Intel ESB2 SATA 3.0Gbps Controller
Can someon tell me if the "Intel ESB2 SATA 3.0Gbps Controller " works within VMWare 3.5??? I would like to have this controller manage the storage of the VMs. My mb is a Supermicro x7dva-e mb, with the...
View ArticleVMFS or EXT3
Can ESX server use ext 3 as its file system or does it have to use VMFS Thanks Tim
View ArticleVLAN tagging during installation phase
Hi, I'm using VLAN tagging on our VMWare hosts to be able to send traffic to the right VLAN for each VM we use. To do so, my network engineers configure the ports on the switch on which we connect...
View ArticleHelp... cannot find Qlogic HBA drivers for VMWare
I've searched for an hour over 2 days and feel like a moron. I have QLA2340 fiber cards in my Proliant DL580 G2 servers. I need drivers for the QLA2340, but Qlogic's site says to get them from...
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Problem after add extent LUN vi3
Hi to all, my scenario: N° 1 cluster with 4 esx 3,5 servers N° 21 VM on this cluster N° 2 dastore, first local 60 GB second 300 gb on eva4000 HA DRS enable - I need space and i...
View ArticleServer refusedServer refused to allocate pty -
"This is what I get when I try to putty into the server" Server refusedServer refused to allocate pty -bash: /root/.bash_profile: Input/output error
View ArticleNetbackup 6.5.1 and VCB Integration
!|I am currently experencing a problem getting NetBackup 6.5.1 and VCB to backup a virtual machine. Here is what I have. My Netbackup server has a credential configured for a Virtual Center Server...
View ArticleUpgrade tools from 3 to 3.5 without reboot
Hello, I have to upgrade the vmware tools on about 100 VM's. But these VM can't reboot after completing the upgrade. When I right-click on the selected VM's and choose "Install/Upgrade VMware...
View ArticleVIC v2.5 won't connect to VC v2.0
I created a new environment for ESX3.5 with a new Virtual Center (v2.5). We will end up moving all of our guests to the new datacenter and retire the existing one (CPU incompatibility on IBM Blade...
View ArticleILO 2 & VMWARE ESX 3.0.x USB Keyboard problem
Hi All I loose keyboard connectivity once VMWare ESX starts loading. I am able to go into BIOS settings via F9 etc, but once ESX loads the problem appears. This is a fact via ILO connection and via...
View ArticleVCB could not renew disk lease
I'm running a HP MSA1000 SAN, Virtual center 2.5 with VCB on the same box, and esx 3.02 When trying to manually run vcbmounter, I get the error "Could not renew disk lease. Aborting operation"...
View ArticleESX MIBS and HPSIM
I saw an old thread on here that clued me into registering the VMWARE MIBS into HPSIM to increase reporting of ESX server issues. When I run the mxmib command and specify the CFG files, all register...
View ArticleQuiesce and NetApp snaps
We have ESX 3.0.2 and VC 2.5 with NFS NetApp VOLS for storage. We run a script to quiesce, snap (NetApp not VM snap), then write back. As of late this has been failing at the write back stage. This...
View ArticleESX SNMP Monitoring Help. Not the same old discussion.
I have an ESX 3.0.5 host that I am trying to get to with SNMP on a remote machine. I have the firewall turned off and the snmpd.conf is stock until I added in some additional configuration that I have...
View ArticleRDM to LUN: how to match it up?
I'm relatively new to VMWare so keep that in mind. We have VI 3.5.0. I'vegot a VM that I need to V2P (it's an issue with the application not beingsupported in VMWare by the vendor). The previous...
View Articlesnmp question
Hi, I'm trying to setup our monitoring software (n-able) to look at ESX snmp events on our dell ESX 3 servers. We have a HP server which returns a whole load of snmp info - state of running VMs etc....
View Articlebackup strategy for VMs and fiber attached tape library
Hi, I'm looking to backup a couple of win2003 VMs to a dell powervault tl2000 fiber-attached tape library. I was wondering what people would recommend? The data is mainly just files stored on a dell...
View ArticleDesigning ESX 3.5 Update 2 With Exchange 2007 using RDM - (Not EXCHANGE 2003...
Hello Has anyone seen a white paper or any docs on this and best practice's - I'm having trouble finding it? ESX 3.5 Update 2 With Exchange 2007 using RDM (Not Exchange 2003)
View ArticleEight cores, four vCPUs and a terminal server - a CPU usage mystery
Over the past few months I've been trying to figure out exactly why one of my customers are having such inexplicably low performance on their vSMP VMs. I've seen this now for both linux and windows...
View ArticleSnapshot issue - ran out of disk space - removed snapshot, but it didn't...
Server info: 3.0.2-52542 All, I made the mistake of leaving a snapshot live on a system overnight and our SQL backups ran which ended up writing a ton of data to the delta file, in turn it filled up...
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