Vcbmounter Error: Other error encountered: Snapshot creation failed:...
Hi all, I back up several vm guest servers each night using Arcserve on a vcb proxy which runs a pre script to snapshot the guests and mount the raw files, ready to be backed up to tape. The backup...
View ArticleINSTALLING HP FIRMWARE MAINTENANCE CD ON HP DL380 G5 SERVER PRIOR TO ESX INSTALL
Hello, I instaled the latest BIOS, but am having problems installing the Firmware Maintenance CD v8.40. After the HP Smart update Manager scans the server, it says I am using SUSE Linux Enterprise...
View ArticleVMotion failed -- Failed to start migration pre-copy. Help!
ESX v4, vCenter v4 Vmotion failed with error says: A general system error occurred: Failed to start migration pre-copy. Error 0xbad003f. Connection closed by remote host, possibly due to time out....
View ArticleHow to exclude VM from HA availability constraint calculation
Hi, I would like to confirm if I set "Disable" on few VM HA settings (cluster level), These VMs will not be included in the HA "Prevent VMs from being Powered on if they violate availability...
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 ArticleKVM migration to VMWare
Hi, all -- We have a KVM virtual machine running latest Ubuntu on a Ubuntu host. We need to migrate this VM to a VMWare ESX farm run by out data center. Is this migration as simple as moving the...
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 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 ArticleCan I virtualize Mac OS/X 10 Server (Leopard) on ESX 3.5.0 ?
Hi ! Can I virtualize Mac OS/X 10 Server (Leopard) on ESX 3.5.0 ? Is there an hardware limitations ? licensing ? thanks for your reply Damien
View Articleierr Assert
I am getting this error under the cpu list IERR assert. what is this error?
View ArticleESX server crash - need to get back up and running!
HELP! We had some kind of power hiccup. My virtual server (running ESX 3.0.2) was frozen. I rebooted it, and it displays several errors (e.g. 0:00:01:26:25 CPU1:1038 LVM:1358: One or more devices not...
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 ArticleLUN Performance Problem and HBA to fabric design query
Hi All, We're having a few issues with our VMware ESX Cluster (3.0.1 all recent patches).As part of the analysis I came across the following...
View ArticleHP DL585G2 and NC380T problems with ESX 3.0.1
I am trying to get this combination to work with ESX 3.0.1. Both are listed on the HCL for 3.0.1 but when we try to install ESX we get a kernel panic message and get no further. If we take the NC380T...
View Articleswap partition's UUID goes missing after upgrade
I recently upgraded from esx 2.5.x to 3.0.1 and found that the swap partition no more has an UUID listed against it in the /etc/fstab. It shows as follows : /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0...
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 ArticleGrow a RAID 5 array
I have an HP BL480C blade with 4 72Gb disks. The system is running ESX 3.0.1 and hosts 4 virtual machines. I need more space for the VMs and was wondering if I could swap out the disks (72Gb) for...
View Articlevmfs error Unable to create vmfs
Folks, I have a Hard disk. I crated 2 paritions on it. So, that I can create 2 vmfs partitions on it. ~ # fdisk /dev/disks/vmhba3\:1\:0\:0 Disk /dev/disks/vmhba3:1:0:0: 73.4 GB, 73407820800 bytes255...
View ArticleUpgrade from ESX 3.X - 3.5
I guess I'm just a little confused on the upgrade process so any advice is much appreciate. I understand I can get the media, stick the CD in and upgrade the server. What is vmware update manager? Can...
View ArticleLSI 8708ELP SAS
Hello, I have a server with LSI 8708ELP SAS (megaraid_sas). When I try any CD of vmware esx server on it, it stucks on loading megaraid_sas module. I have installed other systems like CentOS, X__,...
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