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Petition VMware to Open Source ESXi Thick Client
It's been almost 3 years (1189 days to be exact) since kgottleib openly complained about the web client: vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and supporting VMware has turn to...
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 ArticleSamsung 960 Pro not showing on ESX 6.5 install
Hi All, I was wanting to do some testing on the new virtual nvme controller at the VM level On the ESX 6.5 installer the 960 pro NVME drive was showing as an install option, however the server (DL380...
View ArticleReading/modifying VM tags using the SDK?
I'm trying to read/edit tags associated with a virtual machine by using the vsphere sdk (with pyvmomi cause I prefer python, our VSphere has version 5.1). The vm object has a field "tag" which should...
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Cannot add USB device to VM ESXi 6.5
I have a USB SATA Dock that I would like to connect to a VM. I plug the USB Dock into my host. It shows up when I do a "lsusb" I have added the USB 2.0 controller to the VM and the USB Controller...
View ArticleWhat if you consolidated before deleting snapshot - is this a problem
Hello, I recently consolidated a virtual machine before I deleted the snapshot - so if I delete the snapshot now, would I be causing any grief for myself?
View ArticleCall "HostDatastoreSystem.CreateVmfsDatastore" for object...
Hi Community,i ran into a problem with Netapp iSCSI Targets on vSphere 6U2.I have installed the following systems:- Two Supermicro Server, complete vSphere 6 certified- Two Netgear 24-port 10Gb / s...
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vSphere 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!
View ArticleESXi 5.5 ASUS H97M Plus, Intel I218-V "No Network Adapters" Error
Hello all! I'm experimenting with ESXi on my home computer, but keep running into the "No Network Adapters" error, which I understand is because the 5.5 default drivers don't support the Intel I218-V...
View ArticleNeed help to build Veracrypt on latest ESXi 6.5
Hi, I wanna build veracrypt to directly encrypt disk from ESXi. I have downloaded "VMware-TOOLCHAIN-ODP" and "VMware-ESXI-650-ODP" iso. Follow instruction in them, with some errors fixed myself, I had...
View ArticleWay to write zeroes to all VMFS free space?
Hi all, is there an online way to write zeroes to all free space on a VMFS volume? We have a lot of volumes on top of flash-based storage that does data reduction (compression + dedupe), so as VM's...
View Articlemapping ration from pCPU to vCPU
In my ESXi 6 .0 cluster, the number (100) of physical CPU is bigger then vCPU number (300) so I ask myself if this this configuration is right or it's necessary to have mapping one to one (pCPU to...
View ArticleEsxi 6.5 U1 Active Directory integration
Hello guys!Im having a problem my Esxi 6.5 U1 and my Active Directory 2012, i cant join the Esxi to the active directory domain. Both Esxi and AD are in the same network (in fact the W2012 its a VM in...
View ArticleNewly added hard disk through VCenter webclient on a VM not showing on the...
Hi, I added a 16TB disk through VCenter Web client on a VM (linux OS) hosted by a ESXi 6.0 host, but the disk is not showing up on the guest OS disks list. This disk is using the netapp NFS for data...
View ArticleESXi host slow download speeds, VM guests are fine, why?
So, we have a plain on ESXi 6.5 host, and were in the process of trying to download some ISOs directly from ESXi, to put in the datastore for VM creation. That said, we noticed right off the bat, that...
View ArticleMouse not working - vsphere 6.5 WEB CONSOLE and REMOTE CONSOLE using web...
Hi all When connecting to vcenter 6.5 appliance as well as directly to an ESXI host via web browsers in a windows RDP remote desktop/mstsc , the mouse becomes unavailable/stops working both WEB CONSOLE...
View ArticleESXi 6.0 u2 not recognizing my VD in a RAID 5 using RMS3CC080 Intel 8-port...
Forgive me if I leave out any details you may need to help me with my issue. Please let me know if that's that's case. I have installed ESXi 6.0 u2 on an SSD that's attached to my RMS3CC080 raid...
View Articletrigger alarm to increase number or cpu
Can I set alarm in vSphere when specific vm is using more 3 cores of 4 ones?
View ArticleWindows server 2012 VM always return to factory after adding a new virtual...
Hi all, My environment, vSphere 5.1 + VC. I have a windows server 2012 template, using this template, I create windows server 2012 VMs, but when the server 2012 is running, if I try to add another...
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vCSA 6.5
hello allvCSA 6.5 OVA file deploy in VMware workstation stuck in [Waiting for RPM Installation to finish (64% done.)]take a long time no change what is the problem
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