restore the Vm at loss snapshot
Hi,I have a very incomprehensible problem occurred. After a scheduled reboot of the physical server, one of the virtual machines failed. The virtual disk of this machine was replaced by the esxi itself...
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vSphere web client - how to identify licensed CPUs? Those show up in the fat...
Hi everyone, While using the vSphere web client (esxi.x.x/ui) I noticed that I can't see some info which I could with the old binary client -- how can one identify licensed CPUs in the web client?...
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Erro Inicialização ESXi 6.5 "vmkapi_v2_2_0_0 vmkernel _shim loaded successfully"
O sistema ESXi 6.5 está funcionando normalmente, porem ao reiniciar ou iniciar o servidor fisico ele trava no arranque do hypervisor ele fica congelado na tela com a mensagem "vmkapi_v2_2_0_0 vmkernel...
View ArticleThe right network card to run pfsense in a ESXi virtual machine on a dell...
I'm looking for a cost effective NIC card that will support pfsense running in a virtual machine on an ESXi host.Specifically, I'd like that the existing NIC on the T20 will continue be shared between...
View ArticleESXi: 6.0 - 'root' lock out cause by pam_tally with correct credentials
Dear all,I am using the ESXi free edition version 6.0.0 (2494585) and once a week I have a problem with the vSphere client which cannot connect to the ESXi host. I narrowed the problem down to the new...
View Article"Remote access for ESXi local user account 'root' has been locked for 120...
Hello everyone I got the following message every hour: "Remote access for ESXi local user account 'root' has been locked for 120 seconds..." I found a lot of information how to figure this out:...
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 ArticleHA Physical server configuration
In a vSphere HA cluster, Do all the physical machines need to be the same configuration? If they don't have to be the same configuration, Is there a way to automatically set one of them as the master...
View Articlevmware hba driver upgrade
Hi, I tried to upgrade vmware hba driver , before doing upgrade i have taken the following information . esxcli storage core adapter listHBA Name Driver Link State UID...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 Build 5969303 slow copy over network
Hi, We are using the ESXi 6.5 with build 5969303 on a Dell PowerEdge R430.I downloadet the Dell ESXi 6.5 Image. When i copy files or a VM over the Internet (100MBit syncron business ) i only can get...
View Articlemount and unmount iSCSI LUN not possible because system busy
Hello, i have an VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-4887370 (VMware ESXi 6.5.0 GA) with a iSCSI Target on NAS. The Target provides two LUNs. One LUN can be mountet, but the second not. During the mounting the...
View Articleiscsi connection inside vm
This has been driving me nuts for 2 days. I am trying to get an EMC Unity iscsi to show up on a fedora VM so I can map an NFS folder to the EMC Unity volume, and I can only get the iscsi to connect at...
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Vsphere WebClient 6.5.0 Build 4602587
When I power up a VM I receive this error anyone have any suggestions?
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HP DL360 G9 restarts while loading ESXi iso
Hello , I'm having an unknown issue while performing an upgrade of ESXi 5.5 U3 on a HP DL360 G9 There is an ESXi 5.1 U3 already installed and i'm trying to upgrade it to 5.5 U3. The HP DL360 G9 has...
View ArticleCommunicating with Vim WebService using WSUtil proxy code
Implementing a client app that communicates with Vim WebService running on ESXiBelow is what I have accomplished so far1. Created client proxy code using WSUtil.exe and vim.wsdl2. Create serivce proxy...
View ArticleHow to get new VMware vSphere 6.5 part code details?
Please let me know how to get new VMware vSphere 6.5 part code details? I have the details for ver 6.0 as below. Please help to provide the link or document for ver 6.5....
View ArticleChoosing the best storage controller for my situation
Hi, I'm building my own whitebox ESXi 6.5u1 server. Some detalis :* Boot from USB thumbdrive* All VM's are server 2016* Server 2016 system disk VMDK is stored on a SSD disk* Server 2016 data disk VMDK...
View Articledell's current esxi 6.0 U3 using free/unpaid license
Now on "my" dell pe r630 I have ESXi 6.0.0, 3620759 (update 2) installed. Key is free/unpaid. Can I use newer version provided by dell, for example:...
View ArticleUnable to backup Windows AD Server with VMware Tools installed
Hi Folks We have some Windows Server 2012 R2 VMs running in DMZ environment. An easy way to backup them is using the integrated Windows Server backup functionality. We recently updated our VMware Tools...
View ArticleCan I delete a .vmfsBalloon file ?
I started an unmap command, vmkfstools -y 65 and all was good. I went away for 60 min and when I returned, I had lost my vpn connection and my putty connection ,and have a 143 GB .vmfsBalloon file in...
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