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Supermicro and Adaptec Controller

zech02 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:42:23 GMT

Hello
I bought following components:
Supermicro 6026T-NTR+, Adaptec 3405 and 3805.
Configuration, on 3405 I installed RAID 1 and ESX System and on 3805 it's "RAID 10" for VM's
I installed vsphere4 and the first time is boot correct and after I poweroff for 2days I get following error:

"vsd-mount failed" and the process stop.

There are all 3 components vSphere4 compatible?

ESXi on Proliant DL380

ifolse — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:25:03 GMT

Hi --

I'm new to ESXi and I am trying to install ESXi 3.5.0 U4 on a HP (compaq) Proliant DL380. I did not see this server in the HCL but I did find doing other Google searches that other people have installed ESXi on this type of server before. I know the boot disk is good because it works in my desktop computer (IBM S51).

I have checked that the CD drive is the second option in the boot order followed by the c:\ drive. A:\ drive is the first. When I put the ESXi ISO disk in the server and try to boot from it, I can't see anything on the screen after POST. I can't tell if it's trying to boot or not because I have no video. If I remove the disk, the server boots into Windows with no problem.

Does anyone have any ideas on why this is happening? Thanks!

Software Compatability Oracle & SAP ECC

nkpk — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:52:37 GMT

I am using EXS 3.5 host, wanted to know the Compatability for,

Oracle release : 10.1.0.5.0 and SAP ECC 6.0 with Kernel release 700

to be hosted in VM....

Esxi 4.0 -Hardware compatibility Issues

donneo — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:52:47 GMT

Hello,

I have the following hardware configuration.

RAID: Adaptec 4-port SATA/SAS RAID Controller 3405SAS

Other:

ntel Core2 Duo 1U Rackmount ServerSupermicro Socket 775 Server Board, Intel 3000 Chipset PDSMI+ (63709,37115, 16,17)Miotsumi 24-Speed Slim CD-ROM, Black SR243Ton-board ATI ES1000 Video Adapter, 16-Meg RAMon-board Dual Intel Gigabit 1000/100/10mbps NICsSuperMicro 1U Steel Rack Mount Case 813MT-300C4x Hot-swap HDD Carriers & 1x4 SATA BackplaneSuperMicro 300-Watt 1U Low-Profile Power Supply (H08839,89,34,H22319)Slide Rails/Brackets Mounting Kit

I am getting an error while installing Esxi4.0. I was using a 3ware RAID controller. I changed to adaptech as I got the error earlier. Can anyone suggest me a solution? I want to install Esxi 4.0 . What hardware should be changed here?

Esxi and ASUS P5SD2-VM

emenemza — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:23:12 GMT

Hello,

Can u tell me pleaze if the ESXi can work with the motherboard ASUS P5SD2-VM ??

ESX SERVER 3.0.1 with HP PROLIANT ML570 G4 SAS Hard disk

thanya — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:30:51 GMT

Hi, I have some problems to begin the installation of the Vmware esx 3.0.1 because it didn't find the controllers from my hard disk sas and i had this error:

My proliant descriptions:

HP ProLiant ML570 G4 High Performance - Dual-Core Xeon 7030 2.8 GHz specifications

General
Type
Server
Recommended Use
Corporate business
Product Form Factor
Rack-mountable - 6.0
Server Scalability
4-way
Front Accessible Bays Qty
3
Hot-Swap Bays Qty
18
Width
19.0 in
Depth
28.0 in
Height
11.1 in
Weight
136.9 lbs
Processor
Type
Intel Xeon Dual Core 7030 / 2.8 GHz
Multi-Core processor technology
Dual-Core
64-bit processor
Yes
Installed Qty
2.0
Max processors supported
4.0
Upgradability
Upgradable
Processor main features
Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology
, Intel Virtualization Technology
, Hyper-Threading Technology
, Intel Execute Disable Bit
, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology
Cache Memory
Type
L2 cache
Installed Size
4.0 MB
Cache Per Processor
2 MB ( 2 x 1 MB )
Mainboard
Chipset type
Intel E8501
Data bus speed
800.0 MHz
RAM
Installed Size 64.0 GB
Technology
DDR2 SDRAM - Advanced ECC
Memory speed
400.0 MHz
Memory specification compliance
PC2-3200
RAM form factor
DIMM 240-pin
RAM features
Online Spare Memory
, Registered
RAM configuration features
2 x 512 MB
Upgrade rule (RAM)
2 modules at a time
Storage Controller
Type
1.0 x Serial Attached SCSI - Plug-in card - PCI Express
Controller interface type
Serial Attached SCSI
Storage controller name
Smart Array P400
Storage controller interface channel qty
2.0
RAID level
RAID 6
, RAID 0
, RAID 10
, RAID 5

"Unable to find a supported devices to write de vmware esx server 3.0.1 to image to."

Compatibility Advice: VSphere & Xeon 5410 + Supermicro X7DBU + (2x) 2GB Crucial DDR2-667

bPratik — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:13:39 GMT

I have assembled the following system. Although I have looked through the official HCL, this is the first time I am assembling a VMware VSphere compliant system and I wanted to confirm that I was doing it correctly.

Thanks

Processor clock speed 2330 MHz
Processor family Intel Xeon
Processor socket Socket 771
L2 cache 12 MB
Chipset Intel® 5000P, Intel® 5000V, Intel® 5400A, Intel® 5100, Intel® 5400B
Processor process 45 nm
Processor front side bus 1333 MHz

SuperMicro X7DBU
Key Features

Dual Intel® 64-bit Xeon® Quad-Core
Intel® 5000P (Blackford) Chipset
Up to 32GB DDR2 667 & 533 SDRAM Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM)
Intel® (ESB2/Gilgal) 82563EB Dual-port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
6x Intel ESB2 SATA 3.0Gbps Controller RAID 0, 1, 10 support via SB Controller
1 (x8) PCI-Express &
1 UIO slot
1 64-bit 133MHz PCI-X or
1 (x8) PCI-Express
ATI ES1000 Graphics with 16MB video memory
SIMSO slot

--

Error installing 3.5

Freebyrd — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:03:14 GMT

I'm getting this ever time on the install : panic: error while reading file : -3, install.tgz

I'm installing this on a tyan thunder k7 with AIC-7899 SCSI controller.

I'm guessing this system isn't going to work but just wanted to ask anyways

Thanks

Jason

Install ESXi 4 on IBM X3500

IvanHK — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:30:41 GMT

Hi! I want to install ESXi 4 on our server, IBM X3500 with Quad-core Intel Xeon X5355 64bits CPU. I have found that this model support ESX 4 in the HCL only. Is it means doesn't support it?

Sun Fire X4200 M2 Dual-Core AMD Opteron 2222

SEDD — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:55:03 GMT

Hello

who knows the processor compatible successor to the above?
The Sun Fire X4200 M2 is unfortunately no longer produced!

Greeting
Strassburg

Install ESX 3.5i xSeries (eServer) 100?

ejvdham — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:43:33 GMT

Has anyone experience with installing ESX 3.5i U4 on a IBM xSeries 100 server. That is an entry level server with a P4 3.2Ghz processor, 800FSB, an internal SATA controller (SATA, not SATA II). No RAID controller. I would like to use this machine to host some network services (LDAP, RADIUS, etc) and a few small websites. I would be gratefull for any experience someone might have with this machine. I am working for a non profit with a small budget, and buying a new server is not directly an option.

thnx.

erik

using tape as generic scsi device in vm, which scsi adapters are supported to connect tape to?

KidLark — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:38:11 GMT

Hi Group,

with esx3.5i I could use a adaptec 29160. But with the update I can no longer use this adapter. Which adapters can I use instead or easy how dow I have to look in the HCL?

Thanks,

Georg

HP MSA2312sa + VMware ESX 4

rherwig — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:29:05 GMT

Has anyone tested a combination of the new HP MSA 2312sa G2 in combination with vSphere? Is this working?

In the Server(HP DL380G6) we want to use the SC08GE HBA, has anyone tested this HBA with ESX 4 and can say if this works?

help...

bazlina — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:28:14 GMT

1. How can an administrator access a system once the Administrator account has been locked out and a reset counter has not been set?

2. If i implement an account lockout and reset counter policy, how can i monitor the failed attempts?

3. types of data can be encrypt and decrypt using PGP?

4 other software that can provide data encryption using asymmetric encipherment

5. How can i secure your password in Linux environment?

virtualisation of websphere6.1

Malapati — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:33:45 GMT

Hi there,

We have four linux guests created in a single Essex host server with 4 cpus and 16gb ram . All the four linux guests are sharing a single virtual NIC. OS is RHEL5. Application generated the blank pages and half pages sporadically. It doesnt genearte any exceptions or errors in the log files which is kind of frustrating to troubleshoot. we directly ran the application against the app server on a http transport bypassing the webservers and load balancer.We ran a tcpdump on the server to find out what is causing and found out the reposnse that server is sending got truncated. Since this is sporadic i kind of hit the wall and not sure where to look for. Any parameters at the OS level or ESSEX level needs to be tuned. Please let me know.

Thanks,

Manohar.

Silicom PXG4U (Broadcom bcm5704) quad copper gigabit PCI-X for ESX 3.5/4

SatchBoogie — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:58:29 GMT

Anyone tried a Silicom PXG4U for ESX 3.5/4?

http://www.silicom-usa.com/default.asp?contentID=630

It's based on the Broadcom bcm5704 which is on the HCL, but I'm not sure if ESX will see all 4 ports for this particular quad Silicom card.

Some people report that certain bcm5704 based quad gigabit cards get detected as one port in ESX. Hard to tell which is which since they don't specify the brand.

Thanks!

MSA1500cs MSA1x00 LUNs on VMware - Excessive SCSI Bus Reservations

btok — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:25:57 GMT

HP has finally released a document on the MSA1500cs lockup problems copied below.

Has anyone followed these steps to see that this works where the controller no longer locks up????

HP StorageWorks MSA1x00 LUNs on VMware - Excessive SCSI Bus Reservations

Issue

The HP StorageWorks MSA1000 or MSA1500cs may lockup every three to four weeks. Customers are required to power-cycle the whole environment to get access to the storage again.

Timeouts and excessive SCSI reservation conflicts are logged in the /var/log/vmkwarning file:

WARNING: Migrate: 1346: 1229224338134649: Migration considered a failure by the VMX. It is most likely a timeout, but check the VMX log for the true error.

WARNING: Migrate: 1243: 1229224338134649: Failed: Migration determined a failure by the VMX (0xbad0091) @0xa148e5

WARNING: MigrateNet: 323: 1229224338134649: 9-0x3501f8b8:Received only 0 of 68 bytes: Timeout

WARNING: SCSI: 119: Failing I/O due to too many reservation conflicts

Memory allocation errors are logged on the MSA CLI debug serial console:

~~44d 06:38:21.9~~ Error allocating persistent memory data set handle-table full
~~44d 06:38:22.0~~ parse/pr_aptpl.c: Failed to persist reservation type 10 for ITL 6:0:1 (PDLA). APTPL = 0

~~44d 06:38:22.0~~ (Err=0, IDH=0x0, TPDH=0x0, IH=0x9, TPH=0xFC00)
~~44d 06:38:23.3~~ Error allocating persistent memory data set handle-table full
~~44d 06:38:23.3~~ Error allocating persistent memory data set handle-table full
~~44d 06:38:23.5~~ Error allocating persistent memory data set handle-table full ~~44d 06:38:23.5~~ Error allocating persistent memory data set handle-table full ~~44d 06:38:23.5~~ parse/pr_aptpl.c: Failed to persist reservation type 10 for ITL 5:1:1 (PDLA). APTPL = 0
~~44d 06:38:23.6~~ (Err=0, IDH=0x0, TPDH=0x0, IH=0x10000, TPH=0xFC10)
~~44d 06:38:23.9~~ Error allocating persistent memory data set handle-table full ~~44d 06:38:23.9~~ parse/pr_aptpl.c: Failed to persist reservation type 10 for ITL 15:0:1 (PDLA). APTPL = 0
~~44d 06:38:24.0~~ (Err=0, IDH=0x0, TPDH=0x0, IH=0xD, TPH=0xFC00)

Solution

NOTE: Before you start resolving the issue, make a full verified backup of all MSA data.

1. Update MSA1000 or MSA1500cs controllers firmware to v5.30 active/passive or v7.10 active/active either using the corresponding MSAFlash utilities or alternatively from the CLI using the corresponding binary file.

2. Make sure that all FC connections profile name coming from VMware hosts are set to Linux rather than left as default . Make sure that they are given a name. In order to achieve this, boot one of the servers by MSA Support Software CD v7.76. To download MSA Support Software CD v7.76, go to the MSA1500 Support Software CD (ISO) webpage. Click here to visit the MSA1500 Support Software CD (ISO) webpage (http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=415598&prodNameId=415600&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=co-47048-1) .

Run the Array Configuration Utility , and choose Selective Storage Presentation to set the host connection profile appropriately to the correct operating system name.

3. Disable the HP SIM Fibre Agent:

a. Log in to the ESX Server host service console.

b. Open the file /opt/compaq/cma.conf in a text editor.

c. Add exclude cmahostd to the top of the file.

d. Save the file, and exit the editor.

e. Restart the management agents on the host by running the following three commands:

service hpasm restart
service hpsmh restart
service cmanic restart

4. Double-check the multipath policy in use and make sure it is set to mru as the storage is running active/passive firmware v5.30. You can use the vmkmultipath command, or the VMware Management User Interface (MUI) to set the multipathing policy for a LUN. For example, the following command sets the multipathing policy on the fly for all LUNs on the SAN vmhba0:0:1 to MRU:

vmkmultipath -s vmhba0:0:1 -p mru

5. Make sure that the customer serializes any backups they might be doing (as opposed to running simultaneous or parallel backup jobs).

6. VMware ESX has an advanced setting that will use a LUN reset instead of a bus reset. The parameter UseDeviceReset should be set to 0 and the UseLunReset should be set to 1 . Using these settings will change the bus reset to only affect a single LUN (the one that the reset was issued against) instead of affecting all LUNs. This setting should greatly reduce the number of check conditions generated by bus resets, which will give the controller a lot less items to handle.

The setting is also documented in the SAN Configuration Guide from VMware (in the appendix on page 118). Click here to view "SAN Configuration Guide" (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_301_201_san_cfg.pdf) .

The default settings will be listed in the logs as:

UseDeviceReset (Use device reset (instead of bus reset) to reset a SCSI device) 0-1: default = 1: 1
UseLunReset (Use LUN reset (instead of device/bus reset) to reset a SCSI device) 0-1: default = 1: 1

The setting can be changed either through the VirtualCenter server or it can be changed from the command line on the ESX service console.

Page 78 of the Version 2.5 VMware ESX Server SAN Configuration Guide has the procedure on how to change the parameter using VirtualCenter. Click here to go to "Version 2.5 VMware ESX Server SAN Configuration Guide" (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx25_san_cfg.pdf) .

To set the value from the command line, it is:

[]$ esxcfg-advcfg -g /Disk/UseDeviceReset <== to GET the current value
Value of UseDeviceReset is 1 <== Current value
[]$ esxcfg-advcfg -s 0 /Disk/UseDeviceReset <== To SET value to 0
Value of UseDeviceReset is 0 <== New value

Either way you choose to change the parameter, you need to restart the vmware-hostd daemon to activate the changes by typing the service console command:

service mgmt-vmware restart

Alternatively, just reboot the ESX server.

Once the settings have been modified, they will appear in the logs as:

UseDeviceReset (Use device reset (instead of bus reset) to reset a SCSI device) 0-1: default = 1: 0
UseLunReset (Use LUN reset (instead of device/bus reset) to reset a SCSI device) 0-1: default = 1: 1

7. In VMware be sure to properly set the SCSI controller sharing mode based on the system configuration because these will also reduce SCSI Bus reservation conflicts.

Here is the configuration guideline as listed in the HP VMware Best Practices document:

Sharing LUNs in order to share LUNs between VMs within a single ESX server, set the SCSI controller to Virtual mode. To share LUNs across multiple ESX servers or in a virtual to physical configuration, set the SCSI controller to Physical mode.

Video Card Compatibility w/ ESXi

VB2 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:33:14 GMT

My current setup is as follows:

Dell T105 (*yes, I know...not the most "robust" server)

8GB RAM

Quad-Core Processor

1 - PCI slot

1 - PCIe x1 slot

2 - PCIe x8 slots

What video card (if any) is compatible for ESXi? Thanks in advance for any help provided.

Supermicro X8DAL / Xeon E5520

Rogean — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:37:52 GMT

Hi,

I'm building a server to use with vmware esx and I'v done a bit of searching and couldn't find any answers for whether this motherboard would be supported or not. This is my first time I would be using ESX/ESXi, so I'm not sure which version I would/should use, if theres one particularly that would support the hardware better, or if no version supports these, please let me know so I can re-configure before ordering.

Heres what I'm getting:

SUPERMICRO MBD-X8DAL-i-O Dual LGA 1366 Intel 5500 ATX Dual Quad-Core

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182192

(2) Intel Xeon E5520 Nehalem 2.26GHz LGA 1366 Quad-Core

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117185

Thanks.

Array Configurations Options

Cogs4x4 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:46:42 GMT

Configuring a new ESXi 4.0...

For now I have it booting from a 1gb USB thumb Drive (installed to that anyway)

DL185 G5 Server with 12 1.5tb drives

Raid Array is set at 14.5 TB Capacity (~13.5+ Usable) No partitions set.

Next I'm looking at the HyperVisor Layer to look something like this... however this is where I think I'm going to hit some issues... but not sure..

500gb (OS / VM Storagage)

1.5TB Spare Partition

11+ TB Partition (dedicate directly to a VM (Openfiler)

Here is the quick map I created for it...

Otherwise I'm stuck loading Openfiler then vmware ontop of that...which works but would rather the opposite...

So if this is the case should I pre-partition the storage area before esx install?

Starwind Software

ConstantinV — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:34:37 GMT

Vendor:	Starwind Software
Product:	Starwind Enterprise Server
Product Version:	4.2

Configuration Tested
VMware Infrastructure:	ESXi 3.5u2 ESXi 3.5u1 ESXi 3.5 ESX 3.5u2 ESX 3.5u1 ESX 3.5 ESX Server 3.0.3 ESX Server 3.0.2u1 ESX Server 3.0.2 ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0 ESX Server 2.5.4 ESX Server 2.5.3 ESX Server 2.5.2 ESX Server 2.5.1 VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 2 VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1 VirtualCenter 2.5 VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 5 VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 4 VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 3 VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 2 VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 1 VirtualCenter 2.0.2 VirtualCenter 2.0.1 Patch 2 VirtualCenter 2.0.1 Patch 1 VirtualCenter 2.0.1 VirtualCenter 2.0.0
Configuration Tested:
Integration Method:

Support Information
Vendor representative?	yes
Configuration Supported?	yes
Support Provider:	Starwind Software
Support Provider Contact Info:	support@starwindsoftware.com
Support Provider Website:	starwindsoftware.com
Support End Date:
Known Issues:
Additional Comments:

HP NC373T NIC

tbonee — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:31:08 GMT

Hi all,

I got a Dell Optiplex 760 that I'm trying to install ESXi on to take out to a site to demo. I know that it is not particularly supported, but it installed fine except detecting the NIC. I bought a HP NC373T Nic because it was in the HCL and I've used them before. I installed in in the PCI-e 16 slot and reloaded ESXi but it does not see the new NIC either. I have disabled the on-board NIC before installing. Does anyone have any advice to get this NIC seen?

The release I've used are 3.5.0 that a co-worker made from a release on 4/30/09. It is the one that doesn't see the new NIC. I've downloaded the latest release (6/22/09) but that errors on install with "*Failed to load lvmdriver" .

Is it possible to get the HP NIC working since it is in the HCL?

Thanks.

--Tom

Does VMware-ESX-Certification-Appliance-2.1.0.0-164751 support DCMI and sensor-specific event sensor?

HackerJeffGuo — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:44:21 GMT

We encount 2 issues when do VMWare ESX certification on one server hardware system.

Would you please help to answer the questions or recommend the proper window for
questions at below?
1. Does VMware ESX4.0 or its certification tool
(VMware-ESX-Certification-Appliance-2.1.0.0-164751) support DCMI Spec?
2. Does OMC support the IPMI sensor whose event type is "sensor specific" ?

Issues:
1. VMware Certification Temperature Sensor Mismatch
OMC = 22,?SFCB = 7.
2. VMware Certification Power Supply Count Mismatch
OMC (Open Management with CIM) =1,SFCB (Small Footprint CIM Broker) =3

Environment:
Server:VMware ESX 4.0
Certification appliance: VMware-ESX-Certification-Appliance-2.1.0.0-164751

Problems on Fedora 11 (2.6.29 kernel) as a host

russellr — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:09:58 GMT

Hi,

Here's the list I've found so far:

On random occasions, moving from the a guest to the host causes
SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT keys to stop working in the host. They continue to
work fine in the guest. Only solution is to logout of X and login again.
Suspending a VM causes Workstation to hang after the suspend is
complete. Only way to release it is to kill the vmware-vmx process.
While it is hung, it is using CPU.
Logging off an X session (tested with Gnome) causes the guest
machines to be effectively powered-off forthwith. No suspension, no
backgrounding. This is despite the fact that "Run powered on VMs in
background after close" is enabled in Workstation.
no sound device is available into the guests.

Using Workstation 6.5.2 build-156735

In addition, which might be related to Fedora 11, hgfs mangles some file names (e.g. files that have a % sign in them):

I've reported this as a bug here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509463

The bug was rejected by RedHat as being a vendor problem.

The guest was Fedora 7.

regards,

RR

Performance with NAS GB Lan

hendrikdw — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:17:12 GMT

Hi

I am busy setting up VMware ESXi for a client. He has an small to medium business.
With +/- 15 Servers and 50 users.
The ESXi Server is an Intel Xeon 2.5Ghz Quad Core Server.
I was thinking to use the Intel Omega SS4200E NAS Storage System.
It has 1 GB Lan and RAID 5 with 4 1TB Hdd.
And would use GB Lan.

How would the Performance be over the LAN with the NAS?
Would it be possible to run all 15 VM from the NAS over the GB Lan?

Thanks
Hendrikdw

ESX 4.0 with HP DL160R06 or DL320G5p

robertoumberto — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:47:24 GMT

Hello,

does anyone knows whether the following modells works on the new ESX4.0, not ESX4.0i:

HP DL160R06 or DL320G5p

And i know that both servers are not litsted in the hcl.

thanks for every answer

Dell Inspiron 545MT

thempstead — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:33:51 GMT

We're considering several systems to use for testing of various Linux and Opensolaris configurations, (i.e. crash and burn testing as opposed to production systems). Now these would only be used by a single admin each hence do not need to be too high a spec as there will be no "user" load but they may need to run multilpe VMs at once.

We were considering the Dell Inspiron 545MT desktop mid-tower models with Core 2 Quad Q8200, 4GB of ram and 640GB of SATA storage as they are pretty cheap and should be quiet enough to run in an open plan office environment.

Do people think that this would be suitable and will these systems run ESXi 4.0 ok, (in particular disk and built in NIC support) ?

Supermicro 1041M-T2 + ESXI 4

Scrinf — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:03:51 GMT

Hello,

I´m interesting in this hardware for ESXI 4 but i dont know if is possible.

http://www.supermicro.es/?opcion=contenido&plt=productos/EN/aplus%2Fsystem%2F1U%2F1041%2F1041M-T2

12 Gb ram

Doble procesador AMD Istambul

3 x 1Tb Sata Hard Disk Raid 5.

Initial configuration for virtualitation of one server Red Hat and anyone Windows 2003 or 2008

Thanks

Modem on Host not accesible on Guest(VM)

2CooL — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:46:06 GMT

Hi All

I have a Windows2008 x64 server (Host) running a Windows2003 x86 guest (VM).

COM1 & 2 are added on the Guest from the Host but not the Modem which is running on COM3.

I have shutdown the VM added the HARDWARE Com3, and booted VM agian nothing .

Any ideas suggestions ?

ESXi 4.0 on Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO Li3745

chitambira — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:14:41 GMT

Will ESXi 4.0 install and run on Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO Li3745 with: Intel Quad Core Q8300 processor, 2.5GHz processor speed. Anybodu who has tried this out???

Monitoring Hardware failure on ESX using IBM Director Console

ramvenkey — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:23:48 GMT

We have IBM x3655-7985 installed ESX on it. But recently we
got situation that (Voltage Regulator 1 power good failure). We are monitoring
IBM servers using IBM Director Console. But we didnt receive any alerts before
the server went down on IBM director console. My question is here ESX 3.0.1
Will support IBM Director Console for monitoring the hardware failure of the
server?Also we have Remote Supervisor Adapter installed on it.

Intel i7 / Nehalem for vSphere

rgdejong — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:33:25 GMT

Hi all,

Any recommendations on motherboard, SATA controller, NIC, RAM etc. on a Intel i7 family processor (specifically the i7 920) for ESX 4.0? Is the i7 920 suitable anyway? Would ESX 3.5 also run on it?

Thanks in advance,

Rob

HP NC522SFP Fibre based 10GB Nic

Brockhillbob — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:54:36 GMT

Hi - anyone have any experience of running one of these cards (preferably in a Proliant DL380G5) please?

Its not listed on the i/o compatibility HCL but I was wondering if anyone had any practical experience of it working or not, or any news of official inclusion in the i/o HCL?

Thanks

Bob

ESXi does not recognize a virtual machine from a RAID 1 backup drive

virt123 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:00:20 GMT

Hello all,

We have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 III server on which we run ESXi. We have four pairs of RAID 1 drives (8 drives total). Each pair is set as its own Data Store in ESXi. Each separate pair of drives holds its own Virtual Machine.

All of these drives are hot-swappable, so we pull a drive from each pair, which we store as a backup, and then insert a new drive to rebuild. This way, if disaster strikes and both drives in a set fail, we can shut the server down, pull the failed pair, insert our backup copy, reboot the server, and be back where we were before the drives failed.

The problem we are having is that when we reboot the server, ESXi no longer recognizes the virtual machine on that drive. If we go to the console, the screen is black. In the VMware Infrastructure, the tree shows the message "Unknown (inaccessible)" where the virtual machine used to be. I suspect it has something to do with the way Dell handles foreign drives. You have to go into the Bios and "Import Foreign", which allows the drive to be used. Does anyone know how ESXi recognizes the virtual machines? The virtual machine still exists on the drive, but ESXi doesn't recognize it. Does it just read a header file on the drive, and if it does not match what is in its configuration, lists it as unknown and inaccessible?

Thanks for any help or information!

A general system error occurred: failed to initiate vmotion dest (vim.fault.invalidstate)

Uch — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:40:38 GMT

Lads when I try and Vmotion a virtual machine from an existing esx server to a new one for load balancing it fails with the following error "A general system error occurred: failed to initiate vmotion dest (vim.fault.invalidstate)" It seems to happen with NT4 servers and W2K servers but not with w2K3 servers, any ideas ?

is there any support for AM3

aliaj00 — Sat, 30 May 2009 13:02:39 GMT

Hi all,

is there any support for am3 based motherboards as this are going with ddr3 and are cheap enough. like

GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD

can esxi run on this one.

thanks to all

GlusterFS with VMWare

vbellur — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:27:26 GMT

Greetings Everyone,

I work with the GlusterFS (http://www.gluster.org) team and we are currently trying to understand more about
GlusterFS deployments with VMWare. We are looking at feedback from users of the same.

We are interested in knowing the following:

1) How many servers (Real and Virtual) do you use in the deployment?
2) What versions of operating systems/distributions do you use?
3) What is the VMware version that you use?
4) What disk based file systems do you use?
5) What is the amount of storage in the deployment?
6) What is the network interconnect that you use? (TCP/IP, Infiniband)

Any information that you can provide us on the above would be much
appreciated.
Also, if you could share a topology of your deployment with us, it would
be great!

Please write to Vijay <vijay at gluster.com> with any information that
you can share with us.

We promise that any information that you share with us would be kept
strictly confidential.

Thanks in Advance,
Vijay

discuss a server using esxi 4.0

tnndlbmu — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:49:37 GMT

Hi All ,

I`m getting involed with esxi 4.0 . I want to set up a server that using esxi 4.0 to run exchange ,apache and anyothers at my company.

I planned to use following parts:

CPU : Intel Xeon 5420 series(Quad-Core 2.5G)

RAM:8G ECC-FBD

HDDs: ST 320G SATA *6

Network adapter:Intel 82563EB Gigabit Ethernet

Array Card :PROMISE EX8650

Will the hardware do the job ?

Thank you very much.

Advise on Testserver Hardware (working with ESXi 3.5)

BoneTrader — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:28:14 GMT

Hi @ All

I am just starting to get involved with ESXi 3.5 and want to set up a Testserver at my Homeoffice. I planned to use following parts:

Mainboard: Asus P5BV-SAS

RAM: 8 GB ECC (Kingston)

CPU: Intel Xeon 3320 @ 2.4 Ghz

HDDs: 2x Samsung Spinpiont F1 HD103 UJ 1TB

will the Hardware do the job?

Dell 600SC w/ PERC 4

chandler3114 — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:43:30 GMT

I dont peticularly care if vmware will support this config, but will it run ESXi or ESX 3.5? It should be dependant on the SCSI controller right? The P4 should be plenty I would think...

Web Service Issue!!!!!!!!!!!!

prashzms — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:35:59 GMT

Hi all,

I am a software engineer. Previously I was working on C++, few months ago i started to work on Java Project.

Let me define the issue which i am currently facing,

I have tthree web services say ABC, PQR and XYZ.

ABC is implemented in Java whereas XYZ and PQR are implemented in C++. Both web services are SOAP/XML compliant.

The XYZ and PQR web services were developed with help of gSoap 2.7 package.

The interaction between ABC and XYZ webservice required security. So they are using SSL encryption for communication. The ABC and PQR are interacting with each other on normal HTTP:// protocol.

Now in SSL context XYZ (C++ WS) is a server and issued a client certificate to ABC (Java web service).

So while requesting ABC must send SSL certificate in the request as per my understading. But i don't know the exact way to send/attach/upload client SSL certificate within the Request.

Is there any standard method available for this???

How should I proceed with the resolution of above metioned problem???

qla200 with esxi 3.5

davidw.davis — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:08:52 GMT

I've got esxi 3.5 working on 3 PowerEdge sc1435's along with Qlogic qla200 hba's connected to my san. Everything appeared to be rock solid for quite some time. Now I'll have random SAN disconnects that don't seem to follow a pattern. Is anyone else successfully using the qla200 hba?

128MB or 256MB Adpatec 3805 RAID Controller?

DomRyan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:22:40 GMT

Hi All,

I'm currently upgrading the hardware internals of my home server so that I can run ESXi. I plan to have quite a few virtual environments on this server (maybe two or three dozen), however I can't see myself ever wanting more than a dozen running at any one time. This is the hardware I am currently looking at;

Intel Core i7 920 CPU
MSI X58 Platinum
2 x 6GB DDR3 1333 Kingston kits
3 x Western Digital AV Green Power 1TB HDD's (may upgrade to the 1.5TB disks though)

For the I/O controller I am looking at getting the Adaptec 3805 SAS/SATA RAID controller. This model comes in a 128MB version as well as a 256MB version (not upgradable unfortunately), and was just wondering if this increase in RAM is likely to result in any tangible performance gains for ESXi and the guest operating systems? If the performance between the two versions is notable I am happy enough to spend the extra, however as there appears to be a fair price difference between the two where I am I really only want to spend this money if it is going to really make a difference.

Appreciate any advice you can give!

VMware support Sangoma Card?

wcpon — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:09:53 GMT

Hi, I would like to know, VMware is support below hardware or not?

1) Sangoma card Model: A101D AFT card - supporting singleT1/E1 or fractional T1/E1 data streams with 1024 tap(128ms) hardware based echo canceller across 30channels
2) RedFone foneBridge2 750-5050-EC

Kindly please assist me on this issues, because I am planning to go for Virtualization environment and also need to use above hardware to work with my VOIP server.

Thanks you.

Regards,
Woody.

iSCSI HBA Qlogic QLA4010 and ESX 3.5

sebsim — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:44:23 GMT

We are using Qlogic QLA4010 copper iSCSI HBA on Vmware ESX 3.0.2 . We are upgrading to ESX 3.5 U4.

Does anyone know if this HBA will work with ESX 3.5 ?

Thanks

ESXi rack server SATA on the cheap? 2U-3U

Degel3030 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:24:18 GMT

I am looking to change out my current server with one that I can actually rack mount (have a rack, no rackmounted server) and came across a Dell PowerEdge 2650 for fairly cheap ($90 if I pick it up) without any drives. I thought I could just put in a SATA card and put in some SATA drives (to save money) but after doing some research it seems this is not possible. I guess because of the power supply and no adapters or room for expansion. I then started searching for other options, found a HP Proliant that was somewhat cheap but again, SCSI only. I then started searching for rack servers that did have the SATA connections and was only able to find 1U options, with most being fairly expensive. So is there anything out there that will work with ESXi and have the expansion of multiple drives for under, say $200ish used? Would it be cheaper to just get a small NAS/SAN and the original PowerEdge 2650? Maybe there is actually some way to put in SATA drives into the PowerEdge or another similar model?

Thanks for any help/insight

ICH8 support

cdickerson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:49:54 GMT

So, I have a older Gigabyte 965P-DS3 motherboard that has 4 ICH8 SATA ports. All four of the ports are recognized by ESX 3.5 U4, but only the first two ports ESX will recognize drives attached to. Any thoughts as to why this is? The bios will see the drives attached to the 3rd and 4th ports, but ESX wont. I am able to install and run ESX on the drives on the first two ports.

thanks

Craig

Stand alone Sata Raid Options?

cheetahfox — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:47:05 GMT

After spending a week trying to get clear answers about ANY standalone Sata Raid options feel like I need to come here... I have learned that there is no supported standalone PCIe Raid card for ESXi. I also learned that there is no plans to add support 3ware cards in ESXi... So as I was planning on using ESXi + the 3ware raid cards I am at a loss as how to move forward.

I am willing to upgrade to ESX but, I need full support for whichever solution I pick. The current 3ware support in ESX does NOT support monitoring of the Raid array status so even that is really out of the question. Are there any options for a single box solution? My I/O load isn't going to be that high but I need protection from drive failure. The server is going to be located about 30 miles away so having the ability to monitor the array status is a requirment.

Does VMware ESX support ANY hardware that meets my requirements? If ESX/ESXi doesn't support any standalone Raid hardware are there any other options? Keep in mind that NAS/SAN would be way overkill in this application.

SuperMicro X7DBN motherboard, SATA RAID?

Ken73 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:01:38 GMT

I guess I went on faith a little too much; I bought this motherboard according to this post:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1133119#1133119

But didn't get any kind of SATA controller; I tried to load up ESXi and it of course comes back and says "no compatible storage available" I foolishly went through and assumed the onboard controller would be enough.

I've looked through the HCL and I'm not quite sure what to get as for a controller - I'm trying to stick under $200 if possible - but not even sure where to look? I've got 16gb of RAM, two 500gb WD SATA drives, and two Xeon quad-core E5405 processors.

I also noticed that the motherboard has a secondary (white) IDE slot that says "for compact flash only" on it - Newegg has a CF adapter that goes straight to IDE for $7 or so, and a 2gb CF is only about $10 or so - would there be any reason for me to load (or not to load) ESXi onto a CF card? Any advantages?

I definitely appreciate any help anyone can provide, I'm in virgin (gasp) territory this time. I've done VM Workstation plenty, but trying to learn/teach myself ESXi.

problem in programming pic18f2550

sneus — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:05:54 GMT

hey....m doing a project on pic 18f2550.i want to know how can i read an image through MPLAB with c18 compiler.....rply urgently if u kno!

VMWare and Lodestar

logicamc01 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:50:47 GMT

Hello,

i must integrate lodestar application (Oracle utilities) on a Virtual Machine. I'll hope use VMware like Virtulization solution.

Is someone has already installed and used Lodestar with VMware. If Yes, is there any recommandations, problem, .. And what about performances ?

Thanks a lot

vmware lsi scsi drivers

techstress — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:13:14 GMT

I'm trying to find the correct drivers for vmware's lsilogic scsi disk.

The long story is I'm trying to convert a physical nt 4.0 box to a virtual machine. We couldn't run Converter as it couldn't detect which OS was running; nt 4 sp6a. So I performed a backup and restore using dd with a linux live cd. After performing the restore, we see the OS selection screen. After picking the OS the blue screen appear and changes quickly to BSOD; inaccessible_boot_device. I tried playing with the boot.ini but got couldn't find ntosknrl.exe instead. Right now I'm thinking that the installed disk drivers are not compatible with vmware.

NT 4 doesn't have recovery console, but i read that the RC from a 2000 disk will work. I boot to a 2000 cd but keep getting Setup could not find any hard disk drives. I tried loading lsi 20320 driver for 2000 but keep getting the same error. I'm picking the U320 fromt he list

Configuring a Virtual Machine to Use the LSI Logic SCSI Adapter

Gigabyte

MichelNL — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:51:43 GMT

Hi there,

Does anyone got this motherboard working with ESXi?

GA-M55plus-S3G

http://www.gigabyte.eu/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2283

Thanks!

ESXi on ASUS AP1700?

Perjan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:27:04 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone have ESXi running on an ASUS AP1700 (motherboard ASUS PR-DLS533)?

I cannot find any info on the HCL.

Regards,

Perjan

Asus P5MT with ESXi

mrrex4 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:19:29 GMT

Has anyone tried the EXSi 3.5 Installable on the Asus Server motherboard P5MT or variants?

I have done a search of the forums and I checked the white boxes website and found nothing. However, at the same time I found a post saying that even though it's un-tested/reported it doesn't mean that it won't work. Therefore, I am asking the question just incase anyone has done the testing already.

dell precision 670

wings7351 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:10:31 GMT

Does anyone have any experience using dell 670 as the ESXi server? I am running one but the disk and network performance is really low.

Problem installing on Foxconn G45M

gribble — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:03:08 GMT

Hey there..

I tried to install ESXi 3.5U3 ( VMware-VMvisor-InstallerCD-3.5.0_Update_3-123629.i386.iso ) on my FOXCONN G45M motherboard (with a SATA HDD / 4GB RAM) but the installation always fails The installer correctly indentifies my motherboard.

When loading all the modules after/during "loadingusb-storage" the screen wents to the screen saying:

Welcome to VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 Installation

......

(ESC) Cancel (R) Repair (ENTER) Install

but then the system freezes. Can't change console or anything else.....

Any idea what I am missing here to get esxi running on my hardware?

thx in advance

Nic seen in esx server - but not in VC

dizman67 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:27:40 GMT

I have an ESX with 4 Nics in it, a dual port e100 nic and 2 BMC5701 GIGE nics.

3 of 4 show up in VC, I am missing the 2 BMC 5701 Nic.

AN lspci shows both of BMC 5701 Nics.

a vmkload_mod -1 shows the module tg3 loaded.

a esxcfg-nics -1 does not show the 2nd bmc nic.

How do I get this nic into a esxcfg-nic display to be able to see this nic in VC and use it.

Unable to access path 1 to storage.

Kleibe — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:07:03 GMT

A while ago we noticed there was only one path to our storage unit. We have rebooted our ESX blades, performed a re-scan along with the other obvious fixes. Anybody have other ideas for an easy fix?

VMware Infrastructure and FSC FibreCat SX60 Storage on SATAII-HDD

quitschibo — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:52:05 GMT

Hello,

the FibreCAT SX60 is a small Storage System and support up to 12x 1GB SATAII-Disks with 7200k and FC-Connection.

Are the any performance issues using this system in a VMware enviroment for Test and Dev.?

How high are the performance benefits when using 15k SAS HDD instead?

Thanks,

quitschibo

VmWare esx 3i low budget sata raid controller PCI or PCI 64bit

Technopc — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:02:01 GMT

Hi,

Is there anyone that knows a very low budget raid sata controller card compatible with vmware esx 3i? My motherboard (Tyan Thunder) and all the other hardware is on the compatible list. I want to create a sata raid using a sata raid controller card that support vmware esx i. Anyone can help? Also it's 100% mandatory use the HCL for the esx 3i? I used some Adaptec that were not included on the HCL and indeed they did not worked.

SCSI option for me is too expensive.

Compatitabilty

carl9 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:52:58 GMT

I'm building a custom server that I hope to use with ESXi. From what I can tell, most everything on my list will work...I'm just not sure about the ethernet controllers and the motherboard. Has someone else had any experience with them?

Case	RM414-SM
Motherboard	TYAN S2932WG2NR
CPU	AMD OS2384WAL4DGIWOF (2)
Memory	Kingston KVR667D2D4P5K2/4G (8)
Hard Drive	Seagate ST3300656SS
Controller	Adaptec 2252700-R
DVDRW	Lite-on iHAS120-04

The ethernet controllers on the Tyan are Marvell 88E1121's I didn't find them on the HCL, but that doesn't mean someone else hasn't been successful in getting them to work. I am not tied specifically to this motherboard, but I would like to stick with Tyan.

MSA1000 fiber controllers crash after ugrading to ESX3.5.0 U3

InfoEE — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:29:28 GMT

We are using a SAN HP MSA1000 and 4 blades HP BL20P G4.
There are several VMs running on them that are used in production. I don't want to loose all the stuff because it should take a lot of time to restore.

Since I've upgraded the ESX servers from 3.0.2 to 3.5.0 U3, the fiber controllers of the SAN crash each time it works with large amounts of data.

According to HP, the current firmware version (4.48) of the controllers is not compatible with ESX 3.5.0 because they work in ACTIVE/PASSIVE mode.

The solution would be to upgrade the controllers to firmware version 7.10 which works in ACTIVE/ACTIVE mode.

Our HW support provider is afraid that the ESX servers would not react correctly when the access to the storage box (MSA1000) is changed from ACTIVE/PASSIVE to ACTIVE/ACTIVE.

Could you confirm that the firmware upgrade is the good solution.

Regards,

Eric

Does VMWare ESX support EMC² AX4-5 direct attached

druehl — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:55:38 GMT

Hello,

does anyone know why VMWare doesn´t support EMC´s AX4-5 stoeage system in direct attached mode?

When i look at the compatibility guide, there ist only "supported with Brocade 4G and 8G HBAs.".

( http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?action=search&deviceCategory=san&productId=1&keyBasic=ax4-5&maxDisplayRows=50&key=&release][=-1&datePosted=-1 )

But when you have a look at the older model AX150 HCL you can see:

"Direct Connect and Multipathing with HBA Failover is supported."

( http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?action=search&deviceCategory=san&productId=1&keyBasic=ax150&maxDisplayRows=50&key=ax4-5&release][=-1&datePosted=-1 )

THX

Hardware best practise

cvb97 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:14:42 GMT

Hi to all vPeople, this brand new to me so please bear with me.

Implemented vCenter 3 on a IBM blade system 8X 2 qaud core 10GB ram each connected to a DS4700. As any one out ther got some advice on best practise in implementing a secure and balanced invioremnet.

EX. should I have 2 service console ports on both nics ? (only 2 physical nics avialable + 2 FC switches) Just need some general tips.

Compatability with Dell laptops and Desktops

hyattdj — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:08:52 GMT

Normally I have plenty of Dell desktops to use as sandbox servers.

I want to use ESXi for proof of concept to demonstrate value of ESX, but there is no true servers available. I have converted my previous employer to ESX in most of the environment. I am looking to create an ESXi environment in my office and on my laptop.

Also, I wish to run ESXi on my Dell laptop, but before disabling it to install ESX. I was wondering is ESXi compatable with PIV Dell laptops

Lastly, as I am putting a larger hard drive in the laptop for ESX. Is there a tool that will allow me to migrate the XP environment including applications back to ESX from a static installation on hard drive.

My goal is to retain the current version of XP on the new larger disk, install a fresh install of XP, and install an instance of RHEL5 for demonstrative purposes. Yet still have access to the legacy applications I have on the laptop currently.

thanks in advance.

Intel S5000VSASATAR

snikers — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:34:37 GMT

Does VMWARE support MB Intel S5000VSASATAR ? Seems that no, can somebody explain exactly?Any chances?

SAS RAID Adaptec 3805 256MB is there...

Thanks

Serial Port Issues

stev151 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:37:43 GMT

Using ESX 3.5.0

I have 3 working Serial port modems(different brands and models even), they all 3 work on multiple physical machines. Anytime i hook up any of the 3 modems up to a virtual machine, they can send the fax okay, but the output is all jumbled up on the first 2 inches of the page.

I have tried converting over multiple machines. Creating Server 2k3, server 2k, xp VM's. Tried a combination of the 3 modems with the 3 OS's.

All of this testing has resulted in the same jumbled up output, and it does it on my small workstation unit(turned ESX Dev Server) and my Dell Poweredge Production Unit as well. The only thing left to be at fault since the problems happen when replacing the modems, OS's, and physical servers. It only leaves ESX.

The COM and Modem settings on the physical machine and the VM's are the same, so what is it that the VM's cannot send the faxes correctly...

Has anyone had similar issues? or a solution? thanks!

ESX 3.5 U3 and UNISYS ES7600R

Lukeone2000 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:24:35 GMT

Hi all,

in the VMWARE HCL I can see that this server mounts Quad-core Intel Xeon X7350, but on the Unisys site the machine is reported as X7440.

Also this machine can mount an Intel Exa-core X7460.

Anyone knows this server or use it with ESX 3.5 U3 ?

Thanks

Lukeone

VMware 3.5 doesn`t start on ESX for 2 - 3 hours.

cmeier — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:22:14 GMT

Hallo i hope you can help me. I had to restart a ESX server based on Redhat, after the reboot all deamons are startet. But I could not connect via Infrastructure Client or the Webinterface. After 2 or 3 houres it worked.

Now the Server is up, but i cant find the Problem.

I hope anyone can help me.

thx

ScaleOut StateServer

klcompren — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:02:08 GMT

The publisher of this software strongly suggests not running this application in a VM. http://www.scaleoutsoftware.com

Does anyone have experience optimizing this application for operation in a VM? It seems that it would be ideally suited. It's not a particularly compute intensive application. There is some network traffic to keep each of the ScaleOut instances in sync but this should not be onerous. Yet, they recommend minimum 1 gigabit network between the nodes.

Updating License

rightfoot — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:23:39 GMT

When I first signed up to download vmware server, I didn't know if I would be spending much time with it. At this point, I am trying to test using two servers, moving servers around, etc. As I recall, I think I said one server, a few guests for the license. Do I just use the same license for the second server or should I update my license and if update, where?

Thanks.

Looking for low cost server for SW development running ESXi 3.5

Wyllys — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:08:04 GMT

The HCL lists server systems, but I can't find a components list (I can see why that would be difficult to support). I'm considering a system based on MSI G45M-FIDR motherboard using an Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.20 GHz E2200 processor, SATA-II interface with 2x250GB drives, on board LAN and video. I'll up it to 4GB memory. I've attached a description in a Word doc.

I'm looking for a system to test against while doing VI SDK development work, so it doesn't need to support a live production environment.

This is a pretty vanilla system I expect will run ESXi, but I checking around before purchasing. Is there anything in this system that raises a red flag?

Thanks in advance, and I'll post specs on whatever I end up using.

Stets Newcomb

Problem with network card in Virtual Converter

LRAcosta — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:23:07 GMT

Sorry for this question so stupid ..

I have a Dell 6650 server with a network card "Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit #2"

But in trying to make VmConverter.. I can not reach the network's ESX server

trying for Red concerned by local, cross-over and will not succeed

will be any problem with my Network Card. ?

thanks

I can't view LUNs in HP EVA3000

pviqueira — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:39:26 GMT

Hello,

I have installed vmware esx 3.5 U2 in a HP DL 585. This server has a atached 1 hba dual port emulex LP11002 connected to SAN HP EVA3000 VCS3028.

I added a host in the Command View EVA as says VMware Infrastructure 3, HP StorageWorks best practices.

*In Command View EVA, set the host OS name parameter to Custom.
*For an active/passive EVA3000/5000 array, use host mode type 000000002200282E.

And I added the hba ports to this host:

And virtual disks.

When I rescan the hbas in the ESX hosts I can´t see any LUN. If I restart de ESX host the result is the same:

I have made this one two days ago. Today morning when I rescan the hbas again I was be able to see the LUN, but when I restarted tke ESX host I lost the LUN again.

Any idea!!.

Thanks

Pablo

Template for Reporting New Configurations

RDellimmagine — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:18:54 GMT

Please copy this code into a new discussion thread and fill in the required information.
If you have relevant additional information, please include it as an attachment.
Please see About the CSHWSW to get started.

||_Product Information_|| ||
|*Vendor*:|<vendor_name_goes_here>|
|*Product*:| |
|*Product Version*:| |

||_Configuration Tested_|| ||
|*VMware Infrastructure*:|ESXi 3.5u2
ESXi 3.5u1
ESXi 3.5
ESX 3.5u2
ESX 3.5u1
ESX 3.5
ESX Server 3.0.3
ESX Server 3.0.2u1
ESX Server 3.0.2
ESX Server 3.0.1
ESX Server 3.0.0
ESX Server 2.5.4
ESX Server 2.5.3
ESX Server 2.5.2
ESX Server 2.5.1
VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 2
VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1
VirtualCenter 2.5
VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 5
VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 4
VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 3
VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 2
VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 1
VirtualCenter 2.0.2
VirtualCenter 2.0.1 Patch 2
VirtualCenter 2.0.1 Patch 1
VirtualCenter 2.0.1
VirtualCenter 2.0.0|
|*Configuration Tested*:| |
|*Integration Method*:| |

||_Support Information_|| ||
|*Vendor representative?*|yes/no|
|*Configuration Supported?*|yes/no|
|*Support Provider*:| |
|*Support Provider Contact Info*:| |
|*Support Provider Website*:| |
|*Support End Date*:| |
|*Known Issues*:| |
|*Additional Comments*:| |

Sample Entry: Acme PowerRack 5000

RDellimmagine — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:39:19 GMT

Note: This is a sample entry for edutainment purposes only. Please see About the CSHWSW to get started.

Product Information
Vendor:	Acme Corporation
Product:	PowerRack
Product Version:	5000

Configuration Tested
VMware Infrastructure:	ESXi 3.5u2 ESXi 3.5u1 ESXi 3.5 ESX 3.5u2 ESX 3.5u1 ESX 3.5 VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 2 VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1 VirtualCenter 2.5
Configuration Tested:	Acme SuperRAID 5000
Integration Method:	iSCSI

Support Information
Vendor representative?	no
Configuration Supported?	no
Support Provider:	Acme Corporation
Support Provider Contact Info:	Joe Serverfarm
Support Provider Website:	http://www.acmecorporation.com
Support End Date:	12/31/2020
Known Issues:	Does not support FiberChannel
Additional Comments:	This is a sample entry for edutainment purposes only.

Other Community-Reported Compatibility Resources

RDellimmagine — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:16:42 GMT

Short list of other resources containing community reports of compatible configurations:

VM Help from Dave.Mishchenko
Ultimate ESX Whitebox from Mr. Dark

To add to this list, simply reply to this thread.

Initial CSHWSW Entries

RDellimmagine — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:12:19 GMT

This is a top-level listing of the entries in the current (read-only) CSHWSW. Please see About the CSHWSW to get started.

Vendor	Product	VMware Infrastructure	Revised
Hitachi Data Systems	Hitachi Data Systems Universal Volume Manager (tm) (support externally attached storage) Any	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0 ESX Server 2.5.3	07/15/2007
Dell	Power Edge 840	ESX Server 3.0.1	05/21/2007
Dell	PowerEdge sc1420	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0 ESX Server 2.5.3	04/30/2007
LeftHand Networks	NSM 150 SAN/iQ 6.6	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0	04/18/2007
LeftHand Networks	NSM 200 SAN/iQ 6.6	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0	04/18/2007
Acard	ACARD Raid Box ARS-3031	ESX Server 2.5.3	04/14/2007
Celeros	XL23 iSCSI SAN XL Series SANS with Firmware version 1.7x	ESX Server 3.0.1	04/09/2007
Celeros	Celeros EzSANFiler XD Series Version: 1.15.DB00000000.2553	ESX Server 3.0.1	04/09/2007
American Megatrends Inc.	StorTrends iTX 2.6.1011	ESX Server 3.0.1 VirtualCenter 2.0.1	03/27/2007
Xyratex	4200 SATA	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 2.5.3 ESX Server 2.5.2 ESX Server 2.5.1	03/21/2007
Open-E	iSCSI Enterprise IDE & USB Module	ESX Server 3.0.1	03/21/2007
Hewlett Packard	ProLiant DL360 G2	ESX Server 3.0.1	03/20/2007
Hitachi Data Systems	Hitachi Data Systems Universal Volume Manager™ (support of externally attached storage) Any	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0	03/06/2007
Network Appliance (StoreVault Division)	OS: Data ONTAP® StoreVault Edition; StoreVault S500 Data ONTAP® 7.0.x or greater	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0	03/05/2007
N-TEC GmbH	ICEBOX-iSQ Version : iSQ16	ESX Server 3.0.1	02/22/2007
Xyratex	F5402 FC RAID Storage	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0	02/05/2007
Hitachi	Hitachi PCI Fibre Channel Adapter GV-CC64G2, GV-CC64G2BX, GV-CC64G2EX, GV-CC64G1, GV-CC64G1BX, GV-CC64G1EX, GG-CC9MZFC1, GG-CC9MZFC1EX	ESX Server 3.0.1	02/04/2007
Dell	PowerEdge 840 840	ESX Server 3.0.1	01/18/2007
OpenFiler	OpenFiler 2.2	ESX Server 3.0.1	01/18/2007
Acard	SCSI to IDE / SCSI to SATA Adapters AEC7726Q, AEC-7730	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0 ESX Server 2.5.4 ESX Server 2.5.3 ESX Server 2.5.2 ESX Server 2.5.1	>01/14/2007
Openfiler	Openfiler (software) 2.1	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0	01/13/2007
Dell (OEM Adaptec)	Dell Cerc 1.5/6ch (OEM Adaptec 2610SA ) RAID Controller Firmware version 4.1.0.7417	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 2.5.3 ESX Server 2.5.2	01/12/2007
SourceForge.net hosted project	iSCSI Enterprise Target (IETD) v0.4.12, v0.4.13 and v0.4.14	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0	01/11/2007
Adaptec	ATA RAID 2410SA All	ESX Server 2.5.4	01/10/2007
DataCore Software	Traveller 1.0	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0 ESX Server 2.5.4 ESX Server 2.5.3 ESX Server 2.5.2 ESX Server 2.5.1	01/08/2007
DataCore Software	SANmelody 2.0	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0 ESX Server 2.5.4 ESX Server 2.5.3 ESX Server 2.5.2 ESX Server 2.5.1	01/08/2007
DataCore Software	SANsymphony 5.2	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0 ESX Server 2.5.4 ESX Server 2.5.3 ESX Server 2.5.2 ESX Server 2.5.1	01/08/2007
Network Appliance (NetApp)	OS: Data ONTAP®; NearStore Series: R100, R150, R200 Data ONTAP® 7.1 or greater	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0	01/05/2007
Network Appliance (NetApp)	OS: Data ONTAP®; V Series: V3020, V3050, V3070, V6030, V6070, GF920, GF940, GF960, GF980 Data ONTAP® 7.1 or greater	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0	01/05/2007
Network Appliance (NetApp)	OS: Data ONTAP®; FAS Series: FAS270, FAS3020, FAS3050, FAS3070, FAS6030, FAS6070, FAS920, FAS940, FAS960, FAS980, F825, F880 Data ONTAP® 7.1 or greater (F825, F880 supported through Data ONTAP® 7.1.x)	ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.0	01/05/2007
Hitachi Data Systems	Data Systems Universal Volume Manager™ (support of externally attached storage) Any	ESX Server 2.5.3	01/05/2007
Adaptec	Snap Server models: 520/550 and 18000 Guardian OS 4.2.054 + SP2 or 4.3.007 + SP2		01/04/2007
FalconStor Software	FalconStor IPStor Storage Virtualization 5.0	ESX Server 3.0.0 ESX Server 2.5.4 ESX Server 2.5.3 ESX Server 2.5.2 ESX Server 2.5.1	01/03/2007
FalconStor Software	FalconStor IPStor for BCDR 5.0	>ESX Server 3.0.0 ESX Server 2.5.4 ESX Server 2.5.3 ESX Server 2.5.2 ESX Server 2.5.1	01/03/2007
FalconStor Software	FalconStor VTL 4.5	ESX Server 3.0.0 ESX Server 2.5.4 ESX Server 2.5.3 ESX Server 2.5.2 ESX Server 2.5.1	01/03/2007
Intransa	Intransa IP SAN IP5500 3.0	ESX Server 3.0.0	01/02/2007