Serial Port on ESXi 5.1
Greetings, I have a Dell PowerEdge T620 that I loaded ESXi 5.1 with to have a second VMWare host for my school district. Due to the age of our door system I had to copy a physical host running WinXP...
View ArticleHistorical data from esxtop?
Im somewhat familiar with esxtop... as a real time performance monitor. Is there a way to get historical data from esxtop or is a real time monitor only? I only need a couple hours back, but a day...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Host system stopped responding
Hello, I am running an ESXi Hostsystem at a german provider (Hetzner) with just 3 VM guests at the moment. Since the beginning i had troubles because ESXi stopped responding: * Guest systems not...
View ArticleGetting purple screen attempting to install ESXi 5.0
I am attempting to install ESXi 5.0, but getting purple screen "no place on disk for dump data" Debugger waiting (world 2048) no port for remote debugger" I think I know what it mean and have...
View ArticleVM won't revert to snapshot and host won't restart
We have VMWare ESXi 5. One of our employees was testing updating DotNetNuke on a VM. He had a snapshot of the VM before any update and was running the update, correcting problems, reverting to the...
View ArticleUSB Disconnect via cmdline doesn't work
Hi @all,I tried to connect and disconnect an USB device via cmdline.I found the following cmd to connect:~ # vim-cmd vmsvc/device.connusbdev 2 path:1/2 This works well and my client shows:May 14...
View ArticleAre there any workarounds for vSwitch to allow double-tagged frames?
Hello all, The topology goes like this: node <--nx1G--> L2switch <--2x1G--> ESXi (5.1) Unlike other setups of this type, configuring dot1q tunneling on switch causes problems with virtual...
View ArticleCan't ping between virtual servers on same host
I have an ESXi 5 host with 3 virtual copies of Windows Server 2008R2 running on them. The ESXi host is connected to my switch, which has the Windows 2008 R2 DC for my test network and my management...
View ArticleDifference between CPU Usage from Vcentre end and OS end - RHEL5
Hi, One of the VM went unresposnive of RHEL5, while checking we found that CPU utilzation from Vcentre was 100%. In the same ref. we have rebooted it, while later on checking sar -A we found that it...
View ArticleHP Smart Array controller Health Status with non HP Server and ESXi 5
For the upgrade to VSphere 5 of our existing HP Prolient servers we wanted to use newer Supermicro Units but stay with the Hp Smart Array P410i controllers and disks we had before. For this task we...
View ArticleEssentials License Upgrade Problem with Ram
We currently jsut upgraded to the vSphere 5 Essentials License. According to the License vRAM per CPU entitlement is 32GB We currently have 64GB Physical Ram in the Host, but when we tried to change...
View Articlehalf duplex showing on dell r610
I am only seeing half duplex on these nic on a dell r610 Name PCI Device Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description------ ------------- ------ ---- ----- ------...
View ArticleDatastore Problem
I have IBM-System X 3755 M3 server and installed on it ESXi 5.1 server, there is 4 disks each one 300 GB and I make it as RAID 5 to become the Datastore for ESXi server is 830 GB. - I created 4...
View Articlesome SAN Lun not recognise in esxi 5.1
Hi,I installed a Vmware ESXi 5.1 in HP DL 380 G5 by updated Bios. this server connected to SAN by ONE HBA. The problem here is some active Lun dispaly in Configuration -> Storage but other Lun that...
View ArticleDatastore browsing very slow when multiple Esxi 5 hosts connected
I have a problem with browsing datastores being extremely slow when I have more than one host connected. The issue was present on v5 and remains after all hosts and vCenter server upgraded to 5.1. I...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 host accepts no network connetctions
Hi guys, I installed a new 5.1 ESXi Server from Scratch and there is no network activity!Through boot process I can see the Intel E1000 driver is loaded.The physical Link is up and shown correctly on...
View ArticleESXi Clock goes way off
Hey guys, I'm having a huge issue with my ESXi server. Its running 5.1.0 build 799733 on an IBM x3250 M2. This issue just popped up out of nowhere a couple of days ago. I noticed that my clock would...
View ArticleBest disk configuration for VSphere ESXi 5.1 and 3-4 VM's
Hi All, I'm new to VSphere ESXi & I'd like to get some advice on the best disk configuration for ESXi running 3-4 VM's.I have a fairly beefy server onto which I want to put ESXi, and the...
View ArticleESXi on server4you dedicated server
Hello comunity, please, i need to know if is posible to install ESXi 5 on a server4you dedicated server with access on recovery mode (SSH). Thanks.
View ArticleThe initiator could not establish a network connection to the target
Whenever I rescan iscsi hba, I keep getting this message in the events tab Login to iSCSI target iqn...... on vmhba40@vmk2 failed. The iscsi initiator could not establish a network connection to the...
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