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Storage I/O Control Injector in vsphere 5.1
This what about this Storage I/O Control Injector in vsphere 5.1 given on the vmware website at this link http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/storage-io-control.html. My...
View ArticleESXi 5.1.0 Crash - Possible Firmware Update Required
Hello, We have a test environment with ESXi 5.1.0. I had two crashes in the past two weeks and i think the problem is the firmware. In the attachment i have a .jpg picture of the error message. I...
View ArticleRDM still in use???
Hi, Can't figure this out. I just got my companies old SAN connected to my vsphere lab and playing around with it. There is a 1GB LUN that I created on the SAN. I may have connected it to a VM as an...
View ArticleVmware Platform Security
Can anyone tell me the Softwares those are available for the Vmware Platform Security?
View ArticlePassmark Performance
We currently have three vsphere 4.0 hosts, each has 4 x X7460 processors and 148gb of RAM running on IBM x3950 M2 servers. We plan on adding three new hosts to our environment and upgrading everything...
View ArticleSingle Sign-On Experiences
Does anyone have any experience, best practices, etc. with the install ation of Single Sign-On using an external - remote SQL database? Does the port have to be 1433 or can it be something else as long...
View Article5.1 Enterprise plus license - performance tab looks like ESXi free
I've got 2 hosts here that are showing enterprise plus license on the summary tab but the performance tab looks like the free version. Is there an extra module that needs to be loaded? ...never seen...
View ArticleLatency support for Storage vMotion
Like the latency support for the vMotion is 10ms. My question what is latency support for storage vMotion?
View ArticleVM Network
Hi Folks, Need your expert advise. Need to setup a LAB enviornment where we have to run multiple users on same ESX host. The architecture is that the preconfigured ovf format VMs will have same IP...
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 ArticleHP Flex 10 - Received Dropped Packets
VMware Community, We are having a strange issue, which so far VMware/HP support has not been able to solve. We have an environment where we are using 2 x 10GBps and 2 x 9Gbps adapters on a single DVS....
View Articlevmware-cmd getguestinfo - need values for 'variable'
I am trying to use vMA for automated testing of our NIC card drivers. An issue I have is we use DHCP in the lab, and if my guest OS is powered off for sometime, it comes back with a different IP....
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Network restore, auto-confguring network failed.
Hello, I have a problem.Server was moved from one network to another. There used to be manual configuration, and was moved to network with DHCP - but that is not a point.The problem is that I could not...
View ArticleESXi 5 - How to disable unsigned kernel modules
Hi. The 5.0 Hardening Guide "briefly" mentions "disabling unsigned modules and removing the offending VIBs from the host". What's the best way to do both, i.e.: same/separate CLI commands? Just looking...
View ArticleTime issue with vSphere
Hello, I've have 2 hosts installed (demo right now). I've setup Host A as my vmView admin/Vserver etc server and some other servers. My Host B is going to be my workstations. Anyway, I had Host B...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 U2 Froze when 1 SAN switch hiccuped
Environment: ESXi 5.0 U2, Cisco UCS Blade servers, redundant Cisco MDS FC switches in separate fabrics, and Fibre Channel storage array. The FC array is redundantly connected to the MDS switches. ESXi...
View ArticleESX5.0 be2net 4.2.327 driver stable on HP BL460C G7 blades? Panic seen
Hi All, We have ESX5.0 installed on a couple of HP BL460C G7 blade servers. Having faced issues during VMotion and having gone through the community discussions/recommendations, we upgraded the nic...
View ArticleWindows 2000 Server Conversion
In these modern times of vSphere 5 & 5.1, what's the recommended approach to P2V a Windows 2000 Server? VMWare converter standalone dropped support for P2V of Windows 2000 servers from 4.3...
View Articleset /etc/ssh/sshd_config KeepAlive 120 but sshd refuses connection
I've installed ESXI 5.0 UPDATE 1 and one of the tuning requirement is to set KeepAlive 120 in /etc/ssh/sshd_config However, upon server restart, sshd refuses network connection via putty with port 22....
View ArticleUSB arbitration service fails to start
Hello, we are currently evaluating ESXi 5.1. On the clients (Windows Vista) where we run vSphere Client 5.1 we receive error messages every 10 seconds, stating that the startup of the vmware usb...
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