ESXi 5.0 Host suddenly has missing updates?
Has anyone come across an issue where a host (2x in my case) that were previously fully patched and 100% compliant, suddenly reports missing patches (in my case 30x missing, some from a year ago) in...
View ArticleConfiguring MSCS "incompatible device backing specified for device '2' "
Im having problems configuring a MSCS, cluster across physical hosts. When i add the second rdm disk vsphere shows the error "incompatible device backing specified for device '2' ". Have ESXi 5.0,...
View ArticleCom port redirector for ESXi5
HelloI need to redirect the com port from a Windows 2008 VM to a serial device. Has anyone been successful doing this and what have you used? I have purchased a Lantronix EDS4100 device to provide the...
View ArticleMaximum: Hot-Add memory for this power on -- limited to 2GB?
I have noticed that with our RedHat x64 VMs created with 1GB of memory (hot-add enabled) - only support a hot-add of 2GB of memory. It was my understanding that the default hot-add value should be 16x...
View ArticleProposed HA build - looking for feedback
Hello. I need to test our software's response to a high availability host failover in a vSphere environment. We do not currently own the hardware or licenses needed to test this workflow, so I'm just...
View ArticleVM backup will not run.
Hello all, I have an intersting situation.I wanted to try something different with my server, before I did I copied all my VM folders to a network drive. I then wiped the server, after some time I...
View Articlehow to decide if acceptable to add vCPU to remedy CPU performance??
We have several XenApp 6.0 servers wherein end users often say, "The servers are slow." The only thing that has been found is that CPU usage is noticeably high when this happens. They already have 16...
View ArticleError registering VCenter Server 5.0
I'm getting an error "VMWare ESX and VMWare ESXi hosts are not supported with Vsphere Web Client 5.1.0" (see screenshot) when I'm trying to register my Vcenter Server with Vspher administration...
View ArticleIs the package for updating from ESXi 5.0U1 to 5.1 Available?
I've read the upgrade docs (I've already migrated our vcenter appliance to 5.1, that worked fine), and it mentions that we should be able to update the ESXi hosts with a package and esxcli --- I've...
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ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Hello! I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build...
View ArticleGuest OS ID Purpose
I understand that this field is used for VMware Tools installation. And some specific OS related H/W packages, but if this field is set to a 32-bit OS when it's actually a 64-bit OS, are there any...
View Articleauto deploy host profile and answer file
I am trying to get auto deploy working but so far I have not been able to apply the host profile to the host. I keep getting non compliant host. Basically I started off with a host install, customized...
View ArticleConverting Six Physical to Virtual
Hello Vmware Community, I'm looking for your feedback on the following: A. What are your thoughts on the solution I'm trying to put together.B. I'm comparing Supermicro (Build), Dell & Intel...
View ArticleESXi & MacBook Pro Retina compatibility issue
Hello, To demo ESXi 5 and our storage appliances, I used to run ESXi 5 on top of my MacBook Pro 2011 and even if it's not supported, setup was running perfectely. Note: I don't use VMware Fusion on top...
View ArticleVM Ping/ARP issue
We are having a problem with some of our virtual machines intermittently losing communication with each other, and I’m at a loss as to the source. We have about 250 VM’s running on about 20 HP BL465C...
View ArticleLimiting esxi to only see 32GB
Hi Guys, New to the forum and so far I see a lot helpful knoledge being passed around. I have a triple channel motherboad with 36GB (4GB x 9) of ram. When I start ESXi and says my license is expired....
View ArticleAfter ESXi 5 intall, server does not boot.
Hello all, After I installed the ESXi 5, I get the following message, after the reboot: Intel(R) Boot Agent PXE Base Code CLIENT MAC ADDR: XX XX XX XX XX XX GUID: XXXXXXXXXXDHCP: (it keeps looking for...
View ArticleNetApp FAS2040 Space Distribution for vSphere 5
Hi All, I have a NetApp2040 with 8 internal 300GB drives (3 reserved for aggr0 root) and 1 DS14 MK2 AT shelf attached with 14 250GB hard drives. I have 2 vSphere 5.1 hosts. What would be the best way...
View ArticlePSOD - Purple Screen of Death
Hi everybody! I'm experiencing curiously a problem with our ESXi 5.1 hypervisor. When we power up the server, it's stay available to accept connections, run VMs, edit ESXi config and etc. When we power...
View ArticleESXi 5 and VLAN
Hello,I have one host with ESSi 5.0 and one Virtual Machine Group (VLAN ID 0 - none) and only one physical network card.This is my network configuration: lan: 10.10.10.0/24gateway: 10.10.10.1host esxi:...
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