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How to remove a LUNs from ESX in one cluster where the same lun is attached with other cluster too.

APAL — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:48:12 +0000

New Answer by Michael Tidmarsh

PSOD with ESX 3.5

Srv2003 — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:39:34 +0000

Question Edited by Michael Tidmarsh

Snapshot Sizing in ESX

jammanter — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:51:38 +0000

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 when our free space is less than the size of the *.vmdk and the snapshot. Thank you.

VMWare ESX installation

RanaSarkar — Tue, 17 May 2011 07:20:05 +0000

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.

Failed P2V vmdk files.

ServersAndStorage — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:11:06 +0000

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?

ESX cluster with ESX 4.0U2 and ESXi 4.0U1 nodes

Systembreaker — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:37:32 +0000

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

Presenting a data store to Multiple ESX environment

Nims — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:30:49 +0000

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 presented to the old/existing environment(vShere 4.0).

Vsphere Cluster

KALAKAAR — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:04:36 +0000

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) or will Vmotion happen(coz of DRS)?

Basically am trying to find out if the VM’s would reboot/restart at all ?

domino in esx

Ww — Sat, 22 May 2010 14:16:31 +0000

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

PIP1 socket file not getting created

ITKE — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:50:01 +0000

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: the pip1 socket file is not getting created hence I am not able to

talk to the socket pipe1 through socat command.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated!