Re: vCentre Hosts events every few seconds - user root@127.0.0.1 logged in as
Fresh off the press (new KB 2055917) provides a work-around. You may not like the caveat (iLO4 will no longer be able to monitor the vmkernel), but at least the VCDB won't fill up and the spam will be...
View ArticleMulti-Sites VMs backup solutions ?
Hello i am currently running 7 ESXi host 4.1 -5.1 servers in 7 diffenrent cities. Each host contain 4-5 VM. They are connected togheter in vCenter appliance 5.1 in one of the location using NAT with...
View ArticleRe: Terminate Idle VI Client Sessions with PowerCLI Script
Hi LucD Much appreciate your assistance. Prior to posting my last post I did make sure that my session was not idle, and it never was showing as idle. Well not in VI client anyway. However, I've...
View ArticleRe: N1K or DVS info on a ESXi Host
Nice one LucD! I tested this on a wide variety of 1000v deployments (vCenter 5.0 and 5.1, and ESXi hosts at 4.1 and 5.1). Works perfectly.
View Articlecannot connect to vcenter
When I open up powercli, I cannot connect to the vcenter. It keeps coming back with a login box and when i enter my domain credentials, it says invalid username or password. username is valis and not...
View ArticleRe: Datastore size is smaller than virtual disk
Hi, First, ESXi does not support beyond 2Tb. For having only 730GB of datastore, it could be because of block size you are using. RegardsMohammed
View ArticleRe: Cloned DNS server issues
Hmm. I see this hasn't been answered yet. There are a number of resolutions to this not just the obvious. You may need to dig deeper into the actual service and what it is touching. Try also ip -o...
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Re: Linux Kernel 3.9-4 Guest-VMware Tools fails to install
The compile of VMware Tools did not produce the same errors as in the install scrip[t as Debian in Sparky however there still is something wrong with the vmblocking file system. When Sparky is...
View ArticleRHEL 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-14smp 3gb ram issue
Hi Everyone, A bit stumped here. We have a 32 bit OS, RHEL 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-14smp, stuck on 3gb total memory when I have allocated 5gb to the VM.Hearing that it's a VMware issue, then another guy says...
View ArticleRe: Datastore size is smaller than virtual disk
ESXi 4 doesn't support LUNs > 2TB. Any increment over a multiple of 2TB is what you will see (e.g. 2.73 TB - 2 TB = .73 TB ~= 740 GB you see). But the real question is why are you installing a 3...
View ArticleData-va backup
Is there an easy way to backup the data from the data-va VM so we can take it offsite. We use IBMs TSM for our other backups and that goes to tape and then offsite. I don't suppose a TSM Linux client...
View ArticleRe: Appear to have poor storage performance. Best test(s) to confirm?
"IN general terms, no, don't expect to get more than 120MB/sec throughout for a single disk on a VM." I'm sorry, but this is just stupid. It is TRIVIAL to get better performance than that from even...
View ArticleRe: Data-va backup
On another related note, when you add storage to the data-va does it use it as the prior storage gets full or does it pool it all together. This makes its sound like its used it until a volume is full...
View ArticleRe: VM autostartup with vsphere HA 5.1
This doesn't make any sense. What if the whole cluster goes offline due to a power outage for example?
View ArticleRe: transport vmdb error 44
Ive also had this problem which I fixed by doing a repair which isnt good enough.
View ArticleNetworking best practice for 2 hosts with 4 nics
Whats the best practice for networking configuration with two Esxi 5 hosts, each with 4 nics.? Our storage will be SAS connected. We will need to have about 10-12 VMs. Our network is a flat network...
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Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I know this is super old, but which version of ESXi are you running. I am running 5.1 and cannot get DXVA to work with a 6450 or 5450. Passthough is fine with video and hdmi audio but I'd like to use...
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I'm using 5.0 with updates on a 7750 and my DXVA works fine.
View ArticleRe: Networking best practice for 2 hosts with 4 nics
This is far and away the most FAQ here, it's frustrating to see a question four times on the first page of a forum. There's no strict "best practice" because there's several elements open to...
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