Issue with RAID on Dell 720
So, I'm trying to install ESXi 5.1 on my dell 720. I'm using the dell Disk. My issue is it will not see the RAID array and ignore the virtual disk (raid 5 across 4 1TB drives) but will see the...
View ArticleExplain Ballooning according to my scenario
Hello, Can you guys explain me a little bit values related to Memory, i know we have documentation but it is hard to digest. (Seescreenshot) I have a VM with 2 vCPU and 4GB of vRAMI have set Resources...
View ArticleHow to shrink thin guest on VMFS5? or change block size?
Hi all, I'm trying to find a way to shrink bloated thin-provisioned guests in an all VMFS5 environment. We upgraded from 4.1 to 5.1 and then also storage vmotioned all of our vm's to newly created...
View ArticleRe: esxi 5.1 dell openmanage / lockdown mode
I was having the same intermittent problem when I posted this question. After the last reboot of the entire system (not just the management agent) about two weeks ago, however, the problem has not yet...
View ArticleRe: ESXi Hypervisor - Guest OS startup on Boot question
Hi, Many Thanks for your response. I may have to fall back to my backup plan of Windows as the primary boot and having ESXi installed also but manually choosing to boot ESXi when I want to play with...
View ArticleRe: Filter DataGrid
You're in luck :-) The chassis-app sample was updated to support this filtering, The ChassisRackVSphereDataAdapter now supports PropertyConstraint and Comparator.TEXTUALLY_MATCHES among other...
View ArticleCommand line method of starting client-side USB redirector?
Many of the engineers in my organziation are thrilled with the 5.1 USB support via the vSphere Client App and vSphere Client Web interfaces. This is allowing them to quickly and easily test a number...
View ArticleMonitoring MSA1000 on ESX4.x
Hello Could you please let me know how to monitor MSA1000 which is connected by Fiberchannel to my ESX4.1 servers.. at the moment i have installedhpacucli-9.40-12.0.i386.rpmqlogic driver for...
View ArticleRe: ESX3.5 - is not recognizing datastores
André, Thanks for your reply. I am using SW iSCSI. When I go to the Storage Adapters -> iSCSI Software Adapter -> vmhba35 under the SAN identifier I have the following for one of the servers...
View ArticleRe: Multiple default gateways on a single ESXi host?
There is no technical reason to do this and it is a bad design but sometimes if you are not the one making the decision you have to follow orders...
View ArticleRe: ESX3.5 - is not recognizing datastores
Mohammed, Thank you for your reply, I rebooted the ESX host many times, I even reinstalled ESX3.5. But I still cannot see the rest of the datastores.I am kind of new to most of this.
View ArticleRe: ESX3.5 - is not recognizing datastores
Vlho, thank you for replying. I am checking the documentation that you submitted. I am looking at page 117.
View Articleadding vdc network to vm in vco 5.1 ( migration issue )
i am not able to add / update vdc org network to vm in vco 5.1following code was working in vco 4.2.3task =...
View Articlebackups failing on new vmfs 5 due to 1mb limitation
Hello, we have a situation where we have a few large VMs that were failing to backup using the vRanger product. at the time, we were on ESXi 4.1 and we had to create a new volume with a 4mb block size...
View ArticleRe: Parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created.
According the snapshot chain between SNCTrillium-000001.vmdk and the base disk SNCTrillium.vmdk is broken, which means the base disk has been modified. I attached a replacement for the...
View ArticleRe: adding vdc network to vm in vco 5.1 ( migration issue )
You must have upgraded vCloud / the vCloud plug-in to 5.1, right ? With vCD 5.1 it is necessary to create a vApp network first (there is a library workflow for that) and bind it to the organization VDC...
View ArticleRe: ESX3.5 - is not recognizing datastores
... I have the following for one of the servers "iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:server1-7ab40fc3" ...With re-installing the host, the IQN for the host changed (i.e. a new one was created) and you most likely...
View ArticleRe: Invalid State - Local VRMS server Disconnected
Hi, In order to do investigation we need support bundles. Could file SR and attach the support bundles. Thanks,Hyusein
View ArticleRe: VMware Fusion + Virtual CloneDrive (Windows 7)
How did you create the ISO? They need to be a 'cd-rom master' uncompressed. Otherwise, it should just work (unless, as Woody mentioned, there's copy protection involved).
View ArticleRe: Java 7 crashes on OS X Lion (10.7) guest
I love it - Oracle can't/won't fix it, but VMWare does. Well done! :-)
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