Hello!
Just installes SBS2011 on ESXi4 and after install in device manager there is still one driver missing for the (translated) basic system device.
The hardware-id is PCI\VEN_15AD&DEV_0740&SUBSYS_074015AD&REV_10
I think it's a pci device. But how to fix this? No driver is available via Windows Update.
Best regards,
Sven Reichelt
Hi,
We like to virtualize our servers (2) and one Win7 computer to one new Dell PowerEdge R720 server.
(32GB memory, 2TB harddisk storage and a 2GB SD card for installing VMware on it)
This includes a Windows 2008 Small Business server and a Windows 2008R2 server.
We like to start with the free VMware ESXi version.
- When starting with this, do I need to create a new Small Business Server from scratch or can I convert existing machine to a VM?
- Can I just keep using this SBS server as we do now or do I need to reconfigure this or add an extra DC or ????
- Can I still use my USB devices when creating backups?
- Instead of creating backups the old way, can I just make a copy or create a snapshot of a VM?
- Are there disadvantages using the machines as VMs?
Thanks for your help,
Egbert
I've been reading a lot on invalid configuration for devices 0, 1, and 4, but my error is on "11". It happens when I create a new VM based on a snapshot of an existing. My question is, how do I know to what device the error is occurring? That would at least help me troubleshoot where the issue lies.
I thought it was due to the fact that I had a floppy image attached, since that was the 11th device from the top of the list. But after disconnecting the floppy, and later removing the floppy drive complete, device 11 still eludes me. Any help would be great. Thanks all!
Hi all,
I have one of the VM's .vmdk file deleted from VMWARE client datastore browser. I ls thru SSH and found flat file is no longer there as well.
However I googled and found that if the hard disk type is thick provisioning then it's possible to recover using recovery tools.
I now have the tools to scan but how could I map/mount VM datastore as a drive in my Windows?
Thank you.
Hi all,
Just finished setting up a new server with the following specs:
VMware 4.1 ESXi 260247
Intel SC5650BRP
Intel S5520HCR
AXX6DRV3GR 6 Drive SAS Hotswap
4 CONSTELLATION ES 1.1TB, 7200RPM, SATA, 3.5" 32MB
Intel Raid Controller RS2BL080 with battery backup AXXRSBBU7
I have performed all Firmware updates, BIOS, BMC, FRUSDR, Hotswap SAS etc.
Setup RAID 10 in Intel console for the RAID card.
Install of VMware 4.1 ESXi ran succesfully
Now on vSphere client for the new host I have a couple asserts/warnings under Health Status
Storage
Drive backplane 0 Pri Drv0 Stat 0: Drive fault - Assert ALERT
Drive backplane 0 Pri Drv0 Stat 0: Parity check in progress - Assert WARNING
The only other warning is the Battery on Controller 0 - Learn cycle complete / Battery Status : Charging for the RAID battery card.
Could anyone let me know what the above drive faults mean? - Ive had the server running for a couple hours with no activity.
Thanks for your help
Hi All,
Every morning I noticed my VMs just shutdown and I have to restart it every morning.
The thing is that few weeks before it was working ok running 24/7 but now a big problem.
Does anyone knows why my VMs suddenly shutdown?
I'm so new with this I don't even know how check the logs.
Need help.
Thanks,
all the vms on one hosts is getting this error
vsphere ha virtual machine failover failed
I reconfigured the host for HA and still the vms are getting this error.,
any idea?
Hi All
I am pretty new to ESX but have bene using workstation, and server for some time. My department have now moved to ESXi and I am copying the VM images from one server to another.
I wanted know is there a way to cancel a copy task in vsphere client once its in progress? I noticed that when I select the task the opion to cancel the task is greyed out. I connect to the server via ssh and ran a ps -ef|more but could not see anything that resembled a copy process.
Also the copy and move option seems to be very slow considering I am copying from one vmfs file system to another vmfs filesystem.
Thanks
E
Hi all,
I'de like to know which OID I've to use to monitor my datastores.
I've add ESXi MIBs in my monitoring appliance (PRTG and Zenoss).
I'm particularly intreresting in the following stats :
- IOPS
- Disk space
- Disk use
- Disk free
I've googled to find this info without sucess.
Can anybody help me on this topic ?
Thanks'
Thierry
Hello Gents,
I can't backup only this Vm with Backup Exec 2014 since a very long time.
They are no snapshot existed in snapshot Manager.
Could you help me ?
Problem: I need to copy 1.7TB of data off a local disk datastore on an ESXi 4.1 box to a USB external drive and ship that cross-country. Datastore just contains about a dozen VMs and their related files. Local disk is a pile of 600GB SAS in a RAID5.
I've tried a few methods and all have been painfully slow or just flat out did not work. All tests done with same ~40GB VM.
1) Laptop. USB connected. Laptop on GigE network, same switch as ESXi server. Copy using Datastore Browser. 40GB file took 32 minutes which translated to the full 1.7TB would be around 22 hours.
2) Attached USB to server [IBM 3850 X5] and mounted it on a guest. Copy starts out fast then gets insanely slow to the point where the time remaining keeps going up to well over an hour before being canceled. Looking at performance logs you can see it spike high in disk reads and then goes nearly flat. We're talking 86,563 KBps at highest but then drops down to 2000-4000 KBps and stays there. Copy method was Datastore Browser.
3) Attached USB to server [IBM 3850 X5] and mounted it on a guest. Tried Veeam's FastSCP and got great initial transfer speeds until it tapered off identical to #2.
On both items 2 and 3 when I tried with smaller files [~2GB ISO] it would fly through to the end fine but hang at 99% forever. Very odd there as well.
Remote site so my "helper" to move the USB around is gone for the day but will try Veeam on laptop with laptop connected to USB in morning.
Any clue why 2-3 start GREAT but then go into the tank and stay there? That seems like it would be the most direct method since it avoids all network traffic. The hanging at the end part is also troublesome.
Any other methods I should be looking at?
Thanks!
We have a LOT of openvz containers running on several host. How to possible convert container to vmdk format?
Our vSphere somehow was using a shared volume from another server which was recently formatted to be use as NTFS. The time I discovered it, the ESXi v4.1 host was still okay until one day when browsing the Datastore, it doesn't show the files (like the .vdhk, etc.). Even when I do an SSH session, when I go to the folder, it's totally not showing anything. However, VMs are still running but having issues like we are not able to update the contents inside anymore.
I guess because of the conflict in the SAN volume, it damaged the file system of the ESXi 4.1.
Is there anyway we can still recover the VMs? Salvage the virtual disk to be run on another ESXi?
I'm not a linux person so I'm sorry if I not able to put in all the details. Hoping for someone can guide me.
Thanks in advance!
Hello all,
I'm working in a environment with three ESXi 4.1.2 and VC 4.1.2. I create a cluster and enabled HA and DRS.
Last Monday I performed a maintenance in ESXi hosts and the DRS migrate all VMs automatically when I put the server in maintenance mode.
After the maintenance I have two servers using 75% of memory and one using 5%. My DRS configuration is configured to most aggressive and fully automated.
After five minutes I have two servers using 60% and one using 20% of memory. I know that DRS will be used if need, and will migrate virtual machines if one ESXi host run out of memory, but my question is: Don't have any advanced setting that I can configure in DRS settings to force my DRS to balance ESXi memory utilization???
Thanks.
In ESXi 4, Windows 2008 VMs seem to want to default to the E1000 model NIC when creating a new one. However, after reading the KB on this (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1001805), is seems the new VMXNET 3 is supported for Windows 2008 (and Windows 2003 for that matter).
So which is the best to use? It seems the VMXNET it the best choice because it has all the latest bells and whistles - but sometimes that is a bad thing too. The KB really does not say WHAT to use, but rather what options are available...unless I overlooked it.
Any advice?
SB
I have two HBA cards installed in HP BL 460c with ESXi 4.1. I want to disable one HBA card from the esx. Please suggest.
I use Veeam Backup & Replication to backup our VMs and I've been having an issue backing up 1 VM for the past week or more. It has always backed up with no issues in the past and all of my other VMs are backing up just fine. However, after less than a minute, this VM always fails and I get an error that says, "Creating VM snapshot | Error: A snapshot operation cannot be performed." Trying to rule out Veeam as the issue, I just tried creating a snapshot of the server in vSphere and I got the error, "The virtual disk is either corrupted or not a supported format." After looking around, it appears that error usually has something to do with a correct snapshot or an issue after trying to delete a snapshot but this is the first one I've ever done, so I don't think that's the issue. Anywhere else I can look?
Thank you.
My company recently took over control of our VMware environment from a managed services company. They had somehow managed to lose/not record the root password for two of our hosts. It would appear the only VMware supported method of resetting the root password is to reinstall the host (VMware KB 1317898). After some preliminary research, we discovered an article that suggests an alternative method to change the root password by creating a host profile, editing the admin password in the host profile then applying only the security configuration from the host profile to the problematic host. While this looks like it may work, we are not licensed for vSphere Enterprise Plus as is mentioned in the article.
Could the license version affect the process? Are there any adverse affects that we are not aware of related to using this particular method to change the root password?
Hello
We having Vmware Esxi 4.1 managing through Vsphere
Last two weeks before have installed Windows Server2008 R2 with Sql server 2008R2 of 2gb ram and Dual Processor
But yesterday onwards Esxi getting discunnecting NAS datastore and showing msg in events as
VM Name WS64R2SQL8R2_ASR(Its OS running from NAS Datastore)
EsxiServerName OurESXi
This issue occuring last twodays onwards for two VM instances of same config
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Hi,
I recently got the task of doing an upgrade for a VMWare ESXi 4.1.0 (build 474610) server.
Accoding to the documentation, this upgrade can be done using the VMWare Upgrade Manager.
I was searching for the Upgrade Manager for ESXi 4.1.0 and have noticed that there is an Upgrade Manager 5.5.0 available.
Is this the current Upgrade Manager or is this specifically for ESXi 5.5??
Hope to hear from you guys soon.
Thanks in advance.