Problem while installing ESX 5.5 to an SD card
I get error codes when trying to install esx 5.5 to an SD card I got for it, does this mean I am unable to install to that specific SD card or is it the usb 3.0 SD card reader? Am I just better off...
View ArticleRe: ESX5.1U1 and management of LSI 9650SE 2 Port Controller
I am having the same issue here and coincidentally am using the same gigabyte i5 board with a lsi 9650SE-16ML card. I have been using the card for about a year and the driver installed works great,...
View ArticleQuestion on a config with Vsphere 5 licensing
Hello all,Here is my scinario. I have 4 servers with 2 procs and 96gb ram each. The lics i have are 8 single proc VMWare Vsphere Standard. Assuming i go into my.vmware and combine the lics into 4, 2...
View ArticleRe: Question on a config with Vsphere 5 licensing
Welcome to the Community - VMware has since removed the memory limits so you will have access to the full 96 GB and besides even when the memory license was in effect it was cumulative so with 2...
View ArticleRe: Problem while installing ESX 5.5 to an SD card
Check with your Server vendor about the SD card supportability. Can you please detail out the error that you're getting. Is it Hardware compatibility problem or getting some IO errors
View ArticleRe: Problem while installing ESX 5.5 to an SD card
Its seems to be a Hardware issue. Regards.
View ArticleAdding more ESX hosts and upgrading at the same time. What's the preferred...
We are budgeting for more licensing and hardware for 2014 and want to do this right away in January. I am trying to decide what is the best order of operations for adding two additional vmware hosts...
View ArticleRe: Adding more ESX hosts and upgrading at the same time. What's the...
The Steps that you must follow - Upgrade vCenter Server- Upgrade ESX hosts (because we are doing a hardware refresh we are just going to install 5.5 on our new hosts and add them to the cluster and...
View ArticleRe: Adding more ESX hosts and upgrading at the same time. What's the...
Thank you for your response. Let me clarify and please point out if I am not understanding:- Upgrade vCenter Server - Take existing 4.1 U3 snapshot it just to be sure, then upgrade it directly from 4.1...
View ArticleRe: Adding more ESX hosts and upgrading at the same time. What's the...
Yes. Why switch to VMFS-5?Improved scalability and performance.Does not use SCSI-2 Reservations, but uses the ATS VAAI primitives.Uses GPT (GUID Partition Table) rather than MBR, allowing for...
View ArticleRe: Adding more ESX hosts and upgrading at the same time. What's the...
Thank you, that is good information on vmfs-5. Currently our datastores are NFS on an EMC NX4. We are also looking to add an EMC VNX5200. Perhaps we will establish new vmfs-5 nfs datastores on the...
View ArticleRe: Adding more ESX hosts and upgrading at the same time. What's the...
Ok Sorry. Do you need any help or u r ok?
View ArticleRe: Upgrade of vSphere 4.1 to 5.1u1 and RDMs raw Disk
I believe that you wont have any issue.
View ArticleRe: Adding more ESX hosts and upgrading at the same time. What's the...
Don't be sorry, that is all good information. Does the vmfs version apply if the datastore is NFS? I think after that question I should be good and I will mark your answer. Thank you again.
View ArticleRe: Upgrade of vSphere 4.1 to 5.1u1 and RDMs raw Disk
Welcome to the Communities - There should be no issues
View ArticleRe: Adding more ESX hosts and upgrading at the same time. What's the...
No, as you know I was talking about VMFS. Regards
View ArticleRe: Adding more ESX hosts and upgrading at the same time. What's the...
Ok thank you for your help today. It provides a great high level overview of the milestones required to accomplish this upgrade. Hopefully I will be ordering all the required pieces in the next few...
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