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IBM Vcenter S 8886 datastore not detected by Blades , ESXI 5.5
HI ALL, Hope everybody fine here and doing well . We have one real issue with IBM Vcenter S 8886 Hardware . The issue started with multiple hard drivers failures in IBM chassis and then those...
View ArticleSnapshot scheduler
Good morning, I'm managing ESXI 5.0.0 through VSphere Client 5.0.0 but it looks like there is no way to schedule something (I need to schedule snapshots), am I right? So, I wonder if I can schedule...
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Have a look on this ghettoVCB.sh - Free alternative for backing up VM's for ESX(i) 3.5, 4.x & 5.x Bundle can be downloaded form GitHub - lamw/ghettoVCB: ghettoVCB
View ArticleCan I use vCloud Suite and vSphere 5 Enterprise Licenses in the same cluster...
Can I use vCloud Suite and vSphere 5 Enterprise Licenses in the same cluster of esxi 5.5 hosts?
View ArticleShould I renew my VMware 5 support contract?
I got an email saying my support contract has expired for the VMware 5 Essentials Kit I purchased some years ago. My view here is that there is no further development that I can see with 5.5 latest...
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It actually depends on your plans for the future. If you plan to upgrade to a newer version, it's certainly less expensive to renew now, then to pay for reinstatement, or even a new license in the...
View ArticleVMware ESX/ESXi , vmware vsphere client and with Microsoft Credential Guard...
Dears I appreciate your assistant and support in my question: I want to ask , are the VMware ESX/ESXi , vmware vsphere client compatibility with Microsoft Credential Guard / Device Guard technology...
View ArticleRe: Snapshot scheduler
ESXi can use the infamous AutoDestruct (also called AutoProtect) feature. That is exactly what you asked for: a Snapshot-scheduler.For good reasons this stupid feature is not exposed in the GUI and...
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esxtop SWCUR unit of measure
What is the unit of measure for esxtop (ESXi 5.5) SWCUR: Thanks,GlenG
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Hello, SWCUR just means that sometime in the past memory was swapped out. The balloon driver should kick in first normally, but it could be that their was a spike… balloon driver couldn’t reclaim...
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Re: Windows Server 2008 R2 internet connected in standard switch but not in...
Please check if DHCP is configured to provide DNS configuration to the client VM connected to distributed switch.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 (VM) is internet-connected in standard switch but not...
Attached are the situations: Router gateway: 192.168.100.1ESXi 5.5: 192.168.100.2VCSA: 192.168.100.3Win Svr 2008: 192.168.100.110 (DHCP via router gateway) Standard switch connected to...
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I havent try it, but I'm not sure its the problem, because as I said, If using standard switch it works just fine,both switches use the same DHCP server (via router), Thanks for replying anyway,
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I solved it by my self,There is nothing wrong with the ESXi part, In the router configuration part:After I "bind" the WAN interface with the LAN port (connected to physical vmnic1),The VM using this...
View ArticleCan I protect/move VMkernel Adapter behind VM-based UTM (Unified Threat...
Can I protect/move VMkernel Adapter behind VM-based UTM (Unified Threat Management) For example:dSwitch A (port group: WAN) with uplinkdSwitch B (port group: LAN + Mgmt) NO uplink Make the VM-based UTM...
View ArticleMultiple ESXI 5.5 Host intermitant lock ups
Hi, First question posted on VMware communities so here goes We have the below issue in our environment. This happens at 2 differentsites with similar setups. However we have 10 hosts at one site...
View ArticleWhat is required on ESXi 5.5 CLI to run scripts
I want to run a script to to check for hardware failure, but when I create the script using vi and I type #chmod +x script.sh, and #./script.sh I receive "./script.sh: not found."My guess ESXi 5.5 is...
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It's a BusyBox shell but I don't think all of the options of BusyBox are available. Try # sh script.sh
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No logical drives with raid 0 on system x3650
We are having IBM Server SystemX 3650 with 3 HDD (300 GB each) and RAID 0. We have ESXi 5.0 installed with 5 running server2008 images on it. Today Morning the IBM server is hanged and When we start...
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Re: No logical drives with raid 0 on system x3650
During POST array controller should be intialized successfull. If that has intialized and drives aren't detectin, have you checked server's and HDD LED indications !
View ArticleProblem with linking network cards with vlans when moving VMs between hosts
Hello, I'm having a problem migrating the machines from one host to another. When performing the migration, every time I have to inform vlan that it will be linked on the...
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Is ESXi 5.5 CLI able to send cron email alerts?
I've been working on this for a few days, and I created a script checking hard drive RAID status. I've been able to create cron schedule and my script is running. Before I dig deeper into this, is...
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Re: Is ESXi 5.5 CLI able to send cron email alerts?
I don't think ESXi has any native email sending capability. At least not for the free version. I went the simpler route and setup passwordless login to my home ESXi system from a Linux virtual...
View ArticleVM Version 8 V Disk Size supported
Hi,I need to know that the supported size of VDisk..? in VM Version 8 Message was edited by: Yatin Panchal
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Max VMDK disk in HW version 8 (ESXi 5.0) is 2TB minus 512 bytes Please also see here: https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf
View ArticleHow to migrate VM onto another ESXi Host without vmotion
Hello Support, We have 2 ESXi 5.5 Hosts using common NFS share. i.e. The VMs created on each ESXi Hosts are stored in common share. I wish to know if VMs on ESXi1 can be started on ESXi2 without...
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Re: How to migrate VM onto another ESXi Host without vmotion
There's not an automatic way unless you have vCenter and the HA feature. Otherwise, you will have to manually register those VMs on the other ESXi host and power them on. It sounds like from what you...
View ArticleRe: How to migrate VM onto another ESXi Host without vmotion
Hello, Thanks for your reply. 1. You suggested to manually register the VMs onto different ESXi and then can the VMs be started onto another ESXi. I would test this. Thanks.2. VSphere Essential...
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Re: How to migrate VM onto another ESXi Host without vmotion
VSphere Essential includes VMotion which helps automatic transfer of VMs between Hosts. Right?The "Essentials" edition doesn't contain vMotion. vMotion requires at least "Essentials Plus" licensing....
View ArticleRe: How to migrate VM onto another ESXi Host without vmotion
Thanks for the reply. For HA (High Availability) to work, it's required that all hosts have access to storage on which the VM is located. I already wrote in my first post that, we have 2 ESXi 5.5...
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Sorry, my bad. Yes, you can register a VM on shared storage on the surviving host as mentioned by daphnissov. André
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Re: How to migrate VM onto another ESXi Host without vmotion
... in case there is a problem with one of the ESXi's then the VMs would get transferred to another ESXi automatically? without any intervention ?That won't work. Think of it. How would you access data...
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Re: Multiple ESXI 5.5 Host intermitant lock ups
Update.... So looking through all the best practice information we found IOPs were set at the default of 1000. After to speaking to HP and VMware it was suggested this should be set to 1. We made the...
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VMsphere ESXi5.5
Increase the number of receive queues at the hypervisor pNIC: I have tried to increase the number of receive queues using the command " esxcli network nic queue count set -n <adapterName> -r...
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Re: VMsphere ESXi5.5
esxcli network nic queue count set -n <adapterName> -q 8 and reboot the host will increase the number of queues.
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Host Reachable on an IP address that does not exist on the host itself
Dear Experts,i am having a very strange problem. When i start the VM on ESxi the VM gets an IP address, that i can see from the internal network router, which i can then use to SSH into the VM.Once i...
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removing hosts from vsphere cluster
what do i need to take note if I need to remove ESXi hosts from the vsphere cluster?
View ArticleNetwork Adapter says down but switch and hardware iDrac says up
Server is Dell PowerEdge R720xdvSphere is 5.5.0 4722766 We've connected the 10GB NICs to our iSCSI switch and the switch says the link is up and on the iDrac Network Hardware page it indicates the link...
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Re: Network Adapter says down but switch and hardware iDrac says up
Solved - connected to host and used esxcli network nic up -n vmnicX
View ArticleNeed Help Repairing VMFS Partition
I am trying to help an organization recover their standalone, VMWare ESXi 5.5 host, and the datastore won't mount. It's just a local raid volume, I can see it as "Mounted" in Devices. I am honestly...
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Welcome to the Community, Try to contact continuum, he might be able to help.André
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Re: Need Help Repairing VMFS Partition
Hi Isaaca startsector of 63 is not unusual with MBR - it would be a very unlikely with a GPT.I hope you are careful with your attempts to fix anything.Feel free to call me via skype - see my...
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Re: Need Help Repairing VMFS Partition
Hi Isaacthe dump you send me was 1. incomplete and 2. from a NTFS formatted partition.Are you sure you created the dump for the correct partition ?
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Re: Need Help Repairing VMFS Partition
That was the nudge I needed, thanks. I think that 1TB volume that was partitioned NTFS was going to be presented as an RDM to one of the VMs. The actual VMs were on the tiny volume with ESXi and once...
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What license do I need to use to add a physical server to an ESXi cluster?
Hi, we have an ESX 5 cluster (managed by a contractor) and we need to add two new physical servers to that infrastructure to be able to create more virtual machine inside of those servers. However, as...
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Re: What license do I need to use to add a physical server to an ESXi cluster?
Licensing is based on physical socket/processors running on physical host. With one vSphere essential kit license you get suppport up to 3 ESXI hosts with 2 physical CPUs maximum. If you have to add...
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