ESXi 4.1 - VM Errors
Keep getting the same error for two VM's on the same host: There is no more space for virtual disk *******.*******.vmdk. You might be able to continue this session by freeing disk space on the relevant...
View ArticleMount an iso file to an ESXi 4.1 Host - to update dell drivers (suu iso)
Hi - I am trying to mount a the Dell ISO (SUU_740_Q42013_A00.ISO) in order to update all drivers to my ESXi 4.1 hosts. The mount -t iso9660 -o loop does not work in ESXi. I ran vmkload_mod iso9660....
View Articleproblem recoverig VM from Datastore
Power was cut from my ESXi4.1 hyper-visor........I put back in the ESXi4.1 cd and booted chose the repair option. It told me tat it also found a Datastore on the same HD that I just repaired, but that...
View ArticleIPv6 VSS and VDS
I understand that IPv6 needs to be enabled on the host so that IPv6 can be used for vmkernel adapters, but if all we need is IPv6 on virtual machines (thus through both standard switches and...
View ArticleUnmount/Detach a SAN Datastore on ESX 4.1
On an ESX 4.1.0 server, managed by VCenter 5.5.0, we have one particular Datastore where the underlying SAN needs to be rebooted. The Datastore has only one VM residing on it, and I've shut that VM...
View ArticleVMware Workstation 10 - HDMI audio causes error
Hello, My apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but I've been combing the boards for hours, and have not turned up a solution. I have a Lenovo desktop PC, with an ATI Radeon HD 8570 PCI...
View ArticleHow to capture hardware log on server running VMWare ESXi 4.0
Hi guys.I have 2 server IBM & HP, I have been running VMWare ESXi 4.0 on both of them. Could you tell me how to capture hardware log of them? I want to get detail log like dsa on IBM, HP Insight...
View ArticleShutdown of ESXi 4 with Data Recovery 1
Occasionally we have planned power cuts and need to shut everything down, sometimes in a pinch. We are looking for procedures on completely shutting down an ESXi 4 with vCenter and Data Recovery in a...
View ArticleEncrypting ESXi host with BitLocker
We are being asked to encrypt out exchange server, but we're running into a few issues. For the most part, MS only recommends using BitLocker as the encryption solution, but our Exchange environment is...
View ArticleChange datastore interface from SAS to FC on same SAN storage
Hi all, We have environment with 3 ESXi forming VM HA, connecting to IBM SAN Storage DS3512 by SAS which are datastores located.Now we have project to change interface from SAS to FC using same storage...
View Articlehow can create VMFS partition manually
Hello, our server ran into a HDD failure and as it's raid 5 (raid array consists of 3 HDDs, usable space 290GBs) we replaced the failed drive and proceeded to boot. the system did boot at all and...
View ArticleOptions for accessing cluster when vCenter server's database is down
The SQL server that we use for one of our vCenter servers (4.1) went down hard, and for various reasons, it won't be back up for several days. What are my options for managing the cluster in the...
View ArticleVirtual Disk Space Error
I have a client who has VMWare ESXi 4.1.0. The other day their internet gateway virtual machine (linux based) and their Windows Server was powered off. When I attempted to power on I received a Virtual...
View ArticlePatch ESXi v4.1 host where VCenter is running
Hi, in our lab we have a deployment of 3 ESXi V4.1 hosts and 9 hosts V5.5, which i just upgraded from V5.1.I have also patched the 2 of the 3 V4.1 hosts to the latest patch. The 3rd one is the last...
View ArticleBig performance difference for the same VM on 2 different ESXi servers for...
Hello,I experiment a big performance difference for the same VM on 2 different ESXi servers (cloned from one to the other).One is an old Dell Power Edge T610 (2 Xeon X5650), the other is a newer Dell...
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 Articleconverter P2V Linux Unable to query the live Linux source machine
Hello! I'm having difficulty performing a P2V on a CentOS 5.10 box to ESXi 4.1. The process fails with an error message of Unable to query the live Linux source machine After searching most of the day...
View ArticleCannot Migration P2V or V2V via VCenter Converter Standalone
I have a probleminvmwaremigrationofSymantecendpointserverintoVMwarevCenterConverterStandaloneviaVMWareClient. I've donea variety ofwayssuch asP2Vconvertererrorappearslikethis: Failed:Ageneral...
View ArticleCannot open the disk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: No...
Hi, this looks like a helpful community, so I thought I would get some input on a situation I walked into. Here's the story. This school has three ESXi 4 host machines all sharing drive space via NFS...
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