vCenter High Availability HA
Hi, I am trying to understand how does someone know whether there is enough resources for HA capability. I know that HA can fail if there is no memory and CPU resources but just wondering how is this...
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Unless you disable Admission Control, HA will take care of this itself. It will prevent you from powering on VMs in a cluster, if it cannot guarantee to power on VM's from failed host(s) on the...
View ArticleDirect Connect ESXi Servers
Hello,I am trying to directly connect 4 ESXi 5.1 servers to each other via 10GB nics. This is to get 10GB networking without having to pay for a 10GB switch which are spendy. I am able to get network...
View ArticleESXi 5.0u1 servers are time-drifting with NTP setup.
ESXi 5.0u1 servers are time-drifting with NTP setup.
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You could probably get something like this to work, but don't expect it to be supported. Logically, whichever portgroup server B's management vmk is using needs to communicate with server C's...
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VT-d support with Intel DX79SR MB and Intel i7-3970X CPU
Hi, I have an Intel DX79SR motherboard which according to Intel supports 'Intel VT with Directed I/O' as per for the following Intel page:...
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Also, can you tell us a little more about how you're going to use the four hosts? How do you plan to use the 10Gb links? Is this mainly for vMotion? You may find that your network utliization is not...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.0u1 servers are time-drifting with NTP setup.
Please provide some details about the configuration. What type of NTP server do you use (public TS, Windows TS, ...) Do you use a VM as as the NTP time server? Is it a Windows NTP server?. André
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Assuming this is a DC, take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1035833 for required settings. André
View ArticleRe: vCenter High Availability HA
Maybe this post is more in line with your question than the HA deepdive.http://frankdenneman.nl/2013/02/15/ha-percentage-based-admission-control-from-a-resource-management-perspective-part-1/ Also read...
View ArticleRe: PSOD on Dell R515 BIOS 2.0.2 - ESXi 5.0 Updatetd
I wonder why the 2.0.2 is still in the download list for my R515 with ESXi 5.0 selected as OS.Who will solve the problem, vmware or dell?
View ArticleHow to have a VIB where the files have write permissions?
I am writing a VIB, in which I want to have some files with write permissions so the user can change them and keep the changes persistent.Does anyone know if this is possible, and if os, how? Guy
View ArticleRe: Hosts lost connection from iSCSI SAN storage
have the same problem since updated from 4.1 to 5.0during high load times (backup) we get the same "latency" messages.We allready use the software iscsi adapter with broadcom nics. all cables seem to...
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View ArticleiSCSI Performance Dilemma
I have Dell Poweredge R620's running Vsphere 5.1 connected to an iSCSI Nimble CS-240 SAN. If you run SQLIO against the SAN it looks great, but if you run the attached SQL script, it does not run as...
View ArticleManagement Network Configuration
Hello, My name is Beeri, and I'm good with Cisco, e.g. CCNA/CCNP, but am very new to virtualisation and vmware. I have mounted the esxi 5.1 iso to an external hdd so that I can run esxi 5.1 on my...
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Hello, if I've correctly understood you situation you have your laptop on which you have natively installed ESXi, so ESXi is not a virtual machine running on an underlying OS but an actual 'physical...
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Yes, I also came across this issue and you need a wired connection. However, you may encounter other compatibility issues. I created my test lab using VMware Workstation(Licensed copy) and using free...
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