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Looking for a best practices guide: complete cluster replacement
Hi, I've been tasked with commencing the complete replacement of our current ESXi 5.0 U2 hardware environment with a new cluster of servers running 5.1. Here are the basics: Currently HP Blade Server...
View ArticleSetup Windows 2008 R2 DHCP on virtual Network
Hello everyone, here is my question: I have a laptop with Windows 7 installed. Inside the laptop, I installed VMWare Workstation 6.5. Inside the VMWare, I installed 2 client PCs, Windows XP and Windows...
View ArticleKernel mode debugging using TCP?
Is it possible to debug ESX driver using TCP via workbench? If so, then how?
View ArticleDRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f) because of vmusb.sys
hiMy PC automatically crashs and reboot daily and I think it's because of VMWare workstation (v9.0.2) even vmware is not running. Here's the memory dump: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f) A driver has...
View ArticleNesting Hyper-v 2012 in Esxi5.1
Hi.I'm trying to create a couple of Windows 2012 VM with Hyper-v enabled to set up a LAB.I've added the vhv.allow TRUE entry to the /etc/vmware/config file ( though I did not reboot the server )I've...
View Articlemezzanine network card not detected
i have a NC325m Quad Port 1Gb NIC on bl460c G7 blade server, i can see the card is correctly installed and visible from the enclosure but when i look at network devices in the esxi only the embedded...
View ArticleNavigating from VcDatastore to VcHostSystem
I'm developing a workflow that takes a VC:Datastore object as input and needs to locate one of the VcHostSystem's that has the datastore mounted, yet I am seeing some inconsistent results. Taking the...
View ArticleSanal Sunucu Taşıma Hk.
Merhabalar,Vspere 5 Enterprice Plus lisans mevcut.3 host var.1 hosttan diğerine Vm taşırken kapanmadan taşıma işlemi gerçekleştiremiyoruz.Normalmidir.Bildiğim kadarıyla HA özelliği ile birinde sorun...
View ArticleSSL Certificate Upgrade Gone Wrong
A bit ago I upgraded to vCenter 5.1 with two servers. The SSO and web client on one server and the vcenter service and the inventory service on the other. Had everything running great, no...
View Articlenetwork flow between 2 vms in the same vlan and host using DVS
Hi experts, if 2 vms in the same vlan/subnet and on the same esxi host using VDS need to talk to each other, do they get internally switched by the VDS or do they go northbound to the network switches...
View Article1st time vcenter 5.1
I have looked at countless blog entries and waded through best practices and installation docs. But I am still confused with interaction between vmware and ms AD domains. I my test setups (running 5.1...
View ArticleHow to observe guest DNS queries on the host machine?
Hi Community, is it possible for forensic investigations to retrace a guest DNS query on the host system if the guest is in NAT mode? The virtual host IP address is configured as the DNS server address...
View ArticleAgent unable to save configuration to disk: Error syncing firmware...
Hi, I am facing issue with two of my hosts in the cluster of 6Hosts. Hosts are getting disconnected and connected back on vCenter Server.I found out many portals wherein it defines resolution to this...
View ArticleVCloudException while fetching vApp in Org VDC
Hi, I'm trying out VMWare VCloud Director and when I try to obtain the vApps of a certain organization VDC, I am getting the following exception: com.vmware.vcloud.sdk.VCloudException: validation error...
View ArticleView Storage Accelerator & ESXi 5.1 still an issue?
Just recently updated all of my hosts from ESXi 5.0 U2 to ESXi 5.1 U1. Noted the following in the release notes:ESXi 5.1 Update 1 Release Notes Enabling or Disabling View Storage Accelerator might...
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VDP integrity check fails
One of my VDP appliances won't run integrity checks. When I try to run an integrity check manually I get the following error. My issue is almost identical to the following...
View Articlefind string and delete line
I have to find and remove something like this: name: myvmnamedevice: drive location: clusternametype: windows2003 name: myvmname2device: drive location: clusternametype: windows2003 .....etc..... I...
View ArticleCPU LATENCY Counter ON ESXI 5.0.
I am having trouble understandingthe results from the latency counter on the vcentre for our guest VM. My understanding of the latency counteris that it will increase when there is contention for...
View ArticleCombine multiple get statement
This question is probably answered numerous times but I have a hard time figuring the answer, so here it is. Often time I need to combine multiple get statements into the output, for exmaple,...
View ArticleISCSI multipathing and multiple ISCSI SANS in a single ESXi 5.1 cluster
Hi, We have two Dell MD3660i ISCSI SANs.We have a dedicated ISCSI storage network (physically isolated 10GbE switches )We have 10 ESXi hosts in a single cluster each with one dual port 10 GbE NIC...
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