ESXi 6 keeps randomly freezing
I'm currently in the process of setting up 2 ESXi hosts. I have one up and running with several VM's running on iscsi datastores.Randomly since setup the host becomes unresponsive. I can't ping the...
View ArticleESXtop & Idle
Hi all, A little question... we have an production ESXi host, 48 vCPU's (with HT), it has currently 9 VM's running. And I see continuously idle at 4800% (48 CPU * 100 = 4800)/What does this say as the...
View ArticleHow to install windows 8 on esxi 4.1 ?
Hi I would like to install windows 8 on my current esxi 4.1 environment, of course without success. I receive the error about thatHAL_Initialization_Failed I've found serveral forums that only...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 - repeatedly getting consolidation errors
We're getting repeated errors saying consolidation is needed on a number of our VMs. We'll consolidate them, and then it'll happen again (within a couple weeks or month? not exactly sure the...
View ArticleHow to modify the esx.conf file on a second hard drive (not the boot disk)
Hello all,Hopefully you guys can help me. I was messing around with the esx.conf file (/etc/vmware/esx.conf) on my lab (small PC) running ESXi 6.5 and now Hypervisor does not boot at all. I know...
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 ArticleVmware Esxi Update No Space Left On Device Error
Hello,I'm trying to install updates from a zip file but always gives the same error. "No Space Left On Device"But there is a plenty of space on Device.When i try to runesxcli software vib update -d...
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ESXi on Jetway NF9HG-2930 Quad Core 4X Intel LAN, WI-Fi, 8GB, 120 GB HDD
I'm trying to install ESXi on this machine, but without success. I started with the latest 6.5 but till version 5.0.0 all i get a freezing screen at "Reallocating modules and starting up kernel" With...
View Articlethick vmdk- thin lun
I want to learn something. I will give an example . We have 3par thin lun 30 tb total. we use esxi 5.5 vcenter and we have thick vmdk (paravirtual) on that vcenter . email 10 tb but used 5 tb -...
View ArticleAdding 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 ArticleMSI X399 GAMING PRO CARBON AC ESXI 6.5 Update Issues
Vmware ESXI Update 1I've tried 3 different intel server nics. Pro/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter, I350T4, and another I can't remember. They all seem to be having issues they are known working...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 VM's losing network connection
Hello, I have an environment with 2x HP DL360 Gen8 in a cluster. I recently upgraded my vCenter & hosts from 6 to 6.5 Patch 1. Recently I started having problems with some VM's losing their network...
View ArticleVMware Load-Based Teaming (LBT) and Route Based on Physical NIC Load
Hi, I came across a question regarding LBT, IF I am using Route Based on Physical NIC Route Based on Physical NIC Load for a portgroup with 2 Uplinks, Each vmnic connected to different physical...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and supporting...
Purpose of this post is simple and obvious... bring back development to thick client. THANKS!
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about VMware-converter error
use VMware-converter appear error, error message :fault.ManagedDiskOpenFault.summary (pls look attachment)
View ArticleReduce VMs memory
Hi Guys, Just a simple question here.I have few VMs that have high amount of memory assigned compare to what they use.What is the impact on the VMs if I reduce the memory?
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Plug-ins In VMware vSphere SiteSurvey
VMware SiteSurvey is a free add-on utility which analyzes vSphere ESX and ESXi hosts for VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) compatibility. My good friend Eric Siebert wrote in depth about this piece of...
View Articleesxi 6.5 Forced reboot
server -hpe DL380 Gen9esxi - 6.5 u1 5969303 Restart without causeThe logs before restart are listed below. 2017-10-15T10:00:56.244Z cpu69:2649724)FSS: 6766: Failed to open file 'hpilo-d0ccb0';...
View ArticlevSphere Server 6.5 web client - endless session
I have installed vSphere Server 6.5 on Windows Server 2016I need an endless session. I used this manual: Increasing the VMware vSphere Web Client session timeout period (2040626) | VMware KB1. In the...
View ArticleLimiting the number of concurrent vMotions
Hello everyone.We have installed vSphere Server 6.5 on Windows Server 2016.We need change maximum number of concurrent vMotions: we need only one simultaneous vMotion.For vSphere server 5.0 we uses...
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