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are all the VMs on the same port groups?
I have fixed this by checking the esx.conf file the line with the vSwitch name in it had a carriage return in it e.g /net/vswitch/child[0001]/name = "vSwitch1 " /net/vswitch/child[0001]/... See more...
I have fixed this by checking the esx.conf file the line with the vSwitch name in it had a carriage return in it e.g /net/vswitch/child[0001]/name = "vSwitch1 " /net/vswitch/child[0001]/numports = "1024"
I am having the same issue as the OP but all my nics are attached to the broken vswitch? I really do not want to rebuild this host. is there any one who has fixed this? I am ru... See more...
I am having the same issue as the OP but all my nics are attached to the broken vswitch? I really do not want to rebuild this host. is there any one who has fixed this? I am running ESX 3.5
any way to get this to show the free space on the VMs disk?
When connecting this to a VC how do i get it to display the ESX host for each one? and also how do i get it in to a table format Reservation : 45379 ExpandableReservation : F... See more...
When connecting this to a VC how do i get it to display the ESX host for each one? and also how do i get it in to a table format Reservation : 45379 ExpandableReservation : False Limit : 45379 Shares : VMware.Vim.SharesInfo OverheadLimit : 0 DynamicType : DynamicProperty : to something like Host Reservation ExpandableReservation Limit Shares ESX01 45379 False 45379 VMware.Vim.SharesInfo
i cant seem to get this to filter by the name doesnt mater what i do it just sends every thing back. Not a biggy as i can clean it up in excel
Can anyone help me im very new to any kind of scripting i have got the tool kit installed with comunity cmdlets installed. and have run some of the scripts from here. thanks guys. I have s... See more...
Can anyone help me im very new to any kind of scripting i have got the tool kit installed with comunity cmdlets installed. and have run some of the scripts from here. thanks guys. I have shared SAN accross all my ESX hosts in the 2 VCs. so all my ESX hosts see the same LUNs What i want to do is search the luns find what VMs are not i either VC and Delete them or give me a list to check then delete them? Thanks guys
I've done the basic upgrade for VC 2.5. Please find below my notes: 1. Consider upgrading SQL server to SQL 2005. VC 2.5 is more designed to work with SQL2005 and also SQL2005 is much fast... See more...
I've done the basic upgrade for VC 2.5. Please find below my notes: 1. Consider upgrading SQL server to SQL 2005. VC 2.5 is more designed to work with SQL2005 and also SQL2005 is much faster than SQL 2000. 2. VC 2.5 is not working with MSDE, so you need to upgrade MSDE to SQL Express 2005. There is an article on Microsoft web site with upgrade path: 3. Create a proper backup of VC database ( schema update failed few times for me ). Better just detach the DB and make copy of MDF & LDF files and than attach it again. 4. Try to avoid using autorun.exe and install components separately. For VC 2.5 installation run "VMware-vcserver.exe". 5. Use local SQL account with full database permissions ( or "sa" user ) when installation will ask you to provide credentials. I tried with Windows Authentication cause my SQL is located on the same server but it failed. 6. When installing VC do not install Web Components. We are not using it and the web interface is still missing functionality. Also web component is running on "ApacheTomcatJRE" and client is running .Net. I do not know how much alcohol they took at VMWare before making decision to not to follow one single platform for all components 7. At the end of VC upgrade process the database upgrade wizard will run. It will tell you how much free space you need to have for successful schema update. Please pay attention to this number and make sure you have enough space. Also, set the VC database log file to unlimited growth ( this can be only related to SQL Express ). 8. As soon as DB schema will be updated VC service will be restarted automatically. So here is the biggest problem I found. VC started to update agents on all ESX hosts, and some of them failed. I just cannot imagine how hard it will be to track in a big datacenters with hundreds of hosts. Anyway, if agent update failed just go to the console and restart "vpxa" and "mgmt-vmware". Than monitor the vpx log file on the host using "tail -f vpxa.log" I have not installed VC Update Manager and VC Converter as I think it's more related to VC 3.5. Will install these components later when host will be updated to 3.5. The good thing I found is that VC 2.5 is much more faster and VC client is more responsive than the previous version.
Checking all the vMotion nics on the servers on of them was flicking between 100 and gig an that was what was causing to issue. i got the network guys to look at it and hopefully we will work ... See more...
Checking all the vMotion nics on the servers on of them was flicking between 100 and gig an that was what was causing to issue. i got the network guys to look at it and hopefully we will work out why. im guessing faulty port
the task timed out after 4 hours and 30mins.
\- The amount of memory to migrate; The guest OS memory is 2gig \- How much memory is in used by the VM while migrating; guest usage 50mb \- The use of the swap file; how would i find out t... See more...
\- The amount of memory to migrate; The guest OS memory is 2gig \- How much memory is in used by the VM while migrating; guest usage 50mb \- The use of the swap file; how would i find out that? \- The speed of the network link. all the networks are at 1gb including Vmotion. this is happening to random VM in my cluster of 14 servers?
Some of my VM are taking a long time to migrate to another host in the cluster over 2+ hours. this is holding up other tasks as well. the the host are connected by SAN and this happens with... See more...
Some of my VM are taking a long time to migrate to another host in the cluster over 2+ hours. this is holding up other tasks as well. the the host are connected by SAN and this happens with both DRS mirgrations and ones i haves set to migrate my self.