VSphere Standard Licensing
Hi, Ive just looked on the VMware store, atm i have about 19 esxi hosts, but im using vsphere essentials i bought two so i can licnese 6 hosts and have two vcenters. but ive noticed there is a...
View Articletroubleshooting esxi host to join domain
I am trying to troubleshooting why a host is not able to join an AD domain All necessary ports from this kb has been openedhttps://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1026538VMware Knowledge Base but its failing...
View ArticlevSphere Client constantly disconnects & reconnects to ESXi, It's my ISP, but...
It's annoying. I'll be working on a remote host, then all off a sudden it disconnects, brings the vSphere Client into focus, but I can click back on the remote machine & it's reconnected. Happens...
View ArticleESXi 6 - Unable to connect USB Device to VM
Hi folks: I'm having a problem with a particular USB 3 device in trying to connect it to a VM. The device is a Toshiba USB 3 5tb hard drive, and it's recognized by ESXi as I can see it when I do a...
View ArticleHow to upgrade from ESXi 5.5 Enterprise hosts to 6.5
Hi There, We are planning to upgrade our ESXi hosts (15) currently running on vSphere 5.5 with Enterprise license to vSphere 6.5 update1.As we are aware, Enterprise license model is discontinued and...
View ArticleUpgrade ESXi 5.5 Enterprise hosts to 6.5
Hi There, We are planning to upgrade our ESXi hosts (15) currently running on vSphere 5.5 with Enterprise license to vSphere 6.5 update1.As we are aware, Enterprise license model is discontinued and...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 - Device Passthrough
Hello all, I'm an ESXi beginner trying to get my graphics cards to passthrough my VM. In ESXi under Host>Manage> under the "hardware tab">PCI Devices, it states the device is not capable for...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 Gets disconnected every couple of days
Hello everyone! This is a new HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server with ESXi 5.5 installed. Around every month I've had to restart the management services because I keep loosing connection to the ESXi...
View ArticleReclaim the space of datastore
Hi,Can the vSphere 6.5 support the auto reclaimed space of datastore? e.g. If I write and delete the 100GB files on one of VM, the datastore can reclaim the space of datastore?Can the vSphere 5.5 / 6...
View ArticleIs there a Rest API available for ESXi
Is there a Rest API available for ESXi? If so can someone point me to the documentation for it?
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ESXi 6.5 - How to make second Port Group available to add to Virtual Machine...
I'm new to VMWare/vSphere/ESXi so struggling getting this initial configuration complete. I have installed ESXi 6.5, and have been able to complete most of the configuration on the host. I installed a...
View Articleesxcli -a command question
I am not familiar at all with VMWARE infrastructure and just learning. Can anyone tell me what means the -A in the following command sequence: #esxcfg-scsidevs –a#esxcli system coredump file add#esxcli...
View ArticleManipulating Guest CPUID
Hi there,I wish all a happy new year! Did anybody ever tried to manipulate the CPUID, which is shown to the guest OS? I have the following scenario:CPUID shown in the guest OS: 0FABFBFF00020651...
View ArticleKeyboard not available in VM - please READ
Hi, I had my hardrive removed from a Lenovo notebook, which had broken hardware.It got virtualized and put into a virtual machine, with some helpfull posts in this Forum.Now when booting up, the OS...
View Articleautomation independent of language
I need to automate some ESXi commands, and parse the output. For example esxcfg-scsidevs -l (among other commands) My question is, do esxcfg-scsidevs, and the other esxcfg commands available always...
View ArticleNeed some help with setting up ESXi 6.5 3D accelerated VM
Hi All First foray into ESXi here I'm combining a whole lot of PCs I have sitting around into VMs running on a secondhand HP proliant server I'm setting up as a home lab.I've got ESXi 6.5 setup fine -...
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Virtual machine restore
Hi, We are using ESXi 6.0 U1 version now we are going to upgrade from ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 version.We are not using any backup software so,I have taken the virtual machine backup manually.In ESXi 6.5...
View ArticleNo disks are showing under installation of esxi 6.5 on a new Dell R630 server
Hi! I'm struggling a bit to install esxi on a new Dell server. I have not ordered the preinstalled version which usually is shipped using the SD card module.I am trying to install esxi on the disks...
View ArticleOlder NVidia cards supporting vSGA in ESXi 6.5 - let me know what's working...
There aren't too many cards listed on the official supported list, but I'm wondering if any of the older nVidia cards like Tesla M2070Q/M2090 or the Quadro 4000 cards are still working for people using...
View ArticleHost connection failure
Dears,, I am facing a strange issue, i have a VSAN cluster, one of the ESXIs hosts every day appears as "not responding" on the Vcenter, however, i can successfully ping the host and i can access the...
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