system outage, looking for answers
Need some help guys. Had a major system outage last week, and I’m a little confused as to what happened and why I was unable to recover from it gracefully. I’ve lost some of my confidence in Vsphere,...
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Internal debate going on maybe someone here can help me out. Is there anything VMotion related that a 5.1 Standard licensed host cannot handle outside of a "storage vmotion" operation? We are not...
View ArticleMigration SQL server 2008 to SQL server standard, what's the best ?
Good evening, I need help for a sql server migration. We have already a vcenter 5.1 in production installed in Windows 2008 R2 x64 with SQL Server 2008 express. Ours datas increase and ourODBC can't...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 constantly 'not responding' in vCenter
Hi all,I have this annoying ESXi 5.1 server that's causing me problems..It used to be an ESX 3.5 server that I re-installed as an ESXi 5.1 yesterday. Just to explain all the backgrounds, I've got to...
View ArticleDell Poweredge T110 esxi and RAID
Hi all, i currently have a dell poweredge t110 (first gen) I would like to add raid to this system, but I am just confused on the different configurations. I believe this box may only support on board...
View ArticleHow to Upgrade Dell MEM 1.1.0 to 1.1.2 in vSphere 5.0 using Update Manager.
Hello, I would like to know step by stpe How to Upgrade Dell MEM 1.1.0 to 1.1.2 in vSphere 5.0 using Update Manager. I have read few PDFs which say Update manager will only install the Dell MEM and...
View ArticleGetting smashed on vCenter 5.1 SSO Install
VMWare Experts, Getting smashed on the vCenter 5.1 SSO Install and was wondering if I could get some assistance. This is what I've done so far: 1.) Execute the "rsaIMSLiteMSSQLSetupTables.sql" 2.)...
View ArticleESX servers and Memory Types
I want to use 2 IBM servers as esxi hosts in a cluster: CPU - 2 x 2.53 Ghz Quad-core Xeon - E5630 it supports 1066 MHz RDIMMS CPU – 2 x 2.60 Ghz Xeon 8-Core Xeon E5 it supports 1600 MHz 1600 RDIMMS...
View Articledatastore getting disconnected
ESXi overtime lost access to files in datastores. It never happened all at once It started with 1 datasore and slowly affected more and more. All other esx serveres were unaffected. The datastore did...
View ArticleSetting up backup network - What type of port Group
I am designing an isolated backup network that will backup my ESXi 5.0 datacenter via vcenter using Symantec backup Exec 2013. thsi network will be attached to a dedicated backup storage appliance. I...
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ESXi 5.1 - PSOD LINT1 motherboard interrupt
Upgraded a server from ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.1, but now when I power on a VM that is passing a device through PCI Passthrough, I get this immediate LINT1 PSOD on the server. Anyone else experiencing...
View ArticleiSCSI configuration lost after reboot
I have just upgraded esxi 5.0 to 5.1. I used to have local datastore, which I changed to openfiler iSCSI storage during upgrade. After rebooting all configuration changes done to Network adapters,...
View ArticleCorrect amount of memory display on host configuration but not on Total...
Dear ESXi community !I'm running ESXi 5.0.0, 623860 (Cisco specific) on my server. It has 6GB installed. In the host Configuration-->Memory display i see 6141,9 Mo but in the Ressource Allocation...
View ArticleESXi 5 AutoStart virtual machines?
Hello, I have two servers with ESXi 5 build 623860. Both with a free license.One has a Linux VM for mail spam filtering and the other one has 3 Win 2008 R2 Std.All the VMs are configured for Automatic...
View ArticleChanging Host Name
I am trying to change the domain for my hosts. I have changed the domain in the host properties and it does reflect the change in the configuration and directly on the host, however the host name in...
View ArticleErrror - CBT: 986: Unsupported ioctl 58
Hi, I am seeing the following error a lot in wmkwarning log files on ESXi 5.1 host (all latest patches applied) CBT: 986: Unsupported ioctl 58 Any suggestions as to what is up, where I could look to...
View ArticleDrive space in P2V'd server
I'm going to be P2V'ing several server 2003 OS's (I know, I know...OS's have expensive software installed and client doesn't want to buy new versions). Will I be able to expand the drive space of the...
View ArticleFailed to create snapshot (backup or manual snap task) linux rhel 5.4
Hi, I am getting this error when creating a VDR backup (normally created task) or manual snaphot (unchecked "Snapshot the virtual machine's memory", checked "Quiesce guest file system needs vmware...
View ArticleNTP Server options
We are using a test ESXi 5.1 environment that consists of 3 hosts with vCenter running as a VM (Win2008).Our environment has no internet connectivity and there are no servers on the network other than...
View ArticleWARNING: Fil3: 2492: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 50a3fc14 ac47ff95...
2012-11-14T20:58:11.903Z cpu0:2961)WARNING: Fil3: 2492: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 50a3fc14 ac47ff95 5000ca19 92238056 0 0 0 0 0 0 02012-11-14T20:58:11.903Z cpu0:2961)Vol3: 2359: Failed to get...
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