failed 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 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 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...
View ArticleSNMP MIBS ESX Server
Hi all! I use ESX 3.02 and planned to upgrade to Vsphere. I want to monitore ESX health with SNMP now in 3.02 and later in 4.0. I can see that ESX has a MIB. I am not interested in traps SNMP sent...
View Articleunderstanding esxtop network RX drop packets
I want to make sure I understand what I am seeing when I look at esxtop in interactive mode. I guess a better way to say it is I want to make sure that my interpetation is correct.. PORT-ID...
View ArticleHOWTO: Installing ESX Server from a USB flash drive
After Mike Laverick posted his experience with ESX Server and USB flash disks in another thread, I decided to figure out how to make it work.Here's a quick rundown on setting up a USB flash disk (ie....
View ArticleVI Client 2.5 only supports 32bit OS?
Working through my ESX 3.5 / VC 2.5 upgrade, I download the new VI client onto my workstation (Vista x64 Enterprise) and receive a lovely error message that "This product be installed only on 32-bit...
View ArticlePhysical NIC mapping to VMNIC in Virtual Infrastructure client
I have an ESX 3.0.2 set up. It is a Dell 6950. It has an on board dual NIC. I then installed two more Dual NIC's. So this host now has a total of 6 ports. The question I have is in regards to the...
View ArticleSNMP MIB/OID Query for Free Disk Space on VMFS Partition
We use a third-party SNMP monitoring tool (What'sUp Pro) and we would like to monitor the free disk space on the VMFS partitions on our ESX servers. Does anyone know what MIB or OID i would have to...
View ArticleCmd addnode failed for primary node?
After upgrading from 3.5.0, 84374 to 3.5.0,110268 I am getting the following HA error.. cmd addnode failed for primary node: Unable to import /var/log/vmware/aam/aam_config_util.def Any clues...
View ArticleVMotion failed -- Failed to start migration pre-copy. Help!
ESX v4, vCenter v4 Vmotion failed with error says: A general system error occurred: Failed to start migration pre-copy. Error 0xbad003f. Connection closed by remote host, possibly due to time out....
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 ArticleDelete or remove VMFS / VMFS3 partition or slice
Im running VMware ESX Server 3.0.0 build 27701. This was installed by a colleague who in a flurry of default settings and next clicks has built the server with two VMFS partitions. There are two...
View ArticleOut of memory (OOM) errors in Guest for Linux RedHat 3 AS on ESX 3.0.1
Hello all, we are migrating 4 hosts from 2.5.x to 3.0.1 build 35804.The hosts are:1 DELL 6850 4 Xeon 3.0 with 16GB RAM1 IBM 365 4 Xeon 2.2 Ghz with 16GB RAM1 IBM 445 8 Xeon 2.8 Ghz with 24GB RAM1 IBM...
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USB Storage for ESX 3.0.1 VM's ?
I know I am grasping at straws. I was reading in a Knowledge base article .. ID: 1651 "Linux and the ESX Server service console emulate USB devices as SCSI storage devices" Does that mean that the...
View Articleproblem Creating LUN
Hello All, I have one ESX server with local storage. Vvhmba0:0:0 has 300+ GB available. trying to create a LUN with 20 GB and getting this message: error during the configuration of the host: failed...
View ArticleScripted Install - Change KS.CFG File Name
Folks, looking for a bit of info. We're scripting our install of ESX 3.0.1. I've created a KS.CFG file. We've tested the install and everyting works fine. What we'd like to do is create a .CFG...
View ArticleChange Hostname of esx 3.5 Host
Hi, is there a working and neat way to rename a esx 3.5 host? As read in another thread esxcfg-advcfg should do that (esx-cfg -s NewName.dnszone /Misc/Hostname) but that does not work (even there is no...
View ArticleMS SQL Express Error 25057
When I load the VMware-VIMSetup-2.5.0-64201 VCServer setup, I get this error and install bails out. I am not using a license server, and not using an existing db, I am installing a new instance of sql...
View ArticleWhat's the best motherboard for ESX 3.5 sandbox?
Hello All, I've seen lots of posts regarding SAND box for ESX 3.5 lab and now its time to get two for myself just need to get some latest updates on ASUS board that work with ESX 3.5 specific to...
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