Memory Overcommitment
Hi all,I have an question about memory overcommitment. A guy of my team doesn't want to use this feature provided by VmWare whereas we do have sufficicient resources in order to support memory...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 on a Adaptec 6405
Hi there...I'm having trouble installing ESXi on this RAID card. It's not seeing any discs at all. Are there no drivers in ESXi 5.1 for this card?Are there any SIMPLE instructions to get the drivers...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 host accepts no network connetctions
Hi guys, I installed a new 5.1 ESXi Server from Scratch and there is no network activity!Through boot process I can see the Intel E1000 driver is loaded.The physical Link is up and shown correctly on...
View ArticleEasy way to mirror entire datastore to another hdd (or span the hdd's) on...
Version: ESXI 5.1 I am running my entire datastore on a single 750GB model, but in terms of redundancy I don't have any. What would be the easiest, and more simple solution on a free license to create...
View ArticlevSphere Replication 5.1 Error
I recently intalled and setup the vSphere replication appliance, but when I try to setup a replication of a VM I get the following eror: (VM_NAME) replication error: There is a storage issue with...
View ArticlevSphere Configuration Free-For-All
Hi All, I wanted to try something new, well at least for me. I have a project that I'm putting together and I wanted to see what the community thinks, hoping to get some good ideas, maybe...
View ArticleSegment VM's
I've got 5 VM's that are my main servers and just created a Win 8 VM that I will allow RDP access from the outside (using non-standard RDP port). How do I make it so that the Win8 VM can't see any of...
View ArticleESXi 5.1, IBM DS3200 SAS - high disk latency with 2 hosts running
(2) IBM x3650 hosts running esxi 5.1 with 2xHBA SAS connections to IBM DS3200 dual controller SAN. I have 2 arrays, both set to multi-host access for vmware. With a single host powered on and running...
View ArticleHas anybody got LCD status display working on ESXi 5.1?
Hi I have got his usb2lcd display, and i want it to display some info about my host, cpu utilization and so on.this display is supported my linux, but im not sure how to install it.any ideas.
View ArticleIs the Intel Z68 chipset supported?
Is the Intel Z68 chipset supported by ESXi 5.0? I looked at the HLC at http://www.vm-help.com//esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php#MB I only saw 1 gigabyte board with a Z68, that wasn't fully 'green' on the...
View ArticleVMWare Tools, WMI Performance Counters Windows
Hi, I'm involved as a 3.party vendor in the Dynamics AX field in Norway and vSphere has become a normal part of the infrastructure we implement AX on. I recently discovered the possibility to gather...
View Articleesxi 5.1 - sending logs to vmware syslog server
I have the vmware syslog service installed on the vcenter server (and I chose the "integrated with vcenter" option when I installed it). What do I need to do, in order to have my hosts send their...
View ArticleHave VM counters changed in ESX5?
I am using vmware tools 8.6.0 and 8.6.5 on VMs that are running Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit). There is a suite of WMI counters that get added to the windows environment that...
View ArticleESX 4.0 VM Storage migration
Appreciate if you can help me with this. One of our customer have 2x ESX 4.0 hosts with VMware standard edition license. Currently the VM files are resided in the local hard disk in the respective...
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Will it work?
I've got ESXi 5.1 running. It has only got one datastore that running on a RAID10 (6 physical drives 300GB each SAS 15K). One of the virtual machines will be running Server 2008 R2 with Exchange 2010...
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Do Dell R710 needed to be upgrade Firmware?
Hi everybody, My servers are Dell R710 running ESXi 4.1. The current firmware of servers are 2.1.1 After check vmware compatibility guide for my servers, I got the result: Should I upgrade the...
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Bug in vmkdrivers:ESXi 5.1 crashing on link down and iSCSI discovery
Hi, this is ESXi5.1 HP image on HP DL360 with two internal Broadcom NICs NC373i connected to an HP MSA2312i.The first crash happens with totally unconfigured NICs just by taking the link down with:...
View ArticleBest practices - setting up multiple servers then deploying
I have a little experience with Player, Standalone converter but am fairly new to VMWare and am a bit confused. Not sure this is the right forum. I want to set up three virtal Linux servers and get...
View ArticleLoss of 1 HBA causes host to lock up
Hi folks, I had something odd go on last night. My host is an ESXi 5.0.1 server running on an IBM x3650M3. It has 2 ISP2432 (IBM branded Qlogic) HBA's with redundent paths etc. Last night hba4...
View Article64GB Page File For Exchange 2010
Hi, I usually put larger page files on a separate disk, which is roughly 1.5x the size of the physical memory. I'm using a Poweredge with 80GB RAM, of which 64 are allocated to Exchange. I've added a...
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