vCenter DR Situation!
Hi All, We have just experienced a power failure on the street where our main business resides, so our VM hosts along with the SAN's and everything else powered off before we had time to gracefully...
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Re: Vmware ESXI within Hyper-v (server 2012) networking issue
I have successfully installed customized ESXi 5.1 with tulip driver within Hyper-V (Windows 8), but I have the same problem as you. I can only connect the ESXi VM within Hyper-V from other machine. For...
View ArticleRe: Is it possible to install vCenter Server in ESX5.1 guest OS ?
Yes vCenter 5.1 can be installed under ESXi 5.1 or older version..
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1: cannot bring up ethernet for guest system
I tried this. I copied my vmx file and pointed scsi0:0.fileName to the original VM. The result is the same - except that the CentOS guest system now finds eth1 instead of eth0.
View ArticleRe: P>V conversion of Windows server > ESXi host 5.1 fails
The trick is to only transfer one drive at a time. This means that if the source has a C and a D drive you'll be P2V'ing this machine twice creating to seperate VMs - one only containing the C drive...
View ArticleRe: replica about VDI deploy
So the replica is a full copy of the original parent image. The linked clones are assocaited/linked to the replica to provide the base of the OS. The linked clones represent the different/customization...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1.0 disconnects from vSphere client during storage creation
That's the problem, I can't see the partition at all, it disconnects as it starts to show the 930GB of space to create your datastores. Dang, how the heck do you narrow down the log to an error?...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion - stuck at 80%
Is VAAI enabled both at ESXi and storage level... Disable VAAI and check if the same happens..
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1.0 disconnects from vSphere client during storage creation
Can you connect through ssh to your ESXi 5.1 host? Try to connect the log here using a txt file maybe or use something like pastebin.
View ArticleRe: vCenter DR Situation!
It all depends how frequent is the power failure. :) You can use the vCenter Heartbeat as an alternate option for vCenter redundancy. Regarding SAN1 and SAN2, you might need to use SRM application for...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1.0 disconnects from vSphere client during storage creation
There's probably some DELL partitions on those disks, I'm guessing it's local storage yes? Search the log for errors on something like this: “HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastore- CreateOptions”
View ArticleRe: VAAI - Extended Statistics for NAS
AFAIK, EMC has a VAAI plugin for NAS... Can you provide the source of information for me to check... You can run esxtop on ESXI ssh to check but I havent seen it...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1: cannot bring up ethernet for guest system
Check the below articles kb.vmware.com/kb/1009103 kb.vmware.com/kb/1028151 http://vwiki.co.uk/Troubleshooting_(Virtual_Machine)
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Re: VM on SSD or SATA III disk?
Whoa! That is the laptop to die for (just checked it out at MSI). I am jealous. It's so . I'm building an ASRock 990FX (SATA III) board today with a AMD FX 9350 (8 cores @ 4GHz). Their price/perormance...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 shows a datastore with no free space but it's empty
Can you connect to the ESXi host directly using root credentials on vsphere client and check if you notice the same status....
View ArticleFailed to create DataStore
Hello I want to create datastore by using the SDK CreateVmfsDatastore, But when I run it I got the soap error :<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:ns0="urn:vim25"...
View ArticleRe: Can not logon to vCenter Webservice
<<What do you mean Microsoft Session Authentication? Do you mean adding the Identity Sources to SSO?>> On the main vCenter Web Client logon page there are two windows, one for Username and...
View ArticleRe: SLES SP1 VM performance issue.
Dear Team, I have also checked while writing to disk davg metric is very high (100+) , while reading from disk is very normal for eg. 1) if i take a clone to problematic host then davg metric is high2)...
View ArticleRe: DHCP/DNS/Network issues with testlab - Virtual Network Editor is killing me!
Hello André, I've tried this before - configuring VMNet8 (NAT) to those specifications (192.168.100.0/24, Gateway at default xxx.2) - assigning that static IP/creating the DHCP scope, assigning the...
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