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How to remap datastores from iscsi to fc (to esxi hosts)
Hello, till now we've used our Hitachi SAN AMS2100 only with ISCSI protocol.Now we've connected the SAN also via FC connection to the Vmware infrastructure.The SAN is presenting 9 LUNs (1TB each) with...
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Copy a VM from vSphere 5.5 to an USB key
Hi all, I work with several ESXi which ar not on the same network (I don't have the right to connect them with each other). I need to copy a VM to an USB key and to export it to another ESXi with the...
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4 IP on single cable for ESX
Dear team I would like to move all my home things to server housing provider so now I am playing until it works as expected. Now - I have playing server with 3 NICs. I installed trial esx. I moved to...
View ArticleHow to reset HP Proliant memory sensor?
Hi all, several weeks ago, on one of my HP servers I found a hardware problem with one of installed memory basket. After replacement, I tried to reset HP hardware sensor within ESXi (via vSphere...
View ArticleFC storage adapter disappears in ESX 6.0 and 6.5
For my vSphere cluster I have a set of HPE bl460c blades each with the FlexFabric 536flb adapter in the LOM slot which does double duty as both network adapter and FC adapter via FCoE. This has worked...
View Articlerequest hardware support
I upgraded to vmware 6.5 and found out that my once fully supported hardware is no longer on the HCL. How do I request that my hardware be put back on the HCL?
View ArticleHow to get ESXi CPU model through command line??
Hello, Does anyone know how to collect the ESXi host CPU model through command line? I do not want to use Get-VM or PowerCLI. I need it to be via esxcli or something similar. Thanks in advance. Victor...
View ArticleGuest Windows VM needs iSCSI SAN that is on a VLAN - can't get networking to...
Hi,What needs to be done in the "Network" section of the hypervisor host in order to allow my guest Windows vm access ISCSI SAN that is on a VLAN? Thanks in advance,
View ArticleVM-LAB
Hi,Setting up VM-Lab. Does any one have full license key for vSphere? Not the Evaluation (60 days remaining)? Thank you in Advanced.
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Cant extend my Datastore
Hello, First of all i will share some system information, so its easy to understand the issue We have 1 V-Center server, controlling 1 ESXi 6 U2 server, with 2 local datastores and 1 iSCSI based...
View ArticleOVF deployment problems after upgrading to 6.5
I have a Win7 box with VMware Workstation 12.5 installed where I build all of the OVFs required by my team. Recently I upgraded from vSphere 6 to 6.5 and that comes of course with the pain point made...
View ArticleUnable to delete datastore because it is in use
Hello,I took delivery of a brand new Dell T430 server today. It came with 2 x SD Cards and a pre-configured RAID 6 (5 x 1.2TB drives). ESXi had already been installed on the SD Card, so when I booted...
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ESXi 6.5.0 hangs during uploads of ISO to Datastore
Brand new R330PERC H7305 X Disk SAS 931GB RAID 5 (Datastore1)32GB USB Internal (ESXi)32GB RAM Very Typical small business setup. Fresh ESXi 6.5.0 installed yesterday to internal USB drive, setup...
View ArticleSIOControlFlag1 flipflopping between values on one host at a time
I'm seeing a curious thing in my vmkernel.log files. It doesn't appear to be causing me any problems besides taking up log space and potentially making other messages harder to spot amongst the noise,...
View Articleunable to create snapshot - File is larger than the maximum size supported by...
I am unable to create a snapshot on a VM that has a 2TB HArd disk 2. This is running on ESXi 5.1 any idea how I can get around this?
View ArticleMultipathing with fibre channel SAN esxi 6
hi,I want to configure Multipathing with fibre channel SAN : i have 2 switchs FC,3 ESXi 6 and storage Array.my problem is : One of the two paths is not detected even if everything is properly...
View ArticleLarge 6.5 Clusters - Thoughts
Hello, We are going to do a massive redesign of our environment. One of the great changes is the removal of DEV/TEST/PROD application based clusters. Over the last year we have removed dedicated...
View ArticleALERT: NMI: 709: NMI IPI received. xxxxxxx
hello all, from vmkernel.log, we always got messege "ALERT: NMI: 709: NMI IPI received. xxxxxxx" every 5 minutes or more. Its marked by vcenter as an alert, and always send email notification. why this...
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Why are my ESXi 6.0 U2 installs not showing the Autostart option in the ESXi...
I'm using ESXi v6.0 U2 just finished upgrading my ESXi 5.5 and I noticed it was hanging on the Autostart when I booted. Can anyone explain why the Autostart section is missing from my Manage page? And...
View ArticleESXi 6.5.0 - Usage of Snapshots causes error with redo log
Hello, when I try to create a snapshot on a Linux VM and startup the VM, then at any point the VM is shut down with an error in the redo log file. This happens in a timespan between instant and within...
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