Re: Storage VMotion to multiple datastores
Here is an example script that scales a little higher and would assume that you have standardized on a group of datastores for these VM's. The example shown assumes you have a bunch of VM's in 4...
View ArticleRe: USB WIFI - Doesn't function well in VM - Please read :)
Here's an attempt: Hardware required:1. motherboard with at least two Ethernet contollers or an addon 3c905C 2. extra router set to AP mode. set your VM to use a dedicated Ethernet controller and...
View ArticleItalian localization error in Hard Disk VM settings
In the Italian localization of Fusion 4.1.1, there seems to be an error in the Hard Disk VM settings, where, in the split disk option, it says Dividi in due documenti da 2 GB (Split into two 2 GB...
View ArticleRe: freesco configuration/vm's issues
the esxi is running on a workstation 7.1 and my vcenter is running on window server 2008r2.please where can i enable executable bit vecause i have try but its not working.i have enable VT in my bios as...
View ArticleRe: Copying files from Datastore to local server very slow
You could try following - if you have a laptop with 1Gbit.Try to install the veeam on your laptop and then copy something ( ca. 10GB) - you will see then the performance - it should be at least 20...
View ArticleRe: # of iSCSI paths seems wrong
What is the switch environment look like? Or are you directly connected to the storage? I assume you have two ethernet switches. Do you have only one pNIC assigned to each vmkernel port group? Or...
View ArticleRe: Two VM's on a server with 4 phsyical nics
I agree with Andre if you only have a single ESXi host. If you have more than one host and you are looking to use some of the more advanced features (ie HA, DRS, FT) you should break out the...
View ArticleRe: how to set syslog.local.datastorepath
The syntax in gui should be [datastorename]<blank>/directorynameonyourdatastore The directorynameonyourdatastore must be created before. RegChristian
View ArticleRe: Copying files from Datastore to local server very slow
Will try copying from a notebook to server. Could it be a problem that the ESXi is installed on a SD-Card? The datastore where the VMs reside is a RAID10 with 15k SAS HDDs. Not sure what you mean with...
View ArticleRe: Can not create snapshot for 1TB VM Guest on ESXi 4 Host
Is it possible to use another datastore for the snapshots and configure that datastore with 8MB block size?
View ArticleRe: is evc a reliable option?
There are special CPU instructions that applications can use to detect what features (like SSE2, SSE3, etc.) a CPU supports.With EVC enabled these instructions are trapped by the hypervisor and it will...
View ArticleVM won't start after failed snapshot
We've got a VM that was stuck at 95% taking a snapshot and we couldn't cancel it. They restarted the management agents on the hostand the snapshot failed but now the VM won't power on. It just says...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.0 kickstart issue
I think if the device that is used for the system (in your case the USB device) is larger than what is required for ESXi 5.0 then the installer will try to create a VMFS volume on the remaining free...
View ArticleRe: Can not create snapshot for 1TB VM Guest on ESXi 4 Host
Also currently the VMDK is setup to 1024. Is it possible to reduce the size of this drive? The guest O/S is Server 2008.
View ArticleRe: Can not create snapshot for 1TB VM Guest on ESXi 4 Host
You could create a new datastore with the 8MB block size, and storage vMotion the 1 TB disk off to that other datastore.
View ArticleRe: freesco configuration/vm's issues
The "Execute Disavle Bit" setting can usually be found under "Security" in most BIOS versions.To be able to run nested 64 bit VM's you may need to upgrade to VMware Workstation 8 which offers support...
View ArticleRe: freesco configuration/vm's issues
Discussion moved from Virtual Machine & Guest OS to Nested Virtualization
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