P2V ESXi 5.1.0 - Guest on Boot Continually Reverting to Previous Snapshot
Extremely urgent here unfortunately.We used stand-alone converter our PDC (Server 2003 x64) that runs Exchange 2007 a week back to convert an aging and somewhat failing physical server. Everything went...
View ArticleProblem with update Esxi 6.0u2 to 6.0u3
i tried update esxi6u2 （3620759）to esxi 6.0u3（5572656）but it failed with error message in esxupdate.log:[root@vnvdiesxi09:~] tail -n 400 /var/log/esxupdate.log 2017-08-24T06:03:34Z esxupdate:...
View ArticleBackup
Hi,Good Afternoon.I need to take backup of VMDK files in VMWare ESXI 5.0.0. could anyone help. Thanks in Advance...
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ESXi 6.5.0 cannot import OVA - unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'
We want to import an OVA image to ESXi, however, the import failed, because of this error message:unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'How can we successfully import it?
View ArticleMouse clicks are not recognized in a VMware
keyboard is recognized in a VMware. Mouse clicks are not recognized in a VMware esxi5.5 324857 guest os - windows 2008 r2 How can I solve this
View ArticleESXi 5.5 & TLS 1.2 with vCenter
Moving an environment from 5.5 to 6 and im wanting to implement TLS 1.2. I can implement TLS 1.2 for vCenter connection but what about the connection between the ESXi hosts & vCenter. I assume...
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random vmx corruption on reboot, affects only passthru/ partial workaround.
Esxi 6.5; running on intel Xeon e5 2690 ; windows 10 vm's. The vmx files randomly become corrupted when rebooting the host. This occurs whether or not I put the machine in maintenance mode prior to...
View Articledetach/attach network labels from/to the vGuest via ESXi shell
Hello, I'm looking for the way about how to modify the network label of the vGuest via ESXi shell.seems this command will add the virt-ether adapter to the vGuest but there seems nothing deletenic,...
View ArticleWhy is my disk write performance FASTER using a snapshot?
I've been doing some disk performance benchmarks as part of my evaluation of vSphere 6.5 and have a few questions about behaviour that I can't explain. The most puzzling one of which is a write...
View ArticleNetworking configuration
I need to move two ESXi 5.5 host to a new rack and I want to optimize the use of physical network interfaces.What document or site can I use to determine the best network interface configuration...
View ArticleMicrosoft Clustering between sites?
I can´t find any information if it is possible to run MSCS between VMware sites. I found the information that it is possible to run between physical hosts but does anyone know if it works between...
View ArticleEsxi 6.0 5572656 sfcbd-watchdog stopped/started (WorldList: malloc failed...
Hi there, i have recently Issues with the sfcbd-watchdog service. it's stopping/starting in a loop. maybe anyone have an Idea what the AllNode List Error means? 2017-08-24T10:01:06Z sfcbd: Starting...
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VMWare 6.5.0 (Build 5310538) serial/com port passthrough issues.
Hi All, Go easy on me, i'm new around here. We had a VM with access control software on an old ESXi server (5.5). It was working fine and had a USB to Serial converter that then had a card reader...
View ArticleUpdate Path Selection Policy from Command Line
Hello. I'd like to 1) change the default policy for new datastores added from MRU to RR, and 2) also change a few existing one at a time to RR too. Can anyone explain how to do this? In my searches,...
View ArticleUCS-CPU-E52697AE bug report for ESXi 5.5 U3 or higher
Hi Team, We are planning to use E52697AE CPU on proposed Hypervisor to be built on UCS C240. But before that, we would like to have any bug report for this particular processor w.r.t ESXi 5.5 U3 or...
View ArticleVMware Upgrade path from 5.x to 6.x
What are the licensing requirements for upgrading VMware vCenter Server / vSphere / ESXi from 5.x to 6.x? Are new licenses required for this or is this just an upgrade to a newer version? Also what...
View ArticleESXi 5.1, IBM DS3200 SAS - high disk latency with 2 hosts running
(2) IBM x3650 hosts running esxi 5.1 with 2xHBA SAS connections to IBM DS3200 dual controller SAN. I have 2 arrays, both set to multi-host access for vmware. With a single host powered on and running...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Bad Performance
Hello, I've a vSphere cluster running with 7x IBM HS22V blades / 2x Intel Xeon X3650 / 256 GB memory in every host.Running at vSphere 5.5 23202651, with around 150 VM's. Since a few months we are...
View ArticleVmWare ESXi 5.0 : how to know the host uptime?
Hi,Is there a way to view the uptime of the esxi 5.0 host uptime through GUI or CLI? Thanks for your support.
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Cannot clear alarm, says I do not have permission
Hi all We are running ESXi 5.1. When I try to clear an alarm I get this error: How do I fix this? thanksTracy
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