Create Persistent Custom Firewall Rule on ESXi 6.5
Hi Guys, Just wondering if anyone here has successfully created persistent custom firewall rules for ESXi 6.5. I've reading up on this and seems the only supported method id to create a VIB using a...
View ArticleUnable do set SR-IOV on a Dell R630 with Intel I350 nics
Hi, I am trying to enable SR-IOV on my server. I have a Dell R630 running the evaluation version of ESXi 6.0u3 # esxcli system version get Product: VMware ESXi Version: 6.0.0 Build:...
View ArticleESXi Host and Persistent Mac
Hi all; Major..Major...rude awakening today. Something I was NOT expecting. nor should have been? Issue. I needed to make some updates and network changes. Going from ESXi 5.1 to v6.0.0 and in doing...
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Updated ESX 5.5 to 6.0 U3 via Update Manager -> after reboot:...
Hello VMWare Community, We have a VMWare Cluster with 3 hosts, all HP DL 380 G7. I have updated to vCenter 6.0 from 5.5, now wanted to update the ESX-Hosts from 5.5 to 6.0 U3 via Update Manager. I have...
View ArticleESXi 6.5u1 host profile - Ruleset Replication-to-Cloud Traffic not found
Hi, I've got a non compliant state on my ESXI 6.5u1 fresh install, it says Ruleset Replication-to-Cloud Traffic not found but i don't find anything under firewall config about this cloud...
View ArticleESXi 6.0 Patch 5 AD Authentication issue "Cannot login due to incorrect...
On a newly built host deployed with Lenovo Custom ESXi image (6.0 U3) and then updated to Patch 5, we are not able to login directly to host when manually typing in AD credentials (domain\username...
View ArticleNeed to move VM's off ESXi v4.0 hosts on to ESXi v6.5 hosts. Is P2V an option...
Need to move VM's off ESXi v4.0 hosts on to ESXi v6.5 hosts. Is P2V an option for this?
View ArticleHow can I achieve host failure protection with 2 ESXI servers in one...
I have the following setup:2x Dell R530 Servers (2 CPUs each) each with their own local storage and a 10 Gbit NIC, ESXi 6.5 installed on each1x vCenter Server VM on one of the two servers1x 10 Gbit...
View ArticleEsxi 6.5.0U1 and LSI SMIS Providers
Hi,does anybody had success working with LSI megaraid SMIS Providers into Esxi 6.5.0U1?I successfull installed the latest vib file downloaded from LSI web site (00.66.V0.02), but I cannot connect from...
View ArticleUSB Passthrough of TV Tuner
I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience trying to pass through a USB TV tuner on ESXi to a guest VM? I have added the device to a Windows 10 VM, and the device is found and drivers...
View ArticleWhat is the current technique for importing KVM VMs into Vcenter?
I can't find any recent documentation about importing exported KVM VMs into vCenter. I have tried once doing this: Convert KVM vm to VMDK: qemu-img convert -p -O vmdk /dev/vms/sandbox...
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VMs slow, HD usage is always 100%, best way to speed up?
I have ESXi 6.5 (free), XEON X5550, 64 GB ECC DDR3 and 2 x 500 GB HDD in RAID1 (via onboard LSI 1068e). I have 6 VM, they're usually running sluggish and the hard drive usage is almost always at 100%....
View ArticlevSwitch not forwarding Multicast in VLAN
I have an IBM x3100 running ESXi 5.5 The problem I'm having is, that a vSwitch doesn't appear to forward multicast packets in a VLAN to an individual port group configured to that VLAN. I have vSwitch1...
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esxi 5.5 rollback to 5.1 not available at bootup
I am tyring to rollback a 5.5 installation update from 5.1 but shift + R on boot up does not give the 5.1 hypervisor any idea? how do i get my 5.1 installation back?. I did a direct upgrade using...
View Articlemigrated/forklifted to new hardware, datastore not showing
I'm trying to migrate/forklift my ESXi 6.5 installation to all new hardware (USB boot drive and local storage/HDDs with datastore are the same). The RAID controller picked up and activated the RAID1...
View Article[ESXI 5.5] Poweredge 2900 Crash / Reboot stops on [Running sfcbd-watchdog stop]
Hi I use ESXI server as container for all my servers and my workstations are in VMWare Workstation Pro on my PC.Yesterday, My ESXI Server crashed and I had to use the menu on the physical machine to...
View ArticleErrors with iSCSI initiator in ESXi6
I'm asking the following question: What might cause the following message in the events on ESXi (ver u6.03):"Login to iSCSI target iqn.<name esxi-xx initiator> on vmhba @ vmk3 failed. The iSCSI...
View ArticleURGENT!!! unkown .vmdk files using up free disks space
Hi Guys, We have two RAID sets on our server, 1 RAID 5 for all of our production data and 1 mirror set for the C: drive of our main VM and the other config files. I noticed yesterday that our server...
View Articlelocal storage with ESXi
hello, I have around 2-4TB drives available with each of mine 4 nodes. We bought it for vsan but that project never finish because of vsan price and some other problems. is there any free software...
View ArticleUnable to connect the MKS: Could not connect to pipe...
vCenter Server (5.5.0 Build 4180647) on Network A (192.168.1.10/32)ESXi HOST (5.5.0 Build 1331820) on Network B (192.168.2.10/32)vSphere Client 5.5.0 4032365 on Network A to manage vCenter Server and...
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