Re: Need Help!
You need to install vSphere Client in your desktop and then be able to connect to your ESXi 4.1 host and manage your virtual machines. If you don't know how to do, take a look here: How to Install...
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Man I can't thank you enough. I was going down the right path but didn't have the download I needed. I installed vSphere and then spent an hour trying to figure out the root password to the box that...
View ArticleRe: Send Alt-Fx to vm
VMWare douesn't really care about it. To be honest after years of using it I am gointg to leave it just bease of this sh*tty behaviour. I don't reallz known why we couldn't customize keyboard...
View ArticleESXi 4.0.0 398348 snapshot problem
I'll do my best to describe the problem and hopefully someone can explain to me what I'm doing wrong. The host only has 1 VM running on it. Host consists of 3 datastores.Datastore1 465.66 GB - local -...
View ArticleRe: unable to connect to MKS:Could not connect to pipe...
Hi, Have you tried in the vSphere Webclient console under your host's Settings the following: Go to > Hosts & Clusters > Select your Host (thats running your ESXi > on main screen select...
View ArticleRe: Wrong message "VMware Tools can be updated" for VM inside ESXi 4.1
Answering my own post: The answer, actually the procedure, is inside this article:https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-31365 For some reason, VMware Tools is not installed correctly (eg files from...
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accessing Dell T310 running VMWare ESXi 4.1.0
Folks, I have a server which is running VMWare esxi 4.1 and i need to get access to the files. The server used to be in our UK office and was managed by head office overseas. HO went bust and i took...
View ArticleESXi Root Password Reset
My company recently took over control of our VMware environment from a managed services company. They had somehow managed to lose/not record the root password for two of our hosts. It would appear the...
View ArticleVM's stuck at 95%
Hi everyone, after a shutdown of the esxi (4.1) host i have a problem turning on the vm's that are on this host. Everytime i start them they are stuck at 95% and nothing happens.The VM's got snapshots...
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Re: VM's stuck at 95%
Probably you have pointed the base vmdk to the vm which shows the old version in guest OS. You have to turn of VM immediately and point to proper snapshot disk where it was pointing at the time of...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.0.0 398348 snapshot problem
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=10043 This is exactly what I am experiencing. The KB says it applies to 3.0.1 and will be fixed in...
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Re: SCSI Reservation Conflict on local storage
It's not a VMFS issue as you have HW errors for the local storage controller. From your logs Aug 13 13:05:54 vmkernel: 0:00:00:39.247 cpu5:4101)ScsiDeviceToken: 293: Sync IO 0x28 to device...
View Articledatastore missing
hello to all,last night i restarted my host and when it came back my datastore are not there. i tried to rescan and add storage several times but no avail. i am using the vsphere client. please tell me...
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Some additional information might help. As a first step please provide:the host's exact version/buildwhether this is a local or shared datstorethe output of fdisk -luthe output of esxcfg-volume -l André
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-esxi 4.1.0 buiild 348481-shared-shows the disk for local-esxcfg none happen when i put the ip address on the dynamic discovery it show but it won't mount. and when i add storage it show nothing on...
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Just to make sure I understand this correctly. After adding the storage's IP address in Dynamic Discovery, do the static entries show up as expected? Are the iSCSI LUNs visible in the Storage Adapters...
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yes the static address show up.. but they are not visible on the storage pane..
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... but they are not visible on the storage paneThe "Storage" pane shows mounted datastores, what I need to know is whether the iSCSI LUNs show up in the "Storage Adapters" pane at all.André
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Do you see any error messages in the ESXi host's log files, and did you already check the storage system to see whether there's something wrong with the LUN presentation? André
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