How do i determine if a custom ESX is installed ?
A customer has an ESX host 5.5.0 and is experiencing different issues. To solve the trouble i want to update the ESXi server to a higher update level. Is there anyway to determine what the installed...
View ArticleMigrating Virtual machine with physical RDM from esxi 5.1 to 6.0
Folks, I need to migrate Virtual machine with physical RDM from esxi 5.1 to 6.0 (both are residing in same cluster) Whether the below steps will work or not to migrate server from host1 to host2. Power...
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VSphere ESX Agent Manager shwoing "unable to contact the Service Manager"...
When I go to Home>Administration>VCenterSolutions Manger and click on the VSphere ESX Agent Manager , then the VService Provders. there is an error in the middle of the screen that says unable to...
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Stuck during vMotion at 13% - Invoking callbacks
We are tried perform patching at environment at cluster level.( by VUM )We have 4 hosts in cluster. hosts: ESXi 6u1Example name of Hosts:CMP1CMP2CMP3CMP4 We start install patches on 1st host with...
View ArticlePetition 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 Articlepatched hosts from esxi 5.5 3568722 to 7618464 and lost all network...
I patched some hosts from esxi 5.5 3568722 to build 7618464 and now I lost all network connecitvy any idea?? this is on HP BL460C Gen9
View ArticlePassword / Age Password Policy
Does anyone know if we can set Age / expiry password to force password to be changed on ESXi host (Ver 5 or later)?
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Incorrect memory utlization for 1 VM Web Client 6.5
Hi - After upgrading my host to ESXi 6.5 and VCSA to 6.5 I have found that one of my VM's shows all memory being utilized in the summary screen and when checking the performance chart for percentage...
View ArticleAll Server shut down - Process vmtoolsd.exe Reason: Shutdown Legacy-API
Hello, today all of our VMs shut down and rebooted some minutes later. We are using ESXi 5.0.0 and 3 of 3 Hosts were affected. All of them had the following Event in the System log: (Translated from...
View ArticleLive Replication
Hello, I currently manage two hosts with 5 VM's that total about 3tb of storage. This is done on a vSphere Essentials licence. I am about to replace the main host with a much faster unit and demote...
View ArticleESXi 6.0 and Emulex LPe11000 (possibly other Emulex cards that aren't working...
I'm posting this so others might not have to spend hours on the line with support figuring this out.My environment is older and has the Emulex LPe11000 hba cards. This card isn't discovered...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 update
Hi, How to update VMWare ESXi 6.5 by the command line. Version ESXi - 6.5 aBuild ID - 4887370 Because we are not using any vcenter server.
View ArticleNetwork Dump Collector work with 6.5 ?
Does the network dump collector work with 6.5 ? I see it can be configured on the esxi 6.5 host. But when I run a check it fails Attempt to contact configured netdump server failed: recvfrom obtained...
View ArticleEvaluation ended but
I had an evaluation and it has ended or expired and I never was able to install etc..I had a catastrophic failure and have to get new hardware- how do I start over if I dont have any of the info or...
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esxi 6.5 vmnic with "no networks"
3x Fujitsu Primergy RX2510 M2running ESXi 6.5 u1 (Fujitsu VMvisor-Installer-6.5-5969303-v411-1) with Intel I350 4port NICsAll drivers are as vmware/Fujitsu ISO standard. HP ProCurve Switch 5406zl with...
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Very slow performance after P2V
Hi All, We have done a P2V of a server and after converting, it is having very high CPU usage and extremely slow performance as a VM. We have done, 1. All cleanups after P2V.2. VMware tools update.3....
View Articleconsolidation snapshots problem
I can't consolidate disks of virtual mashine after using of veeam backup software. Now I have following I/o error on 19% of consolidation. In log file I have following. 2018-03-29T02:57:07.685Z| vmx|...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client 6 Still Extremely Slow and Sucks
Hi all, We are on 6 for a few months now. We have about 7 PSC, 7 vCenters, SRM, VRA VIN etc. In the good days using IE and Chrome it takes about 1:30 to 2 minutes to login . In the bad days random...
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Cloning (sysprep) a Windows RDS guest
I attempted to clone a Windows Server 2016 server configured as Remote Desktop Server.Before cloning the VM I used sysprep to generalize the server in order to assign a new name, id and so on.Microsoft...
View ArticleVsphere HA 6.5 Failover
When HA failover occurs VM gets power off and starts on other host in cluster, vm doesnot restart. My current setup DRS & HA both are enable.
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