NEED HELP WITH DELL PRECISION 490 and ESXi 4.1.0 Update 3
All, I've been struggling with this ESXi install I keep getting this error stating it cannot install ESXi. I tried to install different OS on the box and got BSOD. I'm wondering if it's something with...
View ArticleUbuntu VM Tools Not Running
Hi I have ESXi 4 with an Ubuntu 12.04 server Guest running on it. I have followed the instructions on installing VMTools onto Ubuntu, seemed to install without error, however ESXi is not see that it is...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 with VM Guest OS and multicast issue
I have a very weird issue and need help from VM gurus: I have a Windows Media Server 2008R2 SP1 running the latest patches. I have a PHYSICAL Windows 7 clients on the same network that I can connect...
View Articlemove hosts to evc cluster with running vm's
Looking to enable EVC without haaving to shut down all hosts or vm's. I have an existing cluster with some older hosts. I added a new host to the cluster, and tried to vMotion a vm - fails with the...
View ArticleUnable to access vSphere 4 webpage with IE (Firefox OK)
(Running ESXi 4.1)Not sure when this issue first occurred, as a couple of months ago I directed a colleague to http://<servername> to grab the vSphere 4 Client download and that worked fine.Now...
View ArticleHost not seeing additional nic cards
I have an esxi host 4.1 running on an IBM 3650m3 with three pci slot 4 port nic cards. In the configuration and networking option I am not seeing these additional nic cards I am only seeing the...
View ArticleSnapshot consolidation with VMware Converter
Dear all, ESXi 4.1.0VMware Converter Stand aloneProductive system with typical "Too much snapshots to get it consolidated on the datastore"-problem. Already found several threads and hints, that using...
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Help - spin count exceeded issues...
Hi all, I'm starting to have more frequent problems with this and I'm hoping someone can help. The first time I saw this type of error was about a month or so ago. Then on Saturday the server locked...
View Articlecreated 4 Windows 7 Enterprise 64 Bit Images and deploy P2V and as soon we...
created 4 Windows 7 Enterprise 64 Bit Images and deploy P2V and as soon we turn the VM on it is eating up the Memory and Balloon Memory
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Really bad disk performance
Hi everyone. I'm new to VMWare, I'm having a really serious case of very poor disk performance and It's getting hard to me to troubleshoot it.First of all I would like to post some information that may...
View ArticleDell Esxi4.1 embedded hcl?
Hello. I am trying to find a suitable network card for an esxi host. It is running the dell embedded version. This is the first system I have worked on that is embedded rather than installed. Does...
View ArticleMoving a Windows 2008 vm
I have a VM with Windows 2008 in a rather small data store. I want to back it up and move it to a larger capacity server. I am wondering if by moving it to a larger datastore, it will allow me to...
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LSI SAS error?
Hello all. I've been running an evaluation version of ESXi [5.1] at my company, as we're trying to move torwards a more professional virtualization solution. I have a R515 however that doesn't seem to...
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Upgrading to ESXi 5.1
Hi. Thanks in advance to all the helpful people out here. I'm running ESXi 4.0. In order to run Windows 8 I apparently need ESXi 5.1 (I'm reading 5.0 isn't enough). I just downloaded...
View ArticleExternal USB HD not detected by Virtual Machine
We had this external hard drive working great and was a backup share to many files. However, we recently relocated the equipment and had to shut down both Vsphere servers we had. After connecting...
View ArticlePSOD Info needed
Hi all, I got a PSOD on a HP blade server. We could not capture the print screen. It is running esxi 4.1 U2. In ESX the vmkernel dump will get generated in root folder. However as this is esxi there is...
View ArticleCopying a vm from one host to another
I have seen lots of ways to do this but as I am unsure of scripting, I wonder if there is a GUI or piece of software that would allow me to clone the vm and then move or be able to pick it up from one...
View ArticleUpgraded CPU on VM - not seeing a difference....
As the heading states - I just upgraded a VM running Windows 2008 Server R2. We just performed a upgrade on the CPU quantity last night as it has an application that was putting 98% usage on the...
View ArticleXP SP3 Guest OS can't show 1920x1080 Resolution
VMWare WS 8.0 connecting to ESXi 4.1.0 (Build 348481) I followed the instructions in http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003 and setup...
View ArticleVMware Esxi 4.1.0 stopped detect any USB Device
Hello everybody, it's been a while since my Vmware Server 4.1.0 stopped detecting any USB device that is plugged into. We have done several procedures but any device is not detected, thus we can not...
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