Mounting an IronKey to a VM on an ESXi 4.1 host.
I am trying to access an IronKey usb drive from a Windows 7 VM on a host with ESXi 4.1. I have been able to edit the settings of the VM to mount the Cd/DVD image of the IK as a SCSI device. Windows is...
View ArticleVMDirectPath Configuration on IBM 3850 M2
Hello, we need mount card reader device to directly vm which running on ESXI 4.1 installed system IBM 3850 M2. When I go Configuration--->Hardware--->Advanced Settings menu on host I have no...
View ArticleUnmap shared SAN luns with datastores from some host
Hello In our environment we have 2 clusters, some SAN datastores are shared between both clusters. But now we need to unmap some SAN datastore from one of the clusters (clusterB)At this moment there...
View ArticleMerging VMDKs from different Datastores
I had the file.flat.vmdk and the file.delta1.vmdk on datastore2 and mistakenly moved file.delta2.vmdk (most recent) on another datastore, expanding to 250GB (loosing thin provisioning), I am unable to...
View ArticleSetting up automated shutdown using APC Smart UPS
Hi, I'm currently using a Smart UPS 1000 rack mount and my system i'm running a VMWARE ESXi 4.1 with 2 OS inside. 1. Windows 2008 32-bit2. Centos 4/5 32-bit How would you deploy the automated...
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diminuer un datastore
Bonjour,J'ai par erreur augmenter un datastore avec un vdisk créé pour un autre datastore.Malheureusement avec vsphere client, il n'est pas possible de diminuer le datastore.Comment puis-je...
View ArticleWhy is thin provisioned vm so large?
I created a thin provisioned vm (version 10), independent disks, persistent, with a disk size of 100GB. I installed SLES11 SP3 x86_64 in this vm. OS, patches, and software takes up approx 6GB of...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 Snapshot commit operations takes randomly a long time
Hi guys, i have a weird issue here. Scenario: ESXi 4.1 build 800380.Windows 2003 R2 ServerNFS datastores on a RAID10 EMC VNXe array I take a Veeam backup of a DB machine every 30 minutes. Once a day,...
View ArticleVMWare Esxi 5.1 Datastore inactive
Hi, We are running a VMWare Esxi 5.1 with 3 VMs for around 4 month with no issues. Suddenly from today we are seeing datastore1 is inactive. Due to this we are unable to access our VMs through console....
View ArticleMy ESXi host is flooded with these messages
Would anyone be able to tell me how I can make this go away please? Apr 22 17:31:12 scedvm03 Vpxa: 2014-04-22T17:31:12.077Z [3DE65B90 verbose 'VpxaHalCnxHostagent' opID=WFU-1a15c2fd]...
View ArticleLocal ATA Disk missing from Storage Devices
Logging into the host with vSphere Client I see that the installed Windows 7 client VM is named "Unknown (inaccessible)".There is also a message on the host configuration tab that says "The VMware ESX...
View ArticleStorage vMotion issue: vCenter reports linked clones where there aren't any
Dear Community, we have run into the following issue: - there is a prod VM with several VMDKs- when trying to Storage vMotion the VM vCenter reports the following: The virtual machine has virtual disks...
View ArticleIs it possible to automate snapshot deletion in VMware?
Hi Guys, I know it is possible to automate snapshot creation for a VM in VMware, Can we also do the same for deletion? We are on VMware ESX, 4.1.0. Thank You! Arnel
View ArticleWhy we are not receiving scheduled task notification?
Hi Guys, We have a scheduled task which is set to create a snapshot of a VM in monthly basis. So the snapshots were being created. However, we also set a notification for it (see attached) but we are...
View Articlevihostupdate.pl execute in cli on win7 open texteditor
Hello, i want to install dell omsa on a ESXI 4.1 server. When i try to execute the Command (like Vihostupdate.pl --Server IP_des_ESXi_Hosts –i –b c:\temp\OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-7.2.0-6945.VIB-ESX41i.zip)...
View ArticleDell 2950 Battery Warning
Morning Guys, I have two vSphere 4.1 hosts which host varying servers in our network. We monitor them using Nagios and do a Nagios storage check on them. The two servers since putting this check on...
View ArticleUpdate Manager - Is it necessary?
I started with a new company and I have a question about Update Manager. This may sound dumb. It flies in the face of how I have administered vCenter and ESXi over the years. What is the value of...
View ArticleWindows 2008 r2 sp1 vm crashing
Hi, I am seeking help for an issue which we came across in our environment. Let me explain the issue: WE have an esxi 4.1 u3 cluster in our environment. Few weeks back one of the esxi host in that...
View ArticleWin2k8 vms crashing on a particular host
Hi, I am seeking help for an issue which we came across in our environment. Let me explain the issue: WE have an esxi 4.1 u3 cluster in our environment. Few weeks back one of the esxi host in that...
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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....
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