Bluescreen 7b after restore
Hi. In the past (ESXi 4.1) we successcully backed up and restored our VMs by cloning the vmdks via vmkfstools to a NFS-Datastore in 2gbsparse format. Now we have two VSphere 5.1 installations where we...
View ArticleWindows 2000 via 4.0.1 Converter to vSphere 5.1?
Has anyone successfully converted a Windows 2000 box using the 4.0.1 standalone converter to vSphere 5.1? I've seen a variety of messages on the discussion forums, some people talking about it working...
View ArticleIBM x3550 M1 (7978B4U) - will it run ESXi v5?
Sorry if this is duplicate of another question out there, but didn't find one with searching the discussions (only references were to v3.5 and v4, not v5 of ESXi). Has anyone been successful...
View ArticleVmware esxi 5 setup
OK so I have the following components:MB: Ga-ma785gmt-ud2h on-board five SATA II ports support RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and JBODMemory: 8GB 16gb maxCPU: Amd Phenom IIx6 1090T I have esxi 5.1...
View ArticleESXi 5.0: How can I mount USB ports of a physical machine to a VM guest OS
ESXi 5.0: How can I mount USB ports of a physical machine to a VM guest OS (WinServer 2008R2 Standard) To finish a server migration of DATEV (the leading tax consulting software in germany) from a...
View Articleesxi ucs setup
how many vnics do you use on your ucs blades when setting up esxi. like a half height? Do you create 2 and just trunk them all or do you setup like 8 vnics and then assign 2 to mgmt, vmotion, vm, iscsi...
View ArticleVmotion error - Need help (Urgent!)
Dear Community members, I need urgent help to resolve this issue. I have attached the error here as well. Please check the attachment. I am trying to migrate a vm from Sun server cluster to HP server...
View ArticleCan ESXi 5.1 run an VMware ACE Virtual machine ?
Hello, I have a few Virtual Machines with Server 2008R2 installed on a VMware ACE Version, Is there something I can do to open the Virtual Machine on an ESXi machine ? Thanks in advanced,Tamir
View ArticleInstallation of ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor fails, on Gigabyte Mothorboard H61M-DS2...
Hello Recently i have purchase Gigabyte H61M-Ds2 mothorboard ,I want to install Vmware ESXI 5 on this can anybody helpschipset is realtech 8111F Lan cardThanksDayanand Gore
View ArticleESXi 5(.0 - .1) on HP DL160 G5
Hi, I would like to know if ESXi 5 can works fine on a DL160 G5 ? (or an older version of ESX) This server is not in the HCL but i have another server (Sun Fire v20z) which is not in the list too, but...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Hypervisor: embedded network adapter fails on HP ML350p G8
Installation of ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor fails, cause no network adapters get detected!Installation stopps at Network configuration, cause no Nic's.Hardware is branded as VMware compatible.When I install...
View ArticleRun test ESXi with network disconnected?
I'm practicing migrating my current VMware server 2 environment to ESXi 5. Everything seems to go smooth with the conversion to the test box that will hold everything until the new server is in place....
View ArticleMove datastores
hello i just got some new disksi have a 2tb local it´s split in too 2 harddrive one 400 and one 1.3tb i want to take the 2tb out and move it to my nfs to make a raid 1 for user data but i have to...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 Restoring an old snapshot Issues
Hi All, This may be abit of a bispoke question but im really stuck and any ideas would help; We have a Virtual Certificate Authority Server that a colleuge of mine decide to have a play around with and...
View Articleimage profiles
Hi, I'm having a slight block about image profiles. You load a software depot in powercli and then you have image profiles that will list. These are not persistant between powercli sessions. I have...
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Mac Pro compatibility with installing ESXi 5.0
Starting a thread to discuss ESXi on Mac Pro hardware. MacPro1,1MacPro2,1The first two generation Mac Pro's boot to black screen prompting to pick cd boot type 1 or 2. However no keyboard input is...
View ArticleLUN not reporting correct usage.
Hi, I have a LUN that's not reporting the correct usage after it's been filled up. It's a 2TB LUN which was created as a thick provision in command view (we're using HP SAN) and a thin provsion in...
View ArticleWant to create a dedicated nic on each host to complete on-site replication...
I am currently running two ESXi 5.1 hosts and doing replication of two Vms between them for on-site disaster recovery. I am replicating continusiously on the database VM from one host to the other...
View ArticleTwo New Files in VMFS datastore of a VM in 5.1
What these two new files are in VMFS datastore in 5.1 VM. check the screenshoot
View ArticleRaw Device Mapping operation via a VSphere WebService client failing
Hello, I have a client for the VSphere WebService running on an ESXi 5.0.0 build-623860. The client is actually a wrapper around the VI Java SDK API. The client makes a call to the Raw Device Mapping...
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