Problem with LSI 9260-4i after upgrade ESXi from 5.0 to 5.1.0a
I installed on ESXi 5.0 offline bundle 5.1, and after this installed offline bundle 5.1.0а. Now, I have ~ # vmware -vVMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-838463.And in my log watching interesting situation...
View ArticlevMotion Fails At 14%
Hi Everyone, Having a bit of a strange issue with vMotion today. It's been working in my lab for months, and was still working fine after I upgraded to 5.1 last week. Now, today, for whatever reason,...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 Replication
I am working on a solution for one of my customer and evaluting SRM 5.1 with Vsphere Replication 5.1 against array based replication. Would like to know 1.) How many ESX servers can I protect using...
View ArticleIntel Modular Server - Storage Distribution HELP!
Hello All, I have the Intel Modular Server with the following storage configuration: 2 Storage Controllers (SMC 1 and SMC 2)14 HDD 837GB each3 Compute Modules (Servers)Shared LUN option (To create a...
View ArticleNeed help with ESXi
Hello, Need help with start up configuration of ESXi. How would i access and manage Esxi host without existing lan domain network? because i am going to install Domain controller as VM and some other...
View ArticleOne VM NIC connected to 2 switches?
After migrating one VM (with 2 NICs) from vSwitchs to a new dvSwitchs the host is connected to both switches. Before:nic1 ---- vswitch network 1nic2 -----vswitch network 2 After:nic1 ---- vswitch...
View ArticleVirtual serial ports limit
Hi, Is it possible to add more than 4 virtual serial ports to VM? P.S. 4 virtual serial ports works only with EFI firmware. With BIOS firmware only one works in MS Windows. Is it normal?
View ArticleIBM IMM settings through ESXi5
I have an IBM x3500M3 running ESXi 5.0 (474610) that seems to have lost it's IMM IP address. The server is at a remote location so it's not easy to get in to check the settings in the BIOS. After some...
View ArticleRDM missing after reboot.
Hi All, Due to some hardware migration, We had shutdown (in maintanance mode) all our ESXi-5.1 host's and their VM's (Configured with RDM). Hence after migrating the hardware we had powered...
View ArticleSSO logins failing since 5.1 upgrade
Anyone else seeing vCenter AD credenitals fail after upgrading to 5.1? We have had to request the windows AD group to re-jigger their AD groups to regain access. Also, we had to add DOM\ to our usual...
View ArticleVMWare ESXi missing RAM memory
Hi all, I have an VMWare ESXi hypervisor installed. The physical amount of RAM is 32 GB. On this hypervisor are three virtual machines. To one I gave 8 GB of RAM, to the second 4, and to the third 2....
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 after Installation "Systemprotocolls on the Host XY will not...
Hion a server installation vSphere 5.1 (1 of 3) I get an error "Systemprotokolle auf dem Host XY werden in einem nicht beständigen Speicher gesspeichert" I will translateSystemprotocolls on the host...
View ArticleIntel 82575EB Driver for ESXi 5.1
Hello there! I've been trying to find the driver for my Intel 82575EB Ethernet card for ESXi 5.1 that I installed recently. VMWare compatibility guide says the cards requires igb version 3.1.17...
View ArticleProblema con ESXi 5
Estimados Quisiera comentarles mi caso, resulta que tengo 3 nodos ESXi, que arman un cluster, resulta que por error borraron una LUN del Storage, pero no la borraron del host ESXi, resulta que perdi...
View Articleaccessing vphere VMs via vcenter web client from public IP fails
I'm evaluating vSphere and vCenter but I'm having "deal breaker" problems accessing the VM consoles when I login from a web client or the vSphere client from a public IP (outside my network). From my...
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...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Test Build
I already know that using server hardware is better, but I've seen others have success with consumer grade parts. Basically I'm looking at test home lab for ESXi 5.1. This is what I came across....
View ArticleConverting Server 2 machines to ESXI - without ESXI
The time has come to take my atrociously slow RAID5 array and turn it into a RAID10, change the controller options, etc. I'm currently running Window 2003 R2 Server X64 as a host with 4 Guest OS. (SBS...
View ArticleError importing OVA/OVF exported from the same ESXi 5.1
Hello to all the community. I have a big problem with our ESXi 5.1 (it was a 5.0 upgraded some weeks ago) server: When I export a machine and I try to import it back to the same ESXi, the import...
View ArticleVM per NFS Datastore in vSphere 5.1
Hi, Early next year we will be upgrading to vSphere 5.1.I would like to get an opinion on how many VM one places per NFS datastore.With NFS more datastores is better but I'd like to get a feel of what...
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