Re: Storage Layout Advice
Pushing past eight disks just in the interests of more IOPS on this hardware is already complicating things more than just buying some SSDs. How specific is the need and number of IOPS, or is it just...
View ArticleRe: Extracting a file from a snapshot
What about the possibility of creating a new offline VM from the snapshot in order to get to the file required - is that a possibility?
View ArticleDisplaying the Default Monitor Mode
From the putty i wrotegrep -i MONITOR vmware.log but no action
View ArticleVmware tools not initializing...
Hi,I can not install vmware tools on Red Hat 5 (32-bit) after upgrade from exsi 5.0U2 to esxi 5.1. The installation ends:"Initializing...This configuration program is to be executed in a virtual...
View ArticleESXi5 Hosts cannot host more than 24 guests - VM Network doesn't respond
ESXi 5.1, Cluster of 6 hosts, running on Cisco UCS M3 blades firmware 2.1(1a). Leveraging Cisco UCS Fabric Extenders for VDS. Once I hit the 25th VM, the guest network fo rthat VM does not work, it...
View ArticleCreating a VM from a previous snapshot
Hi All Is it possible to create an off-line VM from a previous snapshot (not necessarily the latest)?I want to keep the production VM running and bring up an offline version of it using a previous...
View ArticleRe: ESXi5 Hosts cannot host more than 24 guests - VM Network doesn't respond
We had a similar item where ports were getting blocked because the max ports setting was at 32. I am not a networking expert and we use the 1000v, but may want to check if there is some sort of max...
View ArticleRe: ESXi5 Hosts cannot host more than 24 guests - VM Network doesn't respond
The Vm is "connected", but the IP address in the vSphere client shows up as 0.0.0.0. There are available ports listed in the summary tab of each port group in the vSphere client.
View ArticleRe: ESXi5 Hosts cannot host more than 24 guests - VM Network doesn't respond
Wish I could help you further but not sure what else to look at off the top of my head. Are you able to ping gateway or anything like that?
View ArticleRename virtual machine name
Hi everyone I have a vmware esxi 5.0 setup locally and I've created a virtual machine on it with Windows 2003 Server as guest operation system. From my development machine, I want to rename this...
View ArticleRe: ESXi5 Hosts cannot host more than 24 guests - VM Network doesn't respond
Nope, can't even ping it's own IP address, much less the gateway.
View ArticleESXi 5.1 HP branded installed on USB stick not showing Hard Drive Health
I have installed the HP branded ESXi 5.1 on several HP servers. The ones that I have used the internal SD card show the Hard Drive health status.The ones that I have installed using the internal USB...
View ArticleRe: Creating a VM from a previous snapshot
I've been thinking about this further and have come up with the following as a possible solution: Create a new snapshot of the Production VM when users are off the systemUse Snapshot Manager to roll...
View ArticleRe: Extracting a file from a snapshot
I've been thinking about this further and have come up with the following as a possible solution: - Create a new snapshot of the Production VM when users are off the system- Use Snapshot Manager to...
View ArticleNew to vmware - network speed help please
Hi all, I recently joined and installed ESXi 5.1.0 Build 799733 on a custom built box purely for testing as a lot of our clients use it and i need to familiarise myself with it. Everythings gone well...
View ArticleRe: ESXi5 Hosts cannot host more than 24 guests - VM Network doesn't respond
Can you check the VDS properties and see Max. no of ports designated for the host?
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 hosts randomly disconnects from vCenter
Are there any updates on this. Same issue going on here as well: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/436713?start=0&tstart=0
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