backup solution for standalone esxi host
what is recommended backup solution for a single host esxi? create snapshots and delete them weekly? I dont have third party solution or budget
View ArticleESXi 5.5 - 6.5 Upgrade using 6.5 Update Manager stuck at %
Hi all,I forwarded the steps in the video VMware vSphere 6.5 Embedded Update Manager (VUM) Demo - YouTube to upgrade my ESXi 5.5 host (HP ProLiant Gen 8) to 6.5. The only thing differed from the video...
View Articlesvmotion Traffic Flow
• ESXi 6.0 • NFS Datastores (NetApp) Hey Guys... We are doing a VM migration (compute and storage).. the compute migration is complete.Our ESXi Host has the source and target datastores (different...
View ArticleNo coredump target has been configured
Hi I'm seeing the "No coredump target has been configured" message on one of my hosts after installation and it has local storage. I should have fixed this before it has VM's on it but I didn't.. So I...
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Can't get the remote audio recording device
Hi, Setup:VMware ESXi set up to look like Windows 7 Enterprise (my terminology is all wrong, I know. I hope I am making sense).An external Windows 7 Enterprise PC.Using the external's Remote Desktop...
View ArticleIs ESXi / VM supports PTP time sources
Is ESXi supporting the PTP time sync configurations ?
View Articleconvert delta.vmdk to qcow2
I want to migration a vm from vmware to kvm. But I don't want to stop the vm business. So I create an snapshot for this vm, download the flat.vmdk. then use qemu to convert the vmdk file to...
View ArticleESX Scripts for network statistics and storage statics using esxtop command
I am using ESXi 6.5, and want to write an esx script to check all the network and storage performance in a loop .1. Start esxtop by typing esxtop from the command line.2. Press u to switch to disk view...
View ArticleRestoring a VM from Iperius backup
Hello -- I am experimenting with Iperius Backup Full as a solution for backing up our ESXi virtual machines. According to the documentation and e-mail that I receivedfrom support: There is no restore...
View ArticleHP Microserver Gen8 USB2.0 not working in ESXi5.5/6.0/6.5
I'm completely lost. When installing HPE customized ISO/Image for their Microserver Gen8 the USB2.0 (or legacy so you want) are not recognized within ESXi and therefore not working. The only two USB3.0...
View ArticleError VPXA next refresh with ESXi 6.5
This is the log I have:2017-09-24T01:25:17.817Z verbose vpxa[A733B70] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxaInvtVm] [VpxaInvtVm_ScheduleVmSpaceRefresh] Next refresh will start in 128.633331...
View Articleswapping SD card and disks into new hardware rather than rebuilding vSphere
Currently we have a host built with 6.5 and we need to swap out this server. In the old days, years ago, with older version of ESX, we used to be able to pull drives, pop them into new server, power...
View ArticlevCenter 6.5 Appliance with SQL DB
Hi All, I am working on configuring the new vCenter 6.5 Appliance and unable to find an option to use an external SQL DB. Just want to know whether the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (VCSA 6.5)...
View ArticleLimitations on running ESXi essentials kit on multiple servers
Hi folks, With the vmware essentials kit price-points listed here: VMware Official Online Store Online Store - VMware vSphere Essentials Kit is there a limitation on number of servers we can run on...
View ArticleDatastore import failure
Hi guys, Today I've been working on RAID reconfiguration (added one more LUN on local storage), but after ESXi host reboot one of datastores disappeared. Tried this article but with no luck:Recreating...
View ArticleIncrease ESXI Datastore after local RAID 1 Volume was increased
Hello, i have a ESXI 6.5 running on a small machine with a RAID 1 ( HP DL G7). After one disk crashed I replaced both step by step with bigger ones. But now i Need to amend the DataStore size within...
View ArticleIOMMU fault type 5
Hi, I've encountered an issue on ESXi 6.5 U1 where my vm would just power off randomly. The error i'm getting on the event log is VMware ESX unrecoverable error: (vmx) PCI passthru device 0000:86:02.0...
View ArticleESXi 6.0U3: Intel 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port (X520) - Rx Maximums and MTU Sizes
Question: For the ixgbe driver, why would the Rx Max change from 4096 to 240 when MTU is changes from 1500 to 9000? Wouldn't that make the Rx buffer ineffective to handle Jumbo Frames? We have two...
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VM goes into System Recovery mode after reboot
Hello everyone,I hope that someone has come across a similar issue and I will be able to resolve the problem.I have a VM (Windows 2008 R2 STD), 4 GB of RAM and 2 vCPUs, 2 drives (one system – 50 GB,...
View ArticleUpdated VMware Tools for macOS VMs in ESXi?
Hello, a customer recently updated his ESXi hosts to version 6.0.0, 5572656. We run a few virtualized macOS systems there and I am not able to update VMware Tools on it. I'll append the error message...
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