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Lockdown & no access to vCenter
Hi all,after an update to vCenter Server, this is no longer responding. The two ESXi-Hosts are in Lockdown-Mode.TSM, ssh and DCUI are disabled Is there a way to restart the vCenter Server?Perhaps per...
View ArticlevCPU sizing on ESXI 5.0 host
Hello all, I would like to receive your advices concerning the right vCPU configuration for an ESXI 5.0 host with the following configuration: CPU: 1* Xeon 5620 Quad-Core HT enabled (server side)48 GB...
View Articletransfer ESXi installation from USB key to hard drives
hi there, We have an ESXi server running in a branch office used for Veeam backups.ESXi installed on a USB key plugged into the front of the server.The plan is to transfer the ESXi installation so its...
View ArticleError when converting, question about resources
We have the purchase order in and are going to be going virtual on our servers. Until that is finished, I have downloaded and installed ESXi 5.0 (I was getting converting errors with ESXi 5.1 using...
View ArticleInteractive Service Detection pop up message
We're experiencing a Interactive Service Detection pop up message and if the user clicks on it their session gets disconnected.
View ArticleRecommended setup assistance for ESXi 5.1...
I would like to get some assistance in setting up ESXi5 in HP Physical Server..I have got 2 x 136 GB Sas HDD and 3 x 600 GB SAS HDD in HP DL380 GEN 8 server...If I would like install ESXi5 on that...
View Article3rd User login
Hi there...is there a way we can find if 2nd or 3rd user logged into the console using the root password in the system server logs. I can see the IP address of the computer from which I am logging in...
View Articlevmware-mount vmdk on ESXi 5.0 - anyone ?
whats wrong with this command ? VMware-mount u:/i:"ha-datacenter/vm/VM-2003" "[PRODLUN] VM-2003/VM-2003.vmdk" /v:1 /m:w /h:10.89.2.31 /u:root /s:password Unable to mount the virtual disk. The disk...
View ArticleCannot boot vSphere ESXi 5.0/5.1 server from HDD
Hi, I just installed a new ESXi server (2 cores CPU, 2x1 TBytes disks). The installation was done in the version 5.0 (because I needed to convert previously existing VMware Server 2.0 machines) and...
View Article5.0 upgrade to 5.1
Do I need to upgrade our existing Essentials Plus 5.0 to Update 1 before going to 5.1, or can I just go directly to 5.1? Thanks.
View ArticleMultiple virtual SCSI Controller Benefits?
Is there any benefit to using multiple SCSI controllers on a guest? Thanks.
View ArticleBad blocks check on VMFS-5
Hi everyone I'm running ESXi v5.0 on a simple machine with only one hard disk. The guest OS (Ubuntu) started to find hard disk errors and know at some point of the boot process it stop. I know that the...
View ArticleESX5 password change policy options
There are multiple posts regarding password change policies on ESX4 and ESXi5. From what I read ESXi5 appears to only allow password change policies via Vcenter: The previous commands such as...
View Articlecreate host profile failed
when I create the host profile by vsphere client, it failed and below is the error message: Error: Unexpected language: . anyone encounterd the error before?
View ArticleLinux 32Bit App Compatibility
Hi All, I have a client that requires Open Suse 11.01 running in 32Bit compatibility on a VM using ESX1 5. The VM seems to be running fine but the application thereon are raising errors, the...
View ArticlevSphere HA not functioning as expected
Hi all, it's been a while since I have been here and I am hoping someone has some insight into my problem. I have a 3 host cluster:Ent. PlusESXi 5 821926 - fully patched and up to dateFirmware fullt...
View ArticleChange default management 80 port
Hi All I am using ESXi 5How to change the management 80 port and ssh port ??? I search some forum said modifying "/etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.xml" but there is no line defining the port. Any solutions ?
View Articlenot able to delete specific iso file from vmfs5 datastore
Everytime i tried move the iso folder from one of the vmfs to another vmfs i received the error message saying that i don't have the access.I tried to delete also not able to delete. I tried to...
View ArticleSetup vSphere 5.0 Syslog collector
What's the impact to an EXSi 5.0 server disk filling degree when a remote Syslog server is configured and the remote syslog server is stopped working?
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 Datawarehouse
Maybe someone can asssit. We have a Windows 2008 R2 SQL 2008 R2 VM running on ESXi5. IBM SVC backend storage. 1GB network.This is our Datawarehouse SQL Server.When data loading from our Production...
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