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How to do Space Reclaimation from a Thin Provisioned LUN using VAAI features?
Hello experts, I have a VAAI feature supported storage and I want to know how to do space reclaimation from a FC Thinly Provisioned LUN. Basically what we did was, we moved (i.e. Storage vMotion) some...
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Visor drops all VMs overnight
I have an ESXi 5 setup with five running VM servers which are stored on a NAS. For about two months everything was fine, no issues, but over the last two weeks I have come into my office to find the...
View ArticleHP Flex 10 - Received Dropped Packets
VMware Community, We are having a strange issue, which so far VMware/HP support has not been able to solve. We have an environment where we are using 2 x 10GBps and 2 x 9Gbps adapters on a single DVS....
View ArticleWhy is the VMware Tools GUI gone with ESXi 5.1?
This is no big deal ... I only noticed that the VMware Tools GUI (that you could launch by clicking on the tray icon or running the Control Panel applet) is gone with the ESXi 5.1 tools (at least for...
View ArticleDifferent memory sizes, same total memory per host
I have 4 ESXi 5 hosts, each running 48GB (6GB X 8) of RAM. 3 hosts are at the main DC and one at a second location for DR. I am planning to increase the memory of each host to 64GB, by taking the OEM...
View ArticleAccessing datastore from VM on a host
Is there a way I can access the datastore from a VM that is running on that host. For example just typeing \\hostip\ . Do I have to turn a service on the host machine. They are running VSphere 5.1 btw....
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 ArticleBacking up ESXi host configurations
When using host profiles, what is the best way to back up specific ESXi hosts? Your host profile standardizes the configuration of the host, but if you have to restore your ESXi host for some reason,...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Free License
I just installed ESXi 5.1. Every time I start the Client I get the warning that my trial will end in 60 days... I tried to register for the free license but I just got an error saying that the key...
View ArticleWhy can't ESXi and/or HA handle APD situations properly?
Hi. I'm designing a vSphere 5.1 solution for a customer that wants a high uptime of its VMs and services (like everyone else), and want to enable this by putting two sets of ESXi hosts, EMC VPLEXes and...
View ArticleCan't open console of virtual machine
Currently I using vSphere Client 5.0.0 build 623373 I try to open console of virtual machine on this host.But I always got error message/ An internal error occurred in vSphere Client.Detail: Exception...
View ArticleError When Installing Windows 8
I get this when installing Windows 8 in ESXi. Is my ISO bad? Please see attached.
View ArticleCOM port assignment
Hello, I just installed our first IBM system x3650 M4 7915 with ESX 5.1.0. I am trying to assign the serial port (RS-232) of the server to a virtual machine, but I am not able to establish a connection...
View ArticleConstant sfcb-CIMXML-Processor Errors
Hi Folks We have just upgraded our vSphere Environment to ESXi, 5.0.0, 821926. All 33 hosts are logging the same errors constantly see below: Nov 20 09:43:32 2012-11-20T00 daemon err...
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Vmotion Failure
Hi, I have two hosts running vSphere 5.0 with 40 Logical Processors each (total 80 Logical Processors in a Cluster). I have an Enterprise License as well. Right now I only have one VM with 20 vCPU....
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Deleting a dvPortgroup
Hi, Anybody knows how to delete a port group on a dvPortGroup? See screenshot below. I want to delete the Virtual Machines (the one with red arrow) port group on my iSCSI1 dvPortgroup. Can you please...
View ArticleHow to know how many users logged in per pool and per day
So I need to figure out how many users are logging in each day per pool so I can get an idea of how many users are actually logging into their session each day. Do I need a script or vCOPS for View?
View ArticleRestore VM from -flat.vmdk file only
Hi, I'm posting a solution to an issue of missing .vmx files, because in tracking down an answer I found many unresolved similar threads, and no one with this exact description. HOW the files got lost...
View ArticleUnable to start certification test for Storage Server
On starting the test, the workbench reports:ERROR: Failed to execute processSetup for the Setup : Failed to execute createHOMObj for the Setup : No GuestOS section in XML file
View ArticleConenction Problems
Hello, everybody, since the weekend I have some strange issues with some network connection from my VMs on my ESXi 5.1a host.Some NAT Rules which went fine from my firewalls are now bad and I do not...
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