XFS and RHEL7 guest os
Hi All, Just trying to find some help in troubleshooting an issue we are having. When we have a client do an rsync to a XFS partition on a RHEL 7 guest , it's causing the guest vm to hang and the only...
View ArticleRight ISO for upgrading ESXi from 5.5 to 6.5
Hi, I have a Dell PowerEdge R430 running Dell customized 5.5 image. My question is does it matter if I use VMware's own 6.5 ISO or Dell customized 6.5 ISO to perform the upgrade? VMware upgrade doc...
View ArticleESXi kickstart script command order
Hello there.I am curious if the order of the commands in kickstart installation script is matter? I mean standard commands like install, keyboard, network, etc.
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Licensing 6 for environment 5.5?
Hi Good Day I Have a couple doubts.1. Is possible install licensing 6 for environment VMWare 5.5? 2. If is not is possible, how can downgrade or rehost for this licenses for VMWare environment 5.5?...
View ArticlevSphere ESXi 6.5.0 Hardware Sensors
Hello Everyone, I have a Q170 based motherboard and have successfully loaded ESXi 6.5.0. However, ESXi does not display any Hardware Sensor Data and reports "No Sensor Data Available". Does ESXi...
View Articlewhy windows 2008 R2 network adapter needs to be reconfigured after patch update?
ESXI 6.0 After auto update of windows 2008 R2, VM detects new card and got APIPA network. Old NIC detected as disabled. Any KB on this?
View ArticleLinux Host Memory Consumption Lower Than ESXi Reporting Used
ESXi is reporting 8GiB used, however top is showing about 3.2ish GiB used.
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VMWare Management Network Redundancy Problem
There is a very strange thing happening here. my network setup; Fibre A and B NICs from the host are connected to the fabric switch which has trunk to core switch.Copper port is connected to copper...
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VMWare Management Network Redundancy Question
Hi all, I have 3 hosts with 2 Fibre NICs (vmnic5 and vmnic4) which are connected to 2 stacked fibre switches (Fibresw 1 and Fibresw2). I also have a Distributed Switch set up in my vSphere for this...
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esxi license expired
Hello, I just started my host and got connected via vSphere client on Windows.I immdiately got the prompt that the licence become invalid. But as far as I understood the license cant become invalid...
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VMWare Teaming and Failover Question
Hi all, If I want to use two NICs for Active/Active setup in Teaming and Failover for my management portgroup in DVSwitch, which policy should I pick? What if I wanted to use one NIC as Active and the...
View ArticleChange default 80/443 port of the web client
Hello, This is my first time that I'm getting involved with the ESXi enviroment. I managed to install ESXi 6.5, configure and build several VM's.I came to a certain point though, that I need the Web...
View ArticlePurple Screen ESXi 6.0.0
Hello all, I have this purple screen on my ESXi. Can you tell me more of this ? because i can t find information... Thanks for you r answer, Best regards.
View ArticleHost Profile - IPv6 issue during Compliance
Hi, we are running latest version of ESXi 6.5. Doing host profiles and they are all coming up non-complaint. When checking the messages we see under standard network setting:ipv6 vmknic gateway...
View Articlesnmpwalk not found on ESX 5.5
Hi, After configuring the snmp on ESX 5.5 # esxcli system snmp test Comments: There is 1 target configured, send warmStart requested, test completed normally. I cant get snmpwalk command. ~ #...
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Delete orpahned VM from Vsphere 6.5 web client
I'm trying to delete our older vCenter 5.5 VM (orphaned) via the web client but it's not letting me. We're using 6.5 now so 5.5 is not needed anymore and I can use the disk space. If I right click onto...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 - USB HID Devices into Guest VM
Hello Everyone, I'll start by saying I've spent the last few days consistently trying to find a solution to my problem. If the answer is obviously out there, I'm sorry, cause I missed it. My host has...
View ArticleDeleting snapshots on thin provisioned disks results in fully allocated vmdk...
This was an interesting development today. In my lab, all of the VMDKs are thinly provisioned. iSCSI connects the backend Synology to the ESXi host (6.5.0 Update 1 - build 7526125). The NAS is VAAI...
View ArticleGet CPU sensors info on platform with no IPMI
Is there a way to get the CPU temperature on a platform with no IPMI, running ESXi ? [root@localhost:~] esxcli hardware platform get Platform Information UUID: 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0...
View Article2nd raid doesn't show in Storage tab
Hi everyoneI have dl380 g6 and run Esxi 6.0.0, 5224934 on SD card.before install Esxi, I update server with HPE Service Pack for Proliant 2016.10I attached 2 series hdd to this server:1. raid 10 : 4*...
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