Upgrade from 4.1 to 5.0 or 5.1?
Hallo, We have Vcenter server 4.1 on MSSQL 2005 database.Our virtual machines: 2 Linux VM + 1 Windows 2008 R2.We want add Windows server 2012 virtual machines, butour server don't support it.I read...
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ESXi 5.1 Purple screen
I have recently just upgreaded my host from 5.0 U1 to 5.1. I am in the process of updating the vmware tools in my VM's. While trying to do so the host keeps crashing to a purple screen. Prior to the...
View Articleonly Ports assigned with System VLANs Eth are up , others are down
Hello only Ports assigned with System VLANs Eth are up , others are down i have 3 NIC cards with 10 ports in total connected to 4 switches 2 for DMZ data link and 2 for LAN Data link so i made it 2...
View ArticleEncrypted vm in team
I have VMware Workstation 7 and two vms.One of them is encrypted(VM Settings->Options->Encryption), When I try to add it to team I've got a message: You can not add encryption vm to team.Why? How...
View Articlehelp with a lost -flat.vmdk
Hi all the situation is critic and the boss is with reason very angry: we shutdown the VM fine, then restart the physical server, but when startup the VM we see that the -flat.vmdk is missing!!!! all...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 Adding a thrid serial port
I'm trying to add a third serial port to one of my virtuals. It's added to the Virtual Machine Properties and when the virtual is powered on, it says it's connected.When I look at the device manager,...
View Articleconvert an old hp-ux b.10.20 to virtual
hi,I have an outdated unix machine which I wish to convert to virtual. I'm trying to use the converter to do this p2v. On the old server I installed ssl, ssh and bash (all for root). I get following...
View ArticleLUNs do not automatically mount
Hello:I need some help with a new storage issue. So basically in a nutshell, a firmware upgrade was performed on our IBM blades and upon rebooting (multiple times), I discovered that none of the LUNs...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Sound Issues
I have microsoft office communicator running on windows xp 64Bit and cant seem use communicator to place communicator calls to othere users and have them able to hear me and sometimes i am unable to...
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anyone used Upgrade Manager to upgrade ESXi 4.1 to Cisco custom 5.0U1?
hey all, We are trying to upgrade our datacenter from 4.1 to 5.0U1. VCenter upgraded ok to version 5.0.0-build 804277. upgrade manager and plugin are also installed fine. we are using Cisco UCS...
View ArticleRe: Vm Count per cluster dashboard build??
Hello Guys, I hae to build a dashboard which should give the number of vm's deployed in the cluster , also Number of vm we can deploy w.r.t to the CPU, memory and capacity limiting to only 50% of the...
View ArticleHow to install drivers without reboot on a ESXi LiveCD ?
I often use ESXi LiveCDs - very useful in many different scenarios Only problem I have is missing drivers. Obviously I cant reboot after the driver installation.Is there a way to install drivers...
View ArticleNeed Help Migrating desktop VMs to ESXi 5
I just recently set up my ESXi server but am having a hard time migrating all of my desktop (VMware Fusion) images into my new server. I've tried two approaches: VMware Converter and OVF Templates with...
View ArticleRestart Dell OMSA agents manually
Hi, Recently I installed a Dell OpenManage Essentials server to monitor my ESX 5.0U1 hosts. I installed the 7.1 VIB via update manager and all was well. I could detect and inventory the hosts in OME...
View ArticleFusion 5 crashes after "copy" command in Win7
I have been plagued by this behavior for some time and finally decided to seek help. While working in a Win7 VM, if I copy a file from one directory to another, all within the Win7 environment, and...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 for vCenter Server
Hi, I am installing vCenter server and by default it install with SQL Express 2008 and it support only 5 hosts and 50 virtual machine. But I have 8 ESXi host so SQL Express 2008 will not support it. Is...
View ArticleVM creation from DVD fails with checksum errors, works from iso.
Creation of SLES11 SP2 vm from mounted DVD fails with random checksum errors on packages read from DVD, yet the installation works from mounted iso image of same DVD. The same DVD has been used to...
View ArticleVmware architectures?
Would you help me to find VmWare Esxi Cloud architectures, Server Configurations, San, Nas, Network managements?
View ArticleAlarm setting for vcenter / host for license expiring
Hi, I want to setup alarm on vcenter level so if any host's license is going to expire in X days we should get alert. Sometime support person add host but forget to add license key, can someone guide...
View ArticleProcess on VM is slow
I ran out of things to look at here, looking for some new ideas...here is run down of what I am facing... Have a VM (VM1) 4gb of RAM, 2 vCPU. Sitting on ESX host 1, NO SAN in play right now...totally...
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