Re: New to vmware - never used it - need some advice
Thank you for the information provided. The essentials plus kit is what I was looking for, but unfortunately the company has rejected this alternative. The company does not want to purchase a storage...
View ArticleNew to Vsphere; Resource Allocation.
Hello all; I recently became the System Admin for a company that was kinda...pieced together. The virtual machines were all over the place, some not even being used, and I needed to do some much...
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When you say your database storage, do you mean the size of the VMware vCenter database? Or do you mean your DATASTORE storage? When you removed the VMs, did you remove from inventory or did you...
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I chose DELETE FROM DISK to remove the VM, but I didn't get any datastore back in order to allocate to another VM. My server still says it only has 29GB free even though I deleted 4 VM's that had about...
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Sometimes there is a delay from when you delete the files for the server to recalculate the storage. If you right click on the datastore and choose BROWSE DATASTORE, do you see the folders for those...
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Nope I don't see the folders for those VM's at all, yet I'm missing about 500 GB worth of total storage on my server. It says I have 1.32 TB capacity with 29.06 free and I Know the server has at least...
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I've seen it take some time to recognize the files were removed. Is this local space or SAN/Network Attached? I agree that it seems like a lot of extra space that isn't needed. The other thing to...
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This is network server that I am using vSphere from my admin computer to remote into.I do know the allocations are already set up as THIN though since that displays for me when I tried to reduce it....
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What version of ESXi are you running? What about the VMFS file system version? Was the host upgraded from an older version? It's possible the block size was set to a lower number when it was built,...
View ArticleI am not able to connect my host with v-Sphere client
I am trying to add host on my Vcenter with it gives me error"Add host (name) Cannot contact the specified host (10.32.xx.xx). The host may not be available on the network, a network configuration...
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can you ping the host?can you start an IE and type in the ip and get a web page?i always connect my hosts with a FQDN name not ip sounds like a network problem or NIC problem
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Re: I am not able to connect my host with v-Sphere client
Ya its been resolved by restarting management network services and another one service. Thanks alot for your suggestion.
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vSphere Client 4.1.0 Build 345043 VMware ESXi Version 4.1.0 Build 348481 And I THINK I'm using VMFS3 if I am reading this correctly, since I am not 100% sure how to view it (I'm looking under Software...
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ESXi 4.1 reboot causing errors in datastore hindering recovery
Datastore comes and goes. Returns after several refreshes. Physical Disk (1TB) appears fine. VMFS Partition appears fine, VM disks appear fine. 2VMs are browseable and files appear correct. I/O error...
View ArticleRe: New to vmware - never used it - need some advice
If you are looking for free VMware backup solution then have a look on this software i.e. Ahsay software. Ahsay VMware backup module is designed for using in conjunction with AhsayOBM for fast and...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Freeze
Hello I have virual machines on esxi 4.1 hosts. 3-5 of them (server 2008 R2) are freeze randomly. i have created dump file but don't know how to open and read it. Can you give me any advice? file name...
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Hi Forzajuve, I believe we can't read the dump except VMware Support.But in communities page some one have posted with help of IDA Support: Freeware Version we can able to read the dump.lets talk about...
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Ok, I have 3 hosts esxi 4.1 u3 with latest patch (1682698). Server firmware, vcenter server 4.1, vmware tools are also updated. When this problem happened first I thought the source of problem VGA/SVGA...
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I have few question to ask,those are belowDo you have any anti-virus or cron job running in the background?Do you find any glitches in the VM task manager or in host level...
View ArticleRe: Reducing of VM hardisk space
Also it is always a good practice to make a backup of your files inside the VM as resizing down is usually a tricky situation, as you will not be able to determine where the resizing stops and which...
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