Vmxnet3 driver crash in ESXi5

Hi all, I’ve had a couple of occurances of this where a server 2003 R2 vm will seemingly just loose network connectivity. Attempting to ping either in or out will not work. Whilst sometimes powering off and on the vm will resolve the issue it wont stop it randomly happening again (naturally during production hours). I’ve noted that there is a VMware kb on the issue (which I found after i’d rRead More…

How to virtualize Exchange 2007

Well, I’m going through my p2v exercise with my current employer and whilst I have p2v’d many servers I had not converted an exchange server before. Our exchange server is a single windows 2003 R2 x64 box with all the exchange roles installed on it, its not a complicated setup but for us it doesn’t need to be. So googling around I found quite a few horror stories of failed p2v attempts. So with a Read More…