Disks full virtual machine cannot be accessed - What now?
I had a fairly full datastore and decided to free up space. Went to Smapshot manager deleted all smapshots, big mistake, I should have read Fillips post " When initiating Delete or DeleteAll snapshots,...
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>>> What is my best next move?Please provide details:Version and build number of the ESXi host?Do you have other datastores available?What's the free disk space on all available datastores? A...
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Re: How to install windows 8 on esxi 4.1 ?
The ESX host installed with normal basic image is not supported windows 8 and windows 2012 OS.please have the latest updated image from the ESX Image providers or download required updates. follow...
View ArticleRe: Problem vm loosing network occasionally
Was this issue resolved?? we are experiencing the same issue where the guest is not accessible on the network and to fix the issue we edit the setting in the VM and disconnect the network adapter and...
View ArticleWhy is large RDM IO limited to 64kb under ESXi 4.1 even though...
A large IO from a Guest VM running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 using pvscsi driver to an RDM disk, is split into 64kb IO sizes when sent to storage array. ESXi host profile has Disk.DiskMaxIOSize...
View ArticleRe: Problem vm loosing network occasionally
hello, unfortunately this problem is not fixed. We just finished our migration to Vsphere/ESX 5.1 and we're still impacted by this issue from time to time.As this problem is occuring on Prod vms (that...
View ArticleHow to replace IP 10.*.*.* in /etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg
Hey everyone, I need to REIP a LOT of esx hosts, and am really close, but either through Powershell / Powercli / plink I can't seem to figure out hot to replace the vCenter IP address in...
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On a side note, I am trying to use wget now, and am running into the cfg file being corrupted somehow when I grab it from a IIS server / virtual directory- <config> 㰀栀琀琀瀀一昀挀㸀ഀഀ...
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ESXtop Network - Port-ID to vNIC mapping
Hi Guys, I have a questions concerning ESXtop on an ESXi 4.1 Host. Lets say I have an VM with two vNICS. In ESXtop it looks like this: So I use PORT-ID 16778042 & 16778043 on the Virtual Switch....
View ArticleESXTOP - VMs slowness and freezing
Hello, We are seeing some VMs freezing and sometimes disconnecting from the zero client. I have attached the ESXTOP log and I believe the issues is with our SAN. Looking for help analyzing this data.
View ArticleRelocate Virtual Machine - The Task was canceled by a user
I wonder if someone can help please. At my place of work we have an ESXi4.1 vCentre, with about 60 hosts at various remote sites. We've recently experienced a hard disk error in one of the hosts,...
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Re: Relocate Virtual Machine - The Task was canceled by a user
Hi Welcome to the communities. Please share log file as this error message dose nt give any idea. If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
View ArticleRUnning out of space on a datastore
Hello, I am working on a problem where a thin disk is over allocated (the LUN is1.92TB and the vmdk is thin provisioned to 2TB). I am concerned why the VMwould eating up free space on thedatastore...
View ArticleUsing mutiple mutipath pluggin
Hello, I am using EMC VMAX storage and powerpath in installed as multipath pluggin. We are planning to add LUNs from netapp v series solution. Will it work together?Netapp LUNs will be using nmp.ESXi...
View ArticleRe: RUnning out of space on a datastore
The amount of free space inside a thin provisioned vmdk that is reported by the guest (140Gb in this case) is not directly related to the size on disk that is actually used by the thin.vmdkThe reason...
View ArticleRe: RUnning out of space on a datastore
Thanks for the advice continumm. I found some space on the SAN and extended the datastore to be 3.72TB. It is still growing by 4GB per day, but now I have some time. I wish the guy who set this used...
View ArticleRe: Using mutiple mutipath pluggin
Hi, It should work. I dont see any reason not to. RegardsMohammed Emaad
View ArticleSpace low on a datastore - safe to remove a snapshot?
Hi, Overnight a lot of data was placed into one of our VM's causing it to run out of space. I have since removed it all but the actual datastore has not freed up any space. The VM has an old snapshot...
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Hi tachiau, Welcome to the VMware Commmunity, Yes deleting the snapshot will allow you to reclaim the datastore space. Before doing anything, Refer this thread...
View ArticleRe: Space low on a datastore - safe to remove a snapshot?
I am concerned that because there is so little space, it will simple use up any remaining space when deleting the snapshot. Or is my assumption incorrect? Thanks
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