CentOS 6 under ESXi 5.0 - no NIC (eth0)

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  I try to run CentOs Linux with KVM under esxi 5.1, is this possible?

  I'm trying to load kvm_intel, but I have error.

  Thank you

  Lucas

  You may need your VM upgraded to Virtual Hardware 9 in order to have the ungreyed checkbox.

  Power off the virtual machine, right-click on the virtual machine and choose upgrade virtual hardware. Who's going to format virtual material 9.

  Then use the web client to check the box for "expose hardware assisted virtualization to the o/s.

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• File under ESXi versus NAS appliance server

  We have a Netapp file server that is used for sharing files using SMB 2.0

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• ESXi 4.1 U1 does support Centos 6 under VM now?

  I installed centos on ESXi 4.1 U1 6.0 and vmware workstation 7.1.4, both have the same problem. There is no error during installation, when it first starts, there are ' TARS: Hotplug not continuous area.» Partially ignored"error message on the screen and then come to the login screen, but there is no network.

  ifconfig find only loopback NIC, can someone tell me how to set up the network and access its GUI? (Or esxi 4.1 U1 currently does not support centos 6.0 as VM?)

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  Hello.

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• VM under ESXi 4.0 recognizes as USB NIC

  Hello

  I have a Dell PowerEdge R300 running under VMware ESXi 4.0 license.

  The server has built-in network card Intel Gigabit AND Dual Port, and I added an another PCIe Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709.

  I installed Windows Server 2003 virtual machine, and after complete installation, the 2003 recognize the USB network card and displays the icon in the systray.

  This allows me to "Remove hardware safely'-> 'remove Intel PRO 1000/MT".

  Of course if I do that I lose the networking on this server... Jac's for "security".

  Anyway, when I created the virtual machine, I used the default values of VMware NIC adapter E1000.

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  Is it possible to disable the deletion of the Windows NETWORK card? Or I must stop the virtual machine, install another NETWORK card and restart?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  It is advisable to install the vmware tools in the comments. I always recommend you to install the vmware tools.

  You're talking about the issue of vNIC, is not really a bug, is a new feature called hot plug-vNIC.

  Anyway is to disable to avoid accidentally remove it the vNIC, you can disable the connection to hot network card following this procedure:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1012225&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=64244650&StateID=0%200%2067543541

  The steps above does not affect snap-ins not to hot memory/cpu.

  A saludo/best regards,.

  Pablo

  Please consider providing any useful answer. Thank you!! - Por favor considered premiar las useful responses. MUCHAS gracias!

• Run the Workstation 8 under ESXi 5.0?

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  For example, I want to run:

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  2. Virtual MACHINE running on ESXi 5.0: running Windows 7 64 - bit with VMware Workstation 8
     
  3. Virtual MACHINE under VMware Workstation 8: running ESXi 5.0
     
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• ESXi Network Setup 4 nic

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  I'm currently setting up a new environment of ESXi 4.1. I have 4 NIC on each host. I have seen many different discussions on the separation of vmotion/management. However, I do not think what is ideal with the current network adapter configuration because should I choose to use 2 network cards for management and redundancy of management.

  That's why I think, I separate the 4 network cards on two different switches and on each one I create two trunks (or to cisco etherchannel) while both of these trunks includes 50% of the EPS to a single host. Should I choose to spend 2 network cards on management (one for each switch) I no longer have the ability to trunk/etherchannel to the switch and going so lose the two redundancy on this specific switch and the additional bandwidth, I get by both trunking interfaces.

  Any ideas on this subject?

  / Kris

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  It will depend on your brand, a model of switch and how it built of UZ ACL / Classes but it should be fairly easy to build given the level of the managed layer 3.

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• Shows poor drive on a virtual machine of SBS 2008 under ESXI 4.1

  Hi all

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  With my colleague a great discussion raised about vmdk locations for a virtual machine that runs a heavy installation of SBS 2008. Where to place the files vmdk on the data store, and how to optimize for best performance.

  This is the context. We recently bought a ML350 G6 server with 2 * RAID1 SAS 10 k. We have installed ESXI 4.1 on the first RAID1 array (datastore1) and the second RAID1 array, we created datastore2.

  On the ESXI server, we have created a VM SBS2K8. And here is the discussion:

  We have configured the vitual HDD for this virtual machine as follows:

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  Next to the ESXI installation, we created 1 vmdk where we have installed OS by VM SBS2K8 partition

  DATASTORE2:

  We have created the 2nd vmdk where we have installed the DATA by VM SBS2K8 partition

  For your information, directly after the installation we moved the log files and database Exchange on the second partition on DATASTORE2

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  The virtual machine is so slow, when we try to copy, backup files locally. I checked the performance graph in VSphere Client when we copied the files or backup. The disk latency, data store, virtual disks to the level has exploded.

  This is a point that the console has become completely insensitive during summits...

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  All the recommendations, advice, are welcome. I don't know if the problem comes from the design of the virtual machine itself or we forgot something during the installation.

  Is there a good literature on the vmdk files? Location, design...

  Thank you for all your help on this point,

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• Core2Duo processor will support vmotion/HA under ESXi 4?

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  Although some people say this HP model comes with a card Intel PRO/1000 PT PCIe Gigabit.

  Also, I'll probably start ESXi 4 usb thumbdrive.

  The motherboard goes to 8 GB max, which is fine for now. Once again, not planning on executing lots of virtual machines simultaneously. More than just familiarize themselves with the operations of vSphere 4.

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  No mate problem.

  Please mark the thread as answered and award marks for useful messages.

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• ESXi 4.1 connection NIC 0 to NIC 2 to a Port DHCP and static IP address

  I have a Dell Blade M610 I recently put in place with ESXi 4.1 Software. I have the Management Console, NIC 0, a static IP address, but when I connect to a DHCP Port to NIC 1 I lose the ability to connect to the console of the VSphere Client. I get "connection failed". Remove the DHCP connection works and I can log in and manage the server.

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  I would like to know if it is possible to realize that I need to create virtual machines to be used on the remote subnet, as well as on the Production side of the network.

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• Provider of LSI works do not under ESXi 6

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  Maybe I'm missing something?

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  aecro

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• How to make a CD available USB drive VMS as a USB under ESXi 5.5

  Hi people:

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  So I guess my question is:

  (1) is there a way to say ESXi a newly connected CD/DVD USB drive is intended to be a USB device that can be connected to the virtual machines, or

  (2) is there a way to force rescan USB devices for USB CD/DVD players to demand and available as a host device to be assigned to a virtual CD/DVD device without a restart ESXi?

  I hope that there is some configuration settings, I do not know on which control this behavior.

  Suggestions welcome.

  Ok.  I found the answer.  Guess I didn't have a good enough search until I posted.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1027415

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  from the console service.  Which causes ESXi to rescan USB devices and CD/DVD USB drive is available to be mapped as a host device on a virtual CD drive of the virtual machine.  It is not as good as to be able to use it immediately, but at least it does not require the host be restarted each time.

• Cannot start the physical machine converted to a virtual machine under ESXi 4.0

  Hi all

  I have 2 has with the material below

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  A performer with ESXi 4.0 other runs with Windows 2003.

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  I used the tool on the source machine and by another machine on the network.

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  After conversion, the virtual machine cannot start, and shows only a small slider that is not flashing too.

  

  The physical machine have a single partition of 160 GB

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• CentOS 6.3 KVM under ESXi5.1

  Hi all

  Here is my case,

  I want Setup CloudStack in a box and I'll use ESXi 5.1 to do this.

  My CPU on psysical H/W not support IntelVT drank no pets

  agreeing with the link below

  Nested VMs running

  http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-8970

  in the section running the hypervisors without virtualized HV say it is possible to run x 64 KVM Centos, but when tested Centos vm do recnogize VT technology on the virtual machine CPU info, impossible to install kvm on kernel modules

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  all οr doubts, I'm missing something here?

  Section of the KVM to the State of the article as "KVM requires hardware virtualization, support so it can be run under ESXi 5.0, Workstation 8, player 4 Fusion 4 (or later version)" if this scenario will take place only to the ESXi 5.0 and not the ESXi5.1?

  (relative config as monitor.virtual_exec material = monitor.virtual_mmu = software has been tested with no results)

  Thank you for the time

  Fix.  It is possible to use the HV virtualized under ESXi 5.0 on systems without EPT/IVR, but not recommended, due to underperformance miserably.  When we officially launched the functionality in ESXi 5.1, we decided to not support the hosts without EPT/IVR, because the feature was not the quality of the products.