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Is DRS enabled? /Rubeck
If you have two vCenter servers make sure that they have different instance IDs as these are used to generate MAC addresses and UUIDs for VM's.. This is explained in this KB here: ... See more...
If you have two vCenter servers make sure that they have different instance IDs as these are used to generate MAC addresses and UUIDs for VM's.. This is explained in this KB here: /Rubeck
No.. page 3 here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_compatibility_matrix.pdf /Rubeck
Does the same thing happen when connecting directly to the hosts using the vSphere client? "esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic1 vSwitch0" using the command line is ofc also an option... ... See more...
Does the same thing happen when connecting directly to the hosts using the vSphere client? "esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic1 vSwitch0" using the command line is ofc also an option... /Rubeck
How about generating an URL for that particular VM using vCenter Web Access? /Rubeck
The first link are old requirements for vMotion and applies to Virtual Center 1.3 and ESX2. "The virtual machine configuration file should not reside on a VMFS located on the shared datastore"..... See more...
The first link are old requirements for vMotion and applies to Virtual Center 1.3 and ESX2. "The virtual machine configuration file should not reside on a VMFS located on the shared datastore".. This applies to ESX 2 hosts. Back then the VM configuration file (.vmx) was located locally on the ESX host running the VM in /home/vmware per default... During vMotion this file were moved to the local dir on the target host.. This was changed in ESX3, which along with Virtual Center 2 also introduced HA .... For HA being able to work all VM related files need to reside on shared storage... This makes all nessesary VM files available to other clusters hosts at all times. (hard to fetch various files from a dead host). /Rubeck
Process: - Host A dies along with assosiated VMs - Host B restarts VMs.. View in vCenter is updated by VC agent on Host B - Host A comes back on, and DRS provided by VC will start to migrate... See more...
Process: - Host A dies along with assosiated VMs - Host B restarts VMs.. View in vCenter is updated by VC agent on Host B - Host A comes back on, and DRS provided by VC will start to migrate servers back on to Host A depending on load running on Host B and rules configured. In a HA cluster 5 primary hosts can exist... (default the first 5 hosts added to cluster) others are secondaries... Prim / sec. roles are configured by VC when enabling HA, entering /exiting Maitenance mode etc. Hope this short description helps.. /Rubeck
You might be missing the part below which is described in this article here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003345 "NetFlow: NetFlow support in ESX 3.5 is experimental and is unavailable in ESXi 3... See more...
You might be missing the part below which is described in this article here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003345 "NetFlow: NetFlow support in ESX 3.5 is experimental and is unavailable in ESXi 3.5. For more information, see Enabling NetFlow on Virtual Switches." /Rubeck
The fact that you can ping it seems wierd as this usally would require it to be bound to a vswif which then would require it being bound to a vSwitch.. Never seen that before...... Are you sure ... See more...
The fact that you can ping it seems wierd as this usally would require it to be bound to a vswif which then would require it being bound to a vSwitch.. Never seen that before...... Are you sure that the IP you're pinging is indeed the ESXi host? What is the mac address behind the IP you're pinging.. I mean, maybe an IP conflict occurs which makes it go bogus? /Rubeck
- Remove VM from Inventory - Copy the .vmx file from the SERVER_1 folder to the SERVER folder (backup /rename old .vmx first) - Right click the .vmx file in the SERVER folder and Add to invento... See more...
- Remove VM from Inventory - Copy the .vmx file from the SERVER_1 folder to the SERVER folder (backup /rename old .vmx first) - Right click the .vmx file in the SERVER folder and Add to inventory Before powering on you could rename the SERVER_1 folder to something else, just to verify that no references to this folder is there.. /Rubeck
Yes... It would fail if no prober routing is in place. Check vmkernel default gateways (esxcfg-route) and by using vmkping... /Rubeck
Which is just my point... The message is related to the greyed out option only.. /Rubeck
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/159436 ? /Rubeck
Not at all... The identical LUN ID would then be presented by a different "target" which would add a new vmhba0:C0:Tx:L0 volume.. /Rubeck
"vmware-vim-cmd /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter" and "vmware-vim-cmd /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit" will make it go in and out of maintenance mode... /Rubeck
Hi Hihihy.. You do not want to turn that on. Your VM will then get its time from the ESX host periodically.... but even with this turned off, there're times where this happens anyway... (VMT... See more...
Hi Hihihy.. You do not want to turn that on. Your VM will then get its time from the ESX host periodically.... but even with this turned off, there're times where this happens anyway... (VMTools startup, Snapshot'ing etc) To turn these off you might need to implement settings described here... http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1189 /Rubeck
Hi .. The vswp file is used if the physical host is out of memory, and is basically what makes overcommitment of memory possible. The .vswp file belongs to a VM. By default these are placed i... See more...
Hi .. The vswp file is used if the physical host is out of memory, and is basically what makes overcommitment of memory possible. The .vswp file belongs to a VM. By default these are placed in each home dir. of any VM. This is per default the same size as the memory assigned for the VM unless you do reservations. If you do a 512MB memory reservation on a VM which has 2048MB assigned, the vswp file will then only be 1536MB.. Hope it helps.... /Rubeck
Nope .... U can see the entire matrix here http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_compatibility_matrix.pdf /Rubeck
Have these reservations been set after the VMs were powered on? If so they ofc need to be powered off to trigger the deletion of the exsiting .vswp file.. then powered back up.. /Rubeck
Yes, these are indeed the same... Stats from these VMs can also be seen in the processes in the /proc/vmware/vm/ dir.. ... /Rubeck