Recommend a Z87 Micro ATX motherboard for Haswell whitebox?
I built a PC for a home lab without really doing the proper research first and now I am going back to ask for advice. My intended usage is to experiment around with ESXi/vSphere, set up a domain...
View ArticleRTL8111D with ESXi 5.1U1 - poor performance
2 days before, I removed a Intel e1000 pcie card from my ESXi-Server to free one PCIe-slot which is needed for a RAID-controller. Instead of the e1000, I configured the onboard-NIC with RTL8111D, which...
View Article/etc/ssh/ssh_config deleted when ESXi rebooted
Default installation of ESXi 5.1 does not create the file /etc/ssh/ssh_config. So I created one with some settings but it gets deleted whenever I reboot. Any ideas why this is happening?Thanks,Jack
View ArticleGuest OS performance slow after migration from evaluation vSphere5.1 server...
Folks, I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction here. We've been running VMware Server 2.x for a few years and decided to upgrade to vSphere5.1. We rented a rackmount HP server and built...
View Articlehow to increase 32GB Memory Limit in Hypervisor 5.1
I am using Vmware 5.1 on Dell R720 Server having 2 physical Processors. The VMWARE has limit of memory upto 32GB. How can Increase it upto 64GB RAM
View ArticleNetwork Problems with vSphere 5.5 and Windows 2012
Hello, Some weeks ago i updated a server of a customer from 4.0 to v5.5. This was a mistake anyway, but that's another topic... Did the update because we have to run a Win2012 machine on it.Soon i...
View ArticlevSphere 5.5 management interfaces not responding
I've got a vSphere 5.5 Essentials Kit; One of the hosts, a Dell R410, is running vSphere 5.5 and as of yesterday it is unresponsive to any of the management tools. I've tried the following: Web...
View ArticleDoes vSphere Hypervisor 5.5 support Dual CPU and 3TB Hard Disk?
Hi all, I am a new comer and I am planning to build 2-3 microsoft servers by using vSphere Hypervisor 5.5. Could I use this free version on a dual-cpu server with 3TB hard disk? Dell PowerEdge...
View Article[Newbie] How to setup private network with routing vm?
Hi there, I'm just doing my first steps with vmware. Until now we've had just a plain debian with virtualbox running on it. As we change provider we're thinking of using VSphere Hypervisor for our...
View ArticleHow to monitor Raid on a Hypervisor server?
Hello all! I have 2 servers (dell R420) running vmware hypervisor 5.5 and 1 server running version 5 I installed a few windows servers VM machines on them and everything is running great however I...
View ArticleVMWare ESXI 3WARE 9550SXU-8LP SATA Controller Install
I am new to VMWare ESXi and trying to install it to test it out for possible production deployment. I have obtained an older server to perform testing. I am having difficulty installing the VMWare ESXi...
View ArticlevSphere dVSwitch Restart Missing Backing Devices
I have a lab environment with fourteen servers. I have all the hosts in a single vSphere 4.1 cluster under a virtualized vCenter server. Their is a single dVSwitch for the cluster with each physical...
View ArticleESXi History Command
All, for ESXi is there a history command and if so what is the syntax?
View ArticleESXi Host FC HBAs Not Updating New LUN Targets
Greetings all!Looking for some help here with a strange storage issue I’m seeing. Our ESXi 5.01 hosts are fiber connected with qlogic hbas to an IBM XIV SAN, through IBM SVC clusters.The storage team...
View ArticleRealtek 8168 driver broken in esx 5.1
VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 - Realtek 8168 drivers broken between 5.0 release and 5.1 - attempted fresh installs on multiple boxes; driver shows as installed but uplink does not forward traffic....
View ArticleError Deploying OVF Template
I am trying to deploy a VA in vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 Update 1 but the "Next" button is grayed out in the VA wizard. I installed ESXi on a Dell PE R610 and enabled Virtualization Technology in the BIOS....
View ArticleUNIMPLEMENTED! write-back of mmap regions unsupported
UNIMPLEMENTED! write-back of mmap regions unsupported This message appears in vmkernel log (alt+f11 int the local screen). Anybody knows what is this? Thanks
View ArticleIs Tunneling Suported?
I want to use a VPS at another location to tunnel traffic to my server (for DDoS protection) and I was wondering if its possible with Hypervisor. Is tunneling supported on the hypervisor console...
View ArticleWould the latest 5.5 update include the 5.5 update1 patches?
I'm little new to vmware and want to make sure I'm patching correctly. I just installed 5.5.0 and was wondering if I need to apply the 5.5.0 update1 before doing the patch that was just released in...
View ArticleSlow Mouse Movement after Upgrade to 4.1
Hi, after upgrading my testserver from ESXi 4.0 U2 to Hypervisor 4.1 the mouse movement in the remote Console of vSphere Client ist very slow and it is hard to use. This Problem occurs with Win 7 x64...
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