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• DL380 G3 ESX 3i Version 3.5.0 network drivers

  I am very new to VMWare and having a problem setting up of my first installation of comments.

  I have a DL380 G3 with ESX 3i Version 3.5.0 installed.  In VMware Infrastructure Client, I can see the following network card:

  NC7781 Gigabit (PCI - X, 10,100,1000-T) server adapter

  My first guest OS is Server 2008 Standard (32-bit).

  In the comments, I can't get a driver installed.

  That's what I tried:

  Drivers HP.  I am told that the intelligent installation is not supported in a virtual machine.  So I extracted the files and tried to install.  I am told that the drivers are incorrect.

  Broadcom drivers.  I can get windows install these, but same problem, drivers are incorrect, and they do not start.

  I am sure that the hardware is supported and is on the compatibility list.

  Help, please!

  Thank you.

  Hi Robrandon,

  Welcome to the forums.

  Never try to use a physical device driver in a virtual machine. Check that your virtual machine is configured with the information in the appropriate operating system and has a virtual NIC attached. Then install VMware tools. The network card must be running in your comments.

  Good luck.

  Concerning

  Franck

• Detect the host ESX (redux) version

  Hello

  We use a script that automatically installs the VM tools on our VMS invited when the OS is installed. We are now mixing our ESX hosting environment so we also well ESX3.5 and ESXi4.0 hosts. Each of these hosts require versions of VM Tool on their customers. I need a way to determine which version of tools to install based on the version of ESX VM client runs on.

  I've seen other threads on this and suggested using the date of the BIOS, but I'm not real keen on this approach.

  What I found in our environment is the "Device Instance path" or "The device Instance ID" of different NIC appear compatible subprovider IDs that begin with \3 when it is hosted on ESX3.5 and \4 or \FF when it is hosted on ESX 4.0

  i.e.

  ESX 3.5 hosted vm - NIC device Instance path = PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_100F & SUBSYS_075015AD & REV_01\3 & 2B8E0B4B & 0 & 88

  ESXi 4.0hosted vm - NIC device Instance path = PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_100F & SUBSYS_075015AD & REV_01\4 & B70F118 & 0 & 0088

  Note the key differentiating field is immediately after the second "\".

  Anyone have any ideas if this logic will hold up over time?

  Hello

  I wouldn't count on that, but if it works now, go ahead. It may not be the same as we go along.

  However it is a pretty good test 'red pill '. The virtual hardware is very revealing and it's trivially easy to determine the version of ESX, the virtual machine is hosted using red pill techniques.

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• ESX, Vmware version compatibility...

  Hello, following an incident in June in our virtualized architecture and because of which we have lost all our VM, we have to rebuild all our architecture.

  Can validate me that the compatible of are the following versions:

  VMware Virtual Center 2.5.0 Build 119598

  ESX 3.5.0 Build 169697 U4

  Thanks in advance

  Frédéric

  Hello

  It would be better to have vCenter server build 147658 with ESX 3.5 U4.

  These are the two versions that go hand in hand (U4 both).

• SFTP/SCP in ESX trial version

  can I use sftp / scp in ESXi 3.5 trial version?

  You can use SCP. No course of SFTP. You may need to allow SSH for the SCP. Pls refer this links:

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/08/10/HOWTO-ESXi-and-SSH/

  http://www.VM-help.com/ESX/esx3i/ESXi_enable_SSH.php

  Shan

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• VMware ESX Server, version 3.5.0 64607 | Assessment - Vmotion?

  Hello world

  I'm just checking on my server VMware ESX vmotion, 3.5.0 64607 copy evaluation, but when I go to the configuration of virtual Center and then tab features licensed Add-ons are grayed out and VMotion is listed as not used.  I am able to request access to this feature somehow?  I need to download the evaluation version of the enterprise?

  Thank you.

  .. .and to add a little more to what said KjB, when configuring your VMkernel port, make sure that you check the box that says 'enable vmotion '.

• Version ESX, VSphere versions differences

  1. main difference between esx 3.0, esx3.5, esx 4.x, esx 5.x?

  2 difference between VmInfrastructure 3, 4.x, Vsphere5, Vsphere x?

  Here are links to some documents-

  VMware Infrastructure 3 - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_301_201_intro_vi.pdf

  VMware Infrastructure 3.5 - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_intro_vi.pdf

  vSphere 4 - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_intro_vs.pdf

  vSphere 5 - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-basics-guide.pdf

  Additional supporting documents, you can watch it here - http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/

• How to display the version of ESX VMwave

  I have a chassis CISCO UCS blade with 4 blades (all B200 M4) and I need to display the installed VMware / works on each of vSPhere 5.5 Web Client.

  Thank you

  GlenG

  Check if help: VMware KB: determine the version number of VMware ESX/ESXi and VMware vCenter Server

  Determine the version of ESX/ESXi number using the Web Client vSphere

  To determine the build number of vCenter Server using the Web Client vSphere:

  1. Log the Web Client vSphere.
  2. Click home.
  3. Click on the hosts and Clusters.
  4. Expand the data center.
  5. Expand the cluster.
  6. Click on the ESXi host.
  7. Click the contents tab
  8. Under Configuration, there will be a field of ESX/ESXi Version:

• In Vcenter ESX version

  Hello

  Can we find the list of ESX with version none in VCenter server if Cli.Please to be able to help me with the tearing of the scriptto the info to CSV

  In my my environment there are 200 ESX host. I need to find the version of ESX for all. As some are 3.5,4.0 and 4.1 and ESXi4.1

  Thank you

  Kumar

  I've attached a file with all the lines

• HA mixing different versions of ESX

  Hi people,

  We have the following environment:

  -Virtual center with the latest version of vsphere.

  -3 with the version of vsphere esx hosts 4.

  -3 the esx 3.5 esx host version.

  Is it possible to configure the cluster HA of mixture that? (only on version... of course they shared the same storage, same labels of networking etc...)

  Thanks in advance

  Yes, fully supported.

• Upgrade server ESX 3i, 3.5.0 123629 (free version)

  I have two ESX servers used in a small business environment.  Main server running ESX Server 3i, 3.5.0 123629 (free version). Backup server is running ESX Server, version 3.5.0 123630 (VI3 Foundation Edition).  I use Veeam Backup and replication to replicate from the primary server to watch on a daily basis.  I need to update the license on the production server running the free version to match the standby server edition Foudation.  Can I just ask a license to the Foundation on the running production server using the VI client or is more complicated than that?

  dirkakkerhuis wrote:

  Thanks for the help.  What would you say if I don't have a license server or Virtual Center?  Just download from the portal of VMware license file and upload it to the server using the VI client?

  That is right.

• How to upgrade ESX4.0/ESX4.1/ESXi4.0/ESXi4.1 to ESXi5.1/ESXi5.5 versions

  Hi guys -.

  I want to update my old boxes ESX/ESXi versions ESXi5.X. Is this possible without having to reinstall ESXi5.X on the host? I've never done this before activity, please suggest. Also if I have a DRS HA enabled on these devices, should I take precautions. Thank you very much.

  Kind regards

  Could you please suggest how should I go with the upgrades?

  Use interactive Setup, look at: upgrade to VMware ESXi 5.5 using the Interactive Setup program. Insider - Articles from VMware VMware support

• CPU, memory, disk size maximum for the VM limits in ESX servers

  I have a quick question, please let me know the maximum limits mentioned for the VM on the ESX respective versions are correct.

  Version	VM - CPU	VM-memory	VM disk
  5.1 ESXi	64	1 TB (1011 GB)	2 TB
  ESXi 5.0	32

  1 TB (1011 GB)

  2 TB

  ESX 4.1

  8

  255 GB

  2 TB

  ESXi 4.1

  8

  255 GB

  2 TB

  ESX 4.0

  8

  255 GB

  2 TB

  ESXi 4.0

  8

  255 GB

  2 TB

  ESX 3.5

  4

  64 GB

  2 TB

  second question, I have observed in CreateVM County of CPU wizard change for the ESX hosts to the group title with respective to the same host non-cluster? Please let me know your thoughts.

  Hi Arjun18,

  There is no special identifier of 8.1 and 2012 R2. They still use the win 8 / 2012 identifier:

  Windows 8 32-bit: windows8Guest

  Windows 8 64-bit: windows8_64Guest

  Windows Server 2012: windows8Server64Guest

  Concerning

• Error after upgrade to ESXi 5 Update 1 on free version

  At all a ghettoVCBg2 got another run properly after the upgrade to ESXi 5u1 via vMA 5 when it's the free version?

  I have a couple of free machine and they are the only ones having problems. My verson licensed production work very well.

  The error I get on free machines is as follows:

  Failed to get vim_service - the session object is not initialized or not connected to the line /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/VMware/VICommon.pm 1654
  Perl came out with active threads:
  1 running and spare
  0 finished and spare
  0 running and detached

  I find autour and trying different solutions to simular errors (for example, by adding the debugging of CARP), but nothing works.

  None of the 1 post update fixes fixed either.

  ghettoVCB works very well on the free servers however.

  So, I'm curious if anyone has seen this problem?

  I guess that the reason is that ghettoVCB2 was built for the paid editions that allow write API access.

  There was some editions which do not restrict this access, as you can see in "Support of ESX/ESXi Version table" at http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9843. The initial version of ESXi 5.0 is / was one of them, considering that the update 1 is even more restrictive.

  André

• VCenter and host ESX upgrade details

  Hello

  When I run vmware - v on my esx host. I see the output as VMware ESX 4.0.0 build-208167 and my vcenter Server 4.0.0 208111 watch and I want to VC\ESX 4.0 Update 2. When I check the upgrades for ESX 4.0.0 build-208167, shows me the build under ESXi (Embedded and installable) and not under ESX. A little confused but is that correct? The latest version is also "Build number: 660575. Can I directly go here? What is the process?

  Please notify

  1. so my hosts are now on the ESX update and version number, by following your steps would take them to ESXi last updated and build number which is simply the next last update of level and the patch level. What is the correct interpretation? We call this an update or upgrade?

  > the steps I mentioned will bring the level of the last update, IE ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.0 host update4... Do NOT ESXi.

  2. What is the right approach to find the last bet to day and the patch level, given my example so that I don't have to bother you guys again in the future.

  > Keep track of VMware patch portal http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/download.portal

  Select the product ESX and version 4.0.0 and do a Search. It will list on the latest patches and updates released. You can check with the dates or numbers of patch.

  3. According to the steps you provided, do I just download the Update Pack and patch at one of the warehouses of data that is submitted to these hosts and then run the command of esxupdate course after first having the server in maintenance mode?

  > Yes

  4. is there a separate procedure for updating the vCenter Server also?

  > For vCenter, you need to download setup vCetner for 4.0 update 4 and run the installer.

  Please go through vSphere 4.0 Upgrade guide for details.