HP 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 ArticleVM says it is using storage but it isn't
I have an irritating problem.. I have a VM and in its summary it says it is using storage on my iSCSI device. But it isn't. I am trying to retire the iSCSI device but I can't unmount it as it says...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 hosts randomly disconnects from vCenter
Hi.After installing vSphere vCenter and ESXi 5.1 (with latest patches), we are starting to see hosts disconnecting randomly from vCenter.We have different server models but so far, we have only seeing...
View Articletroubleshooting Storage performance Issue
HI experts Please help ...what is the best way to troubleshooting Storage performance Issue.Performance degraded after enableing Storage I/O control on all data-storesLocal storage Mware vSphere ESXi 5.0
View ArticleQuestions about implementing storage clusters and SDRS on active cluster
I have some questions about implementing datastore clusters and Storage SRS in VSphere 5.1. We have a datacenter with about 15 HP blades and a few non-blade servers. The hosts are all either VSphere...
View Articleservers are time-drifting with NTP setup
1. Ran PowerCLI scripts against all hosts to report on NTP configuration a. Found some misconfigured and fixed them. b. Time-Sync improved initially, but soon drifted again. 2....
View Articlewindows xp guest cannot obtain ip from dhcp server
Hi,I have a Windows 2003 server(physical machine) configured as AD and DHCP server. I have installed Win XP SP3 as guest OS. I have configured LAN adapter to Obtain IP automatically from DHCP server. I...
View ArticlePhysical 3TB GPT RDM corruption
ESXi 5.11x2TB physical disk2x3TB physical disks I have created a physical RDM mappings for each disk... In Vsphere Configuration - Storage - Devices view, the 3 devices are listed, if I click on an...
View Articleguest initiated iSCSI to RDM
We are looking to move a guest initiated iSCSI device on a physical server to a physical RDM on a virtual machine.The main why we are going physical RDM is going to be the size, we expect this to grow...
View ArticleVarious Best Practices VMware
I am new in this platform. Exist a document than explain the best practices for a good implementation of vmware? The followings items are good practices: 1. Install, Configure and apply Updates...
View ArticleNIC teaming in ESX 5.0
Hello all, looking to get some validation that I have setup the hosts that I manage correctly for NIC teaming. I have 4 hosts; each host is configured with a management network, VM network and a...
View Articlehost service
Hi Team, Just want to know about the impact of restarting ESX host service. will there be any impact on VM running on ESX? regardsVINAY
View ArticleCan boot guest from ISO but not install OS from ISO
I have many ISO files for geust OS installation that have been tested and used many times over. I have a new vSphere 5.1 installation with no local DVDROM so I have uploaded some ISO's to the local...
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Esxi 5.1 pci passthrough broken
I got a purple screen when I start up a vm with a pci device With Esxi5 was working fine. I tested it with 2 vm on different hosts ( but same hardware) i7 2600 32gb mb: dq67sw What can I try
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Guest IP address is not showing up on a vSphere Summary page with VMware...
Hello everyone!I have an ESXi 5.1 host on Dell R610. I have noticed that Linux guests without X Windows installed don't have IP address and DNS name on vSphere Summary tab. Tried installing VMware...
View ArticleHost Manamgent not responding
Hi,i have an issue with one of our hosts. First, it was disconnected from vCenter and not pingable from the network as well.I tried to restart the management network and test it. During the test i...
View ArticleComplex DRS Rules Question
Hi all, I've searched a bit and can't seem to come up with a definitive answer here. We have a complex DRS problem; I'll do my best to describe it. Our production cluster has 6 hosts in it. They are...
View ArticleVirtual machine problem "La console VMRC..."
Hello, I've got a problem, I've a dedicated server with "VMware ESXi 5.0" installed on, the problem is the next, the consol tell me:The console VMRC has been disconnected... Try to reconnecting.How can...
View Articleesxcli - module parameters in kickstart script do not apply
I am deploying about a dozen ESXi servers using a kickstart script. I am attempting to set one of the parameters for the qla2xxx driver, in the firstboot section of the script, as follows: FirstBoot...
View ArticleESXi5.0 and VMs. Speed issue (network? hard drives?)
Hardware:HP Microserver N36LMemory 8GBEthernet: Integrated 1Gbit network adapterUSB 4GB memory stick with ESXi 5.0 on it1x hard drive 300GB sata2 (Seagate)1x hard drive 2TB sata2 (WD Green) Connected...
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