Re: Is it possible to upgrade esxi 5.5 to custom Dell esxi 5.5 Ao1 ?
Thanks Mike, we succeeded in upgrading with a customized image!
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as per the VMware maximums ESXi supports 32 NIC cards , Just connect cable to these NIC cards and run them to the multiple switches for redundancy . When done with this just configure virtual switch...
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Hi Welcome to the communities. Please follow the below link. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/vmware/vmware/VMware.html
View ArticleHelp with user name and password bmware vshpere client 5.1
I need help, our installer packed up and left our location but did not leave our user name or password for VMware vSphere Client 5.Can anyone help me with defaults or help to look up the username and pw?
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Welcome to the Community - Are you using vCenter? If you are then the typical install the local administrator group is given Administrative access so any user has administrative access should be able...
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Unfortunately neither works for us. They must have changed the settings.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5 appears to break ANY and ALL on board sata passthrough capabilities
There will never be a fix, this is by design. This is yet another example of VMWare’s give a little / take a lot approach they build into every release and seem to love to impose on their customers /...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5 appears to break ANY and ALL on board sata passthrough capabilities
Hi Rockingly,From what I understand the onboard devices not working is not intentional. It just so happens that we get lucky sometimes and they work on certain versions / hardware configs. Now,...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5 appears to break ANY and ALL on board sata passthrough capabilities
Grasshopper,Sorry for the rant, you caught me on a couple of weekend upgrades from 5.1 to 5.5 U1, which was frustrating to say the very least.the onboard devices not working is not intentionalI’ll have...
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Re: ESXi 5.5 appears to break ANY and ALL on board sata passthrough capabilities
Excellent feedback. I had to click "like" on your post because you really took the time to constructively show what it means for you (you could have easily just tore my head off ). That's the great...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5 appears to break ANY and ALL on board sata passthrough capabilities
Grasshopper, Thank you for your kind words and I make it a point to try and never tear anyone’s head off, (besides the mess) it’s entirely counterproductive. That is a very good presentation, I wish I...
View ArticleNewbie Question: Hard Disk Capacity
Hi, I have 4 x 73GB HDD and when I installed VMWare it showed me only 2 disks each of 63GB capacity approximately (I do not remember the exact number but close to this). I wanted to build at least 3 to...
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Hello, AA2913.is it possible that your disks united in 2 RAID1 Arrays, so you see the logical disks not the physical disks when installing the ESXi? You can check it in your storage controller...
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Re: Newbie Question: Hard Disk Capacity
Thanks Akoplylov. Well that was really helpful. Even I thought that the logical volume had to be recreated. As, it has been long time since I worked on building RAIDs and playing with hardware....
View ArticleRe: Newbie Question: Hard Disk Capacity
IIRC the G5 models were introduced in 2006 or 2007, and either had an E200 or P400 SmartArray controller. Anyway, pressing F8 when the RAID controller shows up while booting the server should bring you...
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Re: Newbie Question: Hard Disk Capacity
hello again.Unfortunately i have never configure HP servers and could not give you some advise about it, but usually there is a string with a combination of buttons on the stage of initialisation of...
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Re: Newbie Question: Hard Disk Capacity
Thanks Andre' Looks like I have become really rusty in HW now anyway I was pressing F8 when it was at the ILO and it was taking me to ILO settings and then I waited and then saw another F8 command...
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Thank you and you were very helpful also. Appreciate your response.
View ArticleInstalling ESXi 5.5 onto HP Proliant G7 N54L
I am planning on doing an install on this server that I have bought. It currently has a 250gb SATA HDD installed. I am going to expand the HDD and upgrade to 8gb RAM.I believe it also has an internal...
View ArticleRe: Installing ESXi 5.5 onto HP Proliant G7 N54L
Hi,Welcome to the VMware Community,I don't find this server on the compatibility matrix (VMware Compatibility Guide) . Anyway if you still want to go ahead and try it, i would suggest you to put the...
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