Trying to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1 I get this error "vmware cannot create a...
My environment is I'm running vmware off of an SD card. It says I need 370 MB free but I don't have enough space. I'm using Update manager from VSphere and this is where the error occurs. Any thoughts?
View ArticleDuplicate IP address
Hello, Introduction:ESXi version 5.0.0 build 441354 standaloneOne network card is used and connected to switchTwo test virtual machines on FreeBSDServer is located in datacenterIP address are assigned...
View Article5.1 networking question to lacp or not
Hi I have a dell r620 with 2 x 1G ports going into a stacked 8024f. * should I be setting up lacp on the switch and ip has routing on vswitch ? been looking and looking and can't find that say which...
View ArticleNoob licensing question
I have a 2 cpu server with an Essentials licensing kit with 4 virtual servers on it. I don't do much that is tricky once these virtual servers are set up. I don't have san's, just a raid array that...
View ArticleESX5 HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Error
Hi All, Merrt Christmas and a very Happy New year! I'm trying to use vSphere APIs to implement OVA installation on ESX 5. As mentioned in vSphere API reference, it contains three steps:1....
View ArticleRAID Monitoring withLSI SAS3080X (1068) (works in 4.1 but not in 5.x)
I have recently upgraded an old HP ML310 G4 with an LSI SAS3080X (1068?) from ESXi 4.1 and need to know if it is possible to monitor the RAID health on ESXi 5.x remotely and without rebooting the...
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vSphere Client 5.0 cannot connect to ESXi server.
Hello, I recently restarted the management agents (using the VMWare tutorial) in order to solve some issues. However, that did not correct the issues, instead it has introduced more problems : Now, I...
View ArticleAMD-V compatible with DirectPath I/O?
Hello, I have installed esxi 5 on an ASUS M5A88-M with AMD Pheom II X4 processor. Both support AMD-V and the option is enabled in the bios. host also has 32gb of RAM. ESXi is working fine but i dont...
View Articlehardware status tab - Certificate no CRL info after replacing ssl certs
Hi, This is bugging me. I followed the excellent document telling me how to setup openssl and replace the ssl certs on vcenter server implementing a Microsoft CA server. All seems well except one...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 having issues with Snapshot Size Alerts
Hi everyone,I have a problem regarding sending email alerts when vm snapshot size exceeds certain amount of size. (actually any size having issues) It does send traps ignoring what I actually enter as...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - crashes...need help please
Hi, I am a true newbie. Every so often my ESXi will crash....dead. I have obtained a copy of the dump file but I really need some help. Many thanks Jonathan
View ArticleDirectPath NIC AR8161
Hello, I've configured an esxi 5.1 with the latest patch on a z77-DS3H everything work as expected but the nic which I knew wasn't supported so I passed it to one of my win7 VM the problem is it...
View ArticleInstalled ESXi on USB/Flash but swap does not seem to have been placed on...
Hello, I have read many times that when you install ESXi 5.1 on to flash media it creates a scratch space on a 4GB ramdisk in /tmp/scratch so that the USB drive itself is not used for temporary data to...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 upgrade
i am doing am upgrade drom vCenter 5.0 to 5.1. when i am installing the SSO it will almost compleate the install then it will return an error. it tells me that "The Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition...
View ArticleESXi 5 Compatibility Question
Hello, I'm looking at a PC with an NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 controller for a lab environment. According to the HCL, this appears to be a supported network card, but it is not listed as a...
View ArticleNeed some SAN config advice
Hi All. I am almost an exclusive user of NFS. I know how to setup iscsi unfortunatley I haven't used it to often since I do tiny deployments. Any who my question is how can I best setup the highest...
View Articleeth0 hangs at boot time
Has anyone else noticed this? I'm using rhel 6 with vmware tools installed it hangs when it starts the network and tries to bring up the eth0 interface. I am using vmware-tools 8.6.5.11214...
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Dead path with IBM ds3500
Our setup: two IBM servers each with two SAS HBA connected directly to a DS3500 (DS3512) SAS storage. The problem is that after some I/O operation one of the paths to storage is lost (Status: dead)....
View ArticleWindows Guest cannot connect to another guest on a different host
I have two identical machines running ESXi 5.1 with 6-7 guest operating systems on each one. Most of the operating systemsare windows server 2008R2 Enterprise, with a win7 and Linux guests as well....
View ArticleFrustrating issue with ESXi 5.1 and SBS2011
The OS itself is installed and operates as I would expect it to - however, every hour to 6 hours the network stops working on JUST that VM. The system will say that it can't find the router, and the...
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