ESXi 5 Multiple hosts crash
Hi,I experienced a very strange issue this week and I am trying to get to the bottom of it. At 10:07 we lost pretty much all virtual infrastructure, on our monitoring kit/syslogs etc some events were...
View ArticleErrorcode 1000008e Windows 2003 SP2 Server
Hello, on my ESXi 5 Host (HP Proliant DL 380 G5) I have a virtual machine Windows 2003 Server SP 2 with a problem.. Once or twice a week I get a error from volsnap....
View ArticleCan't consolidate virtual disk
Hi, I'm currently run ESXi 5.1 and vCenter 5.1my vCenter as a VMand it's need to consolidate disk in summary tab.snapshot doesn't appear in snapshot manager.When I try to consolidate it's show me this...
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Purple Screen of Death related to RDM drops?
I have an ESXi 5u1 (768111) running on a Dell R815 with 4 - 8 core AMD Opteron 6136 and 64gb of RAM. PERC H700 on board as well as PERC 5/E PCI-E attached to two Dell MD1000 Arrays. Only running a...
View ArticleUpdate to ESXi 5.1.0 from 5.0.0 failed - acceptance level is unsigned
Hi guys, I've just attempted to upgrade a server running ESXi 5.0 to 5.1.0, however am receiving the following message: "The installation profile could not be validated due to the following errors:VIB...
View ArticlevSphere 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...
View Articlespeed settings on VM nics
I noticed that even if I have a gigE ethernet nic, the VM's are showing Speed: 10000Mb/s, yet some of them do show up as 1000 instead. Can this cause a problem for a VM?
View ArticleVM- Autostart fails on ESXi5.0 up1 build 623860 Vcenter5.0-up1b- build 842XX
Hi all. I am running through a smal issue for you all but major one in my enviornment. We have 5 Esxi 5 host running on UCS200M2. 1 vcenter 5.0 physical host on hp dl380g6. these have Enterpruse plus...
View ArticleUpdate ESX 4.1u3 to ESXi 5.1
Hey everyone, I'm going to update from ESX 4.1u3 to ESXi 5.1. I've put in with my reseller for the license purchase this morning, but I won't have the actual license until tomorrow or maybe the day...
View Articlenslookup failure during vCenter installation
Hi, All I tried to install vCenter5.1 but I got the nslookup failure error message as attachement.My VC server has joined domain. I have confirmed nslookup works fine for IP and hostname checking.My...
View ArticleWarning Message : [vmsvc:autoUpgrade] vmx returned Autoupgrade is not...
Hi.. Wonder if anyone is getting the following in their Event Log after upgrding to vSphere 5.1 and the new VMTools? We are seeing this warning on our Windows 2008 R2 server. Log Name:...
View ArticleDoubts about cloning/migrating switched off VMs over the network
Hi there, I'm having some bandwitdh problems while cloning/migrating powered off VMs to different hosts on ESXi5. I'm not sure is this procedure of moving a VM switched off will use teh vMotion network...
View ArticleStorage DRS Fault won't clear
I have an issue with a Storage DRS Cluster. After configuring the cluster and having it run fine for a few weeks I was moving around some storage last week and accidentally put two of the...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 & 5.0 - Core count ordinal for Hyperthread enabled Intel CPU's
OK, I think I asked this before, about 2 years ago maybe, but I can't remember what the answer was. So here's the question....In a 2 CPU host where each CPU has 4 cores for a total of 8 cores BUT with...
View ArticleInstall license for VM esxi 5 on Vm esxi 4 server
I installed the vmware server esxi 4 and i have had the trial version for about a year now. I purchased the license for 4 processors for a vmware esxi 5 . does that mean i will have to upgrade the...
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Installing ESXi on 5.0 with Adaptec ASR-6405E Raid Card.
I'm hoping someone here has some advice on this. What we would like to do is install VMWare ESXi 5.0 on our RAID 1 and also use this drive for the VMs data. The problem that we face is when booting...
View ArticleESXi 5.1, Adaptec 6805E and 6405E Drives Health information.
Hello, I have successfully fotten those cards to work with ESXi, but I would like to be able to get the drive health information to find out as early as possible when any of the drives is starting to...
View Articleesxtop replay mode
Esxtop error....Check the attached file when i am trying to run this esxtop -r "Unzipped folder"
View Articleissues that i encounter during installation of esxi5
please i have an issue of enabling vt in my office server ''dell intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E5-2420 @1.90ghz.i have enabled vt in the bios but during installation of esxi5,its pop up a message that vt is...
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