Creating users via kickstart
Does anyone know how to configure a kickstart script to automatically create users with SSH access upon first boot? Jason
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 ArticleInstalling HP Data Protector Disk Agent on ESX 3.5
Hello, The information on installing HP Data Protector on an ESX server seems scarce, so I thought I'd ask here...I only want to install the Disk agent to do backup of our ESXpress backup dumps. So we...
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 Articleschedule a VM reboot
Is it possible to setup a schedule a reboot for VM from VC or any other way?
View ArticleNumber of CPU per VM
Hi I am running an evaluation of vmware infastructure 3 enterprise and i only have 1 vm installed. I have an ibm x3550 with 2 1.86 Quad Core CPU's installed with 16GB of RAM. When i create the vm for...
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NFS Error: Unable to unmount filesystem: Busy
I can't remove a NFS datastore from an ESX 3.5 build 110268 with this message : Error performing operation: NFS Error: Unable to Unmount filesystem: Busy This datastore was mounted on 4 or 5 ESX...
View ArticleWEB CONSOLE ON VM
Dear Sir / Madam, I have installed Solaris Virtual Machine on my ESX server. I have tried VNC and X- Manager so that users can conenct this VM remotely but users are unable to conenct it. One of...
View ArticleStrange Error Message: IPMI_SI during boot up
During the boot up of esx 3.5, I get OK for each system that loads except one: ipmi_si. I get the following message: unable to find any system interface(s). I am running on a brand new Dell...
View ArticleVM showing up as 'unknown (invalid)' after registering
One of the VMs running in our ESX3.0.2 environment started showing as '[servername] (invalid)' in our Vcentre. So I removed it from the inventry with the intention of re-adding at and all being well....
View ArticleFree Test Server or Simulator for Practise
Hi All, Is there any free test server or simulator available in Internet for Practise. Please help me.
View Article[NTP]: no servers can be used, exiting
Hi, This is the error message I get when I run '# ntpdate' on two newly created ESX 3.0.2 servers:15 Jan 22:23:34 ntpdate[2689]: no servers can be used, exiting Using the NTP sample configuration...
View ArticleUsers unable to browse datastore ISO file under CD configuration
I have just upgraded to Virtual Center 2.5. I have users that cannot browse to the ISO datastore under the CD/DVD configuration without giving them Administrator access at the DataCenter level. They...
View ArticleA bunch of VMSN files under VM folders ... How can I delete these files ?
Hi ! I have 4 VMs having around 300 vmsn files 20KB big. I would like to know how can I get rid of these files ? There's NO SNAPSHOT in the SNAPSHOT MANAGER, so why I have so much files like that...
View ArticleHow to encrypt root password for Kick Start Script
I am developing a kick start script to install ESX V3.5 Update 1 and I want to encrypt the root password for use during the kick start installation script. What utility can I use to setup an encrypted...
View ArticleCannot SSH into datastore folders
I'm trying to ssh into my datastore, I can use the browser and view the folders and files, But when I ush ssh I can cd into the datastore but cannot see anyfiles? Is this a permission thing? Can...
View ArticleVCBMounter snapshot removing problem
Hi VCBMounter creats the snapshot and start backing up the all the files on proxy server. Suppose we cancle the task in between and snapshot remains on ESX server.How can we delete this snapshot...
View ArticleUnable to create vmfs on SAN
Hello. ESX 3.5 update 1. SAN FC Xyratech. When I try to create vmfs datastore ESX report error - "Unable to create filesystem" If I use vmkfstools - C , I get error - "I/O error". On the same ESX...
View ArticleESX-What kind of virtualization
Hello All, Can anyone please tell me what kind of Virtualization does ESX3.5 or 3.x use?? I am aware that VMware Server, VMware WorkStation uses Full Virtualization and Citrix Xen Enterprise 4.0 also...
View ArticleRenaming VMnics to match PCI Slot Numbers
When installing ESX is choose the wrong Pnic for the service console. The end result is that vmnic0 is in PCI slot 2, vmnic1 is in PCI slot 2, and so on. Is there any way to ny way to rename the...
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