VMDK file
Good Morning I have a problem with a file that i need to access (.vmdk) file what happened was we had a server space error that we could not run the specified server so i moved a 24Gb file to one of my...
View ArticleVirtual Center 2.x and ESX 3.x compatibility
Hi, My client is running Virtual Center 2.0.2 build 50618 (which I think is Update 1) and ESX 3.0.2 build 61618 Update 1. I'd like to upgrade the ESX hosts to v3.0.3-U1. Does the Virtual Center 2.0.2...
View ArticleVMFS and VMDK compatibility
Hi, I've got a number of ESX 3.0.2-Update1 hosts which I'm going to be doing fresh installs of ESXi 4.1 onto. The 3.0.2 hosts are connected to external storage where the Datastores and VM's are stored....
View ArticleInstalling VMware ESX3.0 in Workstation
hello everybody . im very new in VMware , and im trying to install VMware ESX server V3.0 in a VMwareworkstation .but the problem is I get the following message at the first step : the isntaller...
View ArticleProblem with seeing LUN after deleting RDM
Hi, I have a physical Raw Device Mapping to one of our VM's which I have removed and deleted, I wish now to use this space on another VM however after I remove the disk from the VM the esx host nor...
View ArticleESX install on MSI nvidia nforce 560 SATA raid control
Hi I want to install esx server on my computer that is AMD Black 5000+ & MSI K9N(nvidia nforce 560 sata raid ) & 4G RAM & two ST 250 SATA RAID 1 . On ESX Server's document ESX...
View ArticleThe (un)official 3.0.1/2.0.1 Upgrade Report Thread
I thought I'd start a thread for people to report how their upgrade to ESX 3.0.1 and VC 2.0.1 went. I'm mostly looking for persons upgrading from 3.0.0/2.0.0 but ESX 2.x upgraders feel free to post...
View ArticleVMotion failed -- Failed to start migration pre-copy. Help!
ESX v4, vCenter v4 Vmotion failed with error says: A general system error occurred: Failed to start migration pre-copy. Error 0xbad003f. Connection closed by remote host, possibly due to time out....
View ArticleHow to install ESX3 on Workstation 6 - Whitepaper!
We thought it would be a brilliant idea if you could run a fully blown VI3 environment within Workstation 6. The possibilities for those in the industry doing consultancy, pre-sales or many of us who...
View ArticleESX 3.5 - Access denined using Putty and WinSCP
Hi, I have tried to create a user with the same access rights as root which i can use to access the ESX server Via Putty and WinSCP, I used the following bit of advice from VMware-land:- Service...
View ArticleUsers unable to browse datastore ISO file under CD configuration
I have just upgraded to Virtual Center 2.5. I have users that cannot browse to the ISO datastore under the CD/DVD configuration without giving them Administrator access at the DataCenter level. They...
View ArticleTwo ESX 3.x hosts mounting to same VMFS datastore on SAN
I'm running two ESX 3.x servers with virtual center. I know that it is possible to create redundancy or high availability by configuring a clustered environment. For HA to work, both ESX hosts must...
View ArticleiSCSI performance Netapp
Hi all, We did some performance test with iozone on our new ESX 3.0.1 enviroment. The enviroment is connected to a FAS3020 from Netapp with iSCSI. The iSCSI network is a dedicated network for iSCSI. We...
View ArticleKernel boot option noapic
In order to run esx 3.0.1 on a test whitebox I have had to add the noapic kernel boot option otherwise the boot hangs when loading the kernel. In a previous whitebox I was able to correct this by...
View ArticleESX install from PXE boot No clear answers Please help
Could someone please help with the DHCP/PXE configuration issues. I have to same problem with the PXE client not receiving the DHCP Offer from the DHCP server. We have run a sniff on the network and...
View ArticleUnattended install of VIClient?
Can I do this and how?I basically don't want any user interaction so I can script an install.
View ArticleVMTools version by build #
I'm trying to find out if the VMTools we're deploying in our environment is the latest build, what version it is and if I need to, where to get the updated/most recent build/version of the VMTools for...
View ArticleShutdown a headless ESX server
Hi all, I have some headless ESX servers that I have to shutdown on a fairly regular basis (frequent overnight power outages). I know that ESX does not support ACPI, consequently when I issue a...
View ArticleHow to enable iSCSI multipathing with iSCSI software initiator?
I'm trying to enable multipathing to a Dell MD3000i iSCSI target using the software initiator.The target has 2 controllers with 2 NIC's each.I have added every ip address on each target NIC to the...
View ArticleInstalling an Adaptec AIC-7850 PCI SCSI controller
Hi, Wondering how hard or what the procedure or commands are to install a new PCI scsi controller to an already installed ESX server. We want to add a second storage to our Dell 2900 ESX 3.5...
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