Snapshot grayed out on some VMs
Why would some virtual machines have snapshot grayed out and it is available on others? I am running ESX 3.0.1 on three boxes. There are about 10 VMs on each box. Snapshot is available on some and...
View Articlechange LUN ID for a host?
Hi, I have a cluster cosisting of five hosts (host01 - host05), with 10 LUNs presented to the hosts, and all hosts see the LUNs in the same order, i.e., each LUN is seen as the same vmhba # and...
View ArticleUnderstanding Resource Allocation/Usage
Hi, I am trying to understand how resource allocated / used is working by ESX 3.5 / VM. This is my case: Thru esxtop, I see the following memory info:GID NAME NWLD MEMSZ SZTGT...
View ArticleProblem getting CPUID mask to work
Hi, I've got a problem with getting a CPUID mask to work.. The error I get when I vmotion is Host CPU is incompatible with the virtual machine's requirements at CPUID level 0x80000001 register...
View Articlevmnics show down but still have links.
I have a ESX 3.0 server that is having an issue with 2 of the 3 NICs. 1 of them show as down but they still have a link light on and i can ssh to the host using the IP address assigned to one of the...
View ArticleMemory allocation
HI, all, I have a Windows 2003, Enterprise Edition 64bit with 8GB of memory. I set the cap for memory allocation at 8GB rather than unlimited. However, I have noticed the system's host memory usage...
View ArticleEMC Storageview Plug-in
Hello, Does anyone have information or experience with the EMC Storageview Plug-in. Is it helpful in managing your storage with ESX? Mike
View Articleunable to remove orphaned and inaccessible vm from inventory.
Had a crash during an svmotion, vm orphaned and tried to readd to inventory but no luck. I have since restored the vm from a san snapshot and deleted all the original files and it now sits in a whole...
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ESX 3.0.1 No Longer Connects to vCenter
Hello All, I have recently updated 1 of 3 of my ESX 3.0.1 hosts.The new build number on the one I updated was 32039, now its 117504. I would like to upgrade to vSphere in the near future, but taking...
View ArticleFAILED: agent.internal.fault.NfcConnectionFault.summary
I have a vmmachine that I want to move from vmserver 1.0.2 to vm exi 3.5 I have converted successful prior form this excate same host server A to host server B using vmcenter prior. Now I trying...
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 ArticleThe server could not interpret the client's request
My VI Client cannot connect to virtual centre , even all VM services is running and pingable .it just pop up with error message " The server could not interpret the client's request" I have using...
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 ArticleMultiple Port Groups with the same VLanID
Have a question on peoples experience or knowledge, as we are having a little discussion here at work. If you were to have multiple virtual port groups with the same VLanID in the same cluster, does or...
View ArticleVMware ESX DRS cluster Question ?
Hi, Just got a new Question being asked to me about VMware DRS. Need answers from you guys. - What will happen in VMware ESX DRS cluster if all the nodes ESX servers are running on full utilization...
View ArticleVirtual Machine and McAfee Endpoint Encryption Manager/CPU Load is WARNING
Have a Windows 2003 VM with McAfee EndPoint Encryption Manager recently installed. Every day , at least, once each day we are seeing the following alert from the EndPoint Manager: PROBLEM Service...
View Articlerdm shared disk
ok this probably sounds like a stupid question but i have to ask! Is it possible to share a RDM disk between two servers. As far as i am aware windows will not allow a disk to be accessed by two...
View ArticleWinSCP copies to new DataStores
We have ESX3.5 and VC2.5. Originally, our FibreChnl SAN had 6 DataStores configured with VMFS3.21. We added some additional datastores and they are VMFS3.31. I noticed that whereas I could once...
View ArticleGuest O/s: insufficient system resources
Our Virtual environment is ESX3.5 Upd6 with VirtualCenter 2.5. The host in question has 128gb RAM, quad-quad core proc and uses FibreChannel SAN backend. One of the VMs on this host has Windows 2003...
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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