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USB 3.0 Host Support

Hi I am running ESX 5.1 and my Mobo has USB 3.0. Can I use USB 3.0 DAS appliances and benefit from using the full speed that USB 3.0 offers when creating new datastores on this DAS? I am thinking of...

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Monitor HP BL460c G7 servers via SNMP

I am trying to have our Nagios monitoringsystem look at our ESXi 5.1 vSphere Host servere via SNMP, but I cannot make it work. I have enabled SNMP C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere...

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Mapping Data store names to local SCSI IDS

Hi,  I have a power edge server with 20 disks and 5 different RAID groups.  Several of the RAID groups are identically sized. Within Vmware's data store browser, how can I identify these local disks...

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elusive virtualized fax server... what am I missing

Server 2008 R2 x64 /  ESXi 5.0 / USB Multitech modem I have added the modem as an available device to the server environment in question and in Server 2008 I can see the modem, installed the drivers,...

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IBM tape library TS 3100 connected to ESXi 5.0 through fiber channel

I have the following problem:I could connect a virtual machine that was created in a VMware ESXi environment 4.1 and then upgraded to 5.0 U1 to an IBM tape library TS3100 through fiber channel but only...

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How do I "Discard the redo log" when it doesn't exist?

Hello, I'm using ESXi 5.0. My VMs are stored on FreeNAS (8.2.0-RELEASE-p1-x64) accessed via iSCSI. One of my machines occasionally crashes with this message: "Message from xxxx: The redo log of...

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Downsizing vmdk after migration

Hi at, I'm looking for a easy way to downsize some of our virtual machines. History: I did a clone of a virtual machine to a new ESX Host.I changed the Fileformat from "Thick Provisionning" to "Thin...

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ESXi 5.1 host not showing all memory

We have 4 HP Proliant DL380p Gen8 servers in a cluster each with 64GB of RAM (8 x 8GB DIMMs).  When I look at the host summary in the vSphere client (either through vCenter or directly to the host) 3...

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vSphere 5.1 and Qnap TS-879-RPU FW:3.7.3 and Freeze

Hi, have here a 2 host, same configuration, one with a 10Gbit iSCSI attached Exomium box and one with a 10Gbit iSCSI QNAP TS-879 box (direct attached).Have installed 6 Hitachi 2TB HDD in the QNAP. Did...

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Physical/Virtual MSCS & vMotion

So I have spent the last couple days researching and documenting clustering options in vSphere 5.  I have come to understand the caveats & limitations with each type save this: Are the vMotion...

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Disconnected host

Hi, I have a host which will not reconnect to vCenter. When I attempt to stop and restart hostd I receive the following error; watchdog-hostd: PID file /var/run/vmware/watchdog-hostd.PID does not...

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DPM Question

My question is if the load in the cluster is reduced and there are 5 esxi hosts in the cluster then out of this 2 hosts load can be handled by remaining hosts so DPM can put both the hosts...

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Dell Poweredge 2950 | ESXI 5.0 | Random Reboots

So we are having an odd issue with one of our client's server. It is a Dell Poweredge 2950, 4GB Ram, 2.0GHz Xeon, ESXI 5.0 with 2 windows 2003 R2 x64 VMs. One of the VMs is the Domain Controller, File...

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Cloning/copying - additional network adapter

Hello everyone, perhaps I can find some help here. We got a VCenter Server - View Solution, with currently two physical servers. One server is the management server and additionally holds the templates...

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VMware ESXi server shuts down abnormally 3 to 4 time $ console shows a purple...

/var/log/syslog.logMost of the blogs on the web have this issue as unsolved or unanswered.No hardware or sofware changes were made recently 2012-10-24T13:22:37Z vmkmicrocode: Warning: Line size is...

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vmkfstools -i always creates a new delta

Hi there, Each time I use the commandvmkfstools -i param1 param2 a new vmdk delta file is created. To be complete, before using this command I create a snapshot because my vm is running. Why ? Is it...

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ESxi 5.1 64GB ram

Before i go to hyper-v, is there any way to licens our lab machine with 64GB RAM

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ESX5i Essentials on HP DL380G7 damn slow

Hello, I have the following system setup in use: System Configuration================- HP DL380 G7 (2x AMD Opeteron 6174 (12 Cores)) - Totally 2 CPU with 12 Cores each- 64 GB RAM- P410i RAID with 1024...

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Guest RAM allocation on boot

Back when I had ESX servers that were memory constrained there where times when I could not start a VM because there was not enough free memory.  From what I understood this was due to the fact that...

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Mounting ISO installer from external hard drive

Hi everybody, We need to install new ESXi server and configure VM's remotely on one site with really slow internet connection. We prepared an external hard drive with all the necessary ISO images and...

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