Re: Virtual Machine moved or copied message after ESXi 5.1 upgrade
Old thread I know, but I just ran into this during and upgrade from 4.0 to 5.1 I selected 'moved' using the following logic: The physical server was the same but the upgrade from 4.0 to 5.1 logically...
View ArticleRe: Ballooning Memory
Rickard Nobel wrote: Ranjna Aggarwal wrote: ballooning will eventually start reclaiming active memory or not? Eventually I would say the balloon could consume "active" memory too, if the memory...
View ArticleRe: ESXi CPU question
Having some overlap in and of itself is not a huge deal, but for the reasons that others have stated, it is a good practice to only assign the number of CPU cores that are really necessary, especially...
View ArticleRe: Suspend on Solaris guest not enabled
AndreAttached is the log file as requested. Thx!
View ArticleRe: Change default options of a NEW VM in ESXI 5.1
Hi Rubeck,Is there a list available with other preconfigure settings?
View ArticleRe: Memory reclamation with balloon driver in CentOS 6
The balloon driver is invoked when there is memory contension on the host. Per this article:http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2011/03/a-beginners-guide-to-memory-reclamation-in-esxesxi.html There are four...
View ArticleRe: Change default options of a NEW VM in ESXI 5.1
Not that I'm aware of at the moment.... But start out with applying your settings to a VM using the vSphere client (again power it on afterwards), and see what's added/removed/changed within the .vmx...
View ArticleRe: Suspend on Solaris guest not enabled
This is most likely caused by the PassThrough devices configured for this VM.from Add a PCI Device in the vSphere Web ClientWhen PCI vSphere DirectPath I/O devices are available to a virtual machine,...
View ArticleRe: esxtop replay mode problems
It would seem that the process for collecting performance data for use with esxtop replay mode has changed with ESXi version 5.x. Here's how I got it working, note the bold line below which is the step...
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Problem with USB WiFi device assignment in ESXi 5.1
Hi,I have a USB WiFi adapter that I would like to pass through to a virtual machine.But I am not able to make this work correctly. My setup is like this:ESXi 5.1.0.799733 running on a Supermicro...
View ArticleRe: vmware host profile host requires reboot before previously applied config...
Very interesting... just spent 1.5 hours with VMware support in this issue without any luck. Did you get this answered/resolved? Thanks G.
View ArticleRe: issues with host profile in 5.0
Reviewing your posts on the forum... look like we are running into the same problems with auto-deploy. I had it running in a lab last year and it was working great now trying to implement it in prod...
View ArticleRe: iSCSI in ESXi 5.0 performance poor, MS iSCSI initiator fast
tijz wrote: I'm getting the EXACT same throughput as when copy-ing using the vsphere client. This VM, has it several VMDK disks? Where are the ISO stored that you copied within the VM?
View ArticleRe: Memory reclamation with balloon driver in CentOS 6
Raj wrote: I have problem with memory reclamation. See output of free bellow. What I muset set to faster reclamation balloon memory to host? Could you describe some more what the actual problem is...
View Articleshared iscsi, inaccessible vm's after host reboot -
Looking for a way to make my ESXi setup more robust. I am using three ESXi 5.0 servers in free mode - no HA, no vCenter. I've configured a single iSCSI target with 5 VM's sharing 3TB of...
View ArticleRe: shared iscsi, inaccessible vm's after host reboot -
Hello and welcome to the communities. Note: Discussion successfully moved from VI: VMware ESX™ 3.5 to VMware ESXi 5
View ArticleRe: 5.1 networking question to lacp or not
I think there are 2 questions that need to be answered. How to setup the vswitch ip hash or routeidandhow to setup the ports on the switch etherchannel (not an option on the dell's) or lacp or just...
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Re: IBM x3650 M3 Slow HDD performance?
Hi! thanks for the prompt reply guys! I got green light on messing with the server to see what's up with it and what did the IT guys do to it. Here's the deal: Its got an LSI ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA...
View ArticleGuest shows dropped packets but nic does not
I have a quad port gig nic in the host and vcenter shows zero dropped xmit / rcv packets. But in vcenter when viewing each of the guests, I am seeing some dropped receive packets. So far xmit packets...
View ArticleRe: 5.1 networking question to lacp or not
LACP is not supported on a vSphere Standard Switch. If you use a vSphere Distributed Switch with vSphere 5.1, sure, enable LACP and set your load balancing to Route Based on IP Hash. Keep in mind you...
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