Using variables in kickstart script
Hi I'm using Mike's UDA to install ESX hosts. The script I have is about 260 lines at the moment. For each host I copy this script and change the IP / hostname and vmotion IP. To do this I have to...
View ArticleLSI MegaRAID SATA/SAS 8204ELP Ctrlr - No hard drives found during install
I have an LSI MegaRAID SATA/SAS 8204ELP Controller. The ESX 3.01 installation fails with no hard drives found. This card appears to be supported based on information in the I/O Guide (LSI1068E). I've...
View ArticleCan compaq ML370 install or upgrade to ESX 3.x ?
I have a old server,compaq ML370,with PIII 1.0G and 2G Mem. it can be installed ESX2.5 and could be found 4 hard devices:82557 ethernet pro 100 <e100.o>,SCSI controller <advansys.o>,mass...
View ArticleHP Insight Manager service console agent install
Hi, I am looking for a link to a "how to" install the insight manager agent. I have looked on the HP site and the forums here, but I can't some up with anything particularly useful. I want to...
View Article[NTP]: no servers can be used, exiting
Hi, This is the error message I get when I run '# ntpdate' on two newly created ESX 3.0.2 servers:15 Jan 22:23:34 ntpdate[2689]: no servers can be used, exiting Using the NTP sample configuration...
View ArticleHP Proliant DL360 G5 with NC380T & NC373i Network cards, can cards be used as...
Looking for answers if NC380t or NC373i NIC cards can be used as an HBA ! Thanks
View ArticleIntel ESB2 SATA 3.0Gbps Controller
Can someon tell me if the "Intel ESB2 SATA 3.0Gbps Controller " works within VMWare 3.5??? I would like to have this controller manage the storage of the VMs. My mb is a Supermicro x7dva-e mb, with the...
View ArticleUsers unable to browse datastore ISO file under CD configuration
I have just upgraded to Virtual Center 2.5. I have users that cannot browse to the ISO datastore under the CD/DVD configuration without giving them Administrator access at the DataCenter level. They...
View ArticleInstalling vRanger Pro and VCB
I have VC and 8 ESX hosts setup, with shared storage for VM's on a NFS share. Using another physical machine, i'm trying out vRanger and VCB for backups. I can get Vranger to backup VM's, no bother,...
View Articlelvm:4469: vml. may be snapshot: disabling access
hi,just loaded up 2 new esx hosts, on boot to esx they both show " lvm:4469: vml. :1 may be snapshot: disabling access. see resignaturing section....."so i go look at resig and figure that look like...
View ArticleRe-attach virtual machines back into ESX
Just wondering.. if you remove a machine from the inventory or if you find an orphaned virtual machine that you just can't "fix" with the normal means (such as restarting VC, hostD, etc), is there any...
View ArticleRenaming VMnics to match PCI Slot Numbers
When installing ESX is choose the wrong Pnic for the service console. The end result is that vmnic0 is in PCI slot 2, vmnic1 is in PCI slot 2, and so on. Is there any way to ny way to rename the...
View ArticleESX NFS IPMP Issues??
Has anyone else experienced this issue or possibly have a solution?? We've got two ESX 3.5.0 82663 running a redhat enterprise 5.2 guest os which is being stored on an NFS server. (NFS mounted to the...
View ArticleVCB mount process, very slow
We are currently testing VCB, when I run the VCB mount command to backup a VM, the mount process takes a very long time to complete. Environment:ESX3.5VCB 1.5, Windows 2003 R2 staging area 200GB...
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 ArticleCPU Compatible or not
I installed EVC and is telling me that Ihave incompatible hardware...... my existingenvrionment is as follows............ These are my CPU info of my 3 ESX Boxes.........
View ArticleINSTALLING 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...
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Network Design Opinions
I would like to hear opinions of the following matter. I have created a 6-node Cluster running ESX 3.5 Build 143128. Each node is a HP DL580G5 2-Quad CPU with 64Gb RAM. I placed two Quad-NIC cards and...
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 ArticleVirtual Machine and McAfee Endpoint Encryption Manager/CPU Load is WARNING
Have a Windows 2003 VM with McAfee EndPoint Encryption Manager recently installed. Every day , at least, once each day we are seeing the following alert from the EndPoint Manager: PROBLEM Service...
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