query on nic teaming
Hey all, was just wondering is it really necessary to team the nics. I have 3 cards running in parallel to a vswitch. The way I understand it, it goes virtual to physical to virtual to physical....
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Hey guys, it looks like I am going to need to add HP nic drivers to an already live esxi 4.1 installation. Didn't see an option for doing this remotely as HP says the drivers have to be on a cd in the...
View ArticleRe: another query on drivers
How about 1. ILO/KVM/iDRAC?2. Mount the ISO on local machine and copy the files over network (LAN/WAN) on ESX host either local datastore or SAN storage
View ArticleRe: another query on drivers
The drivers need to be injected into the esxi bare metal install. I think it's a bunch of linux commands I will need to run. That's why I'm trying to figure out how to do it at our international...
View ArticleRe: query on nic teaming
Please take a look at http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/virtual_networking_concepts.pdf which explains virtual networking on ESX/ESXi. What basically happens with multiple uplinks on a vSwitch (with...
View ArticleHP Offline Bundle on U3?
I am running ESXi 4.1 U3. I want to install ESXi Offline Bundle for VMware ESXi 4.1 U2 (American, International) as there does not seem to be a version for U3. The instructions say to install it on...
View Articleshow process id for UDP socket in esxi 4.1
How do you find out which process is using a UDP port in ESXI 4.1 ? 3 of my ESXi 4.1.0 (260247) servers are sending UDP traffic to 50.17.133.11 (ec2-50-17-133-11.compute-1.amazonaws.com), destination...
View ArticleRe: Nano Command not working?
nano won't work in ESXi the below KB may helphttp://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008065
View ArticleRe: another query on drivers
Image builder should helpUsing the vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware BlogsVMware vSphere 5 - Using Image Builder To Create Custom ISO - YouTube Using vSphere ESXi Image...
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Unable to power on VM on ESXi 5.1
Hi, I am running ESXi 5.1.I copied a whole VM to my ESXi 5.1 and added the .vmx file to the inventory. But when powering on the VM getting the following error:Here is list of contents of the VM: I am...
View ArticleRe: Unable to power on VM on ESXi 5.1
How did you copy the VM? If you edit the settings are the drives configured to point to the new location of the VMDK files?
View ArticleRe: Unable to power on VM on ESXi 5.1
Please delete the .lck file and then power on the VM again. Also can you try pinging the VM with its hostname. It might be running at the Guest OS level
View ArticleRe: Unable to power on VM on ESXi 5.1
Hi Weinstein5, Thanks for your response. Actually I am not sure that how the VM copied. I got 2 VM from my client and among them 1 can power on and works fine. Thanks
View ArticleRe: Unable to power on VM on ESXi 5.1
Hi AakashJ, Thanks a lot. After deleting the .lck file it is working. Now I can power on the VM. Thanks.Mahfuz
View ArticlePerformance considerations
Hello A bit of background.... We run something like a private cloud - there's no self provisioning or anything but there's a shared infrastructure which includes 30 ESXi 4.1 hosts, shared storage and...
View ArticleRe: Performance considerations
So, in our scenario, if we limit VMs to use only a certain amount of clock cycles, what happens to the rest of the available clock cycles in ton that particular core? Can other VMs who are set to...
View Articlelicense of 3.5
Hello,I have to decommission a huge cluster running 3.5 ESX. How I can reuse my 3.5 licenses to my new ESXi 4.1 enterprise cluster?there will be a huge hardware difference as well (G1 to G7). Thanks,...
View ArticleRe: license of 3.5
You will need to upgrade the licenses to v4 at the licensing portal. Check out the vSphere 4 Licensing for more information.
View ArticleDeploy an OVF with Thin Provissioning ESXI 4.0
I have made an OVF template using Vsphere 4.0 from an ESXI 4.0 server. It is thin provissioned. When I deploy this template to another ESXI 4.0 server it always comes up thick and I can't see anywhere...
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