Moving VM's to new Farm
We are currently running ESX 2.5.4 and will be buying an additional 4 ESX servers.We are looking at building these additional 4 servers with Vi3.Is it possible to move VM's in the old ESX 2.5.4 farm...
View ArticleActive Directory Passwords Expiring on ESX HOST
Folks, we've configured our ESX 3.0.1 hosts to authenticate against Active Directory which has been working successfully for some time. The Active Directory accounts are set not to expire. The hosts...
View ArticleVIC v2.5 won't connect to VC v2.0
I created a new environment for ESX3.5 with a new Virtual Center (v2.5). We will end up moving all of our guests to the new datacenter and retire the existing one (CPU incompatibility on IBM Blade...
View ArticleESX3.5 w/ NFS and iSCSI config
Hello, I have a config here that involves two 3.5u1 hosts connecting to one storage switch via NFS and iSCSI (its netapp storage). My question is primarily on my configuration and whether it is best...
View ArticleESX Server loses network connectivity
Hi, I recently set up a new ESX server(3.5) and ported a few virtual machines from our existing ESX(3.5) setup to the new one. The new ESX server unfortunately keeps losing network...
View ArticleMonitor Hardware failures on ESX hosts (HP SIM)
Hi there, Please bear with me. I am pretty new to HP SIM (Systems Insight Manager). My goal is to monitor hardware failures (power supply, temperture, memory, etc.) on my two ESX hosts (VI3.5). They...
View ArticleCannot add host to VirtualCenter
Hi all, That the first time it happens, when I try to add a specific host to my VC farm, the task remains pending (in progress) and the host is marked as disconnected.I tried to add an other host with...
View ArticleV2V 2003 ?
Hi all I'm interested in V2V'ing our 2003 VM's so i can change the multi virtual CPU setup to a single virtual CPU. Any reason why this wouldn't work ? If not what tools are required ?
View ArticleLUN Disk Alignment on SAN and Guest OS
Due to another VMware/NetApp related issue, NetApp support have been looking over our perstat logs from our NetApp filers, the NetApp Engineer spotted and raised some health issues with our VMware...
View ArticleVM's not bootable after upgrade vim.fault.DeviceBackingNotSupported
Hello, I upgraded one of my 3.0.2 servers to ESX 3.5 and now some of my VM's will not boot anymore giving the eror: Device 'Floppy Drive 1' has a backing type that is not supported. This is a...
View ArticleBest Practice for allocating virtual machine disk
I'm creating a virtual machine for a windows app that requires 3 volumes: C: O/S (10g), D: Application (10g), E: Data (50g). To optimize performance on a physical machine, I would create a mirror set...
View ArticleConnecting DAS to ESX VM
If I have a server that is running ESXi and have 2 Windows VMs and need to connect a Directly Attached Storage like Dell Powervault to the server via SCSI so one of the VMs can use it as a file...
View ArticleNetBackup on client VM - connection problems
I eventually plan on using vRanger as my backup solution; but I don't have it in place yet and I have the NetBackup client licenses. So, I have my first production VM and I've installed NetBackup 5.0...
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Am I hosed? Ran out of physical space in an ESX host's storage partition:...
Many of you would know the scenario: You goto work to fix a few things over the weekend whilst noone is there. At my work, I have a host that everyone uses that is soon to be transitioned...
View ArticleHA agent on ESX in Cluster has an error
Hi, we have 2 ESX (3.5) Server in Cluster managed by Virtual Center (2.5). Yesterday I migrated all VMs from one ESX to the other ESX because i want to patch the ESX host with the latested patches from...
View ArticleNetwork Usage Alarm
Hi, we recently set up alarms for Metric Network Usage. It sometimes shows (like shown below) usage far over 100 percent. How can this be? Is this not telling me how much of the network is being used?...
View ArticleAutomatic Startup and Shutdown of VM's...
Greetings to all. I've got a few VMs that I want to start up on a single ESX box automatically once the host is up. I've enabled the VM Startup & Shutdown option under configuration, and set the...
View ArticleESX and HP C7000 using KS / USB
Hi everyone, I have made a bootable USB key and have esx installing fine. The issue im having is that the KS makes the esxcfg.sh like most people and preps to run it on the next boot but when the...
View ArticleHyperThreading conf settings?
Hi, I know ESX has an checkbox to enable HyperThreading ... well, VMware Server 2.0 does not have such a checkbox but I'm quite sure it should also support HyperThreading. Does anybody know what is the...
View ArticleCannot connect to host my.esx.host.com: no connection could be made because...
2 ESX hosts, one VIC. All on same subnet, very basic network setup. The other day I inadvertantly broke the networking on esx1. I ended having to "rebuild" all the network config on it for it to...
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