Pleased as punch!
Been a while since I've posted... Rot had crept in...you know, you get tired of the work. But I am rejuvenated. We just started our new buildout, and damn, I'm excited about tech again! The first 6...
View ArticleSecond NIC has no connectivity
I recently upgraded from ESXi 5.0 to 5.1. Before the upgrade, both NICs were working fine. After the upgrade, I changed the configuration for the second NIC, and now I cannot get any connectivity...
View ArticleAccess denied on CDROM within VM ESXi5.1?
So I was working on my vSphere 5.0 host, and mounted an application cd iso within my VM. Got an 'access denied' error within the VM. I tried the access from the host cdrom, from iso, and from the...
View ArticleNo longer able to send email notifications for alarms after upgrading vCenter...
After performing the upgrade from 5.0 appliance to 5.1 I am no longer recieving email notifications for alarms. I checked SMTP settings and alarms and they are unchanged setup same as they were on the...
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ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Hello! I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build...
View ArticleLoading ESXi installer issue " Relocating modules and starting up the kernel"
Hello Everyone, We are trying to install ESXi 5.0 on one of our server We are booting from CD, In "Loading ESXi Installer " screen when everything loads we get a message at the end " Relocating modules...
View ArticleHow to create a customized vSphere 5 bootable ISO
Dear all,I'm trying to create a customized vSphere 5 bootable ISO with the following hardware:Mainboard: Supermicro X8DTi-F/X8DTT-FCPU: Intel Xeon E5535/E5620/E5-2620RAID Controller: LSI 2008/Adaptec...
View ArticleSecond nic not detected during install [2 x Intel 82574L]
Hi, I hope someone could help me with my 'little' problem, during the installation of esxi v5.0 on my new supermicro with onboard 2 x Intel 82574L gigabit vmware installer only detected 1 nic [ vmnic0...
View Articleoperation errors when installing ESXi 5.0 on a desktop
Hi,I tried to install a ESXi 5.0 on my PC desktop for test purpose. That desktop has one hard disk which was installed with windows XP. My installation ran into this errors:Error (see log for more...
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 ArticleConfused with what to download and install
Hello All, First of apologies in advance if these may seem basic questions. I wish to install and test ESXi version 5 on my test server which is a HP Microserver with 8 gigabytes of RAM and a 160 GB...
View ArticleMicrocode upgrade - should I worry ?
Hi Just installed Server 2008 R2 SP1 in one of our VM guest and I keep seeing these log entries: Message from myserver.local: CPU microcode update available. The guest OS tried to update the microcode...
View ArticleMSA2000 AND ESXi5
hiI want to know is it possible to use one LUN (vdisk) on HP P2000 combo via FC and ISSCi at same time for a host?
View ArticleUpgrade to vCenter 5.1.0b still version 947673?
Helloi have upgrade my vCenter-server to the latest version of vcenter from the vmware-website using the VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.1.0-947939.iso. I have upgraded all single installations from the...
View ArticleIs this virtual disk performance normal ?
Hello, I am getting some times 500 milliseconds write latency on Virtual Disk Is that normal or exessive ? Regards
View ArticlePurple Screen of death on ESXI 5.1 and 5.0U1
Hello to everyone.I have a problem with my ESXI server. I am getting purple screen of death on my host. If anyone can help I will be very grateful. I am beginner in VMware software so any help is...
View Articlerestore VM
I just wanted to resize the partition of one of my VMs on my ESXi 5.1 using vSphere Converter Standalone 5.0.1.The process was stopped by an error, the new VM was created BUT the old one was deleted...
View Article5.1 and certificates :-(
Hi, it's been a few some years since I worked with OpenSSL and certifcates and I have never worked with Microsoft CA... My idea was to use Microsoft CA as a root authority for my OpenSSL certs that I...
View ArticleESXi 5 and Gb Network
Folks, I need a sanity check on my ESXi implementation on my home network. I'm running ESXi 5 on a single box with a single NIC (Intel Pro/1000 GT) connecting to a Billion 7800N Router. The setup is...
View ArticleAlarms
Acknowledged Alarms are Re-triggered or not? if any frequency is configured in Reporting Tab of the Alarms
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