Failed to import client (using Data protector for backup VMware ESX server)
Hi, I've been trying to backup VMWare ESX 3.5 with Data Protector 6.1.Agent, such as da,ma,vmware already installed in ESX.Ports 5555 for comunicating with the server also been opened. But, when I'm...
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 ArticleFailed Snapshot removal
I am experiencing issues attempting to remove snapshots from some of our virtual machines. All of the virtual machines involved are SQL servers. I am trying to backup all of our VM's with a 3rd party...
View ArticleVERY URGENT! VirtualCenter server don't start
Hello all, I've an urgent question. I've an old VMWare environment with Virtual Center 2.0.1 on Windows 2000 serve. Today I've done some operation with my VM (remove old snapshot, move some VM from...
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...
View ArticleVMFS and VMDK compatibility
Hi, I've got a number of ESX 3.0.2-Update1 hosts which I'm going to be doing fresh installs of ESXi 4.1 onto. The 3.0.2 hosts are connected to external storage where the Datastores and VM's are stored....
View ArticleWorkaround for "Unable to get Console path for Mount"
Error message: Error during the configuration of the host: Unable to get Console path for Mount Envirovment : ESX 3.5 u2 with NFS datastore We are in the process of moving data between datastores. I...
View Articlec_20127.nls missing during template deploy
The mini setup is looking for this file ("c_20127.nls") when deploying a template. I have checked the template source and the file is included in the system32 folder. Once I confirm the file the setup...
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 ArticleChange Hostname of esx 3.5 Host
Hi, is there a working and neat way to rename a esx 3.5 host? As read in another thread esxcfg-advcfg should do that (esx-cfg -s NewName.dnszone /Misc/Hostname) but that does not work (even there is no...
View ArticleESX Downloading vmdk files from Datastore "Connection Timed Out" Error
When attempting to download vmdk files from my ESX Datastores, I receive a "Connection to server has timed out" Error. I can download any smal files (vmx, etc.) but when I try to download my vmdk's,...
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High CPU load caused by Hardware Interrupts
Hi all, It seems to be a common problem, you have a virtual Windows 2003 server running Active Directory on a ESX server and suddenly the performance crawls to almost death.We'll I'm having this...
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Network Design Opinions
I would like to hear opinions of the following matter. I have created a 6-node Cluster running ESX 3.5 Build 143128. Each node is a HP DL580G5 2-Quad CPU with 64Gb RAM. I placed two Quad-NIC cards and...
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 ArticleRDM Configuration (Best Practices...)
Folks, when attaching multiple RDM's on a VM, would you add one RDM per vSCSI adapter, or would you add multiple RDM's to the same vSCSi adapter? Also, when creating the RDM would you keep it with...
View ArticlevmKernel/COS is IO Bound on ESX 3.5?
The below illustrated scenario would never be acceptable for production scale, but may illustrate something odd with the COS/VMKernel? Scenario... HP server1 2.8 32-bit XEON processor2 GB...
View ArticleHost xxx currently has no management network redundancy
Just upgraded my VC to 2.5 and have this error. Actually, to be fair I had a bunch of DRS/HA errors and a host that wouldn't migrate or do anything. So I unconfigured DRS and HA, then reconfigured,...
View ArticleLicensing and VC server question
Folks, I was refering to a question for VCP exam and I am confused with the answer for that question. Perhaps, some body in this forum can help me... which statement is true about VC and License...
View ArticleProblems with quad port NIC HP150T in ESX 3.5
Hi, I installed a ESX with version 3.5 and a quad port nic from HP (NC150T). This NIC is in the compatible list, but if I connect via VIClient, I can see only one NIC. Where are the other 3? Chris
View Articlecan you log to both syslog locally and a remote syslog server
it is possible to log to both your local esx syslog ad a remote syslog server at the same time? If so, is there any negative impact?
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