Re: Unable to specify directory for Virtual Machine
When you create a virtual machine, it creates a virtual machine directory by default inside the datastore. You need not go to the datastore and create one manually.
View ArticleRe: vSphere 4.1 (ESX) to 5.1 (ESXi) using New Hardware
Westmere is the current option since we dont have sandy Bridge on 4.1.Yes they wont allow to be migrated to a Sandy Bridge EVC cluster...Westmere should be used..You are correct :).. If its a new DB,...
View ArticleRe: Changing VMware infrastructure from 4.x to 5.x
Westmere is the current option since we dont have sandy Bridge on 4.1.Yes they wont allow to be migrated to a Sandy Bridge EVC cluster...Westmere should be used..You are correct :).. If its a new DB,...
View ArticleRe: Can't create folder on NFS datastore via vCenter, but can on local host?
I know this is an older post, but, I agree. We just experienced the same issue within ESXi 5.0 and took a little while to get solved. Is there any good explanation out that that can explain why vCenter...
View ArticleRe: "Running usbarbitrator start" and RDM's / MSCS
It all depends on ESXi version. Both had different fix. Check this blog by Cormac. http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/03/esxi-slow-boot-with-mscs.html Also its not that usbarbitrator takes long...
View ArticleRe: Unable to power on VM - Cannot allocate memory
After that prompting I checked the vmkwarning log and found the following: /var/log # tail vmkwarning.log2013-07-09T01:10:13.901Z cpu14:325385)WARNING: Heap: 2638: Heap vmfs3 already at its maximum...
View ArticleRe: Best way to move VM from an old Blade environment to a NEW one
Don't forget to turn on EVC in the newly built cluster before powering on VMs. The above method is the quickest, easiest and most efficient. Yes you will need downtime, that is unavoidable if you want...
View ArticleRe: Best way to move VM from an old Blade environment to a NEW one
Downtime won't necessarily be required for the VMs if he uses a compatible EVC mode on his HP blades. How old are the IBM blades? are they intel processors? We just did this in our environment, going...
View ArticleRe: ESX5i Essentials on HP DL380G7 damn slow
Mate, Long cpu waits time indicate:- enabled power managemwnt of cpu/server in bios and in esxi- some updates to server needed (hp maintenance cd) for whole server and p410 also recommend:- for safety...
View ArticleVirtual Machines unreachable after Esxi 5 is boot up
Hi All, i am having a problem with the virtual machines on our esxi 5 being unreachable by ping or any other form of network access.but i can access esxi 5 using ssh/vsphere client and can ping the...
View ArticleRe: My warning regarding "share" in installation
I don't care how it is supposed to work. I know what happened to me.The links to the how-to videos were useful. Those should somehow be in front of peopleat the very beginning for people when...
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Configure delay on ESXi bootloader
Hi folks, I need to configure a delay of around 3 minutes on my ESXi 5 bootloader. It is installed on a pen drive and I have no idea of how to edit it's grub (or whatever does it use as a bootloader)...
View ArticleRe: Disk Latency ESXi 5.1.0 799733 HP-ML350 G6
MAte, occasionally jumps in copying inside vm from 4 to 150MBps indicates that in most cases your storage is heavly loaded with smallers io and maybe bad clustered/not aligned/have no bbwc/fbwc or have...
View ArticleRe: Workstation - Bat File to start multiple Virtual Machines
Many thanks vmroyale; that pretty much does it. One odd thing occurres though when starting up the vm's they did not auto detect and use the host computer display setting, i.e., did not open to full...
View ArticlevCloud Director 5.1 Install OS Question
Can I use CentOS instead of Red Hat as the OS for vCloud Director install? If so what would the backlash (if any) be if I needed VMware support (would they even support me)? Thank you for your time....
View ArticleRe: I would like to restart the Management Agent on several hosts
Sorry for the delay but it looks like my option is to connect to the ILO to restart the management network. LucD, thank you very much for your help.
View ArticleRe: Privileges for Tags in vSphere 5.1
I found what I was looking for: VMware vSphere 5.1
View ArticleIO issues VMs in one host
hi guys I have a cluster made of 2 ESXi servers running build 1065491 for a month monitoring has reported me some issues with VMs - ping has been lost - After that I found that VMs reporting losing...
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