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vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and supporting...

Purpose of this post is simple and obvious...  bring back development to thick client.  THANKS!

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Mounting USB flash thumb drive to guest.

On my Dell 7010 and running ESXI client to connect to ESXI 5.5 host. I have a guest running and can't connect a USB flash drive when the quest is powered on. I install a USB 3.0 express card by Renesas...

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Trunk port on VM

Hello, We are installing a VM that requires a trunk port and through the VM we will tag the vlans.  I have created a vnic on vlan 4095.  Below is the cisco config of the port. I am tagging the vm with...

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How to block ESXi from seeing the Internet?

Hello.I have VMware ESXi 6.5 and I don't like it can't see the Internet? How can I block it? Can I do it via "DNS" or..?  Thank you.

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Mounting a datastore to ESXi host

I've had a house fire and my old ESXi host hardware suffered enough that it powercycled continuously. The drives are seem to be perfectly fine though.So house is rebuilt and I have new hardware (DL380...

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PSOD: Spin count exceeded - possible deadlock with PCPU 3

I have two identical hosts that randomly will go "Not Responding" at different times.I pulled a vmkernel log and cut out everything aside from the BlueScreen area.How can I determine the cause from...

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I'm getting purple screen and "Spin count exceeded - possible deadlock with...

Hello community I'm testing this ESXi 6.5.0 and I'm facing a situation with two guest VM linux  after a while I'm getting this error, any recommendation or comment about it?

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Creating New Datastore

Hi Geeks,Greetings,In my organization we are using Qnap storage device device it have 4 tb of storage enclosed.So is there any way to attach the qnap storage has an new storage device(ie). new...

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Creating iscsi datastore

Dear Geeks,Greetings,can you help me to understand what is iscsi controller and how may i use it in my esxi? can you help me to also how to configure iscsi devices from qnap device to esxi? Thanks in...

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ESXi 6.5 - USB HID Devices into Guest VM

Hello Everyone, I'll start by saying I've spent the last few days consistently trying to find a solution to my problem.  If the answer is obviously out there, I'm sorry, cause I missed it. My host has...

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How do I set a datastore to be non-SSD?

Hi all I have set by mistake the wrong datastore to be SSDI did follow the instructions at this page:Enabling the SSD option on SSD based disks/LUNs that are not detected as SSD by defaultbut have...

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Virtual Machine Memory Capacity Limitation For PCI Device Passthrough

Hi,I couldn't find any memory limitation for passthrough PCI devices to virtual machine.If you know that there is any limitation, please reply to this discussion.

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Add custom drivers to standard ESXi 6.5d ISO

Hi all I have googled the entire afternoon but I was unabled to find a workable solution (up to date at lease) to add the Adaptec 6805T drivers to my ESXI installation ISO since it is not seen by the...

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ESXi 5.5 on Dell Optiplex 7010 add USB hard drive to guest

I've been trying to unsuccessfully add a USB hard drive attached directly to my Optiplex 7010 running ESXi 5.5 update 2 and I have added the latest patches including ESXi550-201501001.zip. The VM guest...

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Ryzen 7 1700 - PSOD

Ryzen 7 1700 - PSODError message: Can't boot system as genuine NUMA. Booting with 1 fake node(S) Any ideas on if Vmware will be creating a patch for this issue? It has lots of reports across the...

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ESXi antivirus

Hi Team, please suggest what could be the best anti-virus for ESX/ESXi. or is it required to install any antivirus on ESX/ESXi ? regardsVINAY

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Connect HP SAS Tape Drive to ESX 6.5

Hi, I've got 1 HP DL380 Gen9 + HP H241 HBA + HP Ultrium 3000 SAS and installed ESX 6.5Is it possible to connect that Tape Drive to a Windows VM and use it with Veeam for Backups? If yes, how can I do...

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NFS for ESXi logs

I'm using an NFS datastore for a persistent scratch location for ESXi logs for my cluster. I've just been told that the storage will be offline for 6-8 hours this weekend for maintenance. What happens...

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Change host Swapfile location without VM downtime

Hi all. I've seen this discussion (see link below) where it is hinted that it's possible to do - and it does make sense so im hopeful. I just wanted to know if anyone has done this before and see how...

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VMs and Templates - Unable to move VM into Folder "The operation is not...

This link shows that the functionality did not exist in version 4.0.  VMs and Templates - Unable to move VM into Folder "The operation is not supported on the object."Can someone tell me if this has...

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