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ESXi Upgrade from 5.1 to 5.5

March 3, 2014munishpalmakhija

ESXi Upgrade from 5.1 to 5.5

Default Security Policy for Distributed Switch distributed port groups

March 3, 2014munishpalmakhija

Setup VMware vCenter 5.1 ESXi 5.1 GA build (799733) Issue/Observation We observed that one of our NIC card was not showing connected when we tried to Power ON a VM. Upon investigation we found that VM changed the Mac Address and because the default setting for the security policy have…Continue readingDefault Security Policy for Distributed Switch distributed port groups

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Multi Site SRM Configuration Procedure

March 3, 2014munishpalmakhija

Some time ago I had blogged procedure for Multi Site SRM Configuration Here is the procedure with Screenshot which will give better idea Procedure Installing SRM Servers at Production site: SRM1: · Install the SRM executable from command prompt /V\”CUSTOM_SETUP=1\” · When it ask ’s to enter vCenter Server Address and Credentials,…Continue readingMulti Site SRM Configuration Procedure

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Multi Site SRM Configuration

January 21, 2014munishpalmakhija

We are in process of setting up an Multisite recovery for a customer with following setup. We have manage to put together following procedure for installation and configuration Setup 2 – VMware vCenter 5.1 @ Production 2 – VMware SRM 5.1 @ Production 1 – VMware vCenter 5.1 @ Recovery…Continue readingMulti Site SRM Configuration

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VMWare SRM 5.X Observation

January 21, 2014munishpalmakhija

Setup VMware vCenter 5.1 ESXi 5.1 GA build (799733) SRM 5.1 Issue/Observation Replicated Datastore had an additional vmdk for a Virtual Machine which was on non-replicated datastore. It didn’t display in Protection Group (obviously as it didn’t find vmx file )and also SRM didn’t throw up any Error of any…Continue readingVMWare SRM 5.X Observation

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Operations Differences for various VMware Products and Components

December 24, 2013munishpalmakhija

Operations Differences for various VMware Products and Components Feature 5.5 5.1 5 4.1 4 HA Agent FDM FDM FDM AAM AAM HA Algorithm Master Slave Master Slave Master Slave Primary Secondary Primary Secondary HA Failure Detection Management Network Storage Communication Management Network Storage Communication Management Network Storage Communication Management Network…Continue readingOperations Differences for various VMware Products and Components

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Configuration Maximums for various VMware Products and Components

December 24, 2013munishpalmakhija

Configuration Maximums for various VMware Products and Components Component 5.5 5.1 5 4.1 4 Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP) 64 64 32 8 8 RAM per virtual machine 1TB 1TB 1TB 255GB 255GB Virtual disk size 62TB 2TB 2TB 2TB 2TB Virtual Disks per virtual machine 60…Continue readingConfiguration Maximums for various VMware Products and Components

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A General System Error occurred. Communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted

December 24, 2013munishpalmakhija

Setup VMware vCenter 5.1 ESXi 5.1 GA build (799733) SRM 5.0 Issue At the time of Test Failover VM unable to Power ON and threw up error A general system error occurred. The system returned an error. Communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted. Post Analysis we found…Continue readingA General System Error occurred. Communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted

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Rebuilding the Virtual Machine\’s VMX File

December 24, 2013munishpalmakhija

Setup VMware vCenter 5.1 ESXi 5.1 GA build (799733) SRM 5.0 Issue At the time of Test Failover VM unable to Power ON due to VMX file went missing or has lost its configuration. Post Analysis we found it could be because of intermittent network connection as we were using…Continue readingRebuilding the Virtual Machine\’s VMX File

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ESXi PSOD Issue

December 14, 2013munishpalmakhija

We came across very strange PSOD Issue where 9 out of 10 ESXi host kept crashing with PSOD and strange thing was every time it was random 9 servers One of the toughest weekend ever to detect this root cause. 72 hours only J Setup VMware vCenter 5.1 VMware ESXi…Continue readingESXi PSOD Issue

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