VMkernel Marks Paths as dead
Good morning, This past weekend I had a major outage in my ESX environment. At first glance my entire infrastucture went down due to a faulty fiber channel switch in my environment. All hardware...
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 ArticleAdding space to my datastore
Hello, I have recently added about 275 GB of disc space to my VMHost server but noticed that my datastore does not reflect the added space. How do I make the extra 275 GB available to my guest...
View ArticleClients cannot ping or map resources to vm guest
I'm pretty new to vmware. So I'm looking for some advice. I seem to be having a similar issue this is the pattern host can ping =everything host can ping guest vm guest can ping host vm guest...
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...
View ArticleRead only Datastore with HP SAN Replication? (CA)
Hi Not sure if this should be in the ESX or VC forum... We use EVA and XP SAN's with the CA (Continuous Access) SAN based replication. We have some VM's on a source LUN (Read write) replicated...
View Articlevmkping not respond between some hosts
Our situation (vmotion network): ESX1 = 10.0.0.1, ESX2 = 10.0.0.2, ESX3 = 10.0.0.3, ESX4 = 10.0.0.4, ESX5 = 10.0.0.5, All vmkpings and vmotions OK except between ESX4 and ESX5 with other hosts. At 10%...
View ArticleSlow HDD performance and missing driver
Hello, we run several windows servers and windows clients on our vmware esx. One of the Windows 2003 Servers is a build-server with major a HDD issue. This machine was a hardware before and was...
View ArticleAssigning CPU to a VM Guest question
I have been asked to to do some testing on one of our VMGuest against a real box that is looking to replace. In the past (and before I touched the config). They had run some tests. This is wha tI...
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 ArticleVmware ESX 3.5 Host CPU % wait
Hello Friends,I have noticed some CPU statistic for when i run esxtop command and see quite a few readings under %WAIT for the CPU statistics. Can someone explain me what it is and does this mean My...
View ArticleVMFS and VMDK compatibility
Hi, I've got a number of ESX 3.0.2-Update1 hosts which I'm going to be doing fresh installs of ESXi 4.1 onto. The 3.0.2 hosts are connected to external storage where the Datastores and VM's are stored....
View ArticleWhere to download an old version of ESX install media
Hi All, I have a site which has a server where the host RAID set has been broken. I need to reinstall the VMWare ESX Server, 3.0.1, 32039 on this host but no longer have the install media. Is there...
View Articlevmware-cmd removesnapshot running 24 hours +
We have a server that is still running ESX 3.01, we are preparing to replace the hardware and upgrade everything. Through this preparation process I came across a VM that has some old (2009), HUGE...
View Articlehow to install drs and ha
Hello I have just worked with Dell to install a ESX VI3.0.1 5 blade server with a CX3-10 SAN All servers can see all LUNs and Vmotion has been tested. I am now ready to create a Cluster and enable ha...
View ArticleThe ESX whitebox mainboard Topic
Hi all, I'm trying to put together a VERY cheap whitebox ESX server. Preferably in a small minitower enclosure, cheap dual core CPU (AMD or Intel) and 4GB of memory. Storage is to be external (via an...
View ArticleVirtual Center 2.5 components won't install
I managed to get a new VC 2.5 installation finished, but the VMware Update Manager won't install. I get the error "Error 25085.Setup VMware Update Manager extension to VMware Virtual Center Server:...
View ArticlePhysical NIC mapping to VMNIC in Virtual Infrastructure client
I have an ESX 3.0.2 set up. It is a Dell 6950. It has an on board dual NIC. I then installed two more Dual NIC's. So this host now has a total of 6 ports. The question I have is in regards to the...
View ArticleUnable to hot migrate some VMs after upgrade to ESX 3.5 (VC2.5)
Hi! Today I upgraded from VC2.0.1/ESX 3.0.1 to VC2.5/ESX 3.5. I'm running three ESX hosts and was able to upgrade two of them to 3.5 by now (Virtual Center has already been upgraded to 2.5)....
View ArticleESX install on MSI nvidia nforce 560 SATA raid control
Hi I want to install esx server on my computer that is AMD Black 5000+ & MSI K9N(nvidia nforce 560 sata raid ) & 4G RAM & two ST 250 SATA RAID 1 . On ESX Server's document ESX...
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