ESXi 5.1 Host loses network connectivity after startup
Hello, community! I decided to experiment and installed ESXi 5.1.0a onto a USB stick and ran it from my HP ProBook 4540s laptop. It installed successfully so I assume that the NIC drivers are present...
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VM migration - host cpu incompatible :(
Regards to all, I just bought a new server (HP DL380 G8-Intel Xeon E5-2650 64 GB RAM) on which I installed VMware esxi 5. in the data center I had 3 host esxi 4.1. I raised vcetner on the new server,...
View ArticleSystem Resource Allocation Settings (advanced view)
Hi all, As per the subject really.. Can anybody offer any insight to how these are calculated or dynamically set (specifically the vim/vmvisor pool). If I have 10 hosts all running with exact cpu/mem...
View Articlebooks for learning ESXi
Hello, I don't know if this has been asked recently but does anyone have any good recomendations for books to learn ESXi? Thanks in advance.
View ArticleESXi 5.0.0-768111 PSOD crash
Hello all, I have ESXi 5.0.0-768111 with HP offline bundle installed on a HP ProLiant DL360 G7 that crashes with PSOD every now and then; I attached the error I get, hope it is readable. Unfortunately...
View Articlehow to dual boot esxi 5 and server 2012
i have a blade with 2 x 73GB hdd local storage available. is it possible to dual boot this server with "windows server 2012" and "esxi 5"? i know they both use different boot loaders so not sure if it...
View ArticlevCenter Object & DataStore Browser - Question.
Hi. Thanks for viewing. I don't currently have access to a vCenter system as the "sandbox" lab is being upgraded and won't be complete until next week. The Object and DataStore Browsers: Are they...
View ArticleImport of OVF/OVA Fails
Little background on my environment. Existing cluster is a XenServer 6.0.2 with XenCenter 6.1. I've tried exporting VMs as OVA and OVF format with and without a manifest file. New cluster is a VMware...
View ArticleRenaming ESXi 5 hosts in vCenter cluster
I have two ESXi 5 hosts that were labelled incorrectly at a remote site, and I would like to rename them. Will this cause any problem with vCenter, and should it be done during a maintenace window? Or...
View ArticleLSI 9211-8i - how to update 5.1 mpt2sas drivers?
I've been having major drive disconnection issues with 5.1/9211-8i (firmware ver 14) Looks like esxi 5.1 is using ver 10 of mpt2sas?/tmp # vmkload_mod -s mpt2sas |grep Version Version: Version...
View Articlevtep end points not pinging
HiI have 2 vtep end points, configuration is as follows: server-1esxivtep1-10.0.0.100/24 server-2esxivtep2-20.0.0.200/24 server-1 --> switch-1 --> routerserver-2 --> switch-2 --> router...
View Articlevxlan and internal interface from vm
I have 2 VMs (VM1, VM2) on a ESXi server-1. I want to have these 2 VMs talking so i have created one vnic on each and connected using same port-group and gave them subnet, say192.168.0.0./24. Its...
View ArticleMonitoring Adaptec 2405 RAID card on esxi 5.1
Hi, I got an esxi 5.1 server running with an Adaptec 2405 RAID card. Everything work well, except I can't seem to be able to monitor the RAID/Array condition. Meaning, under the status/health pages I...
View ArticleHow to know when to Stop putting VMs on ESXi Hosts based on CPU usage
Hi we have a Cluster with 5 ESXi's Each is Available CPU# coreLogical proccessor4864486441080 and other 2 ESXi's are same as last most vms use 2 vCPUs and few have 2*2 vCPUs but in general CPU...
View ArticleKeeping Logs when migrating ESX hosts to new Boot LUNs
We are doing a storage array refresh. We want to keep the vCenter and vCOps log files and not lose them. I am not sure the solution to attain that piece. 1. Back-end storage LUN to LUN copy Pros...
View ArticleIBM Memory Key Rebuild
I have IBM xSeries hosts running with IBM Memory keys loaded with ESXi 4.1. I'm curious if anyone has rebuilt these keys with ESXi 5 or 5.1. I would prefer to save the $75 per key if the keys technical...
View ArticleESXi Management not working Cisco LAG
I am setting up a 3 host ESXi cluster with an Essentials + license. I am using a pair of stacked Cisco SG500-28 switches for switching redundancy. Each host has 8 NICs. 4 to each switch. I have...
View ArticleUSB passthrough
I am running ESXi 5.0 on an HP BL460c G1.Guest OS is Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1.vSphere Client is running on Server 2003 Standard SP2. I'm trying to virtualize an old server that is...
View ArticleUpgrade VMware Data Recovery (5.0) to Data Protection (5.1)
Hello World, We are planning to upgrade our platform from VSphere 5.0 to 5.1. We have a Windows Server virtual machine with Vcenter installed, and the appliance of Data Recovery. Is there any way/path...
View ArticleEVC understanding, is this right?
Hi All, Just wanted to check I understand this correctly, forgive me if this should have be asked in a different section? I have a vSphere 5.1 HA Cluster with hosts running Intel Xeon X5670 and E5620....
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