Deploy ESXi 5 with HP P2000 G3
Hello all. I am trying to deploy ESXi on our new equipment, which is: HP DL360 G7HP P2000 G3 iSCSI 10GBHP NC522SFP iSCSI adapter I haven't been able to connect ESXi to the array so far. It seems...
View ArticleRemove all snapshots, 16+ hours still not done
Hello, I know this post might go unanswered but it has been a very long 28 hour day already and I am becoming quite worried and frustrated. I have a VM with 100GB disk, 200GB provisioned size on an...
View ArticleHost doesn't support passthrough on hardware that does with latest bios/settings
I've been talking to someone in private on this and have used his same hardware on his version of esxi that has passthrough supported yet I can't get mine to work the same. I want to passthrough a DVR...
View ArticleBackup of VM's fail because .VMX file is locked
Hi all, We have an environment of 5 ESXi hosts all connected to an iSCSI SAN. we use Veeam Backup and Replication 6 to backup the VM's. Most of the VM's get backed up ok, but some fail with an error...
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VM Shuts Off After Virtual Disk Expansion
Hey all. We are running ESXi 5.0 U1, and I am having a strange issue with some VMs in our ERP/SAP environment. I went in to expand one of the virutal drives, and after entering the new value and...
View ArticleIIS 7.5 slow loading aspx pages...is it ESXi?
hi guys my customer just deployed VMs from a Windows 2008 Template I created about 30 VMs. Some of these are IIS 7.5 Servers running aspx web sites (7 in total) They are just doing some tests, the...
View ArticleMultiprocessor initialization failed - noobie here
Hello First post - I'm a total vmware noobie. I'm trying to install vmware esxi 5.0.0 on an hp xw8400 workstation with a Xeon CPU 5130 and bios v02.38. I don't believe it is on the hcl but it would...
View ArticleCustomize ESXi ISO - Simple Task?
I'm attempting the simple task of replacing the NET-TG3.V00 in an ESXi 5.0 update 1 ISO, yet so far I haven't had any luck. I've tried a quick edit with WinISO, and the longer procedure from VMware...
View ArticleNTP configuration issue
Here is the situation... I have an external time source (via a router). I have setup my ESXi hosts to all point to this external time source. I have several Virtual Machines (including a Primary and...
View ArticleBackup time after upgrade to ESXI 5.1 horrible why?
Hello,we use an Dell RD1000 S-ATA for the backup on an host.All works great with ESXI 5.0, the backup throughput was 1500MB/min.The RD1000 was added with help from this post#13...
View ArticleUnable to RDP to virtual Server...
I recently installed ESXi 5.0 in my company and started to convert some physical server into it. The server boots up ok, can connect to the network and is able to communicate with all of the other...
View ArticleShrink Disk Space of Virtual Machine in Esx5.1
Hi, I am using ESX 5.1 and my datastore size is 100 GB. I have created one virtual machine and its C drive space is 50 GB. Today I checked that usable space for C drive is only 6 GB. Now I want to...
View ArticleServer 2003 Performance Issues After Upgrading To VM Version vmx-09
We upgraded to vSphere 5.1 and updated all VM Tools and VM Hardware to vmx-09. Since then users have been complainnig that the SQL Server that runs on Server 2003 is performing slowly. The VM has 2...
View ArticlePlenty of issues ESXi 5 Host on Dell R 620
Hi all,I have just instaled a new ESXi 5 Host on Dell R620 and have add the host to the vCenter. I have instal two virtual server on it. Datastore 1TB.After some time I have discovered plenty of...
View ArticleWindows 2008 r2 guest losing TCP/IP settings on reboot
Hi I realise that this isn't going to be an issue with VMWare and more likely to be an OS issue but i thought I'd post here in case someone else has had the same issue and found a fix they want to...
View ArticleProblem with aacraid on my ESXi 5.1U1 (aacraid-1.0.1-810064)
Hello guys I am seeing a strange problem on my ESXi 5.1U1 (Supermicro Mainboard with a SUN/Intel StorageTek SAS-Controller which is an Adaptec 5805, latest Firmware 17757 applied) I always see in the...
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vSphere essentials (esxi 5.0) problem with hardware memory alert
Hi, I have recently installed vSphere essentials (esxi 5.0) in one of the companies I look after. The server is a DL380G7 with 48GB Ram, two processors and 8 SAS drives in raid 10. Server bios is on...
View ArticleLicensing Esxi 5.1
Hi, At present I have a VCentre 5 server with existing 4.1 ESX hosts all licensed. I've purchased a new host, installed 5.1 ESXi and added it to the existing cluster and am now trying to license it....
View Articleesxi 5.1 snmp error
Hi I have many 5.1 esxi servers licenced in a vcenter, some work with snmp some dont, the error I get is: Agent not responding, connect uds socket(/var/run/snmp.ctl) failed 2, err= No such file or...
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