Troubleshooting License Management for ESX 3.x/ESXi 3.5 Hosts
If vCenter Server is managing ESX 3.x/ESXi 3.5 hosts, vCenter Server must check out vCenter Server Agent licenses from the license server. If vCenter Server is having trouble communicating with your license server, do the following:
C· heck that the license server Windows service is running.
· Check that the license server is listening.
· Check the [...]
Memory Checker warnings in hostd.log
If you are getting warnings after warnings in regards to “Memory Checker warnings in hostd.log” do the following.
Edit the config.xml under /etc/vmware/hostd and add the folloing into the <config> section:
<hostdWarnMemInMB>200</hostdWarnMemInMB>
<hostdStopMemInMB>250</hostdStopMemInMB>
or similar values depending on how high is your Service Console memory set to. After that you have to restart the service with
service mgmt-vmware restart
From VCP 3.5 to VCP 4
I have my VCP 3.5 and going for my vSphere VCP 4 certification. I’m challenging myself to get the upgrade by mid December of the current year. I’m working on setting up my new lab with workstation 7 and a terabyte of space running Freenas or any other free source software that can dish out iSCSI. I [...]
NetApp and SRM Failback Procedure
Example Setup:
srcfiler is at primary site
dstfiler at secondary site
vcenter1 is at primary site
vcenter2 is at secondary site
datastore is a volume on srcfiler
datastore is replicated to rep_datastore on dstfiler
datastore contains an iSCSI LUN attached to vcenter1
vcenter1 has an SRM protection group that protects datastore
vcenter2 has a corresponding SRM recovery group
filer> monospace text refers to CLI (telnet) [...]
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What’s included in VMware vSphere 4 Essentials
VMware vSphere 4 Essentials provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to virtualize three physical servers for consolidating and managing applications to reduce hardware and operating costs with a low up-front investment.VMware vSphere 4 allows License to run only three ESX 4.0 to run on 3 Physical server hardware.
VMware vSphere 4 Essentials includes:
• VMware ESXi [...]
