Upgrading ESXi 4.1.0 to 6.0. - upgarde and best practices
Hi guys, We are a small company with only one Physical server, with ESXi 4.1.0 installed and ca. 8 VMs. We are planning on buying ESXi 6.0 Essential Kit, as this is all we need at the moment. However,...
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Hi, As you mentioned, you cannot upgrade ESXi Host from 4.x to 6.x You need to first upgrade 4.x to 5.x and then upgrade to 6.x Before upgrading to 5 or 6, make sure you ESXi Host is compatible with...
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Thanks a lot! This was short and very helpful. We are planning on kicking the upgrade next weekend, with backing all critical data on external drives.Thanks again! Best Regards,Dragomir
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Recover Snapshoted VMDK file / consolidate a snapshot
Hi, I have a very huge problem and I don’t know how to deal with it in the right way, i had some old server that been setup with weekly snapshots.and we some hardware issue with the server that cause...
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It really depends on how much data was lost - i.e. what size were the missing delta files. If they were quite small, it might be possible to recover by editing the snapshot chain. This KB details how...
View ArticleVMware ESXI 4.1 cluster
Hello. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to connect together 2 SAN iscsi (1 HP MSA P2000 and 1 HP MSA 1040) to a cluster vmware esxi using a network switch? Thank you
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Welcome to the Community, with the snapshot's file sizes there might be a good chance to at least be able to recover some of the important files after re-chaining (and/or cloning) the virtual disk. For...
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ok so in this case, in need to fix all the chain for example vm.vmdk parentvm0001.vmdkvm0002.vmdk missingvm0003.vmdkvm0004.vmdk missingvm0005.vmdk latest so new chain for example will be look like that...
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Just a quick note. The numbers in the snapshot file's names are not necessarily in an ascending order,. The parentFileNameHint" in the .vmdk files is what matters most!!! André
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Hi thanks for your reply. i have now something around 300GB free on my data-store.i will attach files you ask shortly, i will also described what i have done some of them are empty new snapshot that we...
View ArticleRe: VMware ESXI 4.1 cluster
May it be possible, but according with VMware HCL, the HP MSA 1040 does not support ESXi 4.1, only supports ESXi 5.x and higher, see: VMware Compatibility Guide - Storage/SAN Search
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a.p.i attach the zip file. just to be sure i add txt file with some notes about the vmdk once again thanks a lot.
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Ok, so from what I found in the files and from the file sizes I reconstructed a possible snapshot chain.The chain is: 5 -> 4 ->1 -> 14 -> 2 -> 6 -> db1.vmdkI had to edit two of the...
View ArticleRe: scripted install "Did not get an IP Address from DHCP server"
This sounds more like the issue I am having. My main issue is that we cable the 10GB ports only which are vmnic4 and vmnic5. Where is menu.cfg located? I tried adding it to my boot.cfg file of the ESXi...
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ESXI4.1 Datastore teilweise I/O-Error
Hallo hier, wir hatten einen Systemabsturz einer esxi 4.1, nach dem Neustart war die INstallation defekt.Wir haben dann die esxi4.1-Installations--CD eingelegt und die Reperatur durchgeführt. Danach...
View ArticleRe: MPIO inside a guest vm?
From my understanding, the only reason why I would think MPIO with guest iSCSI is mentioned as an unsupported configuration is because the multipathing would be totally dependent on the nic teaming and...
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Re: ESXi Root Password Reset
have you tried applying hostprofile?? because in my environment, I don't have a licensed version. Yet, I can reset the root password through hostprofile. Give it a try and let me know if u still face...
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This applies to 5.5 and is 100% not supported (ESXi 4.0 isn't supported now anyway) Backup before you attempt so that you can revert your changes if you choose to go ahead....
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Re: unable to connect to MKS:Could not connect to pipe...
this problem occour when have a fail in dns resolution for esxi hosts, verify the dns resolution for your hosts servers, and then flush the dns cache from the station where the vsphere client is...
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Re: Reclaim unused space on thin provisioned disk?
When I ran into this problem, I discovered a workaround which does not require the two volumes to have different block sizes but which requires two migrations (and a lot of free space): first, convert...
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