Lost password on esxi 4.0
I have taken over an account running vmware esix 4.0 free version. They are running version 4.0 no updates. When I came in this morning, I couldn't connect the v sphere client to the server due to a...
View ArticleMultipath Design with 5 hosts and 3 MD3000i Storage
We currently have an existing system iSCSI network that has been running for about 3 years now and it work, but has serious performance issues. Image 1 shows our current setup. To improve on this...
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VMware ESXi 4.1U3 on IVY Bridge CPU
Hi All Does anyone have installed VMware ESXi 4.1U3 on IVY Bridge CPU?I meet error during installation, attached file is detail informaion.
View ArticlePhysical Drive details in Smart Array
hello I have HP Servers having HP embedded ESXI server installed with HP owned ISO, I want to know physical drive details in ESXi ( as like hpacucli), because i have drive failure and want to replace...
View ArticleCould not power on VM : Invalid metadata - storage
Hi, I am new at this forum and I have problems starting VM. My configuration of esx 4.1 is :- two host in cluster ( esx1 and esx2 ) HA- datastore is on DELL MD storage conected via ISCSII When I try to...
View ArticleCannot relocate virtual machine
Hi!I have ESXi 4.1 (320137) with several data-stores. I tried to make backup via Veeam and all VM from different data-stores were successfully backup-ed, except one. I tried to backup this VM (VM...
View ArticleHelp/Suggestions with setup
Hi, I'm new to the community and as well as with VMWare. I'm now supporting the VMWare ESX 4.1.0 in the company using Dell PowerEdge R710 with 8x2.4Ghz CPU, 24GB ram and 4TB HDD. The server runs the...
View ArticleHow to move a VM ( virtual appliance) from one Cluster to another?
Hello, I have a virtual appliance that was created in teh wrong cluster and I need to move it to another cluster.I tryt o use the Migration wizard but the other cluster is not displayed for teh...
View ArticleVsphere 4.1 HA Cluster
HI, We have a 2 Node HA Cluster Running with 5 Produktiv VMs and 5 Test VMs. The VMs are Distributed over the 2 NodesHow can i shut down only the Test VMs in Case of an Hostfailure? HA Cluster...
View ArticleRemoving LUNs from ESXi 4
Hi I'm planning to remove some LUNs from a ESXi cluster. I've seen a KB article saying that an APD condition can be triggered....
View ArticleESXi 4 U3 Health Status
I'm running ESXi 4 u3 on an HP Proliant DL350 G5. In the health status section I see readings for pretty much everything except storage. Any ideas on why storage is not on that list? I have a script I...
View ArticleError configuring NTP
Hi. I want to configure the ESX hosts to query an NTP server to get the time. However, I end up getting an error message while trying to run the service via the vSphere Client.Aufruf von...
View ArticleSNMP configuration issue
Hey guys- I have applied SNMP configuration on 2 VMware ESXi 4.1u3 Hosts in my environment, the following is the output from the show command:Current SNMP agent settings:Enabled: 1UDP port:...
View ArticleHow can I enforce password maximum age for ESXi 4.1 Server(force to change...
How can I enforce password maximum age for ESXi 4.1 Server(force to change after xx days)
View ArticleWorkstation 9: USB utterly slow - please fix! (Or do I need to change a...
Using an USB stick, copy transfer rate in my virtual machine is (seriously) 14.6 KB/Sec. !! Perfoming the same copy operation in my host OS it's 379 KB/Sec. That's 25 times slower in the VM !!!...
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Locked file on VM
We had an issue last week with a host server that resulted in the guest VMs being removed and re-added to the vCenter inventory. This has worked fine with the exception of 1 VM that seems to have a...
View ArticleThe VMware ESX server does not have persistent storage
Hi, we have an HP Proliant ML350 G6 with a p410i RAID controller. The raid was created using 4 1TB disks, as this: Disk 1: RAID 0Disks 2-4: RAID 5 The server is running ESXi 4.1 since 2011 without any...
View ArticleProblems with LFN and transfer speeds/TCP Window Scaling
We have a 1Gb link between two sites. The latency is 19ms. This limits transmission speed to about 25Mbps with the default max TCP window of 64kb. Is there a way to turn on window scaling in 4.1? Does...
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PSOD Exception 14 when adding a NIC dual gigabit NC360T
I have ESXi 4.1 running on a IBM SystemX 3250 that makes use of the two onboard gigabit NICs.Now I'm trying to add a dual gigabit NC360T card.When rebooting the server after connecting the NIC, I get a...
View ArticleESXi Service Console : Resource throttling
Hi, We have 2 HP Proliant Servers (ML350 G5 and ML350 G6), each running ESXi free licensed.VM's are on shared storage (SAN, connected via dedicated gigabit, mounted via NFS)jumbo frames are enabled. We...
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