ESXi 5.1 hosts randomly disconnects from vCenter
Hi.After installing vSphere vCenter and ESXi 5.1 (with latest patches), we are starting to see hosts disconnecting randomly from vCenter.We have different server models but so far, we have only seeing...
View ArticleThe vsphere web client cannot connect to the vcenter single sign on server,...
After upgrading to 5.1, I have been running into this error a lot. For some reason, the SSO service seems to stop working after about a week and requires a reboot to get it back online. Does anyone...
View ArticleCan't run VSphere on Ubuntu Linux box
I installed all the pearl libs, and installed vshere with success, but, whenever I try to run vmwarectrl, I got the following error: VMWARE_CTRL Extension not found. How can I do to fix this? Thanks
View ArticleCan boot guest from ISO but not install OS from ISO
I have many ISO files for geust OS installation that have been tested and used many times over. I have a new vSphere 5.1 installation with no local DVDROM so I have uploaded some ISO's to the local...
View ArticlevCenter Inventory Service cannot start. Error reference System Event Log...
vCenter Inventory Service cannot start. Error reference System Event Log which states "The vCenter Inventory Service service terminated with specific-specific error Incorrect function.."
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ESXi 5.1 (Dell Version) and Core's Not Being Reported
Hello, Just starting to play with ESXi running on a Dell F1D server. I have installed Dell's version of ESXi and everything is up and running correctly. The one thing that has me confused is that the...
View ArticleUpdate Manager Repository
Hi All, Is it possible to remove an individual patch from the update manager repository?If yes, can this be done through the GUI or can it only be done using PowerCLI?Once removed, will this download...
View ArticleMax SVmotion limit for Datastore doesn't appear to be working
All, I recently upgraded to 5.0 U2 on our Vcenter and hosts and I kicked off a Move-VM command to storage vmotion all these guests from assorted datastores to a single datastore. I thought it would...
View ArticleMove vmdk files, same datastore
Hi I am having a datastore which also holds the snapshots of my VMs, Snapshots is handled by my storage. When i try to move a vmdk file from the snapshot folder to another folder on the same datastore,...
View ArticleHelp Pricing System
Ok Guys and Gals,I've been thrown into the fire and not only need to learn Vmware by last week, also need to convert 26 Servers/Computers and get this priced out and purchased...all quite unreasonable....
View ArticleNFS connectivity lost
Hello I lost my NFS connectivity (5 shares) The config:Synology NAS 192.168.0.100Link aggregation (vmk0, vm1) with a VMKERNEL 192.168.0.232Management link (vmk3) with VMKERNEL 192.168.0.235 On...
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HP DL 360G5 Firmware warning.
Has anyone got any experiance of this issue.I am running a HP proliant DL360 with intergrated p400i raid controller and battery cache.The server has had the HP update disc run and all drivers and...
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Turbo Boost Question
Hi everybody!First of all, sorry for my bad english, i'm Italian. I have noticed on my ESXi that the vSphere client show my CPU capable to reach 3,2Ghz, while my CPU supports the Turbo Boost technology...
View ArticleCloned DNS server issues
First let me preface this by saying I cloned our production DNS servers via clonezilla and restored that clone to a VM on our private network. Here's what I have and what I'm trying to accomplish.What...
View ArticleVAAI and Essentials kit edition
Hi,Looking at the different editions of vSphere it is obvious that VAAI support is only supported in Enterprise and Enterprise plus editions. Does this mean that when using another edition (Essentials...
View ArticleHow to have VM consume any unused resources?
HiI was wondering what the best way is to go about using up the hosts free CPU resources. Is possible to set a guest VM on ESXi 5.1 to consume any available free MHz but with a minimum priority, so if...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - netwrk shows as up but no traffic seen
Hi I have installed ESXi 5.1 on a laptop in my lab. it was previously running 5.0 without issue. IP address could be recieved from a DHCP server or via static. Installed ESXi 5.1 and no communication...
View ArticleServer 2008 - Vcenter requires .NET 3.5, but IIS comes along...
Somebody has to do a better job with this VCenter 5.1.... I cannot get this thing installed at all. Just a light dusting on the pre-requisites and all the problems I see people writing about have...
View ArticleQlogic qle2464 seems failed to pass through
Dear all i just built a new whitebox for running zfs nas vm. Need passthrough hba to this vm as fc target. I try to passthrough qle2464 and reboot failed passthrough. But emulex lpe11002 ok. These two...
View ArticleESXi installer can't see RAID Array
I have attempted to install ESXi 5.1 to an HP Proliant Dl160 G6, with 4 2TB hard disks in a RAID 1+0 array using an HP b110i controller. When it comes time to select the media to install ESXi to, the...
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