iscsi bindings and port groups
Hi,We have one esx 5.1 server connected to a storage device that is iscsi based. the server is connected using two iscsi vmkernal ports. each nic has a different ip on the private iscsi vlan. the...
View ArticlePSOD on Dell R515 BIOS 2.0.2 - ESXi 5.0 Updatetd
Hi, today i had a Purple Screen on a new Dell R515 with the latest BIOS (2.0.2).We bought 2 of these machines in 2012 with BIOS 1.10.0 and had no problems. Yesterday i installed 2 additional R515 with...
View Articleesxi 5.0 esxtop question
i use esxtop but i cant find ABRTS/s on esxtop . which are keyesxi 5.0
View ArticleOverhead in Hypervisor Per vSwitch
How much overhead is created by each vSwitch in Hypervisor?
View ArticleUnable to format LUN with staf
I tried the following steps on a DELL equalogic Target: 1. Created a datastore using the following command:# staf local VTAF_HOST formatvol anchor <IP address of vCenter Server>:<username of...
View ArticleAbysmal Upload Speed in ESXi 5.1
I have been reading thread all over the Internet for two days and every discussion of this gets into the weeds and goes nowhere... and usually ends with "use Veeam", which doesn't seem to really work...
View Articleesxi 5.1 freezing in installation.. please help me anyone..... :-
esxi 5.1 freezing in pata_amd.. how to...? please anyone..... :-<....i hurried up for my hosting company.....s....ohno...my system is it.cpu: opteron 2718 ( es/engineer edition )m/b : tyan s2937ram:...
View ArticleSolaris 11.1 - Jumbo Frames?
Has anyone successfully got jumbo frames, mtu 9000 to actually work in solaris 11.1? --------------vmxnet3 attempt:root@media5:~# dladm show-linkprop -p mtuLINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE...
View ArticleWindows perfmon counters or VSphere stats?
Hi, I've seen lots of discussions going on about which stats to go with when looking at VM performance and how Windows and its applications manage memory, and wanted to run the following situation...
View ArticleNetwork Speeds
Hi all, I have a new install of ESXi 5.1 on a HP ML350p server with SAS drives and I was wondering what network speeds you guys are getting. I'm using the VMXNET3 network card on my CentOS box and...
View ArticleNetwork performance problems since Build 1021289
Hi, we use Cisco Nexus 1000v (4.2(1)SV2(1.1a)) as DVS with 2x 10 GigE Uplinks for vMotion Interfaces (NIC: Broadcom BCM57810). Jumbo Frames are activated on all relevant switches.Before the ESX...
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Core Dump Collection Failure - Missing netdump Firewall Ruleset
Recently I began testing the Core Dump Collector Service 5.0 (not for Auto Deploy) and discovered that the netdumpfirewall ruleset is missing from the base rulesets located in...
View ArticleExchange 2010 on VMware ESXi 5.1 with 2 physical servers
Dear Friends - I have ex2003 on win2008R2ENT and want to upgrade with Ex2010 on win2k8R2Ent On VMware Esxi 5.1 with 2 Physical servers request you to please help me how can I go about it.
View ArticleNeed to install ESXi 5.1.0 on a new Hard Disk.
Hi Friends, I need to Install ESXi 5.1.0 in a New HARD DISK on Dell poweredge 1950 server. Kindly guide me the things i need to do.I have inserted a cd with the ISO image of the ESXi 5.1.0 software and...
View ArticleIs it possible to convert thick Lazy zeroed to Eager zeroed online
Hi, All I tried to clone from windows 2008 template with 50GB OS disk which is Eager zeroed disk type. Cloning went well and I tried to extend the OS disk size from 50GB to 80GB before first OS start...
View ArticlevMotion without shared storage
Hello.Does anybody tried to use vMotion without shared storage (via webclient) based on a Essentials Plus license??? My option is still greyed out in the dialog.... ESXi hosts are on 5.1 and in the...
View ArticleCloning VMachine
Ok , so following my previous post How to virtualise a physical server , i have done this and everything works fine. I now have more questions My questions 1.Is there a way to clone a vm already in...
View ArticleUnable to join ESXi5 to 2008R2 Domain - "Errors in Active Directory Operations"
Trying to join an ESXi 5 host to a 2008R2 domain and get the error "Errors in Active Directory Operations". It is connecting to the DC and peforming a LDAP query. I enabled debug logging per...
View Article....Taking over a new vSphere install. got some issues to clean up
vCenter is running as a VM and sql keeps filling up. I believe its due to this error popping up constantly. Login to iSCSI target iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-917014a05-f64000e7a4e4c4d1-ts01 on...
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