ESX 3.5 - Access denined using Putty and WinSCP
Hi, I have tried to create a user with the same access rights as root which i can use to access the ESX server Via Putty and WinSCP, I used the following bit of advice from VMware-land:- Service...
View ArticleCouldn't find matching file system
Hi all, I have configured a new ESX server 3.02 and decided to add a second array (raid1) to be able to use 2 others internal disk for backup etc. When trying to create a VMFs volume on it, I get...
View ArticleMax. VMHost & Guest Memory
Hi there, I have a quick question concerning memory in ESX. First I like to know what is the max. Memory supported by ESX 3.0.2? Is it the hardware supported max? The second and more important...
View ArticleRenaming VMnics to match PCI Slot Numbers
When installing ESX is choose the wrong Pnic for the service console. The end result is that vmnic0 is in PCI slot 2, vmnic1 is in PCI slot 2, and so on. Is there any way to ny way to rename the...
View ArticleIntel ESB2 SATA 3.0Gbps Controller
Can someon tell me if the "Intel ESB2 SATA 3.0Gbps Controller " works within VMWare 3.5??? I would like to have this controller manage the storage of the VMs. My mb is a Supermicro x7dva-e mb, with the...
View ArticleError: Unable to acquire licenses because license source is unavailable...
I'm getting this attached screen shot error when I attempted to add a new data center through infrstructure Client. Error message: "Unable to acquire licenses because license source is...
View ArticleESx 3.5 Crash new maschine, HW replaced still the same
Hello Guys, here is one of my ESx Servers. I have a coublle of them but this one is not working.He crashes in 5min or 4h. downbelow is the logfile.Does u have an idea whats up with him? THX HW is not...
View ArticleMove VC database, SQL Express to SQL 2005?
We have Virtual Center 2.5 using a SQL Express 2005 database installed on the same machine. I now have a separate SQL 2005 server so I would like to move the Virtual Center database to it. Are these...
View Article"Cannot create temporary redo log directory" when performing VCB operation...
I'm using VCB with BackupExec but when I run the pre-backup job, it fails. The logs it produces contains the following Could not update cache. Error: Error while opening disk...
View ArticleESX 3.5 Virtual Switch, vSwitch0, VM Network and Service Console, vswif0, not...
I just performed a fresh install of ESX 3.5 on two Dell Poweredge 2970 servers. Neither install configured the Virtual Switch and Service console. Any ideas as to why? Both physical NICs and the...
View ArticleHP Proliant DL380 with HP P800 sas and HP MSA70 SAS compatibility
I'm asked to install a new VI-3.5 node in our network. Because we don't have a SAN at the location I want to use a MSA70 with a P800 controller. In the HAL list I can see that the P800 controller is...
View ArticleInstalling an Adaptec AIC-7850 PCI SCSI controller
Hi, Wondering how hard or what the procedure or commands are to install a new PCI scsi controller to an already installed ESX server. We want to add a second storage to our Dell 2900 ESX 3.5...
View ArticleHP NC364M NIC card on HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure
Hi, Have some question about the ethernet card NC364M. I have download the driver from the HP website (red hat linux) driver for version 5. This is a driver with the following verion: 7.6.9.1b...
View ArticleNetwork latency within ESX Cluster
This is probably a somewhat nebulous question. . . We are seeing some network latency related to our virtual machines in a four-host ESX 3 cluster. Pings from physical systems to VMs are slower than...
View ArticleEsxupdate Problems
When I try to use the Esxupdate command (query specifically) I get "Command Not Found". Even while using elevated priviledges (su) I cannot successfully use the command. Any suggestions? Thanks in...
View ArticleModems on ESX boxes
We have some really old NT4 boxes (pre SP4 even!) that we need to get virtualised. Unfortunately, 2 of them even have serial modems attached (We know the system needs upgrading. It's in the pipeline,...
View ArticleCPU host mismatch vmotion only working one way.
Hi guys, I'm having issues with VMotion after installing a new host in my cluster, I'm running ESX 3.5 with VC 2.5. The problem is that a vm will only hot migrate onto the newer server, but then...
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 ArticleILO 2 & VMWARE ESX 3.0.x USB Keyboard problem
Hi All I loose keyboard connectivity once VMWare ESX starts loading. I am able to go into BIOS settings via F9 etc, but once ESX loads the problem appears. This is a fact via ILO connection and via...
View Articlex3650 7979k2g + hyperthreading
I have a problem with x3650. From one day to another the following failure occured. resource specification syncronization failed on host "hostname" in "clustername". I think the problem is...
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