vm converter standalone - ubuntu source "the user does not have root...
running converter from a windows host. Trying to convert an Ubuntu 10.10 source to esxi 5.0 destination. I've modified sudoers to add the user at the bottom of the file with: administrator ALL=(ALL)...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 tx drop at virtual switch.
I am now measuring ESXi 5.0 forwarding performance with IXIAHost has only 1 linux VM for forwarding. ----------------------------------------------| Linux VM || eth0...
View ArticleiSCSI Lun with 4096 bytes logical blocksize cant be formatted
Anyone using Freenas to serve iSCSI Luns to ESXi 5.1 ? Can you use Luns that are presented with 4096 bytes blocksize ? Here a iSCSI Lun with 4096 bytes logical blocksize cant be formatted with a VMFS...
View ArticleESXi 5.1, no passthru for video card with Mac OS X guest
Hello, I'm trying to create a Mac OS X 10.6.8 VM on top of ESXi 5.1 running on a Mac Pro. It works, but if I add a PCI device using the Mac Pro GPU, the VM no longer boots. On the same ESXi, a Windows...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and NIC firmware version compability
Hello all, I'm in the process to upgrade to vSphere 5.1 on our HP BL460c G6 blades. I'm a bit confused over the NIC driver compability matrix. All G6 blades are running Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme...
View ArticleCaution symbol on one of my VCenter hosts in VSphere client??
WHen I log into my VCenter Server with VSphere Client one of my hosts has a caution symbol over it but I can't figure out why. I looked under events and the last even says my cpu usage went back to...
View ArticleESXi, 5.1.0: mount … -sh: mount: not found
Hello We have a very strange problem: We upgraded from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 and now,there is no more "mount" command to mount network shares: ~ # mount -t cifs -o username=u,workgroup=w,password=p...
View ArticleVM not pinging on ESX
Hello All, I have two VM's under the vLAN - 9. This vLAN is mapped to all the ESX host in the cluster. But there are two ESX in the cluster, when I move these VM's those ESX, the VM's stops pinging....
View ArticleESXi 5.0 & DELL R720 Network Connectivity Loss Intel NIC
Hi all,we are experiencing a very annoying problem with our brand new vmware cluster. - 2 Dell R720 servers- 2 dell powerconnect 5524 switches- Dell powervault md3200 SANvmware ESXi, 5.0.0, 623860...
View ArticleHardware raid
I am sorry if this is in the wrong forum. i have a dell T710 as a host (esxi 5.0) and would like to add 3 additional hard drives in to the system. is there a way to add these drives to the raid config...
View ArticleAny way to rescan the storage for all my hosts without going to each one in...
I could do it from powershell, which does work, but was wondering if there is a GUI way to force all the hosts in a cluster to rescan for added storage. This is the powershell command in case anyone...
View ArticleiSCSI and distributed switches
This could be a long post, but I dont' have much time so going to get started on it now and add to it. I am trying to setup two distributed vswitches with vmkernel ports on each and connect them to two...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 shared-nothing live migration and Essentials Plus
Anyone noticed that vMotion is spoken of as "enhanced" across the board, but that Essentials Plus Kits don't have Storage vMotion? So do guests on Essentials Plus still have vMotion dependent on...
View ArticleCPU Spike After windows update 11/15
My ESXi hosts are all running at 100% CPU after an update from windows last night, i havent been able to resolve the issue and/or issolate it. What i noticed that my HP blades are experiancing thie...
View ArticleMigrated one of my VM's to another VSphere host and it won't start
I have a VM that I orignally converted from Hyper-V over to a VSphere host. After I did that it would start fine, but I would get two errors upon boot up. "An IDE controller is found but the virtual...
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Company application Physical to Virtual conversion.
We have an issue with moving our financial application to a virtual environment. We are seeing cpu stops counters during our load test. We have only 4vms on Host #1 and 3vms on Host #2. I have posted...
View ArticleCan't set proper time in ESX 5
When I set my BIOS time to the correct time the "date" command on ESX gives me the proper time but the vSphere Client Configuration -> Time Configuration shows the time 4 hours behind. If I fix the...
View ArticleNeed help with picking hardware for 5.1 hypervisor
Hey Folks, I have a copy of the 5.1 hypervisor (latest I assume). Of course as before I try to install and it complains about incompatible network and storage controllers. So ... I have tried to find...
View ArticleCan't import OVF/OVA
Hey there, I have a hugh problem with my ESXi 5.1 host system.i have a Gateway Linux System wich i need to backup as a OVA or OFA file.when i try to re-import (sure with another name than the Original...
View ArticleVMFS partition info remains after deleting and recreating RAID
Hi, I have an HP ML350 G6 that previously had ESXi 5.0 installed on the local storage array (a RAID 10 on the P410i controller). I have since deleted the array and created a RAID 50 using the same...
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