Re: esxi 5.1 dell openmanage / lockdown mode
hi Vivari,thanks for your message.in ESXi Shell the Lockdown mode is not enabled.could it be configured but the check not being present? thanks. Later EDIT:please see below the return of the check if...
View ArticleRe: Moving RDMs from 1 VM to another VM
Sorry.....I just realised it was my mistake...my bad.... i think there is some delay required after removing the RDM before scanning the data store....maybe about 10 seconds or so....
View ArticleRe: Deep Security Antimalware best practices and Excluding files Questions
I too would like as much info as possible on this as I am just about to implement.Any tips or stumbling blocks, lessons learnt would help alot. Thanks
View ArticleHow to setup USB storage devices on ESXi hosts ?
I am sorry if this may sound a little silly.... I have VMware vCenter controlling 3 sites all using ESXi 5.1. HQ, site 1 and site 2. Currently I am using Acronis to perform backup to a disk then using...
View ArticleRe: esxi 5.1 dell openmanage / lockdown mode
hi ,the OMSA agents started working correctly after restarting management agents on the affected host. cheers,Adrian
View ArticleRe: esxi 5.1 dell openmanage / lockdown mode
Restarting management agents fixed for me as well. Thank you.
View ArticleRe: How to setup USB storage devices on ESXi hosts ?
I usually build a small Ubuntu VM on the host, mount the USB stick directly to it, and share it out via NFS. You can then use the NFS export as a datastore. Aside from using a USB stick as an ESXi host...
View ArticleRe: Cannot increase datastore size in vSphere
How many ESX servers do you have? If you have more than one you need to ensure all hosts that have access to that LUN under vCenter have been rescanned. If you look at the datastore properties for that...
View ArticleRe: svmotioned vm but left rdmp files
Storage vMotion does funny things to RDM's. Are you sure they haven't been converted to VMDK's? If you edit the settings for the VM that was moved does it still show those disks as RDM's? As well, if...
View ArticleRe: vSphere 5.1/EMC VNXe 3150 Partial/No Redundancy
You should never see full redundency when using the software iSCSI initiator. It is a single point of failure. If you want full redundency using iSCSI use hardware dependent adapters or true physical...
View ArticleRe: Esxi 4.1 Datastore keeps creating _ folders
This appears to be the behaviour of having removed VM's from inventory and added a new VM with the same name. It could also be from a cloning operation. The _# gets appended to a file when a duplicate...
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Re: Storage Migration, Capacity and Excel
Grasshopper (and anyone else), Thanks for the update. I completely forgot about RV Tools. I have downloaded it and shared the love that its auditing tools. The issue is about what will be, not what...
View ArticleProblemas al agregar un datastore en vSphere Esxi 5.1
Buenos Días a todos Tengo un problema con mi vmware al querer agregar un datastore. Hace dos días eliminé un datastore desde mi storage sin antes limpiarlo y eliminarlo desde el vmware, desde entonces...
View ArticleRe: How to setup USB storage devices on ESXi hosts ?
Is it possible to mount it to a Windows Server OS instead of linux ?
View ArticleRe: How to setup USB storage devices on ESXi hosts ?
The USB stick can be mounted to any type of VM you wish to use, including Windows.
View ArticleRe: esxi 5.1 dell openmanage / lockdown mode
seems that this is not solving the issue for good as after a few hours the message is back.still looking for an answer to this.
View ArticleIssue with RAID on Dell 720
So, I'm trying to install ESXi 5.1 on my dell 720. I'm using the dell Disk. My issue is it will not see the RAID array and ignore the virtual disk (raid 5 across 4 1TB drives) but will see the...
View ArticleRe: esxi 5.1 dell openmanage / lockdown mode
I was having the same intermittent problem when I posted this question. After the last reboot of the entire system (not just the management agent) about two weeks ago, however, the problem has not yet...
View ArticleRe: Issue with RAID on Dell 720
Welcome to the Community, unfortunately ESXi does not support software RAID controllers, but only real hardware RAID controllers. (see http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl) André
View ArticleRe: Issue with RAID on Dell 720
In my haste I didn't realize it was a software raid card! Doh.
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