route domain name to virtual machine
Hello, I have two months searching information, but don't find the right answer. I have ESXI now, but maybe this doesn't is the software need, and somebody can guide what is the solutions. This...
View ArticleCan't backup VM through Veeam while Gust OS running
We can't backup VM through Veeam(Third part tool) while running Gust OS. I got the following error, Failed to get file...
View ArticleESXi upgrade from 5.1 to 5.5 storage question
Is it still best practice to remove the SAN LUNs when doing an inplace upgrade or was that just for the initial installs? I'm using update manage to do the upgrade if that matters. It's been awhile...
View ArticleAndyg
Hi I need to set 2 new firewall rules on the esx server 6.5 they are TCP rules port 135 and 445 but the web client does not let me add these rules and they are not in the predefined rules ? can anyone...
View ArticleLinux Host Memory Consumption Lower Than ESXi Reporting Used
ESXi is reporting 8GiB used, however top is showing about 3.2ish GiB used.
View ArticleBootable Custom ESXi iso works in fusion, but not vSphere...
So little weirded out here. I created a custom ESXi 6.5U1 iso w/ a KS.CFG and modified BOOT.CFG using the below command:mkisofs -relaxed-filenames -J -R -o ~/Desktop/esxi65u1auto.iso -b ISOLINUX.BIN...
View ArticleBest Practices for Horizon 7 with NSX
We are preparing for a new implementation for Horizon on top of NSX. and also we are working on the design phase.So we are collecting and finding all best practices and advice. Please advice,
View ArticleWindows 2016 failover cluster on ESXi 6.0
Hi, I'm trying to setup a new windows 2016 failover cluster but when I validate my cluster i get some errors/warnings. ESXi 6.0u2RDMs (3par 7000)Windows 2016 VMs Error/Warning message :List Disks To Be...
View ArticleRequired config parameter [amqp_password] is missing
hi sir, please advise why this happen ,after install vmware tools Centos 6.7 ,64bit, vmware 6.0 3382124 , only this version have this problem %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S,542[1480]: CommAmqpListener:...
View Articlevmxnet3 rxcompletion descriptor is returning len field as 0 for both Standard...
Hello experts, We are running the below ESX version and running FreeBSD 11 as guest with vmxnet3 interface.[root@localhost:~] uname -aVMkernel localhost 6.0.0 #1 SMP Release build-3620759 Mar 3 2016...
View ArticleVMware ESXi with FreeNAS (iSCSI) storage
Hello I have the following problem: After installing VMware ESXi server I tried to create a datastore on a FreeNAS using iSCSI protocol. 1. The part of the storage itself was solved easily: I created...
View ArticleESXi 6.0 - How to match virtual disks in esxi with the devices in the OS?
I have a set of luns all defined as virtual disks in ESXi 6.0, they are all the same size and presented to the same host.On the host side, we are deleting one of the devices, but im not sure how to...
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 ArticleTools upgrade in progress - NOT
I have a VM which reports that tools upgrade is in progress. It's not in progress, and I don't know how to reset this...
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 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 ArticlevCenter 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 Articleesxi 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...
View ArticleSo where's the fixed CPU microcode update already??
Intel released the fixed Spectre microcode on 02/20/18. It looks like most of the hardware vendors have released it as BIOS upgrades already, some the same week Intel released it. Here we are now...
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