About install ESXi 4 on Supermicro H8QM3-2
Are there any documents about installation of ESXi 4 on H8QM3-2? I tried but always got PSOD about "noapic.c 607" error, even after type noapic as install options. Are there any special BIOS settings...
View ArticleFailed conversion took up space on ESX 4.1 host
Guys a newbie in Virtualization needs your help. I tried converting a physical server with 16GB (Basic/Raid-1) and 370GB (Dynamic/Raid-5) partitions. I opted to increase the size of the 16GB partition...
View ArticleLinux guest OS has slow access times to NFS store
A bit of background to this issue. We have a SAN datastore for a number of servers. Originally we had a single HP Proliant ML 350 G6, connected to the SAN via NFS. The SAN served a number of Linux...
View ArticleHow to Migrate a VM from an Offline Host
Like the title says, I've got three ESX servers with common storage. One of the hosts has died and I need to force the VMs that were residing on it into the other hosts and power them up. Any idea how...
View ArticleDRS Issue - Two hosts hosting majority of VMs
Hello! ESXi 4.1 U2,Cluster with 5 Hosts (3 R900/2 Proc/4 Cores/8 Logical/128 GB, 1 R910/2 Proc/6 Cores/24 Logical/128 GB, 1 R810/2 Proc/10 Cores/40 Logical/128 GB),EVC Intel "Merom" Gen. (Xeon Core...
View ArticleTools to console into VM for guests
Hey Guys, My first post here on the VMWare community forum! I have a question regarding the possibility of allowing guests to console into a particular VM. Consoling into the VM is no problem for the...
View ArticlePipe name with VMWare ESXi 4.1
I am trying to setup a kernal-debugging between a VM (target machine) and my laptop(host machine). Both are running Win7. VM is on ESX4.1. On VM, while trying to set up a serial port using named pipe....
View ArticleVsphere client lost connection
Lately I`ve noticed that my Vsphere client just lost connection, inorder for it to connect again I have to restart Vcenter. any solution to solve this
View ArticleESXi Physical NIC details
Hi Wondering if anyone can hep with this small issue.......I am assiting our network admin in troubleshooting a dropped packets issue that I we are seeing on one of our ESX hosts. Between physical NIC...
View Articleadding rouge servers to vSphere cluster
Hello, In vSphere we have a cluster of servers. For a few days two of them are out of the cluster. For those two in summary we get the message "HA agent in cluster has an error: Cannot complete the HA...
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Networking problem, help tracing issue
Hi, I have a VMware ESXi 4.1.0 server that is running two Windows 2008 VMs.The VMware server has two 1Gb NICs. Now I have a problem where one of the VMs looses the network randomly for a minute or...
View Articleupgrade
I'm just new on virtualization infrastruture now i want to upgrade from 4.1 to 5 or 5.1, so what i want to know which procedure i must follow, for instance do I have to reinstate/renew my licences so...
View ArticleVMWARE PROBLEM.
hi, I have a one problem. when i install the vmware exsi 4.1 do not supported NIC card .my system information:- Mother board asus model M3A7B-EMDrivers detailsDisplay ATI Radian HD 3200...
View ArticleProgressively degrading data transfer speed - losing my mind!
We are attempting to migrate a bloated 1.5TB Win2k3 VM fromone SAN to another so that we can do some capitol maintenance andreconfiguration work on the SAN that is currently holding this VM. It being...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1 installation problem ?
hey guys am trying to install vmware 4.0 and 4.1 under my hp probook 4540s , I cant perforn the setup in vmw 4.0 i have an error message failur to load tpm and tvmdriver and in vmw 4.1 the laptop froze...
View ArticleChanging ESXi Syslog from verbose
Hi all Gurus, I have tring to change the default log level in ESXi 4.1.0 version 348481. I already read a lot off stuff about the subject, but unfortunately I cannot get this accomplished. Steps: -...
View ArticleAutomatically shut down virtual machine
Hi All, I have just set up vshield and have the vshield apps on each of the 5 hosts in our cluster which are each on the local storage of each host, is there a way to set these machines to...
View Articlevmtools for red hat 5.8
I have a quick question. Our red hat server 5.8 reads that the vmtools are outdated. Our host is ESXi 4.1.0 build 502767. Our tools is version is 8.3.7.387 build 341836. I have researched and in the...
View ArticleiSCSI over Storage Port or VM Traffic?
In the physical machine we have 6 NICs:0&1 are 1gb NICs on a vSwitch0 with vmKernel port configured for Management 2&3 are 1gb NICs on a vSwitch1 with Vmkernel port configured for vMotion and...
View ArticleConflicting path policies
Hi All,In our VMWare ESXi 4.1 cluster, I've just come across a datastore that consists of two extents. One of these extent LUNs has the Round Robin path policy set while the other is using...
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