Running SAN VMs on a different ESX box
Hello I have two ESX servers. One is 3.5 Update 5, the other is 5.0 Update 2. The 3.5 box is the only one in production. I have a VM on a NetApp SAN that is in production and running on the 3.5 box....
View ArticleProblems with MAC addresses after upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1
Hi all, I've just experienced a very anoying problem after the upgrade from vSphere 5.0 to 5.1 succeeded: Some of my VMs cannot be stared due to the fact that their MAC address are NOT in the allowed...
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Disk Provisioned Size Greyed Out
I have a virtual SCSI drive for a Windows 2008 64-bit guest. I have recently run out of disk size and need to increase it. From the online help, apparantely I can increase the size even while the VM...
View ArticleWARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRequestFastDeviceProbe
I am currently testing ESXi 4 by adding one ESXi 4 host to our VMware production cluster. The host is a HP BL460c G1 blade running ESXi 4 build 175625 connected to a HP EVA 6000 storage array. The...
View ArticleThe operation failed because no suitable resource was found
Hi All, I have installed vCloud OVF evelation version on my ESXi. I managed to install all compontes, including organzization & VDC.No Error spoted in my settings.I'm getting alwayes when trying to...
View ArticleMemory Errors?
Does anyone know what these warnings indicate? <181>2012-12-27T18:49:42.568Z ESX02.jo.local vmkwarning: cpu0:5118)WARNING: IOMMUIntel: 2371: IOMMU context entry dump for 00:02.0 Ctx-Hi = 0x101...
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VR Server Registration failed
We are close to getting vSphere Replication installed but have hit another error. Hoping someone has seen and solved this one: Step 5. on the vSphere Replication screen in Site Recovery is Register VR...
View ArticleWorkstation 9 - No 3D Acceleration to Guest - Ubuntu 12.04 Host - Nvidia Card
Ok, I've been going at this for some time. Current Installation: Fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04Video card: Nvidia Optimus GT540MVMware: Workstation 9. (Unbuntu 12.04 is the HOST) (Brief history: tried...
View ArticleView ReCompose Stuck on Customizing
Whenever we do a recompose on our View Desktops 5.1.0 build-704644 the desktops get stuck in the customizing state. Normally, 4 or 5 desktops will go through the recompose without issue, but the other...
View ArticleDriver for Intel X540-AT2 and Intel Corporation 4-Port SATA/SAS Controller
Hello together, i'm currently evaluating VMWare vSphere for our company and got stuck on the installation of two devices in an ESXi 5.1 host running on an Intel S2600GZ server board, where both are...
View ArticleNo longer able to send email notifications for alarms after upgrading vCenter...
After performing the upgrade from 5.0 appliance to 5.1 I am no longer recieving email notifications for alarms. I checked SMTP settings and alarms and they are unchanged setup same as they were on the...
View ArticlevCloud Connector 2.0!
The Cloud team at VMware and I are proud to announce that VMware vCloud Connector 2.0 has been released to the public! You can read our announcements here and here! You can learn all about vCC 2.0 here...
View ArticleHost Connection and Power State - cannot send email error
Just realized that after the upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0 the vCenter server is unable to send any email alerts for the ones we have pre-defined.The current setup I have is broken down to individual vm's. -...
View ArticleESXi installed USB Flash Drive Space?
Hi All,I installed ESXi on 4 GB flash drive. when i connect that flash drive into my windows 7 PC, i can see the space only 3.81MB Free of 3.93MB in MyComputer. Please find the attachements. why total...
View ArticleVM Nic Sleeping
VMWare 5VM - Windows 2008 R2 64bitNetwork Adapter - VMXNET 3 We just set up a new server a few weeks ago. For some reasone the NIC seems to be going to sleep, we can't ping, attach to the server, or...
View ArticleRestoring replicated VM to different network
The situation is this: We have a class C network that is subnetted into two halves. Our internal network is on .1 - .128 and we use the other half (.129 - .256) for clients. The client half is...
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ESXi 4.1 wont install on SD card
Hi I have a weird and wonderful problem im hoping someone can help me with. I have 2 BL465 G7s which im putting EXSi 4.1 on via the Micro SD slot. Server 1 went on no problem and works fine. Server 2...
View ArticleVDI Conversion
Hey everyone, I am having an issue with a VDI Conversion that I have completed (VirtualBox to VMWare). I performed the following on the VDI file: VBoxManage clonehd /location/ARE.vdi...
View ArticleUsing ESXtop to find smoking gun
I have an Oracle environment located in two separate data centers. In data center A all hardware (servers, network, storage) is managed by us. We get very good performance there. Data center B is...
View ArticleBut I like my mouse...
The combination of VMware View 4.6 and the iPad app were about enough to send shivers up our spines, until we learned that there wouldn't be any Bluetooth mouse support. Dashed were our deluions of...
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