ESXi 5.0 high memory usage, VMs all shutdown
Dear, I havean server HP ML310e with 4GBram. In itthere is2VM's, one with 1.5GBand other with2GB, both on shutdown andESXiconsumes900MB, is decreasing?
View ArticlevSwitch traffic shaping not working properly
Hi,I'm using ESXi 5.1. I configured vSwitch with maximum average and maximum peak bandwidth of 10000Kbit/s. There are 4 vms connected to the vSwitch and sharing a file using BitTorrent protocol. The...
View Articlevmware-vmrc and VM-id
Hello,When I create a remote console desktop shortcut to a VM with the Vcenter Web UI, I get a shortcut with a command line looking like this :vmware-vmrc.exe -h venter:443 -M vm-xx.Where can I get...
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vMotion CPU Mask
I would like to ask for help with vMotion.We use 2 servers vSphere 5.1 and Vmware vCenter 5.1.First uses Intel Xeon E5-2620 and second oneIntel Xeon E5520I can not find out functional mask for...
View ArticleSATA virtual hard disks: still experimental?
Being that if one creates a new VM, it still defaults to SCSI...: is SATA still at an experimental level, or is it really the recommended way (as someone said elsewhere, here, IIRC) of choosing the...
View ArticleОшибка при добавлении хоста в vCenter. Критическая ситуация для меня.
Добрый день! Коллеги! Ни с того ни с сего хост отвалился от vCenter - пишет Disconnected. Говорю ему Присоединись. Запрашивает логин/пароль, и выдает в итоге ошибку. Удалил хост из vCenter. Пробую...
View ArticleJMX Monitoring
I am trying to monitor Gemfire JMX Cache MBean using JConsole. However, when I connect to the Gemfire JMX Agent through JConsole, I had to explicitly invoke the operation 'connectToSystem()' on the JMX...
View ArticlevCAC and HA/DRS Cluster resource pools
If compute cluster resource pools are used on HA/DRS clusters, how do I maintain those resource pools properly when VCAC is implemented?Previously, when VMware admins provisioned all the VMs manually,...
View ArticleSRM Pairing Failure
I am having an issue where I cannot get the SRM sites to pair, we are running 5.1 update 1 for everything and the corresponding SRM release. I tend to think part of the problem is SSO seems to be...
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E1000 virtual nic on Win 2003 R2 causing PSOD on ESXi 5.1 (PF Exception 14)
Hello,we migrated a VM running 2003 R2 64 bit from Hyper-V to ESXi 5.1 (build 1117900) using VMware Converter for V2V migration, which configured an Intel E1000 as NIC card (with Microsoft driver...
View ArticleTransfer a EMSXi installation to Fusion Desktop
Hi, We have a costumer that want to replace his server. On the server there are two VM running one with Windows 2008 Server and one with a XP and Exact. We like to transfer thes VM's to a Desktop....
View ArticleVDP Logs and Troubleshooting.
Hi All I have been using VDP for a few weeks now and it has been running without too many issues. In the last day or so I have seeing backups fail on 2 of my appliances. I would like to know the reason...
View ArticleMigrate VCenter server configuration to appliance
Hi, I am thinking about replacing my Windows VCenter Server with the VCenter Appliance. Is there any way to migrate all the settings and user accounts, or do I have to start from scratch? The VCenter...
View ArticlePOWERCLI script to detect an ESX 4.1 servers disk status (health)
Hi Guys, I was wondering if any of you had ever put a script together to scan an ESX servers local disks for a health status? We currently run ESX4.1 at our remote site which also ran the HP agent....
View ArticleFusion 6 Professional crashes on launch
I just upgraded to Fusion 6 Professional which was released today. It crashes on launch. I've attached a crash report. I reverted to Fusion 5.0.3 in order to collect the support information which is...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 host disconnected after running the Rescan datastore ?
Hi All, Can anyone here please help me with the troubleshooting of the strange behaviour of my newly migrated ESXi 5.1 u1 host.I'm trying to rescan the datastore in this one particular ESXi host only,...
View ArticleVAAI - ESXi 5 - status "unknown"
I am currently having an issue with VAAI showing status "unknown" for our EMC SAN connected LUNs. We do not see this issue with ESXi 4.1 using the same EMC SAN. We are using FLARE 04.30.000.5.517 -...
View ArticleCan't update vCenter
i have vCenter Server 5.1.1064983 and I wanted to update to 5.1.0-1235309.step one - updating SSO. I enter master password and get an error - Provider password is wrong or empty.I try to login to...
View ArticleMulticast requirements for VM on ESXi 5.0?
Are there any special requirements for receiving multicast messages (for example, enabling promiscuous mode on the port group) or should this just work out of the box? I'm using standard switches and...
View ArticleVsphere replication error : Failed to start offline syncronization
I'm trying to recover a VM use options : Recover with recent changes, but i have an error“failed to start offline synchronization”.I'm use VR 5.1.1 for both Vcenter.Can someone help me please ?
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