Brocade 825
We have installed a Brocade 825 HBA into a Dell PowerEdge 2900 and installed ESXi 5.0, the card was not picked up on installation. We have used the import tool from the Update Manager within VC and...
View Articlevsish -e set /vmkModules/iso9660/mount $(esxcfg-mpath -b | grep "CD-ROM" |...
I am attempting to perform the following mount on a on the new MAC Mini Superdrive " vsish -e set /vmkmodules/iso9660/mount $ (esxcfg-mpath -b | grep "CD-ROM" | awk '{print $1}') and getting the...
View Articleesxi 5.1 perc 5/i problems
Hi, I am running esxi 5.1 on dell t3500. I am attempting to add perc5/i card as raid controller. First Try 1. Installed card with 5x firmware (original dell) built the raid. (raid 0 with two identical...
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Stopping SSH on ESXi 5.1 produces error
Getting this error message when trying to stop the SSH service on newly upgraded ESXi 5 hosts: Even though the error appears SSH is actually stopped on the host. vCenter never seems to be properly...
View ArticleESXi 5: Sharing 4 cores with 3 VMs - vCPU settings
Hey folks, First, I shamefully recognize that I'm relatively new to ESXi and while I could probably find the answer in the plethora of documentation, I've spent hours and come up with nothing. Looking...
View ArticleESXi v5.0 - Out of space error with more than 40GB of space reamaining
I am currently running ESXi v5.0 setup in RAID5 with 146GBx3 (Total: 268.50GB) I have added 2 virtual machines running all with thick VM Machine 1 - HD1 Thin Provision (200GB Provisioned Size)VM...
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esxi 5.1 install problem on LSI 9240-8i: loading module megaraid_sas
It hangs on loading module megaraid_sas for a very long time and it didn't pass. Any ideas? LSI 9240-8i (2 750GB RAID 1, 4 4TB raid 5) Thanks Jason
View Articletraceroute -i syntax
I can't find this to save my life. Does anyone know the syntax of the traceroute -i <inface> command? I've tried every vmnicX, vmkX, port group, uplink and generally interfacey thing I can think...
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vSphere Client: USB device stuck at "Connecting..."
Hello.Normally it works as it should, but sometimes I have trouble connecting a USB flash drive from my client to the VM via vSphere Client. It gets stuck at the connecting stage and I cannot cancel...
View ArticleWe have VMs on one of our clusters that are showing alarms, but when you...
We have VMs on one of our clusters that are showing alarms, but when you click on the Alarms or Tasks and Events tabs there are no corresponding alerts.
View ArticleVM's were storage vMotioned to another data store, and now I have 3 VM's with...
VM's were storage vMotioned to another data store, and now I have 3 VM's with white "!" inside a red square, and I want to figure out the cause of this.
View ArticleVspere Web Client external "connection timed out"
Hi all Im receiving connection timed out error message from the vsphere Web Client, when trying to access the console of a virtual machine, On the internal network it works fine but if I access the...
View ArticleWhat filesystem is mounted as / during firstboot?
Hi, i am trying to do various bits of automation during the firstboot section of a scripted ESXi5.0 installation and while most stuff is working, I am having trouble debugging steps that aren't. I try...
View ArticleIs Load Based Teaming supported for NFS vmkernel ports?
Hi. My customer has 2 x 10 GbE uplinks per host, which we use in a dvSwitch that handles all types of traffic (mgmt, vMotion, NFS, VM-traffic). Since they don't have LACP/Etherchannel on their...
View ArticleESXi 5 Connection Drop-outs
Hi, student of ESXi. Having a little issue with a home server lab. CPU: Celeron G530Mobo: ASUS P8H61-M LE using onboard Realtek 811E Gigabit NIC Had Hyper-V setup running 4 VMs flawlessly on same...
View ArticleHP Smart Array P400 and ESXi 5.1
Hi, This is probably a discussion for the Hardware section however I dont have permission to post in there so I am posting here. I have just come into 4 X HP Smart Array P400 all complete with 512MB...
View ArticleVMware ESXI 5.1 and ISCSI
Hi, After having upgraded from esxi 4.1 to 5.1, we can't get our Dell R715 servers to write data to our iscsi storage area. We've configured both software iscsi and hardware iscsi to see if that made a...
View ArticleSeeking advice on very large snapshot
Hi everybody - I am engaged on a project where they have a mission-critical SQL server with a HUGE snapshot (delta.vmdk) in place for 7 months. Here are the spec's.:flat.vmdk is 1.0 TBSnapshot was...
View ArticlePCI Passthrough of µPD720201 USB 3.0 Controller w/ ESXi 5.0u2
Hello! I'm trying to "passthrough" a USB 3.0 Host Conroller PCIe Card with the NEC/Renesas µPD720201 4-Port Chip to a Windows Server 2003 guest with ESXi 5.0 update 2: - The USB controller card shows...
View ArticlevSphere appliance dvSwitch errors after power off
I have a test environment setup with a couple of PCs running ESX 5.0. I installed the vSphere appliance to manage them and created a dvSwitch. I can add hosts to the dvSwitch and bind guest NICs to it...
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