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FAILED: Unable to obtain the IP address of the helper virtual machine
Hi, I've got this message when I use the converter V4. What does it means exactly ? and above all how to work around this ? thx
View ArticleHow to find HBA WWN number on ESX server
Hi Friends I have 2 Emulex HBAs installed on my ESX host. I am trying to find out the HBA WWN numbers. I have lputil installed on ESX hosts but it doesn't show me the WWN. Under VI if I go to the...
View ArticleCritical Storage Alert on one of my hosts
I've recently applied Update 4 to my VI3 cluster. The upgrade went smooth, and everything has been running fine for about 3 weeks now. I noticed yesterday that one of my hosts was reporting a...
View Article[NTP]: no servers can be used, exiting
Hi, This is the error message I get when I run '# ntpdate' on two newly created ESX 3.0.2 servers:15 Jan 22:23:34 ntpdate[2689]: no servers can be used, exiting Using the NTP sample configuration...
View ArticleHigh CPU load caused by Hardware Interrupts
Hi all, It seems to be a common problem, you have a virtual Windows 2003 server running Active Directory on a ESX server and suddenly the performance crawls to almost death.We'll I'm having this...
View ArticleBest values DAVG/cmd (ESXTOP) ?
Hi I work on performance analysis of our SAN. We use VmWare ESX 3.0.2. I use ESXTOP for that. I read that DAVG/cmd is a good performance index, but i don't know what are good values. What is the...
View Articlevirtual machine is not supported ?!.
hi,has anyone come cross this error messege before:" The virtual machine is not supported on the target datastore"i got this when powering on the Vmachine after being migrated from ESX2 server to ESX3...
View ArticleVMware Tools to ESX Build Matrix ?
Is there a matrix or document somewhere that links or lists the VMware Tools build numbers to which version of ESX ?
View ArticleNo Default Gateway
I am trying to setup a Service Console port and a VMKernal part to my iSCSI network but there is no default gateway that I can give it. Any help here because it is not working correctly. Thanks
View Articleadd a user on SC: adduser
/usr/sbin/useradd AdminGlobal -p password does not work on VMware, so I found a post to do it this way... user: /sbin/grub-md5-crypt got the password returned, and copy pasted into the suggested...
View ArticleHow to encrypt root password for Kick Start Script
I am developing a kick start script to install ESX V3.5 Update 1 and I want to encrypt the root password for use during the kick start installation script. What utility can I use to setup an encrypted...
View Articleunable to remove orphaned and inaccessible vm from inventory.
Had a crash during an svmotion, vm orphaned and tried to readd to inventory but no luck. I have since restored the vm from a san snapshot and deleted all the original files and it now sits in a whole...
View ArticleHow to access ESX service console
Hi all.I am a TV engineer trying to solve a network issue with our equipment. I am not a network engineer. I am trying to follow the VMWareKB: 'Troubleshooting network connection issues using Address...
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