Having trouble with police scanner Serial to USB cable on VM
I am running an ESXI on a desktop computer with 2 VMs. My windows 10 VM is used for recording and monitoring my 2 police scanners using proscan software. I am having trouble getting the VM to recognize...
View Articleexporting installed vib from host
An ESXi 5.5 host has a vib installed which i can see in the output of the esxcli software vib list command that I need to try installing on a 6.0 host. I no longer have the original zip file that was...
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fusion-io / sandisk ioDrive2 + ioTurbine / ioSphere on ESXi 6.0
Anyone have caching working with an ioDrive2 or similar card + ioTurbine on ESXi 6.0? I've got the card running on the host with the libvsl-600-1.0.0-3.2.15.1699.zip,...
View ArticleBest options for my setup...
I'm just getting to the final testing phase of a server re-vamp, looking for advice on best VM setup options... The end result on a 20 user setup is this...2008r2 64bit running as domain controller,...
View ArticlePSOD - ESXi 6.5 caused by sfcb-smx
We have a new server (HP DL380 G9) running VMware ESX 6.5 (build 4564106, HPE customised ISO).Recently an error triggered a PSOD. The kernel dump indicates the cause was sfcb-smx (see...
View ArticleUnable to update the latest patch for ESXi 6 Server
Hi, I am trying to update the latest patch to my home ESXi server. But I am getting following error. Could you please help me to resolve this issue? [root@adesxi:~] esxcli network firewall ruleset set...
View ArticlemacOS Sierra VM resolution is blurry
Team, I’m running a macOS Sierra 10.12.5 VM on ESXi 6.5 but when I change the VM resolution to the same as the native resolution of my MacBook Pro 15” w/ Retina (2880×1800) the image is too large for...
View ArticleEVGA GeForce GT 710 2GB DDR3 video card is allowed only 128MB video memory
Team, In ESXi 6.5, if I try to set the video memory of this card to anything higher than 128MB on my macOS Sierra VM, the following configuration error is thrown. Failed to reconfigure virtual machine...
View ArticleAdd a disk controller to an existing ESXI 6.5
I am looking to add a HBA disk controller to an existing ESXI 6.5 server to pass-through to a VM. When I use the old vSphere client I can see the adapter in the Storage Adapters section, but I cannot...
View ArticleWeb Client - vm user role can power off vm but cannot power on
I have two users that can in the vm user role (sample) who can power off any VMs but cannot power on any. When they power on the VM, they receive the error below. "The "Power on virtual machine"...
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ESXI 6.0 on Intel NUC Crashing Randomly with Hardware Error
Over the past year, my VM box will crash at random times, sometimes months apart. I was on 5.5 and now am running 6.0. The NUC is a 5i7 with 32GB RAM and the datastore is on a Synology NAS. When this...
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot an unresponsive ESXi host?
Hi, we have a VSAN cluster built with 4 ESXi hosts. For some reason one of those hosts become unresponsive - 2nd time within three weeks. This means: ESXi host lost his connectivity to vCenter Server....
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Fault Tolerance only support on Thick Provision Eager Zeroed??
Thick Provision Lazy ZeroedCreates a virtual disk in a default thick format. Space required for the virtual disk is allocated when the virtual disk is created. Data remaining on the physical device...
View ArticleSQL Geo-Clustered Virtual machine
Wasn't too sure where else to post this but wanted to know if anyone knows or can point to a white paper if its possible running Windows 2012/2016 SQL Geo-Clustered (SQL Cluster between two data...
View ArticleDisconnected from virtual machine
I just had a slight heart clutching moment with 2 VMs during vmotion. I'm in the process of patching my esxi 6.0 hosts, so I was moving VMs from one that needs to be patched to one that I patched this...
View Articlepam_succeed_if(sfcb:auth): error retrieving information about user
Hi, while trying to find a hint for a differnt problem I discovered tons of messages like this one in syslog.logsfcb-CIMXML-Processor[45596]: pam_succeed_if(sfcb:auth): error retrieving information...
View ArticleCannot access datastore
After removing and readding a datastore, I'm unable to read it with the same name. I can add it, but it shows up with a (1) after the name. Even though it is the same datastore that all the other...
View ArticleMigrating VM's from old datacenter to new datacenter
Hi, We have 2 ESXi hosts (standalone) being managed by vCenter. Each host has about 6 guest. We need to migrate VM's from one datacenter to new datacenter. What would be the best way to migrate? Thank you
View ArticleBalloon Driver Active without Host Contention
Ok, so this may be more academic than anything, but here it goes. I have a cluster, that has 29 hosts with 512GB of RAM each. So the way we run our clusters and Capacity planning is 0 reservations, no...
View ArticleIP hash and layer2
Hi, I'm not a network guy so, probably, it is a silly question. Please, be patient.Using the IP HASH load balancing policy the vswitch will Choose an uplink based on a hash of the source and...
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