Re: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Thanks for this info. Drobo is a RAID device, and is shipped with a Drobo dashboard, which is the interface that controls the creation of the volumes on the Drobo RAID (and perhaps the initializing of...
View ArticleRe: Upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1 (VUM)
Hey, HP image would contain additional drivers etc that might not be included with the VMware image. So that should help. As to the Virtual Machines, they can be migrated off to the other host and the...
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Re: Unable to run 64-bit guests
I just downloaded the compatibility check tool. I'll try to do a quick windows install on the sun server to run the tool tonight. In the mean time, I ran it on one of my other server that does not have...
View ArticleRe: Upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1 (VUM)
I'm using the update manager so then it should't be any problems if it fails.
View ArticleSata drives in a simple Esxi5.1 setup and RAID 10.
Most of y'all have very complicted setups. I've got Esxi on five different installations and it works great. All of my installations are small offices, very budget sensitive with only a few virtual...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
If the drobo can be an iscsi target, why not just set up the volumes on a different machine, then setup esx to use the target? No drivers need for esx to use those volumes.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Drobo Mini / Drobo 5D cannot be an iSCSI target; they don't have any Ethernet interfaces - only Thunderbolt and USB 3. There's a Drobo B800i, but it costs $2500 barebones. It has two Gigabit Ethernet...
View ArticleDisk alignment with OS X VMs on ESXi 5.1?
So, it sounds like VMFS automatically does disk alignment with ESXi 5.x. But does anyone know if it's necessary to align OS X VMs with VMFS? If so, how would it be done? Thanks for any info! - John
View ArticleRe: cannot add datastore on Adaptec 3405 RAID
Thank you. I had the same issue and was off on a wild goose chase prior to finding your post.
View ArticleRe: Loading ESXi installer issue " Relocating modules and starting up the...
Hi there. I'm also running into the same issues as many of you are - "Relocating modules and starting up the kernel" I'm pretty convinced it is a video memory issue based off most of your responses -...
View ArticleRe: Unable to run 64-bit guests
AMD-V is not required for 64-bit guests on AMD hardware. Any 64-bit AMD CPU manufactured since 2005 is capable of running 64-bit guests. What error are you getting? You wouldn't happen to be running...
View ArticleRe: vSphere problem whit USB.
"open a console session and then click on the Connect / Disconnect USB devices icon". This isn't possible. Taking all the steps you described, however not allow me to connect any usb device (hard disk,...
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Is the option grayed out in the vSphere client? If so have you added a USB controller device to the VM?
View ArticleRe: VM says it is using storage but it isn't
no.. I believe that is where this ghost connection came from originally but I also ran get-vm | get-cddrive | set-cddrive -connected $False to specicallly kill all cd connections - but it still...
View ArticleRe: vSphere problem whit USB.
No it isn't gray! is clickable. Yes I added a USB controller to the VM. My colleagues can connect your pen drive on the VM. I don't. This makes me assume that it is a problem of my notebook.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
guys, i got a patch from dariusd to fix smc with the latest build.i have to hexedit something and i will do that for you, create the file needed to be placed on your boot-disk (i use an USB-stick, keep...
View ArticleRe: VM says it is using storage but it isn't
nope, I've power cycled all the VMs now and two of them are still showing connections to the iSCSI device, but reporting nothing when I query them with powercli. In the settings they are showing one...
View ArticleRe: HP Flex 10 - Received Dropped Packets
A few days ago HP released new firmware and drivers, including firmware/driver updates to the Emulex-based CNAs and a firmware update for Virtual Connect modules. I haven't seen anything obvious in the...
View ArticleRe: VM says it is using storage but it isn't
are there any snapshots available which might have pointed to the "old" datstores?
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