Delay ESXi maintenance mode, extend timeout or retry
I posted a similar question previously but not this specific question. Maintenance mode timeout and retries I am looking for suggestions on the following: VM appliance that takes longer than 300...
View ArticleNuma % local should be 100%
We have citrix cluster where multiple vms are running by esxtop script we are seeing Numa % local While it should be 100% for all VMs Any suggestion appreciated.
View ArticleNot able to expand data store of size 16TB
Hi, I am using vijavaNG-6.0 for provisioning vcenter. Problem :When i create datastore of exactly 16TB it got created. But when i am trying to expand, its not happening. so suppose i created 16TB data...
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Guest OS support for 6.7
Aloha, I'm confused on an issue involving 6.7 Windows 2k3 support. I look at this VMware Knowledge Baseand it says no. Does it mean 2k3 as a guest OS or 2k3 as a vcenter platform? I look at Guest...
View ArticleHow to monitor the ESXi 5.x ramdisk
Hi, we currently had a filled up root filesystem in the ramdisk on several ESXi 5.0 hosts.~# vdf -h[...]-----Ramdisk Size Used Available Use% Mounted onroot...
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Should it work to copy large files from one folder in the datastore to...
Hi, I am trying the following scenario on a ESXi 5.5:I have a VM with a virtual disk of about 35GB.I open the datastore browser, select the .vmdk file and select "Copy" from the context menu.In the...
View ArticleUnable to upgrade VMtools after ESXi 6.5 upgrade
I have upgraded my lab environment to 6.5 and am now unable to mount the vmtools installer through the web client. I was successful mounting the iso directly to the VM and upgrading interactively but...
View ArticleEnable EVC without downtime
I need some help with following situation. We have an ESX 5.5 cluster (no EVC configured) with several hosts with Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 cpu's. We wanted to extend the cluster with 4 new hosts. The...
View ArticleMy VM fails to be Created -PCI passthrough devices cannot be added when...
Trying to get 4 VMs with a dedicated GPU for each. Specs: Intel Core i7 7820X (VT-x and VT-d enabled)32GB DDR4 non ECC2x GTX 10502x GT 710 Error is above... any ideas? The GPU is enabled in the...
View Articleprivate and public network
hello i need your help i have esxi 6.5 versioni have 2 virtual serveri have one physical interface that connect to internet,one need connect through internet by public ipand another server is SQL i dot...
View ArticleEsxi 6.5 compromised - crypto'd
Hello, I have a 6.5 esxi installation which has been compromised today, the password was 11 character, ssh was disabled, only web interface for vsphere was on, server became inaccessible so I logged...
View ArticleESXi hosts do not automatically connect in vCenter following a reboot
Hello,I recently performed some maintenance on 4 host cluster and after rebooting none of them connected in vcenter after 20 minutes. I was able to right click and choose connect and the hosts did...
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Unable to create/expand datastore larger than 16 TB
I created Datastore1 on LSI 27 TB internal RAID5 disk array but maximum it would allow was 16 TB.I increased datastore capacity by expanding existing VMFS datastore extent.It completed successfully and...
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VLAN tagging not working properly
We have a situation where External Switch Tagging, which we prefer, will not work on some new HPE server while Virtual Switch Tagging works fine. The two diagrams below tell the story. Is there...
View Articlevsphere 6.7 LSI raid card, can't get drive status
Hi! I have this server setup at home: SuperMicro X10SLL-FIntel Xeon E3-1241 v332GB 3CC 1600LSI 8708EM22x Velociraptor 10k 300gb RAID 14x WD Red 2TB Raid 5 I was running Vsphere 6.0 since a long time,...
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ESXI Health Status - Missing Memory
Hi Guys, I'm running ESXi 6.0 Build 6921384 under Supermicro server. Server information: Supermicro Motherboard X10DRL-i Server Bios update to the latest also.I'm facing the issue cannot see memory...
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Upgrade esxi version 5.5 to 6.0
Hello, I need to upgrade the esxi 5.5 to version 6. But i am unable to download the file esxi 6.0 offline bundle. Can somebody help in getting this done. Thanks.
View ArticleGet all VMs with "vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms"
hello! I have following problem.I have a shell-script and want to get all IDs and Names of virtual machines: for i in `vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | sed '1d' | awk '{print $1":"$2}'` all is fine,...
View ArticleManagement NICs not working after reinstallation
Hi all, I had issues with drivers and ended up starting to reinstall ESXi 6.5 instead of upgrading from 5.5. All hosts are HPE ProLiant DL385p Gen8 servers. Started with the 2nd host which installed...
View ArticleWindows 10 on an ESXi 5.0 server
Hi.Is it possible to create a Windows 10 64 bit VM on ESXi 5.0 server?I don't find Windows 10 listed as possible choice when I create a new VM.Thanks in advance
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