VMware Communities: Message List

Hi, i have build a new haswell pc (asrock z87 extreme 4 + i5-4570 non-K), installed 5.1 u1 esxi. Succesfully passed thru amd 7790 and motherboard sound controler to win8 vm but cant get the last piece...

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Re: How to disable HBA card/Port from ESX

August 18, 2011, 11:04 pm

i agree. i always use esxcfg-mpath which can even disable multiple ports/HBA card. thanks as this would be a refresher as well.

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Re: Not able to configure HA ....

August 18, 2011, 12:21 am

helpful answers will be processed provided that you could give more information about your concern. the community would be very glad to help everyone out.

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Memory Reservations and Disk I/O

August 26, 2013, 10:05 am

I am evaluating these settings from VMware KB: Troubleshooting hosted disk I/O performance problems.MemTrimRate = "0"mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"sched.mem.pshare.enable =...

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Re: Enlarging vm HDs

August 26, 2011, 10:17 am

you can simply extend or add space amount or the size of your hard drive by using VMware Converter. works well on these type of cases.

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Re: Does VMWare ESXi 4.1 support intel H61 chipset?

August 27, 2011, 10:27 am

I dont think you will have any problem running VMware on any video cards. since you have pretty good hardware set on your machine, everything should work well. have you found any article where such...

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oh dear, removed the management interface from vswitch0

August 27, 2013, 8:48 am

Hi guys, I was tired this afternoon and by mistake removed the management interface from the vswitch0. I now cannot get back onto the console... rats. There was another card configured with vswitch0...

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Re: oh dear, removed the management interface from vswitch0

August 27, 2013, 9:23 am

What exactly did you remove, the vmkernel vmknic port or the physical uplink vmnic from the vSwitch? There was another card configured with vswitch0 but I don't what it's ip was and a cisco router was...

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Re: Host Recommendation

September 2, 2011, 8:09 am

i just kept on ignoring this message when i updated my VM.. now it has been fixed.. thanks a lot..

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Managing VMs: Which to use, "Hosts and Clusters" or "VMs and Templates"

August 28, 2013, 3:16 pm

Hello everyone, As the subject suggests, when you are managing individual VMs, which is best to use? Hosts and Clusters? VMs and Templates? This is our setup:Previously we had been solely using "Hosts...

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Guest issue on ESXi 4

August 28, 2013, 5:28 pm

Hey all.. looking for some assistance. Client has a physical server with just one SBS 2008 VM. We replaced a failed drive in a local RAID5 (the only storage) which went fine. About two hours later we...

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Re: Guest issue on ESXi 4

August 28, 2013, 7:43 pm

Try moving the VM to a different LUN and see if gets powered ON. and you could also check the VMkernel logs that could point us to the bottleneck.

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Re: Managing VMs: Which to use, "Hosts and Clusters" or "VMs and Templates"

August 29, 2013, 2:42 am

Have you created a blue folder and moved VM's of a particular user under that and assigned the permission? What level of permission have you assigned to the user on the folder. Can you also check if...

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Re: Managing VMs: Which to use, "Hosts and Clusters" or "VMs and Templates"

August 29, 2013, 7:33 am

aravinds3107, That is exactly what I did, a folder for each user under VMs and Templates. I have also used the Power User role and have added several new permissions to the role to accommodate what we...

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