upgrade to 5 from esx4.0 - "upgrading the host will remove these modules"
Hmm - have HP DL380 G5 servers with all standard HP components, connecting to NetApp fc luns with 4.0 I've upgraded vcenter to 5.0, and added the hosts. I've also uploaded an ESXi 5 image into update...
View ArticleGraceful shutdown of ESXi 5.1 from the shell
Just figured out a way to shutdown ESXi 5.1 from the ESXi shell - and it seemed to work on the free edition as well as the paid version of ESXi. It uses the vim-cmd and the new esxcli commands together...
View ArticleCan't install Windows 2012 -- kernel panics
Hello, this one is a bit odd so I'm not sure if anyone will have a suggestion other than a reinstall but here it goes. A couple of days ago I rebooted an existing Windows 2012 guest on a ESXi 5.1...
View Article5.0.1 to 5.1 upgrade: is not an allowed static Ethernet address. It conflicts...
We have several products licensed to MAC addresses in the 00:0c:29 range. As we have moved those VMs from various machines to other machines, we have previously simply set the MAC address to manual,...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 / 3ware 9690SA-8i
Raid controller is no longer supported? it was supported in 4.x but not in 5.x?
View Articleconverter standalone 5 error
hi guys i keep getting this error at 91% when it trying to clone the C drive again. ive defragged the drive but its still the same error. any ideas? FAILED: An error occurred during the...
View ArticleVMFS3 to VMFS5
Has anyone noticed a Windows Server 08 R2 vm lock up and blue screen when rescanning disks in windows disk management after moving from a VMFS3 volume to VMFS5. The behavior only seems to happen...
View ArticleConsolidate snapshot with vSphereClient 4.1 , it's posible??
Hello: In my new project, I've found a virtual machine that is a copy of another VM. This copy has been replicating all files physically (image1.png and image2.png).If you see the files, snapshot 00001...
View ArticleGetting a storage sensor to be recognized in ESXi 5.1
Our company have several Lenovo RD240's with the SAS LSI mega Raid 8708EM2. I've gone to the LSI website and downloaded the latest driver for that card and installed it on my ESXi host. Restarted and...
View ArticleAbysmal Upload Speed in ESXi 5.1
I have been reading thread all over the Internet for two days and every discussion of this gets into the weeds and goes nowhere... and usually ends with "use Veeam", which doesn't seem to really work...
View ArticlepfSense Transparent Bridge?
Hi, I have a client with a stack with 3hosts and I would like to get pfSense in a transparent firewall mode.My issue is when I enable Promiscuouse Mode on the vSwitches a broadcast storm and the...
View ArticleHardware Status - No new host data available
I have a vcenter instance where the Hardware Status is not being updated for any of the hosts. When I view the tab it gives the error "No new host data available. Data will be updated in 5 minutes....
View ArticleNeed guidance for VCP-Cloud Certification
Hi All, Am plan to do VCP-CLOUD certification, Yet i have not done any VMware certification still. Is it feasible do VCP-CLOUD certification directly without any other certifications... Need...
View ArticleVMXNET3 Driver not supported after RHEL5 Kernel Upgrade
Hi, While patching Red Hat Linux 5.8 we found that VMXNET3 driver was not working, in the same ref. as part of workaround we have started the VM with E1000. In the same ref. while checking with Red Hat...
View ArticleVMs using all allocated RAM, not freeing when no longer needed
Hello, we are seeing a problematic behaviour with RAM usage on ESX5.0 U1, which we do not notice in ESX3.5 that is still running.We have some Dell R710's on which some few VMs are running. First, we...
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Datastore partition table corrupt or missing on ESXi 5.1
I assume the yellow highlighting means that my partition table is jacked. partedUtil get /dev/disks/naa.600605b0008753401647ba843bf15150 364485 255 63 5855465472 Original partition was a single VMFS 3...
View Articleesxi and raid
Hi,I have a system with two hdd's to be configured as raid 1. When I do this configuration on the BIOS of the controler, after start of esxi this config is still there, but ESXi does not recognize the...
View ArticleThe ESXi host does not have persistent storage
Today I got the balde system with ESXi5.0 inside. I configure the ip address and dns. I log on to the system with client. However, the system gives the alert that "The ESXi host does not have...
View ArticlePlease vote for feature request: Add sudo to ESXi
Hi all, talking about AD integrated ESXi hosts. With ESXi 5.0 VMware has introduced an important improvement in AD integration by making the name of the infamous "ESX Admins" AD group configurable (see...
View ArticleASUS RS500-E6 BIOS settings
Hello, I'm running ESXI 5.1 in a Asus RS500 server and Hardware/software is running great, but I cannot see FANs speed,CPU temp's and some other info at server health tab. Is there any way that this...
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