Re: 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...
View ArticleRe: slow NFS transfer speeds
If you're using FreeNAS, you can configure iSCSI instead of NFS.The protocol is very faster than NFS.
View ArticleRe: VC 5.1 Update manager
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-update-manager-51-install-administration-guide.pdf Section: Importing ESXi ImagesWith Update Manager 5.1 you can upgrade or migrate...
View ArticleRe: Bypass SSO to allow multiple logins to Service Portal using one browser
I need AD users. Hmm. Now I am stuck. I don't have access to AD user credentials other than my own. I can't try/use workaround #1.I need this for checking user problems. It's easier to just 'remote'...
View ArticleRe: Best way to move VM from an old Blade environment to a NEW one
Few questions: 1)Currently our datastores are vmfs3, I will want to upgrade to vmfs5. What's the best procedure for doing this? If I create a new Datastore In the new vcenter, can I migrate using...
View ArticleRe: Best way to move VM from an old Blade environment to a NEW one
Nothing needs to be changed on the dvswitch or network level. If you are using LACP, then please set the policy NIC Teaming policy to IP Hash on vSwitch and port group. Also once you have upgraded all...
View ArticleRe: IO issues VMs in one host
It looks to be the issue with the LSI controller hardware being used. Can you involve your hardware vendor to do a sanity test on this. ensure the BIOS of server and firmware and driver is up to date
View ArticleRe: IO issues VMs in one host
This server is not using local storage in fact does not have disk it's booting from Storage could it be an issue with the Fiber channel card? Firmware is missing just one version...how I am supposed to...
View ArticleRe: Retrieving IP Address/Hostname of an extension from Serenity
If I understand your question you want your Web Client plugin to find out where your vCenter server extension is running. For this you need the plugin to access the vCenter Extension Manager and find...
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