An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging operation.
I'm getting "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging operation." Event ID 51 on some virtual machines. These machines are Windows 2000 SP4 Server and Windows 2003 SP2,....
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 ArticleIssues with VMotioning VMs on local storage but not cold VMotion
I have 2 ESX servers utilizng a x-over cable for VMotion for testing purposes. The local VMFS storage was setup on both. When I cold VMotion it moves the VM and disk files over. When I try to hot...
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core dumps filling drive to 100% = why?
Ok, now that I figured out how to get back into my ESX box (i.e. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/171356?tstart=0),anyone wana help me figure out why something keeps filling up my /var/core with...
View ArticleSnapshot issue - ran out of disk space - removed snapshot, but it didn't...
Server info: 3.0.2-52542 All, I made the mistake of leaving a snapshot live on a system overnight and our SQL backups ran which ended up writing a ton of data to the delta file, in turn it filled up...
View Articlebackup VMs using Symantec Backup Exec 12.0
hi how can I backup VMs from ESX 3.5 using Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Server 12.0 we have agent license for linux servers and the linux agent software is already installed on the ESX. in...
View ArticleUnderstanding Resource Allocation/Usage
Hi, I am trying to understand how resource allocated / used is working by ESX 3.5 / VM. This is my case: Thru esxtop, I see the following memory info:GID NAME NWLD MEMSZ SZTGT...
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 Articlepcnet32,vmxnet information
Hi.. Can anyone please point out to documentation or information material on pcnet32, vmxnet? I am intrested in knowing how these modules help guest machine to communicate with actual NIC card etc....
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 ArticleError with Netapp ESX Host Utilities
When settting up the Netapp ESX Host utilities and running "config_mpath --persitant" we receive an error that it could not connect to the filers. Then looking on the filer there is and HTTP XML...
View ArticleHELP:error connecting to .vmx because vmx is not started
Hi, i have a VM power on but not accessible by anyway. i cant stop and restart. when i go to the console i got the messag "eerror connecting to .vmx because vmx is not started" any idea ?
View Articlecannot connect ESX box to HP MSA 1000
I have 2 ESX servers. Both these servers are connected to a HP MSA 1000 (this is our mini san) On connecting to one of the box from the vi console, I see the server and 3 guest under it.On creating a...
View ArticleBad hdd performance on only one LUN
Hello, i'm running in some strange problems with 2 esx server. I have 4 lun mappings on a xyratex san with qlogic hba's. since sunday, one special lun is running very bad performance ( ~1mb/s...
View ArticleVM 100% cpu utilization after vmotion from one host
Hi folks, When i vmotion a couple of VMs (Win 2003 x64 running IIS) from one host in our solution the VM CPU utilisation goes upto 100% and there are a lot of ASP.NET crash reports in the event log....
View ArticleESX Guest hanging
Hi All, One of my ESX guest is hanging frequently. Its running on a ESX host with 64GB RAM and 8*2.33GHZ processors. It is congifured with 4 Processors and 4GB RAM and is running a critical MS SQL...
View ArticleWindows 2008 Backup - VHD to ESXi
from the backup of windows 2008 I created a VHD file, how can I import it in Vmware ESXi 3.5? I tried to convert the machine with the converter to warm, but at 95% always goes wrong. The converter...
View ArticlevCenter Host Automatic Start Priority
I remember reading somewhere on a way or script which you can run which helps prioritize and retry the boot of critical VMs in a large VMWare farm. It has been a number of months sence I saw the...
View ArticleStop: 0x0000007B Inaccessible_boot_device Error
I have converted a server having windows 2000 adv server with sp4 (Dell 8450 series with 4 processors). I used Vmware converter 4.0 to convert in to VM. Earlier it failed so many times when i choose...
View ArticleKVM migration to VMWare
Hi, all -- We have a KVM virtual machine running latest Ubuntu on a Ubuntu host. We need to migrate this VM to a VMWare ESX farm run by out data center. Is this migration as simple as moving the...
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