External storage advice for use with ESXi 3.5 (free)
I am running ESXi 3.5 (free) on a server with internal storage. I would like to purchase external storage and move my VMs to it. The VMs I have running on the server are not used very often, so I...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Marked (invalid) in inventory list
I received a vm that was allegedly created by us and sent to another office and now they have copied the entire vm directory to a USB drive and sent it back to us for maintenance. I copied the files to...
View ArticleMAC addresses of our physical NICs on ESX hosts
I have been asked a very interesting question. What is the MAC address for each of the physical NICs inside our ESX host. Our ESX3.5Update4 host has 6 of them. I am able to use ESXCfg to identify...
View ArticleVM ballooning while ESX plenty of free mem and no overcommitment
Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a strange behaviour on ESX 3.0.3, 104629 server. It is just installed, only 3 VM running on it, 48GB of physical RAM in the ESX, and ... some VMs are already using...
View ArticleESX booting from SAN or Local HD
how can i find out if ESX is setup to boot from the SAN or a Local HD?
View ArticlePulling data from Exchange DB on VM from tape
Hello all, I have the unsavory task of pulling a full virtual machine backup from tape from a month ago. I need to pull a user's contacts from the exchange database existing on it. I recovered the...
View ArticleSplit Virtual Disk Query
Hi all, I have a question regarding the below. We have a fairly large VM (2 disks, with the main disk being around 250GB). The server works fine, but when browsing the datastore, looking at the...
View Article450 GB HDD added in ESX Server
Dear Sir, I have installed ESX Server on DL380 G4 machine with RAID0 configuration on hardware level now i have created one machine with initially 25 gb hdd and after installation of machine when i...
View ArticleCan't Deploy VM from Template
In some bizarre turn of events, when I right click on a template, every option in the menu is grayed out. I though maybe it was a permission problem but I logged into the VI Client with a top level...
View ArticleVMWare guest not sending packets on NIC
Hi, I'm running a server with ESX 3.5 U2 and four guests. This configuration is running on an IBM HS21 blade server. One of the four guests all the sudden stopped communicating on the network. The...
View ArticleCPU Wait Time
I have a situation where a particular program that I run spawns off a whole bunch of processes and then the system grinds to a halt as all the processes cause the CPU to peg at 100% wait time. On a...
View ArticleHow can I list the VM's on an ESX and their Storage consumption?
I have been asked to get a list all the VM's on each of our ESX's and the amount of Disc Storage each one uses. This is because we are running at over 95% on the storage servers and we need to...
View ArticleVCB Proxy blades frequently hang
Hi, I'm running VC 2.0.2, ESX 3.0.2 and VCB 1.5, all consoles running on Server 2003. We have two VCB proxy servers (one at each of our datacenters) and they are both frequently hanging, causing our...
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 Articlequestion regarding number of VM's.
Is there an app available which will confirm how many existing VM's I can put on my new host ? I need to perform a stress test. Thanks in advance.
View ArticleHow many VMs can be installed in ESX 3.0
How any VMs can be configured in ESX 3.0 installed in Dell 2950 III series with single quad core processor and 20 GB RAM
View Articlemaximum no of guestOS can i install?
Hi all, I am using DELL2950 with 16GB of RAM. I installed ESX3.5. On top of it i installed 16 WinXp VMs each of which 1GB of RAM. So, all of my 16GB RAM occupied by GuestOS. And Most of the VM's...
View ArticleCan't do a vMotion on server after a P2V conversion
Hello, After a P2V conversion from a HP Proliant DL380 server(W2K3) I can't do a vMotion on the virtual machine. I need to shut down the VM and then migrate it to another ESX server in order to be...
View ArticleHowto Clone a VM that has a Mapped Raw LUN?
We have a few machines with runaway snapshots and we are too scared to do delete all snap shots (we have no other way of recovering if this causes any problems for the VM). So based on advice from...
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...
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