Snapshot the virtual machine's memory
Has anyone noticed that if you dont select the "Snapshot the virtual machine's memory" checkbox when taking a snapshot, when you revert to the snapshot the virtual machine turns itself off?
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High CPU load caused by Hardware Interrupts
Hi all, It seems to be a common problem, you have a virtual Windows 2003 server running Active Directory on a ESX server and suddenly the performance crawls to almost death.We'll I'm having this...
View ArticleCan't ping VM, but can ping from VM
I have a Windows 2003 VM on ESX 3.0.1 box. While consoled into this VM from the virtual infrastructure client I can ping network resources, get online and pretty much do everything. However, you...
View Articleschedule a VM reboot
Is it possible to setup a schedule a reboot for VM from VC or any other way?
View ArticleVM Lockup with 100% CPU utilization - Random times, varying loads, RHEL5,...
Hi, we are running ESX 3.5 (original - no updates. We have another client that sees this same thing with u4) We have a VM that experiences lock ups at seemingly random times. The machine is running...
View ArticleHow to spec hardware for an ESX server
Hi There What's the best way to work out what hardware you require for an ESX server especially if you are doing a server consolidation project. Is there a formula you can follow? I would be very...
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 ArticleCan't change VM screen resolution to 1023 X 647
I have several virtual machines running Windows XP Pro on ESX 3.5.0. VMware Tools is installed and the VMware SVGA II is the same version on all VMs . When I open each of their consoles from...
View ArticleRDM Configuration (Best Practices...)
Folks, when attaching multiple RDM's on a VM, would you add one RDM per vSCSI adapter, or would you add multiple RDM's to the same vSCSi adapter? Also, when creating the RDM would you keep it with...
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 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 ArticleAdding NFS Storage
I'm testing an NFS storage implementation and ran into a problem. My NAS is just an old DL380 with some 146GB drives and I'm running FreeNAS. So the storage setup went ok, but when I try to add the...
View ArticleWorkaround for "Unable to get Console path for Mount"
Error message: Error during the configuration of the host: Unable to get Console path for Mount Envirovment : ESX 3.5 u2 with NFS datastore We are in the process of moving data between datastores. I...
View ArticleRaw Device Mapping to a VM over ISCSI
Hi All Looking for some help here on ISCSI and RDM's I have a VM which is being used for Business Continuity for a physical server, I want to connect it to some new SAN storage via ISCSI. What I...
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...
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 ArticleVMDK file
Good Morning I have a problem with a file that i need to access (.vmdk) file what happened was we had a server space error that we could not run the specified server so i moved a 24Gb file to one of my...
View ArticleHow to create user account
What is the procedure for creating a user account on ESX 3.0.2 Tks
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 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...
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