ESXi Root Password Reset
My company recently took over control of our VMware environment from a managed services company. They had somehow managed to lose/not record the root password for two of our hosts. It would appear the...
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VM's stuck at 95%
Hi everyone, after a shutdown of the esxi (4.1) host i have a problem turning on the vm's that are on this host. Everytime i start them they are stuck at 95% and nothing happens.The VM's got snapshots...
View Articledatastore missing
hello to all,last night i restarted my host and when it came back my datastore are not there. i tried to rescan and add storage several times but no avail. i am using the vsphere client. please tell me...
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System Management Software 1 SEL Fullness 0: Log Full - Assert
Hi all, We have an old VmWare ESXi 4 in our organization, No vCenter installed.I have two warning messages regarding to log capacity , print screen is attached.I have access via SSH to Tech Support...
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 ArticleHow to access hol-sdc-1630 (at labs.hol.vmware.com)??
I see Nice Documentation @ below URL for Cloud Native Apps / DockerBut when I visit labs.hol.vmware.com (click on All Labs, search, I dont find 1630 Lab there for hands on)Any idea how to access 1630...
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Moving guests between hosts without vMotion
I am not sure if this should go in the ESXi 6.0 or ESX 4.0 groups, I have two server running VMware. One is running VMware 4.1.0 standard and the other is running VMware 6.0.0 standard. I need to...
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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Changing the name of the virtual machine files in the datastore
Hello everybody! I am using vSphere ESXi 4.1 and I am trying to understand if it is possible to change the names of the files that are stored on the datastore. Sometimes the names of the virtual...
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datastore low on disk space
I urgently need some help. Our mail server is running low on disk space (datastore_ssd) because of a snapshot created back in 2014. How do i go about deleting the snapshot without creating more disk...
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root access to ESXi4.1 server does not have permission
trying to install some firmware updates from the terminal window via remote ssh. i am logged in as root but i get the "permission denied" error every time. having no luck googleing down some...
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ESXi 4.1 to 6.0?
Hi, just a couple of quick questions. I've got two physical servers running ESXi 4.1 (and two virtual machines on each). I've in the process of purchasing two new physical servers (but they require...
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Recover Snapshoted VMDK file / consolidate a snapshot
Hi, I have a very huge problem and I don’t know how to deal with it in the right way, i had some old server that been setup with weekly snapshots.and we some hardware issue with the server that cause...
View ArticleVMware ESXI 4.1 cluster
Hello. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to connect together 2 SAN iscsi (1 HP MSA P2000 and 1 HP MSA 1040) to a cluster vmware esxi using a network switch? Thank you
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ESXI4.1 Datastore teilweise I/O-Error
Hallo hier, wir hatten einen Systemabsturz einer esxi 4.1, nach dem Neustart war die INstallation defekt.Wir haben dann die esxi4.1-Installations--CD eingelegt und die Reperatur durchgeführt. Danach...
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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 ArticleESXI 4.1 Drive Rebuild Stuck Question
Hi I am new to VMware. I took on a client about a year ago that has an ESXI 4.1 server with 4 virtual machines. These virtual machines include the domain controller/file server, email server, database...
View ArticleHELP: Running ESXi 4.1 host just lost it's boot disk
One of our ESXi 4.1 servers lost a drive in it's Raid-1 boot array about a week ago. No biggie, bought new drive, inserted new drive today, array began rebuild. Other drive fails during rebuild....
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Upgrade process for ESXi (on a USB key)
We've currently around 180 remote sites using mainly ESXi 4.1 with around a dozen on 5.1 booting from USB keys. We need to upgrade (due to backup solution compatibility) to a mix of 5,5 and 6.0 (the...
View ArticleWhat's running on this esx instance?
the documentation has me totally baffled. Pointers would be welcome if this is covered elsewhere. I have ssh access to a machine that identifies itself as running esxi-41, (if /etc/issue can be...
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