found more than one vmfs partition on disk
Hi Guys, I was in a process of upgrading our blade server (Dell PowerEdge M610) from ESX 4.1 to VSphere 5.0 and after booting the server from ISO and I got the error message that Upgrade can't happen...
View ArticleStorage setup for 3 Esxi 5.0 (Free) without Vsphere
I´m gonna setup 3 ESXI hosts (free edition) with no vsphere for now. a) If I purchase a Vsphere licence next year, can I just upgrade the 3 installed hosts without re-installing them? b) Storage issue...
View ArticleShutdown ESXi with APC Network Powerchute
We would like to use the network management card to shut down our ESXi hostsCurrent Environment.UPS – APC Symetra 3-Phase with an AP9631 Network Monitoring CardCisco UCS with 10 blades, 6 for VDI, and...
View ArticleRemoving health sensors
Hi, I have a demo white box with a S5000PSL motherboard - absent reflashing the bios and reinstalling ESXi to disable the multitude of fan monitors that the board supports and we do not use, how I can...
View ArticleAlert Notification for Host Performance Degradation - I/O Latency
Hi All - Can someone please let me know how I can setup an emal alert (notification) to let me know when one of our hosts starts reporting the following... Device naa.600601601a402800507679ed6f61e111...
View Articlex9scl+-F 3xM1015 (sas2008-IT mode) major CHKSum Errors on scrubs - only in ESXi
I've got a strange problem with Openindiana (versions 151a5 up to 151a7) using VT-d where any heavy load on my 10xSegate 3TB drives (or any drives for that matter) cause thousands of CHKSum Errors...
View ArticleUpgraded from 5.0 to 5.1 and VMs don't work?
I have 2 hosts and they share a NAS that hosts the vms. Both hosts were running esxi5 and I upgraded 1 host to 5.1 by popping in the CD and selecting Upgrade ESXi, preserve VMFS datastore Now the vms...
View ArticleCannot update from ESXi 5 to 5 U1
I have from to update from the command line multipletimes to no avail. I am running a basic machine, 8 core AMD 8120, 16GB ram, home built. I have ran: esxcli software profile update...
View Article(Physical) RAM used by a VM
I try to measure the real memory (RAM) use of an ESXi host, member of a vSphere 5 infrastructure.I need to understand how much RAM is used by a given VM, a Windows Server 2008 R2 guest.The memory size...
View ArticlePERC5i VT-d issues in ESXi5, PERC6 as a solution?
Hi all. I've just built a whitebox ESXi 5 machine running on a MSI Z68A-GD80(B3). I have just noticed data corruption issues with my Dell PERC5i RAID controller. After some reasearch, it seems that...
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Problem with installation ESXi 5 on Intel server board S2600GZ
Hello everyone! We have recently bought server Intel R1208GZ4GC based on S2600GZ boardSo when I tried to set up ESXi on it I got a problem there were no any VFMS partitions to install I found out that...
View ArticleHow do I find out the IP for a given MAC address in esxi-shell
How do I find out the IP for a given MAC address in esxi-shell ? esxcli network ip neighbor list does not list the MAC addresses I need to resolve
View ArticleUpdate Manager and ESXi 5.0 to 5.1
Hi I am trying to upgrade my host to ESXi 5.1 using Update Manager running under ESXi 5.0u1 and vCenter 5.0u1.When I import the ESXi 5.1 VIM ISO, I get the following error... Import ESXi...
View ArticleVMware Data Protection Appliance Deployment problem
Hi. I am trying to deploy the new Data Protection Appliance 5.1.1 but I am having this problem, when I go to menu File deploy OVF template and follow the wizard I do not have the option to select Thin...
View ArticleHost memory: Active memory vs. consumed memory
Looking at the performance tab of an ESXi host I see two far different values: "consumed memory" is about 80% of the available (physical RAM), while "active" memory shows a really low value, about 4%...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 vMotion Question
I have a customer that has two esx servers one is esx 4.0 and the other is 4.1. The esx 4.0 is an IBM System x3650 m2 with an Intel Xeon E5530. The esxi 4.1 is an HP Proliant DL360 G6 with an Intel...
View ArticleInstalled VM Workstation 9 and added ESXi 5 as a Virtual Machine
I installed VM Workstation 9 and added ESXi 5 as a virtual machine. I connected to the ESXi host using vSphere. I used the wizard to create a VM. Here is my question. There is a place in the wizard...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade error
In datastore1, I enteresxcli software profile update -d VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-depot.zip -p VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-standardIt returns [MetadataDownloadError] Could not download from depot at...
View ArticleUSB drive & 2nd nic IP address
Hi All, I'm sure these questions have been asked before but I'm struggling to find answers. The following configurations are easy to do under Xen Server, but seem difficult under VMware ESXi (we want...
View ArticleESXi 5 vmnic stops passing traffic
After running backups for several hours a vmnic just stops passing network traffic. The problem has been isolated down by connecting one vmnic to a vswitch. The virtual server being backed up has a...
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