Re: Issues with setting up an economy friendly home lab - need guidance
Hi Tsjo - thanks. what I see is different from the screenshot you sent (very kind). what I did was - spun up the esxi on the intel machine, created a vm and added a x86 os, per suggestion by other...
View ArticleRe: Issues with setting up an economy friendly home lab - need guidance
Hi Dharam, There shouldn't be any issue. Can you tell me how much RAM is allocated to Vcenter server (windows 2008 R2).I hope SQL is getting installed along with vCenter Also, try with Windows 2008R2...
View ArticleRe: Issues with setting up an economy friendly home lab - need guidance
And the VM is patched with all the available Microsoft updates?
View ArticleRe: Issues with setting up an economy friendly home lab - need guidance
Hi Krishna,it is 2 GB. yes. it is the express edition that comes bundled with teh product. thanks again.
View ArticleRe: Issues with setting up an economy friendly home lab - need guidance
Hi Tsjo,I have not manually done it. I created the fresh vm yesterday. thanks again.
View Articleesxi 5 kickstart configuration
Hello sir How we can create the the kickstart for esx installation? Regards,Lallit Singhania
View ArticleNo License Icon
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...
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Hello and welcome to the communities. In the vSphere Client choose the host, then select the Configuration tab in the right pane. In the Software panel, choose the Licensed Features option.
View ArticleRe: No License Icon
The license icon and menu entry are only available when connected to vCenter Server instance. For a single ESXi host follow the steps mentioned by vmroyale.André
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...
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Can anyone please offer their help or suggestion. Thanks...!
View ArticleRe: Reinstalled ESX 5.1 to upgrade from 4.1 - Disk Extent Issues
Are you seeing this in vCenter or directly from the Host? I have in the past had issues with Datastores that I couldn't work out from within vCenter, however was able to get things working if I...
View ArticleRe: Reinstalled ESX 5.1 to upgrade from 4.1 - Disk Extent Issues
Interesting, I'm at a loss then and sorry I can't help. I did see a few KB's on VMWare's site referencing that error message though not sure it's the same issue you're experiencing. A few state call...
View ArticleRe: Reinstalled ESX 5.1 to upgrade from 4.1 - Disk Extent Issues
Yes I read those too. The one about call tech support before power cycle is not applicable since I had to reboot to install the 5.1 software which reboots the server. I also read most of the other...
View ArticleRe: Reinstalled ESX 5.1 to upgrade from 4.1 - Disk Extent Issues
Well, keep me posted as I just upgraded my vCenter to v5.1 and built a new host from scratch with v5.1, but have a few other Hosts in the cluster to upgrade from v4.1 to v5.1 like yourself and hope I...
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Host 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...
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Go into your BIOS setting and make sure that it is set to attempt to boot from hard drive, and that the correct hard drive is first in the order, if there are more than one hard drive.
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 ArticleRe: ESX 3.5 to ESXi 5.1 upgrade question
Hi...as you know, we cannot perfrom direct upgrade from esx 3.5 to esxi 5.1 and before that you have to do upgrade of esx 3.5 to esx/esxi 4.x. Also upgrade requires reboot of your host. So if you do...
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