Joining two vCenter Servers in linked mode fails with the error: Operation “Join instance VMwareVCMSDS” failed (2010858)· Cannot join two vCenter Servers in linked mode · Joining two vCenter Servers in linked mode fails · In the jointool.log file,   Go to Source

Cannot reach iSCSI target after enabling iSCSI port binding on ESX/ESXi 4.x (1009524)· After enabling iSCSI port binding on ESX/ESXi 4.x, you can no longer reach your iSCSI target from your software iSCSI initiator. · In the vmkernel log file, you Go to Source

ESX/ESXi hosts might experience read performance issues with certain storage arrays (1002598)Certain EMC CLARiiON iSCSI storage arrays do not behave appropriately during periods of network congestion. This behavior has been observed on EMC CLARiiON Go to Source

What is beacon probing? (1005577)This article provides information on beacon probing. Beacon probing is a network failover detection mechanism that sends out and listens for beacon probes on all NICs in the team and uses this information along with   Go to Source

Performance issues in VMware Server with bridged networking on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2008 hosts (1006619)· Network performance is normal when NAT mode is used · Network performance is very slow and connections drop intermittently when Go to Source

Troubleshooting virtual machine performance issues (1008360)· The guest operating system boots slowly · Applications running in virtual machines perform poorly · Applications running in virtual machines take a long time to launch · Applications   Go to Source

Supported configurations for PowerPath/VE with VMware vSphere 4.x (1010769)This article describes supported configurations for EMC PowerPath/VE 5.4 in vSphere 4x. The PowerPath/VE 5.4 can be used to manage paths from vSphere server to storage Go to Source

The Performance Overview tab within vCenter Server reports the HTTP Status 404 error (1016160)While VMware Web Services is running, you see this error in the Performance Overview tab of vCenter Server: HTTP Status 404 – /statsreport/vicr.do   Go to Source

No storage devices are visible with Broadcom iSCSI offload-enabled adapters (1025644)When using Broadcom network interfaces with Hardware iSCSI Offload capabilities such as BCM5709 and BCM57711, each of the network interfaces shows up as individual   Go to Source

Changing the size and retained number of logs for CapacityIQ (1026511)In order to troubleshoot some issues, debug logging is sometimes necessary to provide additional information regarding the problem. On large environments, the logs may rotate too   Go to Source