How 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...
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ESX 3.0.3 - any upgrade (migration) path to ESXi 5?
Hi Guys, I am facing the task to get 6 Standalone, unpatched, ESX 3.0.3 Hosts to ESXi 5.0 (target will be a Cluster, VCenter Server) without spending money on new Hardware No need to mention that the...
View ArticleScript to Shutdown and startup of virtual machines
I need a script to shutdown and startup virtual machines from the ESX 3.5 console. Please also include how to run the script and also I have a few examples but not sure which is the best route to take...
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 ArticleGuest Memory Usage vs Memory Usage inside VM
Hi Experts, I have browsed much of the community to here find something I am having great difficulty in understanding so a very simple explanation would be greatly appreciated. Now, we have some Linux...
View ArticleScript to upgrade VMWare tools on multiple Servers
Hello Everyone, I have approx 80 VMs running in a cluster and I need to updgrade VMWare Tools on them. Is there any script or any other option with which I can install VMware tools on all the VMs?...
View ArticleHP DL585G2 and NC380T problems with ESX 3.0.1
I am trying to get this combination to work with ESX 3.0.1. Both are listed on the HCL for 3.0.1 but when we try to install ESX we get a kernel panic message and get no further. If we take the NC380T...
View Articleswap partition's UUID goes missing after upgrade
I recently upgraded from esx 2.5.x to 3.0.1 and found that the swap partition no more has an UUID listed against it in the /etc/fstab. It shows as follows : /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0...
View ArticleESX patching - cleanup
HI,I discovered today that when you use esxupdate to patch an ESX server through an ftp depot it downloads all the rpms in the /var/cache/yum/update directory and never cleans them up after applying...
View ArticlePXE build of ESX server on a NIC/port configured for 801.2q vlan tagging
Hiya, I have spent some time recently trying to put together a PXE boot environment to build ESX servers. This was helped no end with the release last week of the Universal Deployment Appliance:...
View ArticleCannot find any datastores
Hi, I am evaluating the performance of an ESX server and I am having a difficult time trying to set it up. I installed ESX server 3.0.1 using the recommended settings ( regarding partitioning, etc)....
View ArticleVmware ESX 3.0 on a Dell 2400 with a Mylex Extremeraid 2000?
Hello, Let's start VMware is completly new to me, however I'm very interested and learning is always good! Here's my config:Dell Poweredge 2400Dual pentium III 8662 Gb ram5x U160 10000 seagate...
View ArticleUsing 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 ArticlePort Numbers For ESX 3.0.1 to License Server on Virtual Center 2.0 Machine
We are installing a Cisco firewall between our esx servers and the Virtual Center server that holds the License server. I need to tell the firewall team what ports to open. Does anyone know which...
View ArticleImage a full ESX system
I have imaged a complete ESX system successfully and put it back up on a different piece of hardware with no problems! This is great news to us so that we can standardize on the builds and allow us to...
View Articlenetwork adapters
hi - I have added a 4 port gig nic to my ESX server, and I would like to add the drivers for ESX to recognize it so I can see it in the available NIC listing. new to Linux / ESX, I'm wondering what...
View ArticleNot Reading ks.cfg during scripted install
Well, this has done my head in...I have a client who wants to be able to redeploy using script based installation from an ftp server. simple enough but for some reason this just doesn't want to work. I...
View Articleisolinux: Disk error 80, AX = 4236, drive 9F
When I try to boot from the ISO I get this error: isolinux: Disk error 80, AX = 4236, drive 9F Any ideas? Thanks, Jason
View ArticleInstalling and Configuring NTP on VMware ESX server
Installing and Configuring NTP on VMware ESX server. Our firewall setup prevents configuring the esx hosts communicating with the internet ntp servers. An internal device relays time to our Data...
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