Re: Error msg : Virtual Machine has 8 virtual CPUs, but the Host only...
The vSphere ESXi host where you're trying power on virtual machine is really licensed with Enterprise Plus license ? The VM was running before or you just changed and are trying power on ? Can you tell...
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I powered off the VM and tried the Migrate. I have a 10 CPU license. i just noticed,, 4 of the 2950s that have 2 CPUs and have EE+ The R710 is showing Enterprise. I am not sure why the Licenses for...
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The maximum number of vCPU for a VM running on vSphere ESXi 4.0 Enterprise is 4: VMware KB: Comparison of product offerings for vSphere 4.x and VMware Infrastructure 3.x
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I found it, I had another 2950 in another cluster set to use EE+ I set the serve to use Essentials Plus and freed up the EE + I then set theR510 to use EE+ and was able to migrate the VM
View ArticleRe: Advice needed on disabling synchronous consolidation
Welcome to VMware communities. During snapshot remove operation, a consolidate helper disk is created and the delta disks were merged to its base flat disk for asynchronous consolidate operation to...
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Thanks Rajiv for reverting back to me with a great explanation.From what I understand: +Setting "snapshot.asyncConsolidate.forceSync" to FALSE only prevents the VM from being stunned/paused + Setting...
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coolgod wrote:From what I understand: +Setting "snapshot.asyncConsolidate.forceSync" to FALSE only prevents the VM from being stunned/paused + Setting snapshot.asyncConsolidate.forceSync="FALSE" and...
View ArticleRemote site going dark - vmware response?
Hello, all! We are planning a network upgrade that will put our remote datacenter in the dark for about an hour. We have two vSphere 4.1 hosts and attendant storage that are HA configured and...
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The remote hosts make part of an stretched HA cluster ? They access storage on primary or remote site ? Anyway, to avoid unnecessary alarms you can disable alarms for this hosts: Disable Alarm Actions
View ArticleFailed enable network management on VMWARE ESXi 4.1.0
I have a server with VMWARE ESXi 4.1.0, I disabled network management and when I tried to enable it I got a message which said if I want to reset network management configuration. I can't set up an IP...
View ArticleAuditing DRS event (Who/When) - Vmware 4.1
Dear all,We have got two vmware 4.1 cluster running in one of our production systems. A week ago we started experiencing storage issues as a result of DRS being enable across both clusters. Is there...
View ArticleCan I still convert ESXi 4.1 free to VMware Essential without upgrading to...
I got a working ESXi 4.1 with 3 guest OS in a production environment. Due to the pending implementation of Veeam Backup & Replication 7, I got to convert the ESXi free edition to Essentials. As...
View ArticleRe: Can I still convert ESXi 4.1 free to VMware Essential without upgrading...
Welcome to the Community, vSphere 5 keys won't work in vSphere 4. However, once purchased you can downgrade the keys to version 4 in your My VMware portal account. If you later decide to upgrade the...
View ArticleRe: Remote site going dark - vmware response?
Update on how it all went down....... The only VMware action we had to take was to disable host monitoring for the remote cluster. vCenter yelled at us when it couldn't see the hosts, but otherwise...
View ArticleJoing the vCenter server to a domain
Greetings all! The next phase of our migration to a newer vSphere is imminent. One of the tasks is to join the Windows server (2008 R2) to an Active Directory domain. It should be a simple as joining...
View ArticleRe: Joing the vCenter server to a domain
Hi, after joining the server to the domain, log in with your vsphere.local\administrator and go to the SSO configuration page. Check if the domain has been added to the identity sources. If not add it....
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On the 5.5 version you could choose the traditional way: simple join to domain and use active directory users in vsphere environment... in multi domain scenario you should use sso...Please refer to...
View ArticleDelete xxx-000001.vmdk
Hi! I have VMARE 4.1.. I have a big problem.I'm going to change SAN.. One virtual Machine is old DATASTORE (Disk1 DataStore1 50GB, Disk2 DataStore2 60GB and Disk3 DataStore3 512GB), when I migrate VM...
View ArticleRe: Auditing DRS event (Who/When) - Vmware 4.1
DRS doesn't move VM's across the data store, It moves VM's across the hosts. so I am unable to understand how DRS has caused storage issues. DRS works only for CPU and Memory scheduling. However to...
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