Is there a way to check if the IP is somehow defined in the VM environment... I am using an old Ip address for my new VM but it is not taking it, I can't ping it outside the subnet, get ip conflict error, all other IP's are working fine, just the one, since it was used in the past so I am thinking it is defined somewhere in the VM, but we have over 200 VM's so I can't check one at a time.... is there a better way to check? thanks.

ONe of my SQL VM is keep throwing the below error, and the SQL guy said it is a VM issue. Did anyone see this error before?

PowerCenter_Production_Integration_Service ERROR Tue Nov 17 07:00:00 2009 13884 REP_12400 Repository Error (Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server: DBNETLIBhttp://ConnectionWrite (send()).General network error. Check your network documentation.
SQL State: 08S01 Native Error: 11State: 1 Severity: 16
SQL Server Message: DBNETLIBhttp://ConnectionWrite (send()).General network error. Check your network documentation.

Thanks.

Suppose I created a new VM and name ABC while ago, but change the NT name to CDE, but then I created another VM and name ABC. Since the ABC name already exist, so why did it let me create the new VM with the same name? can someone shed some light on it? the reason I am asking becuase the NT name was changed, but the VM was created with a different name, and accidnetly the same name was used to create a new VM... Sinc all the VM's are on the SAN, so wont be any conflict?

thanks.

Hi, I have a HP Dl380 G4 server and I have installed Esx 3 on it. For some reason when I try to install a 64 bit guest os, it fails. It says that the CPU does not support long mode and I need to install 32 bit os. Has anyone seen this before?

Guys,

Disclaimer: I'm a novice at VMWare. I have it, I've used it, but I've never had to really troubleshoot problems. So if this question is poor I apologize.

Here's what I have. I have taken an IBM Intellistation Pro 6850-67U printer that I am VMWare Converter to make an image of.

When I put it on my ESX 3.5 box (a Dell) and power it on I get a blue screen INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. Can't get in safe mode or anything else.

Did a little searching and found the following article:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=36

However it says for image / cloning to post the problem on the community boards... so that's what I'm doing. Help or suggestions?

I have tried changing the settings for the SCSI / Serial Port / etc. to see if I could get it to boot somehow, but have thus far struck out.

Thanks for help in advance!

Dear all,

we learned that VMotion between Opteron processors and Xeon processors in ESX 3.0 does not work. Do you have experience, if VMotion between AMD Opteron 275 (Quad Core) and Opteron 2435 (Six Core) works?

Best regards

Peter

Will work with ESX 3.5 update 3?

Hello,

I'm using ESX 3.0.2, and one VM which is under Windows Server 2003 can't start.

This server is attach to a tape device IBM Total Storage 3581-2U.

I have the following error: Unable to open SCSI device '/vmfs/devices/generic/vmhba1:5:0:0' (scsi0:1):@&!*@*@(msg.fileio.generic)Generic error. Failed to configure scsi0

I have apply the ESX Server 3.0.2 patch ESX-1003179, anyway there is no change.

And i have an other VM under Windows Server 2003 without any tape device which is works fine.

Please help, it's very urgent. I use this VM for backup.

Regards,

I have couple of LUNs which has over 100GB available space and some of them VM's are already running in them as well, but my question is If I put a new VM in existing LUN which has 100GB space available, so will I run into any issue? I am sure I wouldnt, but I wanted to check with you to make sure it will not cause any problem with my existing VM's which are located in that LUN.

We are running high space in our SAN and trying to compress LUN's as much as we can.

Thanks.

Dear all,

When I try to add a new hard drive to an existing VM the "Raw Device Mappings" option is greyed and not available.
I have created a LUN on the SAN, the LUN is displaying under “Storage Adapters” but I think I am missing a step to convert this LUN into a raw device and a vmdk. I am a newbie and I have spent hours looking for documentation about that.
Does anyone could help me find that information ?

I am running ESX3.0 and VMWare Infrastructure 2.5

Thank you in advance,

Antoine

I need to understand the real terms of CPU virtualization in ESX / ESXi solution. In clear text:
1. If a virual machine runs on 2 or 4 virtual CPUs, how many of physical CPUs it utilizes on physical host. Host physical machine has 8 CPUs.
2. How the concept of virtual CPU works.
3. How to measure the real time CPU virtualization performance and a single state CPU performance monitoring on a VM.

Thanks a ton.

I need to understand the real terms of CPU virtualization in ESX / ESXi solution. In clear text:
1. If a virual machine runs on 2 or 4 virtual CPUs, how many of physical CPUs it utilizes on physical host. Host physical machine has 8 CPUs.
2. How the concept of virtual CPU works.
3. How to measure the real time CPU virtualization performance and a single state CPU performance monitoring on a VM.

Thanks a ton.

Hi Team.
I need to understand the real terms of CPU virtualization in ESX / ESXi solution. In clear text:
1. If a virual machine runs on 2 or 4 logical CPUs, how many of physical CPUs it utilizes on physical host.
2. How the concept of logical CPU works.
3. How to measure the real time CPU virtualization performance and a single state CPU performance monitoring on a VM.

P.S. Just to update it say, host physical machine has 8 CPUs total (Xeon) and VM has 4 virtual processors.

I would appreciate if someone can reply with answers in "clear text" terms. Thanks a ton.

Warm regards,
Anshul

Does anyone know if there is going to be an update 5 to ESX 3.5 to support Windows 2008 R2? I would update to 4.0 but our SAN configuration isn't supported, not yet anyway.

Thanks

I've read a bit around this subject but would benefit from a bit of help from people who really know this stuff because I'm a bit confused.

I was on an ESX3.x course and the instructor mentioned something about it not being a good idea to over resource VMs with vCPUs due to scheduling gotachas. Reading around the subject the strict co-scheduling that ESX .2x used would definitely have created problems with some VMs using multiple vCPUs under certain conditions but I've read that the co-scheduler is relaxed and this means that this problem is a bit less apparent.

We are running an ESX 3.0 server with 3 VMs and 4 vCPUs. One VM is has 1 vCPU assigned, 1 has 2 and the other has 4. I suspect the VM with 4vCPUs is having major performance issues (effectively, it's wanting to use all available vCPUs which is probably bound to cause scheduling issues) but I'm unsure how to troubleshoot CPU scheduling issues.

How strict is cosheduling in ESX 3 and what's the best way to troubleshoot vCPU scheduling issues?

Cheers,

Tim