Hard disk size reporting 0 in properties?
Hello, We have a virtual machine that is reporting hard disk size as 0 in the virtual machine properties window. At the moment the virtual machine is still running and working fine. There are no...
View ArticleMaximum allowed SCSI paths error
Hi, I'm trying to add a datastore to an ESXi5 host. The host access to the iSCSI storage seems to be ok but when I rescan the storage adapters I get an error I haven't seen before. Error while...
View ArticleESXi 5 does not see LSI 9240-8i at all
We installed ESXi 5 fine to an LSI 9260-8i. The installer sees it. After checking the Vmware compat guide, we see that Vmware says the 9240-8i is supported on 5. So we bought one. I tried everything,...
View Articlevmdk file disappeared suddenly
Doing some investigate why the Windows 2008 R2 Server was not responding I discovered the vmdk file had disappeared. This happened while I was at work. The file was located in a directory on a...
View ArticleExternal USB Drive not being seen by ESX1 5 host
I just bought a 2tb Western Digital Passport Hard drive for an ESXi host I have in India that I need to copy a vm guest over to another host offsite. The drive is plugged in but I can see it from...
View ArticleVM's Losing Network When Migrated to New ESXi Host
Ok, this has been a tough one to google (or the week has just been too long), but... We have a 10 host cluster, ESXi 5.1, with SAN storage. We also use a vSphere Distributed Switch with eleven port...
View ArticleNo hardware sensors for Intel ST1200BTS
I'm running ESXi 5.1 (free) on an Intel ST1200BTS. For the most part, everything works great. But I cannot get any information from any of the hardware sensors, so no thermal readings, etc., etc. In...
View ArticleMacPro Coredump with PCI passthrough
When doing a PCI passthrough of an Atto UL5D I get a pink screen and then it talks about a coredump. Where can I find this dump to post it online so you folks can help me out?
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - can't boot new VM from OS disc
I'm trying to boot off a Server 2012 DVD to install a new VM. I am using the host DVD-RW drive. I can attach the drive to an existing VM and browse the DVD (it's not the drive) and I tested the...
View ArticleWhat is the fastest way to upload one TB to a ESXi 5.1 VMFS datastore ?
I run into one problem over and over again ...I am inside an ESXi environment that I have never seen before and need to upload or download a large amount of data - say 1TB or so - from an ESXi host.i...
View ArticleLion VM run slow on Macmini+ESXi 5.1
Hi all, I installed ESXi 5.1 on a late 2012 Macmini (4GB+1TB+core i7), but the virtual machines run quite slow and have no sound: - WindowServer 2008: no sound, screen size is OK: 1280x800- MacOS X...
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Autostarting vm's on NAS does not work
Hi all, New to vmware, and learning a lot, so please be kind Ran into the following issue:- setup ESXi 5 with NO local storage- ESXi boots from USB stick- all vm's etc are on NAS via NFS share When...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Hangs after a few hours to a few days of running
Hi, i am hoping someone can help with the crurrent issue I am faced with The build machine we are using for ESXi 5.1 is as following Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 motherboardAMD FX-8350 (Eight Core) CPU32GB...
View ArticleDatastore Free Size incorrect
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 7...
View ArticleiSCSI Discovery
Hi. I am wondering if it is possible to avoid iSCSI target autodiscovery. I have two NICs (iSCSI Dependent NICs) configured as iSCSI initiators.The NICs were manually configured with two targets in...
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no nics shown as attached
one of my hosts in vsphere is not showing any physical nics attached to the vswitch. When I go to manage adapters it shows no nics attached. however I am still connected to the host via vmk0. any idea...
View ArticleTemplate Creation
HI, I need to create few Template for my business. Where do i copy the sysprep ? or How do i do it? Windows 7 Template: Windows 2008 R2 Template: Windows 2003 R2 Template: Windows XP SP3 Template: AS
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and Slow NFS speeds
I can't seem to come to any sort of conclusion on what's going on here. I have successfully connected two separate ESXi 5.1 boxes with an NFS share on a FreeNAS box. The connection is easily...
View Article10GBE or FC?
Is 10GBE backbone for 3 hosts 1 SAN storage enough for managing 40 vms with oracle databases? If not, why?
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Impossible to connect disk/lun with esxi 5.1 on nas
Hello, sorry for my english but I'm french... I have a problem with my esxi 5.1.... When I try to add storage, I have this message ====> HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for...
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