P2V Terminal Server licensing
Has anyone had a go at moving the licensing server to VMware? Although I have seen this mentioned elsewhere, no one has quite stated what I am after. Any pitfalls or recomendations? The server is just...
View ArticleVMs inside Pool shuts themselves down unexpectedly - why is that?
Hi all. We have a problem on our ESX (or VI server) that I hope someone out there knows something about. We have a two-host ESX 3.01 setup, and all the configuration has been done by an external...
View ArticleIBM AIX On VMWare
Hi, Will is be possible to host IBM AIX on VM Ware? I saw a couple of posts where it is mentioned as IBM AIX HMC would be possible on VM Ware If this is possible, where will be able to download the...
View ArticleNewly deployed VM's BSOD when rebooted
Hello all - We are having a somewhat strange issue on our ESX 3.0 system. We use templates to deploy new VM's. When doing so, after being deployed and powered on, the VM works as expected....
View ArticleSCP .vmdk file from ESX 2.5 to ESX 3.5
Hi, I have to SCP a .vmdk file from Esx 2.5 to a ESX 3.5 machine and use it as a storage for a new VM on the 3.5 ESX host. I can't use VI to copy it. Now when I try to attach the .vmdk to the 3.5...
View Articlecpu0:1024)PCI: 1650: Failed for 6:00.1
Hello all, I have a problem that I don't know how to solve it. I've installed Esx 3.0.1 five months ago. All worked fine. Then I've installed a network ethernet (412648-B21), it's dual gigabit...
View ArticleEMC Firmware upgrade VMware really slow now
Hi All We have 2 ESX 3.5 SP3 hosts sitting on on a EMC Clariion SAN. EMC upgraded the firmware for us last week and now our VMware environment is running like a dog. Its taking 5 mins to boot any VM...
View ArticleVMControl error -3: Invalid arguments: Login Failed - When using VMWARE-CMD
Hi, I had a Vm that wouldn't power on - I received the error "The system returned on error. Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted". I had a look around the Communities and...
View ArticleAutomating snapshots
I have a couple of VM machines in my environment that I want to keep a history of 5 snapshots each. Basically 5 days of snapshots. How can I go about doing this? Create a snapshot for each day then...
View ArticleInstalling HP Data Protector Disk Agent on ESX 3.5
Hello, The information on installing HP Data Protector on an ESX server seems scarce, so I thought I'd ask here...I only want to install the Disk agent to do backup of our ESXpress backup dumps. So we...
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 ArticleVM becomes unavailable during vmotion and snapshot operations.
I am running vCenter 2.5 update 4 with 3 ESX servers running 3.5 update 4. All 3 ESX servers are in the same DRS cluster. I have gigabit connectivity between the ESX hosts and the vCenter server. On...
View ArticleRDM Configuration (Best Practices...)
Folks, when attaching multiple RDM's on a VM, would you add one RDM per vSCSI adapter, or would you add multiple RDM's to the same vSCSi adapter? Also, when creating the RDM would you keep it with...
View ArticleFailed Snapshot removal
I am experiencing issues attempting to remove snapshots from some of our virtual machines. All of the virtual machines involved are SQL servers. I am trying to backup all of our VM's with a 3rd party...
View ArticleUnable to open SCSI device '/vmfs/devices/generic/vmhba1:5:0:0'...
Hello, I'm using ESX 3.0.2, and one VM which is under Windows Server 2003 can't start. This server is attach to a tape device IBM Total Storage 3581-2U. I have the following error: Unable to...
View ArticleUnexpected shutdown caused datastore to become inaccessable - VM's show up as...
We had a unexpected power outage in our building over this weekend and on Sunday when the power was finally restored, upon powering up our ESXi server, we found that the Datastore was NOT visible in...
View ArticleDual Port NIC ?
I am thinking of buying a Dell PowerEdge T110, 8gb RAM, XEON 3430 Quad Core Processor for a small business. No special needs other than to consolidate servers. No vMotion/HA/DRS, etc. Management...
View ArticleVMSN files missing from Datastore
We have taken a snapshot of a VM and all the snapshot disks still exists on the Datastore(vm-000001.vmdk) and the VMX file still points to the snapshot disks. When I was checking the Datastore I found...
View ArticleMount VMFS partition
After an "hot disk replace" on an HP 385 the file system was corrupt.The suggested fsck command found a lot of error and try to fix it.In the result, ESX (3.0.1) start but without a lot of file.I have...
View ArticleGuest Memory Usage vs Memory Usage inside VM
Hi Experts, I have browsed much of the community to here find something I am having great difficulty in understanding so a very simple explanation would be greatly appreciated. Now, we have some Linux...
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