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Today we received an alert from one of our hosts as below. It looks like a severe error could you please explain what it all means and if it is something that we should be worried about, and if not how to clear these....

Target: 10.0.0.22...

Hi,

  I downloaded ISO files for Windows 8 Consumer Preview versions(32bit & 64bit) from Microsoft Website and tried to create Virtual Machines, but both resuled in an error at the startup.
It says "Your computer ran into a problem and needs...

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when i was originally building out my virtual environment, i was not told that we would be adding double the amount of virtual servers a couple weeks later
our iSCSI SAN has 3.19TB usable space, but we are almost at capacity
is there any...

Hi,

I'm, running VMware data recovery 2.0.0.1861 on my vSpere 4.1 cluster. All my VM's are backupped without problems, my vcenter server (W2008R2 SP2) not however, error:

Failed to create snapshot for vCenter, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce...

Hi,

Have installed a new SSD off an LSI Megaraid 9265-8i RAID controller and the MegaRaid BIOS recognizes it as an SSD but ESXi 5.0 does not; it considers it non-SSD in vSphere Client and vCenter. What am I missing?

Hi
I am getting:

Hot add is not supported for this disk, failing over to network mode...
Timed out waiting for all VDDK disks to close.
Error: Client error: Banks pool is suspended.


on a single VM...

IDeas?

Hi
I am trying to increase the speed of data transfer to my DR site for our backups.
We use Veeam Ver 6. The destination sites Virtual networking looks like the diagram below and I have spare network cards available for connecting to our core...

I am kind of new HP's management tools.  I am trying to figure out how to get Insight Manager working.  When i browse to http://esxi:2381 it fails.  What am I missing??  Here is what I've done:

- I downloaded the HP/ESXi 5 integrated iso from...

I am trying to install ESXi 5.0.0 on a new HP Proliant ML110 G7.  It appears to be working for a while the I get the PSOD and a "no place to dump data on disk" comment. The disk is partitioned and formatted and I was able to install Windows on...

My boss has asked me to set up a few Windows 8 virtual machines so we can start getting the feel of it. He wants workstation and server and gave me to links to download the ISOs. The troube is, we are using VMWARE 4.1 and when I go to create a...

I'm running GhettoVCB to take snapshots of my VMs on ESXi 5.0 free version.  I'd like to put them on a USB drive for backups.  I found one article online that says to use the mount command just like I would any other LInux version, but mount...

I have hp proliant ml350 g6. It was running server 2008 and running vmware server.
I wanted to run VMware ESXi 5 on the server, so I run the convertor and save the vm file on D drive. I run the cd and installed VMware ESXi 5. Now I am able to...

Symantec seems to be really selling their V-Ray product, but best I can tell it isn't new, it is just a technology they use to gain more insight into virtual environments.

Now they are actually going to offer a BE V-Ray edition!  I guess a BE...

Running vmware converter 5.0 on a windows 2003 server to an esxi 5.0 host in a vcenter 5.0 datacenter.  Choosing the host, I get the following error:

The access to the host resource settings is restricted to the server xx.xx.xx.xx (VC IP) that...

I am using an Adaptec 6805 with 6 drives in a raid 10 on an Intel SR2600 Server. I am loading VMware ESXI 5.0 but the drives aren't being recognized. I have a driver from adaptec for the VMware server but I don't know how to install it. Can...

I have a new Dell R720 server with 4 1Gb NIC ports.  Both the server and the network adapters are on VMWare's compatibility list.  When I begin the install from the burned ISO Image downloaded from VMWare, it stops at this error and I can only...

I am trying to set up a vSwitch to connect to an iSCSI SAN.  I have created a vSwitch for my physical adapter but if I click the properties of the switch the Observed IP Rnages indicates NONE and the Networks Status also indicated none.  How can...

I am trying to get USB passthrough to work on a Dell T110 II w/ESXi 5.0 I have followed article: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1022290
with no luck...I am wondering if there is a compatibility...

Connecting by Remote Desktop from my Windows 7 machine to a Server 2008 r2 Remote Desktop server, which is a Vmware Esxi 4.1 VM.

Whether I do a straight remote desktop, or whether I try to run the remote media player as a published...

Hi,
we are using ESXi 5.0 (free licence) where SBS2011 and S2008 is running.
Now we want to set up fax on the SBS20011 machine.

How should we do that?

Because there are often problems to use PCI-Cards in virtual machines my idea was to...

Hi,

I'm looking for a dual or quad NIC for HP microserver NL 36/40.
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13716_na/13716_na.HTML

 I guesst the format is PCI express. I'd need them for my home lab so budget is important/second hand...

Hi,

As title mentions: I cannot add NFS-drive from ESXi server to Synology NAS 1511+ (LACP on switch).
However, when I try to connect to other NAS (none LACP) error is the same:

NFS mount 192.168.1.7:/volume1/DATA failed: Unable to connect...

I have downloaded the .scexe file but do not know how to extract the .bin file I need to update the iLO. I copied it down to the ESXi server and ran sh ./CP015685.scexe.  I get an error - Make sure these programs are on the path: tar gzip tail...

Hi Experts,

I have Excel 2003, 2007 and 2010 and tried to set up Virtual Machines for the two earlier versions. Using Windows XPMode in Windows 7 Ultimate, I first created a Virtual Machine and did all the Windows Updates, closed the VM and...

Hi,

I need VCenter client to connect to VCenter 5 as well as to ESX3.5/4/5 ESX clients directly.
It works fine for VCenter but as soon as I connect directly to an ESX, it asks me to install the client.

Message =
"The required client...

Points of My Scenario:
1. I am admin of a VMWare ESX Server 3.5.0, 64607 server.
2. One of the VMs (virtual machines) disappeared from the inventory list
3. I can see the VM's files in the datastore
4. When I attempt to re-add the VM to...

So I have a bit of a problem here.  I am unable to get vSphere Client 4.1 to connect to one of our ESXi boxes.  The ESXi Machine that I cannot connect to hosts several of our servers, which are all working normally at the moment.

I can ping...

Installed the web client server and registered the server.  When I try to open the remote for a VM (IE8 on Server 2008r2), I get the this error and no console:

Remote Console plugin is not properly installed

If I point IE to...

Is there a way to script a USB drive or ESATA drive to auto attach to a paticular Virtual Machine when they are plugged in to the host running ESXi 5.x?

I'm trying to leverage multiple USB drives in rotation to perform backups from a...

I've found very sparse and conflicting information on what CPUs support Extended Page Tables.  I have HP Proliant DL360 G6/7 servers, all with Nehalem CPUs.  The model numbers are 5540 and 5565.  

I'm running VMware ESXi 5.0, and within the...

Hi Experts,

I am looking for free SAN solution for my little network, I am considering among Openfiler, FreeNAS and Nexenta. As I have researched, all of them support iSCSI but I don't have much experiences about the result for long time...

my xenserver is running on raid1, there is also 2nd sata physical hard drive in the same physical server (NTFS partition with data on it). How do I access from vm?

My boss sets up numerous VMWare servers using the free version, and when he told me that, I assumed he meant the ESXi bare metal free hypervisor.  No.  He meant the VMWare Server 2.x version.  The reason he uses that is because of the ease with...

Picked up on some issues while backing up two new VMs since we have started calling the script at the start of the backup jobs. It appears that the script causes the CPU usage to hit 100% and cause the backups to fail, the high CPU usage is...

One of our ESX hosts stopped hosting its VMs properly this morning.  The ESX host is online, and I've even tried rebooting it.  The VMs on that machine did not cut over to our other ESX host, and one of those VMs is VCenter.

I can connect via...

To Hanccoka: thanks for all your input on my questions! Would be great if you could give input on this question too.

Since the patch on my NAS (by Synology) solved a lot of problems, I tried again configuring my ISCSI's according your link:...

Hi All,

What's the best tool for monitoring the performance of an ESXi server?

Ideally monitoring RAM, CPU, DISK read/writes/queue etc...



Thanks in adv

Hello,

I've been able to use VMWare Worktation 8 to create 40 Windows 7 Professional 32 bit machines and share  them via RDP over a vpn connection.  The solution works great because I create 1 master Windows 7 Pro 32 Bit VM, create 5 full...

EE team, I am advising a former co-worker who has a home workgroup with five Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate workstations.  He has been utilizing Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 with four virtual machines on his primary desktop, but is finally...

Please advise howto install ssd s in hp microserver.
I have brackets but they don t fit, brackers in Microserver don t fit either.
I could use second motherboard/sata -cable but it has to be possible to fit them in the (non hotplug holders?
...

Hi all,

im trying to install eSXi on my dell optilex 755 i have bios revision A10 but under performance, there arent options for "Virtualization" or "Trusted Execution" there is only an option for VT there and when i run the esxi installer i...

Hello

We recieve the following error message when trying to revert a VM back to a Snapshot taken a few days ago

"A General system error occurred:  Failed to lock the file"

How do i resolve this and revert back to the snapshot?

Thanks...

I have installed a New Terminal server (terminal server 3) with windows 2008.
Today i got a Warning notification:
Backing up object "[Terminal3] terminal3/terminal3.vmdk"
Unable to establish direct connection to the shared storage (SAN)....

We are running two ESXi 5.0 hosts, connected via iSCSI to an HP P2000 G3 SAN. One of the VMs, a Windows Server 2000 machine has it's C: drive on a VMFS LUN and it's D: drive is an RDM LUN.

That LUN gets hourly snapshots at the SAN level.

We...

I have 4 ESX hosts running Vshpere 4.1.  I started to replace the Dell 1950 hosts with Dell R610 hosts.  So far I have replaced 2 of the hosts and placed them in a separate cluster.  My Virtual center server is a VM.  Today, I moved my Virtual...

We have two PowerEdge R610 with 4 - 600GB 10K SAS drives, dual proc, 32GB memory.  One server has ESXi 4.1 installed with a couple production VMs on a local data store.  We have just installed ESXi 5.0 on the second R610.  I am wondering what the...

I have a decomissioned Poweredge 2600 server (BIOS A14) with 6@73GB RAID 5 that i thought I would install Free ESXi 5.0 on to play around with.  Am using Free ESXi 4.1 in production.
the PE2600 is not on the ESXi HCL, but I thought I would give...

Hi,

I have the above error in VCenter 5. Found a KB but this is about VirtualCenter 2.5 and vCenter Server 4.x  whereas I used VCenter 5 and installed it with SQL which it installs automatically.


J.

Could you explain me what is the releationship between IOPS, throughput and latency.
I have 4 HDD on SAN configured on RAID10.
How to calculate what will be IOPS, throughput and latency.

Hi All,

We are a SMB and in the process of purchasing a SAN Solution.

Some considerations are that I plan on implementing VMWare Essentials Plus Kit as I believe that 3 hosts will provide appropriate redundancy for our operation. Initially,...

From a system with very little activity, nothing happening, no disk, no cpu, I have a very high WAIT time.


 

Why would this be?

THanks

greetings,

I have (8) disks in a RAID 10 on an HP p2000 G3. I have 1.8 TB available. Current owner is controller A. Will that automatically fail over to controller B if A goes down?

two other things, the smallest vDisk I can create is...

I have a hardware dilemma so I am turning to the sharpest group of tech people I know.
 
I am purchasing a new 2U server.  This server will be running VMWare 5.0 esx for the OS, and the main VM running under that will be a windows server 2008...

Hi,

I was looking for some desktop virtualization options, such as virtualbox, med-v from microsoft, and others maybe from vmware like sphere.  I just want to know what most people use for desktop virtualization.  Im new to virtualization and...

The backup system I've inherited at work consists of a cranky Dell Powervault connected by a SCSI cable to a Windows Server 2003 running Backup Exec 12. Its old, it doesn't handle VMs, and it's falling apart.

I'd like to switch to a backup to...

Hi folks,

     I am new to using ESXi and VSphere. I have setup my ESXi server everything seems to be working fine. I installed VSphere on an XP system and it properly connects and everything works fine.

    I allocated resource pools and...

Looking at deploying the above.  

What i'm struggling to understand is how to configure the SAN and servers. We may upgrade and use existing DL360 G5's but may look at new 380 g7's...  difference (big?) being more NICS in the 380's.
we are on...

How can I copy an ISO file from one computer to the data store in a VMware ESXi server?

I need to make this ISO file accessible so that I can load it to install Server 2008 R2 within the VMware ESXi environment.

Please provide me with the...

OK, EE; here I am again.  This time I actually was able to but a new machine for next series of VMWare development and thought it would be a "no brainer" compared to all the old sandbox hardware in the past.

Enough of the backstory; have a new...

Dear Experts,

We attempt to install OSX Lion Server on the VMware VCenter Server (Version 5.0.0 build 455964) without success.

Apple Mac OS X 10.7 (64-bit) is available in the OS Version Selection of the Virtual Machine in VCenter, however...

Hi

I currently have 2 sites, phsyically about a mile apart connected with fibre.

Site A) Production
3 ESXi Hosts
VCenter server Ver 5
Veeam Backup server

Site B) Disaster Recover
ESXi Host

In a DR situation, assuming site A) has...

I have 3 ESXi hosts that connect to 3 different LUNS on a Equalogic.  

Today I logged into vcenter and noticed some errors for one of the hosts.  It seems it was diconnected from the datastores.

So I tried to reconnect it without any luck. ...

Hello,

I want to convert my physical exchange server 2010 SP1 to virtual ESX5i using VMware Converter .

Please I need best practice  to accomplish it and if feasible to do it while the exchange is online

I have been reading articles online about the pro's and con's of diskless vs. disk servers. I plan on storaging my VMFS volumes in my SAN but I'm up in the area if my next server purchase should be diskless or disk. The advange of disk is that...

Hello Experts,

I have two laptop's that have VMWARE Workstation 8 installed. Both laptops have Win 7 Pro x64 installed as the main OS. However, I can only install the x32 bit version of Win 8 Developer Preview which I don't mind for whatever...

Hello,

I have configured my SAN using iSCSI and have 3 ESXi servers connected to it.
I have as my data store 10 luns of 1.8 TB combined together to make 18 TB of storage for my Host (ESXi) servers. My host machines have 48 Gig RAM  and two 6...

Running Windows XP SP3 on VMware Player v4.0.2 b591240
Ubuntu 10.04
Windows Installer v4.5.6001.22159

Question: Can you tell me how to Uninstall the Windows Installer manually using the Registry, so I can then do a clean reinstall of it?
...

Dear All,

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers  if we re-install SP2 will my Virtuozzo Containers will get affected.

Server is running with Win2003 x64 bit and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.6

Let me know if you require any more details.
...

We have VMware Data Recovery 2.0 backing up about 40 virtual servers every night. And all of them work but three. The only way to get them to work is to shut them down and backup them up manually. We think there might be a service or something...

Hi,

Simple question: is EXT3 on ESXi 5 NFS supported (it should be but is it working correctly for you guys)?

Reason for asking: I'm having really toubles connecting to my nas from ESXi.
Tickets raised: ID27596567, ID27594452.

J.

Hello,

I have a customer who wants to convert their Windows 2003 server from a physical box to a VirtualBox Virtual Machine on an Ubuntu host.  The server has a C: drive that holds the OS and a D: drive that holds data and some program files....

I have Oracle 10 running on a Server 2003r2 Virtual Machine (VMWare ESXi) and I would like to copy that Virtual Machine and rename it.

What happens to the Oracle Server installation (and it's instance) on the new machine, with a new server...

I see you can only have 3x hosts.

How much ram and how many CPU's and Cores can you have in each host?

We use a template to deploy VMs. The VMs are normally Windows 2008 R2 Data Center that have been setup and run Sysprep on and then Converted to a template and then we deploy from that Template. What we have been seeing is duplicate UUID's on the...

Sphere Client
On my Virtual Machin Properties - Summary, I've changed the hard disk 1 size from 50 GB to 60 GB.  But when I go to vitual machine console and I click on c:\ drive it show 50 GB not 60GB.

What i'm missing ?

I have a Unitrends 812 box and 2 identical ESXi servers. When I backup I get 50MB/s and when I go to restore I get 15MB/s.  Both servers are identical and are on the same switch. Should the backup be that much faster than the restore.

Also I...

I'm setting up VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi and the install starts fine, but after trying 3 different network cards, i keep getting an error saying.

"vmware vsphere install error no network adapter detected"

It doesn't ask for the driver,...

I converted a physical server to virtual guest and was able to log in. But the guest became extremely slow, can't even open system event console to see. I converted a several workstations, but this is the first time I converted server, don't know...

I have a brand new cisco MCS 7800 server and what to use it as a media server for ciscos DMS and show and share applications for digital signage . I have a co worker who suggests 2003 server 32 bit for it

This seems to me to be archaic

I...

I have VMware ESXi server.sometimes i switch off my Free version ESXi server(like holidays).
when i start the server ,needed all my VM server manuel starten.
is there a way after ESXi server start my 3 important VMs start automatically?

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade my ESX 4.1 HP BL460 blades to 5.0.0 or 5.0.1.

My vCenter is 5.0.1.

When I attached the baseline, and scan, it says that it is imcompatible.

I tried with VMWARE's own 5.0.1 and HP's own 5.0.0. Same message....

Hey Experts,
I have a fairly large setup but i will try to explain it as simple as i can.

"Main Location"
2 HP VMware 5.0 servers.  Setup with HA.
HP P4000 LeftHand SAN.  (Mirrored SANs with 3TB storage)

"DR Location"
1 HP Vmware 5.0...

Can you defrag a virtual servers disks like with a physical server?
If I run a defrag on a virtual server, It only analyses the disc and the defrag finishes instantly.

We have several Equallogic SAN's which host the volumes for each virtual...

Hello,
We just received our dual controller NetApp FAS2040 (12x600GB SAS drives) with DS4243 shelf (12x2TB SATA). We have 2 dedicated switches, not stacked. So, I've got 8 Ethernet data ports to utilize across 2 controllers. My desire is to...

I have 2 ESXi servers and 4 ACP UPS units. Currently my servers use apcupsd to shutdown and it works great. I can continue to use this to shut down my  new VMs but will the ESXi server shutdown properly?

I would prefer to find a solution that...

We are publishing virtual machines running on VMware  vSphere 4.1 through Citrix XenDesktop 5 on a Wyse 790D7 thinclient that has Windows 7 embedded installed on it.  When launching the virtual machine from the list of apps on the users XenApp...

I am receiving attached  error message during the installing driver of HBA Card ( model #  Brocad-415/815).
Please hlep out...

Hello,

I would like to P2V our company file server (Windows 2003 server).

I cannot run the vmware converter tool because GPT disks are in use.

I tried Vizioncore vconverter, but this program does not work either (It does not seem to like...

How can I install a VMware ESXi license?

I have booted up into the VMware ESXi and have also connected to the VMware ESXi using vSphere.

Where exactly do I go to enter the serial number activation key to activate VMware ESXi?

Please...

I currently run vms on vmware esxi. I only have 1 physical server. I want to switch to Citrix XenServer. I downloaded the XenConvert, but I am not sure how to do it.

Hi,

I have a server running VMware ESX 4.1 essentials - local storage only, no SAN. It has an Intel Xeon processor.

We will be getting a second server and I'm interested in getting a dual socket AMD Opteron server.

We're using Veeam to...

Hi,

I'm running vmware for my virtual lab.

One vm is hosting exchange with OWA enabled with its default 443

Another vm is hosting citrix xen app 5 with secure gateway configured with its default SSL port 443.

This may sound trivial...

When trying to join a VCenter 5 appliance to our domain I receive this error


Error: Lsass Error [code 0x00080047]

0x9C6F - The call to Kerberos 5 failed

Hi, one of the IT guys in my company wants to buy two servers for his department with the following specs

2x Proliant DL380 G7
96GB RAM each
two X5690 6-core CPU's on each
4x 600GB HDD's local storage on each (RAID5)
10GbE NIC's (is this...

What happened was I tried to expand the C: drive on the target server NET17. So I shutdown the server, expanded it by 100GB (Server is running 2008 R2 Enterprise) and when I go to turn it back on I get this error message.

File <unspecified...

Hi experts,

I must prepare an offer for my client with the following configuration:
- 6-core SERVER, with RAID 10 SAS disks...DONE
- ESXi 5.0 platform for new SBS...DONE
- SBS 2011 with 50 CALS... DONE
- Local backup on NAS storage...DONE...

Yep, trying to get this to work, now that I have MegaCLI functioning on my esxi 5.0 host (thanks hancocka!)

First, does anything additional need to be installed on the host (assuming MegaCLI functions and I can see the controller in vSphere as...

Hi all,

Can I use VMware EVC mode in a 2 machine cluster containing an IBM X3650M2 and a HP DL380G7?

The IBM X3650M2 has 2 x Intel E5520 processors
The HP DL380G7 has 2 x Intel X5690 processors

According to the EVC Compatibility Guide,...