Re: How to move a VM ( virtual appliance) from one Cluster to another?
Two options then - export the appliance as an OVF and import it into the correct cluster or use VMware Standalone Converter and move it over -
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I've contacted VMware tech-support and they confirmed problem with read-operation from LUN, where problem VM lies... A little bit strange, because we had several VMs there and I can migrate from/to...
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The export failed twiceI dont have the root ID and PW for the VM and I'm guessing I need the Root ID and PW to authenticate in to the VM to do the conversion. Is that correct? The last thing I was...
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Re: Broadcast traffic from unknow mac address on ESX host
To trace the traffic where come from you have to use a third party tool. You can install wireshark then you can find out the traffic source and destination mac address and IP address. Try this may...
View ArticleESXi 4.0 208167 initial install used 80G of hard drive space
Hi, I am setting up an old HP Proliant DL360 G5 server with two 146SAS hard drives, managed by HP Smart Array P400i controller. With RAID 1+0, the logical disk is about 136G. After installing the...
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If I understand you correctly, there's nothing on the datastore's yet (i.e. no VMs)? In this case you may try to delete the datastore and re-create it to see whether it reports the correct size after...
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Removing and recreating the datastore did the trick. I got back 131.2G. Thanks Andre! One question, what could cause the ESXi to misread the available hard drive space initially? -Jim
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I don't know, but I guess there were some "dirty" bits on the disk which were not initialized properly!? But as mentioned, that's just a guess. André
View ArticleUnable to apply 4.1 Update 03 - Server things it is already installed but it...
I was using PowerCLI to go from Update 02 ot 03 on a 4.1 ESXi server using the localhost option. However, the powercli install command failed during the update "Unable to write data to the transport...
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Witout knowing what exactly happened and what went wrong, the following options should be considered carefully:Rollback to the previous state by pressing Shift-R while booting the ESXi hostuse...
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Hi André thanks for the answer - it really helped. I did a Shift-r and it came up with: "Failback not allowed when upgrading" "Press enter to boot" and it then booted up saying that the hypervisor was...
View ArticleVsphere 4.1 HA Cluster
HI, We have a 2 Node HA Cluster Running with 5 Produktiv VMs and 5 Test VMs. The VMs are Distributed over the 2 NodesHow can i shut down only the Test VMs in Case of an Hostfailure? HA Cluster...
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Hi, If you are configuring your HA with option (Restart Priority disabled), ni case of host failure, your VM will not be restarted. The values for this setting are: Disabled, Low, Medium (the default),...
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Disable the VM restart property to disabled for the test VM's Edit them under Virtual Machine Options located under HA
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Thank you, but this is not my problemWhen Host1 Fails the Produktiv VMs restart on Host2.The TestVms on Host1 will not restart because of the restart priority option.And now i want to Shutdown the...
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Hi, You cannot do that with the default component. But you can use orchestrator or something else with a workflow that shutdown your VMs in case of host failure. Regards,Julien
View ArticleNIC Teaming ESXi 4
I'm planning on doing a p2v of a server that uses HP network software to do NIC teaming. When virtualized, I noticed the ESXi network properties enable some NIC teaming properties by default. Will this...
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Yes, you will have to remove the HP teaming driver and other hardware related drivers and tools. André
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Most migration software requires NIC teaming to be disabled before you P2V - in terms of whether you need the teaming when the machine is virtualized what are you attempting to accomplish with the HP...
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mlwiller2 wrote: I'm planning on doing a p2v of a server that uses HP network software to do NIC teaming. When virtualized, I noticed the ESXi network properties enable some NIC teaming properties by...
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