ESXi 4.1 Update 3 Purple Screen PF 14
I keep getting purple screens on my ESXi 4.1 Update 3 host. Sometimes I get it a day after a reboot, sometimes a few days. Attached are the screnshots. My hardware:Dell R715 AMD Opteron(TM)...
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Had anyone successfully restored Storagecraft's Shadowprotect image to ESXi 5 without having blue screen for Win 2008 R2 VM?If yes, how did you do it? Thanks for any info.
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I'm having an issue running New-VM within a script where I read in a csv file to a set of variables and construct the new-vm command. Everything executes fine when a single disk is specified and the...
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Hi, I have the following PowerCLI script that I've hacked together from numerous examples. The problem is it works for a while then starts repeating the following error before for every line....
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Hi I am using VMware Server 2.0 for my Oracle rac setup . My host system config. is Windows 7 . 4GB RAM , Acer 64 bit .My question is ; I am going to configure vmserver on two host...
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I am going through and building vCenter in a sandbox. I am following Derek Seaman's excellent blog to assist me. His blog was written in September '12 and at that time he recomended vCenter 5.1.0b....
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hi everyone, i just bought an intel server motherboard and im trying to setup a server for virtual machines.i got many recommends about Esxi. anyway i just installed Esxi 5.0 and i want to know what...
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My company is considering using Windows Server 2008 R2 as a platform for a couple VM's. We already have R2 installed on a physical server, so I download the 180 day trial version. When I tried to...
View ArticlePatch ESXi
Hi Guys, I have an ESXi 5 servers and I wan start patching them, I am new to patching esxi. Is there any best practise out there? Thx
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Hello all, I have a machine based on a Supermicro H8SGL -F motherboard. It has an Adaptec RAID chipset, identified as an AMD part.. AMD...
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This is really starting to get to me. My VM's are powering off (crashing off) regularly. VM HOST: Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit SP1 (New server), running Vmware Workstation 9VM GUESTS : - Windows 2003...
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It would seem like VMWare Server is a dead product. Shame. I've been using VMWare Server 1.0 for several years very effectively. Looking at the new features of VMWare Workstation 8 it would seem like...
View ArticleHost not responding when IO load is high
HI everyone,I have a few ESXi 5.0 connecting to a NAS iSCSI.The server is sure to have sufficient for ALL VM to use all allocated memory. When the load is a bit high (around 100 ms latency) and if the...
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