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I've setup a cluster on Dell PowerEdge 2950 using these NICs in a 3.5 environment, and no, they do not work properly when trunking VLANs onto them. Without VLAN, no problem, with VLAN, lot... See more...
I've setup a cluster on Dell PowerEdge 2950 using these NICs in a 3.5 environment, and no, they do not work properly when trunking VLANs onto them. Without VLAN, no problem, with VLAN, lots of dropped packets. Which is weird, as I thought I would see no packets at all rather than >50% lost. Our solution was to put the SC and VMotion onto 2 ports on this NIC and use the 2 built in NICs for VLAN trunking. Not a great solution, it's rather a quick fix. I've called Dell Goldsupport and opened a case there, and they have forwarded this to their engineering and development team. I hope they can resolve this with VMware quickly.
I'm glad it worked out, have fun with your new version!
The license database is held by a FlexLM license server, it is not saved in any SQL database. For moving the licenses to a new server all you need to do is this: 1. Install the lice... See more...
The license database is held by a FlexLM license server, it is not saved in any SQL database. For moving the licenses to a new server all you need to do is this: 1. Install the license server application on the new server 2. Add the current licence-file to this new licence server 3. Change all licence-server hostnames on the ESX-servers and VC to the new hostname I think what you meant was moving the VirtualCenter database information from SQL2000 to SQL2005? That's not hard either, if you're doing it right from the beginning. There are some caveats however, and has been thoroughly explained in other threads on this forum. The ESX-servers themseleves are never talking to any database. Regarding which version to go for, I personally like the new 3.5.
ewannema, you're right about the need to re-register the VMs, I forgot about that. Thanks for correcting me
Is this an Intel Quad NIC? If so, have you tried this patch: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1001908 ? Try that, or rather ins... See more...
Is this an Intel Quad NIC? If so, have you tried this patch: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1001908 ? Try that, or rather install the update (3.0.2 Update 1) which contains this patch as well as alot of other important ones.
If the CD-option doesn't work, you can always upgrade to 3.5 using the zip-file and esxupdate, or the tar.gz-file with it's installationscript.
1. When doing a new install you have the option to keep the VMFS-partition, if you do that then all your VMs will still be there after the installation completes. If you don't trust this option... See more...
1. When doing a new install you have the option to keep the VMFS-partition, if you do that then all your VMs will still be there after the installation completes. If you don't trust this option you can do what you described. 2. VC can be placed into a VM, no problem when using it for a test environment.
There's no need to turn off the SAN, just remove the host from the Storage Group (that's for an EMC-SAN, there should be a similar term if your SAN is another brand), or unplug the fibre-cables... See more...
There's no need to turn off the SAN, just remove the host from the Storage Group (that's for an EMC-SAN, there should be a similar term if your SAN is another brand), or unplug the fibre-cables. Do the upgrade, then reconnect the cables (or add the host to the Storage Group). That way you're safe. If you're doing a new install it's always considered best practice to disconnect the host from the SAN, as the installation can go a bit wrong if you don't. For instance, the first disk should always be named /dev/sda, but if you're doing a new installation with the SAN connected you might end up with something like /dev/sdf, which could result in weird concequences. So in any way, you'd be better off disconnecting the host from the SAN
Does the Update Manager-installation give you any errormessage, and if so, what does it say? The same goes for the Converter-installation. During the installation of Update Manager and Con... See more...
Does the Update Manager-installation give you any errormessage, and if so, what does it say? The same goes for the Converter-installation. During the installation of Update Manager and Converter you have to give proper login to VirtualCenter, be sure that the credentials are correct or nothing will work. The credentials are not verified immidately, so try that and be sure to type in the correct letters and symbols.
This happens when you do not have network redundancy for your Service Console, it does not have anything to do with you having several Service Consoles or not. To get rid of this "problem", yo... See more...
This happens when you do not have network redundancy for your Service Console, it does not have anything to do with you having several Service Consoles or not. To get rid of this "problem", you need to connect at least 2 physical nics to the virtual switch that the Service Console Portgroup is connected to. I suggest putting Service Console and VMotion in one virtual switch, put two NICs into that virtual switch and manually loadbalance the Service Console to use one NIC as primary and the other as secondary, and do the same with VMotion but with the NIC order turned around.