How to remove a LUNs from ESX in one cluster where the same lun is attached with other cluster too.
How to remove a LUNs from ESXi 4.1 in one cluster where the same lun is attached with other cluster too? When I removed the datastore from one cluster it give me the option to delete only and when I go ahead it get delete from all other cluters too.Please help to removal of LUNs and I [...]

Answer Question   |  June 19, 2012  11:48 AM
EMC, ESX, LUN

PSOD with ESX 3.5
Hello all, I have 2 ESX hosts running 3.5 from time to time, they are giving me a PSOD showing this error in the coredump: COS error : Lost Heartbeat (comm=swapper pid=0 t=29 t0=30 clt=1 I already opened a case with VMware support, but any ideas, what is this all about? or how can it [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  10:39 PM
ESX, ESX 3.5, IBM BladeCenter

Snapshot Sizing in ESX
Does anyone know how much space is needed when trying to recommit snapshots back?  Do you need on your disk the size of the *.vmdk file plus the snapshot file as well?  Or, is there a formula that is used to determine this.  We are trying to figure out if we can recommit some snapshots back [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  4:51 PM
ESX, ESX 3.5, VM snapshots, VMware ESX 3.5, VMware snapshots

VMWare ESX installation
I tried to install ESX on my PC and a HP DL series server. But after the installation the server does not boot. May I please know what is the specific hardware required for ESX to be installed and used.

Answer Question   |  May 22, 2011  7:20 AM
ESX, VMware, VMware ESX, VMWare Installation

Failed P2V vmdk files.
I have tried to P2V a couple of machines but they’ve failed for a variety of reasons. I hadn’t realized it, but the vmdk files weer left on the datastore rather than removed as part of the cleanup. Is it safe just to delete them?

Answer Question   |  February 7, 2011  2:11 PM
ESX, P2V, VMware, VMware ESX, VMware P2V

ESX cluster with ESX 4.0U2 and ESXi 4.0U1 nodes
we have 3 ESXi 4.0U1 nodes two of them are in cluster 1 is stand alone now we have new machine on which we want to isntall ESX 4.0U2 can we build a cluster with the for nodes so to have ESX and ESXi nodes combined

Answer Question   |  October 29, 2010  12:37 PM
Cluster, ESX, ESX+ESXi, VMware ESX Cluster, VMware ESXI 4.0

Presenting a data store to Multiple ESX environment
I have a vSphere 4.0 environment and I have some LUNs from an EMC presented to the hosts in the vShpere environment. I have recently set up another environment with vShpere 4.1 and I would like to know if I can present the same LUNs to the new environment (vSphere 4.1) while they are still [...]

Answer Question   |  October 26, 2010  4:30 PM
ESX, ESXi, ESXi and Datastores, LUN, vSphere, vSphere 4.0

Vsphere Cluster
I have 4 ESX hosts,configured with HA and DRS on VMware Vsphere.DRS is configured for fully automation. Each ESX host has 10VM’s. When one of the ESX host fails(maybe any reason),  a) will the VM’s get rebooted to any of the other 3 hosts(coz of HA) and then DRS will optimize the resources ?  b) [...]

Answer Question   |  August 25, 2010  3:04 PM
ESX, ESX Host, VMware configuration, VMware vSphere, VMware Vsphere DRS, vSphere, vSphere 4

domino in esx
once the esx restart we get wrong time in domino and in os also

Answer Question   |  July 1, 2010  2:16 PM
Domino, Domino error messages, ESX

PIP1 socket file not getting created
I am trying to connect the VMWare serial console from my ESX host. The steps I followed: 1. Made the changes into the virtual machine properties.       serialport 1: use named pipe       pipe name: /vmfs/volumes/Storage1/vm1/pipe1       near end: server       far end: the virtual machine Issue: [...]

Answer Question   |  January 7, 2010  2:50 PM
ESX, ESX Host, Socket, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESX

Does my virtualcenter have to be on a domain to function with View Composer?
I have a virtual center connected to 2 esx hosts. I have view composer installed on the virtual center machine. Does that machine have to be on a domain for me to enable View Composer in the VMWare connection server?

Answer Question   |  August 19, 2009  9:06 PM
Active Directory, Concurrent VMs, ESX, Virtual Center, VMware, VMWare Virtual Center

ESX vSwitch command line question
Is there a command line way of increasing a vSwitch port count?

Answer Question   |  August 5, 2009  3:24 PM
CLI, ESX, VMware, VMware ESX, vSwitch

Bladecenter ESX server Vlan problem
Hello, The bladecenter was initially setup by a company and allows me to only create VM’s from Vlan 2. The issue is that I am out of Ip’s in that vlan and I wanted the ability to use another address space for the VM’s. I’ve already created a new vlan 20. Here is the current [...]

Answer Question   |  February 20, 2009  6:08 PM
Bladecenter, Cisco 4500, Cisco switches, ESX, VLAN, VMware ESX