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vmkfstools --growfs returning Error: No such file or directory
Hi all, I am trying to grow a datastore. The reason for this is that I have swapped drives to some larger ones. The drive was the one where ESXi was installed as well as the local data store. I...
View ArticleESXTOP Remote Numa with RAM Reservation
Hiis this true? in ESXTOP I can see VM´s with 0% local Numa usage, but actually those VM´s have a RAM ReserversionExampleNRMEM - NLMEM - N%L 7441.26 - 170.00 - 0 Actually this is a bad...
View ArticleHow to have the vmware box automatically boot up ?
I am just a beginner user to the VMWARE, and here is my question. I have a vmware box in my lab, where the esxi 6.7 is installed. And on top of that, there are a bunch of VM servers running. Last...
View ArticleLost connectivity to the device mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 backing the boot filesystem
Hi all-We have 4 hosts running vSphere 6.5 on Cisco UCS-C240-M4's. They have a vSAN configuration. I started to get the 'Lost connectivity to the device mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 backing the boot...
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How to restore ESXi backup to different hardware
Hello community,I did a ESXi configuration backup from CLI using the following command: vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/backup_config Now I would like to test the backup, so I installed the same ESXi version...
View ArticlehyperthreadingMitigation setting lost on ISO upgrade of 6.5 -> 7.0
Upgraded the host using ISO attach and then boot into installer and selected upgrade. The hyperthreadingMitigation setting went from true/SCAv1 to FALSE.It did alert in vSphere, but seems odd that it...
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ESXi 6.7 fails to list Intel X540 (ixgben) Network Ports via a Thunderbolt3...
EnvironmentIntel Hades Canyon64GB (2 x 32GB DDR4 2400 MHz)(1) 1TB NVMe PCIe M.2 2280ESXi 6.7 (15820472)Boot Drive = 16GB USB 3.1 Flash DrivePromise SANLink2 10GbE (Thunderbolt2)Uses the Intel X540 AT2...
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not enough bandwidth
hi all, i have 5 hosts in cluster with separate managent DvS and Guest traffic DvS. currently in Guest DvS have one physical uplink of 25 G i have two VMs and with VMXNET3 adapter, and checking...
View ArticleVM's not Autostarting
Hello, I am using ESXi 6.7 with a free license. All is working as it should but I cannot get the VM's to autostart after a power failure. I have the autostart enabled, vmware tools installed. Not sure...
View ArticlevFlash is not licensed, not supported
Hi ESXi 6.7ESXi build number: 8169922 I get this warning in the hostd log: warning hostd[4669472] [Originator@6876 sub=Hostsvc.VFlashManager opID=e2cff547] GetVFlashResourceRuntimeInfo: vFlash is not...
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vpxa service is getting crashed frequently
while starting the vpxa service i am getting below error message due to that my Esxi host is not getting reconnected back to Vcenter .does anyone having any idea about this error...
View ArticleIOPs Capacity
Hi, i have questions around IOPs. (1) On VSAN how can one calculate the IOPs capacity on an individual ESXi host and the entire vSAN cluster? (2) The same question for ESXi hosts using array based...
View ArticleTP-Link TG-3468
Hi, is it possible to install drivers for TP-Link TG-3468 on ESXi 7.0? I found this manual, but, I have some issues. I did successfully changing software acceptance to Community Supported, but when I...
View ArticleHyperThreading
Hi all,we are working with ESXi v 6.5 and we are trying to disable HyperThreading on a per VM. We read somewhere that this functionality has been removed from version 6.5, but we received feedback from...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 7.0.0 build-15843807: -flat.vmdk files are read locked when a...
We have detected that on ESXi 7.0.0 build-15843807 -flat.vmdk files are locked for reading even though the VM is running on top of a snapshot. [root@wxpmk:~] cat...
View ArticleProblems after install security patch ESXi670-201912001 in ESX cluster
Hi, After installing the security patch (ESXi670-201912001) in all our ESXs that are part of a cluster, we have had network problems (timeouts, lost connections) and even had error alarms on the...
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standalone esxi host running ver 7.0.0
I have a mysterious Virtual Flash partition/disk that I cannot seem to get rid of. It shows as 119 GB Virtual Flash, and is VMFSL (read only as well). So I am unable to delete, and this host was on 6.7...
View ArticleTrying to add array to ESXi VM, 'select' grayed out
I'm totally new to VM. Have a new HP server with two raid arrays and 20 cores. Have created two VM's, both using disk storage from Array1. Need to add Array2 space to SQL server vm, however when I...
View ArticleMissing Datastore from ESXI 6.7
Hi All,Hoping someone can help me.This is my setup. HP Server running ESXI from an internal 32GB SD card and local storage configured as my datastore.I initially upgraded my ESXI from 6.5 to 6.7....
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Unable to connect the MKS: Could not connect to pipe...
Hello all. I am trying to access my VM from outside the network. This is a home lab kind of environment. I want to install ubuntu, but I need access to the console to do so. This is proving to be...
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