does esx 3.5 vmfs support thin provision san lun/volumes ?
does esx vmfs support thin provision san lun/volumes ? With my Equallogics box i can present a volume/lun to a windows server with a space i think it will grow over time. say 200 gigs. However on the...
View ArticleCan't connect via SSH
I've got two hosts that were imaged at the same time that I've never been able to get ssh access to. I'm talking about with my user account, not enabling root ssh access. I immediately get...
View ArticleDHCP Server on ESX
I am thinkg of running our Co-opreration's DHCP server of an ESX box. Are there any issues or gotcha's that I need to know about?
View ArticleCloning VM with RDM
I need to clone several VM to a DR site and most are configured with RDM HD's. How can I do this live, or can I? ESX 3.5
View ArticleMigrate VM to one Datacenter to another Datacenter
I am trying to migrate VM one datacenter to another Datacenter, and getting the following error: "The input arguments had entities that did not belong to the same datacenter" I can't migrate live VM...
View ArticleCan't change VM screen resolution to 1023 X 647
I have several virtual machines running Windows XP Pro on ESX 3.5.0. VMware Tools is installed and the VMware SVGA II is the same version on all VMs . When I open each of their consoles from...
View ArticleVCB Proxy - Machine Recommendation
Hello guys... I use in this moment the Data Protector 6.5 to schedule the backups, VMware Consolidated Backup to make the backups and I have two LTO 4 in a HP Library, this way I can run only two VCB...
View Articlerm: cannot remove Device or resource busy - But no VMX file exists
Morning, I imported a physical server and it booted up fine, then restarted on its own and then would never turn on again. I thought i deleted the VM from disk but looking via veeam fastscp there...
View ArticleHost will not enter maintenance mode - Operation Timed Out
Hey all. I am trying to put one of my hosts into maintenance mode and am recieving a "Operation Timed Out" Error. All of the VMs have been moved off the host so I know it is not a "CD in the drive"...
View ArticleHost address lookup failed...
Hi, I've start to configure a new cluster with two esx 3.5 servers, i also activate HA & DRS. when i try to run a virtaul machine from my VC i get an error message in the up of the console...
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MAC-address - Setting "static" adress with "00:0C:29..."-part ?
Hello there, I just finished my installation of ESX 3.5 on a single server and I already converted a VM (Windows Server 2003) from VMWare-Server to ESX. The converted VM seems to be running fine....
View ArticleRelocate VM Storage - Operation Timed Out
I am trying to move a couple of VMs from on ESX 3.0 host to other ESX 3.0 host. They are in Local VMFS storage. After 99% in the Status, I got error "Operation Time Out". Any Clue?
View ArticleESX Server and Dell 2950
Looking for some pointers on the best way to get ESX Server running smooth on a Dell 2950 6 SAS 1 TB Drives - Which Raid should be setup Raid 0 or 5 or 1+0 (10) Also any other tips you can point...
View Articlevmx file required for vmdk image
Hi, i am a vmware noob, so excuse my ignorance here... We recieved a vmdk image and associated -flat file from a vendor. The vmdk image was created in esx 3.0, which we have neiher the budget...
View ArticleVery slow server and CONSTANT disk activity.
I have one ESX3i 3.5.0;110271 server where all the VMs and thier files are on an iSCSI SAN. The only data on the local drives is VMware itself. The VMs run quite slowly but are stable. However,...
View ArticleLUN ID Question -- Adding Storage
Hello, I have a question about the LUN ID that shows up in Virtual Center 2.5 when you are adding storage to an ESX Host. When I go into Add Storage and Select my newly created LUN from the list, it...
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ESX iscsi openfiler
Hi ! Im tying to set up Shared storage at home forvmotion and vpc training. Openfilers is configuerd and seems to beright the problem is that i cant get any iscsci targets to show up onmy esx in...
View ArticleESX Server timed out when i try to enter License Server in VC
Hi all, i have a problem with adding two new ESX Servers into our VIrtual Center. Let me give you a short overview: We have 5 ESX Servers and one Virtual Center Server. All Servers are in one...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Marked (invalid) in inventory list
I received a vm that was allegedly created by us and sent to another office and now they have copied the entire vm directory to a USB drive and sent it back to us for maintenance. I copied the files to...
View ArticleVMWare Converter fails when attempting to connect to ESXi 3.5 server
Hello all, I apologize if this is posted in the wrong section, though I figured since I'm attempting to connect to an ESXi 3.5 to deposit this "new" VMWare image. Every time I attempt to run the...
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