Re: VMAP Eliminates ESXi and VCenter Lab Installs, Thanks to Greedy Pirates.
With my small class size. (18 students, 18-Desktop/Server "Stations") I can use the regular VMAP subscription licenses and set up my lab. At the end of the semester. These licenses are still "In use"...
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what hardware you running this on? have you tried vmkping -s -s 9000 to the storage? are you using jumbo frames?
View ArticleFree way remote backup Windows Server 2003 VM or VMware files
Hello again everybody,I was hoping to get a bit more insight into backing up a single VM on an ESXi 4.0 server to an offsite Linux server. I currently do most of my Linux backups with rsync but in...
View ArticleRe: VMAP Eliminates ESXi and VCenter Lab Installs, Thanks to Greedy Pirates.
Thanks for the help. I will run the class one way or another. Students are lining up to take it.
View ArticleRe: Migration to host x.x.x.x failed with error Already disconnected...
The hosts are running on a PowerEdge R710 with a Qlogic 8152. And we are using jumbo frames. Access to the storage is OK. The vMotion and Storage Networs are in different subnet's.
View ArticleRe: Shared vmdk or RDM for nested esxi VM's in Workstation 9
100 - 120 Mb/s ? thats pretty good for nested VMs IMHO. You really used vmxnet3 for the ESXi VMs ??? - I would not even consider that. I would use E1000 nics and then use a hostonly vmnet to connect to...
View ArticleRe: Migration to host x.x.x.x failed with error Already disconnected...
and vmkping to the storage is ok? vmkping -s 9000 storage_ip
View ArticleRe: Migration to host x.x.x.x failed with error Already disconnected...
how are you vmkernel interfaces configured? how many nics for vmotion? is vmotion and iscsi vlan separated?
View ArticleRe: Multiple Hosts, Multiple Datastores
Testing iSCSI storage could be a bit tricker than FC SAN storage because users often fell into network configuration problem. I think you can try both 1 host-1 datastore and 3 host-3 datastores tests...
View ArticleRe: Migration to host x.x.x.x failed with error Already disconnected...
the vMotion vmk and the nfs vmk are in separated vlan's, but are in the same standard vswitch which have 2 uplinks. The uplinks are from 2 separated Qlogic 8152 CNA's. I already check the driver and...
View ArticleState error (9): Failed to relocate disposable (waited 0 seconds)
I am getting this error on several Vm's in the VIEW 5 environment. I read the following KB from VMware and did exactly what it says and it seemed to help for a while but the error is back. Weird...
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Re: Shared vmdk or RDM for nested esxi VM's in Workstation 9
"You really used vmxnet3 for the ESXi VMs ???" Well, I found out the hard way.....lol "100 - 120 Mb/s ?" Yup, MB/s. That was file copy. That's exactly what I did for my iscsi test. Connected the esxi...
View ArticleRe: Fusion "mini bar" minimize option grayed out -- how to enable?
I think this is related to my "unity" option also being grayed out. What option(s) control whether or not I can run Unity?
View ArticleSetting up server
Hi VMware family, I'm having some problems. I'm trying to set up a Windows Server 2003 (yes I know it's old, outdated and blah, but it's all my company will allow me to have so I have to work with it,...
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Re: Start up Error
If you'd archive (compress) and attach the vmware.log file from the target Virtual Machine's Package then one of us will create a new .vmx configuration file for you. Have a look at: Work with Virtual...
View ArticleRe: vmPlayer の汎用SCSIデバイスの認識エラー
お世話になります。 VMWareToolsのSCSIドライバが何か影響していたようで、これをアンインストールしたところ、正常に動作しました。 ご協力ありがとうございました。
View ArticleRe: esx server "freezes"
I think I got it figured out.Looking at var/log/vmkernel I saw many errors. Turned out to be dead luns that I removed from SAN. I refreshed the hba's and not seeing the problems now, MANY THANKS for...
View ArticleRe: Mounting NAS device onto ESXi 5.1 host/copy VMs
Thanks to both of you for your responses. I am going to read some of the vSphere Storage that David recommended as well as Getting Started with vSphere CLI. I'm not clear - are you saying that this is...
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