Intermitent network disconnect in VM using E1000E NIC
Hi, We just installed three new Windows Server 2012 and one new Windows 8 VMs on ESXi 5.1. On those VMs, we get a lot of errors in the System Event log about network disconnects. According to the logs,...
View ArticleAdd snapshot file from original VM to cloned VM
Hi everyone, I think this my very first post on the vmware support forum, so please excuse my ignorance or lack of understanding of acronyms. I am working on something at the moment which requires me...
View ArticleIncrease the partition size limit
Hi ! I have to manage an ESXI server that has been configured by someone else. I got 8 VM on the server. I want to increase the size of the partition the file server has from100GB to 1TB ....
View ArticleIP in IP tunnel performance degredation on guest OS running on VMware ESXi 5
I am migrating an application that forwards packets from one IP in IP (ipv4) tunnel to another tunnel. Running on a standard x86 server, we were able to achieve steady 300Mbps performance. However,...
View ArticleLink aggregation - am I doing it right?
Dear community, I've setup Link Aggregation to the best of my knowledge, but I have some questions I'm hoping you guru's can answer. Main problem/concern: Even though I should be having the equivalent...
View Articlevsphere client 5.1 not backwards compatible
Is the vsphere client 5.1 backwards compatible with earlier versions of esxi
View ArticleSave ESXi configuration across PXE Boot/reboot on diskless system?
Hello, I am PXE booting ESXi 5 to a diskless system, and make configuration changes that aren't kept across reboots. I can make the changes and back them up using CLI - "vicfg-cfgbackup" command....
View ArticleNew to vmware - network speed help please
Hi all, I recently joined and installed ESXi 5.1.0 Build 799733 on a custom built box purely for testing as a lot of our clients use it and i need to familiarise myself with it. Everythings gone well...
View ArticleCreating a VM from a previous snapshot
Hi All Is it possible to create an off-line VM from a previous snapshot (not necessarily the latest)?I want to keep the production VM running and bring up an offline version of it using a previous...
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Extracting a file from a snapshot
Hi All Running ESXi 5.1.0 and snapshotted a VM prior to running application repairs on it. I need to extract a file from the pre-repair snapshot if at all possible, rolling back to the snapshot is not...
View ArticleMount a VMDK with a GPT Disk
Hello, I am trying to mount a VMDK that has a GPT disk in Windows. The VMDK is actually a snapshot taken from my NetApp, and I'm trying to mount it so I can do file level recovery. I have tried the...
View ArticlePowerCLI Script to rotate root password on managed ESXi (5.0) hosts
While I borrowed a bit from previous solutions I hacked out the following which I have tested against three speparate environments. Basically this script will query against the connect vCenter server...
View Articleperformance question about multiple vms and server 2013 essentials
I have this configuration precision t3500xeon quad core 2.6624 gigs of ram4+1 ethernet This is a new build. I am planning to install pfsense, plus 2 or 3 2003 servers, plus 2 or 3 linux distros. Until...
View Article40GB Infiniband for backend SAN to ESXi 5.1 Blades
Hi all, I'm writing today to discuss my proposed SAN and network design for an upcoming project. I'm looking for any suggestions and info in regards to this design. The key technologies that I hope...
View ArticlePrivate VLAN on ESXi 5.1
We've had ESXi for more than a year; standard networking is fine.But for testing small vms, I'd like to be able to assign them private IPs at will (192.168.x.x) and have them communicate beyond the...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 to 5.1 - post upgrade network issues
I upgraded my fully working ESXi5 to 5.1. All went perfect , no errors. when it came up I could no longer access it in any way, no ping. I did not change a thing except the vm software. I did reset...
View ArticleEaton 9130 + ESXi 5.0 + automated shutdown
Hoping that I can find someone in Melbourne (Australia), or even just anyone in Australia, who is using ESXi 5.0 with Eaton UPS and has successfully configured Eaton's virtual appliance to...
View Articlehow to migrate a vm from vsphere 4 to vsphere 5
i have a vsphere 4 and a vsphere 5,i want to migrate a virtual macine from vsphere 4 to vsphere 5my method is export ovf template and deploy ovf template in vsphere 5,but it show "End of OVA file...
View ArticleRecovering a snapshot after a failed disk
Hi, I am running into a snapshot misconfiguration issue. Here is my situation: I have a windows server 2008 R2(guest OS) machine. It has 3 disks attached to it. We have a snapshot from last year....
View ArticleExpected Win SMB transfer speed 2 Nics MPIO RR Vmware fixed VM to VM
Hello all, I have a number of esx boxs that that point to our storage target. Its a ISCSI SSD Hybrid SAN via a 10GB connection. We are using MPIO and RR. (its all set up correclty) Each ESX host has 2...
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