Can't ping host ESX ip's
I can't think of anymore things to try. i've gotten as far as installing ESX but can't add the host in VI. Can't ping the IP's (i have 3 boxes setup) .. and can't ping anywhere from the ESX box out....
View ArticleIntel 82573 NICs - will ESX work with them?
http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/lan/controllers/82573.htm I acknowledge that these adapters are not mentioned in vi3_io_guide, but there is some hardware (and more specific Intel NICs) not...
View ArticleQuestions about VMware lab PC build!
I'm thinking buying the new AMD Phenom 9600 Core 2 Quad or Intel Kentfield Q6700 series processor and runs 8GB of RAM for to run Windows XP Pro and than load ESX 3.0.2 for lab purposes. I want to know...
View ArticleESX Can't find SAN
I'm trying to get an ESX server to find my iSCSI SAN without much luck. Forgive me if this is a bit long, but I'm working on my first ESX installation and am stuck on a few items. My gear:HP DL360...
View ArticleConnection Denied to NFS Share on a FreeNAS Host
I'm trying to mount an NFS share from my VMWare ESX 3.01 box, but it keeps failing. I've done a lot of searching on this forum and on FreeNAS's and while I've found a number of people with similar...
View ArticleDuplicate ddb.uuid on VMDKs
We previously setup a default template which we use for deployment of our VMs and the last few days we've encountered an issue where we find that the vmdk file of various VMs are getting created with...
View ArticleHow many NICs on VM
Hello everybody, I have a VM acting as router for several private networks to world wide networks on a ESX 3.5. At the moment the VM has four NICs and I want to add two more. The problem is that...
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Virtual Machines appears on two Datastores
Hello all, ESX 3.5 U1, HP Blade C7000, BL480c, EVA3000/4000 I have searched Google + forum but have not found any useful info regarding a small problem: According to Virtual Infrastructure Client...
View Article"Destination Host Unreachable" after changing Service Console IP address
Due to a corporate merge, the IP schema for our servers must be changed from a 192.168.225.X network to 10.165.1.X I have followed the simple method of using esxcfg-vswif to alter the IP, Netmask, and...
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How do I resize vmdk files?
Hi All, I am looking for some advice on how I can resize vmdk files. Long story short, I'm pretty new to VMWare and one of my clients has an IBM DS 3400 SAN that has 2 LUNs, each approx 400Gb in...
View ArticleUnable to connect to license server
Hi, everyone, I've had this recurring problem with various ESX hosts, and it's usually easy (although annoying) to fix. What happens is that an ESX server suddenly loses its connection to the license...
View ArticleVm's disconnected in Exs
Dear All, I have a problem wherein my virtual instances are show as disconnected (greyed out) when I access the EXS host via the Virtual client. need advice on the resolving the...
View ArticleCmd line to show datastore left space
Hi, Is there a simple command line to extract left space from datastore from the result of "esxcfg-info -s" ? What I would like to have is the same thing that what we can see in VC's GUI...
View ArticleForce Guest OS to Use 100Mbps/Full Duplex NIC
My service provider only provide 100Mbps/Full with no Auto-negotiate connection, therefore I have to make sure both host and guest are using 100Mbps/Full. While I know how to change it in the host,...
View ArticleCopy the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files from your ESX server to the machine...
I am trying to setup an NFS share on my windows server so that I can do vMotion. I have 2 ESX servers that will be accessing this storage location so that I can vMotion the contents on one ESX server...
View Article[ASK] Accidentally deleted vmdk file
Hi All, I was accidentally deleted one of my machine .vmdk files. Does anybody knows how to recover it? The file left in my esx machine directory are: -flat.vmdk, .vmx, .vmxf, .vswp, and vmware.log...
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service mgmt-vmware restart hans, now what? :)
Hi everyone, While restarting all management services on my ESX servers i ran into problems on one host. I tried service mgmt-vmware restart and for some reason it hangs while restarting some...
View ArticleNFS connection Lost then restored, Now VM's inaccessible
I have two Test VM's setup with NFS. The NFS server is a Win2k3 R2 server. I had to reboot the win2K3 server. Before doing so, I shutdown the 2 VMs that I had running off the NFS shares. Rebooted...
View ArticleVirtualCenter Server and ESX Server host on same machine
Hello, Sorry for this newb question, but im trying to get familiar with vmware products, and i would like to test ESX Server 3.0.1 and VirtualCenter 2.0.1 Is it possible to run ESX Server host...
View ArticleResource Pool configuration
Does anyone have any good documentation or links to configuring and best practices for Resource Pool configurations? Thanks in advance!
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