How many kickstart scripts do you have?
For those of you who are using kickstart scripts to automate the installation of Esx, how many kickstart scripts do you have? Do you have one script per server, or do you have a generic script that is...
View ArticleAfter install ESX 3.5 - Cannot find HBA (Initialization for qla2300...)
After installing ESX 3.5, on reboot to start using of the ESX host, before signing in, I noticed a red text showing as attached file. The server does not see the HBA at all? Anyone encounter this, I...
View ArticleESx 3.5 Crash new maschine, HW replaced still the same
Hello Guys, here is one of my ESx Servers. I have a coublle of them but this one is not working.He crashes in 5min or 4h. downbelow is the logfile.Does u have an idea whats up with him? THX HW is not...
View ArticleMD3000i and Multipathing in ESX 3.5
Hello. We're in trouble setting up multipathing with MD3000i. We've a dual controller MD3000i, with one Virtual DIsc configured. MD3000i is connected to 2 ESX 3.5 Hosts. We want to assign a...
View ArticleBest Practice for File Server with ISCSI SAN
What is the best practice of setting up file server using ESX3.5 and ISCSI san ?My current setup is 2 ESX 3.5 host with HA and DRS enabled on VC2.5.One ISCSI san box with 3 LUN hosting about 20 VM's in...
View ArticleOracle 10g 10.2.0.1.0 needs to be upgraded to 10.2.0.3.0. Where do you get it?
I am trying to upgrade to VitualCenter 2.5 I am using Oracle 10g at version 10.2.0.1.0. Ineed to get to 10.2.0.3.0 per the install guide.I have hunted all over the Oracle site. The only version that...
View ArticleCreating users via kickstart
Does anyone know how to configure a kickstart script to automatically create users with SSH access upon first boot? Jason
View ArticleModems on ESX boxes
We have some really old NT4 boxes (pre SP4 even!) that we need to get virtualised. Unfortunately, 2 of them even have serial modems attached (We know the system needs upgrading. It's in the pipeline,...
View ArticleESX Networking, S.C, VMotion, Production DMZ???
Dear All,I'm on the process of building a Vi3 Infrastructure that consists of 2 BL-460 C Class. Each with 20 gig of ram, 6 pNICs and Qlogic FC 26242 HBA dual port via the mezzenien card. My Question...
View ArticleILO 2 & VMWARE ESX 3.0.x USB Keyboard problem
Hi All I loose keyboard connectivity once VMWare ESX starts loading. I am able to go into BIOS settings via F9 etc, but once ESX loads the problem appears. This is a fact via ILO connection and via...
View ArticleSolaris 10 New Install hanging on Configuring Devices
Hi, I have ESX running with a few virtual machines on a Sun 4100 X86 server. The OS's I'm running include Solaris 10X86, Redhad, Win2K. I am trying to install a new version of Solaris, and I'm...
View Articlevmwareuser.exe on Terminalserver
Hi there! we have a virtulized Terminalserver on production. On that TS the vmwareuser.exe is started for every single user logged on. Is there a solution to minimize the vmwareuser.exe to only one...
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 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 Articlebackup strategy for VMs and fiber attached tape library
Hi, I'm looking to backup a couple of win2003 VMs to a dell powervault tl2000 fiber-attached tape library. I was wondering what people would recommend? The data is mainly just files stored on a dell...
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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 ArticleCreating NAS DATA Store Error during the configuration of the host: failed to...
I was trying to mount NFS store using VC wizard which got mounted successfully but when I did refresh it disappeared. I looked at service console but mount was still there. I tried to mount the...
View ArticleUnmanage ESX hosts from console
I currently have two ESX hosts running 3.0.2 build 61618 and 3.0.2 build 57941. I was managing these using a physical server running VC2.0.2 build-104182. The VC server is no more and the DBase has...
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...
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