Re: ESXi 5 does not see LSI 9240-8i at all
In general it is always better go to a more advanced motherboard Bois version. 2.0+ has fixed the early problems from the old 18 months ago problems, at least on the X9CM-F. Call Supermicro phone...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 does not see LSI 9240-8i at all
Also be sure you have the most recent version of VMWare esxi of course.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 does not see LSI 9240-8i at all
Thank you so much I will call Supermicro and ask Derek!!!
View ArticleRe: storage configuration booting to SAN
This sounds like exactly what I want to do but how should I configure the space for the ESXi to be installed on? Can I have just one big RAID group that has EXSi and the rest available for storage?...
View ArticleRe: Maximum allowed SCSI paths error
I figured it out. The GUI was lieing to me - i didn't show any dead paths. But when I logged into the host and ran an esxcfg-mpath -l there were over 1000 dead paths. I tried to delete them but that...
View ArticleRe: vmdk file disappeared suddenly
Create a new VM with same OS (you need not install the os here, just create) as the vm for which the vmdk is missing with exactly same hard disk size. Now a new vmdk will be created. Copy this vmdk to...
View ArticleRe: storage configuration booting to SAN
if you install your ESXi on this RAID group, the difference will be available as a local Datastore .
View ArticleRe: Host memory usage Warning
"You can also set limits on some of those VMs to force some of their memory to vswap, if you're okay with the performance trade-off. That way the VMs are still presented the same amount of RAM, but a...
View ArticleEmulex 10 Gb multichannel problem
Hello I have a problem with IBM PureFlex blade system Emulex 10Gb NIC OCl11120-F-X, which works fine in single mode, but when I tried configure FCoE with multichannels, it just disconnects from...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Replication Traffic
Did you hear back from VMware support about this? Do you need dedicated physical NIC so to make this work, or is a dedicated port group on an existing vSwitch plus static routes OK?
View ArticleRe: vmdk file disappeared suddenly
CHIN2, Will this procedure potentially hinder the recovery of the original vmdk file? The original contains all the users data. Gary
View ArticleHard disk size reporting 0 in properties?
Hello, We have a virtual machine that is reporting hard disk size as 0 in the virtual machine properties window. At the moment the virtual machine is still running and working fine. There are no...
View ArticleVM's Losing Network When Migrated to New ESXi Host
Ok, this has been a tough one to google (or the week has just been too long), but... We have a 10 host cluster, ESXi 5.1, with SAN storage. We also use a vSphere Distributed Switch with eleven port...
View ArticleRe: VM's Losing Network When Migrated to New ESXi Host
Have you tried removing the hosts from the vDS switch and re-add them?
View ArticleRe: VM's Losing Network When Migrated to New ESXi Host
Yes, I have removed and added the hosts, multiple times actually. I have blown away the network configuration on the host and recreated the virtual adapters (again multiple times). It's getting very...
View ArticleRe: vmdk file disappeared suddenly
:> Will this procedure potentially hinder the recovery of the original vmdk file? yes - so do not use that "tip" check your PMs
View ArticleStop "ESXi shell for the host has been enabled" message from displaying
Is there a way to turn of the "ESXi shell for the host has been enabled" message that shows in the summary tab of an ESXi host, so that it isn't always listed as a "configuration issue" with an...
View ArticleRe: Stop "ESXi shell for the host has been enabled" message from displaying
kb.vmware.com/kb/2003637
View ArticleRe: VM's Losing Network When Migrated to New ESXi Host
After migration is VM's network status still connected? As well what do you see under the switch port state?
View ArticleHigh Guest CPU Utilization on vSphere 5.1
We're currently running a vCenter farm with 4.1 vSphere hosts. I'm setting up a fresh 5.1 farm in our test environment. To test out some guests in the new farm, I've mounted up the NFS stores that are...
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