ESXi 5.1 Essential :- What is the Physical RAM Limit on Host ?
From my understanding :- Free ESxi Hypervisor 4.x :- 256 GB ( I actually have a machine with 64 GB running free 4.1 and it accepts it ) Free ESxi Hypervisor 5.x :- 32 GB :- Seriously ??? ESxi...
View ArticleESXi5.0 Logs
In ESXi5.0, what logs do we need to look for to see any issues on the ESXi server such as for any crashes, errors and warnings. And do these logs disappear when you reboot the server , or is there a...
View Articleblu ray compatibility
Hellowe would like to backup from a VM SBS2008 onto blu ray.The vm is running on esxi 5.0.Is it possible to connect an SATA bly ray?Or maybe better an USB blu ray burner?Has anyone any experiences with...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Cluster Networking best practises
We are getting ready to replace our existing SAN with a new 10G Dell md3620i with a 1220 expansion chassis. We are adding a dual port 10g network card to all of our hosts. We have a total of 6 hosts....
View Articlevcenter5.1 and NIS domain
Is that possible to join the vCenter 5.1 to NIS domain because there is no option in vCenter 5.1 Web Interface. Earlier in vCenter 5.0 this option was there. Anyone any idea on this?
View Articlelicensing dilemma about vsphere essentials plus
I work in the public sector for a joint venture of municipalities who configures itself as a new juridic entity and has the duty to run the IT sector in behalf of all the involved municipalities; two...
View ArticleVSphere 5.0 "Lost connectivity to storage device" even though it's detached
Hello, I have a VSphere 5.0 cluster with several hosts. I have an operation that runs every few hours that detaches and reattaches a set of RDM LUNs to some of the VMs in the cluster. I've followed...
View ArticleAfter Update 2, Esxi 5.0 host cannot see storage
I have an HP DL380 G8 server that was running ESXi 5.0. It had 6 virtual machines running on it for 8 months without any trouble. Today I applied Update 2 for ESXi 5.0 and it said the update applied...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 with IBM customization
Hi, First of all, sorry for my poor English. I got the following issue/doubt; I did download an ESXi 5.1 from IBM website and installed on our only server.I created 4 necessary VM's and installed...
View ArticleCannot get vmware to boot from anything other than network
Hi, I have a new install of ESXI 5.1I can create a vitual machine, but I cannot get it to boot from either cd-rom or from a iso image on the local disk.It always tries to boot from the network.I have...
View Articlevmnic negotiating only 100mMB although connected to gig port
The isssue is:VMnic is only negotiate 100MB speed although it is connected to a gig port and the switch also a gig switch. Both set to auto negotiate.Any idea?
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Esxi 5.1 pci passthrough broken
I got a purple screen when I start up a vm with a pci device With Esxi5 was working fine. I tested it with 2 vm on different hosts ( but same hardware) i7 2600 32gb mb: dq67sw What can I try
View ArticleNetwork Health Monitor Status Unknown
While using the new vSphere 5.1 Web Client, I have got a vCenter 5.1 with Distributed Network Switches. I have enabled "VLAN and MTU health check" and "Teaming and failover health check". However, when...
View ArticleHow do I AutoDeploy with out a reference host profile.
Hi all, This one is driving me nuts....I have a small lab setup.I have 4 hosts, all diskless. One physical vcenter 5.0 server with my tftpd/dhcp/pxe, auto deploy, vcenter 5.0, powercli installed on it....
View ArticleSlowdown when create Vm Disk
HelloI have yet many experiments in vmware, so please be forgivingI have updated a V5 HA cluster a few months ago.Since a few days, I have a slowdown during the creation of VM.example: to add a 300 GB...
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ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Hello! I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build...
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 ArticleGetting the Zimbra appliance onto a VSXi server
I'm trying to install the Zimbra appliance onto a VSXi server through the VMware vSphere Client running on a Windows 7 Workstation The VSXi server is well established here and I'm in fact using this...
View ArticleBacking up a bootable usb drive
Hi, I have a few servers that boots ESXi from bootable usb sticks, and am trying to make a 1:1 clone of them in case the original usbs fail. I have tried WinImage to extract the image and restoring it...
View ArticleP2V ESXi 5.1.0 - Guest on Boot Continually Reverting to Previous Snapshot
Extremely urgent here unfortunately.We used stand-alone converter our PDC (Server 2003 x64) that runs Exchange 2007 a week back to convert an aging and somewhat failing physical server. Everything went...
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