adding hosts to cluster
Hi we have 5 hosts in a cluster with 25 VM machines spread between the servers. The cluster uses HA & DRS & we are going to add 2 extra hosts later today. When we add the host will the...
View ArticleHow does ESX reclaim memory from SQL servers?
One of our DBAs posed a question - under normal load, SQL Server will take as much memory as the VM it's running on has been allocated (say 4GB). It will ring fence this. They suggest it would be...
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Deleting Log Files
I'm running out of space on my /var/log folder. After having numerous issues with a cluster yesterday, I know have a lot of log files in this folder. Any thoughts on which ones can be deleted? My...
View ArticleESX virtual center with MSSQL Express Edition
Hi, Is it possible to use VC wtih MSSQL Express Edition (2008 for instense). If yes what are the restrictions ? Thx
View Articlewindows 2003 terminal services server farm on ESX3.5
Hi, Wondering if anyone is running Microsoft TS 2003 farm on Vmware ESX 3.5 ? Are there any issues ? Is there any white papers or technical docs on implementing this ? Thanks
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 ArticleCPU compatible doubt
Hello I have 3 ESX Servers in a cluster with HA & DRS working fine and with the CPU configuration below: Server 1 & 2 (DELL PE 2950)-vendor_id : GenuineIntelcpu family : 15model...
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USB over IP at 1Gb
Hi all, Does anyone have any knowledge of any devices which would allow a VM to attach to a USB hard drive over a Gb network. I have seen some devices that will do this, but they only work at 100Mb...
View ArticleiSCSI SAN device recommendation
I would like to know if someone could recommend an iSCSI SAN for use in a small business. We want to use it for ESXi and to test VI3 with 2 server boxes. Can anyone say what an acceptable transfer...
View ArticleVMControl error -3: Invalid arguments: Login Failed - When using VMWARE-CMD
Hi, I had a Vm that wouldn't power on - I received the error "The system returned on error. Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted". I had a look around the Communities and...
View Articleresize disk space on vm
hi! I have a little problem, when I converted a vm to my esx server so did I choose 14GB for the vm. But I have now realize that I need more space on the vm. but the problem is that I shutdown...
View ArticleWEB CONSOLE ON VM
Dear Sir / Madam, I have installed Solaris Virtual Machine on my ESX server. I have tried VNC and X- Manager so that users can conenct this VM remotely but users are unable to conenct it. One of...
View ArticleESX host brought down by a dead PERC controller battery - am I barking up the...
Twice now I've had an ESX host (Dell 2950, with both SAN storage and a large local VMFS) die, the symptoms being the VM's spitting out IO errors, and finally becoming unresponsive. Rebooting the host...
View ArticleCannot create a snapshot
When I try to take a snapshot of a vm (which is shutdown)running on ESXi 3.5 the VI Client give me the following error "An invalid snapshot configuration was detected". I have taken snapshots before...
View Articleschedule a VM reboot
Is it possible to setup a schedule a reboot for VM from VC or any other way?
View ArticleBackup issue in ESX3.5
Hi Guys, I have taking virtual server data backup through Symantec 12.5d backup exec on physical server. But the backup speed is very slow we have updated all firmware in the Blade server. still...
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 ArticleVMKs changed to Port Groups
I've been chasing this GUI problem for a few hours and finally gave up and went clui. I've got four VMKernels all on their own VLAN / subnet. Two are for NAS, one for iSCSI, and one for Vmotion. Two...
View ArticleMonitoring physical CPU and memory on ESX hosts
I have been told that ESX can not accurately monitor its own Physical CPUs or Physical Memory conditions...Ie. if there is a fault in the hardware. Is that true? Thought I might be able to get some...
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(hpmgmt) hp-OpenIPMI will not uninstall
Hi All, I am hitting my head against the wall way too long now, and I am asking for help. 1 and only 1 of our many ESX boxes is having this problem. It (they all are) a 3.5.0 update 4...
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