Best practices for 10gb NICs
We have a Blade chassis with two 10gb NICs running vSphere 5.0u1 Enterprise. I have NIC "A" set as active for the management and "server" VLAN traffic, with NIC "B" as standby. NIC "B" is active for...
View Articleneed to move a host to new data center
What is the best way to move a host from one 4.1 datacenter to a 5.1 datacenter? If I simply try to add the host from the 5.1 version will it disconnect from the other and attach to the new? Do I...
View ArticleVmware licensing - Evaluation license 32GB limit
Hi, I have an 80GB single host, I'm managing this through the Vsphere client. I don't plan on adding another host, setting up high availability, fault tolerance or any other advanced features. It's...
View ArticlePatches?? ESXi 5.0.0, 469512
I have never installed patches on ESXi and wanted to know is there anything to lookout for or must know. I'm needing to install the following patch: VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch Release ESXi500-201112001...
View Articleauthentication services problem
I do not have authentication services option under the software in the configuration tab using vsphere client. so in this case how can I add ESXI to the active directory. I will be really grateful if...
View ArticleWhich client to manage 5.1 environment?
I had 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts I was using the vSphere client to attach to each host and manage.I have now upgraded both hosts to 5.1 and added a 3rd host plus brought vCenter on-line.What client should I be...
View ArticleHadoop and Rocks
Hello all, I couldn't find a discussion group associated with Hadoop, so I figured I'd just ask it here. I'm a complete cluster noob. How are Rocks clusters and Hadoop clusters related? I've seen...
View ArticleUsing vicfg-cfgbackup during ESXi upgrade
Hello all, We are working on upgrading from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1. We're doing this in a rolling fashion. We'll take an ESX 4.1 host out of the cluster, rebuild it from scratch with ESXi 5.1, and then...
View ArticleEvent: Device Performance has deteriorated. I/O Latency increased
Hi, Since upgrading to vSphere 5 I have noticed the following errore in our Events: Device naa.60a980004335434f4334583057375634 performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average value of...
View ArticleUpdating vSphere 5 Hypervisor?
I just installed vSphere 5 Hypervisor (Free Edition) on my server. When I went to install the vSphere client I noticed there was no option to install the host update utility like there was in vSphere...
View ArticleGetting smashed on vCenter 5.1 SSO Install
VMWare Experts, Getting smashed on the vCenter 5.1 SSO Install and was wondering if I could get some assistance. This is what I've done so far: 1.) Execute the "rsaIMSLiteMSSQLSetupTables.sql" 2.)...
View ArticleRHEL Disk Size - increase ?
I have a RHEL 5.7 VM running on ESXi 5.0. The attached screens shows the settings for the VM.I need to increase the disk size of the data disk which is currently 50GB. What is the best process to use...
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...
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 Articlevmotion no longer works after 4.1 to 5.1 upgrade
I migrated all of my vm's off of the host machine (HP DL380) and performed an upgrade to 5.1 using the HP image. The upgrade started with the standard VIB missing error for net-vxge and scsi-3w-9xxx....
View ArticleSchedule a shutdown of ESXi 5 host
Hi everyone, I know this has been posted before, but I have not been able to find a solution that would work in my environment. I have a scheduled power outage in my building from 7am to 3pm. I have...
View ArticleDoes vmware-cmd (vCLI) require VADP?
Does using vmware-cmd to create snapshots require VADP?
View Articleinvalid VM
Hi Guys, One of my VM in vCenter is showing as invalid though server is in powered On state but it shows as its powered off but we are able to connect remotely (able to RDP). the VM name is showing as...
View ArticleUpdate manager fails to scan
Hi After upgrades to vCenter 5.1.0a, the newest update manager and upgrading host to ESXi 5.1, I have some issues to use update manager to upgrade the last patches to the host.I get this error in...
View Articleis infiniband and VMDirectPath I/O possible?
Hello, I'm wondering if anybody has had luck with pass-through of their infiniband adapters to guest a OS? I've seen a number of vmware publications indicting this type of combination is...
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