ESX3.5 w/ NFS and iSCSI config
Hello, I have a config here that involves two 3.5u1 hosts connecting to one storage switch via NFS and iSCSI (its netapp storage). My question is primarily on my configuration and whether it is best...
View ArticleAll Network (NIC) interfaces failed at one time
Has anyone ever seen a total disconnect on all interfaces (all vswitches, vmnics, and eths) at the same time? I have redundant connections for each interface (dual port NC380T NIC's) to redundant...
View ArticleForeign-language hostname causes loss of connectivity to ESX host
VI 2.5u1, ESX 3.0.2 One on my QA Engineer created a Chinese Windows XP VM. It worked for a long time, until he gave it a Computer Name in Windows with Chinese character. Within a minute or two,...
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 ArticlePb renaming a datastore
Hi, I don't manage to rename a datastore. In fact I well change his name and just after taking modifications it returns to his old name. I've stoped all VM on the ESX node but still the same....
View ArticleUPS & ESX - HA/shutdown Question
Hi I have a question regarding UPS shutdown and HA on ESX 3.02 We have 6 ESX hosts, all running Production VM's from a SAN. The system is powered through an APC Symmetra unit.I have managed to Install...
View ArticleVM crashed (freeze) during vcbSnapshot
Hello, I'm using a script (VISBU) in order to backup all VMs on 5 esx 3.0.2 clusters. Recently, some VMs just crashed (freeze) during the process :- VM console "black"- Vm not responding to ping...
View Articleestop disk view
Hi I've noticed something very strange in a customers ESXTOP. An esx server 3.0.2 U2 has 40 lun spread across all 4 pathslun 1 path 0:0lun 2 path 0:1lun 3 path 1:0lun 4 path 1:1 etc... esxcfg-mpaths -l...
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 ArticleStalled Virtual Machine
On my ESX 3 host I have a Windows 2000 server VM that has stalled during a reboot. The VM pings ok and shows as powered on in the VMI client, however I can not restart/shutdown etc. It doesn't allow a...
View ArticleUnable to remove vSwitch via Service Console or VI Client
I have a vSwitch that is broken, it was created via a scripted install gone wrong, but I am unable to delete it via the VI Client, see image 1 then 2. the output of esxcfg-vSwitch -l is in the...
View ArticleHA agent on ESX in Cluster has an error
Hi, we have 2 ESX (3.5) Server in Cluster managed by Virtual Center (2.5). Yesterday I migrated all VMs from one ESX to the other ESX because i want to patch the ESX host with the latested patches from...
View ArticleEdit /etc/syslog.conf on multiple ESX servers
Hello everyone What I am trying to do here is to add 3 text lines in syslog.conf file on all the ESX servers that we have today. i just don't want to go through every single server and do this...
View ArticlePermissions for viewing Performance
Quick question that hopefully someone has run across before. Does anyone know what are the minimum permissions required to access the "performance" tab of a server/resource pool/vm? I have some...
View ArticleCreating VMWare home lab to pursue VCP
OK, here's the deal... I started out as a 'network services' field guy installing Servers like UNISYS ES7000...didn't survive the Unisys bloodletting... ended up as an Applications support guy; that...
View ArticleAnyone running Nvidia Tesla server with VMware?
Anyone have any experience running VMware with Nvidia Tesla GPU boards? Can the GPU's be used by VMWARE? Can the hypervisor detect the GPU processors as discrete entities that can be allocated?
View ArticleSwap file partition UUID
We had to resize our root partition on one of our 3.0.2 ESX hosts. In the process, our Linux swap partition ended up corrupt. We restored the partition and then had to re-activate the partition with...
View Articleadding 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 ArticleLSI Logic 20160
Well I've done it again!! I didn't the HCL for my LSI Logic 20160. It appears not to be supported under ESXi. Anyone have any cracks to get this card to work under ESXi?
View ArticleNew disk what format choice?
We add Dell MD3000i SAN in ESX add storage wizard screen....to format the new disk what choices to choose? 256GB block size1MB, 512 2MB, 1024 4MB and 2048 8MB? Thanks
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