Internal Dell RD1000 performance
hi there, We are using an internal Dell rd1000 (removeable storage disk) for backups on an ESXi 5 server in a branch office.This is mapped through to a VM as a raw mapped disk drive. When we connect...
View ArticleCan't Log into a brand new vCenter 5.1 install
Personally...VMware is killing me with this new 5.x installation...not really friendly at all... I have been following this link Derek Seaman's Blog on installing this...
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 ArticleVsphere 5.1 upgrade & SSO issues
Completed the vsphere 5.1 upgrade on my production virtualcenter today and ran into what I consider to be a less than ideal situation. VMware support tells me that the issue has to do with the way...
View ArticlePassword hashes?
One of my fellow admins said that it is entirely possible to place ESXi 5 password hashes into the password file rather than the shadow file. Anyone ever hear of this!?!?!?!?! Thx.
View ArticleReserving CPU for vSwitch ?
Hi. We have a CPU loaded machine, and the VMs get poor throughput.Can esxtop show the CPU used by the vSwitches? and whether the vSwitches do not get enough CPU ?Is there a way to reserve CPU for...
View ArticleSwitching vom primary SAN Image to Secondary SAN Image.
Hello,I have vSphere 5.1 Enterprise with a FC EMC SAN. SAN Mirroring with Consistency Groups are configured. The LUN ID is the same on primary and Secundary Site.Now I must switch from my Primary SAN...
View ArticleEaton 9130 + ESXi 5.0 + automated shutdown
Hoping that I can find someone in Melbourne (Australia), or even just anyone in Australia, who is using ESXi 5.0 with Eaton UPS and has successfully configured Eaton's virtual appliance to...
View ArticleHelp with disk recovery
Hello, I have md3000i and added some more disk to the raid 10 array. Afther that my iscsi lun dispaeared. Now when I seach for my virtual disk i see it in my devices but not in my datastore. When I go...
View ArticleQuestions about pass through with EsXi
I built a beefy machine for 1 purpose to consolidate alot of smaller machines. Purpose being to run Windows 7, WHS2011 and ClearOS. 1. My first questions is how difficult is it to specificly assign 1...
View ArticleESXi 5 crash
I have 4 esxi servers in my cluster. 2 of them crashed with same screen. any ideas? we do use lefthand for vmware and ntfs systems. i wonder if this article is related:...
View ArticleServer 2008 system restore, bare metal recovery drivers
Hi, I have a guest vm (2008 R2 server, virtual hardware version 7), which I need to do a Windows bare metal restore. The virtual disk has LSI SCSI drives. The problem is that my local disks and...
View ArticleVM NIC Half duplex full duplex settings
Guys, just a quick one, does it make any difference forcing the virtual server NIC to full/half duplex at all to match the speed of the physical nic and the switch? from what i have understood it is...
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instaling esx 5 on virtual machine -help
hello, i have win 7 64 bit on i7 with 8 gb ramI installed(on virtual machine) esxi 5.1.0,and when i click right click on VSPHERE on the the host name I do not see the options "new cluster" ,i try...
View ArticleCPU Latency
I am trying to find a definition of Latency (measured in Percent) as found in the CPU chart options in ESXi 5.0. The "counter description" suggests "the percent of time the VM is unable to run because...
View ArticleUpgrade ESXI from 4.1 to 5.0 Error LSI Mega RAdi SAS 9261-81i
So I ran into a problem recently trying to upgrade several Cisco UCS Server running ESXI 4.1 to 5.0. We don't have a vCenter environment and I am processing the update using the ESXi installer. The...
View ArticleMissing Tools in ESXi 5.1?
Hi I have installed ESXi 5.1details:"VMkernel localhost.2020dev.local 5.1.0 #1 SMP Release build-799733 Aug 1 2012 20:03:00 x86_64 GNU/Linux" And I am looking at commands such as "service", "netstat",...
View ArticleUSB HDD disapeared from my esxi server
Hi guys, we have a vmware esxi server hosting a windows small business 2011 server on a piece of dell hardware, until recently it was all working happily until suddenly USB passthrough appears to have...
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vSphere 5 - Host Hardware Voltage IBM Blades
Good morning, I just wanted to share information on how I resolved an issue with "Host Hardware Voltage" errors across several of my blades in case anyone else comes across the same issue. One of my...
View ArticleESXi5 not auto-booting
I have recently installed VMware ESXi 5.0.0 (release build 469512) on Intel DQ67SW motherboard. After the reboot, ESXi is not booting up automatically even the first boot device is HDD. I am getting...
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