Reassign vmnic to other physical network adapter
Hi All Is it possible to reassign vmnic0 (1-xx) from one physical adapter to another? THNX.
View ArticleESx 3.5 Crash new maschine, HW replaced still the same
Hello Guys, here is one of my ESx Servers. I have a coublle of them but this one is not working.He crashes in 5min or 4h. downbelow is the logfile.Does u have an idea whats up with him? THX HW is not...
View ArticleUsing Vmish to overide vSwitch Settings
Guys, I have a scenario where I'd like to configure a single Port Group to override the settings which are set at the vSwitch level. Is it possible to use vimsh to do this? I've searched around...
View ArticleIs there a "definitive" word on direct-attach SATA support?
I've read through a lot of the whitebox postings and some of the linked documents (especially the vmhelp one -- http://tinyurl.com/28qdfr) and I'm not getting a super clear idea as to whether...
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ESX 3.5 Strange Problems After Installation
Hi, all. I've just installed the esx server 3.5 and vc 2.5 on some of my servers as the following topography. P.S.: (1) All three ESX servers are Inspur NF280DPro with 2 Nic. Server...
View ArticleESX3.5 Qlogic iSCSI QLE4062C ESX-boot takes 15 minutes due to qla4022 could...
Need to prepare ESX-Server 3.5 offsite without ISCSI-Storage available. Boot from internal disk. I followed KB1004051 and made shure bootmode DHCP is disabled in iSCSI BIOS. Anyhow I was not able...
View ArticleVM install and default disk mode
When I install VMs here at my work all VMs are created with the disk mode set to persistent by default. However, I installed a VM on a ESX Foundation server and the disk mode did not default to...
View ArticleESX Server 3.5 Installation
I just installed ESX Server 3.5 . At the end after I clicked the "Finish" button and the system rebooted,it displayed the following: mounting root failed. Dropping into basic maintenance...
View ArticleNetwork latency within ESX Cluster
This is probably a somewhat nebulous question. . . We are seeing some network latency related to our virtual machines in a four-host ESX 3 cluster. Pings from physical systems to VMs are slower than...
View ArticleESX Server Install on Mac XServe Intel Hardware? Howto Boot the CD
Hi there, has anybody a solution for this task. i have two new apple xserve here in my company, and i would install the esx server on it. at the moment the xserve doesn't boot from the install cd,...
View Articlea script to backup /etc and ftp to another server...
I know there was a forum here for user created scripts and whatnot but I can no longer find it...but I wanted to share a script that a colleague and I put together to back up the contents of the /etc...
View ArticleScripted Install on HP blades in C7000 enclosure
I have an HP C7000 enclosure. With several BL680c quad core blades. I have attached a usb cd rom thru the oba usb virtual media. Boots off the 3.5 install cd just fine. Connected a usb floppy to...
View ArticleUPS & ESX - HA/shutdown Question
Hi I have a question regarding UPS shutdown and HA on ESX 3.02 We have 6 ESX hosts, all running Production VM's from a SAN. The system is powered through an APC Symmetra unit.I have managed to Install...
View ArticleAn error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging operation.
I'm getting "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging operation." Event ID 51 on some virtual machines. These machines are Windows 2000 SP4 Server and Windows 2003 SP2,....
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 ArticleUnable to use customizations using an existing customization specification...
We are trying to set up a group of users with limited privilidges etc that can deploy new machines from a template. This is working fine but they do not get the option to customize using an existing...
View ArticleVMWARE Tools Status
Good morning, I am currently running ESX 3.0.2. We are also running VCB. I have noticed that the vmtools status for some virtual machines in Virtual Center shows that the tools aren't running. It...
View ArticleBackup Exec 12.5 issues with VMWare Agent
We just got backup Exec 12.5 and are currently testing with the VMWare agent to do backups. It takes a fairly long time to do the backups. One example is a 20GB VM takes 40 mins and a 50 GB VM takes...
View ArticleBackup Exec 12.5 & MS iSCSI
Hello, I am running a couple of ESX servers and we are currently backing up using a physycal server connected to an LTO loader. We use Symantec BE 12.5 which runs over the network. I was wondering...
View ArticleForce Guest OS to Use 100Mbps/Full Duplex NIC
My service provider only provide 100Mbps/Full with no Auto-negotiate connection, therefore I have to make sure both host and guest are using 100Mbps/Full. While I know how to change it in the host,...
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