Disks full virtual machine cannot be accessed - What now?
I had a fairly full datastore and decided to free up space. Went to Smapshot manager deleted all smapshots, big mistake, I should have read Fillips post " When initiating Delete or DeleteAll snapshots,...
View ArticleWhy is large RDM IO limited to 64kb under ESXi 4.1 even though...
A large IO from a Guest VM running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 using pvscsi driver to an RDM disk, is split into 64kb IO sizes when sent to storage array. ESXi host profile has Disk.DiskMaxIOSize...
View ArticleHow to replace IP 10.*.*.* in /etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg
Hey everyone, I need to REIP a LOT of esx hosts, and am really close, but either through Powershell / Powercli / plink I can't seem to figure out hot to replace the vCenter IP address in...
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ESXtop Network - Port-ID to vNIC mapping
Hi Guys, I have a questions concerning ESXtop on an ESXi 4.1 Host. Lets say I have an VM with two vNICS. In ESXtop it looks like this: So I use PORT-ID 16778042 & 16778043 on the Virtual Switch....
View ArticleESXTOP - VMs slowness and freezing
Hello, We are seeing some VMs freezing and sometimes disconnecting from the zero client. I have attached the ESXTOP log and I believe the issues is with our SAN. Looking for help analyzing this data.
View ArticleRelocate Virtual Machine - The Task was canceled by a user
I wonder if someone can help please. At my place of work we have an ESXi4.1 vCentre, with about 60 hosts at various remote sites. We've recently experienced a hard disk error in one of the hosts,...
View ArticleRUnning out of space on a datastore
Hello, I am working on a problem where a thin disk is over allocated (the LUN is1.92TB and the vmdk is thin provisioned to 2TB). I am concerned why the VMwould eating up free space on thedatastore...
View ArticleUsing mutiple mutipath pluggin
Hello, I am using EMC VMAX storage and powerpath in installed as multipath pluggin. We are planning to add LUNs from netapp v series solution. Will it work together?Netapp LUNs will be using nmp.ESXi...
View ArticleSpace low on a datastore - safe to remove a snapshot?
Hi, Overnight a lot of data was placed into one of our VM's causing it to run out of space. I have since removed it all but the actual datastore has not freed up any space. The VM has an old snapshot...
View ArticleHost experiencing storage errors
Hi, I have a datacenter consisting of 12 hosts out of which 1 host is not showing the LUNs and hence the datastores. While performing the rescan function in the storage adapters in vcenter, I'm getting...
View ArticleNIC problem
Hello, I newly installed blade 460c with ESXi 4.1 U2 . this server is having 4 port nic but when I try to make vmnic2,3,4,5 up it gives me a following error.vmnic0 and vmnic1 are working fine. ~ #...
View ArticlePlease help me undelete parent .vmdx
BACKGROUND:Using esxi 4.1, using GUI only.I was preparing to migrate an old Server 2003 VM to a new Server 2008 R2 VM so I could delete the old server for all my Windows Server needs. My friend, with a...
View ArticleAlarm - Reset Alarm to Green option is not available
Hi, Anybody knows what needs to do to resolve the issue "Reset Alarm to Green option is not available". Environment is vCenter 4.1 and ESXi 4.1. Few of the hosts have only one option Acknowledge Alarm....
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Unable to add host to Vcenter
I am trying to add host on my Vcenter with it gives me error"Add host (name) Cannot contact the specified host (10.32.xx.xx). The host may not be available on the network, a network configuration...
View ArticleRealTek Network Card on ESXi 4.1
All I have a ESXi 4.1 setup working on a HP Microserver, all running well. I have installed a Realtek network card for a DMZ and it doesn't show up in ESXi. If I do a lspci -v |less, I can see the...
View ArticleESXi 4.0 update 1
Hi does anyone know where i can downloads ESXi 4.0 Update 1 as i have two 3com 9500 raids cards in my pc and they will only work 4.0 update 1 and with 3com 9550 driver :-( i have ESXi 4.1 (it dont work...
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HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8 Purple Screen of Death (PSOD) "PCPU Locked Up"...
HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8 "PCPU Locked Up" Occurred or That "No Heartbeat" Was Observed Already disabled "Collaborative Power Control" in BIOS...
View ArticleCannot download vSphere Client after patch install
I installed the latest patches for my two ESXi v4.1 servers using the vSphere Host Update Utility; the servers are now build 1363503. In a web browser, when I go to the home page of either server to...
View ArticleEsxi 4.1 - can you install a network card driver without maintenance mode?
Hi everyone, The title pretty much says it. I'd like to install an additional network card driver onto esxi 4.1, but everything I've read seems to indicate that I need to be in maintenance mode for...
View Articleupgrade to MPIO?
now on my esxi4.1 only has one cable connect to SAN.I want to add one more network card to creat MPIO.do I need to delete all the datastores, then after configure and add them again. or I only need to...
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