Upgrade 4.1 USB Boot or Reinstall v5?
I have a couple standalone ESXi host servers that are booting to version 4.1 from a USB stick. I want to run the latest vSphere v5. Is it possible to just create a new bootable USB stick with ESXi...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 upgrade
i am doing am upgrade drom vCenter 5.0 to 5.1. when i am installing the SSO it will almost compleate the install then it will return an error. it tells me that "The Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition...
View ArticleRescan All HBAs Take forever
Hello, I'm experiencing very long wait time when performing rescan of HBAs and rescan of VMFS. These are FCOE HBAs on an HP Blade/Chassis system. My datastore consists of VMFS and RDMs. I know that...
View ArticleVmware 5 virtual NIC stops working on VM Windows 2008
Hi all,we have virtual infrastructure based on Vmware vSphere 5 since decembre 2011. Storage system is based on Dell EqualLogic with iSCSI. We have virtualized our physical Windows 2000/Windows 2003...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client and Mac OS X
Hmm... with the release of 5.1, they seem to be encouraging everybody to move to the web client. But it seems that Mac OS X is still not supported. What's the plan to support Mac OS X? I really...
View ArticlePCSN questions
Hello all, I am trying to install the PCNS on a vMA and have a few questions to get me over the hump. I have the shutdown.pl file (4 of them. One for each host.) and was curious if I needed to do the...
View Articlecreate host profile failed
when I create the host profile by vsphere client, it failed and below is the error message: Error: Unexpected language: . anyone encounterd the error before?
View Articleget displayName from within guest OS?
I know this has been asked before, but all answers I have found date back to before ESXi 5.x was released. Is it possible to learn the displayName of the running virtual machine from within the virtual...
View ArticleThe technical constraint of Storage vMotioning a Fault Tolerant vm
Hi VMware Gurus, I have to explain to a customer why exactly you cannot do a storage vmotion a fault tolerant vm. a) Is it because the secondary vm is on vlockstep mode and having a process running...
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VM time change makes disconnect from Network
Hi All,From last few days am facing a strange issue. I have VM with 2008 R2 running on ESXi 5.0 , in late night in between 1:00 AM to 5:00 AM my VM goes disconnected from network. There is no specific...
View ArticleRecommended setup assistance for ESXi 5.1...
I would like to get some assistance in setting up ESXi5 in HP Physical Server..I have got 2 x 136 GB Sas HDD and 3 x 600 GB SAS HDD in HP DL380 GEN 8 server...If I would like install ESXi5 on that...
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Recover PSOD ESXi?
Hi Forums, i have a brand new DELL T620 server with pre-installed ESXi 5.0 (free) on its redundant SD module (mirrored SD cards on the motherboard)Unfortunately i bricked the hypervisor by adding a...
View ArticleMAC address of vmkernel on vSwitch
Hi all, I just noticed something and would like to be sure about it. Until now, all of our servers:had two NICs, let's address them as 00:00:00:aa:bb:cc and 00:00:00:dd:ee:ffa vSwitch0 with vmk0 for...
View ArticleWindows 2003 asks for registration after migration
Hi all, I migrated my windows 2003 from physical to ESXi 5 with VMware Converter. After the system started the network interfaces got screwed up, so there was no internet connectivity for the VM. At...
View ArticleBad size of disk
Hi, I have VM with 500GB thin prov. size. It is Centos6 server. From DF I have: [root@beta ~]# df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/mapper/vg_beta-LogVol00...
View ArticleHow to debug using vm-support log in ESXi 5.0
Hi All, Now we are porting a linux sample block disk driver to ESXi 5.0. During the development we got PSOD in add_disk() function. Once the ESXi 5.0 rebooted after PSOD, we got the log files by...
View ArticleError relocate Virtual machine, migrate, clone, convert, etc... Failed to...
Hello, I have a very strange problèm, when I try to migrate the storage of 1 disk of a virtual machine. I need to relocate the c: of my windows server actually on a local datastore to a iscsi...
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Set the number of licensed-HELP**
Hi Is there another way to get the license number into the esxi 5.1 server???I have a problem with the usual way: configuration----licenced feathures-----edit I always get an error: Attached Image...
View ArticlePrivate Network Between ESXi 5 VMs
Hi, After working with VMware server for a while I have moved over the ESXi 5. With VMware server we had the ability to create virtual machines where all the could access was other virtual machines and...
View ArticleHardware monitoring service on this host is not responding ?
Its a HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server and it was working fine (A visual inspection of the server shows all lights are green). How do I get it back? Is there a service I can safely restart (and how do I...
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