ESXI6.7 nvme ssd issue
Being a software engineer, I am disturbing by the way this software create the disk ID.According to the following table from VMware Docs we have some case that the software will not recognize the disk...
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HPE DL360p Gen8 & ESXi 6.5 U3 - Hardware Sensor Problems
Hello, I've got an odd problem with a recently bought HPE DL360p Gen8 server. VMware seem to have problems reading out serveral hardware sensors like fans and powersupply. The show up as "unspecified"....
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[Homelab-7.0] Nested virtualization is crashing vmx on Intel Nuc
Hello, I recently reinstalled ESXi 7.0 in my homelab on my Intel NUC NUC7i3BNH. If you install a VM with an hypervisor inside and then start a VM it will immediately crash the VM with an error : VMware...
View ArticleCopy host config to new ESXi server?
Hello, We have a few 5.5 ESXi hosts and I will be introducing a new host soon and want to find an easy way to copy over the network configuration and storage to the new host. We done have Enterprise...
View ArticleCan not login via SSH because I changed sshd_config? Can I undo this?
Hi, I changed the sshd_config file and added the challenge_response option for passwordless access via key. Unfourtanetly I forget to ssh-copy-id my key before.In my defense: we have a lot of esx...
View ArticleSystem logs on non-persistent storage
Hello. I am receiving an alert that states "System logs on host are stored on non-persistent storage." This is on an ESXi 6 host. I have moved my scratch space to an iSCSI datastore and the system logs...
View Articlefrom 6.5 to 6.7 and back
I got the point that once you upgrade from 6.5 to 6.7 you can't just downgrade installing the 6.5 image, however from 6.7 I can do a recovery boot and run the previous version (6.5).Ref: How to...
View ArticleRe: Problem with locked virtual machine after esxi host crash
Hi dear, Can you please guide me how to solve this issue?
View ArticleIPv6 for ESXi hosts
Hello, I am the VMWare admin at the organization I work with. I have physical switches that provide IPv6. I need to set up IPv6 for the ESXi hosts, to be able to have IPv6. I followed this doc...
View ArticleProblem with ESXI 6.7 Update 3 (Build 14320388) and hostd.log
Hi All, I have installed on a Intel NUC Vmware Free esxi 6.7. last weekend i updated the Linux VM on the machine.When i go to hostd.log i see multiple times the following error messages in the logging...
View ArticleESXi hosts CPU over commitment resoultions
Hi All, We have around 60 to 80 ESXi host in vCenter DC and all are CPU over committed between 100- 800 %. I'm looking for recommendation and best practices to fix this. ThanksV
View ArticlerestoreConfiguration A general system error occurred: Internal error
[root@esx03:~] vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/restore_config force /tmp/configBundle.tgz(vmodl.fault.SystemError) { faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null, reason = "Internal error", msg = "Received...
View ArticleESXI vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 add sas/raid controller drivers to standard .iso...
How do I add an ADAPTEC - RAID Adaptec 71605 16-Ports SAS/SATA RAID Controllerdrivers to the new ESXI 7.0 iso image? I had a file I would just add to my usb after I built a usb from the iso in ver...
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How to find VM's unutilized or over provisioned resource?
Hi guys.... Anyone clear me this.... Is there anyway to find VM's resource where we did a over provision....But it didnt used it on its entire life..... Any tool or is this possible to get the report...
View ArticleShowing HT to guest OS.
I would like to setup a VM with a single core and multiple threads and to have it show up like that to the VM and the guest OS.It is for testing purpose so I need the guest OS to see the threads. Can...
View ArticleUpdate from 6.5 to 6.7
Hello all, We are upgrading our ESXi from 6.5 to 6.7 version but during the upgrade we have on several hosts a "No space left on device" error on our 8GB SD card which is normally big enoughWe don't...
View Articledd command to backup sd card doesn't work
Need to back up sd card, which is disk mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 cd into a datastore and run this command: [root@localhost:/vmfs/volumes/556c6cc9-7b6835f6-d569-ac162da1c290] dd...
View ArticleESXi regular maintenance
Hello to everyone!! We have a HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 server with an ESXi 6.7. We want to know if there is a procedure or a cookbook that contains regular maintenance recommended practices for ESXi,...
View ArticleSyslog collector for ESXi
We are using Syslog Collector 5.5 now. But have upgraded the environment to 6.7.What is the best syslog collector available to route the syslogs there.
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public/private key authentication to ESXi
Hi, We are trying to configure SSH access to our ESXi hosts using public/private key authentication for some automation tasks with ansible .On a Linux system running ansible we generated a key pair...
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