New to vmware - never used it - need some advice
First of all, please forgive me if I posted in the wrong category. I started working with a company that has about 25 physical server (about 5 are to be decommissioned) running server 2008. There's one...
View ArticleNew to Vsphere; Resource Allocation.
Hello all; I recently became the System Admin for a company that was kinda...pieced together. The virtual machines were all over the place, some not even being used, and I needed to do some much...
View ArticleI am not able to connect my host with v-Sphere client
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...
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ESXi 4.1 reboot causing errors in datastore hindering recovery
Datastore comes and goes. Returns after several refreshes. Physical Disk (1TB) appears fine. VMFS Partition appears fine, VM disks appear fine. 2VMs are browseable and files appear correct. I/O error...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Freeze
Hello I have virual machines on esxi 4.1 hosts. 3-5 of them (server 2008 R2) are freeze randomly. i have created dump file but don't know how to open and read it. Can you give me any advice? file name...
View ArticleHow to span multiple LUN's onto One (or less) Datastore(s) in Vmware vSphere...
Hey guys- I currently have 2 ESXi Hosts (version 4.1u3), 1 vCenter Server, and 1 EMC VNXe3300 SAN (20TB via iSCSI) that make up my virtual environment. On the EMC VNXe, you create VMware Datastores...
View ArticleESXi with a queued task
Dear all, I have tree ESXi and my ESXi number 2 have a task queued since 29-10-2014. Anyone have this issue? How can i remove this task safely? My task is: Register Virtual Machine. Thanks,Joel Ricardo
View ArticleUpgrading a Server running 4.1.0
I have a Dell Power Edge R2970 that had one CPU and four GB RAM installed and was running ESXi 4.1.0 build 502767. It was used for some older archived VM guest the we need to maintain for historical...
View ArticleSSH login not responding/keyboard not responsive.
Hi this is my first post here- I had a quick look for similar issues but none immediately apparent, so bear with me or point me to the appropriate resource if you could.I have two exsi hosts in a...
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Datastore - Free size in minus values, and then suddenly in huge size.
Dear All, We came across with a strange issue last month.We have a vmware cluster with 2 esxi 4.1 hosts.Friday morning, suddenly we lost connection to all VMs running on both esx hosts and lost...
View ArticleCan we Add ESX4.0/ESXi4.1/ESX4.0 host to Vcenter 5.0/5.1/5.5 and expect HA...
Will HA work when ESXi4.1 or older version of ESXi is added to newer version of Vcenter?
View ArticleNeed help installing OpenSSL 0.9.8zd
Greetings, I first want to let all know that I am not very experienced with Linux. I can can do some minor things (browse directories, look up permissions, shakey with VI). I guess my first questions...
View ArticleWhat are best practices for upgrading host hardware? (4core -> 6core)
Hello, Been searching for documentation on how to physically replace/upgrade my host hardware. Currently have 2 ESXi hosts in our cluster, each with about 2 dozen guests. Some/many guests are...
View ArticleHow to mount a datastore that is missing on all host in the cluster.
Hi, I am hoping that some one can help me with getting back a missing data store. We have 3 esxi 4.1 host in a cluster attached to a SAN. Yesterday morning an unknown event caused and error on a...
View ArticleAstaro firewall change, hosts disconnect seconds later, can't find any...
We recently implemented a firewall change for some SQL traffic on one of our LAN segments that seemingly had zero impact (or shouldn't have had any impact) on vCenter <--> host connectivity....
View ArticleNot able to share datastore between Vsphere 4.1 clusters
Shared lun visible to all host in both cluster and added to one cluster as vmfs datastore but not visible in other cluster. Tried with manual scanning or configuration adding as existing disk signature...
View ArticleProblemi Scheda rete su Ubuntu dopo Import.VM da WS a ESXi
Salve a tutti, io ho questo problema, ho installato un ESXi 4 sul mio server DELL R410 e ho importato 2 VM (Un Windows Server2003 STD e un Ubuntu Server 9.10) da files vmdk di WorkStation...
View ArticleMoving guests to ESXi 4.1 host from a ESX 3.5.0 host
When moving a guest from a ESX 3.5.0 host to a ESXi 4.1.0 host do you need to do anything to guest? Or just move its folder and associated files from the old data store to the new one?
View ArticleRestablecer clave de vmware
Quisiera saber si el procedimiento de restablecer contraseña en vmware afecta la configuración interna, es decir las maquinas virtuales se borraran o sufriran cambios?
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