LUN Disk Alignment on SAN and Guest OS
Due to another VMware/NetApp related issue, NetApp support have been looking over our perstat logs from our NetApp filers, the NetApp Engineer spotted and raised some health issues with our VMware...
View ArticleSlow networking performance
Hello, I am having problems with network performance between ESX hosts and from Virtual machines to other devices on our network. This is very apparent when copying data between VMs (network speed...
View ArticleThin Client USB Support to Win XP VM in ESX
Hello, I am using a Sun Ray Thin client (from Sun) to connect to a Windows XP VM running under ESXi. I know the Sun Ray supports USB and will redirect the local USB ports on the Sun Ray via RDP to...
View Articlevmkfstools command line help
Hi Can anyone refer the link for guide to commands supported on ESX 3.0 Thanks
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NFS Error: Unable to unmount filesystem: Busy
I can't remove a NFS datastore from an ESX 3.5 build 110268 with this message : Error performing operation: NFS Error: Unable to Unmount filesystem: Busy This datastore was mounted on 4 or 5 ESX...
View ArticleDoes ESX Server has LVM Mirror Disk function?
Hi there, we have two FC SAN storages, for special reason, we could not do data replication between these two arrays, so i want to know if there is LVM Mirror Disk function in ESX Server, likes...
View ArticleEsx 3.0.2: no snmp traps in case of power on/off ov vm
Hello, I have problems configuring snmp on my esx 3.0.2 (build 90892).It seems I have done all what specified in 3.0 base admin manual and what found on other posts.I successfully can send a test trap...
View ArticleUnderstanding Resource Allocation/Usage
Hi, I am trying to understand how resource allocated / used is working by ESX 3.5 / VM. This is my case: Thru esxtop, I see the following memory info:GID NAME NWLD MEMSZ SZTGT...
View ArticleEXT3-fs error (device sd(8,86)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
I am getting this error constantly now on one of my ESX Hosts. It is booting off a SAN. The exact error is: EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,86)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted What is...
View ArticleLUN assignment
Hi, I'm adding a new LUN to a host, I have discovered, named and formatted it without issues but when I try to discovered the same LUN to another host, it doesnt recognize it with its name. The 2nd...
View ArticleVCMS + VMWare Server on one system
Background: I have a lab environment where my goal is to build a master managment system just like I tell our customers to do. One server, not attached to SAN. Holding all the tools nessisary to...
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 Articleautomate hostname & ipaddress(either dynamic or static) on my clones that are...
Hi; well first of all I had this question that once I create my clones both for windows and linux using shell script. These clones carry the same hostname. Is there an automated way using...
View Articlepcnet32,vmxnet information
Hi.. Can anyone please point out to documentation or information material on pcnet32, vmxnet? I am intrested in knowing how these modules help guest machine to communicate with actual NIC card etc....
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 ArticleVMDK File Recovery, Consistancy Need Urgent Help!!
Hi, communities! I am facing very serious problem, VM’s virtual disk becomes not recognized or corrupted to VM after unexpected server root. My current environment is:- Host: IBM X3650- CPU: 4 core...
View ArticleVery slow server and CONSTANT disk activity.
I have one ESX3i 3.5.0;110271 server where all the VMs and thier files are on an iSCSI SAN. The only data on the local drives is VMware itself. The VMs run quite slowly but are stable. However,...
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...
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One VM suddenly looses network connection from time to time.
Hi all, We have just migrated ourservers to a VMWare Infrastructure 3 system that is installed on an IntelModular Server with three blades (Intel Compute Modules). All VM's are running fine...
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...
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