Re: Lost paths on Broadcom BCM5709 iSCSI adapters after upgrading to ESXi 5.0
Just been through this issue myself and wasted days on it. It's a Broadcom driver issue. There is a Broadcom bnx2 driver update, but if you install it in the wrong order you get a magenta screen of...
View ArticleRe: Script to find overutilized virtual machines
I dont know how to do this via script but we use Capacity IQ to do it. You can dowload a 60 day free trial of CapIQ and install the appliance, give it some time to gather info and then run the reports...
View ArticleVM access from server console?
Suppose I have a server onto which I have installed an ESXI 4.0 virtualization layer. Thereafter, I create a VM in the server. How could I view the console of the VM just from the server console?
View ArticleRe: USB Install virtual machines
As far as I know, you can't do that (have a datatore which points to a USB drive mounted to the ESX). What you Could do is:- have a VM which offers NFS or iSCSI services running on that ESX (a storage...
View ArticleRe: VM access from server console?
Hello and Welcome to the Forums! You cannot get to the guests console from the ESXi DCUI (Direct Console User Interface). You will need to download and install the vSphere Client. Using the client,...
View ArticleRe: Create bootable usb for esxi 5
Hello guys, I managed to create an USB device image (using the Winimage software method). I can restore that image on another USB key and it works fine.But when restoring this image on another USB key...
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Disk latency reporting error in vSphere 5
On some of our disk performance graphs I am seeing the highest latency metric recording almost 200 million milliseconds. That equates to over 50 hour latency spikes. The storage isn't reporting any...
View ArticleRe: Alarm (VM Cloned) isn't triggering
For some reason the normal alarm doesn't work, but if I use "vim.event.VmClonedEvent" it works.
View ArticleRe: Windows-VM not backing up
Looks like there's an error:FILE: FileIO_Unlock on '/vmfs/volumes/NFS-DR1/RM-HQ-SPT/RM-HQ-SPT-2012-01-17_08-02-50/RM-HQ-SPT_1.vmdk' failed: No such file or directoryI would suggest taking a look at...
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Xen VM's to VMWare ESXi server.
Hi All, I've been beating my head a little against the wall on trying to convert some Xen VM's to VMWare. I tried using the vCenter Converter Standalone and it would not see any sort of file system on...
View ArticleLost connection after removing one service console
Hi, my ESX server has 2 service console, with 2 differents Vswitch & 2 différents ip adresses (in 2 differents vlan) My problem is when I remove one SC, I loose to connection to the host.I m'...
View ArticleRe: How to deal with same hostname in companny assessment?
Is there any reason for many duplicate hosts? If these are cluster servers, the unique IPs should be imported as a Cluster system type in Capacity Planner. Having duplicate host names would typically...
View ArticleRe: Error PFN_LIST_CORRUPT en Windows 7 virtualizado sobre VMWare Fusion 4 (Mac)
Hola,¿ que tarea estabas haciendo en la màquina virtual justo antes del pantallazo azul ? Un saludo,Pablo...
View ArticleRe: VCAP's Passed not enough time to prep for VCDX4 last defense
The last VCDX 4 is:May 7-11, 2012 - Toronto, CanadaPre-register nowRegistration opens February 20, 2012Applications due: March 12, 2012, 5:00 PM Pacific Time (UTC-7) Having the VCAP4's under your belt...
View ArticleRe: How to deal with same hostname in companny assessment?
This case is an organization that has dozens of small offices, all with domain controllers, fileshare, print server, etc, all with the same hostname.
View ArticleRe: P2V Linux, failed to connect iso
Hello There are two issues involved here. First, sometimes it seems the VC doesn't return the host/thumbprint pair when issuing a ticket. There have been other such complaints but we were unable to...
View ArticleCommon Access Card (CAC) access for ESXi hosts?
Common Access Card (CAC) access is required for this environment. Are there any plans from VMware or any ways to be able to use CAC access to login into ESXi 4.1 or later hosts either directly on...
View ArticleEsxi 5.0 - Near Line SAS?
Hi there. I'm looking to implement a new VM Server at my office for internal purposes only. I will be running a couple of monitoring servers such as cacti and nagios under *nix and x2 Windows systems....
View ArticleRe: Repackaging VMware Thinapp
Wow.. That’s a first.. Well, ThinApp Utilities folder is just as portable as any other ThinApped application. Just put the folder with all its files in a MSI and off you go..
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