ucs virtual port channel
when a virtual channel port is configured between 2 nexus switches to the esxi server, does the esxi server have to change any configuration? I can treat that as trunk links and do vlan tagging on them?
View Article5.1 Essentials vMotion?
I thought I read somewhere 5.1 supported vMotion for ALL licenses of vSphere. We have a 5 Essentials licenses for some for a few hosts. I've upgraded some of my 5.0 hosts to 5.1 and I'm still unable...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and Web Client
I saw the great video from Chris Wahl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6E_-4dSlLY&feature=relmfu Looks though like it's only on vCenter Server? Not on the standalone free version of ESXi 5.1?
View Articleno"">BUG REPORT "...kern.notice] vmxnet3s:0: getcapab(0x200000) -> no"
/EDIT changed to bug report (is there any other place where I can file this?) Various users report having the issue using VMXNET3 and Solaris 11 (b173), Solaris 11 Express (b151) and OpenIndiana...
View ArticleMissing Datastore
Hi, I have a disk that I want to recover the VMDK images from. It is seen as a device in ESX 5 but not as a datastore. Can someone suggest a way I get ESX to see the disk below as a datastore? Or a way...
View ArticleDoes 5.1 have new license keys??
Or do we use our 5.0 license keys?? Thank you, Tom 5.0 not 6.0
View Articlevmware tools instllation
Hi , i have a doubte in upgrading vmware tools. for up grading vmware tools first we need to upgrade esx / esxi server then only we can update vmware tools in the VM or if vmware releases new update on...
View ArticleInstalling ESXi 5 With 1.93 GB of RAM
Hi! This is probably going to be a stupid question, but I'm trying to use an HP ProBook to create a USB drive of ESXi 5 to run on a server. (It's a long story of why I'm not just using the server to...
View ArticleNIC teaming on a two NIC server
Hello everyone! I've been trying to get NIC teaming to work on my ESXi 5.0 servers. I've been testing several configurations and got some of it to work, but not the way I want it to work. My setup: 2...
View ArticleProblems with login vcenter web interface 5.1
Guys, What am I missing, I set up a new test vcenter virtual appliance version 5.1, I can login just fine using vsphere client and at the console, but the web interface refuses to allow me in with the...
View ArticleESXi 5 Serial Port (Network Server) Won't Stay Connected
Hi all, I have setup a guest in my ESXi 5 server, I have added a serial port and instructed it to use network as a server as per this...
View ArticleESXi 5 Auto Expand feature
Disabled by default and not too easy to query or change. Other than the MOB or API, is there any "simple" way to query the system for "enabled" or "disabled"? Like a flat file that can be parsed for...
View ArticleAre there any lifecycle indications from VMware CIM providers for VM monitoring?
I want to monitor if a VM is moved from one host to another. Are there any WBEM indications that would alert of such vm movements? If so, appreciate any information on the wbem classes. Also does ESXi...
View ArticleESXi has detected 24ms round-trip vMotion network latency
Hi all, Whenever I vMotion a VM between hosts I get something along the lines of the following logged: ESXi has detected 24ms round-trip vMotion network latency between host source_host_ip and...
View ArticleHow to update/ upgrade standalone ESXi 5.x?
Hi all, I was used to patch ESXi 5.0 by this command: esxcli software vib install --maintenance-mode -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi500-xxxx.zip I read on one blog yesterday that I would have to...
View Articleshutdownesxi.pl multiplehosts
I am wanting to shutdown mulitple ESX hosts with on script from VMA. /bin/shutdown.pl --server -username --password, (this is for a single host) How do i do this for multiple host from one single...
View ArticleQuestion about upgrading Datastores from Version 3 to 5
Background: We have a cluster of hosts that were running ESX 4.1 that I have migrated to ESXi 5. All of our hosts are connected to a SAN. All of the Existing Datastores are file system version 3.21 I...
View ArticleCant increase thin provisioned disk size
Hello, I'm currently using vSphere, and I have a server which I am trying to increase the allocated space from 40GB to 50GB. The problem is the option to increase the provisioned size is greyed out,...
View ArticleCannot start VMs from vSphere but I can from the ESXi client.
So I'm trying to start a VM from the client connected to my vCSA and I'm getting this error; “Power on Virtual MachineThe operation is not allowed in the current connection state of the host”. If I log...
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Dell R720 and Broadcom network interface
Hi, I have tried to install a new R720 server with 5.0 Update1 iso and it failed with "No network adapters" So I have decided to build a custom iso using 1) Downloaded latest zip file...
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