks 40 Mins Load History to power off an esxi host and 5 Min Load History to Power it back on. Is that possible to change this behaviour?
View ArticleESXi 5 Diskless Logging
We have a 2 host ESXi cluster. ESXi is installed to 4GB SD cards on diskless HP servers. Each host is indicating a warning that logging is not enabled. What is best practice for logging on diskless...
View ArticlevCPU Per Core
vCPU Per Core is 25. So is that means if we will try to allocate it to more than 25 vm's we will get error?
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Windows 2003 R2 32-bit on DOMAIN not working on ESXi 5.1...
So has anyone else noticed this problem and found a way to resolve? Basically I had 5 Windows 2003 R2 32 bit virtual machines running on our DOMAIN under VMware ESXi 5.0 - RETAIL PAID/NOT FREE. Now we...
View ArticleIntermitent network disconnect in VM using E1000E NIC
Hi, We just installed three new Windows Server 2012 and one new Windows 8 VMs on ESXi 5.1. On those VMs, we get a lot of errors in the System Event log about network disconnects. According to the logs,...
View ArticleNo Connection with CDRom or ISO Files possible
Hey VMware Fans, on our ESXI 5.1 last Build it is not possible to connect a CDRom or Iso File.After a Host restart everything is fine. The CDs are shown in the VM Clients or i can boot from ISO for...
View ArticleWhat's the best way to convert a system partition from dynamic to basic?
I have a VM running Windows Server 2003 SP2. I want to convert the system partition from dynamic back to basic, so that the system partition can be extended. What would be the best way to go about...
View ArticleOptions to Resize/Move Extended Partition?
I have run into the classic issue of P2Ving a huge file server but after it was all done and converted, realizing it's part of one VDMK with several partitions. I am trying to grow the E: drive (Check...
View ArticleIssues with new VMware host ESXi 5.0
we have a dell blade chassis, with 4 710 blades and 8 610 blades the 710's have 12 nics and the 610's only have 6 nics. I have added a new host on one of the 610's and two nics in each of the networks...
View ArticlePoor network performance on vm guest on same host, vswitch, subnet?
I'm running iperf to get some network performance reading and was wondering what other get in performance between 2 vm guests. As test 1 I have 2 VM (Windows 2008 R2) on the same vswitch and the same...
View ArticleHow to debug serial pipe on esxi 5.0?
Hello everyone,I have setup a serial pipe, \\.\pipe\com_1 between 2 virtual machines residing on the same esxi 5 host.1 virtual machine hosts a POS application under windows 2008, and another hosts a...
View ArticleOption for "SSH Server" for Firewall under "Security Profile" ?
Hi, We have upgraded all ESXi hosts to vSphere 5.1. Question 1=========We observe that for a particular ESXi host, the option button is avaialbe (others are grey). We are able to change start up...
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 ArticleESXi 5 Multiple hosts crash
Hi,I experienced a very strange issue this week and I am trying to get to the bottom of it. At 10:07 we lost pretty much all virtual infrastructure, on our monitoring kit/syslogs etc some events were...
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