testing vSphere5 in a small lab...
Hello, in a corner of my office i saw a computer provided with a MSI Z77A-G45, i5 CPU and 16GB DDR3 RAM...thus i thought to test vSphere (free version) 5.1.Well the installation halted due to the fact...
View Articlegetting a error message while installing the esxi
Hi,I am getting a error message "network adaptors were not detected" while installing the esxi5.0 in my laptop, and i cant continue my installation my laptop configuration i3 2nd generation Nic is...
View ArticleEsxi5.1 not recognizing my RAID 10 virtual drive
Hello All, I have a server of cisco ucs 220 m3 and 4 ard drives connected of 1tb each .. with a RAID controller of LSI 92668i... I created RAID 10 virtual drive and when booting it up it shows me that...
View ArticleESXi scratch location and syslog
Hi, we got some IBM blades runing ESXi 4.1 and 5 through Embedded USB. In the past we had some issues to provide VMware support with valid ESXi logs from the blades. We end up to configure syslog to...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 appears to break ANY and ALL on board sata passthrough capabilities
On board sata pass-through capabilities which worked on ALL versions of ESXi 5.1 is no longer working with ESXi 5.5 for Supermicro motherboard: X8SI6-F.Does this mean I have to create my own...
View ArticleCPU 1 locked up. Failed to ack TLB invalidate...
The CPU and memory were upgraded from 4Gb to 12Gb of RAM. It seems to be a hardware issue and cannot be checked using iLO. Another error found is that "no place on disk to dump data."Debugger waiting...
View ArticleESXI 5 - HW Design
Hi I am going to setup ESXI 5 on an DL 385 G7 with 2x146GB HDD and 6x300GB HDD.How should I make the RAID Config for getting a performant system?Any tips and hints?There will be some Windows 2008R2...
View ArticleHow to move RDM from old storagen HP to New storage DELL
Hi, I am implementing VSphere 5.0 in my environment. Currently we are using old storage Datastore and also configured RDM in one of the Virtual Machine. But now the same RDM we want to move new...
View Articlenew 32GB host on a budget
I currently have a Dell poweredge T110 (xeon 3440) 16GB ram for my home lab I would like to stand up a second host for vmotion. It would like to drop 32GB into the second host. has anyone built one of...
View ArticleESXI not booting on HP ProLiant G7
I am trying to run VMware ESXi on a brand new HP Proliant DL360 G7. I've made a bootable pendrive with esxi installer. It started booting and I installed the esxi on another flash pendrive (located...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Installation through PXE problems
Hi,I'm trying to install the ESXi 5.1 through PXE but I have some problems. I've read the vsphere 5 documentation about how to install ESXi via PXE linux. I've set up the TFTP and DHCP correctly. In...
View Articleredundant esxi on embedded dual SD
Hello, I've searched around a bit but can't find the answer.What exactly is the benefit from installing a redundant esxi on a single server? My server in question has an embedded dual SD module, where...
View ArticleESX 5.1 config changes do not save
I have two identical servers. http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX39068Both servers have 32GB RAM.Both servers have 3xIntel PRO 1000 NICs, with an on board realtrek NIC.I have identical USB...
View ArticleIs it possible to upgrade esxi 5.5 to custom Dell esxi 5.5 Ao1 ?
We have a Dell R410 wich was upgraded from 4.1 to 5.5, the regular installation cd was used in stead of a Dell customized one.Q: is it possible to upgrade the current install with the Dell version...
View ArticleESXi ON a laptop
I think this question has been asked before. I installed esxi 5.5 on a desktop and installed vSphere Client on a separate desktop to manage the server and build VM's. The question is if i build a esxi...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 install - server with just two 10g NICs into a network LAG via LACP
Group, We are trying to install a new ESXi 5.1 server with just two NICs attached to a network via a LACP enabled LAG. The issue for us is that the boot option only offer interface, vlan, tag/untagged...
View ArticleInstalling Windows Sever 2008 from uploaded files
I have a brand new bare metal ESXi server and want to install Windows Server 2008 remotely. I am considering uploading the Windows Server 2008 installer to the datastore, but the user-guide mentions...
View ArticleRAID HDD degraded after installing ESXi 5
Hi, Im trying to install ESXi on my server which has mirrored HDD's. My problem is that after installing ESXi and the computer reboots I am told that the RAID volume is degraded so one of the HDD's is...
View ArticleAdding a drive to ESXi
I installed ESXi "first time" on a desktop with two hard drivers.Server is up and running. However i can only use the hard drive the server is installed on. Can someone please point me in the right...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Installation through PXE problems
Hi,I'm trying to install the ESXi 5.1 through PXE but I have some problems. I've read the vsphere 5 documentation about how to install ESXi via PXE linux. I've set up the TFTP and DHCP correctly. In...
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