Upgrading ESXi 4.1.0 to 5.5
Hi, I recently got the task of doing an upgrade for a VMWare ESXi 4.1.0 (build 474610) server. Accoding to the documentation, this upgrade can be done using the VMWare Upgrade Manager.I was searching...
View Articleupgrading vcenter 4.1 to 5.1
I am doing inplace upgrade of vcenter from 4.1 to 5.1, I forgot the exact steps to do this, but do I need to precreate the sso db in mssql first? Then run through the 5.1 vcenter install? which db...
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Mac Address Change and Forged Transmits Setting default policy not working?
Hey, guys, In my environment, there is a bridging Centos hosted in a Esxi4 server. Because the bridging not working, I spent two days and finally found out these security options on...
View ArticleESXi4 crash/freeze -> VM shown as Unknown(invalid) in Inventory, now message...
our VMware ESXi 4 freezes ,so i had to reboot the server.after that two of our virtual machines, both in the same datastore (WindowsServer2003) were shown aus "Uknown(invalid)",so i removed both...
View Articlerepair corrupt flat.vmdk files?
is there a way to repair corrupt flat.vmdk files ?the files cannot be opened i always get the the error message "invalid arguments"
View ArticleWhich build patch to download from the download portal??
Hello , i want to manually download the patch from the vmware portal but dont know if i should just pick the last one or all the ones after my build number.i Think the ones that are named...
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Moving a VM to another VMNic - same host
Hello,I have a total of 5 VMs one one of my hosts. Using esxtop, I have noticed that 4 of them, the 4 with the biggest workloads, are all mapped to the same vmnic. How can I tell esxi to map them to...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 Warning IPMI SEL
Hola, tengo una Warning de IPMI SEL en un host ESXi 4.1 y después de buscar en Internet e incluso llamar al soporte técnico de VMWare (ya no dan soporte para esta versión ESXi) sólo he encontrado que...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 Warning IPMI SEL
Hi All,I have an IPMI SEL warning in a ESXi 4.1 Host. I've searched at Internet but I only found that the solution is by VSpehere client version 5 or by the command line: localcli hardware ipmi sel...
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 ArticleESXi 4.1 monitoring.
Hello Folks.My Asus Server that I installed ESXi 4.1 on it have some problems and I attached a photo about it. On ESXi 4.1 how can I monitoring System Fan Speed and Temperate via console? Cheers.
View ArticleAdding CPU cores to Red Hat Linux VMs
Good morning, all! I'm looking at adding a multi-core option to my current Red Hat Linux VMs in ESXi 4.1. AFAIK, if I see "SMP" in the result of uname -v, I should be good to go. Amy I on track or...
View ArticleDifference between tasks and events on a VM
Hi, Wonder if someone can help me. I am trying to identify when and how many times a virtual machine was manually migrated by a user. The tasks pane of the VM in question indicates that a task "Migrate...
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...
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Jumbo Frame (MTU) option is missing on vSwitch (vSphere Client)
Hi there. We are using ESXi 4.1 in our environment. I am going over my ESXi host configuration through vSphere Client, and I've discovered the Jumbo Frame (MTU) option is missing on the vSwitch....
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 ArticleIssue with Windows Server 2003 and NICs
I am getting very strange situation. I have one Windows 2003 server running. It powers down by itself, and then all of the networking on the host itself shuts down. Nothing reboots, and the NICs...
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No of Logical Processors
I have a ESXi 4.1.0And I have search the model Intel, has 8 threads per core. so why the logical processors not 32 ??
View ArticleReducing of VM hardisk space
i have created a virtual machine with 20GB hardisk space but am thinking of reducing it to smaller size and will it affect all my files inside?Could anybody guide me?Thanks & Best Regards
View ArticleAhmed123: How do I protect the vmdk file from being copied to another data store
HiTeam, I have a question. Environment is esxi 5.1 , How do I protect the vmdk file of one of the VM from being copied to another data store. It has a critical data and no one should be allowed to copy...
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