Re: Can't SVmotion machine
This is what I am seeing in the vmkernel logs just before the status: I/O error 2013-07-10T12:43:10.929Z cpu10:2058)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x412441b19e00) 0x28, CmdSN 0x2ae9a67 to dev...
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Hi. I am building a whitebox system intended to run ESXI 5.1, hosting some application/web servers.I have purchased an IBM M1015, as it seems to be pretty popular for "home-use" ESXI's.I intend to run...
View ArticleRe: Can't SVmotion machine
2. At this time stamp 2013-07-10T12:43:10.929, I don't see any failures (Storage vmotion failure) in hostd.log
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Appliance update
Ok thanks. So as far as ESXi is concerned...5.0 to 5.1 is a migration process as well? If I update all the patches that I am behind on currently with Update Manager that will only bring me to latest...
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View ArticleRe: How to make hard disk available for diffferent guest OS?
You don't do this directly. What you have to do, is to edit the VM's settings and add an additional virtual disk. Once done the new disk will appear in the guest operating system and you may...
View ArticleRe: Can't SVmotion machine
Ok lets see this:# Can you try and do a vmotion of these machines to a different host in the cluster. And then try and do a sVmotion to target datastore.# Also, check the MPP for the target datastore...
View ArticleRe: ESXI 5.1 Monitor
Correct - ESXi has no alerting, so yes you will need 3rd party software or vCenter.
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Appliance update
From the host prescriptive its an update. You would need to download the update files (update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update02.zip) then import to the Update manager and remediate. It will bring your host to...
View ArticleRe: ESXI 5.1 Monitor
you can also try using the Alarms for some level of monitoring on ESXi hosts and VMs. Goto VC, select VC name at left top, goto alarms and edit the definition that matches your requirement, set action...
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Re: How to make hard disk available for diffferent guest OS?
a.p. wrote: You don't do this directly. What you have to do, is to edit the VM's settings and add an additional virtual disk. Once done the new disk will appear in the guest operating system and you...
View ArticleRe: Nested virtualization requirements
Marius - Roma wrote: I an trying to implement nested virtualization in a vSphere 5.x environment with 2 ESXi 5.0 nodes.I created a Windows 8 VM, installed VMware Player inside the VM and attempted to...
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Just one question for clarification. Is it the hosts which have to run in the DMZ or only some VMs running on that hosts? If the latter, you may just create a separate vSwitch with dedicated uplinks to...
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thanks Rupesh, When I am in PXE Select the first prompt is "controller configuration" do I enable advance mode support? If yes, do I select NIC personality?
View ArticleRe: Can't SVmotion machine
AT10: 1. This is the source datastore.2 and 3. The hostd log file is from when SVmotion failed. I grabbed it off of the server about 30 seconds after the error.4. I'm not sure what you are asking. The...
View Articlebig gaps between Backup Size and used Size on VM.
Hello, I have 4 VMs (windows server 2003 whose 1 is an SBS) on an ESXi 5.0.0 (515841), that I expect to backup on a window 2003 with Windows svc for UNix, using thus an NFS share as the backup store....
View ArticleAfter upgrade from esx 4.1 to esxi 5.0 I am no long able to ping the host
Help! We have HP BL685c blade servers with esx 4.1 on them. Yesterday, I was trying to upgrade the esx4.1 to esxi5.0 with HP custom image esxi5.0 U1 ISO image. Everything seems working. except for two...
View ArticleRe: ESXi inside KVM
First, you would have to create an ESXi driver for the Realtek 8139 network interface. See Re: Vmware ESXI within Hyper-v (server 2012) networking issue for a similar issue with respect to Hyper-V and...
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With a 6 node Lefthand cluster, I'd consider to create multiple LUNs for better load distribution. Each LUN will have a managing controller, and with only a single production LUN you will concentrate...
View ArticleRe: Can't SVmotion machine
I see you enabled SSH on that host in the hostd.log. Did you enable SSH after the migration or before the migration?
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