VM disconnected after host failed - How to manually reconnect?
Hi During some planned downtime today, i came across an issue which may cause problems in the future - so i am just looking for any insight... We have 6 Esx hosts running Win2k3 vm's. All VM's reside...
View ArticleVMware Tools upgrade will not run - only prompts MSIEXEC install options.
After placing all the VMware critical and recommended patches, there was a VMware Tools upgrade included. These were applied to all servers in my environment. Now when I log into my servers 50% ran...
View ArticleSQL server mirroring with VMware HA
We would like to achieve High availability solution for SQL server in VMware and at the same time we are looking to use VMware HA. We thought of using Failover clustering for SQL server but then if we...
View ArticleHow to find HBA WWN number on ESX server
Hi Friends I have 2 Emulex HBAs installed on my ESX host. I am trying to find out the HBA WWN numbers. I have lputil installed on ESX hosts but it doesn't show me the WWN. Under VI if I go to the...
View Articlestop and start a vmnic from command line
I just recently did a clean install of ESX 3.5 on an ESX host at a remote site (the system was on ESX 2.5.3). Unfortunately we did not do any "trunking" with ESX 2.5.3 and had our network people...
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 ArticleExisting LUNs appear with old names on new servers
Hi, I have an existing SAN with some ESX 3.0.2 hosts attached. Many of the LUN names were changed some time ago. Recently, upon adding four new ESX 3.5 hosts to that storage group in the SAN, and...
View ArticleUnable to access a file since it is locked - Something to look for
Good day, I just wanted to post this information for others that might be having the same issue. We had created a template on our new VI3 system (ESX 3.5 update 1 and VC 2.5 Update 1). We deployed...
View ArticleFAILED: Unable to obtain the IP address of the helper virtual machine
Hi, I've got this message when I use the converter V4. What does it means exactly ? and above all how to work around this ? thx
View Articleifup: vmnics device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initializing
Hello After upgrading my RHES 4 to the latest kernel release I noticed in the startup of my vm that he was showing an error on my vmware-tools.The system said I had to reconfigure my vmware tools....
View ArticleUrgent : ESX server not rebooting after upgrade to 3.0.2
Upgraded one of our ESX 3.0.1 servers to ESX 3.0.2 using the TAR with esxupdate -n update (I had checked the md5sum before running update). Following the reboot, ESX don't start anymore, I get the...
View ArticleHow to enable iSCSI multipathing with iSCSI software initiator?
I'm trying to enable multipathing to a Dell MD3000i iSCSI target using the software initiator.The target has 2 controllers with 2 NIC's each.I have added every ip address on each target NIC to the...
View ArticleDell AX4-5 SAN
OK so just when I was all set on a Fujitsu Server/SAN solution (which we would have ordered a few weeks back but for political delays and more delays) Dell have come up with what seems one hell of a...
View ArticleVirtual machines migration from one ESX 3.0.2 to one ESX 3.5
Hi everyone, quick and simple : do I need to upgrade my ESX 3.0.2 server to migrate all virtual machines to a ESX 3.5 server? Thank you and have a good day.
View ArticleDoes UDA appliance works with Ghost image?
Does anyone know how to make the .gho image to work with UDA appliance. I know UDA can automate PXE installations of Windows, Linux, ESX and Solaris. I'm curious if we can use it to deploy .ghost...
View ArticleExternal graphing of performance tab data from ESX
i would like to graph some of the data i can see in the performance tab in the VI client with cacti for long term graphing and consolidation. i keep reading about a database that stores the information...
View ArticlePb converting LVM partitions on Linux
Hi, This afternoon I was converting a Linux Redhat 4.0 EL booting on VmWaconverter CD. I had systematicaly a crash with converting LVM. In fact I supposed it was due to LVM but I'm not sure I think...
View ArticleNew ESX host can't see Fibre SAN - Clariion
Hi, I've spent about two hours going through the communities and have tried various things without success...basically, I've got a new ESX host which I've built, configured and networked, but I can't...
View ArticleVI Client can't connect to the host
My VMware ESX 3.01 host was up and running for months. Last week I found my virtual center got trouble connection to the host. I reinstall the virtual center server 2.5. It didn't fix it. I bounce the...
View ArticleIs there ESX alert to show if vmnic disconnected and/or spped changed?
Hello: I am worndering if there a way to configure the alert be triggered from ESX if vmnic disconnected and/or speed changes from 1000Mb to 100MB... Thank you
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