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Re: Change ARP cache timeout on vSphere 5.1?
We have 6 hosts, some of them have 4 nics, some have only 2. I checked if vMotion was enabled on the mgt NIC but it wasn't. No worries, I didn't mean to bang on your brain but thank you very much for...
View ArticleRe: Performed P2V to ESXi 5.1, vm auto reverts to snapshot during boot
I found this in the vmware.log: 2013-01-21T05:31:32.921Z| Worker#0| I120: DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 '/vmfs/volumes/50f047a2-8bcfdee9-63b1-001d09ff3434/server/server.vmdk' persistent...
View ArticleRe: Performed P2V to ESXi 5.1, vm auto reverts to snapshot during boot
Can you please provide (attach) a clean vmware.log file, i.e. power on the VM, shut down the VM, download the vmware.log file. André
View ArticleRe: How to reserve part of memory from RAM [ ESXi]
Well, in a nutshell, this is part of an experiment that we're doing to measure access latnecy to both local and remote memory when assigned to different VMs. Amin
View ArticleRe: .vmem files in ESXi 5
Hello, I was wondering if anyone can provide any help regarding this issue. The issue again is this: The generated .vmsn file seems to have some extra information in it, in addition to the VMs...
View ArticleRe: Performed P2V to ESXi 5.1, vm auto reverts to snapshot during boot
Right now no snapshots are in place so the server can function normally. Just to clarify: you want a snapshot taken, the vm shutdown, booted up (hopefully capturing the reverting), the vm shutdown...
View ArticleRe: OS X Guest cloning/deployment best practices
Great! I will keep investigating as well and post any updates here!Thanks for the help! //Lars
View ArticleRe: Performed P2V to ESXi 5.1, vm auto reverts to snapshot during boot
Yes, at least it's worth looking at the log file. I expect to find hints on whether the snapshot reverts at startup or after powering off the VM as well as the reason for this behavior. It will also be...
View ArticlePowerEdge 2900 w/ Perc6i @ESXI 5.1
I have a PowerEdge 2900 running ESXI 5.1 and I have tried setting up the system to be able to monitor HDD health status in the array to prevent catastrophic failure of my array. I have tried using a...
View ArticleHost shutdown does not shut down linux guests
I am running a vSphere Essentials installation with 3 hosts and am working on automatic shutdown in the event of a power failure. The one issue I have discovered is that running linux guests don't...
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Re: PowerEdge 2900 w/ Perc6i @ESXI 5.1
Hello and welcome to the communities. Neither method i could get to function where it would give me array data and individual drive health.Is this what you are ultimately after?
View ArticleRe: PowerEdge 2900 w/ Perc6i @ESXI 5.1
Yes, this is what i am after. Or the ability in the vSphere to see the health of the array.
View ArticleRe: VMFS5 max heap size?
25TB isn't much on a per host basis at all if you're talking about multiple large file servers (>4TB), multiple Exchange Servers or multiple database servers. As it's a per host limit i.e....
View ArticleRe: PowerEdge 2900 w/ Perc6i @ESXI 5.1
I have a set of instructions that can be used to get the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator working. Sounds like you have the offline VIB installed already, but maybe not the OpenManage Server...
View ArticleRe: VMFS5 max heap size?
I'm not arguing there's not a use case for 25TB of active VMFS per host as I too work with many terabytes of data on the hosts. What I meant is more along the lines of it seems like VMware is assuming...
View ArticleRe: how do I auto start a guest vm?
1. bring up vSpere client and click on the ESXi host machine in browse window.2. Click on the "Configuration" tab for that host.3. Look for the blue text "Properites" in upper right hand corner of that...
View ArticleRe: 40GB Infiniband for backend SAN to ESXi 5.1 Blades
It's good to know Infiniband is supported in 5.1. All of our blade servers run Windows Server as that is the platform our web product is built on. Recently we upgraded them all to 2012 from 2008R2....
View ArticleRe: Block device - CD rom
Here's an explanation of what a Block Device is and why it is not a problem for your CDROM to be a block device. The best approach to installing Windows into a VM is probably to find a utility you can...
View ArticleRe: 40GB Infiniband for backend SAN to ESXi 5.1 Blades
Sparticus13 wrote: It's good to know Infiniband is supported in 5.1. All of our blade servers run Windows Server as that is the platform our web product is built on. Recently we upgraded them all to...
View ArticleRe: Multiple Guests Crash
Many thanks for the infomation on the logs. The following is an extract from the final part of one guest vmware.log just before the crash. 2013-01-23T03:04:12.581Z| vmx| I120: GuestRpcSendTimedOut:...
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