device 001.00.0 not found - and the fix
HiI just wanted to share an incident and the resolution of such on an Esxi4.0 machine. It relates to a digium compatible voip card in a pci slot (which was in passthru mode to a virtual machine running...
View Articlehowto shink the vmware OS (rather than a virtual machine)
HiMy vmware OS is allocated 460Gigs, but is using only 563 megs of that. Will the converter be able to shrink that...its not a 'virtual machine' though, is it?Command line?ThanksMD
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Can you please clarify this. I don't understand where you see this huge disk usage!? ESXi usually requires less than 10GB on a disk (including log/dump partitions). André
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please refer this picture...this shows the OS with disc sizes, but NOT the virtual machines
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The volume on the screenshot is a VMFS3 Datastore, which is used to store the virtual machine's files/folders. It's only the volume name "VMwareOS" (which has definitely been assigned manually) may be...
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OK, thanks, I understand that now. So how can I reduce the reported size, to free up space for the virtual machines....or there is not need to do this as that 460gigs of space should be available for...
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Everything seems to work as expected. The datastore's whole disk space (except for the metadata) is available for virtual machines. André
View ArticlePlug an External 3.0 TB WD to ESXi 4.1
Hello.I want to Plug an External HDD 3 TB to ESXi 4.1 but ESX can detect my USB device. How can I solve it?Another problem is that "fdisk" command not found too : root@ESXHost0 jason]# find / -name...
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what about if you start the command without the full path?# fdisk -l
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i think on ESXi there is no more fdisk installed. only on ESX Have a trie with partedUtil:VMware KB: Using the partedUtil command line utility on ESXi and ESX
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Re: Plug an External 3.0 TB WD to ESXi 4.1
OK. I found "fdisk" and the result is :# /sbin/fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1999.1 GB, 1999173058560 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243052 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes...
View ArticleHow can I find the serial number of my Hardware.
Hello.How can I find the serial numbers of my Hardware on server? Thank you.
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this could help you : HP Support document - HP Support Center
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Hi, Please ssh to esxi host and type : esxcfg-info | grep "Serial N" Regards,Ram.
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It just show my Server Serial number and I want to find Memory Brand and Serial numbers too.
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Hi, Type esxcfg-info | less . You may note the details required by scrolling down using arrow keys. Regards,Ram.
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It can't show me Memory Serial number and Brand name Can you show me your output?
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Hi, Apologies. Which version of ESXi are you using?
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If you're using an ESXi version 5.x , please type smbiosDump | less . You'll find the ESXi RAM details you're looking for. Regards,Ram.
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