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Datastore missing after power failure ESXi 4.1
After a power failure an shared datastore connected through FC to two ESXi hosts 4.1 is missing. The datastore is located on an storage IBM DS3400 dual controller. The hosts are installed on two IBM...
View ArticleProblem to add host VCENTER
Hi guys. I have worked with VCENTER 5.1 with ESxi 4.1 and ESXi5.1 a two week ago I have started migration hosts from old VCENTER to new VCENTER 5.1, when start process add host the process fail...
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High VM CPU Usage when low host CPU usage
Hello, Every once in a while my VMs will go off the deep in and use a ton of CPU usage, when I log in and review the alert, I see there's plenty of extra CPU usage available on the host. What causes...
View ArticleFeature vsmp not licensed
I just built a CentOS VM with 8 virtual CPUs on an HP DL380p Gen 8 running the free ESXi 4.1.0. When attempting to start the VM I get "there are insufficient licenses to perform this operation; feature...
View ArticleHPSIM 7.3 discovers host as VMware ESXi Alternate Boot Bank
I have 12 of the same Esxi 4.1 update 3 servers all at the same build. This is the only server that is not working correctly with HPSIM. I built a brand new SIM server, and this server works in the...
View ArticleResource Pool Setup Question
We are currently not using resource pools within our environment. What we are looking to do is implement resource pools with memory reservations based upon our VM sizes. For example, we'll create a 4GB...
View ArticlePb with 4.1 (Build 1363503) / Centos 6.5 / I3 3240
Hello everyone, I just noticed a problem with one of my esxi (Dell R210II) : Unable to install a vm with CentOS 6.5 on my hypervisor 4.1 (build 1363503) with 3240 intel i3 processor. I have the...
View ArticleHow to remap datastores from iscsi to fc (to esxi hosts)
Hello, till now we've used our Hitachi SAN AMS2100 only with ISCSI protocol.Now we've connected the SAN also via FC connection to the Vmware infrastructure.The SAN is presenting 9 LUNs (1TB each) with...
View ArticleInconsistent write speeds to a shared "Thick Provision Eager Zeroed disk"
We have two VMs with basic 50GB Debian OS hard disks These Vms share a 500GB Thick Provision Eager Zeroed disk and both Vms have a mount point sbd1/var/mydata We use OCFS2 as a clustered file system...
View ArticleFCoE and Jumbo Frames
Hello-I am running an ESXi 5.1 cluster on Dell blades with 10 Gbps connectivity up to a pair of Nexus 5K switches. The switches have ethernet connectivity out to a catalyst switch and fibre...
View ArticleSyslog and Scratch location
I am just trying to get a better understanding of the difference between the Syslog Local datastorepath and the configured scratch location.I believe that both store log files but can't find any...
View ArticleModified base disk in chain snapshots
Hi,By error we have modified a base disk in a chain snapshots, and now vsphere shows this error when you try reattached the disk:"An internal error occurred in the vSphere Client. Details: Object...
View Articlelocazione fisica dell 'installazione ESXi rispetto i Datastore
Salve a tutti, Ho un installazione di ESXi con 2 DataStore realizzati su RAID diversi. Ho necessita di cambiare le carte in tavola e quindi devo cambiare un datastore per ricreare un RAID. Vorrei...
View ArticleMapping/Mounting VMWare Datastore as drive to windows, is that possible?
Hi all, I have one of the VM's .vmdk file deleted from VMWARE client datastore browser. I ls thru SSH and found flat file is no longer there as well.However I googled and found that if the hard disk...
View Articlestorage reclaim rule required if ESX host reboots.
Hi All, Thanks in Advance! I am in the process of converting the virtual RDM in VMDK for my project. I just want to know is it required to run the storage claimrule in ESXi level if I am reclaim...
View Articlereplacing a failed disk on vsphere host
Dear All, I need to clarify some thing here. In environment for two blade servers configured with Raid 1, One balde is running Esxi 4.0, 208167 and other is running Esxi 5.0, 914586. Recently one of...
View ArticleRemove all snapshots failed : vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.removeall
hello, i hope you can help me please i used veeam backup & replication for backup a exchange server 2010 virtual machine i don't known why and how but since last week, i have got error when try to...
View Articledual port fibre HBA limitations?
we're upgrading from 4.1 esxi to latest version (5.x).i've been told that when setting up our 4.1 system, there was a limitation in using a dual port fibre hba - that a single hba would only point to...
View ArticleUpdating NTP to version 4.2.7 following vulnerability
Hi everyone, I would like to update my NTP version on my ESXi 4 host following vulnerability discover on version 4.2.4 :...
View Articlesmart card reader into virtual machine
Can I add usb smart card reader device inside my guest Windows OS ?.I'm using cclient vSphere.
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