unable to remove orphaned and inaccessible vm from inventory.
Had a crash during an svmotion, vm orphaned and tried to readd to inventory but no luck. I have since restored the vm from a san snapshot and deleted all the original files and it now sits in a whole...
View ArticleCreating VM From VMX or JumpBox
In order to begin evaluation of VMWare, I've been using Fusion for quite some time. Obviously I know there are few paralells between it and VI, but it was a baseline. I can create machines via an...
View Articlefailed to extend disk the called function cannot be performed on partial...
I have taken over administration of our VI3 and encountered this message: "failed to extend disk the called function cannot be performed on partial chains please open the parent virtual disk" when I...
View ArticleGuest Memory Usage vs Memory Usage inside VM
Hi Experts, I have browsed much of the community to here find something I am having great difficulty in understanding so a very simple explanation would be greatly appreciated. Now, we have some Linux...
View ArticleShutdown a headless ESX server
Hi all, I have some headless ESX servers that I have to shutdown on a fairly regular basis (frequent overnight power outages). I know that ESX does not support ACPI, consequently when I issue a...
View ArticleHA issue after patching.
Hi all, I am unable to get HA restarted since I patched my ESX 3.02 machines today. I am getting an error "getshortnamefailed:cmd remove failed:hostname -s fails hostname: Unknown host". I have...
View ArticleVMotion warning
"Migration will cause the virtual machine's configuration to be modified, topreserve the CPU feature requirements for it guest OS" I get this warning when migrating VMs from one blade to the other,...
View ArticlePermissions and Browse Datastore
I am trying to lock down a group of VMs in a resource pool so that users can have limited access to the VM's This is done without issue however one side effect has been that when assigning media for...
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 ArticleSun StorageTek 6140 Storage and ESX 3.0.2 - Host mode for path failover
Hello, all. I try to install SunBlade 8000(ESX Server), Brocade Silkworm 200E SAN and Sun StorageTek 6140(Dual Controller, Active/Passive).I had been created volume(RAID-5) on the 6140 storage and...
View ArticleCD install/upgrade, how to boot from CD on IBM xseries 365
I cannot find setting for changing boot sequence on IBM xSeries 365, I use F1 to login the “Configuration Utility", but cannot find it under each item. I want to use the CD for upgrade from 2.1.2 to...
View ArticleLinux VMXNET Problem
Hello, we have different Linux Distributions (Fedora Core 5, Fedora Core 6, Fedora 7, Fedora 8, Red Hat 9, Debian Etch, OpenSuse 10) running, but encounter Problems with the VMXNET Drivers from...
View ArticleEmulex security (or lack thereof) with HBAnywhere
Hi All, I'm trying to see if we can use HBAnywhere in out-of-band mode to give the admins a convenient way of upgrading firmware remotely. However, in the default configuration the HBAnywhere daemon...
View Article--vlanid= in KS.CFG
Is anybody using this tag in KS.CFG for installations over a trunked service console network?Doesn't seem to work for us. From some Altiris documentation: "The following two optional commands are...
View ArticleLun does not contain any VMFS/LVM signatures...vcbMounter error Failed to...
Alright so inch by inch I have been making progress trying to get consolidated backup working to no avail. Currently this is my progress. I have my backup proxy connected to a brocade fiber switch...
View ArticleReassign vmnic to other physical network adapter
Hi All Is it possible to reassign vmnic0 (1-xx) from one physical adapter to another? THNX.
View ArticleStrange Error Message: IPMI_SI during boot up
During the boot up of esx 3.5, I get OK for each system that loads except one: ipmi_si. I get the following message: unable to find any system interface(s). I am running on a brand new Dell...
View ArticleMigrate Novell 6.5 4 node cluster to our new ESX 3.5 SAN
We currently have a 4 node Novell 6.5 cluster attached to a MSA1000 SAN. We have just installed a new HP EVA 4000 SAN. With 4 Vmware ESX 3.5 hosts connected to the eva 4000 using HA and DRS 1) What i...
View ArticlePorts between Virtual Center and ESX hosts, Hosts being listed as...
I have a firewall between my ESX hosts and my Virtual Center Manager. I opened the ports below from the documentation file for ESX3i. I can add the new ESX hosts and configure them for a few minutes...
View ArticleSSE4.1 and Dell Poweredge 2950 and 2950 GenIII
I just added two new Dell Poweredge 2950 Gen III's to my cluster, and I'm getting a message that there cpu has SSE4.1! The old CPU's are Core. I'm going to have to use cpu mask to get vmotion to work,...
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