Upgrade from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5
Hi everyone.... I have 4 ESX 4.1 servers and i want to migrate them to ESXi 5. What would be the best way, an upgrade or a fresh install server by server by moving virtual machines to other host?Can i...
View ArticleRe: IBM V7000 & SRM 5.0 - Failed to create snapshots of replica devices
And you guys applied it without issue? That's awesome. We are very skeptical since we were told if we applied the iFix, we could no longer apply normal GA's.. Did you have any problems or down time...
View ArticleRe: dvSwitch + PVLAN трафик невиден на аплинке dvSwitch
С помощью tcpdump-uw посмотрел что ходит на vmk0, arp трафика от нужной ВМ (VM-1) расположеной на dvSwitch невидно, зато много arp трафика от хостов находя с внешней от vmnic0 сети. Только чтото немогу...
View ArticleRe: Vmnetbridge.dll fails to copy to c:\Windows\system32
I thought i'd bring this back from the dead since I found a workaround that has worked multiple times for me after seeing this issue with v8 and v9: Run the install like usual, let it error out on the...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5
Have you looked at the upgrade guide - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-511-upgrade-guide.pdf. You will want to upgrade vCenter first and then...
View ArticleSSO/vCenter redundancy
Hej, we are currently preparing our 5.1 environment and plan to setup SSO servers as HA for failover. We think about putting it on VMs as it is supported by VMware and will run in an ESX Cluster....
View ArticleRe: IBM V7000 & SRM 5.0 - Failed to create snapshots of replica devices
Hi, Yes without any issues and without any downtime. This is a fix for the 6.4.1.4 the only thing that changes is the build version.
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Re: What is the best way to restore VMs after a server refresh
Thanks for the reply, this is exactly what I was looking for. I wasn't aware of the fact that I needed to register the VMX file, so thanks for bringing that up also.
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Re: IBM V7000 & SRM 5.0 - Failed to create snapshots of replica devices
Also, I want to know how its running after the 31st day of installing the iFix! Our experience has been, if it doesn't break after 30 days of running - its solid
View Article'Error writing to output file' with SAS 9.3
All, I'm attempting to build a package of SAS 9.3 and every time I build it it errors at some point during the build, the last few times I've attempted the build it errors at the final build Copying...
View ArticleRe: mutliple links "online"to 1 switch without distributed switches...
How is this possible? I thought if you create a double link to 1 cisco switch, you need lacp?So there is no reason at all to put a NIC in standby, if they are connected to the same switch?
View Articlexrandr showing one virtual display, mirroring it to each monitor in...
I'm trying to get each display on a computer available to a Linux guest (Ubuntu 13.04) provided as a separate virtual device. But instead of doing this, I get one virtual device in xrandr and the...
View ArticleSATA DLT Tape drive i/o errors
Hi all! I'm running VMWare 5.1 on a Intel Server and everything seems to work fine exept that I can't get my SATA Quantum DLT tape drive to work! The Intel serverboard (DBS2600CP2) contains a (onboard)...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5
The vCenter Server must run a version equal or higher than the ESX hosts, so while you can have mixed versions of hosts in a vCenter Server, you have to have an upgraded vCenter server available first....
View ArticleRe: cant copy/paste from guest to host
If I power on a vm or load a snapshot with copy/paste/drag/drop DISABLED, then enabling it does...I (personally) have NEVER DISABLED copy/paste/drag/drop -- it is always been enabled; so, no I can't...
View ArticleRe: mutliple links "online"to 1 switch without distributed switches...
You can have as many uplinks in your standard vSwitch as ESXi supports, and connect them to the same network if you want. I think the default insall makes the first vmnic active the rest standby, but...
View ArticleRe: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible
Great your workaround is great able to convert successfully. But when I test using the VMware Player i am getting the following error. This virtual machine is configured for 64-bit guest operating...
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what do assert and deassert mean in regards to current state of hardware...
Hi. Newbie here to VMWare; in checking an alert for battery status on one of our VMHosts I see a warning with the current state as Assert. What does this mean? Furthermore, why would "failed" be...
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