ESXi5 and HPDL580 G5
Hi, Am I correct in saying that the HP DL580 G5 server is compatible with ESXi 5.0 update1, but will not be compatible for ESXi 5.1 Thanks
View ArticleUsing hostprofiles to install Licenses
Hello! I have been playing around with Host Profiles along with Autodeploy. So I was able to successfully configure an Autodeployed host with appropriate host profile. I installed the licenses...
View ArticlevSphere Syslog Collector
I have just started using the vSphere 5 Syslog Collector and I have pointed all my ESX hosts at it. After about a day, I applied some Windows patches to the server running the syslog collector and...
View Articlenetworking drops in virtual machines after power failure
There was a power failure a few times and my servers went down. There was no problems until recently. This just start happening and noticed that windows 2008 virtual machines had no network...
View Articlefault.RestrictedVersion.summary
I'm trying to rename a .vmdk file using the vSphere CLI, which I was able to do multiple times a few months ago. The command I'm running is: vmkfstools.pl --server <MyHost> -E...
View ArticleCentralized Storage for VM
Hi All I am planning to implement 16 ESXi Servers with 30 VMs. My main Target is HA base implementation For this I need Centralized Storage . my Question is What is the best Centralized Storage I...
View ArticleSlow NFS (VM) performance after upgrading to ESXi 5.1 (799733) - Synology NAS
Upon upgrading from 5.0U1 to 5.1 and doing a fresh vanilla install of 5.1, I've noticed a significant slowdown on Windows VMs (didn't test Linux) running on NFS datastores either using a Standard...
View ArticlevSphere Client for Server 2012
I have installed Windows Server 2012 on my laptop and tried to install the vSphere client (VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-623373) but it comes up with "This product can only be installed on Windows XP SP2...
View Articlevt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations
I'm finding it difficult to find solid information about vt-d support on IB boards and was hoping the community could confirm/deny support on the current offerings. The only manufactuer I've seen that...
View ArticleSharing USB PCI card with VMdirectPath
Someone might know a PCI card with USB ports where each port can be assigned to a different VM throught VMDirectPath? I tried several but when I assign a USB port to VM1, VMdirectPath reserve all the...
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Converting a Cent OS xen vm to esxi
I converted a Cent OS VM on Xenserver to ESXi 5.0 using VMware converter. when i try to boot up the VM in esxi, i get the attached error.
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign On 5.1 Installation issues...
Hello! I was trying to upgrade our vCenter 5.01b installation to vCenter 5.1. The first part is to install the SSO component and when I attempt to attach to any DB servers (local or remote) I cannot...
View ArticleVcenter 5.1 problem with SSO
Hi, I just installed a new 2008 R2 Windows with 2008 R2 SQL.i installed the vcenter with the <first> option (easy install). All went well. When I try to connect with the vmware client, it says I...
View ArticleGetting --firstdisk error when installing ESXi 4.1 through USB
I am getting following error when i tried to install VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.1.0.update02-502767 via usb.error:/tmp/ks.cfg: line 3: autopart --firstdisk specified, but no suitable disk was found....
View ArticleGroups missing after upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0 Update01 b623860
I did my first upgrade to 5.1 yesterday on a test system and all that appears to be wrong is this situation. Anyone have any thoughts?
View ArticleInexpensive ESXi storage (iSCSI/NFS) recommendation
All, Firstly thank you for whatever time you spend on this question either reading it or reading and replying to it. I need recommendations to go looking at for a high IOPS (five figure) iSCSI/NFS...
View ArticleCisco Nexus 1kv with ESXi 5.1 - not working
Hi, I am not able to upgrade my hosts from 5.0 U1 to 5.1 with Nexus 1kv (running latest 5.2) running. VUM complains about incompatibility with the Cisco VIB. Surely this has been tested already?? I...
View ArticleMigration VCenter Server 5.0U1to VCSA 5.1
Hello Is there the any wayto migrate a VCenter Server (2008R264BIT) to the new VCenter Appliance 5.1 ? Thanks a lot
View ArticleESXi 5.1 License - Still showing vRAM limit
Hi All, After installing vSphere ESXi 5.1 and selecting our upgrade license (Same key as 5.0), it still lists the vRAM Entitlement limit (96GB). Is it simply listed as part of the license field? and...
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cant install esxi 5.0 on a IBM x3650 M4 server local disk not found
hi to all i was installing ESXi 5.0 on a IBM x3650 M4 in selecting the disk to install my hypervisor there is no local storage of the server found.i check the disk in the bios and the configuration of...
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