Can Powering on one Vmguest affect another Vmguest's lun on same host
Hi all,I am having two vmguests on one ESX host. Both guests are part of two different clusters (say A and B). We have configured VLAN to avoid any network interference . We were running some test on...
View ArticleNetwork Usage Alarm
Hi, we recently set up alarms for Metric Network Usage. It sometimes shows (like shown below) usage far over 100 percent. How can this be? Is this not telling me how much of the network is being used?...
View ArticlePermissions for viewing Performance
Quick question that hopefully someone has run across before. Does anyone know what are the minimum permissions required to access the "performance" tab of a server/resource pool/vm? I have some...
View ArticleSnapshot grayed out on some VMs
Why would some virtual machines have snapshot grayed out and it is available on others? I am running ESX 3.0.1 on three boxes. There are about 10 VMs on each box. Snapshot is available on some and...
View Articlecannot open disk (/vmfs/volumes/xxxxxxx-xxxxx/Server_name/Server_name.vmdk)...
Straight up when I putty into the ESX 3.0 server, I can scan and view all of my LUN's. The problem I am having is when i view the vmdk and flat.vmdk files directly on the Server they are not the same...
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Deleting Log Files
I'm running out of space on my /var/log folder. After having numerous issues with a cluster yesterday, I know have a lot of log files in this folder. Any thoughts on which ones can be deleted? My...
View Articlewindows 2003 terminal services server farm on ESX3.5
Hi, Wondering if anyone is running Microsoft TS 2003 farm on Vmware ESX 3.5 ? Are there any issues ? Is there any white papers or technical docs on implementing this ? Thanks
View Articlec_20127.nls missing during template deploy
The mini setup is looking for this file ("c_20127.nls") when deploying a template. I have checked the template source and the file is included in the system32 folder. Once I confirm the file the setup...
View ArticleError with Netapp ESX Host Utilities
When settting up the Netapp ESX Host utilities and running "config_mpath --persitant" we receive an error that it could not connect to the filers. Then looking on the filer there is and HTTP XML...
View ArticleUSB over ethernet device recommendations??
I have begun to research USB over ethernet devices in order to host license dongles, and other USB devices for multiple virtual machines. I am hoping to find a USB over ethernet device that has...
View ArticleTivoli TSM and Backup Proxy
Hello, I am looking at turning my Tivoli TSM server into a backup proxy. Currently we are only doing file level backups, however, I would like to do image or VMDK backups since we have a license for...
View ArticleUnable to boot from iso file on DL385G5p
New VMware customer. We have 2 new DL385 G5p servers. There was a bug where the optical drive wasn't supported in build 123629and would prevent the ESXi install. We have gotten past this point...
View ArticleVpXClient has encountered a problem
Hi, I've just tried to launch my VI client from my XP desktop and I'm receiving the following error message: VpXClient has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the...
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High 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 ArticleSID generation issues using Wizard
Hi, Our environment is currently at the following: ESX servers at 3.0.1, build 32039 VMWare Virtual Center @ version 2.5.0, build 104215 VC server OS is running Windows 2003 SE, SP1 and VMWare...
View ArticleVM 100% cpu utilization after vmotion from one host
Hi folks, When i vmotion a couple of VMs (Win 2003 x64 running IIS) from one host in our solution the VM CPU utilisation goes upto 100% and there are a lot of ASP.NET crash reports in the event log....
View ArticleWhy do Virtual machines are inaccessible after change in datastore?
Hi, I have two ESX 3.5 servers running which share two SAN disks. I have moved VM files of all the VM's from one SAN disk to another SAN disk using vCenter server. After moving these files, i am...
View Articlefailed to extend disk the called function cannot be performed on partial...
I have taken over administration of our VI3 and encountered this message: "failed to extend disk the called function cannot be performed on partial chains please open the parent virtual disk" when I...
View ArticleKVM migration to VMWare
Hi, all -- We have a KVM virtual machine running latest Ubuntu on a Ubuntu host. We need to migrate this VM to a VMWare ESX farm run by out data center. Is this migration as simple as moving the...
View ArticleUnable to change the Licnese server
I've recently appropriated an ESX environment which we will call this Environment A consisting of : 7 hosts1 Virtual Center Server also the license server resides on the same box.. I have...
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