Connection 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 ArticleSolaris 10 New Install hanging on Configuring Devices
Hi, I have ESX running with a few virtual machines on a Sun 4100 X86 server. The OS's I'm running include Solaris 10X86, Redhad, Win2K. I am trying to install a new version of Solaris, and I'm...
View ArticleA bunch of VMSN files under VM folders ... How can I delete these files ?
Hi ! I have 4 VMs having around 300 vmsn files 20KB big. I would like to know how can I get rid of these files ? There's NO SNAPSHOT in the SNAPSHOT MANAGER, so why I have so much files like that...
View ArticleHow to modify VM's harddisk size (ESX 3.0.2 and VC 2.0)
I have build a new windows server from template ; Now I would like to increase the C drive size. Tha HDD size in the template is 12 GB. Now I would like to make tghis as 20GB. Please let me know if...
View ArticleUPS & ESX - HA/shutdown Question
Hi I have a question regarding UPS shutdown and HA on ESX 3.02 We have 6 ESX hosts, all running Production VM's from a SAN. The system is powered through an APC Symmetra unit.I have managed to Install...
View ArticleWhy can't I enable EVC on my brand new identical hosts?
I've tried to enable EVC on my cluster of IBM 3650s with dual quad-core E5440s but VC won't let me. Any ideas why? I know the Intel Flex-migration feature set is a requirement but do I need to...
View ArticleCan't connect via SSH
I've got two hosts that were imaged at the same time that I've never been able to get ssh access to. I'm talking about with my user account, not enabling root ssh access. I immediately get...
View ArticleLog /var/log/vmkernel - errors
got this message many times on my servers. Log /var/log/vmkernel vmkernel:38:03:22:56.663 cpu6:1064)WARNING: SCSI: 4559: Manual switchover to path vmhba3:1:1 begins. couold any one tell what are...
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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 ArticleDisgustingly poor performance from iSCSI luns on NetApp
I have been suffering with this issue for some time now - I have two Netapp 3020's clustered - one head with FC disks and one head with SATA disks. Same level of Ontap etc. - the lun on the FC head is...
View Articleesxi & mac os [hackintosh]
Hi everybody. Somebody try install Mac os X server on ESXi, I installed on Vmware Server and Workstation, but with Esxi can't. If somebody have any knowledge or complete installation this OS. Thank...
View ArticleAfter VMotion, VM is in accessible outside host
Hi, I have two ESX servers and some VM's running on it. I did VMotion (host change) using vCenter. After VMotion, I am not able to access moved VM outside the host on which it is currently running....
View ArticleVLANs and Dell Blades
I know this is more a Dell question than a Vmware question, but I figure some of you are using the same BladeSystem as me and may be able to provide a quicker answer than Dell. We have a new M1000E...
View Article[NTP]: no servers can be used, exiting
Hi, This is the error message I get when I run '# ntpdate' on two newly created ESX 3.0.2 servers:15 Jan 22:23:34 ntpdate[2689]: no servers can be used, exiting Using the NTP sample configuration...
View ArticleHow to create user account
What is the procedure for creating a user account on ESX 3.0.2 Tks
View ArticleAdding VLANs to ESX
ESX 3.02 We currently use 1 subnet (VLAN 1) for all our production network traffic to our VMs. I need to add another subnet to our cluster & just wanted to get some confirmation I'm on the right...
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 ArticleHost CPU is incompatible with the virtual machine's requirements at cpuid...
I'm trying to migrate a VM in which was built with x64 bit OS. When i try to migrate to a different host i'm getting this error message. Host CPU is incompatible with the virtual machine's...
View ArticleVMWare Essentials Install - issues - How?
I purchased essentials and have been having issues both registering the product and now looking to install. I was directed to a download of an ISO file. Is this how to install? I've a DL380 G6. Any...
View ArticleHow to revert root user role from "readonly" to "administrator" again -ESX3
We changed the root user role by mistake to read-only.How can we revert it to "Adminstrator again". Thanks, Jack.
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