ESX 3.0.x SSH problem with RSA key after reinstaling ESX...
I want set up communication between several ESX servers with SSH. After reinstaling a great number ESX servers in our customers, I have a problem with several from they will, because new...
View ArticleHP Virtual Machine Management Pack
Has anyone had experience implementing HP VMM? I wanti to see if this HP plug in is going to add value or just duplicate what I am getting from Virtual Center. One of the features I need is monitoring...
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 ArticleShrinking VMDK file size/Improper File size after cloning
While working with VMWare support on case 1159631091 we had to clone a VM that had 3 seperate HD located on seperate volumes to a temporary large volume and then when after successfully starting the...
View ArticleUSB over ethernet device recommendations??
I have begun to research USB over ethernet devices in order to host license dongles, and other USB devices for multiple virtual machines. I am hoping to find a USB over ethernet device that has...
View ArticleVMotion - No Guest Heartbeats are being received??
Hi, I've configured VMotion on my Dell Blades and when I vmotion a machine the first time after guest reboot it works fine but once its vmotioned once I then try to re-vmotion it says "No Guest...
View ArticleHow to add or increase space on the datastore MSA 1000
Background:I have come into the organization that has small VM environment that was already setup by someone else.A Blade Server (HPBL25P G1) with 2 ESX Servers and other Windows Servers.Each server...
View ArticleMicrosoft guest OS not completing startup
I am currently running ESX 3.5.0 build 123630. I have successfully migrated 10 Microsoft 2003 SP2. All servers have been running without any issues until now. I have one server that will not...
View ArticleExternal storage advice for use with ESXi 3.5 (free)
I am running ESXi 3.5 (free) on a server with internal storage. I would like to purchase external storage and move my VMs to it. The VMs I have running on the server are not used very often, so I...
View ArticleUsing PuTTY cannot connect to the Host!!!
Hello people. I am trying to use puTTY to connect to the Host but i can't. Message said - Network error: Connection refused. Any help. Thanks.
View Articlehow to find ESX 3.0.1 license?
I have taken over administration of a ESX 3.0.1 server. The license file is local (no locense server) and I'd like to update it. How do I determine the license code for this machine? Thanks, Craig...
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ESX 3.0.1 No Longer Connects to vCenter
Hello All, I have recently updated 1 of 3 of my ESX 3.0.1 hosts.The new build number on the one I updated was 32039, now its 117504. I would like to upgrade to vSphere in the near future, but taking...
View ArticlePowerEdge 6350 ESXi showing half Ram and datastore is way less as well
Hi, I have an old PowerEdge that I am looking to play with and possibly make it a firewall. The specs are 4 CPU's at 450MHz (or could be 550MHz) along with 4GB of RAM and three 4GB scsi drives in RAID5...
View ArticleConverting Compaq ProLiant ML350 G2 to VMWare image
Anyone have a simple procedure for converting a ProLiant ML350 G2 over to a VMWARE infrastructure image/machine? I've been hacking away at this using the Converter tool (VMWare vCenter Standalone...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleAdd EMC CX300 on VMESX3.0.2
Hi, Expert We have EMC CX300 (FC SAN Switch enabled.) And We installed VMESX3.0.2 in new HP DL385 G2 Server. I google EMC CX300 installation guide for VMESX, But nothing is founded. I wonder whethere...
View ArticleUnable to change the Licnese server
I've recently appropriated an ESX environment which we will call this Environment A consisting of : 7 hosts1 Virtual Center Server also the license server resides on the same box.. I have...
View Articleroot user not set to Administrator role in ESXi
I mistakenly changed the role for the 'root' user to something not Administrator. This new role does not have the same priviledges as the Administrator and it is not letting me change the 'root' user...
View ArticleWinSCP copies to new DataStores
We have ESX3.5 and VC2.5. Originally, our FibreChnl SAN had 6 DataStores configured with VMFS3.21. We added some additional datastores and they are VMFS3.31. I noticed that whereas I could once...
View ArticleVMotion error
I am trying to config the VMotion but keep getting the following error.. tried diff Ip but no luck. "a specified parameter was not correct. Vim.Host.VirtualNic.Specification.Ip"
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