How much memory can ESX 3.5 with update 5 host support?

My virtual machine can not connect to the domain when I want to login and I forgot the Administrator password.

Windows password recovery cd does not work when I want to boot.

I can ping the virtual machine from my machine.

Is there any way to get into the machine without the admin password.

How can I see if the dns on esx is working fine.

please help.

Hi,
I just met some strange things. Several VMs in our environment can't be connected with RDP. We have investigated and tried to ping these VMs. And we find the ping has long response time (time>3000ms) or some packets lost which shows some network problems. But the VMs aren't located on a special host. Even in one ESX host and in one vswitch, some VMs are ok, some not.
We found a workaround to migrate the impacted VMs in the cluster or reset the VM. Because these happens frenquently. Is there anyone know the possible cause?

Lan

I have a vendor supplied ESX 3.5 server where they configured the 6 VMs on the 100Mb NIC and the management on the 1Gb NIC. We have struggled with this vendor and have concluded that they do not know vmware very well at all. The deployment team may know it, but the support team does not. Although one could argue that neither knows it considering the configuration....

I'd like to swap the physical cables on the back of the server without planning any downtime. I know this is not the best way to do it, but I'm willing to do it if I can have only a few seconds of downtime -- what some might call a hiccup. Is there any reason to think this would cause a serious issue? These are the only two NICs that are connected and both are on the same vLan. Thoughts?

Not sure if the is teh corect community, as the license file is normally stored on the Virtual Center server, however...

After migrating the Virtual Center servers to vCenter and all ESX V3.5 servers to vSphere 4i, I am left with one ESX V3.5 server which is using a centralised license file on the old VC server.

I would like to remove the old VC server and have the remaning ESX V3.5 server use a host license.

However I cant change the license ion the VMware license site from "centralised" to"local" .

Anyone have any idea how I can accomplish this ?

thanks,

Matt

(Old ESX server is legacy, andwant to remove it rather than upgrade)

Hello,
I have one host with ESX Server 3.5.0 U5 managed by VI Client V2.5.0 and one VM running Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.
I am trying to automaticallly startup and shutdown the VM with the host.
Documentation says to use Startup/Shutdown options from VM console. Those options are not there.
Documentation says to go to Configuration of ESX Server, Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown and to move VM from Manual Startup to Automatic Startup under Startup Order. The only category under Startup Order is Manual Startup.
What am I missing here?
Thanks for any help.

Hi,

In ESX35, what is the gain of speed if I assign more than 1 NIC to a vSwitch? I have a vSwitch with 3 active 100 mb adapters and 1 standby 100 mb adapter. Does it mean the vSwitch can talk to a gigabit physical switch at the speed 300 mb? I copied a 10 GB from a physical PC to a VM but don't see a difference between a 3 adapter vswitch and a 1 adapter vSwitch.

Thanks.

I am having trouble seeing an ESX server in VC Server, and determined that the server is not accessing the network. Here is my setup (I know it is all old gear and versions, but I am limited):

(4) Dell Poweredge 2950:
(2) Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz Dual Core
8 GB Ram
(6) 73 GB HDD in RAID 5
(2) Gigabit ethernet NICs

Three of the servers are working fine, but the fourth is being snarky. It will ping itself (loopback and static IP), but not the default gateway. I thought maybe it was a physical NIC issue at first, but this build was rebuilt from a production Win 2K3 Server that was in place Monday. So my limited knowledge of unix/linux based command line is exhausted with the ping command, and multiple re-installs to ensure I didn't fat finger the IP addressing. Any suggestions as to what to check next will be greatly appreciated. Hopefully it is something very simple I am overlooking...

We are seeing some performance issues in our production cluster. At this point, I can really only point to I/O latency. The issues are somewhat intermittent, but here is a list of "complaints" I have heard:

Cold migrating a VM takes a significantly longer time than "normal"

Sharepoint sites are slow to respond

Custom web application is slow to load pages

Sun Messenger email server on Linux has high IO wait

Exchange 2007 has high disk transfers/sec

I logged a call with vmware support, and they did not see anything unusual in esxtop (DAVG counters were under the problem threshold).

Our environment is as follows:

EMC Clariion CX3-80 storage

(2) clusters (only production cluster is having issues)

(4) Dell R900 servers with 4 quad core CPUs and 128 GB RAM

2 4 GB Qlogic HBAs per R900

I know the data is sketchy right now, but I am having a hard time quantifying everything. What is the best way to troubleshoot such an issue?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks,

Jeff

We had EMC install code upgrades last night and found that we have lost data in 5 separate Datastores. EMC has verified that the luns are connected and we can still see the datastores on the respective vm's, but all the vmdk's and all the other data is missing from the datastore. The error we receive when trying to start up an exisiting vm is "cannot open the disk /vmfs/volumes/48d022f2-e8a1ef23-b065-00188b512f2c/devsql/devsql.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disk it depends on". Reason: Bad file descriptor. Are hosts are ver 3.5 that boot from san. No snapshots exist either.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Hi All,

Really need your help or feedback to get this work. Please advise me if this is the wrong place to ask the following question.

First Part of the Problem:
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I have ESXi installed on one of the blade and have created a VM with two virtual vmware NIC's. Though an external server could ping the physical adapter on on the blade with ESXi, I cannot ping the Windows XP-32bit VM on it which is set on the same subnet as the physical adapter on the blade with ESXi.

Second Part of the Problem:
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Our VM's on ESXi needs to talk to two different one is public and another is private. When I only bring up the public side of the virtual NIC I can happily connect to the internet from the Windows XP-32bit VM; The moment I bring up the other virtual NIC on the Windows XP-32bit VM, I cannot connect to internet any more. I have both my virtual NIC's on the WindowsXP-32bit VM configured to point to two different gateways: Public and Private.

As far as the vSwitch settings I have separated out the physical adapters onto two different vSwitches:
So vSwitch0 has vmnic0
And vSwitch1 has vmnic1

And then my WindowsXP-32bit VM uses each of the above NIC, so as to talk to public side and private side as required.

Please let me know if you need more info,

Thanks for any help one can throw in.
-Amit

hi ,

i m using 3.5 esx environment incluster mode. in some virtual machine we are start facing some network problem. virtual machine stops responding after reboot. we are not able to ping or access the virtual machine. Then after we go to the edit setting and need to change the virtual nic card setting to different port group of same vlan ( currenlt we have 20 port group on single virtual switch. three port group for single vlan). after that machine behaves normally.

Hi,

I have a requirement from our client to do multipathing on the vmware guest OS. If I am correct, by default, multipathing enabled in the ESX level. Is there a way to do the same in the guest?. Because fc HBAs are not virtualized in esx 3.5 alteast. Not sure about vSphere 4.0. Any suggestions would be appreciated very much.

I want to setup our VMWare ESX 3.5 testing environment so that we can access it from outside of our network. I had this setup before but had to rebuild everything and cannot get it setup again.

We have a static IP Address on the outside from out ISP that is 74.93.195.20 (made up) that I have set to the server that I have Virtual Center installed on. We also have the DHCP addresses from our ISP that are being pulled at 10.1.10.*. Within there we have all other hardware using NAT and internal addresses of 192.168.75.***.

Both of the VMWare servers that we are using have IP addresses on both the 10.1.10.*** network and the 192.168.75.*** network. The VM image that has Virtual Center installed is connected to both networks and that's why it's using the 74.93.195.20 static address.

When I go home and use the VI Client to try to connect to the VC server using the 74.93.195.20 ip address I am able to login successfully but if I try to open any of the VM's consoles I get an error saying the it's trying to access the VM Hosts internal address (192.168.75.***).

I'm guessing that I've got something network wise setup incorrectly and would appreciate any help with this.

Thanks

I'm in trouble, my host doesn't want to boot up.
after starting vmkernel I have
"loading vmkernel ata_piix.o"
and nothing more (no keyboard and mouse, ... just RESET BUTTON)
reading the patching list, I discovered one called :
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201002411-BG: Updates ATA PIIX SCSI driver
the last mode (console only) is booting properly

it look's like a bug, this patch was release 2 weeks ago : http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1017684

what should I do ?

Hi I've got these messages in my vmkwarning and vmkernel when I try to scan for a new LUN:

Mar 3 14:18:03 GQV00501 vmkernel: 21:23:21:44.233 cpu0:1040)WARNING: ScsiDevice: 4651: Can't add device 'vml.020024000060060e8005488c000000488c000007054f50454e2d56'. A device with that uid already exists.
Mar 3 14:18:03 GQV00501 vmkernel: 21:23:21:44.233 cpu0:1040)WARNING: SCSI: 5583: Could not register a Logical Device for target vmhba1:0:36: Already exists
Mar 3 14:18:03 GQV00501 vmkernel: 21:23:21:44.233 cpu0:1040)WARNING: SCSI: 2747: Failed to register target vmhba1:0:36 with PSA framework: Already exists

Is someone can help me and give me a solution / workaround ?

Thx

What does this error really means...

Mar 2 07:00:23 <servername> vmkernel: 18:04:25:18.189 cpu3:1284)<4>lpfc0:0712:FPe:SCSI layer issued abort device Data: x2 x2
Mar 2 07:00:23 <servername> vmkernel: 18:04:25:18.189 cpu3:1284)<4>lpfc0:0749:FPe:Completed Abort Task Set Data: x2 x2 x2
Mar 2 07:00:23 <servername> vmkernel: 18:04:25:18.189 cpu3:1206)StorageMonitor: 196: vmhba1:2:2:0 status = D:0x0/H:0x7 0x0 0x0 0x0

how to determine the vmhba status using the hexadecimal flags. Observed this error very often in the vmkernel logs.

Hi,

I have only one ESX node (ESX3.5) managed with VCenter.
ESX have a LUN presented via NFS (2TB) with 3 data virtual disks

• Iis01 (500GB)
• Dc02_1 (500GB)
• DC02 (500GB)

The problem is Datastore do not have free space!

If I browse datastore, I see 3 LUNs, and another LUN with name * DC02-flat.vmdk *.

No virtual servers that are accessing DC02-flat.vmdk, but I'm not sure to remove this LUN manually.

Any suggestion??

Thanks in advance,






Best regards,

Pedro Velasco
Tarragona, Spain

Hi,

Is there a limitation of the nimber of datastores attached to an ESX node ?

If yes what is this limitation ?

In fact I've already attached 35 datastores to each node which compose my cluster. Now I don't managed to add another datastore that's the meaning of my question.

Thx very much for your help.

Hello Everyone,

Does any one know how can we increase the numbers of CPU core on a XP VM.
I have a requirement which needs a powerful XP machine which should be able to use maximum available resource from the underlying hardware.
The problem in VM enviorment is that we cannot use the cores as we can in physical machine. So the limitation for a workstation image is set to 2 CPU's.

Let me know if some one has tried this kind of setting for a XP 64 bit VM image.

Thanks !