vCenter 6.5 - vcenter appliance stops working out of the blue, AGAIN!!
This happened to me a few months ago on a fresh install of the vcenter appliance 6.5. It just stopped working a week or two after applying an update. Services would not start and there was no...
View ArticleVMware Vista Physical Disk Helper device not working for some VM's.
I have handful of Win2k8 64bit vm's on esx5.5 update 2 that are showing "VMware Vista Physical Disk Helper" have the error 'This device is not present, is not working properly, or does not have all its...
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Storage controllers no longer visible to ESXi after applying ESXi600-201801001
After patching the VCSA to 6.0 u3d, we patched our DL380 Gen9 ESXi hosts with ESXi600-201801001 (patch and microcode). After reboot, the two hpsa P440 and P440ar storage controllers were not visible...
View ArticleHTML5 Client for Direct ESXi Host Connection.
hi, Are you able to get or use a HTML5 client when you connect directly to a Esxi host instead of the flash version? i.e can you use a interface like the vsphere client for vcenter. but for a direct...
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Repeated characters in ESXi 6.5
Hello all!Anybody complete this quest?How fix this issue
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!
View Articleforce esxi headless
hello,i am testing gpu passthrough to my vm(s). i have 2 gpus in the host, and i'm able to pass through gpu#1 to the vm. gpu#2 is used by esxi.now i would like to add a second vm, and pass gpu#2 to it....
View ArticleESXi-5.5.0-20180104001-standard
Anyone know why ESXi-5.5.0-20180104001-standard is missing from hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml as of tonight? I'm in the middle of patching some hosts and it...
View ArticleESXi Admin and Microsoft Edge Browser - form fields not set correctly
System InformationMicrosoft Edge 41.16299.15.0Microsoft EdgeHTML 16.16299 Windows 10 ProVersion 1709OS Build 16299.192 ESXi 6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 7526125) This is more of a bug report. The work around...
View ArticleNested ESXi's guests network fail to work past the nested ESXi host.
I understand nested ESXi instances may not be supported. I would like to report that something has changed recently with the ESXi 6.0 and ESXi 6.5 that breaks network communications for nested ESXi...
View Articleis ESXi 6.5.0 update 1 build 7526125 a bad release?
I have my ESXi hypervisors upgraded to 6.5.0 update 1 build 7526125 and it seems this has been redacted? Is this a bad patch? -Thanks
View ArticleUnable to access file since it is locked
Hello All, the following error message is on my virtual machine. I moved the vm another ESXI host and different storage but no changed status. Can you help me this problem?
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vSphere Client console only showing part of VM screen
I saw a similar thread, but no answer that has helped.ESXi6 build 2494585 / vCenter 6 build 3634793 Windows versionWeb Client is borked due to DNS issue, and I'm trying to fix the AD/DNS server which...
View ArticleLun Migration from Esxi host to a Physical Server without formatting
Hello Everyone. We have an Esxi host to which a LUN is mounted from EMC. That LUN is further mounted to a VM which is a database server as VMDK not RDM.However, we need to migrate that LUN from the...
View ArticleESXI 6.5 GPU Passthrough Quadro Host Rebooting
Hi All, We are trying to get lab environment to test GPU Roughcast to VM's working before going live. I have built a HP DL380 G8 server which is fully up to date with bios patches/firmware etc. I have...
View ArticleCloned Windows server 2012 r2 cannot boot
I'm using ESXi 6.5U1 and I got an issue with Windows 2012 r2 VM after I've cloned with vmkfstool. The VM is configurated with 2 (one for system and one for data) thin provisioned vmdks. I did a quiesce...
View ArticleUpgrading esxi hosts from 6.0 to 6.5
Hi there, I'm looking for some information on upgrading my esxi hosts to 6.5. I've read that I should upgrade them all individually before upgrading my vcenter. I would like some info on backing up the...
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Converted vmdk file, but Windows does not boot in ESXi
I have a vmdk file that boots Windows Server 2016 fine in VMware Workstation Player. I converted the vmdk file to be compatible with ESXi. I used the command, vmkfstools -i source.vmdk...
View ArticleIP address, DNS name not displayed in Summary tab
This question has been asked before but I haven't been able to resolve it. This happens with multiple (but not all) VMs on multiple hosts. Host:ESXi 5.0.0, 469512 running on Dell PowerEdge 1950. I have...
View ArticleEigenes Netzwerk
Hallo, gibt es in vmWare ESXi 6.5 eine Möglichkeit die VMs in ein eigenes Netzwerk zu verfrachten? Das heißt, die VMs bekommen einen eigenen IP-Adress Bereich (der Host selber bleibt aber im...
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