Re: ESX 3.5 to ESXi 5.1 upgrade question
If the environment has just one or 2 servers then i would suggest a reinstall of the OS to 5.1 directly. You need to make sure that the VMs from the local storage are migrated and the external...
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...
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If building for home maybe think about buying used equipment to save money. Obviously first check the Compatibility List on VMWare site to make sure you get something that's compatible, but I bought a...
View ArticleISCSI or NFS ESXi 5.1
HiI can use ISCSI or/and NFS as storage to ESXi 5.1 - what is best!
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Hi, All four storage protocols Fibre Channel, Hardware iSCSI, Software iSCSI, and NFS will give you same performance.However if you dont have any existing SAN environment,better move forward with...
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This totally depends on your network & storage infrastucture. If you can conntect to your storage system with 1 GB/s iSCSI or 10 GB/s NFS that would be an easy decision (to make a simple example)....
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I have a QNAP 809U-rp I could use to low performance server - so to get best performance I can use ISCSI or NFS. I have created smal LUNs to ISCSI connection to server direct - if there is a better way...
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...
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You may or may not have checked this already. But, have you checked to make sure that the NIC was enabled (turned on)? Maybe this will help.
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Hi burgwyn, thanks for your reply.Onboard NIC is enabled and BIOS is on its latest build.I can even add that NIC works fine as i can browse Internet when working with a OpenSuse live CD. M
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Are you sure about your RealTek onboard NIC? Did someone else state they have it working? I know some NIC's even though not listed in the VMWare HCL sometimes work, but when they don't and they're not...
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Hello CSSMP, thanks for your reply.Well, i'm quite sure about other experiences: Internet is crowded by several threads/posts about that NIC. Anyway i've already checked into HCL and both my NIC and MB...
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Re: testing vSphere5 in a small lab...
...or if it was a trick to fix my problem..The easiest "trick" would probably to get a supported NIC Anyway if it's just about testing ESXi you could install Windows or Linux on the host and run one or...
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Hello André Pett, Thanks for your answer.Thus, let's go with that easiest trick!!
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I agree you could just throw in a PCI NIC and a good option if stick with one listed such as various Broadcom's. Either way I would also check the processor compatibility via the link I posted just in...
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 ArticleRe: ESXI not booting on HP ProLiant G7
Hi,i found this in a forum for esxi 4.1.http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ESXi/Install-Vmware-esxi-on-internal-SD-card-DL360-G7/td-p/4678237Maybe it work on 5 or 5.1 as well.Frank
View ArticleRe: ESXI not booting on HP ProLiant G7
I solved the problem, at least partially. According to this article:http://vmtoday.com/2012/09/esxi-5-wont-boot-from-usb/my ProLiant dl360 g7 doesn't support booting from GPT partition (used from...
View ArticleInstalling Windows Sever 2008 from uploaded files
I have a brand new bare metal ESXi server and want to install Windows Server 2008 remotely. I am considering uploading the Windows Server 2008 installer to the datastore, but the user-guide mentions...
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