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Hello,I'm new to VMware setups.I'm trying to obtain and then install a license for ESXi 5.0. I have the trail installed (59 days left) and plan on requesting a license this afternoon. When I go into my...
View ArticleReinstalled ESX 5.1 to upgrade from 4.1 - Disk Extent Issues
Hi... I am having troubles after reinstalling ESX, version 5.1 over 4.1, as a means to upgrade to 5.1, while preserving the datastore. After the reinstall was successfull and I have updated all the...
View ArticleHost machine - it is impossible to boot from hard drive
Hello everybody! Looks like I need your help - I installed ESXi 5 from CD, all is correct. But: when I reboot host machine ESXi can't start from HDD, I see message about "no operating system found". So...
View ArticleESX 3.5 to ESXi 5.1 upgrade question
I have an ESX 3.5 server and I'm aware there is no direct upgrade to ESXi 5.1, but I'm curious about my current volumes. I have one volume on my RAID array for the VMware OS and the other volume for...
View Articlenew 32GB host on a budget
I currently have a Dell poweredge T110 (xeon 3440) 16GB ram for my home lab I would like to stand up a second host for vmotion. It would like to drop 32GB into the second host. has anyone built one of...
View Articletesting vSphere5 in a small lab...
Hello, in a corner of my office i saw a computer provided with a MSI Z77A-G45, i5 CPU and 16GB DDR3 RAM...thus i thought to test vSphere (free version) 5.1.Well the installation halted due to the fact...
View ArticleESXI not booting on HP ProLiant G7
I am trying to run VMware ESXi on a brand new HP Proliant DL360 G7. I've made a bootable pendrive with esxi installer. It started booting and I installed the esxi on another flash pendrive (located...
View Articlegetting a error message while installing the esxi
Hi,I am getting a error message "network adaptors were not detected" while installing the esxi5.0 in my laptop, and i cant continue my installation my laptop configuration i3 2nd generation Nic is...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Installation through PXE problems
Hi,I'm trying to install the ESXi 5.1 through PXE but I have some problems. I've read the vsphere 5 documentation about how to install ESXi via PXE linux. I've set up the TFTP and DHCP correctly. In...
View ArticleESXi Sphere & VMware Vsphere Client
I have a home lap I am setting up. I am using WMware WS 9.1 and have a ESXi Sphere 5.1.0 Build 1064113 running with in VMware® Workstation Build 9.0.2 build-1031769 on my HP Envy Phoenix I7 -3770...
View ArticleShare datatstore between 2 redhat 6.3
Hello everyone:I have installed 2 Red hat servers version 6.3 but now need to have them share the same datastore? I created a VMware shared datastore, but this does not seem to be working. Can some...
View ArticleVMWARE ESXi 5.1 U1 installation on dell poweredge xs23-sb (dcs)
Hi, I am planning to install VMWARE ESXi 5.1 U1 installation on dell poweredge xs23-sb (dcs) . I have following questions : 1. Did anyone installed ESXi 5.1 U1 on this server. Regards,Shabbir.
View Articlevmware network not connecting on hp dl380 g7
Hey folks, been googling this one a lot and can't find possible explanation. Got a new esxi machine up and running and it's not picking up dhcp address from the dhcp server. Network card is recognised...
View ArticleEsxi5.1 not recognizing my RAID 10 virtual drive
Hello All, I have a server of cisco ucs 220 m3 and 4 ard drives connected of 1tb each .. with a RAID controller of LSI 92668i... I created RAID 10 virtual drive and when booting it up it shows me that...
View ArticleESXI5 on MAC BOOK PRO EARLY 2011
I was trying to Install ESXi 5.1 on 2011 Mac book Pro. I got it installed properly. But i am having issues with DHCP lookup failed. Can you please help me how to resolve it. Have you tried to...
View ArticleESXi scratch location and syslog
Hi, we got some IBM blades runing ESXi 4.1 and 5 through Embedded USB. In the past we had some issues to provide VMware support with valid ESXi logs from the blades. We end up to configure syslog to...
View ArticleRAID HDD degraded after installing ESXi 5
Hi, Im trying to install ESXi on my server which has mirrored HDD's. My problem is that after installing ESXi and the computer reboots I am told that the RAID volume is degraded so one of the HDD's is...
View ArticleESXI 5 on physical host
Hello everyone,I have a lenovo server ts200v with 8 GB ram and 2HD 1T(raid1)I installed esxi5 on the physical machine.i want to install 2 VM (windows 2008 server R2)one for dns+dhcp the other one...
View ArticleVT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III] No found
Hi All, I hope someone can help me on this regarding one of the NIC card (VT6105/VT6106S) doesn't not detected at vSphere Client. 000:002:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications AR8151 v2.0...
View ArticleVSphere Installation Question
Hi All,I am in the process of building the following server:Case: Fractal Design Define R4 ATX Tower Case Black PearlPower Supply: Corsair Professional Series HX750 750W ATX Fully Modular 80PLUS Gold...
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