Re: ESXi 5.x install on Dell C1100
Checked out your setup, you are really into low power consumption! I don't leave my servers on all the time mostly due to noise and heat. I have three C1100s, a gigabit switch, a Cisco router, and 24...
View ArticleEsqxi Cluster Storage Configuration Assistance
HiWe have purchased 3 HP servers with the following storage:-3x480GB SSD6x1.2TB 10k SAS The above is in each server and the plan is to use VSA to utilize shared storage and failover (HA) My question...
View ArticleRe: esxi 5.5 install error: could not create locker database
I understand that you are using visor image for installation(booting from USB).USB booting doesnot provide a persistant scratch location.You need to point explicitly to a persistant scratch...
View ArticleUpgrade or re-install vSphere, vCloud Director and vShield Manager environment
Current Environment:vSphere 5.0 U2vCloud Director 1.5.2vShield Manager 5.0.0-473791 Upgrade to:vSphere 5.5vCAC 6Networking and SecurityHello. We are planning an upgrade of our Vmware environment and...
View ArticleIssues with upgrading 5.0 to 5.1
Hello all. I'm upgrading from VCenter 5 to 5.1 U2. I got all the way tthrough the install and when I tried to login to VCenter with my Active Directory as I usually do I got the message that I don't...
View ArticleRe: Esqxi Cluster Storage Configuration Assistance
Hi Welcome to the communities. First you need to decide which RAID you are going to use, utilization of storage depend upon type of RAID.
View ArticleSingle NIC with 5 IPs
Hi guys, I am new to ESXI 5.5 and have a question. My server has a single NIC and I have been given 5 IPs by my service provider. I want to run 4 VMs on my server. I want one of the IPs to be assigned...
View ArticleRe: Single NIC with 5 IPs
Unless your service provider restricts the number of MAC addresses on the same switch port (your uplink port), there's nothing special you need to do. Just assign an IP address to the host as well as...
View ArticleRe: HA Admission Control - Disable: Allow VM power on operations that violate...
Hi Julien, Thanks for your reply. We had a VMware expert visit us and looked at our VMware environment. I asked about the admission control since we haven't made any changes in the HA admission...
View ArticleRe: HA Admission Control - Disable: Allow VM power on operations that violate...
There may be reasons for disabling Admission Control, or at least change the default settings. With the 15 VMs you mentioned, I assume you are running a two host setup, where the default settings (Host...
View ArticleRe: HA Admission Control - Disable: Allow VM power on operations that violate...
Hi, Thanks for your info. Currently, we are running 3 hosts. So, there are plenty memory on each hosts in case of 1 host fails, and plenty CPUs as well. If the resource is plentiful, it is safe to...
View ArticleRe: HA Admission Control - Disable: Allow VM power on operations that violate...
What Admission Control does, is to prevent VMs in a cluster from being powered on if there aren't enough resources available to allow HA to restart (i.e. protect) the VMs in case of a host failure. If...
View ArticleRe: Single NIC with 5 IPs
Are these 5 IP addresses public? Are you sure you want have ESX management IP address from the same IP subnet as VMs? Do you want to have your ESX host accessible over internet? I don't think it is...
View ArticleRe: Issues with upgrading 5.0 to 5.1
You have just encountered the painful thing known as SSO. It fails at random times and the only real fix is re-install and hope for the best. I suggest you jump to 5.5 it will just work and solve...
View ArticleRe: Single NIC with 5 IPs
Yep, all public. But I really don't have much of a choice. The service provider will double my colocation rate to add a firewall. I think with good passwords, I should be fine (in theory).
View ArticleRe: Issues with upgrading 5.0 to 5.1
Hah well that's good to hear. Issue is my boss wants to go to 5.1 because your main vcenter install is at 5.1. The one im upgrading is our DR site. Guess I'll have to give it another shot.
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Re: Issues with upgrading 5.0 to 5.1
Hi, see this linkVMware Front Experience: Quickest way to update your standalone host to ESXi 5.1 U1and update your ESXi with this way
View ArticleRe: Issues with upgrading 5.0 to 5.1
Hello, It sounds like you didn't configure SSO in the first place. When you logged in with your normal AD account, SSO wasn't configured to use your AD as an Identity Source. Then when you logged in...
View ArticleRe: Single NIC with 5 IPs
I assume you have just single ESX host. Of course you have other choice. Service provider physical switch can be interconnected with vmware vSwitch. You will leverage VLAN (802.1Q) segmentation. In...
View ArticleRe: Single NIC with 5 IPs
BTW: I think non routed VLAN is not needed for single ESX deployment. So you don't need to ask provider for anything and it is doable with infrastructure you already have.
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