Re: Using mutiple mutipath pluggin
there is no problem. the major storage multipath software already there in esx/esxi.
View ArticleRe: Space low on a datastore - safe to remove a snapshot?
Can you provide more info? Whats the total space on the datastore? a Screenshot of all the files in this Particular VM"s folder? How many VM's are there in the datastore? Is expanding/extending...
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Re: Space low on a datastore - safe to remove a snapshot?
Total data store size is 831gb There are two other VM's taking 50Gb though/ At the moment additional storage is not an option.Thanks
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I am using ESXI 5.5 . I have 2 HD 7950. I use one 7950 in passthrough mode without any problem. but when i try to passthrough 2 of them in same ESXI host, it doesn't boot. if i use 2 HD7950 in two...
View ArticleRe: Space low on a datastore - safe to remove a snapshot?
Hinext time you post a screenshot please make sure to resize the columns so that filenames are visible worst case: consolidating a snapshotshot into a thin provisioned basedisk :new size of thin.vmdk...
View ArticleESXi 4.0 upgrade to 5.5
Greetings! I have three ESXi servers version 4.0 which are running under free license. Recently I am trying to upgrade it to version 5.1 and 5.5 but failed. It said "Operation failed" and seems...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.0 upgrade to 5.5
Hi Wesley, welcome to VMware Community. Its a known issue. Check this KB Article for resolution.VMware KB: Upgrading from ESXi 4.x to 5.x fails with error: Invalid argument when creating vfat file system
View ArticleHost experiencing storage errors
Hi, I have a datacenter consisting of 12 hosts out of which 1 host is not showing the LUNs and hence the datastores. While performing the rescan function in the storage adapters in vcenter, I'm getting...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.0 upgrade to 5.5
Thanks Abhilash, actually I am looking for other solution other than moving all contents to another storage before the migration. But it looks like this is the only way out. Wesley
View ArticleRe: Host experiencing storage errors
could you please check the default patch setting on this host and compare with other host? whether it is VMW_PSP_MRU for Most Recently Used mode (or) VMW_PSP_FIXED for Fixed mode (or)...
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Hi, The path selection policy used is VMW_PSP_FIXED as mentioned in the output of the command esxcli nmp device list. Also checked zoning but no issues observed as of now.
View ArticleRe: Host experiencing storage errors
I would like to know that Is this happened suddenly ? or after you do some changes on LUN or esxi ? why I'm asking because 2 weeks ago, We had the same issue that happened when the storage team...
View ArticleRe: Host experiencing storage errors
hi... as per my knowledge no change has been made on storage.. I have tried to reinstall the ESX on the host and again getting the same errors.. this time I collected more detailed errors as below: Nov...
View ArticleNIC problem
Hello, I newly installed blade 460c with ESXi 4.1 U2 . this server is having 4 port nic but when I try to make vmnic2,3,4,5 up it gives me a following error.vmnic0 and vmnic1 are working fine. ~ #...
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I may be wrong as I can't really remeber this, but AFAIK there are no commands that will force a vmnic up/down in ESXi 4... The "esxcli network nic up/down" is a ESXi 5 thing that does not exist in...
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no effect on nics even if I change duplex settings. virtual center is showing Full duplex but management console (ESXi ) is showing half vmnic2 0000:0b:00.00 e1000e Down 0Mbps Half...
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Those ports on MEZZ2 and not an embedded nics . how i can make them use for my host ? Port 3MEZZ2NC364m Quad Port 1Gb NIC for c-Class BladeSystemBay 5 (16)Port 4MEZZ2NC364m Quad Port 1Gb NIC for...
View ArticlePlease help me undelete parent .vmdx
BACKGROUND:Using esxi 4.1, using GUI only.I was preparing to migrate an old Server 2003 VM to a new Server 2008 R2 VM so I could delete the old server for all my Windows Server needs. My friend, with a...
View ArticleRe: Please help me undelete parent .vmdx
Welcome to the Communiry - from it sounds like at some point you had taken a snapshot of the VM - The only way I know to reocver a deleted vmdk fail is to utilized a data restoration service -
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