ESX 5.0 U1 hung on "Initilizing ACPI"
I have a whitebox I'm trying to install ESXi 5.0 U1 on that is getting hung on Initilizing ACPI. Is there a way to bypass this stage? Maybe with kernel options? I have tried acpi=off and noacpi options...
View ArticleCompliance check use of Roles
I am being asked to produce a script that will check that no idividual users have been assigned permissions in vCenter, only AD groups should be assigned perms. Has anyone done this? Do I need to...
View ArticleCompliance check of NTFS permission on the vCenter server
I am being asked to write a compliance script, part of it being a check against the NTFS permissions for the folder that holds the vCenter certificates to ensure correct access Has anyone done this?...
View ArticleHost connection and Power state in ESXi 5.0
Hello everybody, I have one clsuter running in one V Center after that i am creating anothere DR cluster in same Vcenter with three host: VMware ESX 5.0 ( Three Host ) My problem is: after I am adding...
View Article[JIRA] (HHQ-5762) Apache Tomcat 6.0 Server control tab is not available in UI...
Gil Hauser created HHQ-5762:- Summary: Apache Tomcat 6.0 Server control tab is not available in UI by default Key: HHQ-5762 URL:...
View ArticleHow to disable the screen saver?
On the console of ESXi the display dims from a nice yellow/grey to a dark and barely visible black. This happens in like a minute! So impatient! How can I disable or extend the timeout for this "screen...
View ArticleHow to recognize cd in physical in vmware
Hi all, I have tried to recognize cd in physical in vmwarebut it is undetectable.May I know what can be done please?
View ArticleArray of Array of Virtual Machines?
I need to have multiple sets of virtual machine arrays but I am not quite certain how to define array of array of virtual machines. At the moment I have attribute vmGroupVMs which is type of...
View ArticleVcenter 5.1 Upgrade fubared the inventory service including other functionalty
Just upgraded Vcenter 5.0 to 5.1 0b, installation went fine without any errors but now the inventory service is totally broken and seems to have broken some other functionality as well. from the ds.log...
View ArticleAbysmal Upload Speed in ESXi 5.1
I have been reading thread all over the Internet for two days and every discussion of this gets into the weeds and goes nowhere... and usually ends with "use Veeam", which doesn't seem to really work...
View ArticleApple Mac OS X 10.8 on ESXi 5
Hello all I just installed the free version of VMware vsphear hyperviser 5.1. I currently show that I am runningVMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-1021289. I am not sure of this is the most current patch because...
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Esxi 5.1 pci passthrough broken
I got a purple screen when I start up a vm with a pci device With Esxi5 was working fine. I tested it with 2 vm on different hosts ( but same hardware) i7 2600 32gb mb: dq67sw What can I try
View ArticleVM identifier questions
What's the best value or values to uniquely identify a VM? It appears that the obvious choices - name, DNS name, uuid, instanceUuid, mo_ref - are either not guarenteed unique (uuid), not unique across...
View ArticleError starting server process: A SQLFire Server is already running
But, it isn't. In a single node SQLFire system, when trying to start a SQLFire after it was stopped, I receive the message "Error starting server process: A SQLFire Server is already running". Using...
View Articlesvmotion virtual mode rdm to different lun
I have a vm that has 4 virtual disks. 2 of them are vmdk files and I have smotioned them to my destination iscsi lun. I still have 2 that are rdm virtual mode disks that I need to move out of the...
View Articleesx5i mit 2 iscsi Storages - cold migration slow in only one direction
Hello, I have multiple esx 5i (5.1) servers with an older lefthand and an new lefthand in the same lan.Both are with dynamic dicovery connected and the esx server has two or three vmkernel with iscsi...
View Articleesxi 5.1 pxe boot error -- Failed to load COM32 file menu.c32
Hello I need to install esxi 5.1 through pxe, for this I followed VMware document....
View ArticleWhy does VM Guest Memory Utilisation Differs Memory utilisation report in...
Hi All, I am tricked with the results seen from the Memory performance report in VM Guest Server (Windows 2008 R2); taken with the Perfmon Counters are no way related with the performance reports I got...
View ArticleReplacing/installing on new hardware
We are replacing (4) existing ESXi 4.0 hosts servers with (4) new hardware replacement servers. We first upgraded our Vcenter server to version 5 which was successful. We now would like to replace the...
View ArticleClustered SAN/NAS for vSphere - Suggestions
SME with around 12tb of data (growing but slowly), fully virtualised (5.1), the usual AD, Exchange, File Servers etc. We have a large physical campus with our own fiber everywhere which means we can do...
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