Trouble installing Virtual Center 2.0x
I've done dozens of good VC installs before, and never thought I'd have to post that I was having trouble installing VC, but here I am: Target: IBM x3800 w/W2K3 EE SP2, meets all HW specs Issue: Hangs...
View ArticleIBM x3950 1.5v power good fault with 266MHz pcix adapter installed
Ran into this issue at a customer on a set of IBM x3950 servers with 4Gibt Qlogic HBAs when installing VI3. This was tricky to find, so I hope this helps anyone in a similar situation... The following...
View ArticleScripting Active/Standby NIC's for Port Groups
Looking for a little help on setting active/standby nic in a scripted install. I have found the information on how to use vimsh to set active/standby nic's on the vSwitch, but I wish to set them on a...
View ArticleESX Server 3.0 on a PC with SATA drive
I tried to install ESX server 3.0 from a boot Cd on a PC with SATA drive and it is not able to find Hard Drive on the PC. How can I make this work?
View ArticleBackup of RAW disk via HP Data protector
Hi Guys, I have the following issue when trying to use HP Data Protector to run a full backup of a windows server running in an ESX 3.0.2 Cluster. Background info: 2 HP Proliant Blade BL20p with 2...
View Articleproblem Creating LUN
Hello All, I have one ESX server with local storage. Vvhmba0:0:0 has 300+ GB available. trying to create a LUN with 20 GB and getting this message: error during the configuration of the host: failed...
View ArticleAttempted to read or write protected memory
We were running ESX Server 3.0.2 and Virtual Infrastructure Client 2.0 until today when we upgraded to 3.5 and 2.5, respectively. Now when trying to run the virtual machines through VIC I get this...
View ArticleChange Hostname of esx 3.5 Host
Hi, is there a working and neat way to rename a esx 3.5 host? As read in another thread esxcfg-advcfg should do that (esx-cfg -s NewName.dnszone /Misc/Hostname) but that does not work (even there is no...
View ArticleUpgrade procedure with new management server
I currently have 3 hosts running 3.01 and a 2.0.1 management server with SQL 2000 I plan to upgrade the existing hosts to 3.5 and create a new management server running version 2.5. Here are my...
View Articledisabling an HBA on ESX
hello probably not a very common request, but id like to disable an QLogic HBA under ESX 3.02 how is this done? ive configured it not to load with esxcfg-modules, but the device is still there...
View ArticleVMs and ISDN modems
Hi. I have a VM but I would like to be able to use an ISDN modem with.We are using ESX 2.5.3 on this server at the moment. How do I get the VM to 'see' the ISDN modem, I am hoping this is possible,...
View ArticleIntel ESB2 SATA 3.0Gbps Controller
Can someon tell me if the "Intel ESB2 SATA 3.0Gbps Controller " works within VMWare 3.5??? I would like to have this controller manage the storage of the VMs. My mb is a Supermicro x7dva-e mb, with the...
View ArticleESX3.5 Qlogic iSCSI QLE4062C ESX-boot takes 15 minutes due to qla4022 could...
Need to prepare ESX-Server 3.5 offsite without ISCSI-Storage available. Boot from internal disk. I followed KB1004051 and made shure bootmode DHCP is disabled in iSCSI BIOS. Anyhow I was not able...
View ArticleUsers unable to browse datastore ISO file under CD configuration
I have just upgraded to Virtual Center 2.5. I have users that cannot browse to the ISO datastore under the CD/DVD configuration without giving them Administrator access at the DataCenter level. They...
View ArticleScripted Install on HP blades in C7000 enclosure
I have an HP C7000 enclosure. With several BL680c quad core blades. I have attached a usb cd rom thru the oba usb virtual media. Boots off the 3.5 install cd just fine. Connected a usb floppy to...
View ArticleISDN Card possible in ESX 3.0.2
Hi there, is ESX 3.0.2 compatible with PCI ISDN Cards? I guess not, but I am not sure. We like to set up a virtual W2k3 Server with ISDN Fax & RAS functionality. Any experiences with that?...
View ArticleCPU Masking KB 1993 for Intel vMotion ecx SSE compat
Need to implement CPU masking according to KB 1993 to overcome Intel ecx error on vMotion. I added <guestOSDescriptor> <esx-3-x-x> <all-versions>...
View ArticleCan't migrate VM
Running ESX 3.02, 4 hosts, Clariion SAN. All VMs can migrate manually or DRS except for one. It's running Win2k3. When I try to migrate it, it sits at 10% then eventually fails with an error: a...
View ArticleHyperThreading conf settings?
Hi, I know ESX has an checkbox to enable HyperThreading ... well, VMware Server 2.0 does not have such a checkbox but I'm quite sure it should also support HyperThreading. Does anybody know what is the...
View Articlevm-support -n is hanging
I'm trying to run vm-support -n and redirect is to a VMFS volume using -f and -w. The process appears to just hang. It creates a directory on the VMFS volume that I redirect to, and places only a log...
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