ESXi 5.1 whitebox - freeze issues
Hello friends! Have just built an ESXi whitebox.Specs:CPU: AMD FX 6100Mobo: Gigabyte GA-78LMT USB3RAM: Corsair Value Series 2*8GB 1333 MHz 1.5VPSU: Corsair CX 430V3 Will try to keep myself short.The...
View ArticleCan not simultaneously power on multiple VMs.. vim-cmd issue?
Hello all you good people. I am facing an issue powering multiple VMs on simultaneously beyond some limit. I have script which I use to power on my VMs. The script is supposed to take a list &...
View ArticleI have big problems .... Lost my vCenter server
I am running ESXi 5.0 and vCenter 5.0. Shortly after correcting some issues I had today in my Virtual Switches and Virtual adapters everything seemed to be doing great until ... All of a sudden my...
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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...
View ArticleESXi 5 Intel 82579LM passthrough
Hi everyone, i ask you to take a look at this issue: https://sourceforge.net/p/e1000/bugs/1/ I strongly believe that this is a problem with ESXi 5. I have been trying to get this to work for some weeks...
View ArticleVMWare Migration
Hi, I am new to VMWARE moves, and have been given the task to migrate all VMs from one host to another. I assume I can plug a USB drive into the current host, download the VMDKs etc from teh...
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 ArticleVMFS 3 to 5 Upgrade
New host builds are version ESX5i, however most of our current production environment is ESX 4.0. We need to decide whether to continue formating new datastores to VMFS 3.33 or version 5. Should we...
View ArticleDetecting and Resolving Orphaned Snapshots in ESXi 5
In our old ESX 4 environment, I received some great help on detecting and resolving Orphaned snapshots via the following thread:http://communities.vmware.com/thread/429119?start=0&tstart=0 We...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 5 vSphere Client with different ESXi 5 Servers
I have mutiple esxi 5 servers and not all of them are on the same version and it seems like vSphere Client will only connect to it if the esxi 5 server and client are on the same version. How can I...
View Article5.1 ha config
i have HP inter core i7-2600 cpu 3.4 ghz and HP intel xeon cpu e31240 3.30 ghz computer. i want to install esxi 5.1 Does it work ha and VMotion,DRS on computers. it is just for lab ...
View ArticleHow to preserve the Datastore Permanently in Evaluation version?
Hi I am running an Evaluation version of ESXi5.0.0 (VMKernel Release Build 469512), so can i update it to the latest version either online or offline to keep it compartible with all latest products...
View ArticlePatching ESXi 5.x using esxcli: "instal" or "update"?
Hi community,I'm just trying to apply the latest patch ESXi510-201303001.zip to my esxi host using command-line (no update-manager). I'm following guide from vmware knowledge base:...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Hangs on SSD
Hi, I have ESX 5.1i installed on a kingstond 60 GB SSD and rest of the drive is used for cache. My VM's are running on NFS storage.Installation of ESX went fine but is have an issue after a week or so...
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign On master password
Hi guys i do not remember admin@system-domain password i wondring how to reset admin's account password i tried to reset password by rsautil command line but i dont remember master password. Anyway to...
View ArticleVMkernel Ports NIC Configuration
Our system dates back to ESX 3.5 and was designed so that VMotion and Management traffic use the same vlan. There are 2 physical nic's in each of our ESXi hosts that are configured to carry this...
View ArticleServer Certification Multi-GOS-Network-Stress Fails
All the other tests for the Server Certification pass, except this one. When the test runs, it creates clone VMs. I get several errors where the test says that a file or directory is either already...
View ArticleGuests are not connecting to network after vmotion.
We have 6 VM hosts. 4 are configured with multiple 1G VM GUEST network (trunked), and 2x 1G VMKERNEL for management and vMotion. Other 2 hosts are configured with 1x 10G for VM GUEST network and 2x...
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1000v Vcenter Network view vlanid column blank
All, I have noticed this for some time but didn't worry about it to much because I would get the vlan tag from the port tab and look at a VM on that group. How come on the network tab the vlan id...
View ArticleWOOPS! Wiped NTFS into VMFS
Okay, So I found this out the hard way!I have VMware ESXi 5.0.0 Release Build 469512 I had a seperate 250gb drive in my host server with windows and documents on it that I wanted to be able to access...
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