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ESXi 5.0 constantly losing network connectivity
Hi all,I have this single ESXi 5.0 server that's causing me headaches..It loses network connectivity every 10 minutes or so.. It shows up as Not Responding in the vCenter Server, trying to connect...
View ArticleHow many servers can a hypervisor contain
Say I have an ESXi 5.1 hypervisor with 8GB ram, a decent processor and 500GB storage. Would that be sufficient to run 2 separate VM (Windows server, Exchange server)?
View ArticleESXi 5.0 -> 5.1 upgrade problem, missing Services!
Hi,i'm having a pretty strange situation. I have upgraded 8 ESXi 5.0 hosts to day to 5.1.If you go to ESXi->Configuration>Security Profile and click Services, 6 of the 8 ESXi hosts shows only 11...
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Has anyone attempted to load ESXi 5 on an HP Z620?
So has anyone attempted to load any version of ESXi onto the HP Z620? This is a new Workstation that is supposed to be an upgrade from the previous Z600 but it has several enhancements so just...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 , vlans & vmotion
Background : We've had a 3 host 5.1 cluster running with a single standard vswitch with all vlans enabled on it for quite some time as all of our virtuals were in the same vlan lets call it 101. We...
View ArticleAdvanced Network Settings & Best Practices
Ever since my company began its strong push towards virtualization I have struggled with many networking issues pertaining to virtualization. Some of the specific issues I still continually witness...
View ArticleConverting from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 5 - UTF-8 error
Hi all, I am trying to move some VMs from an ESXi 3.5 server to our new ESXi 5.1. However vCenter Converter (latest version) fails, with the usual "File already has an encoding "UTF-8" error. Tried to...
View ArticleESXi minor bugs -> poor development?
This was the first time I have dealt with ESXi 5.1, and I have already found two bugs. Minor, but bugs. I don't know if they are bugs of the Console or ESXi itself, but they are there. 1. A VM starts 1...
View ArticleTroubleshooting massive vmnic interface discards
I've just checked my Solarwinds Top 10 and found that my five ESXi 5 servers are generating up to 500 Million (!) receive discards per day each on the vmnic interfaces (and 0 transmit discards).I have...
View Articleesxi does not load in internet explorer
When trying to access my esxi hosts via internet explorer only half of the page loads, it does not give me any options i.e. install vsphere. Please see attached. I have tried to re-install esxi....
View ArticleNeed Help with understanding the true performance capabilities of my hardware
So I recently built two whiteboxes so I could rescue some old servers that were literally on the brink of spontaneously combusting. So at the time I put together my parts list that I knew was...
View ArticleWARNING: Fil3: 2492: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 50a3fc14 ac47ff95...
2012-11-14T20:58:11.903Z cpu0:2961)WARNING: Fil3: 2492: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 50a3fc14 ac47ff95 5000ca19 92238056 0 0 0 0 0 0 02012-11-14T20:58:11.903Z cpu0:2961)Vol3: 2359: Failed to get...
View ArticleMove ESXi to new vCenter Datacenter
I'm in the process of upgrading to ESXi 5.1. As part of the upgrade I'm also trying to create some new datacenters, clusters, and folders. Is there any awy to move an ESXi server to a different...
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 ArticleDisk Performance - NTFS Formatting
Hi, I'm configuring an Exchange 2010 server on Esxi 5.1. I'm using thick provisioning eager zeroed for the VMFS5 disk, which is 2TB. Within Windows, does it make a difference in terms of performance...
View ArticleUniversal Scanner Print Driver for Windows XP
We need to use a scanner in our Windows XP image and were wondering if there is a UNIVERSAL print driver out there we could use so we can keep the image smaller with less drivers?
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Disk Alignment on guest VM's
Hi All, We have a fair amount of legacy Windows 2003 servers with misaligned disks in our environment and I would like to resolve this to ensure that we are getting the best out of our storage, and not...
View ArticleDelete and Reformat Datastore with Scratch Partition on?
Hi All We have a VMFS Datastore which hosts our scratch partitions for our ESXi hosts which boot from USB key. Is it ok to delete and reformat this datastore whilst the hosts are booted? or is it...
View ArticlevMotion causes network utilization on all vnics of all Hosts in clusters
I am running ESXi 5.0. I have 3 clusters in our primary Datacenter monitored by 1 vCenter server and 3 clusters in our DR Datacenter monitored by a separate vCenter server. One cluster on each vCenter...
View Articleauto deploy joing cluster in maintenance mode
is it possible for auto deploy to join a cluster in maintenance mode?
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