Revisiting scripted ESXi Installs - now working in ESXi 6.5
I thought I would revisit scripted ESXi installation for my lab. It's been since 5.0 or prior since I actually went into depth on this and there are some significant changes for 6.5. The example script...
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R710 Purple screen ESXi 6.0/6.5
Hello i have a R710 (newest firmware / bios) and no matter what ESXi i have tried using i get purple screens. i have tried 6.0, 6.0 dell customized, 6.5, and 6.5 dell customized. i read that 6.0 u2 is...
View ArticleFault Tolerance for more than 4vCPU?
Hi Folks, I have tested fault tolerance for 4 vCPUs and it's works perfectly fine.Right now I am using the evaluation license. My question is, if we purchase the licenses then will the 4 vCPUs...
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About iSCSI problem
In My ESXI6.5 log have a lot of Failed this message,who can help me,thanks!ScsiDeviceIO: 2948: Cmd(0x439500693bc0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0xce from world 67470 to dev "naa.600507604081f7e81842492942afd8d2" failed...
View ArticleP2V
Hi guys, I have a physical server which running on Windows Server 2003 R2.I plan to P2V it by suing vCenter Converter Standalone to an ESXi host 6.0 free version.My question here is: Is there any...
View ArticleNew to HP servers, are these log entries normal?
I'm setting up some new HP servers for the first time (normally use Dell) with the HP iso for ESXI 6.5. I'm checking the logs to make sure everything is ok and I'm seeing the following in the...
View ArticleI am trying to reconfigure a lenovo rd330 server from scratch.
I took this machine back as a trade-in and want to use the Lenovo east startup cd to reconfigure the machine. The server is running vmware esxi now. I cannot get it to boot from the cd to rerun the...
View ArticleUSB 3.0 not recognized on VM in ESXi 6.5
I have a VM that I need to access a USB Flash drive. The flash drive is USB 3.0 only. When I plug a USB 2.0 flash drive in I can access it without a problem but not with the USB 3.0. How can I get my...
View ArticleSpace Efficiency
Hi allI have an esxi 6.5 with latest updates to my home lab, with 3 local ssd disks 250GB each as datastores vmfs 6 formated.I have some windows VMs Thin provisioning.In windows, disks are shown as...
View ArticleProblems installing to / running from USB - what's a good brand / device to use
Thanks for reading. I've got a couple ESXi 6.5 hosts (VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 4887370) that esx is installed to and boots from a USB drive. The hardware is a supermicro rackmount server (Supermicro...
View ArticleDatastore Not Freeing Up Space After Deleting VM
I have a VMFS 6 datastore on ESXi 6.5 that is 9.1 TB in size. I had a large VMDK that I was using to store files that was about 9.0 TB and I transferred the files elsewhere and then removed that VM....
View ArticleTime sync issue on VMs running on ESXi 5.0 3982828
Hi, We are facing Time sync issue on VMs. Randomly on different different VMs. Suddenly time has pushed forward approx 4-5 hrs and the application show future date error. Microsoft investigated and...
View Articleis there any command like linux tc command on ESXi.
I would like to drop packet to use ESXi command on vmkernel port. Is there any command like liux tc command on ESXi?
View ArticleChanging pRDM to vRDM with Linux guest OS
HiWhen changing a pRDM to a vRDM, with Windows guests at least it's pretty seamless in terms of just having to power down, delete the pointer, create the new pointer in virtual mode using the same LUN...
View Articleusage of IsPerenniallyReserved attribute
Have a question about IsPerenniallyReserved storage device attribute. It should be set to TRUE to reduce LUN rescan time for MS cluster shared drives LUNs.Today I checked one of our hosts, which was...
View ArticleAdd a second screen in 1920 * 1080
Hello I would like to have 2 screens, in my vm hosted in an ESX version 6, with a resolution of 1920 * 1080 for each of the screens. For the moment, I find myself limited to 1600 * 1200 on the second....
View Articlehow to get device uuid for a given disk
This is the sample output from command vmkfstools -t0 /path/to/disk.vmdk [0: 157286400] --> [VMFS --...
View ArticleESXI 6 freeze
Hi people I just recently install a ESXI 6 server with two virtual machines on it, one windows and the other with linux. But in the last days the machines are getting freeze and i cant access the...
View ArticleNetwork IO Control - vSphere Data Protection System Traffic
vSphere Data Protection Backup Traffic was added as a System Traffic type for NIOC in 6.0. Does this only apply to the now EOL'ed VDP or does it apply to any backup product that is using the VADP APIs...
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Memory limit doesn't accept the negative value
Trying to edit a vm, results in the error you can see. If I reload the page it works again, but one time only.Firefox 55.0.2 (it works ok in chrome ..) - no love for the only browser that does not sell...
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