NIC Vsphere 5.1
while loading the yellow screen appear and modules of esxi 5 loading , the message appears says “Cinc_register Loaded sucessfully” , then ESxi hang , i am unable to ping the host or access it from...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Darius, Thanks for this clarification. Yes, this is the OS X VM that I enabled for Direct Path I/O. While on this topic, can you elaborate on the two USB controllers that show up in ESXi Host >...
View ArticleRe: yet another esxi5 vs esxi4 memory limits confusion
nls73m wrote: Will vSphere Essentials only allow 2 processors per host? Isn't this a little? What if my server needed or had more processors than 2? Could I not use esxi5 or 4? The goal for me is to...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Hi telecastle, I've read a few reports that USB passthrough is broken on ESXi 5.1, but I have not personally investigated that. I believe that passing through USB controllers is not something we...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Darius, This is very valuable information. Thank you very much. I'll try to enable Direct Path I/O for 00:1d.0 - Bluetooth and IR Receiver. ESXi doesn't have drivers for these devices anyway, so I...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Success. I've enabled Direct Path I/O for 00:1d.0 and passed both IR Receiver and Bluetooth (under USB Device) to the OS X VM. I can now see Bluetooth in OS X. Edit: When I tried to pair the Bluetooth...
View ArticleRe: NIC Vsphere 5.1
Can you get into the DCUI on the console of the server, or is it freezing prior to that? What Dell system do you have, and is it listed in the VMware HCL? That NIC doesn't appear to be.
View ArticleESXi 5 Insufficient disk space on datastore
Hi, I need some help with a VMware issue. I ws trying to expand a drive in VMware by going to the Server - Edit Virtual Machine Settings - Hard Disk 2. Then under Provisioned Size, changed it from 600...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 Insufficient disk space on datastore
You wont be able to shrink the disk again in situ. Whats happening is that when you try to power on the VM, its trying to create a 12GB backing file for your memory. You can: 1) Storage vMotion this or...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - ScsiDeviceIO: 6356 Could not detect setting for sitpua for device...
So I Googled this and it seems there is very little information out there, but I am hoping someone out there might have the answer because most people just say "check the HCL list" or "update your...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 Insufficient disk space on datastore
" Storage vMotion this or some other VM to a different datastore, freeing up space" If this is my best option, can you give me some guidance. I've never worked with VMware and have no idea how to do...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 - ScsiDeviceIO: 6356 Could not detect setting for sitpua for...
Buddy, you are in luck but I actually had the EXACT same problem on my HP Proliant DL380 G6 a few weeks ago and I also Googled around but no one actually had a solution, so I did the HARD work for you....
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 - ScsiDeviceIO: 6356 Could not detect setting for sitpua for...
Thanks for the quick reply. I did not do the exact same thing, but I had changed RAID configurations while setting up two machines and I had moved around some disks so this was applicable. Yep,...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 Insufficient disk space on datastore
as mentioned by Matt, if you cannot affort the downtime Storage vmotion is the best option, for that use the steps below, but you should have proper license 1- cretae a new datastore,2- right click the...
View ArticleVMware Converter 5.01 scripting
I would like to automate the deployment of some converter images for virtual machines. I have 4 base images and they need to be converter to the ESXi host datastore, every image has to be deployed to 6...
View ArticleRe: NIC Vsphere 5.1
when at the yellow screen when it looks hung can you plress alt F12 which will bring up the vkernal log and see if its actually doing stuff
View ArticleRe: Incorrect Last RUN time - DRS
I have checked the time configuration of all the hosts. Apprently all have the same time . Also the VC server also has same NTP source . The last DRS time is constant - ie 12-19-2012 4.19 PM I have...
View ArticleRe: HP UPS - graceful shutdown
Yes, it is possible, we have implemented it at our customer datacenter using an HP R5000 UPS with the additional HP network module...
View ArticleRe: Directly use of Hard Drive in a Guest OS ?
So. There is not automated solution to this issue ? But what is causing it ? Because the ultimate idea is to having separate hard drive for each OS, and separate hard drive for each Database.
View ArticleRe: Fehler 0xc0000001 Booten ISO Windows Server 2012 Essentials ESXi 5.1.0
Das klingt nach einem schlechtem ISO - lad es nochmal herunter und teste ob die md5 checksum ok ist
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