LUN ID Question -- Adding Storage
Hello, I have a question about the LUN ID that shows up in Virtual Center 2.5 when you are adding storage to an ESX Host. When I go into Add Storage and Select my newly created LUN from the list, it...
View ArticleCompile list of VMs on ESX servers
I have five VMWare ESX 3.x servers, but we do not have the Enterprise Virtual Center <yet>. I need a method to quickly connect to each ESX server and retrieve the names of the VM...
View ArticleHP Management Agents Homepage Problem - No Details / Server is NULL
Currently trying to install HP Agents version 8.1.1 on 9 HP DL585 G5 Servers, but when I log into the management home page https://servername:2381 ther is no information for any of the componets and...
View ArticleProblem with disk cloning
Hello all, I had troubles with the snapshots of a vm guest. I tried to delete them over the VI snapshot manager, unfortunately the vmdk delta files still exist. I made a clone from the first two...
View ArticleUnable to contact the specified host (Servername). This might be because that...
I am getting the following error "Unable to contact the specified host (SERVERNAME). This might be because the host is not available on the network, there's a network configuration problem, or the...
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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 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 ArticleMigrate VM to one Datacenter to another Datacenter
I am trying to migrate VM one datacenter to another Datacenter, and getting the following error: "The input arguments had entities that did not belong to the same datacenter" I can't migrate live VM...
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 ArticleConvert Standard PC ACPI HAL to Uniprocessor or Multiprocessor???
I have one server that is currently Standard PC HAL, and wondering if it could be convert to uniprocessor or multiprocessor? I've tried so many tricks and tips online but no luck. I"m not sure if...
View ArticleHow to Set the SSH Timeout ESX 3.5 Host Using Putty
How do I set the ssh Timeout on an ESX 3.5 Host so that after I putty into the host it drops the ssh connection after 15 min if the session is idle? Pete
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 ArticleCmd line to show datastore left space
Hi, Is there a simple command line to extract left space from datastore from the result of "esxcfg-info -s" ? What I would like to have is the same thing that what we can see in VC's GUI...
View ArticleAdding Additional RDM's to MSCS Cluster
Evening all, Not sure if anyone seen's this issue but....Trying to add some additional RDM's to a two node Active/Passive Windows W2K3 Cluster spread across two ESX 3.02 hosts, each using local...
View ArticleScripted kickstart installation using NFS
Hi, I am setting up a scripted kickstart install using NFS. At the initial connection to the NFS share to get the ks.cfg file, I am being prompted that the network connection cannot be found. After...
View ArticleWhen ESX can support virtual display memory (vRAM) larger than 4 MB?
I found in one of the discussion topics that currently ESX v3 and previous versions only support virtual dispaly memory up to 4 MB. This is not mentioned in KB 1003. I also notice that in VMWare GSX...
View ArticleHyperthreading > Inactive (Why?)
A quick question. My ESX hosts are IBM Blades HS21 with twin Xeon CPU's at 2GHz and in the VIclient it reports that hyperthreading is enabled but not active. It says that in the BIOS you should enable...
View ArticleIndividual disk - Persistent and non-persistent
Hi, Can somebody please explain to me, what does persistent and non-persistent means? My understanding was, if the disk is non-persistent and I put somefiles, on that disk. After reboot those files...
View Articleadding text to hosts file
I want to be able to automate in a scripting process on how to add a server name to the hosts file in the folder etc. for example 10.2.2.2 esxserver004.company.com.au esxserver004 I want to...
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