Performed P2V to ESXi 5.1, vm auto reverts to snapshot during boot
Just performed a P2V using Vmware Convert 5.0.1 to ESXi 5.1 this weekend, took a snapshot of the vm prior to booting, but now the vm auto reverts to the latest snapshot during boot. If you remove all...
View ArticleBrowse VA Marketplace Not Accessible from the vSphere Client
Browse VA. Marketplace Not Accessible from the vSphere Client. Getting the Message Page Not Found. But accessing it directly via web browser from www.vmware.com/appliances is working. Anyone any idea...
View Articleinteractive vmware tools upgrade or automatic tools upgrade
In some OS when we are installing vmware tools then they are asking about interactive vmware tools upgrade or automatic tools upgrade but in some it is not. Anyone who can tell me why is that?
View ArticleESXi 5 welcome web page & vSwitches
Hello,I have a question about the welcome web page on a ESXI 5. I have two vSwitches on the ESXi:vmnic0: vmk1: VMKernel 10.y.y.yvmnic1: vmk0: Management Network 192.x.x.x The welcome web page of the...
View ArticleESX 5.1 detected one half of my RAM
Dear Community, I just built a new system to host multiple vm's: AMD FX 8320 (8 core), 32GB RAM with 2 1TB disks. The BIOS sees all 32GB of RAM. After installing ESX 5.1, it's reporting only 16GB of...
View ArticleHP Smart Array P420i warning
Hi, I got a brand new DL380p gen8 Server with 8 300GB SAS disks in 2 raid 5, and installed esxi from the branded image: VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-HP-5.34.23.iso on the first raid.Everything seems to be...
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ESXi 5.1 hosts unable to access iSCSI VMFS Luns
Hi, there, a customer of our's, running three ESXi 5.1 hosts connecting to two HP storage systems via iSCSI, had some planned downtime this weekend.Upon bringing back up storage and Servers, they found...
View Articlesystem logs on non-persistent storage
after a big morning upgrading one of our datacenters, I have only one problem left, not serious, but as I've been trying various things and not getting anywhere with it, I'm asking for help. I upgraded...
View ArticleVMware HA comparison with other HA solution like HP Service Guard / IBM Power HA
Dear All, I am new bee in VMware world. recently completed VCP-5. While stuyding I tried to compare VMware HA with other HA solution like HP has SG and IBM has HACMP also Redhat has own cluster suite....
View ArticleUsing pre-populated HDD in ESXi 5
Hi Guys, New ESXi user here. Just a really quick question, if I have a SATA HDD with data already on it (which I want one of the VM's to be able to access (Win7x64Ent)), and throw it in the server and...
View ArticleSQL Server Best Practices
Hi,I have several SQL Servers that I need to consolidate and upgrade to 2012. I can't find a Vmware ESXi 5.1 best practice guide for SQL Server 2012, can someone point me in the right direction? I'm...
View ArticleFree Backup / Cloning Solution with Scheduling for ESXi 5
Hello. I’m fairly new to ESXi, so I pre-emptively apologize if this is a dumb question. I found only one similiar question on the forum with a single response. I’m currently working with a small...
View ArticleESXi 5 backups
I am curious to see what people are using for backing up their ESXi servers. Our current ESXi setup has 15 vm's running on it and I want to start looking into backup solutions. I see that Acronis has...
View Articlebackup VMs on local disks of ESXi 5 server...
I'm going to setup an ESXi 5 server just to host a few development boxes. They're not very important but I would still like to have a backup of them once a week. However, I was wondering if I can use...
View ArticleWorking out which vmnic is trunked as the ESXi Management ?
Can anyone advise if there is an easy way of working out which vmnic is the ESXi Management connection without having to get someone in a remote secure datacentre to physically disconnect the one...
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How to run the VM of Workstation9 on ESXi5
Hi guys I have installed RHEL5.6 in a VM on Workstation 9 & want to run that VM on ESXi5. on workstation9 I tried to Export to OVF... & after that on ESXi5 i tried to Deploy OVF Templet... but...
View Articleputty connettion
what is that ? is there any problem ?The time and date of this login have been sent to the system logs.VMware offers supported, powerful system administration tools. Pleasesee...
View ArticleExternal esata RAID enclosure
Hi, I'm planning to build an ESXi 5.1 whitebox. I have a question regarding external esata RAID enclosures (for example http://www.ssi.com.tw/en/goods.php?act=view&no=34 ). Will the ESXi se the...
View ArticleESXi 5 Vsphere Windows Time Sync Problem
Hello community,we have a time sync problem on one of our Windows 2008 R2 x64 guests which runs time critical tasks.We have a Windows domain with two domain controllers, member server should sync the...
View ArticleTime between SPO and move the VM Process
Hello, I have a question: How long is the time between Single Point of Failure and changing the VM Process to another Cluster Member in a Fault Tolerant environment. Hardware and Software Szenario: Two...
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