ESX 3.0.2 Memory upgrade
Wondering if there is anything particular to do in ESX after upgrading the System RAM from 8 to 16 Gig... Would the Service Console or other compontents need twicking or any other tasks required....
View Articlenetwork connection with 2 virtual switches ?
Folks, I have crated a small scenario and I am trying to figure out the soultion. I have 4 VM. VM1 & VM2 are on vswitch 1 VM2 & VM3 are on vswitch 2 There are no network physical...
View ArticleInstalling VMware 3.0.1 on PE2950 (Perc 6/ir controller)
Hi all, We are just starting to use vmware but fail to install it on our PE2950 server. The installation cannot find any disks. This is probably because of a missing raid driver (dell perc 6/ir)....
View Articlewhat is the proper tool for disk align for windows 2000
since window 2000 doesn't have diskpart, what is the proper tools and syntax to perform disk alignment to my c:drive on windows 2000
View ArticleVM's on Shared Storage
Hello, I have a new installation of VMI3. I have 6 HP Blade systems, all identical, connected VIA FC to an EMC CX3. I have the esx server installed on all 6 blades. What I would like to do is...
View Articleesx 3.5 iscsi luns not visible
Hi. Recently upgraded esx 3.0.1 to 3.5 and iscsi does work (HP Proliant DL380 G5 + HP MSA1510i with 1.32.200 firmware). On esx 3.0.1 iscsi device was vmhba40 and now it is vmhba32. When trying to...
View ArticleUsing an HP DL380 G5 Storage Server as an iSCSI target
Hi, I need to add some more disk space to each of my ESX 3.5 hosts. I have an HP DL 380 G5 Storage Server onsite. Would it be feasible to add an additional MSA30, some extra RAM and maybe another...
View ArticleESX Install Issue with HP Proliant ML110 G5 Server
Hello everyone.... I just purchased a HP ML110 with 8GB of memory and I am trying to install ESX server 3. When the server boots into the installation and gets to the "Installation Method" I of...
View ArticleAdaptec 2610SA fails with ESX 3.5
Hello, Previosuly, with ESX 3, I had used my Adaptec 2610SA card which is a 6 port SATA RAID unit. This card has been placed in a PCI slot on my Intel motherboard. Upon bootup I am able to see the...
View Articleintel 965
I am trying to install esx server 3.5 on intel 965ry mobo but when the setup ask me to choose the installation method and I choose local cdrom then it prompt me for its drivers. I dont know which...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 2950 PERC 6/i driver and ESX 3.0.2
Aloha, I am trying to install 3.0.2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 that uses a PERC 6/i controller. ESX can't see the hard drives and the install aborts. I assume I need to manually load the PERC driver....
View ArticleQuestions about cabling ESX hosts to physical network switches
We have 3 ESX 3.5 update 1 hosts in a VMware cluster. Each ESX host has 6 network cables attached: 1 cable is dedicated to VMotion, 1 cable is dedicated to DMZ traffic, and the four remaining cables...
View ArticleVIC v2.5 won't connect to VC v2.0
I created a new environment for ESX3.5 with a new Virtual Center (v2.5). We will end up moving all of our guests to the new datacenter and retire the existing one (CPU incompatibility on IBM Blade...
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 ArticleTotal Formatted capacity of a VMFS is greater than the capacity of the...
I have two luns concatenated to form one vmfs volume. Why is the total size of the extents less than the total formatted capacity? Other, non-concatenated luns do not show this difference. The...
View Articleesxtop take over 100% of CP used for a vm
Hello, i' have on vm that taking approximately 150% of %USED of CPU when i run esxtop. how can i do for decrease this average. ( vm : windows 2000 server SP4 with SQL 2000 ) size : bi-cpu...
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 ArticleWhy can't I enable EVC on my brand new identical hosts?
I've tried to enable EVC on my cluster of IBM 3650s with dual quad-core E5440s but VC won't let me. Any ideas why? I know the Intel Flex-migration feature set is a requirement but do I need to...
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Ethernet frames dropped - NP2 hardware - ESX Server 3.0.2
<div>Hi,</div> <div> </div> <div>In my environment have four hosts with the ESX Server 3.0.2, building July 2007.</div>My infrastructure support HBA, SAN, fiber...
View ArticleWindows server unjoined from Domian after reverting to old snapshot
I took a snapshot after installing a windows OS and joining it to domain. Reason: I always do application testing on this server (SMS packaging) therefore after the testing, I always revert back to...
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