High memory usage alert after upgrading to vSphere 6
Last night I upgraded my last ESX host from vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6 update 2 + patches. Ever since updating the VMware tools on my SQL server VM, I have been getting a "high virtual machine memory...
View ArticleHow to configure automatic restart of /etc/init.d/hostd in ESX 5.5
Hi people, Could you help me to configure automatic restart of management agent ( hostd + vpxa ) in my ESX 5.5 i already do that manually but i don't know how to schedule it, because sometime it crash...
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ESXi 5.5 will not show VMFS datastore in vSphere client after RAID rebuild
Someone recently brought a Dell PE-R720 to me after a "crash" and having someone else replace a failed hard drive. From what I have been told, it was a simple drive failure and replacement. However,...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 6 Essentials Small Infrastructure
Hi hall, I'm going to upgrade my old small infrastructure. I've bought:1 -VMware vSphere 6 Essentials Kit for 3 hosts (Max 2 processors per host)6- VMware vSphere 6 Essentials for 1 processor1- VMware...
View ArticleRan out of PTR blocks, can't create new VMs on datastore
We are experiencing an issue creating any new VMs (and sometimes powering on existing VMs) on a particular datastore. We have enough space, close to 1TB and the VMs are much smaller (40-100GB). When...
View ArticleUSB Devices not detected on ESXI 6.5 Host
I am unable to add a USB device (RDX Quikstor drive) to a VM. When I go to add a host USB device, it says "No USB Devices Available". I have confirmed that the USB device works on another ESXi host....
View ArticleVM Networking: Back to Basics :(
Hi All, Looking for some help with understanding . I dont have access to a lab at the moment to test unfortunately. I have: -A cluster of 4 ESXi Servers and VCSA. Both 6.5-Ent+ -Shared Storage all...
View ArticleRandom PSOD
Greetings All, I keep getting random psod once every 7-14 days, othertimes during random times like rebooting. I know it is hardware related but I am no expert at reading the dump files. At first...
View ArticleProblem with Microsoft Failover Cluster Shared Disks
Weird one. Well, weird to me. I have a 2 node MS cluster. Tried both 2008 R2 and now 2012. ESX 5.1 on 2 hosts, 5 others still on 4.1. 4.1 hosts are out of scope for now (pretty sure!). 2 individual...
View Articlepowershell script to document the vmware environment ?
Where can I find a powershell script to document the VMware environment ? Including host model, memory, cpu, bios, firmware, drivers & hardware I thought there was a session on this at VMworld...
View ArticlevCenter > host > configuration > health monitoring > storage Supported RAID...
With the major manufacturer's (HP, Dell, etc) you can expect excellent out-of-the-box support with vSphere. That includes a wealth of sensors for health monitoring. Right now, the smaller SMB company...
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What happens when I register ESXi?
Hello everyone,I was wondering what's going to happen when I register ESXi with the free code? I only have one server with 3 VMs, stand-alone and not managed by vSphere. It's only accessed using the...
View ArticleError: No Image profile when using esxcli
Hi all, we are on updating the package HPutils (vib) of all our ESXi 5.5 Hosts (mostly HP380-G6, G7 and G8).On most hosts it works fine.But some throw an error when using the "esxcli software vib...
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Missing physical NIC in dashboard, but present in CLI
I have a problem with vmware esxi 6.5. i can see the intel PRO/1000 dual card in cli, but they don't appear in dashboard (i can't attach them to VMs)the server was upgraded from esxi 6 (it used to work...
View ArticleCannot boot -> ESXi 6.5 NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/vmkernel/core/bootModule.c:492
Hi all, can you help me? After reinstall ESXI it works correctly, no problems....but after few days (1, sometimes 2) it is not possible to start. After user loaded successfully, it crash and display...
View ArticleCan't edit VM settings in ESXi 6.5 web client
It throws this javascript error in my browser.I tried firefox, chrome, and IE; both Win 7 and Server 2012R2. No luck! Haven't tried using VM Workstation to edit VM settings (if that is even possible,...
View Articlelost access to volume
I am running ESXi on 3 different machines at high load (cpu + disk), and I am encountering the following error event: Lost access to volume GUID (XXX) due to connectivity issues. Recovery attempt is in...
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Question regarding VR
Hi experts, I have two questions regarding vSphere Replication, can somebody help ? Thank you. Q1. Can i use vSphere Replication standalone without SRM ? How to failover and recover VM without SRM ?...
View ArticleESXI 6.5 GPU Passthrough Quadro Host Rebooting
Hi All, We are trying to get lab environment to test GPU Roughcast to VM's working before going live. I have built a HP DL380 G8 server which is fully up to date with bios patches/firmware etc. I have...
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