Adding a cloned disk becomes thick provisioned
Hi, I am running ESXi in my home lab. I am using the CLI to clone a server. When I add the disk to a new machine that I cloned from a thin disk, it comes in as thick. It was thin provisioned when the...
View ArticleVMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible
Hi, I am running ESXi as a trial on my NUC. When I try to install VMWare Tools to my Windows 2012 r2 server it says image does not exist or is inaccessible. I'm not sure why the tools can't install. I...
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ESXi 6.0 PSoD issues (even with Express Patch 6)
So last weekend I encountered the infamous PSoD / Vmxnet3 issue on our 6.0u2 host:This occurred after a newly created hardware version 11 VM with a Vmxnet3 NIC was put into production. The PSoD...
View ArticleDownloading free esxi not working
Trying to set up a lab at home for work, and trying to download the free version of vsphere esxi, but when I click "Download Manually" nothing happens. Anyone know of an alternative download? I am on...
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...
View ArticleCPU Generation and guest OS support
Hello,We currently renewal our ESXi hardware. One of our way is to buy servers that includes last Intel Skylake CPUs and running it with ESXi 6.0U3 version (so on ESXi side it's not a problem).But,...
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ESXi 6.5 HP OEM Purple Screen in HP 380 G7 Server
I installed ESXi 6.5 HP OEM in my lab HP 380 G7 Server.ISO:VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-OS-Release-4564106-HPE-650.9.6.0.28-Nov2016.iso after installation ，esxi crash.but...
View ArticlevCenter alerts and smtp authentication
Hi Guys, I'm trying to send vCenter alerts so I can keep track of what is going on with my hardware but unfortunately I do now see a place to enter the username and password for authentication. Is...
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Replacing Mac Mini host with Dell T20 - questions
I just purchased a Dell T20 (new/old stock) that has a Xeon E3-1225 CPU for $150 and plan to use it to migrate from my mac mini ESXi 6.5 host as the memory is maxed out and can no longer be expanded.My...
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Purple Screen - Spin Count exceeded - possible deadlock with PCPU 0
Hi, I have ESXi 6.5 running on a Dell PE 2900III server. Since upgrading it has started experiencing problems where it seems to fail with a purple screen saying Spin count exceeded. Could someone...
View ArticleVSphere Client HTML5 Version
i have noticed on a few videos on YouTube of the vsphere client but it’s in a web format hmtl5 how can I access this for my setup? My esxi hosts and VCSA is 6.5 U1? Latest version. But I can only get...
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ESXi 6.5 Installation - Gigabyte Aorus X399 - AMD Threadripper 1950X CPU
Hello, I am starting this discussion hoping that somebody else might attempt to install ESXi on a system with the same configuration as mine, and run into the same problems as me. During the...
View ArticleHelp with Windows 10 Guest Crash with Multiple GPU Passthrough
I am using ESXi 6.5 and having trouble using PCI passthrough of four GPUs to a single Windows 10 guest VM. They seem to pass through OK initially, before Windows has installed the driver for them. I...
View ArticleVideo Settings For VM’s
when I create a VM or modify one one on the video settings it says software, hardware or automatic? I tried hardware as I have a Quadro card installed and available but the VM doesnt start it says no...
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ESXi drops / loses VMFS-partition
Hi I'm experimenting with an ESXi 6.5 installation on a Intel NUC6I5SYH for a lab enviroment. I'm aware of the "no official support", but please hear me out :-) As stated, I'm installing ESXi on a...
View ArticleUnable to launch VMware Remote Console on Linux
I have installed VMRC 10.1 on Fedora 26. I am unable to get this to start when using the links in vCenter. I am also unable to read the log files unless I am root, could this be the issue? How do I set...
View ArticleVSphere Client HTML5 - 404 - File Directory not found
when I login on the HTML5 VSphere client on a vcenter server I get this 404 error file directory not found message? I have added a picture.
View ArticleESXi 4.1 - adding NIC as stand by will I lose network connectivity for a...
I have a few ESXI 4.1 servers with 2 phsycal network adapters. I have noticed in the vSwitch only one network card is assigned, if I was to add the second network card to the vswitch and set it up as a...
View ArticleMultiple Uplink groups on VDs
Dear Experts Issue with VDs with multiple uplink groups I have pair of uplink groups categories as 1) Production NIC Pair (1 Active and 1 Standby) for VLAN 1,2 and 32) Test Servers NIC Pair (1 Active...
View ArticleCloning a windows system disk
I am running 2 Windows 7 under an Esxi VM at a data center. I needed to increase the system disk on one of them and decided to do it by cloning the windows disk to a larger disk.This worked fine....
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