Connection Issues
Hello, I am fairly new to virtualization and was trying to figure out why I cannot ping my domain controller from a virtual machine within vSphere. First of all, I have two PowerEdge Servers. One of...
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 ArticleUSB Passthrough 5.1
Hi all, Just upgraded to 5.1 and now the USB passthrough is having some strange problems. One of the machines is a file server and I pass a USB RDX drive through for backups, but its started...
View ArticleParallelport dongles
I have a customer that needs to run an old P2Ved Windows 2000 Server inside an ESXi 5 VM.The software vendor that made the dongle no longer exists. The customer already tried USB2Parallel adapters...
View ArticleESXi 5 drivers for TS3100
Hi, I have a IBM x3630 M3 server with ESXi 5. I would like to have one VM ONLY for backups, that VM is Windows 2008 R2. The backup device is a ts3100 IBM library connected through SAS initially is all...
View ArticleCluster Networking Issues
Hi All, Just wanted to share a 'fun' situation which has been on-going for the last few months. This case has bounced back and fore between VMware and HP support and I finally think we've reached the...
View ArticleDatastore could not be created using newly created disk
Hi All, I am a newbee to ESX. 1. We can see new adapter named vmhba32 and disk "mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0" in the "Storage Adapters" in vSphere Client2. So we tried to create the datastore for our...
View ArticlevSphere with 2 hosts
Hallo,i have a vSphere with 2 hosts, one is logging the performance values for 1 Week, the other only for 24 hours.Where can i set the values? ThanksKerschenbauer Wolfgang
View ArticleAutoDeploy - Filename: tramp Could not chain image: Operation not supported
Trying to setup AutoDeploy with vSphere 5.1 on my Dell T310's utilizing the documentation for the Auto Deploy Proof of Concept Setup from the Install and Setup guide. Using Windows DHCP, specified the...
View ArticleIs this a valid compatibility test?
Hello, I have two 3 ESXi5 server HA/DRS VSphere5 clusters which I would like to combine into a single cluster. If I were to successfully migrate a machine from Cluster1/Server1 to Cluster2/Server2 then...
View ArticleNetwork Security
How secure is running 2 different vlans within an ESX host? Is it possible to cross networks or circumvent the vlan security within the host?We currently have one host each in our dmz with different...
View ArticleHardware Status Tab not updating.
Hi all, hoping someone can help.I have a Vcenter Server Sat on a Windows 2008 box every so often when i go to look at the hardware status tab i get a message saying'Hardware Monitoring Service is not...
View ArticleGuest Customization vCenter 5.0 not applied to 2008R2 template
Hi all , i have a fresh install of an vsphere 5.1 plateform ,managed with a vcenter 5.0 ,i ve installed a clean windows 2008R2 SP1 vm , installed vmtools , patches from ms and nthing more ,no domaine...
View ArticleAdd Host Cluster in Datastore Cluster
How can i add Host/HostCluster in Datastore Cluster after the datastore cluster is created. I Know we can add it at that time when you are creating the datastore cluster but how can we add it once it...
View ArticleHow to access VMs from different physical network?
Hello, I'm new to ESXi, can anyone tell me how can i access VMs on existing physical network in case i'm using different IP classes? Physical network using Class C IPs and i assigned IPs to VMs from...
View ArticlevSphere 5 client, GUI delays?
Has anyone experienced any delays with the vSphere client? We are upgrading a vSphere 4.0 cluster to 5.0u1. On multiple machines using the vSphere client I have seen issues when brining up the vSwitch...
View ArticleDo 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...
View ArticleHow to find the VM is hosted on which host from command prompt
Hello Team, Is there any way that we RDP to the VM and find out to which Host this VM is connected. Please suggest. Thanks,
View ArticleOption for "SSH Server" for Firewall under "Security Profile" ?
Hi, We have upgraded all ESXi hosts to vSphere 5.1. Question 1=========We observe that for a particular ESXi host, the option button is avaialbe (others are grey). We are able to change start up...
View ArticleVcenter 5.1 error 29165
Hi all I try to install Vcenter 5.1 in one of my domain client. But its giving a error 29165 please check the attached file. I hope you all help me to rectified this issue
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