ESX 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 features Comparison Document needed
Hi, Is there any document available with comparison of features from ESX 2.5 / 3 / 3.5? If available can anyone give me that link.
View ArticleObserved IP Ranges of physical adapters on vSwitch
ESX 3.5 I have a vSwitch with a VMKernel port configured for the following address 192.168.75.16. There are two physical NICs assigned to this vSwitch. This vSwitch is connected to a SAN device that...
View ArticleAlarm notification in ESX host
Hi Friends, I would like to configure Alarm notification to send email to my email id if host is down.. Please help me in sending the step by step configuration steps to configure the same.. I tried...
View ArticleVirtualcenter server not starting..service hangs on "starting" status
Hi, I have a problem with a virtualcenter server than I have inherited. I needed to reboot the VC server this morning, but the virtualcenter server service is stuck on a "Starting" status. I've...
View ArticleRead Only Access to VM in ESX 2.5 MUI
Hope someone there still remember ESX 2.5 ....Does ESX 2.5 provide the Read Only access to manage VM instances via the MUI, I have a requirement to provide a read only access to VMs on the MUI, i.e....
View Articleunderstanding esxtop network RX drop packets
I want to make sure I understand what I am seeing when I look at esxtop in interactive mode. I guess a better way to say it is I want to make sure that my interpetation is correct.. PORT-ID...
View ArticleTwo ESX 3.x hosts mounting to same VMFS datastore on SAN
I'm running two ESX 3.x servers with virtual center. I know that it is possible to create redundancy or high availability by configuring a clustered environment. For HA to work, both ESX hosts must...
View ArticleHow to enable iSCSI multipathing with iSCSI software initiator?
I'm trying to enable multipathing to a Dell MD3000i iSCSI target using the software initiator.The target has 2 controllers with 2 NIC's each.I have added every ip address on each target NIC to the...
View ArticleVI Client 2.5 only supports 32bit OS?
Working through my ESX 3.5 / VC 2.5 upgrade, I download the new VI client onto my workstation (Vista x64 Enterprise) and receive a lovely error message that "This product be installed only on 32-bit...
View ArticleWhat is Sr. VMware Consultant for large financial corporation salary be?
Folks, Anyone know would be a decent salary package for Sr. VMware Consultant for large financial corporation be? This would be consulting for other head hunter company. Any ideas would be great!
View Articlevmwareuser.exe on Terminalserver
Hi there! we have a virtulized Terminalserver on production. On that TS the vmwareuser.exe is started for every single user logged on. Is there a solution to minimize the vmwareuser.exe to only one...
View ArticleHow to encrypt root password for Kick Start Script
I am developing a kick start script to install ESX V3.5 Update 1 and I want to encrypt the root password for use during the kick start installation script. What utility can I use to setup an encrypted...
View Articlevmware-vim-cmd commands & %post kickstart
Hi, I am working on a kickstart script to autobuild my ESX servers. It is working great including the %post script section. However I have one problem. My post script can create virtual switches and...
View ArticleSQL server mirroring with VMware HA
We would like to achieve High availability solution for SQL server in VMware and at the same time we are looking to use VMware HA. We thought of using Failover clustering for SQL server but then if we...
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 Articlewatchdog-hostd process crashes after startup
Hi, The below issue pertains to a standalone ESX server 3.0 which ash 2 vms running on it.I have an issue with the mgmt-vmware startup. when I start the mgmt-vmware, I get the below /var/log/messages...
View ArticleHOWTO: Installing ESX Server from a USB flash drive
After Mike Laverick posted his experience with ESX Server and USB flash disks in another thread, I decided to figure out how to make it work.Here's a quick rundown on setting up a USB flash disk (ie....
View ArticleChange iscsi lun to fcp
We've been using iscsi vmfs luns on our netapp fas270c to provide disks to our vmware servers. We've recently upgraded our fas270c to include Fibre Channel and would like to change the luns to use...
View ArticleWhat is vCPU ?
Can anyone explain me what exactly is vCPU? Is vCPU i can only define wiht ESX 3.5 or i can have options in Vmare server 2.0 also (which i couldn't see anywhere). Also, how can i divide 1 Physical...
View ArticleConverting a guest using ServRaid 4Lx RAID1 drive set
For once, I thought a conversion would be easy but it never seems to be. The guest in question is a Linux Centos 5.2 one sitting on a RAID1 set of SCSI drives using the ServRaid 4Lx IBM controller I...
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