Number of Virtual Machines
Hello guys, I'm very new to virtualization, so please bear with me. How can I identify the number of Virtual Machines the licenses restricts for each SERVER? I would like to know what are the...
View ArticleHome Whitebox ESXi with FreeNAS handling local storage
I'm kind of new to ESXi, FreeNas,and really anything beyond home Windows support. Please forgive me for my level of knowledge, but I'm reading alot and trying to learn. This seems like a fairly large...
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Passthough from ESXi to a real PC (not to a VM on EXSi)?
Hello, I have an ESXi 5.1 Host run with: ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, AMD 3 GHz Phenom II, 16GB RAM1 PCI video card for display the console config screen1 PCI video card to do passthrough /...
View ArticleDefrag Virtual Hard Drive in vSphere 4 Hypervisor
Hey GuysI noticed the hard drives on my VM's were fragmented badly in the operating system and in the VM virtual hard drive.I have defragged the hard drives in Window Server 2008, but I can't find how...
View ArticleMSI Z87-G43 + I5-4670K cant boot/install
Hi guys, I have been scratching my head for the last couple of hours on this one.I just want to upgrade my well running Q9550 ESXi with some new hardware, because i needed more RAM (old setup only...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 slow Network
Hi, I've got an productive ESXi 5.5 (1331820) Hypervisor with two Windows Server 2012 R2 (1x DC & 1xRDS), there are currently working about 15 people on the RDS.They use programs which run over the...
View ArticleVsphere - Promiscuous Mode?
I have a VM that runs in the Vsphere Hypervisor. I am attempting to install a VPN utility (SoftEther) that requires the network adapter to be set in Promiscuous mode. After reviewing ESXI...
View ArticleHigh Availability
I know that HA can still work even after vCenter goes down.My question is how long will HA will still be functional? 2 datacenters (with 1 cluster each) is managed by one vCenter Server.The problem...
View ArticlevShpere Hypervisor: Can't mount a guest OS to VM
After I installed VSphere Hypervisor and client, tried to create 2 VM for Windows 8.1 and Linux. I never got a success due to no OS found. Attached is image of screen. I tried many options to locate...
View ArticleVmware Hypervisor 5.5 and external datastore
I am using VMware Hypervisor 5.5 on a Dell T100 Server with 8GB memory and 500GB internal mirrored SAS drives. I have setup the networking and DataStore for the SAS drive but would also like to...
View ArticleWhiteBox Update to 5.5 - Review Specs
It is about time I upgrade my 4.0 ESXi box. This time instead of having external storage, I'm thinking of having everything in one and use the onboard SATA with RAID 5. What do you think of my planned...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS: Error connecting to /bin/vmx process.
I'm standing up a new environment with vSphere 5.0.1 and I'm running into an issue with deploying Windows 2008 R2 VMs from a template. If I deploy a Windows 2008 R2 VM from a template and do any type...
View ArticleShould I use the original or the ESXi based OEM Custom ISO?
Hi! I have a HP ProLiant DL380 G5. It runs with an original vSphere Hypervisor 5.0 (the first version). Now I have time, and I want to start the upgrade procedure to version 5.1, and I saw, that there...
View ArticleWhat is the best way to change the physical harddisks of my server?
Hi! I have a HP ProLiant DL380 G5. It runs with the vSphere Hypervisor 5.0 (first version). I use eight 33 GB Harddisks, and now I need more space. I bought eight 72 GB Harddisks, but now I am not sure...
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Cannot Install Windows 2012 Essentials on ESXi 5.1
I have been trying to install Windows Server 2012 Essentials on my ESXi box and I just can't get it to work.My physical machine is a HP MicroServer N40L with 8GB ram.I have installed VMWare onto an 8GB...
View ArticleTransfer Speeds Between Virtual Machines
Hi Had a search for this but cannot find anything.. I believe I read somewhere that the data transfer between 2 vm's on the same host travelled via the motherboard/hard drive and didn't travel through...
View ArticleHow to inject network driver for Dell Vostro 1520
I try to install ESXi 5.5.0 on Dell Vostro 1520. But I see the error message the same as described in the following thread. Vmware vSphere Hypervisor installation network adapter problem Unfortunately,...
View ArticleCheapest license for standalone ESXi
Hi Community, can't answer the simple question by myself. We have powerful standalone server with only 1 VM that requires 24 vCPUs. Unfortunately ESXi free license has limitation of 8 vCPUs per VM. I...
View ArticleNIC Teaming Failover Not happened on ESXi 5.5
Hi Guys, We have ESXi 5.5 HP Blade server configured with HP Virtual Connect. Yesterday ,one of the network adapter out of two configured with vSwitch was down due to Pause flooding issue on the port....
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Connect vSphere to ESXi Server over VPN
I've read a few posts, but so far none of them quite cover what I'm looking for. Here's the setup that I have: Site 1:ESXi Server --> Tomato VPN WRT54GL --> Cisco ASA* --> ISP Site...
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