Re: ESXi 5.1 U1 (1065491) upgrade breaks Dell M710
Having run some more tests I'm now leaning towards some weird clash between the latest Dell firmware/BIOS, esxi and the dual sd card module. i'm going to try with a couple of USB pens to bypass the sd...
View ArticleRe: Windows 8 on a Windows XP Host?
P4 3.0 dont support window 8 if i remember and i currently have Windows 8 on a pentium D 3.0 2core with 1gb ddr2 and an ati rage pro 1998 8mb for gpu and it work well.. with your 3 gb your ok to...
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
After chaning IP of what? of vCenter?
View ArticlevCD query service "Unmatched opening and closing brackets" error if the...
I have hit a snag or bug in the query service or vCO's implementation where if I pass in a string that has the open paren character "(" without also a closing ")" I get the error: Bad request:...
View ArticleRe: How to get provisioned memory in host's view
The difference is quite big: Reported by $_.ExtensionData.Summary.Quickstats.StaticMemoryEntitlementName Host Memory Provisioned MB Host Memory Consumed GB---------...
View Article%CSTP goes above 300% during snapshot delete
Hi all, I am working with this huge, problematic VM:12 GB RAM12 CPU2 disks (600 GB & 900 GB)2 VMware Paravirtual SCSI controllers (0:0 & 0:1)No VSSThe problem is that after a backup which takes...
View ArticleRe: Hosts with different NICs and vDS
Thanks for the prompt reply. In regards to traffic shaping using vDS: How will hosts with different NICs (1GB) links be affected by the traffic shaping policies at the vDS level? In other words, if I...
View ArticleRe: Windows 8 on a Windows XP Host?
weltoid wrote: The CPU is an Intel pentium 4 3.00 Ghz on a G31T-M9 motherboard. How do I tell if "VT-x" and "Execute Disable Bit" are enabled? Looking at Intel's website it appears that Intel Pentium 4...
View ArticleRe: Crash when "Upgrade this virtual machine"
Huh. Bummer. Thanks a ton for the logs and memory dump. They've been attached to a new bug and routed to the right people. - Ryan
View ArticleRe: imac 10.7.5 Fusion 4.1.4 problems
On my old MacBook Pro it had a built-in SuperDrive and while it worked at times it didn't at other times, was a pain in the a**! My new MacBook Pro doesn't have a built-in SuperDrive however I've been...
View ArticleFind boot partition local Disk/SAN
hi guys I am managing an environment that I did not deploy... so in the ESXis I see volumes from SAN that are supposed to boot from SAN but at the same time they have local disks.The thing these ESXi...
View ArticleRe: Total Storage amount in datacenter
You could try something like thisGet-Datacenter|SelectName,@{N="Storage Used (GB)";E={ $sum=Get-Datastore-Location$_| where {$_.ExtensionData.Summary.MultipleHostAccess-and$_.Type-eq"VMFS"} |...
View ArticleRe: How to get provisioned memory in host's view
Strange, can't seem to be able to reproduce that problem in my environment.
View ArticleRe: Windows 8 on a Windows XP Host?
Thank you. So I can't create a Windows 8 machine? I created Windows 7 and it works fine. I installed Windows 8 as a host and it seemed to work OK.
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
I realise it's late now but you didn't need to do all this. I've done this before: Create routing between the old IP range and new, using a routerAdd a second vmkernel to each hostChange DNS records...
View ArticleRe: Какой размер кластера выбрть для ESXi 5.1 при построении RAID
>Причина - размер кластера в VMFS5 = 1 MB Ну вот не совсем так. Нет большого влияния размера блока VMFS на дисковый ввод-вывод кроме случаев роста виртуальных дисков и создания ВМ.Я бы даже сказал,...
View ArticleExcessive load balancing requests
We have 4 esxi 5.0 hosts connected to an EQ ps6000 array. Today, we've seen numerous load balancing messages anywhere from 2 to 10 minutes apart. We usually go for days without these messages. I didn't...
View ArticleRe: Какой размер кластера выбрть для ESXi 5.1 при построении RAID
>И по скорости, даже 5-й рэйд на SAS 10k уделывает 10-ку на SATA. причем уделывает по всем параметрам и с очень хорошим отрывом.SATA - 90 IOPSSAS 10k - 130 IOPS. Из одного и того же количества...
View ArticleRe: Windows 8 on a Windows XP Host?
Well you could try installing the 32-bit version of Windows 8 using VirtualBox. The 64-bit version of Windows 8 will not install on your CPU, natively or virtually.
View ArticleRe: Какой размер кластера выбрть для ESXi 5.1 при построении RAID
>Значит вы рекомендуете использовать все 8 дисков под 10 raid без хотспары? Замерьте вашу нагрузку, если там мало записи, то я бы советовал RAID 6 и обязательно положить в ящик запасной диск, если...
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