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Hi, Yes, you can upgrade without disturbing you VMs. You have multiple options to do that. Dowload the upgrade vib file and do it on cli or connect the cd and do an upgrade and choose to preserve the vmfs. You can also create a vm with vcenter and do it through update manager. Regards, Ram.

Hi, If I understand correctly, you need the additional space of your drive attached to your ESXi. As suggested, you may create a RAID group on your host and then try to add it as Raw Device or create a datastore by formatting with vmfs and then add this entire space as a new disk to your VM. Apologies if I didn't understand your requirement. Thanks, Ram.

Hi, Can you please elaborate your last sentence? : "If i copy the same file from the network to the storage server (no over iscsi) is is file and fast)" Which network were you referring to? Regards, Ram.

Hi, Once you've finished the sysprep, shutdown the VM. Convert it to template. (Right click on the VM to convert) And you can deploy any number of VMs from this template. The sysprep will prepare your new server based on the settings given by you. Alternatively, you also have a Customization Specification Wizard in your vCenter home page. You can use the options given by this tool to customize your template. Regards, Ram.

Hi, Unfortunately, I don't have any running ESXi 4.1 in my lab or infrastructure. But, please give a try with "smbiosDump | less" .  This has to work. The letters are case sensitive, so please type the command like it is. Scroll down to find the Physical Memory Array, if it works. You may find the details needed. Thanks, Ram.

Hi, Upgraded hardware has paravirtual drivers included. Please refer to the below link for additional information related to hardware versions : vSphere 5.5 Documentation Center . Migrating the data to new datastores with vmfs 5 has many benefits like the size of the vmdks, space reclamation tools. Please update the vmware tools only after the hardware upgrade as the tools version would change once you upgrade the hardware. Regards, Ram.

Hi, The 1333 stick runs at 21Gb/s and the 1066 stick runs at 17Gb/s. So, there's a 4 Gb/s loss on each stick used. You may calculate accordingly depending on the number of RAM sticks used. Regards, Ram.

Hi Valerys, The combination would not make much difference but you would lose the performance of the 1333MHz RAM sticks. They would be running at a degraded performance or at the speeds of 1066MHz. Apart from that, there should not be any system crashes. Thanks, Ram.

Hi, Your Essestials plus kit will cover the license. You have to install 2 ESXi hosts, 1 for Protected and the other for Recovery site. With vSphere replication, you will be able to replicate the VMs and not the ESXi Hypervisor. Hope this answers your query. Thanks, Ram.