[Bug] Unable to remove legacy static software iSCSI target
EDIT:I am now thinking that this is a bug. When ESXi is installed to an iSCSI target, the static iSCSI target is created automatically. Even after the initial iSCSI target is no longer in service (as...
View ArticlePSOD on Dell R515 BIOS 2.0.2 - ESXi 5.0 Updatetd
Hi, today i had a Purple Screen on a new Dell R515 with the latest BIOS (2.0.2).We bought 2 of these machines in 2012 with BIOS 1.10.0 and had no problems. Yesterday i installed 2 additional R515 with...
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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...
View Articlecpu usage and cpu ready time
i have one guest on esxi 5.0 and windows task manager cpu usage about %78 - %100 but on esxtop cpu ready %0.04 . why cpu usage %78 and esxtop cpu ready %0.04
View ArticleESXI 5 and CentOS
I use my server to run active sites that received 1-2 k visits a day.My old server use to run CentOS VM using OpenVZ virtualization and with high load the server will eventaully settle and work as...
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...
View ArticleMeasuring performance
As an employee of an ERP partner implementing the Microsoft Dynamics Line of Business Applications (mainly AX), I have a open question: How can we best and efficently measure the expected performance...
View ArticleCPU Profiling Struggle
Evening all, I'm having abit of trouble profiling the vCPU use of an application within my companies VMware Infrastructure, it is the application server for our payroll system. For the vast majority of...
View ArticleOS X Server 10.6 new install
I've been successful in converting some bare metal OS X Server 10.6 machines to VMs under ESXi 5, but I'm having huge issues setting up a new install of 10.6. Everytime I try to boot off an ISO copy of...
View ArticleSlow Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 network performance
Hello, We've recently migrated a couple of Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 servers from VSphere 4.1 to ESXi 5.1. We've upgraded the virtual hardware to the newest version, upgraded VMware Tools to the...
View ArticleESXi performance as home media server(streaming)
Hello, I currently have a headless ubuntu media server. The server is installed on bare metal on ancient hardware. Although the hardware is ancient, it runs fine. I would like the opportunity to...
View ArticlevCenter for ESXi 5.0
Hi. Not sure if this is the correct place for this question, but... vCenter Server: Whether as a physical install or as a virtual install... If vUM is installed on a separate (or even the same)...
View ArticleNetwork Health Monitor Status Unknown
While using the new vSphere 5.1 Web Client, I have got a vCenter 5.1 with Distributed Network Switches. I have enabled "VLAN and MTU health check" and "Teaming and failover health check". However, when...
View Articlevmware esxi 5.0 on HP xw9400
I have HP xw9400 workstation with latest bios version 4.03 and 2 x Opteron 2216 processors, dual SAS drives, LSI SAS controlleresxi 5.0 install is having two issues on this system1. The install is...
View ArticleIssue with p2v - An error occured during the conversion:
Issue with p2v - An error occured during the conversion: Hi, Can you advise what might be causing this to occur. I am trying to p2v a machine, I am only doing one of the disk drives could this be...
View ArticleVMDK Descriptor file
Hi Techies, just want to know about the VMDK Descriptor file. is it compulsory that each Virtual disk should have a descriptor file. I have VM and has 3 virtual disk but I can'nt see any descriptor...
View ArticleCIM not working properly,failed to connect
Hi all, Is there someone who can help me? Our monitoring system N-Central gives an error when i tries to get the status from the HP Management agents. The appropiate offline bundle has been installed...
View ArticleVMware tools in Ubuntu 12.04 - can't get it to autostart
Good afternoon- I have a couple 5.1 hosts running a handful of Ubuntu 12.04 vm's. I have successfully installed VMware tools, but the tools don't automatically come back on after a vm reboot. To be...
View ArticleFree white space ESXi 5.1
Good morning, I recently upgraded to version 5.1 in the hopes of being able to clear white space. This does not seem possible.... My SAN System doesn't suppor the ability to UNMAP. From what I've...
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