Unable to hot migrate some VMs after upgrade to ESX 3.5 (VC2.5)
Hi! Today I upgraded from VC2.0.1/ESX 3.0.1 to VC2.5/ESX 3.5. I'm running three ESX hosts and was able to upgrade two of them to 3.5 by now (Virtual Center has already been upgraded to 2.5)....
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Hello, after applying the patch ESX350-200712410-BG my ESX 3.5 Host is no longer available in the Virtual Center 2.5. I have disconnected the host and tried to connect it again but there is an error...
View ArticleBooting an ESX host from EqualLogic SAN without an HBA
I was wondering if someone would help with the following query? I have an HP c3000 blade center populated with blades, each has 6 NICs (1 dual port internal, and 2 dual port mezz cards). The 2...
View ArticleSpecial CPU reservation setting for vRanger
We are using vizioncore vranger for our vmware backup (latest version). Accordig to vizioncore tech, they say that we should increase our system reservation setting to like 1200 to 1500 MHZ, has...
View ArticleNetbackup 6.5-VCB 1.1 -Lesson Learnt
Hey All Environment: OS: Windows 2003 R2 with SP2VC running on 2.5VCB Server Running VCB 1.1 and Netbackup 6.5.1 Admin Console and configured as Media ServerNetbackup Master Server running on 6.5.1 No...
View ArticleHow do you restart mgmt-vmware when it wont stop
Quite often when upgrading customer systems, after upgrading VirtualCenter to 2.5 - it will install a new agent onto the host. Sometime it works, sometimes it doesn't For the times it fails, you can...
View ArticleMD3000i and Multipathing in ESX 3.5
Hello. We're in trouble setting up multipathing with MD3000i. We've a dual controller MD3000i, with one Virtual DIsc configured. MD3000i is connected to 2 ESX 3.5 Hosts. We want to assign a...
View ArticleESX 350 esxupdate - patch requires "3.5.0-6460"
Started with a clean install of ESX 3.5. Using esxupdate to patch the system. Several issues: A). contents.xml file on page this am 11/13/08 - has the older 2007 bundles in it - not just the 2008...
View ArticleService Console network performance - nowhere near 1000Mb
My service console was running at 100Mb/full and all was good. But now I have copy my VCB full-image backups over it for restores. So, I moved it to a 1Gb port on the switch, and changed the ESX...
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VIC 2.5 in Vista - VpxClient has stopped working
After a clean install of VIC 2.5 on a 32bit Vista PC, the VIC never opens and exists with a "VpxClient has stopped working" message. That's it, nothing else. I've taken the time to look at two existing...
View ArticleRoot partition disk space 99% utilized..help.
I have three ESX servers. All with the identical setup. DIsk partitions setup per partitioning guideline document. The root partition / is setup to be 6GB, and currently has 5.7GB in use. The problem...
View ArticleSSE4.1 and Dell Poweredge 2950 and 2950 GenIII
I just added two new Dell Poweredge 2950 Gen III's to my cluster, and I'm getting a message that there cpu has SSE4.1! The old CPU's are Core. I'm going to have to use cpu mask to get vmotion to work,...
View ArticleServer refusedServer refused to allocate pty -
"This is what I get when I try to putty into the server" Server refusedServer refused to allocate pty -bash: /root/.bash_profile: Input/output error
View ArticleHP Server Insight Manager 5.2
Can I used WBEM to pull information from ESX 3.5? The port is opened however it doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something?
View ArticleOrder of VMware Tools Upgrade
I am aware that VMware suggest that upgrading to from ESX 3.0.x to ESX3.5/VC 2.5 is a sequence of events where VC upgrade comes first, then ESX, then finally the VMware Tools upgrade. Does anyone...
View ArticleHow to mount USB drive as VMFS storage?
Can this be done? I have a 1TB external drive connected directly to the ESX 3.0.2 server. Can I mount this sucker somewhere and then add it in Virtual Center as storage, and then clone my VM's to it...
View ArticleMultipath or failover on boot from iSCSI?
Ok, here is what I have: (2) Dell PowerEdge 1950's(2) Cisco 3750G's using StackWise for a redundant pair(1) QLE4062C iSCSI HBA in each Dell serverEqualLogic PS5000E SAN Ok, I have successfully...
View ArticleILO 2 & VMWARE ESX 3.0.x USB Keyboard problem
Hi All I loose keyboard connectivity once VMWare ESX starts loading. I am able to go into BIOS settings via F9 etc, but once ESX loads the problem appears. This is a fact via ILO connection and via...
View ArticleCannot see SAN storage
Hello Community! Silly question ... how can I check if the guys connected the san adapters from the server to the san switch? esxcfg-vmhbadevs -q shows only the scsi controlleresxcfg-rescan vmhba1 to 4...
View ArticleCPU Masking KB 1993 for Intel vMotion ecx SSE compat
Need to implement CPU masking according to KB 1993 to overcome Intel ecx error on vMotion. I added <guestOSDescriptor> <esx-3-x-x> <all-versions>...
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