ESXi 6.5 : Can login to Console, but login not working for SSH and WebUI
I'm using Esxi 6.5 host. All of sudden, I lost my ESXi Host login connectivity. I don't know what was the reason. Last night I was able to login. But today its not working, Only console access is...
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We had a recent failure incident where we had significant disruption in our environment when a core (physical) network switch failed. Essentially, the failure mode was that the core switch remained...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 Console error
Seeing the following error message that won't let me log into ESXi 6.5 Hypervisor console on Chrome on MAC - I do not get the exception on Mozilla and Safari. Cause: Error: [$rootScope:inprog]...
View ArticleConvert large RDM to VMDK - what is the resulting size of the VMDK (and/or...
We have a 9 TB RDM.Only 3.13 TB of that is being used.VMware Guest is Windows 2012 R2. The "volume" in the OS is a single 9 TB volume. So, when we convert the RDM to VMDK (either live via Storage...
View ArticleAm I booted off USB or hard drive?
I've just completed an interactive install of ESXi 6.5d. I specified a 8GB USB drive as the installation destintation, After boot, I see mounted volumes from df -h as follows:Filesystem Size Used...
View ArticleConcurrent connection on vSphere
Hi guy, Have anybody known that ESXi and each VM running inside have limitation of concurrent connection?Do you know there is a concurrent connection limitation on x86 server, or ESXi Port, or...
View ArticleUpdate manager says some patches are Not Applicable
We have two vCenter servers at 6.0 Update 3VC1 controls 4 hosts and is used for server virtualizationVC2 controls 5 hosts and is used for desktop virtualization using View. These hosts use the View...
View Articlewhat version of vmware support two monitor with remote console???
Hello vmware community! We want to use two monitor for a virtual machine (guest SO: windows 2000 server) under ESXi 6.5 (with vCenter server) with remote console, but not working. The system sais that...
View ArticlevSphere ESXi 6.5.0 Hardware Sensors
Hello Everyone, I have a Q170 based motherboard and have successfully loaded ESXi 6.5.0. However, ESXi does not display any Hardware Sensor Data and reports "No Sensor Data Available". Does ESXi...
View Articleusb modems will not dialout after 6.5 upgrade
I have 2x USB modems inside a Server 2008R2 instance for remote connectivity to customers. After upgrading to esxi 6.5, I can still see the USB modems inside the VM and inside the OS displaying as...
View ArticleSmall-Scale Hyperconverged
We need to support a small-scale cluster (two hosts, each in a different location on campus) to support less than 10 VMs without shared storage. We're primarily an HPE ProLiant shop, so our sales guys...
View Articleesxi 6.0 + DELL raid
hii have dell poweredge T30 (mini tower) with 2 2TB raid1, i am trying to install esxi 6.0, but esxi dont dettecting raid system. i dont know what to do and i need your help tnx
View ArticlevCenter 6 FT Multi CPU
Hi there I'm messing around with a trial of vCenter 6 Standard with some ESX hosts running vSphere 6 Enterprise Trial. I'm trying to enable FT on a test VM that has 1x Virual CPU and 2x Core's, so in...
View Articleclone and resize a vmdk disk
I got a disk 2 on a VM that I want to clone and resize it its a 2TB vmdk disk and I want to clone it to 1.7TB. can i do this from vmkfstools or do I need converter?
View Article3ware 9650SE - not supported in ESXi 6?
From what information I can gather, the RAID-card "3ware 9650SE" is not supported in ESXi 6. Does anyone know if this is correct? Does anyone know if it will be supported or if this card is obsolete...
View Article"Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe...
Hi, Esxi 6.5 When i try to connect to console (web or client) i get "Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe \\.\pipe\vmware-authdpipe within retry period"from logs i see:...
View ArticleAppliance Management Health alarm is red (critical)
What does this alarm mean exactly? I do have a datastore that is almost full, is that why this alarm is triggered?
View ArticleESXI 5.0 events (Lost access to volume?) on HP Proliant DL380p Gen8 with...
Hi All.Anyone seen this before? We noticed some services stopping and restarting on the guest machines at 60 minute intervals. We found this events in the host vmkernel.log comes up every hour?...
View ArticleHow to manage NTP from command line in ESXi 6?
Is there a way to manage ntp from the ESXi shell without setting up DCLI and access to the vicfg-ntp command?
View ArticleIs creating 2 physical core groups possible?
Hi everyone! Am exploring ways in esxi 6. Thinking about creating 2 physical core groups (meaning not threads in a group but physical cores) ?I am planning to have it like this: - in 1 core group...
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