Hi

I need to run an update file from a CD (that is in the drive of the ESXi server) on an ESXi server using powershell.

Does anyone know the command for this please?

Thanks in advance

Hello, if i start a vm there is an error: the file specified is not a virtual disk there a some posts with snaphots as reason for this error. but we have no snapshots for this vm. Please can you help me?

Hi All,

i hope somebody can help me out here.

I have an application, running on Windows Server 2003, which reads out the bios-id which can also be retrieved over commandline "wmic csproduct get IdentifyingNumber /value"

My question is if I can alter the value which gets returned over the vmx-file.

The current value is "VMware-56 4d 91 73 92 ef 6c 25-7c bc 38 7e 33 ab 73 93" which isn´t in the format the mentioned application expect.

Any clues how to accomplish that ?

Thanks alot in advance!

Greetings,

Julian

I am running a bit trouble with Esxi 4.1 installation. I got Acer Server AT350 with Adaptec 3405 Raid card that connects 3x 1Tb SATA Hdd (Raid 5 to 1.8Tb storage). Both are vwmare certified. I can install Esxi 4.1 on the raid disk linked to Adaptec 3405. However, it failed to startup with boot partition error. Then I used a 8Gb USB Pen drive as first bootable disk and installed Esxi 4.1, however, when I try to mount storage hanging off Adaptec 3405, I got error and failed to mount.

When I seek support from Adaptec, they passed me a new vmware driver. The downloaded file with extension .tgz and using winzip I can uncompress to one compressed file .tar and again uncompress to .rpm, .iso and .x86 3 files.

However, I have no knowledge how to check what driver currently using and how to update driver. I installed vsphere client and vSphere CLI on a XP Pro PC. Anyone can help me with instruction how to 1) check current adaptec driver and update Adaptec driver with newly provided by Adaptec 2) how to create Esxi 4.1 installation CD with custom driver like newly provided adaptec driver add in.

Hello, when i try to connect iso image to my vm i got this:


Pls, help.

I have an intel s5000pal motherboard with version 99 bios from intels site running two 5130 dual core xeons. I have speedstep enabled in bios, but ESXi 4 and 4.1 says that power management is unavailable? anybody has a fix for this?

Hi All,

On gui, I can see luns on one of our storage adapter. I tried to run esxcfg-rescan but it shows nothing. I also tried to use -u switch on the command but still doesn't show me any output. Should it really be the case? Can I just go ahead and create datastore as long as luns are seen on gui?

I am using esx 4.0. Please find the attached cmd output file for your reference.

Let me know your input. Thanks in advance!

Dear all,

When i tried to register my PAC from HP, i always got a error saying Address information is mandatory, but i have checked my profile that my address has been filled. Did anybody also encounter that and solve that?

Thank you!

hai,

i can not running a vmware workstation file with ESXi4.1, i just copy and paste action.

how to make it run ?

Thanks,

Andy Susanto

I'm trying to resolve the vCLI/vDDK & Perl API dependencies for SLES 11. I've got a system that is registered with Novell and I can install packages using yast. I was able to find and install perl-Archive-Zip and it seems that Crypt::SSLeay is already available. However, yast can't find any package with "MethodMaker" in the name. Class::MethodMaker is required for the vSphere Perl API. Does anyone know what package provides this module on SLES 11?

Dear VMware Gurus,

Each of my ESX 4 server took over 10 minuts to rescan during DR.

Any suggestion to help me find out the root cause of the slowness or any way to speed up the rescan process?

Thanks in advance & looking forward to hear from you.

Henry

Can someone from vmware update the VUM site download links? The link to download the VUM 4.0U1 PowerCLI is wrong and directs you to download the actual VUM 4.0 U1 Patch 1.

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ps-libs/vumps/ <-- Download directory
http://www.vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=VUM40U1P1 <-- Incorrect Link
http://www.vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=VUM40U1PCLI <--Correct Link

I only figured this out because I just found out that I can't use the 4.1 CLI w/ 4.0 vCenter/VUM.

Chris Nakagaki (Zsoldier)
http://tech.zsoldier.com

I'm trying to combine a few one liners into a single powercli script using PowerCLI 4.0 U1

I am getting a list of all powered on VMs in a cluster (particular cluster I'm working on has all of its VMs on this single array) using this command:
get-vm -Location DS | where {$_.powerstate -match "on"}

I am getting a list of all datastores on this array based on our datastore naming convention. I'm sure there is a better way to do this but for now it works using this command:
get-datastore | where {$_.name -like "dsname*"}

I am also shutting down a list of VMs using this command:
get-content c:\vm_list.csv | % { Get-VM $_ | Shutdown-VMGuest -confirm:$false }

What I'd like to do is put these together into one script. I'm sure it's something simple but I'm not sure how to do it.

So to summarize my goal is to have a script that will shutdown all VMs that are currently powered on on a particular array and then power these VMs back on.

Thanks

Hi Everyone,

I have two HP DL380 servers each with ESXi 4.0 on them. These each has 4 Ethernet adapters on them
I have a HP Procurve 2810-48G Switch
I have a Sonicwall NSA 240 Firewall/Router
I have 2 WAN connections, one Cable, one DSL.

Currently this is how the network is setup....

Cable connection goes into Sonicwall WAN. Sonicwall LAN goes into Procurve switch. DL380-1 connects to Procurve switch (only one Ethernet cable)
DSL connection goes into a Linksys router/switch WAN. DL380-2 connects to this Router/switch (only one ethernet cable)

Here is my vision... and what I would like help in making a reality! Any ideas/suggestions are welcome and much appreciated.

1) Create on the Sonicwall an additional WAN and additional LAN port.
LAN 1 - 192.168.1.X, LAN 2 - 192.168.0.X

2) Configure on the Procurve switch VLAN 10 (for LAN 1) and VLAN 20 (for LAN 2)
3) Connect both HPDL360 servers to the Procurve Switch. Configure each ESXi server to get both VLANs
4) Configure 2 VMs per ESXi server to be on VLAN 10 and 4 VMs per ESXi to be on VLAN20

Now I havent even gotten into trunking, I am not sure if that would help me.. would it give me faster data speeds?

Thanks so much in advance for any guidance here.

• Dave

So why do you think the Consumed Host Memory is so high and the Guest memory is so low? I'm thinking that the VMTOOLS are either not installed or corrupt. What do the rest of you think?

Thanks

Hi all,

First, I'm not sure to open discussion in the appropriate section...

So at work we use vSpehere 4 and I wanted to install the free version ( ESXI Hypervisor ) at home. But the license key provided by vmware when downloading free ESXi is only for 4.1 and later version as they say. So how do I register my 4.0.0 version ???

Please, I searched all the site to find it and didn't found the happynness

Thanks in advance

Martin Pasquier

Is it possible to configure ESXi to maintain a specific numbe rof log files via log rotation? Or this an ESX only feature?

I have a few vSphere 4.0U1 connected to an EMC NS-40 NFS stores. I have the Celerra plugin installed, and have compressed the NFS stores. Many of the VM's were deployed with vSphere Thin Provisioning. I'm now trying to change them to thick. However no matter how I do this, the disks still show that they are Thin provisioned when viewing "edit settings". I've changed the type to Thick during a Storage Vmotion, and I've powered off the VM and inflated the disk from the datastore.

Is this a side effect of the EMC compression plugin? There are other VM's that are thick provisionied.

Thanks!

Is it possible to migrate a VM running on ESX 2.5 to ESXi 4 host considering the following environment:

1- It's an AD domain controller running DNS & WINS
2- The 2 ESX hosts are managed by 2 different Virtual Center servers
3- There are ESX 3.x hosts managed by the same Virtual Center server managing ESX 2.5 host.

If it is, what is the safest way to accomplish this?

Note that I have managed to do this, however after the migration, everything worked, except for the AD replication between the server and other DCs
in the domain.

TIA

I have ESXi 4.1 on my Dell Poweredge r710 Host.

I have created a VM for Windows Small Business Server 2008 (x64). As this was not a selectable OS on creating the VM, I just selected Windows Server 2008 Standard (x64).

I installed the OS and am configuring it, but Explorer.exe KEEPS crashing and locking the VM.

I can occasionally get into Task Manager and end process on whatever is locking up the VM (can vary, it has happened on Windows Update, VMWare Tools installation, Server Manager, etc...) But most times I have to restart the VM.

If I do Windows Updates on it, then do a restart, it hangs on Configuring Updates Stage 3 of 3 (0%), and the only way to get out of this is to restart the VM a few times...

Does anybody have any recommendations as to why this is happening and how I can fix it?

Thanks