New environment sizing
Hello, We are in the process of designing a new environment. We plan on bringing over our 100 virtual servers as well as virtualizing an additional 60 servers. What are the best practices to find out...
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hii have a dell laptop INSPIRON withmoemory= 3GBprocessor= core i3-2330M @2020 GHzwhen i started installation of ESXi 5.1 then after some while it stop booting and show a error "network adaptor missing...
View ArticleRepair / Recover VMFS Volume
I have a situation where someone had an older vSphere 4.x cluster. The VMs were hosted off of a iSCSI SAN controller to the nodes in the cluster. The volume was 260GB originally when I made it a few...
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USB serial adapter to linux guest
Hello, I have recently switched from xen virtualization to VMware, because of some stability issues. So I'm not very experianced with VMware. Now I have one issue with USB passthrough to guest system....
View ArticleHP DL585 G7 crashes mysterious
Hi all, We have a frustrating issue in one of your data centers. At the site we have six HP DL585 G7 servers running ESXi 5.0.0 build-623860. These servers crash/hang now and then without writing...
View Articleurgent! 2TBx4 Drives on VPS hosting.Will i go for Raid1 x 2 or Raid 10 ?
Query : I want to Place Virtual mahcines and their Backups for disaster recover on Same server !! as i have minimum Hardware Hi,i have Dedicated Servers - Quad Core Server - Intel Xeon E3 1230 with...
View ArticleMSCS without physical RDM ????
Hello all, i've heard that under esxi5.1 it's possible to create a Microsoft Cluster W2008R2 without phys. RDM (Quorum). Under 5.0 you must edit some VM Files manually. With 5.1 it work from GUI ??Has...
View ArticleRelationship between SAS & Esxi
HiI have a Extore XJ-SA12-316R SAS Storage with 16TB Hard, I connected to my HP Server (DL380 G5) with mini sas port and I want to use this by Esxi V5 .I have configured raid 6+0 with two spares that...
View ArticleEsxi 5.0 (no U1) for HP server
Hi all, i'm looking for the ESXi 5.0 no update1 customized for HP server, i extremely need this version! Someone can help me to find it? I can't find it in the official download page. Thanks all
View ArticleVm is unaccessible when remove snapshot process
Hi Everyone , I'm using vmware esxi 5 and i have a problem with a VM. I'm using Veaam Backup and Replication 6.0 software for all VMs . My Exchange Vm's is unaccesible when removing snapshot process...
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Performance Vmware ESXi 5
Hi! Please have a look at my performance picture and come with som good advice.Is it normal? /Robert
View ArticleInstall from USB to USB but crash during initializing scheduler
I got a NAS with the following system specsZOTAC H77-ITX WiFi (I am not sure if it's the A or B series)8GB ramWireless USB keyboard from LogitechAll physical harddrives is disabled during installation...
View ArticleBackup failed with SAS Tape drive in Vmware ESXi 5.0
Hello, I've recently installed an IBM server 3550 M3 (type 7944), and VMWare vSphere 5.0 (Build 821926).I''ve installed a VM with Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard SP1. But i'm having issue connecting a...
View ArticleInstalling ESXi - fatal error 6 (Buffer too small) - branched
I too am having the same issue. Verified MD5 of downloaded image. Install media works on a different system. System is currently running esxi 4.1 great, but esxi 5 won't install. Any help is...
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ESXi 5.1 Purple screen
I have recently just upgreaded my host from 5.0 U1 to 5.1. I am in the process of updating the vmware tools in my VM's. While trying to do so the host keeps crashing to a purple screen. Prior to the...
View ArticleError when adding a host to cluster
Hello., I am having an issue adding a esx 5.1 host to the vsphere 5.1 cluster. I was initially able to do it and then ran a compliance check against the new host at which point the host was removed...
View ArticleESXi 5 KickStart - vMotion Not Being Enabled
I have a kickstart file I'm uisng tp install ESXi 5 and everything works as it should except for enabling vMotion. I have what I believe is the correct syntax to enable vMotion, but after the install,...
View ArticleEsxi 5.1 Virtual Machine can't connect
Hi, Got a problem with Esxi 5.1 host. When I create a Virtual Machine it can't connect to the LAN.The ESXi host can connect but not the Virtual Machine whatever the OS i put on it. Think that it might...
View ArticlevSphere Replication System Requirments
Hi, Can someone point me in the direction of the vSphere Replication System Requirments. I am building a solution and want to confirm the RAM and stroage requirments but I am unable to find them. Many...
View ArticleQuestions about moving 1 of 3 domain controllers from ESXi4.1 host to ESXi5...
Is this environment I have 3 2008 R2 domain controllers. 1 Physical2 Virtual I want to power down one of the virtual DC's and move it from first host (ESXi 4.1) to second host (ESXi 5). My concern is...
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