Re: Frozen ESXI5 host
This happens if the Host management agents are busy or crashed down specially the hostd service. Since only the management agents are down your VM's will still be running and you can RDP in them. Are...
View ArticleRe: Edit etc/hosts still recommended?
I actually never did this with DNS servers in place. I think the main reason for editing the hosts file was to make sure HA worked properly. However, things changed and as of vSphere 5.0, HA doesn't...
View ArticleRe: Unable to login to My VMware from vCenter Support Assistant
It turned out the the proxy server for the company was causing the issue. The network guys here sorted that out and it all started to work properly.
View ArticleRe: Frozen ESXI5 host
you could also check this link for a better understanding of the situation if its related to storage. VMware KB: ESXi/ESX hosts in APD may appear Not Responding in vCenter Server
View ArticleRe: How do I determine if I am running on a VM?
You could enumerate the hardware components and check for VMware "hardware". André
View ArticlevirtualHardwareSection/memory failed, error code: 400
Hi, I am using php api for vcloud.the api is returning the error: Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'VMware_VCloud_SDK_Exception' with message 'PUT...
View ArticleBackup best practices in a SAN environment
Hello, Can somone please tell me the best way to do backups using VEEAM in a SAN environment with 3 hosts and 2 arrays with the VMWare Standard Acceleration Kit? I'd prefer not to purchase another...
View ArticleRe: AutoDeploy plugin 5.1 just not working...
I got the answer. When I edited the /etc/vmware-rbd/httpd/httpd.conf file, I did it as root. This changed the permissions on it, and the "deploy" user couldn't read it. I did chmod 666 httpd.conf,...
View ArticleNew to vmware and vSphere rolling out ESXI 5.1 looking for...
Hi all new to the site just purchased 2 Dell PowerEdge R720 servers with internal storage of (6)500GB Drives configured at RAID5(no SAN) and 128GB of RAM. We are planning on running Windows Server...
View ArticleRe: Migrate VM's between vCenter 4.0 and vCenter 5.1
Linked-mode won't work as two vCenter servers' version and build number should match.Even it works, vMotion between two different vCenter servers doesn't work! I would recommend you to use a software...
View ArticleRe: Creating Datastore in mirrored hard drives?
Which RAID Controller do you have in the system? The Entry models are shipped with the B110i software RAID controller, which is not supported by ESXi. Other models (Base, Performance) come with the...
View ArticleRe: Problem Creating Datastore in mirrored hard drives!
Please see my reply about the B110i controller in your other discussion (Creating Datastore in mirrored hard drives?) André
View ArticleRe: Gemfire notify-by-subcription=false not picked up
Here is an example client context that will register interest in ALL_KEYS and have updates pushed from the server to the client as invalidates. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><beans...
View ArticleRe: Inicio automatico de vms en workstation 8 linux
If I correctly understand* you want to start automatically VMs when you start VMware Workstation, or start VMware Workstation with a number of VMs automatically upon login ? Either way you might need a...
View ArticleRe: Scripting the documentation of about 100 ESX servers
Without a vCenter server, you will probably have to create an input file with the hostname, username and password.I would recommend the following. Input...
View ArticleRe: Frozen ESXI5 host
Have you by chance completely filled a disk? Look at df output. You may need to wait a long time for it to run.
View ArticleRe: Reporting Default gateway
Does the following output any gateways? (Get-EsxCli -VMHost (Get-VMHost -Name $name)).network.ip.route.ipv4.list()
View ArticleRe: Migrate VM's between vCenter 4.0 and vCenter 5.1
Install new 5.1 VCadd 4.0 hosts , Migrate VM's to 5.1 hosts Should have identical hardware or should have EVC enabledShould have common datastore across the hosts If not you take a down time to the...
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