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SCSI Emulation on SAN
I believe I know the root cause but want to see if their was someone who could validate, and also help me with knowing how to better 'root cause' these issues faster on 3i in the future. The details...
View ArticleCPU Wait Time
I have a situation where a particular program that I run spawns off a whole bunch of processes and then the system grinds to a halt as all the processes cause the CPU to peg at 100% wait time. On a...
View ArticleChange vmhba label DL385 smart array
Hi, In my clients environment two types of HP hardware is being used.The majority of servers being used for the virtual infrastructure are DL585 G1's.They recently started using DL385 G5's.The servers...
View ArticleCPU compatible doubt
Hello I have 3 ESX Servers in a cluster with HA & DRS working fine and with the CPU configuration below: Server 1 & 2 (DELL PE 2950)-vendor_id : GenuineIntelcpu family : 15model...
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 ArticleVLAN Ip
Hello, I am having problem in configuring VMware network following is the information, The VMware Server resides in the Server VLAN area, VLAN 3 (192.168.2.0), this is connected to the core switch,...
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 Articlespeed in an internal vswitch
Hello, if 2 virtual machines are connected to the same virtual switch (meaning the packets transferred don't go through the physical adapter), what is the maximum actual possible speed? (with vmxnet...
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Add Extent - Expand VMFS volume....
Hi, I created a VMFS volume of 40Gb and after a while realised I should have made it a bit bigger - I've expanded the space on my SAN and then re-scanned the adapter and all is well - I can see the...
View Articleerror when configuring nfs for unix or openfiler
Hello, i need help set up NFS for esx test host. i use both openfiler nfs and windows for UNIX servers to install nfs server but no success. i have the following errors. Error during the...
View ArticleObserved IP Ranges blank
We plugged one of our ESX hosts into a switch and the observed ip range came up correctly. We realized the port on the switch was on the wrong VLAN, so we brought the port down, changed the VLAN on...
View ArticleWhat is vCPU ?
Can anyone explain me what exactly is vCPU? Is vCPU i can only define wiht ESX 3.5 or i can have options in Vmare server 2.0 also (which i couldn't see anywhere). Also, how can i divide 1 Physical...
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 ArticleVmotion does not support Progress DB running on linux
Hi there, We have a client who is using a Progress DB running on Linux SUSE V10. We tried to vmotion the server the other day and it stopped the Progress DB server process. We had been told when we...
View ArticleMSA 30 (Direct Storage) backups
HI I have configured one ESXi Server with MSA 30 (Direct Storage). RIght now we dont have infrastructure license and we are using esxi for testing/deployment purpose. I want to know what backup...
View ArticleConvert Standard PC ACPI HAL to Uniprocessor or Multiprocessor???
I have one server that is currently Standard PC HAL, and wondering if it could be convert to uniprocessor or multiprocessor? I've tried so many tricks and tips online but no luck. I"m not sure if...
View ArticleVM Lockup with 100% CPU utilization - Random times, varying loads, RHEL5,...
Hi, we are running ESX 3.5 (original - no updates. We have another client that sees this same thing with u4) We have a VM that experiences lock ups at seemingly random times. The machine is running...
View ArticleHow to exclude VM from HA availability constraint calculation
Hi, I would like to confirm if I set "Disable" on few VM HA settings (cluster level), These VMs will not be included in the HA "Prevent VMs from being Powered on if they violate availability...
View ArticleStop: 0x0000007B Inaccessible_boot_device Error
I have converted a server having windows 2000 adv server with sp4 (Dell 8450 series with 4 processors). I used Vmware converter 4.0 to convert in to VM. Earlier it failed so many times when i choose...
View Articleerror while running the Dset tool .
Hi Everyone, Whenever i try to Run the DSET tool to generate the DSET report . i get an error saying that no space left . Its in ESX 3.0. Please look into the below error. Append report...
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