Capacity Planning: How to configure thresholds and setup alets for specific...
Hello All, I need some help/suggestions to configure thresholds and alerts for storage metrics. What I am trying to do?1. Create a threshold for EMC adapter attributes such as Read IOs, Write IOs2....
View ArticleRe: which win2k8 version should I choose on running storage-cert50
Thank you for answer. Sadly, still have that problem with windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise Service Pack 1. It's so frustrated, without 2008 system, I can't run GOS SCSI-2/SCSI-3 tests.
View ArticleRe: Cannot connect to Serengeti Server
This output stop error happens randomly, and we will try to reproduce it in our testing environment. Meanwhile, you may try if restarting the serengeti vapp will work or not, or open a new console....
View ArticleRe: Recovering a lost partition on VMFS-5 volume with GPT
returned nothing... 0+0 records in0+0 records out
View ArticleVM loose network after Vmotion
Hi, This is frequent in my virtual environment, VMs loose network after vmotion.and Once I disconnect and reconnect the vNIC, it fixes the issue.Details below : - VM H\W version = 7Host = ESXi...
View ArticleHow to make Lun path mark dead on Hot_Add_Luns and Hot Remove_Luns test
Dear all,I always got Error on this test, the message show:2013-07-05 02:29:55 UTC [Jul 5 2013 10:28:49 : HOTADDREMO] [0] INFO: Verifying the PATH to removed LUN on first...
View ArticleRe: Recovering a lost partition on VMFS-5 volume with GPT
Try this...# dd if=/dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD6000HLHX2D01JJPV0_______________________WD2DWXG1EB0DXH92 of=ata_06f00000.dd bs=1 count=52428800 skip=116391936
View ArticleRe: Setting a password age policy on ESXi 5.0 (esxcfg-auth now gone)?
The response is currently we don't support password expiration in ESXi 5. Probably you need to open a SR with VMware support to get the reason.
View Articlewhich win2k8 version should I choose on running storage-cert50
I run this certification with win2k8 EE sp1 x64, but the virtual machine always pop-out STAFProc.exe stopped working window, even I try start STAF manually. Does anyone have the same situation? Which...
View ArticleRe: Reset a blade or a down virtual server on a blade?
If you can find your way onto the console of the blade server affected, you should be able to find its IP address, and then in turn log onto that with the vSphere Client and see what's going on. If the...
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Preparing an Active Directory–based Authorization Store for vCAC
Hi Buddies, I was encounter a problem when I did the POC for a customer.I tried to Import the security.xml file to my AD server with no success.The log is as below:I have no idea if my syntactic...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance on failed hosts
Hi i am new to vsphere. recently we installed vcenter appliance on one of our 2 hosts. i have enabled HA. hoever, if the server that is hosting vcenter fails, it powers off. so tried by rebooting the...
View ArticleRecovering a lost partition on VMFS-5 volume with GPT
I have unmounted and deleted partition from ESXi 5 and tried every recovery option. I am referring these few similar articles and would like to know if Recovering a lost partition table on a VMFS-5...
View ArticleRe: Recovering a lost partition on VMFS-5 volume with GPT
done, attached file to original post...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
A couple of options I can think of are:export to OVF and re-importuse Trilead's VM Explorer and backup/restore the VMsuse the vmkfstools command to copy the virtual disks André
View ArticleRe: orphaned vmdk files script
That would be the reason, we started talking about your raiders script some how... so this script " spring cleaning script" you run it like this?Remove-OrphanedData-Datastore<datastore-name>...
View ArticleRe: Workstation 9 - Slow network performance between host and guest
Aw thanks, Just found out Hyper-V is part of Windows 8 Pro (Free). Just installed it an tested. Working great. even handles things better than VMware would have. Thanks so much. Network speeds are what...
View ArticleUpgrading a 32 bit VM to 64 bit
I am trying to upgrade Windows Server 2008 (32bit) to Windows Server 2008R2 (64bit)The CD drive is connected to the Server 2008R2 ISO.When prompted I selected the Upgrade Option. I receive the message...
View ArticleHELP! vmware won't mount vmfs volume
We recently had a hard disk failure in an esx 4i free host. Long story, but for some reason the failure of a single disk managed to take out the entire raid 5 volume (so much for resilience!)(There is...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
Thank you for your reply with the options. I like the vmkfstools option, and I've just tried it like this: /vmfs/volumes # vmkfstools -i "ReadyNAS-iSCSI/CUCM-Pub 9.x/CUCM-Pub 9.x.vmdk"...
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