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Setting up SCSI card

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:33:35 GMT

Driver updates can be found here - http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_4/4#drivers_tools or you can just update ESXi to the latest firmware version.

This is the version that comes back for ESXi 4.0 update 1 so if you get it installed you'll have the latest aacraid driver - Version: Version 1.1-52459.5vmw, Build: 208167, Interface: 9.0, Built on: Nov 8 2009
Parameters:

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Not able to find "ssh_config and lwiod_config" files in ESXi4.0

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:15:15 GMT

ESXi has a limited (and unsupported) management console.
If you enable SSH, then root access is enabled.
To isolate root from non-root access see:
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/08/14/esxi-ssh-and-non-root-users/

Andre

Disable USB Passthrough has no effect

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:58:03 GMT

Glad to hear it worked out for you.

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ESXi 4.0U1, ICH10, JMicron, Passthrough Separation Issue

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:55:40 GMT

When a VMDirectPath VM is started ESXi must reset the device and in some cases it has to reset all devices on a common bush. It may be that these devices all share a PCI bridge. You can confirm that by looking at esx.conf and seeing which device is enabled for passthru. See some examples here - With ESXi you can enable SSH but it is not supported unless directed by VMware tech support - http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/ESXi_enable_SSH.php. With a standalone ESXi host you don't have the option for AD inDave .

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I put ESXi 4 on too small of a USB thumb drive...

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:27:46 GMT

Do you have a scratch partition configured for the host? 1 GB is sufficient to run ESXi and if you're cloning be aware that the dump partition is not FAT. It might be better to run a new install and then restore a configuratio backup.

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Can/How to ESXi 4.0 to an HP ML350 G4p

enDemand — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:48:36 GMT

Wow...been a while since I've seen a thread like this. But if it makes some feel better..."I was wrong!" Well partially. It wasn't accurate just to say that it won't install on a DL350 G4p. I guess what I should have said was "It's not a supported configuration", which was my intent. I have no clue whether it would install or not...and that wasn't the point of the post. The 2nd part of the response was directed to the question about running 64-bit VMs. Just my opinion, but when someone new to VMware infrastructure asks a question similar to the original post, I think it's the community's responsibility to direct them to supported configurations or at least make it clear that the reply is not supported and generally not recommended for running in a production environment...something that wasn't done in the initial response. With that said, thanks to cookieme for clarifying the situation!

vmware esxi4 does not support nehalem processors

Josh26 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:14:22 GMT

As stated above, this will be your BIOS that is failing to support VT, rather than your processors.
I would look at whether there is a firmware update applicable to your hardware.

P2V guest black screen

dmadden — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:12:07 GMT

There's a couple of solutions here:

1) Reconfigure the virtual disk file to be a SCSI disk instead of IDE

Remove the virtual disk from the virtual machine (right-click edit settings -> hard disk -> remove from virtual machine -> OK)
Connect to service console (ESX) or unsupported mode (ESXi) and open the descriptor disk with a text editor such as vi (i.e. "vi /vmfs/volumes/storage/virtualmachinefolder/virtualdisk.vmdk"
Change ide to "buslogic" or "lsilogic" and save the file
Add the virtual disk back to the virtual machine (right-click edit settings -> add -> hard disk -> use existing disk -> browse to the disk etc)
Verify that the scsi controller is set to buslogic or lsilogic (buslogic will probably have the most success)
Power on the virtual machine

2) Use Converter to create the destination disk as SCSI instead of IDE

Converter 4x has a new disk controller option that is defaulted to "preserve source"
If the original disk is IDE, the virtual disk will be IDE as well
Perform the conversion again and go through the Converter Wizard
On the 2nd last screen with the various "Edit" options, there should be an Edit button for devices (without looking at the screen)
Select the dropdown menu and choose buslogic/lsilogic instead of preserve source
Convert the VM and it should boot

Rule of thumb is that if the virtual machine boots up and it immediately has a black screen with a blinking cursor at the top left, then it's a hardware issue (controller most likely).

Hope this helps.

ESXi free DL380 G6 just spontaneously reboot.

slofly — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:41:33 GMT

My system works stable (after replacing motherboard almost week ago). I will put it in production now.

TIP: for those affected by 'microcode levels not supported' pink screen at installation (cpu stepping mismatch, tlb bug, etc.)

eku1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:25:04 GMT

Is there a trick to making the boot argument permanent? I have to enter "esxcfg-advcfg -k TRUE skipmicrocodecompatcheck`` every time I reboot the machine. This isn`t the practical in case the power goes out and I want it to reboot automatically.

Supermicro host support

mdri — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:35:56 GMT

I have having difficulty searching for my Supermicro system board in the HCL. I own system board X7DWT, and it has run ESX 3.5 without errors. I tried to upgrade it to ESX 4.0U1. It failed and could not roll back. The following error appeared on its console:

driver loading complete

couldnot restore /boot/grub/grub.conf.esx3, upgrade failure will not reboot to ESX3

installation aborted

error: cannot find device for UUIS: ...

press <return> to reboot...

I tried installing ESXi 4.0U1, but the storage attached to the Adaptec 3405 (which is listed in the HCL)was not found.

When I try searching for the Supermicro board for any version of ESX, it is not found. Interestingly, when I search for any Supermicro board, I cannot match any known board in the results. I wonder if there is a trick to searching for Supermicro boards in the HCL, such as a different model number. Any ideas?

Link to my system board: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5400/X7DWT.cfm

out of space message

enDemand — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:05:47 GMT

Thanks, ECrepeau. At this point, I don't have anything else for you at this time. You don't appear to have a space issue since you could create and power-on that new VM...though it is lower from a % perspective. If you're up for posting a tail portion of your vmkernel log file and a VM's vmware.log file or PM'ing it to me, we can look it over. Otherwise, you're best option may be to call VMware support is you have an active SnS agreement with them.

Commandline upgrade from ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.0 U1

lamw — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:05:42 GMT

Probably because you're not passing in the right syntax params and by default it'll use localhost. All vCLI commands will always have the default --server, --username and --password (or you can leave password off and you'll be prompted)

Try this:

vihostupdate.pl --server 10.4.75.230 -user user -i -b C:\ESXi-4.0.0-update01.zip

and assuming that IP is your ESXi host, you'll be prompted for your password

Note: Also if you're using the vCLI to automate any tasks, ensure you're on an eval or properly licensed edition of ESXi, as you can not use the vCLI with the free version of ESXi else you'll get an error.

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ESXi 4 - Backup entire VM to NAS box

lamw — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:27:34 GMT

Yep, this was one of the many enhancements to the latest version of ghettoVCB. Glad to hear its working good

Failed Redundancy for disk mirror under Windows 2008 R2( with ESX4 U1)

atcnf2008 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:19:28 GMT

I don't argue the reliability and savings issue here, but I do think Vmware breaks something unintentionally, if disk-mirroring is not supported in VM guest, Vmware documentation should clearly say so, I don't see anywhere Vmware explicitly states Disk Mirror is not supported in Windows 2008 R2 Virtual Machine as guest..... this thing sounds not right for me.

Upgraded to ESXi Update 1, cant see VM's

COS — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:18:02 GMT

A recent thread indicates the upgrade disabled iSCSI: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/243415

If your VM's were on an iSCSI LUN then you will need to re-connect that iSCSI LUN and import your VM's to inventory.

were they on iSCSI Luns?

vmware esxi 4 and nehalem xeon processors

DSTAVERT — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:58:15 GMT

Did you enable Hardware Virtualization in the Blade BIOS? Once you have virtualization in the BIOS enabled you will need to power the blade OFF and then back on.

ESXi U1 install

Josh26 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:48:04 GMT

Yes!
I have this sorted out.

We don't run Nexus so I'm unsure why one of my servers had the Nexus update installed.

I removed it using the following guide:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1012478

Host Update Utility then updated my servers correctly.

Esxi 4.0 and Crontab

DSTAVERT — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:34:46 GMT

rc.local does survive but the oem.tgz is a good idea. I have found crontabs on ESXi hosts to be less than ideal. Consider setting up ssh keys for login.
Then use cron on another VM (the VMA appliance perhaps.) to schedule execution of the ghettoVCB script.

Paravirtualization and Hard Drive

mcowger — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:09:11 GMT

Its primary goal is for improving performance.

By decreasing the number of times/sec the hypervisor has to trap privleged commands, it improves performance.

--M

--Matt
VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek

Slow Network performance with hp dl380 g5

DSTAVERT — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:27:25 GMT

The ability to cache writes (and reads) become very important in a virtual environment. Night and day difference. You will need to use the ACU to enable it once it is installed.

Virtualization platform for Asterisk.

DSTAVERT — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:16:45 GMT

Not any server. You will be looking for VT and VT-d support. It may also be dependent on the hardware cards you want to deploy.

LTO tape on SAS controller (only for one guest)

asatoran — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:48:46 GMT

(Please do not recommend an additional SAS controller for the tape drive, like Adaptec 1045. That's not the way we want. - But reports of running setups with dediceted SAS controllers would be welcome, anyway! Even VMware DirectPass PCI pass-through setups.)

(It's not an option that a high quality 800 US $ Adaptec SAS RAID controller isn't able to drive standard SAS devices like tape drive, too. Standard SAS devices have to work like standard devices. We didn't be in the early 1990's! )

Do SAS tape drives have the same recommendations as SCSI tape drives? Normal recommendation is to never put the the SCSI tape drive on the same channel as the hard drives and never a RAID controller. Does that apply to SAS? I'm still reading recommendations to not put SAS tape drives on RAID controllers, but I don't know if that's from experience or just "SAS is SCSI so same recommendation." At the very least, have you tried moving the tape drive to a different port connector or channel?

You would think that it should work as "standard devices", that was one of the selling points of the original SCSI, but as we can see, that's not what happened, especially with RAID controllers and parallel SCSI tape drives. So it may not be what you want, but if you do need a separate controller, well, it is what it is.

Esxi4 Update1 download is not available for Free License?

atcnf2008 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:31:14 GMT

Thank you, David,

I successfully upgraded one host by using Host Upgrade Update Utility, Just choose "scan for patches", I thought I need use "Upgrade Host"....

HP DL160 G6 support VmWare ESXi 3.5 or ESXi 4.0 ?

DSTAVERT — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:25:37 GMT

Why it hasn't got support from HP is something HP would need to answer. It doesn't mean that it won't have official support. It just means that at this time it hasn't been officially tested and aproved. Depending on the drive controller you have it may install just fine. VMware is beginning to treat ESX and ESXi as equals.

Error loading operating system

OlivierParis — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:00:47 GMT

Jain,

Thank you very much for your answer.

The problem on the link you gave me is quite the same for me !

It looks like I have to convert my IDE disk to a SCSI one !

It seems to be not possible via the vSphere client and the procedure to do that via the command line is hard !

I'm going to try to find a detailed proc on the net.

Olivier

One VM with poor network performance

J1mbo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:16:57 GMT

Nice one. If that's a Windows VM you need to re-do that with "-p" otherwise it will disapear when the VM is rebooted.

Windows doesn't respond to ICMP redirects so all traffic would 'bounce' through the primary gateway. However the extremely crap performance may be indicative of a futher issue here, for example a duplex mismatch between interface 10.2.5.1 and the switch it's connected to.

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esxi + performance charts

lowburb — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:10:06 GMT

Awesome. Good to know

vSpherre Client on Windows 7

Troy Clavell — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:01:28 GMT

also, 4.0U1 has official support for the vSphere Client on Windows 7
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vc40_u1_rel_notes.html

Virtualization platform for Asterisk.

eustachy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:43:22 GMT

It's a bug. My browser adds twice topic

ESXi 4 losses license after re-boot

pmmcguire — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:41:19 GMT

I have ESXi 4 (build171294) installed on HP DL320 G5p. It installs and I can attach with vSphere Client, intall the license and set up VM's. When the ESXi server is rebotted, it loses it license, reverting back to evaluation mode, and loses all the VM's setup on the machine. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Disable the question in vCenter at shutdown of a VM??

HenrikElm — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:41:41 GMT

ARGH! I uploaded a VM with converter that was made in Workstation. Workstation has a GUI for setting this and I now see that the VM in question was set to ask at shut down!

ESX honors the VMX setting, but you can not change it in ESX/vCenter!

In short: My own fault. Agh!

/Henrik

Problems with UDP-Connections

dburgess — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:01:22 GMT

This may also be useful:

http://blogs.vmware.com/networking/2009/04/considerations-for-maximum-network-performance.html

Im still looking for the rx ring buffer document - I think it is a setting on the vSwitch

dB

Slow snapshots in ESXi 4.0

JohanF — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:19:44 GMT

ESXi is now patched with "updated 1" but the problem still exists... Shapshot of a 4GB RAM-host still takes over 6 minutes.

ESXi or SERVER??

nilsonchagas — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:36:28 GMT

You think In this configuration, How many vms I can to have???

I would like to have two W2K3 (one to users access - max four, another webservices), and one CentOS.

Deploy ESXi 4 on several servers

wadcyr8 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:28:26 GMT

Yes it's seems to be au good thing, but as J1mbo said it's a licensed facility so i can't used it, i'm just looking for free solution.
Maybe i should see for using xcat tools ...

free serial for esxi 4

J1mbo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:13:33 GMT

On the download page it lists your serial number near the top. Copy/paste into license section using vSphere Client (configuration, licensed features, edit, assign new license).

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Delegate role to interact with virtual machines

erx2 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:54:23 GMT

Hello

i currently deploy ESXi 4.0 on remote sites. I want to delegate permissions to local admin to be able to "Shutdown or Restart Guests" without providing the capability to power off the virtual machine.Are we able to do that ?

Thanks for your help

Passthrough Abit AirPace PCI-E

tompl — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:00:54 GMT

I tried to change reset mode, but not to enable msi interrupts.
I'll trym and than give a report

VM won’t boot with vmdk attached

tom howarth — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:04:11 GMT

When you converted your VM did you upgrade the hardware to version 7?

if so please rerun the conversion but chose the option not to upgrade your hardware.

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ESXi 4 on Dell PE2950

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:09:49 GMT

You can do directly with the zip file, using the host update utility.
See:
http://vm-help.com/esx40i/ESXi40_upgrade_without_virtualcenter.php

Andre

Guests on ESXi 4 shutdown

jvigil — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:58:29 GMT

HP DL 380 dual QC's w/12GB RAM

I just did my first install of ESXi 4 today on this brand new server. I then installed a couple 2k8r2 DC's and a 2K8 FS to mess with. Everything went together quite nicely with vSphere.

Then I fired up about half a dozed vm's (on my workstation) that I had build some time ago with Sun's Virtual Box and started joining them to the new DC's (on the ESXi server). My local workstation (with vSphere running) bogged down hard- as to be expected, and a few minutes later when I couldn't join on of the vm's to the domain, I noticed that all of the VM's I had built in ESXi had shutdown! There were plenty of resources available on the stand alone HP.

I shut all the Sun VM's down. Restarted the ESXi VM's and repeated with the same result. When firing up the VM's with Virtual Box on the workstation, vSphere goes into a "not responding" mode and after the workstation cpu's stop being pegged and I go look at ESXi it shows that the VM's are off.

Looking through the Event log on the servers shows no 6008 event!! The "Events" tab in ESXi shows that the VM was shutdown, and the NIC time shows that the VM has booted, in addition to me being able to see the boot up process from the console.

What is going on? If vSphere stops responding, does it shutdown the ESXi VM's? Even if my workstation, running vSphere were to crash, I would expect that the VM's on the ESXi box would continue to run.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you,

-ESX noob

ESXi 4 locks up every couple days

lowburb — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:28:01 GMT

ESXi installed perfectly. The only thing that didnt go "as planned" or "out of the box" was in-fact the RAID card. But I installed the manufactures drivers from their website via the host update utility.

I have pulled all my VM's off the RAID and removed the card all together. Now all I have is 3 standalone HDD's. One is the original 74GB "system" drive, second is a 500GB, third is one of my 1TB drives I robbed from the RAID which is the new home for my VM files. I'll see how this runs and then think about doing a memtest.

Is there any known issues with running an Intel G45 ICH10 chipset? I saw some posts about this combination, but those posts were a fairly old. I'd think that if ESXi didnt support it or run on it, it just wouldnt install, just like another box I attempted to install on. It just flat out didnt install.

ESXi 4 Boot from SAN?

enDemand — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:46:33 GMT

True, it's more streamlined and mainstream. My ideal environment, however, would still be stateless ESXi that PXE boots, but the process, though now supported with vSphere, still feels like a hack. I think that's the direction they should go, though...the tie to OEMs for embedded has a lot of drawbacks and SSD/USB doesn't adapt well to a highly-scalable, lights-out environment. The concept of powering on a server for just-in-time capacity on demand and 3 minutes later it's up and running where it's needed with policy-enforced configuration without the complexity of SAN fabrics or install-oriented provisioning is what the "next generation" data center needs.

technical support for win 2008r2

DSTAVERT — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:30:57 GMT

General Availability

n00b question: Hopelessly confused re: licensing

DSTAVERT — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:34:31 GMT

Excellent.

If you haven't seen these they can be a big help getting started

ESXi Quickstart

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cannot change the host configuration

patchezz — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:38:38 GMT

The solution is to use the vSphere client to connect directly to the
host, not Virtual Center, and add the LUNs there. Works perfectly and
they show up in Virtual Center as you’re adding them.

Update utility stuck on scanning ("check" on host)

rvvugt — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:54:23 GMT

Hello Semistatic,

I have exact the same problem, the task 'check' is running forever if I start a scan from vSphere Host Update Utility.

Did you already found a solution?

Best regards,
Ronald van Vugt

Slow file copy/get/put

englund — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:19:07 GMT

They actually seem to have fixed this in 4.0 Update 1... I can now get around 70MB/s when copying files through the Datastore Browser anywhere on my 1Gb network. Before update 1 I was capped to ~10MB/s.

About time!

Snapshot very slow on power-on, Snapshot very fast on power-off. Why ?

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:07:52 GMT

For a powered on VM also without the "snapshot the memory" there is an addition delay caused by the temporally quiescence operation on the disk (to permit the snapshot).

Andre

D945gclf2 (Atom 330) and ESXi 4

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:26:38 GMT

You can try to install ESXi 4 on a USB key, just to see if it can work.
The installation is quite fast.

Andre

One Datastore for all ESX machines

Rumple — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:10:42 GMT

Personally I don't use anything directly attached to the ESX environment because i client side attach to ISO or mount the ISO on my workstation and attach to the drive using the VIC.

All my ISO's sit out on a shared drive (doesn't even have to by anthing better then a USB drive attached to a workstation

Open the console, connect cdrom and browse to the share and pick my iso...

All done...

Can not install Win 2K8 R2 On esxi 4

MindaugasVaiciulis — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:19:42 GMT

upgrade you ESXi 4 to ESXi 4 U1, witch was just released and officially support Windows 2008 R2, ESXi 4 does not

Datastores Disappeared!

manfriday — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:12:24 GMT

OK.

It looks like I got things working again thanks to this lovely blog post:

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/11/vcb-i-forgot-all-about-automount-disable-what-now/

Mr. Epping, you are the wind beneath my wings, brother..

Best Practice for backing up entire VMs, off of ESXi server?

a2alpha — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:28:26 GMT

Just deployed Veeam version 4 on ESX 4.0. Backing up 5 virtual machines totaling 700GB provisioned space.

I'm backing up to a rotation of daily USB drives set to 4 rollbacks. This allows me to restore files from or entire VMs from any day in the last 4 weeks.

The initial pass processes at around 24MB/s the subsequent passes with block tracking (the new feature) is processing at 180. This is so much faster than version 3.

Dan

Installing ESXi 4 on Dell T310 with PERC S300

AndreTheGiant — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:21:33 GMT

Have a look at official HCL:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?action=search&deviceCategory=server&productId=1&advancedORbasic=advanced&maxDisplayRows=50&key=T310&release ]=-1&datePosted=-1&partnerId[=23&formFactorId[]=-1&filterByEVC=0&filterByFT=0&min_sockets=&min_cores=&min_memory=&rorre=0

Seems that it can work with ESXi 4.0U1

Andre

How to enable power management (PowerNow!) on Opteron server?

AndreTheGiant — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:48:34 GMT

Try to follow these steps:
http://www.techhead.co.uk/saving-power-with-vmware-vsphere-esx-dynamic-voltage-and-frequency-scaling-dvfs

Are Intel related, but probably could work also on a Opteron.

Or also this:
http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/11/11/tame-electrical-and-heating-costs-with-cpu-power-management/

Andre

Unable to view certain directories on console.

AndreTheGiant — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:43:20 GMT

Very strange.
What's the output of this command?
ls -la /

Andre

Convert an expandable drive to a fixed one on an ESXi server

Dave.Mishchenko — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:24:39 GMT

Browse the datastore where the files are, right click on the VMDK and select Inflate.

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Do you have a system or PCI card working with VMDirectPath? Submit your specs to the Unofficial VMDirectPath HCL - http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=21.

ESXi vs HyperVserver

Rumple — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:39:52 GMT

I've deployed both ESX and Hyper-V and the biggest challenges I ran into with Hyper-V were really that there is no memory oversubscription at all.

On a server with 8GB of RAM I could only run 1xSBS 2008 Server (4Gb memory), 1xWindows 2008 (2Gb Memory) standard and 1 Windows 2003 (1Gb Memory) before I was unable to run any more VM's because the system was out of memory.

That lack of memory management is absolutely horrible. I have over 15 VM's running on my home esx box with SBS 2008 server being one of them.

Other then that I found that Hyper-V was very much like VMWare Server in management and functionality...I could brigde or nat the networks, add more disk, mount drives, etc...

Oh - the other thing that I found was that with the hyper-v thin provisioning I started getting disk write failures inside the 3 vm's and had to go back and thick provision the disks because it was starting to cause problems for the client machines.

VMware converter standalone

Formatter — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:20:46 GMT

So is there a new converter coming out that will convert 2008 R2??? since the esxi 4 u1 is out now and supports 2008 R2. Stanalone that is.

ESXi 4 support for Dell T110

caude — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:45:56 GMT

I can confirm that ESXi 4 Update 1 does install on a T110 without the need to customize oem.tgz. Unfortunately, there is still no health/status monitoring for the attached SATA drives.

ESXi is reporting that VM's are using excessive amounts of physical resources.

doepain — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:13:52 GMT

VM Tools is installed, and I did not run permon, but I did run taskmanager and the resources being used basd on it were not as high as what I was seeing through the Infrastructure client.

Senior Hosting Engineer
ModusLink Open Channel Solutions, Inc.

vCenter reports no utilization on server, but VMs still run. Can't snapshot.

cajx — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:11 GMT

I forgot to mention that we talked to IBM support. They recommend we restart the management module on the blade before rebooting the whole blade to see if that does it. Since the blade isn't broken (i guess) and the management module must be the means for it to communicate with, eventually, vCenter, that is a logical step to take.

It should be noted that we have updated firmware on this management module and the blades very recently... i think we are completely up to date.

EDIT/UPDATE: Restarting the VMware Management Agents allows us to VMotion again... maybe coincidentally we changed the vSwitch gateway to a different IP (we aren't 100% sure how that setting works, our consultant directed us there... time to go read). This workaround corrected the problem on the two blades that started having problems. I suppose this means we need to look for a VMware update to fix this or maybe the old gateway IP we had was truly wrong.

Link to restarting mgt agent on ESX or ESXi:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003490

HELP - workaround to install ESXi 4 on DL320 G2

DSTAVERT — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:49:06 GMT

You have taken care of the ICH7 reference. The Intel controller used to be referred to as ICH7 and as you have found out does not support RAID in ESXi.

I'll look into the internal USB port, maybe that's the one it was trying to boot from while I used the external ports.

Does this mean you tried to boot from USB flash and that failed as well? I can't remember at all whether the internal port is the default for the USB boot choice and I don't know your what is available in your BIOS.

Licensing Single ESXi 4 server, vSphere Client and VMware Go web interface

homerun — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:51:24 GMT

I have questions about free single server licensing of ESXi 4 if just using the vSphere Client (not vSphere Center) and using VMware Go. I will also write about my experience licensing ESXi to provide some contribution to those finding this post while searching about licensing.

My questions first.
(1) Can multiple installations of vSphere Client be used with a single ESXi 4 server without licensing issues. I just converted a single ESXi 4 out of evaluation mode by assigning a license key using the vSphere Client. Later I will be moving the server to the production environment. When I do so, the vSphere Client software will have to be installed on another Windows OS. Will the 2nd instance of vSphere Client connect to ESXi 4 without additional licensing requirements.

(2) I cannot figure out how to use VMware GO Beta to manage the ESXi server. Is it an additional download? Is it the http://server_ip_address link which I used, for instance, to download the vSphere Client?

Many of you reading this may be new to VMware, as I am, and testing ESXi 4 server and decide to use it permanently. After installing ESX and the vSphere Client, you will continue getting license expiration warnings when starting vSphere client. In order to license it free, click on the "Upgrade your ESX host license" link in that warning box. A browser will start and take you to the VMware Vsphere web page. Login using the account you previously created, probably when you first downloaded ESX. Hover your mouse over the "Products" tab and then select the "VMware ESXi" link. Then click the Download link. Then click the "Continue" button. At this point, I could see my license key. Copy your key your clipboard.

Then, finish starting the vSphere Client by closing the license warning box. Make sure the ESX Server is selected, not any of the vm's. Click the "Configuration" tab, then "Licensing Features", then "Edit", and then assign your license key. You can toggle back to evaluation mode. If I had know this 40 days ago, I would have licensed it then. However, then I was concerned I would permanently loose some features which, as it turned out, I didn't need with single ESX server management. Having come back to the issue 40 days later, I had forgotten much of what I had read in the installation manual.

I called VMware Sales several times and created a web form question. The sales people are mostly geared to Enterprise Sales, and some apparently are not aware of what I just explained. Also, they responded slowly in one case and not at all three times. At the time I contacted sales, I assumed I would be paying for a single server vSphere Client license, but apparently it is free to use with one ESX server, explaining sale's nonresponsiveness. For some reason, I had assumed it would cost about $250, which seems reasonable to me.

Having worked with Hyper-V and tried to work with Linux XEN, I am very impressed with ESX. ESX handles Linux distro clients much better than Hyper-V.

I hope I save others valuable time. Also please don't forget I have several questions.

Thanks,

RH

P.S. If you toggle back to Evaluation Mode, as I did to write this post, the license key information is lost, and you'll have to add it again. It appears it relicensed ok with the same license key, which would indicate that it may be ok to use more than one vSphere Client.

Cloning ESXi server

J1mbo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:06:17 GMT

To be safe, I would discconect the current drive completely until ESX is completely up-and-running from the new drive.

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vSphere 4 client for Windows 7?

chansen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:48:57 GMT

Seems update 1 fixed this issue, running Windows 7 and vSphere Client now.

VM's stop pinging - Win2K3 servers - ESXi 4.0

J1mbo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:09:19 GMT

It does sound like a MAC issue - especially as the Windows ARP cache timeout is also 10 minutes.

Use "arp -a" to find out what MAC address it's using for the default gateway when it's working normally and in failure mode.

HTH

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Can not install ESXi 4 on IBM System x3550 M2

LEPA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:16 GMT

Just got the newest release of ESXi 4 Update 1 and tried again to install it on this server... and it works!

Thank you all!

ESXi 4 Update 1: Which Update to choose?

pinkerton — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:54:37 GMT

Hi,

I'm just about to update two ESXi4 hosts to Update 1 using Update Manager. As this is the first time I'm performing such a major upgrade I'm a little uncertain about the differences of the upgrade. Update manager offers the following patches:

ESXi400-200911201-UG (Firmware)
ESXi400-200911202-UG (Tools)
ESXi400-200911203-UG (Client)

and

ESXi400-Update01

If I understand correctly, installing ESXi400-Update01 just installes all three other packages (Firmware, Tools, Client) and there is no need to install any of the other updates separately. I however have the chance to perform manual upgrades of each individual component by not selecting ESXi400-Update01 but the individual packages instead? Is my assumption correct?

When I choose to perform the upgrades individually - do I have to follow an order? I'd usually start with the firmware first but don't know if this is a requirement or not.

Thanks!

/edit: I have just tested this and can confirm that the above is true. Performing the upgrade using the ESXi400-Update01 updates all parts at once (Firmware, Tools and vSphere Client). After the update has been finished, the individual updates cannot be select for installation anymore. The same holds true when separately installing the updates - after all three updates have been installed, the ESXi400-Update01 cannot be selected anymore.

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ESXi Passthrough Trouble

Dave.Mishchenko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:46:02 GMT

Glad to hear you have it worked out. I put together some notes on correcting this issue. It's a bit late for your situation, but will hopefully help others that end up in the same boat - http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/VMDirectPath/fix_config_issues.php.

Dave
VMware Communities User Moderator

New book in town - vSphere Quick Start Guide -http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/08/12/new-book-in-town-vsphere-quick-start-guide/.
Do you have a system or PCI card working with VMDirectPath? Submit your specs to the Unofficial VMDirectPath HCL - http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=21.

ESXi 4.0 vlan problem (!)

Texiwill — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:47:00 GMT

Hello,

Moved to the vSphere ESXi 4 forum.

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poor disk perfomance on HP BL460c with ESXi 4

MindaugasVaiciulis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:39:29 GMT

as it appears, my judgmement of perfomance inside VM was too fast, its ok

a general system error occurred the virtual machine could not start

b1izzard — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:38:25 GMT

I managed to get it working by using FastSCP to copy the existing files in the problem VM to a new folder in the datastore. Then I was able to right click on the .vmx file in the new VM and select 'add to inventory'. Thanks for the response.

Connecting 2 different subnet on single ESXi with 2 Onboard NIC

weinstein5 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:24:12 GMT

The best way to do this is to create is to create two virtual switches - one using the pnic connected to your internal network and one connected to the pnic on the DMZ - when you connect the virtual machines to the port groups on the respective switches you will assign IP addresses on the approriate subnets depending on which vswitch they are connected to -

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vSphere 4 ESXi Installation issues what files do i need any other files beside VMware-VMvisor-big-171294-x86_64.dd?

bndwork — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:50:39 GMT

Thank you.

bndwork

Error Cloning/Templating Windows 2008

Jae-Hoon Choi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:17:42 GMT

Check your guest OS's services.

I was expirenced same problem and clear it!

"Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error when trying to use a disk with vSphere Client

juanjoln — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:03:27 GMT

Hi,

I am connecting to an individual host. I do not have a license for vCenter. I only have the free ESXi license.

I am using Windows XP SP2 (the one supposed to be supported for sure).

I have come across this error at different moments, before and after restarting the physical host.

Help resource pools disappearing

cookieme — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:37:30 GMT

jintoa wrote:
Can you check if there is any Hard disk issue? Goto ILO/DRAC logs and check if there is any hard disk issue/error. From VI client can you do an export diag data?

I checked the iLO integrated management log before I posted and there were no entries. Now this server does unfortunately not have iLO 2, so the amount of diagnostic information I get via iLO is limited. However, I would imagine that if there was an issue with the RAID1 then it would show up.

Anyway, what do you mean by exporting diagnostic data from the vClient? I did a search in the vClient for any failed or error entries in the logs and this is what I found:

/var/log/vmware/hostd.log

[2009-11-19 00:12:34.864 12F35B90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask-pool1-vim.ManagedEntity.destroy-1667856437" failed.
[2009-11-19 00:12:34.864 12F35B90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-pool1-vim.ManagedEntity.destroy-1667856437
[2009-11-19 00:12:34.864 12F35B90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask-pool2-vim.ManagedEntity.rename-1667856446" failed.
[2009-11-19 00:12:34.864 12F35B90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-pool2-vim.ManagedEntity.rename-1667856446
[2009-11-19 00:12:34.864 12F35B90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask-160-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1667856424" failed.
[2009-11-19 00:12:34.865 12F35B90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-160-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1667856424
[2009-11-19 00:12:34.865 12F35B90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask-16-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1667856542" failed.
[2009-11-19 00:12:34.865 12F35B90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-16-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1667856542
[2009-11-19 00:12:34.865 12F35B90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask-pool2-vim.ResourcePool.moveInto-1667856448" failed.
[2009-11-19 00:12:34.865 12F35B90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-pool2-vim.ResourcePool.moveInto-1667856448
[2009-11-19 00:12:34.866 12F35B90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask-32-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1667856496" failed.
[2009-11-19 00:12:34.866 12F35B90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-32-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1667856496
[2009-11-19 00:22:38.315 6C1FDB90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask-pool1-vim.ManagedEntity.destroy-1667856437" failed.
[2009-11-19 00:22:38.315 6C1FDB90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-pool1-vim.ManagedEntity.destroy-1667856437
[2009-11-19 00:22:38.315 6C1FDB90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask-pool2-vim.ManagedEntity.rename-1667856446" failed.
[2009-11-19 00:22:38.315 6C1FDB90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-pool2-vim.ManagedEntity.rename-1667856446
[2009-11-19 00:22:38.315 6C1FDB90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask-16-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1667856542" failed.
[2009-11-19 00:22:38.316 6C1FDB90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-16-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1667856542
[2009-11-19 00:22:38.316 6C1FDB90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask-pool2-vim.ResourcePool.moveInto-1667856448" failed.
[2009-11-19 00:22:38.316 6C1FDB90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-pool2-vim.ResourcePool.moveInto-1667856448
[2009-11-19 00:22:38.316 6C1FDB90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask-32-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1667856496" failed.
[2009-11-19 00:22:38.316 6C1FDB90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-32-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1667856496
[2009-11-19 15:26:57.182 6C3C2B90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "ExtensionManager" failed.

nothing in /var/log/messages

Does this help explain what happened?

Thanks

ISCSI problem between ESXi 4.0 and QNAP 809u ISCSI NAS.

TraversiRoberto — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:14:04 GMT

Hello Josh,

thank you for the explanation.

In our environment the the performance is not so important as the QNAP is used to store backups of virtual machines, moreover the ISCSI configuration allows us to create on a single Raid 5 volume eight targets 1.5TB wide (to override VMWare LUN limitation of about 2TB) while NFS forces us to create different raid volumes to separate NFS targets and thus wasting storage capacity.

I've searched in the QNAP configuration files but i didn't find one of them specifying the common part of the target. I'll try to browse QNAP Forum to search for useful information.

Best regards, Roberto.

Host battery status alarm

Thomy23 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:39:56 GMT

Hi Guys

We have 3 Dell R710 Servers in our Vsphere Cluster:

PERC FW: 6.2.0 (up to date)

We have the problem with all of the 3 servers, even a BIOS Update from 1.1.4 to 1.2.6 didn't solve the problem. The only solution for us was to disable the alarm

Greets Thomy

XP Virtual Machine stops responding frequently on ESXi 4.0

appetite — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:08:34 GMT

We have two XP VMs both on different hosts. The xp virtual machines stops responding frequently. I will be able to ping but cannot connect remotely.
Using VI client if I try to connect to VM console it says "Error connecting to existing session for user (Id 0). A device attached to the system is not functioning". Also the below lines are seen on VM log file,

Nov 19 06:01:01.839: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
Nov 19 06:01:01.839: vmx| GuestRpc: app toolbox's second ping timeout; assuming app is down.

If restarted it starts working normally but it will end up with the same issues after few days.

Removing a VM did not reclaim the disk space

jintoa — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:29:25 GMT

After deleting the VM do a Datastore refresh from the VI client to get the new space available. Do you have snapshots?

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Shown 2 seprate disk even RAID1 configured on ESX4i

jintoa — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:30:16 GMT

Put any RHEL OS cd and check how many disk it is showing. Try to recreate the RAID. After creating the RAID 1 did you save that raid config?.

If you see 2 disks with both RHEL and ESX4i check with the Intel Embedded Server RAID support.

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Picking SCSI virtual device node for tape drive

mcowger — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:49:01 GMT

Totally not worried about the points at all

--Matt
VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek

ESXi 4 - NTP not working + No Ping through Gateway

kalex — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:14:28 GMT

looks like gateway is not correctly setup. you might have different gateways on your network but it looks like there is no default route set on your gateway itself. can other computers using same gateway is your esx host get outside of your 10.0.0.x network? what about guest vm- can it get outside of your network?

Poor man's VMware View

cookieme — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:46:19 GMT

I haven't found a solution for my "Poor Man's View", but I think I have a better grasp of how it works after looking at the following link provided by William Lam: http://rodos.haywood.org/2008/12/storage-analysis-of-vmware-view.html

William your vGhettoLinkedClone script (http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/vGhettoLinkedClone.html) seems to use the new APIs in vSphere as documented by VMware in this pdf (http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/linked_vms_note.pdf), but as I have a standalone ESXi host and no vCenter I cannot use this. Is this correct? Is there a way of using the new APIs without needing vCenter?

If I can't use vGhettoLinkedClone is it possible to use your linked clones script for ESXi Linked Clones script for ESXi? It hasn't been updated since ESXi 4 was released. Are you planning an update or is it EOL as you have the newer script for vSphere?

Thanks

ESXi 4 install can't find Hard Drive

mjpagan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:52:36 GMT

If you're just going to do some testing you might try installing Workstation 7 and installing ESXi 4 into that. It is now a supported OS and then you'd be able to leave your workstation OS intact.

Mike

Unable to Install VMware Tools

DSTAVERT — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:36:04 GMT

You may have had a problem during install or upgrade and either the iso's were not copied or the links were not created.
Run the update manager to see if an update, specifically the tools portion of the update, can restore the links or add the files.

You can manually fix the links or copy the ISO files to a datastore location. You can check to see if the files exist from the unsupported console http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003677

What happens when VMkernel go down

Anton V Zhbankov — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:13:32 GMT

If host is down HA will not run VMotion just because VMorion requires BOTH hosts alive, source and destination.

HA re-register VMs on dest host and powers them on.

If all interfaces for Virtual Machine Network are down - nothing happens.

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ESXi 4.0.0, 193498 does not see all the installed memory

petermp123 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:50:37 GMT

THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Failed to log into nfc server

nOon29 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:46:38 GMT

Yes i know that but as my inetd.conf is bad i have no process inetd so i have to start him by inetd. But i found the solution, i rebuild my esxi cd and reinstall it with a good inetd this time.

Thanks all

Using vMA 4.0 to backup ESXi 4.0 host setting ?

AlbertWT — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:03:46 GMT

To All,

Finally I was able to resolve this problem, it is very simple, AllI need to do is just to

install the blank USB with ESXi 4.0 CD which will install build 164009 by default and then,
Configure the mgmt. network IP manually to be the same as the previous ESXi (so that the Host update Utility can patch this ESXi)
Add this new ESXi into the VMWare Host update utility and patch it to be the same as the backup image (*193498)*
connect to vMA and then perform restore (as shown in the bottom of this reply thread).
Add the ESXi host to the vCenter from vSphere client.

All of the settings and VM start utility will be the same as the backup image, no need to follow additional steps to backup the oem.tgz (as in _bootbank/oem.tgz"_)

Kind Regards,
AWT

==========

~~root@vMA ~~~# vicfg-cfgbackup --server ESXi01 -l BackupESXi01-withoutUSB
Enter username: root
Enter password:
The restore operation will reboot the host.
Type 'yes' to continue:
yes
Uploading config bundle to configBundle.tgz ...
Performing restore ...
~~root@vMA ~~~#

ESXi on an old IBM Pentium III ?

HughBorg707 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:47:03 GMT

I'm not certain, but if its a test machine you have nothing to lose by booting it up and see what you come up with.

Also in my test environment I have 2 nVidia 680i motherboard machines; one Core2, the other Core2Quad, 4GB RAM each. Together they run an ESX 4 cluster and perform HA, VMotion, DRS, and work with an iSCSI SAN just fine.The only thing so far they don't support is FT and powering back on after DRS shuts them down (no iLo or DRAC card).

Just get creative and let us know what you find.

ESXi 4.0 Storage Question

chontay — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:33:27 GMT

Thanks for the responses guys.

Is the shared storage requirement something to do with file formats?As in this an NTFS partition and ESXi can't directly access the file system unless it's through a VM or over iSCSI etc?

Is the only way to use this array locally to format it and create a single vmdk on it and restore the data?

esxi 4 not find LUN of Solaris ZFS iSCSI

ccub — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:18:40 GMT

It works !http://communities.vmware.com/message/1419885/!!

just upgrade my Solaris with the latest Recommended Patch Cluster !

this configuration works :

zfs create zpool/vmccub

zfs create -b 64K -V 300G zpool/vmccub/lun0

iscsitadm create target -u 0 -b /dev/zvol/rdsk/zpool/vmccub/lun0 vmdatastores

iscsitadm create initiator --iqn iqn.1987-05.com.cisco:vmccub2.tttt.fr vmccub2.tttt.fr

scsitadm modify target --acl vmccub2.tttt.fr vmdatastores

Migration from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4 (ISCSI Storage)

Kay81 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:20:53 GMT

Hey,

many thanks for the quick answers.

Greetings,
Kay

Changing out to a VT CPU

AlbertWT — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:33:52 GMT

OK, how about if we have already set the MMU to use non BT mode ? will the VM still be OK with this hardware changes ?

Kind Regards,
AWT

ESXi 4 Windows 2003/2008 Guests Random Freeze on DL360 G5

pixelblender — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:30:52 GMT

ah i see. thanks for the explanation. but the problem persist even when the Windows guest is the only one that is active.