Re: Help with snapshot and delta files
Thanks, everything worked fine, as you mentionned! A+!
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Does any of your VM's have snapshots? Maybe an ISO was mounted at the time the snapshot was created!? In this case you will need to delete the snasphot. You may also check your VMs "Summary" tabs in...
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Re: How to install windows 8 on esxi 4.1 ?
I just want to say thanks to everyone here. I have ESXi 4.1 and I wanted to install a 2012 server and yes, stuck in the reboot loop. I have used the Bios and edited the vmx file now, and the...
View Articlelet vmware machine approac local datastore
i have a esxi server with about 100+ Windows XP machine doing several testing work. All of them need to be upgraded to Windows Service Pack 3. Have made script to let them install the SP3 from our...
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You cannot access the files on the daatstore directly, so that won't work.Some thoughts though:extract the servicepack .exe file once on the NAS, and run the installation using the "update.exe"use one...
View ArticleIssue with exchange 2010 on esxi 5.1
I'm facing an issue in esxi 5.1. I have created on vm with 2008 r2, on 2008r2 standard we have configured exchange 2010. My issue is even after taking back up of all mails from exchange to another...
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hi kiran, can you please explain in detail?what do you mean by 'space consumption' is same? do you mean vmdk size is same even after clearing the data inside OS? If that's the case its an expected...
View ArticleWhat are the vm-xxx numbers in the vcenter logs?
Good morning, all! I was trolling through the vCenter system logs this morning and noticed that many entries have a vm number. The format is vm-5xx. Does this number relate to a specific VM, and, if...
View ArticleDCA/SSH disabled and vSphere problem
We use esxi 4.1 Free running on Dell R610. For security reasons we disabled DCA and SSH connections having no problems for years. 2 days ago, we can't connect via vsphere: "Server takes too long for...
View ArticleWhat "unmapped user access" for NFS share in Windows Server 2008 R2?
Initially, I followed this Youtube video to configure an NFS share in Windows Server 2008 R2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ8Q_vsiksgPlease notice that the default option Allow unmapped user Unix...
View ArticleRe: What "unmapped user access" for NFS share in Windows Server 2008 R2?
Have you tried running through the steps from the VMware blog?How to Enable NFS on Windows 2008 and Present to ESX | VMware Support Insider - VMware Blogs Also there are 3 KB articles to be aware of in...
View ArticleRe: DCUI/SSH disabled and vSphere problem
Do you have physical access to the server to see the console directly?The only supported fix here is to reinstall esxi.However I did find one unsupported method. Power down the host down.Use Bernhard...
View ArticleRe: DCUI/SSH disabled and vSphere problem
Hi Welcome to communities. Did you enabled that option , if not go to troubleshooting option then enable .
View ArticleRe: DCUI/SSH disabled and vSphere problem
Got no other choice than reboot. Fortunately all services restarted with no problems.Thank You so much for your help.
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no LUN available when trying to increase datastore
hi All, running VMware ESXi 4.1.0 348481 on a single host, single datastore.had 3x 300GB disks running in RAID5. Over weekend i added a fourth disk, through the hosts storage controller i reconfigured...
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I think this happens because the datastore is a partition on the boot disk. What may work is to increate the datastore from the command line. See e.g. VMware KB: Growing a local datastore from the...
View ArticleRe: no LUN available when trying to increase datastore
Connect to host directly and attempt to expand the LUN again, I have seen this situation before where sometimes vCenter does not automatically pick up settings. vfk
View ArticleThe vSphere Client get error: vSphere Client could not connect to "esxi4_01"...
Hello everyone, I have 08 servers running ESXi 4.1 standalone in my datacenter. A few days ago when trying to connect one of these servers via vShpere Client got the error: vSphere Client...
View ArticleRe: The vSphere Client get error: vSphere Client could not connect to...
I think the vpxa services has stopped, try restarting the vpxa service service vmware-vpxa restart OR following this guide to restart management services VMware KB: Restarting the Management agents on...
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