Re: How to shrink existing vm
The vDR snapshot is no different from a manually created snapshot, so deleting the snapshot from the Snapshot Manager will merge the deltas/snapshots (~70GB according to your sceenshot) into the base...
View ArticleUpgrade Esxi 4.1 host to fresh Esxi 5.x steps
I have wanted to upgrade my 4.1 host to 5.x for sometime but have not pulled the trigger yet. Always thought that I had to upgrade vm's because I did not want to wipe them out and recreate fresh in...
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If you only have one host, then yeah that'll have to be your solution. Beware though, converter will take a while. Better make sure you have a large maintenance window. Also, be prepared to re-apply...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade Esxi 4.1 host to fresh Esxi 5.x steps
Which options/features of the new VMFS5 file system do you need. You can actually upgrade the file system form VMFS3 to VMFS5 after upgrading the host, and most of the new features are provided by the...
View ArticleSingle VM has high packet loss
I have Suse Enterprise 11 SP3 running on vShere 5, installed is Zimbra. VM was initially setup use E1000 adapter. I am getting about 30% discards report via SNMP, and simple ifconfig shows; RX...
View ArticleIs Tunneling Suported?
I want to use a VPS at another location to tunnel traffic to my server (for DDoS protection) and I was wondering if its possible with Hypervisor. Is tunneling supported on the hypervisor console...
View ArticleRe: Is Tunneling Suported?
Welcome to the Community - It will depend on the VMs and as long as the guest OS supports IPSec.GRE are supported then yes it is supported -
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Re: Is Tunneling Suported?
Please be aware of a known issue with ESXi 5.5: VMware KB: Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) connections may not work on ESXi 5.5 It should work, but currently if you use an e1000 virtual NIC...
View ArticleWhat is a difference between "Logical CPUs" and "Logical CPUs per host"?
Hello everyone! In VMware official document "vsphere-51-configuration-maximums" or "vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf" in section "ESXi host maximums \ Compute Maximums" exists to items:"Host CPU...
View ArticleRe: What is a difference between "Logical CPUs" and "Logical CPUs per host"?
Ramirez, I understand your question as difference between 1. logical vs virtual CPUs / per hosts, and 2. cluster/host max. VM count. Consider the case given below; 2 ESXi hosts - 20 VMs ESXi...
View ArticleRemote Administrative Gui + Memory Requirement?
I'm going to use the free version of Hypervisor and I was wondering if there is any kind of remote management gui available. My server will be at a datacenter and I want to easily be able to manage...
View ArticleRe: Remote Administrative Gui + Memory Requirement?
You can use the vSphere client to connect to your host? ESXi itself has a very low footprint in terms of memory. In production enviroments I see the hypervisor itself use somewhere around 200-300 MB....
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Great this helps, please mark helpfull or correct answers. Any other things I can help you with?
View ArticleRe: What is a difference between "Logical CPUs" and "Logical CPUs per host"?
Well, I would like to clarify about first question: does it mean that I cannot provide all VMs on one ESXi-host more than 4096 Virtual CPUs (config maximum)? If so, I still can provide all VMs on that...
View ArticleRe: Firewal & Ports?
Yes hypervisor has its own firewall. You can see it under configuration--->Security profile.What do you mean by running hypervison on a different port? Do you mean you want to control access to ESXi?
View ArticleRe: What is a difference between "Logical CPUs" and "Logical CPUs per host"?
does it mean that I cannot provide all VMs on one ESXi-host more than 4096 Virtual CPUs (config maximum)? It never stops you creating VMs beyond that level, but i doubt the performance wouldn't be as...
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Thank you very much for help and for so detailed answer!
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