Re: vSphere Cluster Deployment
I have looked at Chef and it does not have the ability (as far as I am aware) to deploy the systems I need. Thank you for the response though. I am also really looking for some real world experience...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 to 5.1 upgrade
Hi All,In Our Organisation we have single server environment, all the Hardware is of IBM 3650M3. These server contains 8 HDD configured in 2*146 = Raid 1, 3*500 = Raid 5.On these server we have...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.1 to 5.1 upgrade
Have you reviewed the upgrade guide? - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-511-upgrade-guide.pdf
View ArticleWill this Upgrade Plan work? ESXi4.1 to ESXi5.1 upgrade + one Datastore Disk...
Background: Dell T710 Server, 96GB memory (using 40GB now). Standard ESXi4.1 and 11 VM's. 10 of the VM's are Windows 2003 and one is SCO Unix. Two RAID Arrays using VMFS 3.46. One array is Raid 10...
View ArticleRe: Will this Upgrade Plan work? ESXi4.1 to ESXi5.1 upgrade + one Datastore...
Have you reviewed the upgrade guide - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-511-upgrade-guide.pdf
View ArticleRe: Will this Upgrade Plan work? ESXi4.1 to ESXi5.1 upgrade + one Datastore...
Hi, Your Plan looks GOOD. Only thing is how GOOD is your backup. Is there any way to check consistency of your back, then do it. In short, everything about your BACKUP. RegardsMOhammed
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.1 to 5.1 upgrade
Hi, Looks like your are using the local storage, if yes you need to have solid BACKUP of all the virtual machine, then you can mount the CD and upgrade the ESXI host. As weinstein5 mention , go...
View ArticleRe: partedUtil : Error: Read-only file system during write
Apologies if I should be starting a new thread for this instead of reusing this one. I am running into the same issue, using ESXi 5.1 u1 on Dell poweredge R320, using local storage (two disks hardware...
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Re: How to monitor the Performance of VMs
Here is a nice document for the mware Performance monitoring..http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_performance_mon.htmlRegards,Milton
View ArticleWindows 8 & Console
Hi everyone, I have a little problem since windows 8 . I have 3 ESXI 5.0 servers. I saw that console in vsphere client 5.0 may not work on windows 8. So I installed VGC (Vmware Guest Console). All...
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Re: How can I get multiple datastores on one LUN?
1 LUN = 1 Datastore = Many VMDKs.For each LUN having 2TB-512b maximum size. then it would be 500TB ++ before you run out of space.It is quite rare to reach such limits.Regards,Milton
View Articlevsphereclient.vmware.com doesn't resolve in VMware Player
Hi I am using Vmware player to run multiple OS. I have installed ESXi5.0 and windows7. And i have installed Vmware client in windows7 OS to access ESXi server. When i try to connext to ESXi server from...
View ArticleNew vSphere/vCenter installation problems
Hi all, Long time user, but first time poster so go easy on me.So I'm hitting a bit of a weird situation here, I'm currently working on a completely new vSphere environment to replace our existing one...
View ArticleRe: vsphereclient.vmware.com doesn't resolve in VMware Player
Madhu, Are you able to ping the ESXi host from the windows 7 machine?
View ArticleRe: vSphere Cluster Deployment
Hey Check out the autolab setup files. it probably has alot of what you want to do re the cluster setup/vcenter config etc - http://www.labguides.com/autolab/ Cheers
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.1 to 5.1 upgrade
Review the upgrade guide that weinstein5 posted. Absolutely have a good backup first.Check Hardware Compatibility If the manufacture has a custom ESXi image for those servers I'd use that.Shutdown all...
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Re: Linux Client for vSphere and vCenter 5
I personally would LOVE one, even if it can just connect to a single ESXi host. It would save me a bundle on windows licenses in my data recovery lab. I use virtual machines for just about everything...
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