How to virtualise a physical server
Hi All, im just kinda wondering the steps involved in virtualising a physical server.(I have an esxi in place). So basically i have a physicall server on the network and i would like to perfrom some...
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Hi, We have vSphere 5 sutup and running our core network. It is all running fine. We have 4 ESXi hosts manged through a vcenter server. Now recently we have added a new switch into the network and...
View ArticleAuto Deploy Läuft immer wieder
WIr haben ein Problem mit Auto Deploy. Nach dem Absturz vom VMware Connectionserver wird bei einem Pool immer wieder die Konfiguration neu geschrieben. Der rechner bleibt aktive. Habe in dann per Hand...
View ArticleMigrate Hyper-V virtual machine cluster to VMware
I have a number of windows clusters that are on hyper-v. The shared storage is presented to the VM's via iscsi. I need to migrate these VM's to VMware and as the shared storage is via iscsi i assume i...
View Articleesxi connect to localhost failed
I have a 10 esxi host 5.1 vsphere farm and one of my hosts 'out of the blue' lost all its performance metrics.. i.e. reported 0% mem/cpu etc. I then attempted to restart management agent from cli and...
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ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Hello! I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build...
View ArticleMigrating RDM in VMDK
Hi, I want to convert a Raw Decive in a VMDK. I've got two Disks: 1. Disk in Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed2. Disk RDM (in virtual mode) While Storage vMotion to another LUN, I have chosen the setting...
View ArticleESXi very slow boot times - VM guests also respond very slow
I have an ESXi 5.1.0 new install that worked great for the first couple of days. It is not yet in any kind production situation, as I am still just testing various configurations, in order to determine...
View ArticleSpace Utilization Graphs in Datastore Performance Charts
Space Utilization Graphs in Datastore Performance Charts :Space consumption of a VMFS Datastore in OTHER category reflects high usage (50 GB) and it spiking for every 2 hours from 10 to 50 GB. How to...
View ArticleOrphaned VMDK Deltas
I've recently run into a bit of a pickle with my Nutanix/VMware setup. We had an old VM that had our file shares on it. In an effort to simplify our environment we needed to move the 2nd drive on the...
View Articlenetwork issues
I had an issue where a Backup Exec backup snapshot filled up the volume and locked up the VM. Eventually I got the snapshot consolidated, but to do it I had to create a new VM and link to the original...
View ArticleCan´t upload ESXi 5.1 image to Update Manager
When I try to upload the ESXi 5.1 image (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0-799733.x86_64.iso) to Update Manager I get this error:"Failed to import data. The uploaded upgrade cannot be used with VMware...
View ArticlevCPU Provisioning
Working on providing provisioining for a new VM host and I came across this:http://serverfault.com/questions/261108/what-does-the-vsphere-8-core-maximum-meanThe first reply mentions that vsphere will...
View Articlepurple screen with one server esxi in cluster HA
Hello, First of all, I am pleased to join this community. This is my first post with a little problem I cannot solve.I do not understand.I have 2 identical servers esxi in a HA cluster. It's two DELL...
View ArticleBasic Network Help (IP allocation)
Hi All, This is more than likely a very easy to answer question for most of you but I have a question around best practices and how-tos in terms of IP address allocation to Virtual MachinesI have done...
View ArticlevStorage APIs for array integration being used ?
Hello, Is the 'Hardware Acceleration' colum in vSphere client a fair indication of whether this feature is being used on a host. I realize there are certain restrictions like VMFS/NFS not...
View ArticleStorage server what OS?
Picked up a new Dell R720 for storage needs, would also like to use is as a data store for vcenter. I know that 2008r2 has a plugin for ISCSI, but was also looking at going with FreeNAS, any...
View ArticleServer Cert USB-ROM Test
I am failing the USB CD/DVD test in the server certification test. I am able to use the USB CD/DVD-R from within Console, so I know the VM sees it, but when I run the test, the message is :...
View ArticleMigrate VM to datastore cluster
Hey everyone, Just starting playing around with datastore clusters and i created 2 new luns from my VNX and created a datastore cluster from them. When i go to test migrate a VM to the new datastore...
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