Questions tagged [vmware-esx]
VMware ESX is an enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc.
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Reached maximum VM restart count for {nombre_vm}
We have 4 ESX Server in cluster. Yesterday i received this warning in all VM: Reached maximum VM restart count for {vm_name}. We can´t do VMotion and others tasks whit these machines.
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Firewall for internal networks
I have a virtualised infrastructure here, with separated networks (some physically, some just by VLAN) for iSCSI traffic, VMware management traffic, production traffic, etc.
The recommendations are ...
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Virtualization speed king: intel xeon westmere 5620 vs AMD Magnycour 6134
two similarly sized 2P systems from HP: 48GB ram, 8x (300gb 15k SAS)
ESX 4.0 is s/w
but choice of AMD 6134 gives 16 cores vs Intel 5620's 8 cores. Both almost at same CPU Clock 2.4 GHz
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Disk controller speed responsible for slow write speeds?
I have question. I'm using ESXi 4.0U1 in an IBM x3200M2 with an integrated LSI 1064e RAID controller, without any kind of cache. I have 3 250GB HOT-SWAP SATA HDs configured in RAID1E (IME). ESXi works ...
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Poor NFS Performance: OpenFiler
Good Day Everyone,
I have an issue with OpenFiler, a Linux-based operating that converts a computer system into a SAN/NAS appliance. Here is the problem. In my environment we have two Netapp ...
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Simple NAT router for ESX
I'm looking for a simple virtual appliance that I can deploy to my ESX environment to use as a virtual NAT router / firewall to create an isolated network that I can easily give internet access too.
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VMWare ESX Updates - Which to Apply?
Wondering what more experienced ESX admins typically do...
I just brought our ESX hosts up to 3.5 Update 5 (Yes, I know we're behind still). I then applied the "Critical Host Updates" baseline in ...
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How do I convert a VM from VMWare fusion to ESX?
I have a buildVM running in Fusion that is in need of some more power so I want to move it to an ESX host.
What do I need to do to the VM before I move it?
where on the ESX host should I put it (...
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No Connectivity to ESX guests on one server
I have a number of ESX servers hosting VM's, all but one of these works ok, however one server has a problem where any guests on not contactable over the network.
The ESX hosts is contactable, is ...
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iSCSI connection timing out on ESX 3.5 against a NetApp storage appliance
I get a timeout on iSCSI on different ESX hosts (3.5) at different times. It is puzzling, as both the ESX hosts as windows and other guests are experiencing timeouts.
The iSCSI network is segregated ...
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OOM-Killer, jboss and kernel panic
We are running RedHat 3.4.6(x32) on VMWareEsx3.5(x64) with 6GB RAM.
A few java processes(including jboss) are running in the background.
The problem is that the java processes consume lots of memory, ...
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VMWare ESX, storage over 2TB
First of, i'm a webdeveloper and my server experience lies in setting up FreeBSD servers for webserver.
I'm working on a project for at photographer, and i'm hired to develop a new online photo ...
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SQL server in VMware
Please provide your tips and best practices for virtualizing SQL Server in VMWare ESX
I am interested in advanced configurations and settings.
Please provide reasoning behind your recommendations
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Adding new virtual disks to a RHEL host in ESX "live"
I'm sure I've just missed which tutorial/manual page covers this, but how do you add get the guest OS to recognize that you've added new drives to it without a reboot?
I have a RHEL5 guest running on ...
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Windows 2008 R2 Server Core Disk Space Requirements/Recomendations
I'm in the preparation stage to roll out a few Windows 2008 R2 Server Core in my VMware ESX environment.
In looking over the documentation it looks like Server Core can operate in a little as 6.5 GB ...
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Adding new virtual disks to a Windows host in ESX “live”
Building on my previous question about RHEL, how do you add get the guest OS to recognize that you've added new drives to it without a reboot?
I have Windows 2003, XP, and 2008 guests running on ESX ...
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ESXi settings lost following reboot
I have freshly installed ESXI 4. But when ever i reboot my server all the setting gets lost like IP setting move back to automatic instead of static, the license key gets lost.
Any ideas?
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Cannot increase Datastore
We have an ESX 4.0 cluster with 2 hosts, EMC Clarion SAN storage with 10 LUNs. We have added 2 new 400 GB LUNs. All the LUNs are visible from both hosts.
I have extended an existing 500 GB datastore ...
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LUNS access issue in ESX4 Cluster server
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I've created volumes in equallogic in PS 6000 XV(having 2 member which is in 1 pool), checked & those volumes can be easily
detected my ISCSI software in windows.
But the problem with ESX , ...
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Restoring snapshot for Microsoft Exchange server
The background:
I need to do some testing with Microsoft exchange server. Specifically, I'll be installing some software on the Microsoft exchange server machine and uninstalling that same software ...
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perf tuning for ESX vmfs3 on RAID
looking for recommendations on ESX4 OS - VMFS version3:
RAID-5 : matching the stripe size with VMFS block size? (64K, 128K etc)
RAID controller options: "adaptive read ahead, write-back" on PERC 6i
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what is esx max volume size?
had trouble making esxi4 see datastore of size 2TB. It is said this is max for a LUN only and could be bypassed by extents?
how to do that?
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Slow local file transfer (copy) on ESX vmware server?
I have a 8 CPU VmWare ESX server (3.5) with 4 HDD drives in RAID that is not loaded at all. I enabled SSH and installed mc (midnight commander) in order to be able to copy(clone) virtual machines but ...
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howto access esx filesystem
need to copy VM files (vmdk etc) to usb disk for backup purposes. tried booting with partedmagic 4.9..but cannot access the vm files on disk. any thoughts?
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esx backup usb disk
my server has a disk error, unfortunately RAID-0. So i am planning to boot it off CD (partedmagic) and copy the VMs to a USB disk. File system is VMFS (esxi4)
once the damaged disk is replaced back ...
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how to reinstall grub on ESX 4 system?
I rebooted my esx 4 server today and was greet by a single bit of text that said GRUB and it hung. I am attempting to restore the MBR GRUB partition, but am having difficulties. All i have is the ...
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ESXi 4.0 Licensing Limits
From what I understand, the software is free and you just need to register to remove the 60-day limitation. Does this mean I have to register every time I install ESXi on a new machine? Or can I use ...
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ESX guest machine floppy drives
What purpose does having a virtual floppy drive on a guest in ESX serve?
Is there a way to configure ESX by default to NOT include such a device? It's annoying to have to remove it by hand once a new ...
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ESX Root User Cannot Reboot Server
I have a machine running ESX v3.5 and the root user is unable to perform tasks like shut down the esx server, create new VM's, manage roles, pretty much everything except for starting and stopping VM'...
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VMware databursts to vCenter
[edit Nov.16th 2009: Thank you for the responses. I'm no longer on this project so the problem is out of my hands. Be sure I will return with other problems :-) ]
I have a strange occurence of ...
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How to share a volume between VM in ESX 4?
I want to access a single volume from vmware ESX4 vms, in three ESX hosts with datastores in an Equallogic PS6000 SAN. I know how to manage the datas (through a cluster filesystem), but I cannot seems ...
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adding virtual ethernet adapater to a running vm
VI client doesn't let me add another virtual ethernet adapeter to a centos 5.2 guest vm on ESXi 3.5.
Is there a way to achieve this via some command like tricks?
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VMFS recovery - how do you proceed?
The more I look into ESX the more often i have to handle cases where the partition table of a disk with a VMFS volume gets corrupted.
The reasons for this can be
* idiot user
* failed update
* power ...
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How to connect to ESX Server Storage To Upload VM Images
I am trying to figure out how I can connect to an ESX server's storage system so that I can upload VM image files. I am a windows user if that matters (i suspect it does).
Thanks in advance
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connect two ESX hosts on private LAN
can a PC setup as W2K3 DC manage two ESX hosts connected to physical hub/switch?
Services: DNS, DHCP, Domain distributed to host using a hub/switch.
NIC2 on each host connected to switch/hub......
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ESXi 4.0u1 - backup/copy options
I have a machine built using ESXi 4.0u1 and it has 3 hard drives. I have my hosts built on different hard drives but wondering about backup options. I do not have RAID but I have 3 drives and 1 is ...
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Can't ping guest OS from Windows XP SP3 host running VIC
I am running VMware ESX Server 3i Version 3.5.0 and accessing this server using VMware Infrastructure Client Version 2.5.0 on a Windows XP SP3 machine. I have enabled the Microsoft TCP/IP version 6 ...
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Error adding 4tb LUN (Raw Device Mapping) to ESX4 VM
I'm trying to map an existing 4tb LUN from a Fibre Channel SAN, through to a VM in my ESX4 environment. It keeps telling me that the VMDK file size exceeds the the maximum size supported by the ...
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SAN Replication for Fault tolerance using EVA4400
I hope that someone would point me in the correct direction - it looks like I have no enough konwledge in the subject and timeframes are too tight for me to explore different scenarios in depth..
We ...
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Connection lost to iscsi san after problem with san
We have a cluster running with 3 VSpere ESX4 server that all are connected to a lefthand san through iSCSI. This all worked well but a week ago there was a problem with the san. After fixing that ...
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All of ESX4 hosts not responding after rebooting vCenter server
I'm constructing 5ESX+a vCenter serv.
I'm testing FT on the system.
Today vCenter OS (W2008) demanded system reboot.
After rebooting vCenter Serv. All of ESX hosts have alert icon.
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Getting Partial / No Redundancy on VM's created on latest datastore
First some background.
I'm in the process of upgrading my ESX servers from 3.5 to vSphere 4 and so far I have setup the new vCenter Server. Before I start the upgrade of the ESX, I needed more ...
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Difference between VMWare tools?
I'm currently writing a module for puppet which installs VMWare tools to virtual nodes.
I want to do this via yum and and yum-repo. VMWare have their own repo (http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/3....
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VM guest cloning
I am able to make a copy of my existing VM guest folder and another folder on my datasource (trying to clone this vm to a new vm). However, I can't seem to add a way to add it to the inventory so that ...
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the best way to shrink a VM
my VM called "VMKASPER" (OS WINDOWS 2003, with a single 40 GB partition ), has generate the following files:
-rw------- 1 root root 30752720896 Feb 23 09:40 VMKASPER_1-000001-delta.vmdk
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windows 95 virtualization and CPU idle
We are in the situation that we need to migrate our windows 95 systems (i know, that is so last century ). There is no hardware for a reasonable price available to run our windows 95 systems. So we ...
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VMWare clients: replace an existing server with a clone
Consider two Win2k3 servers: SRV01 and SRV02. These two servers perform the same function in the domain, and have the same software installed.
SRV01 runs without issue.
SRV02 has problems problems ...
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(Not) Downloading Patches?
I have just upgraded from VC 2.5 U4 to vSphere Server 4 U1. I have upgraded the Upgrade Manager extension also.
My patch repositry shows what looks to be a full repositry, it contains ESX 3.5 patches ...
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vSphere Upgrades Question
I'm outlining a plan to upgrade four ESX 3.5 U4 hosts to vSphere and I'd like some verification from the community that I'll be able to perform this upgrade with no downtime besides the VMware Tools ...
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170 virtual machines HA requirements
my questions is : if i need to deploy 170 virtual machines and i need HA. is it possible to deploy all 170 vistual machines on one ESX host and in case one ESX host is down. all virtual will migrate ...
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