vSphere Client freezes when trying to control VM
I have a Dell Precision T5500 running ESXi 5.0. It has two Intel Xeon E5507 CPU's and 8 GB Ram. Whilst running just one VM which is setup to have 4 cores and 2GB of Ram I find that if I click off...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Client freezes when trying to control VM
Do check on the vmware.log of the VM directory when you are facing such issue to note any error messages or info Also, try to increase the video memory size of the VM in the advanced settings. link If...
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Thin provisioned disks grow as required by the guest, but do not automatically shrink. One option to shrink thin provisioned virtual disks is to zero out unused blocks within the guest OS itself (using...
View ArticleProblem starting Virtual Machines after upgrade 4.0 --> 5.1
Hi guys, Recently I upgrade my ESXi box from 4.0 to 5.1.After some vague problems (see: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2179808#2179808 ) the server seems to be running stable now.This morning I...
View ArticleChanging config save frequency in 5.1
I've read that by default ESXi 5.1 saves it's config to disk every 10 minutes by default. I'm running off a USB memory stick so would like to lower the frequency of this, especially as the config isn't...
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Please take a look at http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/09/how-often-does-esxi-write-to-the-boot-disk.html which explains this in detail. André
View ArticleRe: hosts disconnect from vCenter Server 5.1.0 Build 947673 and appear as not...
Ok, stable at last, it appears, the vCenter Server was moved OUs, and then a Group Policy Update was applied, this must have contained firewall changes which caused the upset. Just need to find out...
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Re: hosts disconnect from vCenter Server 5.1.0 Build 947673 and appear as not...
Hi, Great to hear that!!! Wish you a good weekend
View ArticleRe: Problem starting Virtual Machines after upgrade 4.0 --> 5.1
Hi , Can you please post the virtual machine /kernal logs.Error message which you have posted wont help to figure out whats going wrong.
View ArticleHardware required for 6-8 servers
Hi, tried to Google but can't find any answers. Required assistance here. i need to set up an environment with approximately 6-10 VM servers - active users can go up to 10K Basically i am trying to...
View ArticleRe: Problem starting Virtual Machines after upgrade 4.0 --> 5.1
I just tried, it looks like my problem from yesterday is acting up again. See thread: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2179808#2179808 This morning I could browse the datastores just fine. Now I...
View ArticleRe: VMCrash ESXI5 on HP DL380 Gen8
Thank You. My crash screen was not that, but these problems could be related. the vmware tech. is telling me this issue is for 5.0 and 5.1. He told me not to bother to upgrade to 5.1, but I am going...
View ArticleRe: Problem starting Virtual Machines after upgrade 4.0 --> 5.1
Shutting down some VM's is fixing the problem. So it looks like a resource problem.What can I do to prevent this from happening again?
View ArticleRe: Problem starting Virtual Machines after upgrade 4.0 --> 5.1
In the shell environment were I could normally browse the folders and type "LS" for a directory listing, I am now getting the message "Can't fork" I am not a Linux expert but I believe this has...
View ArticleRe: WHY ESXi is not builded with mdadm
ESXi is a purpose-built thin hypervisor that is by intention reduced to the functionality that is needed to run VMs, preferrably in an enterprise environment, And ESXi is NOT derived from the Linux...
View ArticleRe: Hardware required for 6-8 servers
Before going into details, what type of experience with VMware and storage do you have exactly? This doesn't look like a very easy/simple setup which you can install "on the fly".
View ArticleRe: Hardware required for 6-8 servers
armed with VCP5 cert. but the cert itself did not go into details what we really need to set 1 up. i don't mind engaging others but prior to that i will prefer to know more of what is required before...
View ArticleRe: Slackware 10.2.0 NIC Compatibility
Is one best practice using vmxnet3, but you need install vmware tools before. Regards,Joao Castro
View ArticleRe: Can't connect to host
The problem was that I was in multiple groups. I'm new to managing vmware and I found that along with being in the vmware administrators group my AD account was in a lower group. After removing my...
View ArticleRe: Hardware required for 6-8 servers
Hi As Niels has said this isn't a small project and so I would recommend a bit of outside help as there are loads of "it depends" answers to your questions and a number of differing opinions of what...
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