Purple screen on HP DL360 GEN9
Dear All, we have 2 hp dl360 gen9 servers which has the same problems with esxi. Basically we tried to install esxi latest versions downloaded from vmware and also the version created by hp for these...
View ArticlevSphere 6.5 U1 - Driver for Dell PERC H710 Mini
I just upgraded my Dell PowerEdge R320 to 6.5 U1. When I go into the Host - Monitor - Hardware - Storage, I get the message "The Small Footprint CIM Broker Daemon (SFCBD) is running, but no data has...
View ArticleDifference between VM kernel and Management network.
Hi Friends, I want to understand the exact difference between VM kernel and Management network.Thanks in advance. Regards,Wasil
View ArticleVMs randomly losing network connection on ESXi 6.5
Hi all, I've been trying to figure this out for almost two days now and can't get nowhere... I run an ESXi 6.5 HPE Custom (installed on SD card) on a HP DL380 G9 machine.I started the ESXi up,...
View ArticleESXi 6.5U1 on a Lenovo Thinkstation P500?
I found a good deal on one of these workstations, and I was wondering if anyone had had any luck using one as a home lab. I haven't bothered to look on the HCL since it's a workstation, not a server....
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Configured scratch location doesn't work after upgrade to ESXi 6.5
Hi,My configured scratch location for some reason doesn't work after upgrading to ESXi 6.5.I set up parameter ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation to a persistent storage. The folder exists and...
View Articleconsolidate snapshot without snapshot manager
Hi there, its a few days ago, that we have problems with one vm after crash while consolidate snapshots.The vm ist now running again, but we have a small problem. In the snapshot manager is just one...
View ArticleLink Start & Stop of multiple VMs
Not sure how to ask this but what I want is that when VM-01 is started either automatically or manually that VM-02 starts as well. I'm guessing there may not be anything built into ESXi but maybe in...
View ArticleSpeculationControl vm sessions
Hi All, What is your output of the MS SpeculationControl Powershell in VM sessions? Even after Patching the ESXi Host (6.0) (HPE Proliant DL380 Gen9) with the 2.54 FW/Bios and updating to...
View Articleesxi 5.1 : enabling Database Retention Policy after years...
Hello everybody, Yes we have discovered that our legacy vcenter 5.1 is collecting data since... the beginning (at least 2011). That's 60 to 80 GB of data. We would like to enable retention to stop the...
View ArticleWhere to download ESXi-6.0.0-Update3-5050593-HPE-600.9.7.0.17-Feb2017
Hi all, We were able to download VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-Update3-5224934-HPE-600.10.1.0.73-Jul2017.iso, but we cannot find the previous iso VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-Update3-5050593-HPE-600.9.7.0.17-Feb2017. Could...
View ArticleWhere is the "handshakeTimeoutMs" defenition for SSL handshake/timeouts in...
I was getting this "alarm.HostConnectionStateAlarm changed status from Green to Red " and I remember in ESXi 5.X you would edit that value in /etc/vmware/rhttpproxy/config.xmlhowever in all the ESXi...
View ArticleUpgrade to ESXi 6.5, installer doesn't find USB stick
Dear all, I'm currently running an ESXi 6.0 Update2 on a USB stick, with a Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard (internal USB connector, also tried external connector). Last night I tried to update this...
View ArticleTask: Download VMXConfig
Good afternoon, I have 2 Host ESXI 6.5 managed by vCenter 6.5, when I access one of the Host in local mode through the browser it costs a bit to load the main page, and it is because in the recent...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 - update using dell custom image failed
I installed (or attempted to install) a Dell Custom image in ZIP format from here:VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 3 Driver Details | Dell US Using the command:esxcli software profile update -p...
View ArticleVMFS datastore doesn't match partition size
I'm on an ESXi 6.5 host using VMFS-6. I expanded a LUN and tried to increase space on the VMFS datastore to use the new free space. It looks like the underlying partition was re-sized but the VMFS...
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Upgrade Dell PE2900 from 5.5 to 6.x?
I want to upgrade our single ESXi host to the newest version of ESXi possible but I’ve only done this with newer Dell servers that have the customized images for the specific model. They made it very...
View Articlemassive verbose loggin from esxi host
one of my esxi host has been reporte to send out massive verbose logs. i check under advance settings and everything is verbose from factory default. any idea how to stop loggin completely?
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Cannot connect to ESXi vSphere Web Client
Hi, Hopefully this is the right place to ask this question. So I have a server at home with a ESXi 6.5 install that had been working fine. I have setup and managed VM's and been able to connect to the...
View ArticleVM's lose network connectivity randomly
We have been experiencing some VM's losing network connectivity sporadically. The VM's stay online for a while then suddenly it acts like it is no longer on the network. Everything appears to be...
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