INSTALLING HP FIRMWARE MAINTENANCE CD ON HP DL380 G5 SERVER PRIOR TO ESX INSTALL
Hello, I instaled the latest BIOS, but am having problems installing the Firmware Maintenance CD v8.40. After the HP Smart update Manager scans the server, it says I am using SUSE Linux Enterprise...
View ArticleVpXClient has encountered a problem
Hi, I've just tried to launch my VI client from my XP desktop and I'm receiving the following error message: VpXClient has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the...
View ArticleError message: WARNING: Alloc: 3414: vm 3686: ppn=0x80000 out of range:...
This is a new one to me.. One of our VMs just stopped cold. We had to hard-reset it. Things have been running just fine for 152 days on this box. Looks like a software issue related to memory...
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 ArticleLots of files left on datastore after migration
Hi There, i have just moved all our VM's off a couple of Datastores(LUN1 & LUN2) and onto a new bigger Datastore (LUN3). I want to consolidate LUN1 & LUN2 but have noticed there are still a...
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 Articleschedule a VM reboot
Is it possible to setup a schedule a reboot for VM from VC or any other way?
View Articleresource pools help - vm at 100% cpu, but ESX host only at 15% cpu
HI All, 5* HP Blade BL460c each with two Quad Core Xeon E5450 and and 8GB RAM, ESX 3.5 VirtualCenter 2.5.0 DRM and HA enabled. I need some help with resource pools. Currently i've got them...
View ArticleAdding a host to HA
Hi! have a simple setup: fresh 2 ESX 3.5 and a vCenter. Want to make an HA cluster. Create a clusterAdd a first host. OKTry to add another. Error. "HA agent in cluster has an error" I didn't...
View ArticleHBA rescan hanging for several hours
Sorry if this is in the wrong section. ESX 3.5 - rescan not only does not see newly assigned lun (others do OK) but the rescan process is still in the VC event list for several hours. Does this...
View ArticleCannot customize host name
Error:A specified parameter is not correct: spec.identity.hostNameMy hostName is normal:"pigtails" [Code]protected CustomizationSpec customizeVM(ManagedObjectReference vmRef, String ipAddress, String...
View ArticleDatabase schema
Can someone point me to where I can find the database schema for VC and a description for all the fields in the tables? I've done some quick searches and I wasn't able to find any references, but I...
View ArticleInstallation with LSI Megaraid SAS 8704
Hello, how can I do an ESX installation with LSI Megaraid SAS 8704 controller?
View ArticleHP DL385 ILO within ESX
Hi All, I have a question, I am not greatly familiar with ILO so maybe someone can help me. I have a server ata remote location I have no physical access to. The server is running ESX 3.01, is...
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 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 ArticleSNMP MIB
I'm trying to configure alerting on my ESX hosts via SNMP so that I know when a LUN is running low on free space. I've looked through the MIBs on the ESX hosts, but I don't see any OIDs that will...
View ArticleProblem cloning JeOS 8.04 on ESXi
Hi I have an ESXi server running well and have built a number of VMs using JeOS 8.04, I have started to use VM Explorer from Trilead which is a very cost effective way to manage multiple ESXi...
View Articleierr Assert
I am getting this error under the cpu list IERR assert. what is this error?
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