ESXI 5.1 how to support more than 2TB (with raid controller)
First I setup the RAID 5 disks from raid controller and then from esxi I mapped the drives to a VM, when I add hard disk to this VM I can add 2TB virtual drive. Now I want to try the passthrough...
View ArticleESXi 5 iSCSI bug still here in 5.1?
Hi everybody, I have deployed ESXi 5.1 on an HP P2000 G3 iSCSI array (see my post on this at http://communities.vmware.com/thread/402472?start=0&tstart=0). So far I have had no issues, but recently...
View Articleupdate free "original vmware" esxi5 to HP Customized esxi 5.1
hi @all i have a question concerning the upgrade from an original vmware esxi 5.0 (free version!) on a HP Proliant DL 380 G7 with HP P2000 G3 MSA SAS attached to esxi 5.1 can i use the hp customized...
View ArticleWhat is 'Enum - VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier' s for all verisons of...
What is 'Enum - VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier' s for all verisons of 'Windows server 2012' guest os?
View ArticleVSphere HA Shows Unprotected
VMware vCenter Server 5.0 build 455964 – All of my vm’s are protected by HA except for my email server.
View ArticleVMware Tools event in Windows
Hi, I have a Windows 2008 R2 Vm that just keeps on logging an event 1000 ([ warning] [vmusr:vmusr] Error in the RPC receive loop: RpcIn: Unable to send.) which occurs every second. I am using ESXi5.1...
View Articlevmdk "overgrew" 2tb ?!
Hello i have large VM based on LVM 4X2TB disks.i migrated the VM from one datastore to another , it took long time to complete and now i have one vmdk that overgrew the 2TB limit (2.37TB)how can that...
View ArticleNot able to consolidate snapshot
Hi there, I have a linux virtual machine on esxi 5.1. Before any upgrade of my ubuntu yesterday I had took some snapshots manually. Now I would like to consolidate this snapshots but I'm not able to...
View ArticlevCenter migration: change host and datastore slow
Environment:- 1 vCenter appliance (VM)- 2 ESX hosts with 1 local datastore each (no SAN); E1 and E2- 1 Gbps networking- no vMotion - the VM to be migated is switched off When performing a VM-migration...
View ArticleServer 2003 Crash
Been having some issues over the past few weeks with my DellR710s 8 Physical Servers with 24 VMs running Windows 2003. After a reboot (during start up scripts) have the following error present. Servers...
View ArticleWin Error Code 12 in the devmgmt.msc after installing ten vmxnet3 Adapters
Hi, we have a problem on a windows 2008 R2 SP1, after we changed all ten e1000 Nic's into vmxnet3 adapter type.After we have booted the server, all ten adapters are installed an visible in the Windows...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 guests locking up after warm reboot
Has anyone else come across an issue with Windows Server 2012 guests locking up after a warm reboot? Ctrl-Alt-Ins from the console doesn't even work, and it requires the guest to be power cycled. I'm...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Loses Network Connectivity when handling Snapshots
Virtual Machine Loses Network Connectivity when handling Snapshots Windows 2008 R2 Flexible NIC Adapter When i take Snapshot it freezes for 30 seconds and pings Fail no Timeout errors in the...
View Articleunable to power on a virtual machine what logs to look for
unable to power on a virtual machine what logs to look for
View ArticleTime Drift (windows guests)
Hi All, I have an application in my environment that is very sensitive to time drifts; the environment is nearly 100% virtualized (including domain controllers) and is set-up to use windows time...
View Articlevlans in esxi
I have a four port physical nic card connected to a cisco switch in a port-group as trunked dot1.q. I have created a dvSwitch and I would like to put my hosts in different vlans. I cant seem to find...
View ArticleCannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password.
Hi I am running ESXi5 & used to connect through a vSphere Client supplying below details & it was connecting fine. IP: 10.0.0.1username: rootpassword: ******** but today when i tried to login...
View ArticleOf 15 ESXi 5 hosts, 8 hosts are connected, 7 hosts are not.
Of 15 ESXi 5 hosts, 8 hosts are connected, 7 hosts are not.
View ArticleESX Cluster Configuration
Looking to build a cluster of 3 ESXi servers (vsphere 5) to manage a 35 virtual servers environment(HA and Fault Tolerant) Currently have 5 possible candidates for ESX Server: (See Attachment)1 IBM...
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