Home lab hardware feedback
Hi everyone! I want to build a home lab to get more experience with vSphere. My hardware list looks as follows and I hope you can give me some feedback if everything would work. Case + Mobo: AsRock...
View ArticleSQL VM CPU Consideration Help
Hello All I am looking for some clarification from the community.We have a SQL server, which is configured with 6 socket and 1 core per socket equal 6vCPUThe physical host has 2 sockets and 8 cores per...
View Articleesxi running background jobs
am I able to run mutiple simutaneous backgroud jobs in esxi with &? I need to run unmap on all my luns from same server
View ArticleInternet on guest through managment network
We rented a dedicated server with ESXi 6.5 installed. The hoster issued one external ip-address through which I manage ESXi. Is it possible to connect the guest system to the Internet (directly or...
View ArticleCan't power on virtual machines
Dears, i get the below error while powering on the virtual machines An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM Xubntu-01.Could not start VMX: msg.vmk.status.VMK_NO_MEMORYThe virtual...
View ArticleSeveral Exes Failed to create with exception code 0xc0000142...
I'm facing strange issue where several Exes are failed to create with code 0xc0000142 in windows server 2008 & server 2012 machines. Hosting server is EsXI 5.5 & above.Issue occurs when exes...
View ArticlevSphere Fault Tolerance with no shared storage
Hi,I need zero downtime for one of my VMs, so I think to use Fault Tolerance. But I don't know whether Fault Tolerance is the solution or not because I haven't got shared storage.I mean, I have one...
View ArticleWe could boot Gest OS with 64 bit of CentS 6 on Vmware ESXi 5.5
I am mori_yui We developed ESXi 5.50 and converted Gest OS on VmPlaer with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client.Gest OS is normally converted to ESXi 5.5 and recognized.However we boot Gest OS...
View ArticleUsage of all VM's across hosts?
Hi all, I have been requested by our CIO to gather information regarding our cluster. We have currently have 5 servers and 181 VM's running across them, but we are starting to run low on memory. Is...
View ArticleVMtools re-installation stuck in SLES 11 SP3 (ESXi 6.0 U2)
Hello, We are running VMware ESXi 6.0 U2 and have installed SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SP3) on a VM. The VMware Tools on this VM were running and we wanted to re-install it while troubleshooting...
View ArticleSingle Port of Dual Port HBA showing up with Random dead paths
Hi we have a host part of the cluster with one dual port HBA for FC connection to EMC , on a single port there is a regular dead path shown up which changes someother LUN each time a rescan is...
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Automation and DevOps Solutions for VMware
VMware’s stated mission is to “deliver cloud infrastructure on-demand so end users can consume virtual resources with maximum agility“. But in order to take full advantage of VMware’s promise, you must...
View Articlesave snapshot to vm
I have n.5 snapshots into vm and I want delete these ones so how I can save these n. 5 snapshots to n.5 template ?I need to get 5 different vm as templates, each one for snapshot.Suggestions?
View ArticleUpdate a stand alone (free) ESXi 5.1 to 6.5?
Hi there,I have an ESXi 5.1.0 (799733) running fine here, and since I have some time, wanted to start planning an update to latest 6.5 Version. I have the free Version.Basically my System is a "PC"...
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I'm getting purple screen and "Spin count exceeded - possible deadlock with...
Hello community I'm testing this ESXi 6.5.0 and I'm facing a situation with two guest VM linux after a while I'm getting this error, any recommendation or comment about it?
View Articletemplate with snapshot
Can I create snapshots into template ? So I can get multiple states of the same vm which will deploy to my infrastructure.What says VMware about it?
View ArticleHow to see VM Virtual NIC logs (VM ESXi version is 6.0.0.
Is there any way to check VM Virtual NIC fluctualtion log from CLI or other means?VM CLI version is 6.0.0
View ArticleGuest with PCI Passthrough wont start a second time
I am currently running ESXI 6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 6765664). I have passed through a pci usb 3.0 controller (VL805 USB 3.0 Host Controller) to a Windows 10 Pro guest machine. On a clean boot of the host...
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 ArticleiSCSI Active-Passive Failover Support
I am new to VMware. My primary virtualization platform is KVM on CentOS. I also have a limited Windows Hyper-V instance to support a failover manager for the SAN. The problem I'm having is with the...
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