OpenSUSE Leap Suport
Hello, I was checking in the VMware Compatibility Guide for Guest OS and I found that only include opensuse from 11.2 to 12.2 but no one of the newest openSUSE Leap 42.1 and 42.2 or the OpenSUSE...
View ArticleDifference between vMotion and Storage vMotion
Hello All, Too many "sales" discussions have me confused. I have been trying to get my head around the difference between vMotion and Storage vMotion. I have inherited a 5.1 Standard running on 2...
View ArticleError on one ESXi server when scanning for updates
Hi all, Im getting thesere error message in the esxupdate.log 2017-06-26T12:45:15Z esxupdate: 789827: esxupdate: ERROR: An unexpected exception was caught:2017-06-26T12:45:15Z esxupdate: 789827:...
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ESXi 6.0 Datastore expansion
So I upgraded my Dell T710 from a Perc 6 to an H700 and upgraded to 4tb drives from 2tb drives. The array has been expanded and is running just fine and somehow my VMFS says it is using the full disk...
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Error on trying to expand data store on iSCSI volume
Hi, I have ESXi 6.5 running using a data set on a SYNOLOGY iSCSI Disk. I expanded the iSCSI disk, but can not get the data set to expand. ESXi sees the extra space, but I can't expand the current...
View ArticleCannot download Vsphere Hypervisor 6 (free) - download link does not work
This has been happening since at least Saturday, and others have reported this as well (in the regular Hypervisor forums). https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi6 Neither the...
View ArticleVMWare Esxi 5.5 and 6.0
Hello everyone, We have an environment with 2 servers installed with Esxi 5.5.These servers are managed by Vsphere 5.5.Now I want to install a new Esxi server. My question is if I can install the new...
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Purple Screen on Cisco UCS server with ESXi 6.5 Build 5146846 (March 9, 2017)
Last week I patched our (7) lab ESXi 6.5 servers to the current patch level (Build 5146846 - from March 9, 2017). The (5) Dell servers have been running flawlessly on this new patch level. However,...
View ArticleESXi datastore configuration
I have an application where I need to sustain 2+ GByte/sec throughput and im finding that the default datastore configuration is not supplying anywhere near that throughput.Im looking for a way to...
View ArticleNFS mount failed: Unable to connect to NFS server.
Prezados,Estou com dificuldades para conectar o vSphere a um storage NFS.Ambiente:Servidor NFS: Centos LinuxCliente: VMware ESXi 6.0.0, vSphere Client 6.0.0 Ao tentar criar uma conexão storage com o...
View ArticlevSwitch - vmnic -vmnet
Hello, I'm practising and I have created 2 vSwitches (0 and 1) vSwitch0 -> vmnic0vSwitch1 -> vmnic1 The problem is that I don't know how to map virtual NICs (vmnics) with vmnets so they have the...
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Vm Backup With snapshots
Hi Geeks,Greetings,we have 3 ESXI hosts configured in VCenter with essential license also.Now we are looking to backup the VM's including with snapshots.can you please guide me is there any options...
View ArticleSetup a testing environment with easy reset of VM state for multiple software...
Hi, We currently have an Esxi 5.5 used as a testing environment. Vms are used to test/debug our softwares deployment/upgrade.To be able to test on multiple software versions, we have a snapshot for...
View ArticleEsxi VM Memory Tweaking
I'm looking for information/pointers on what to look at when observing and tuning memory allocations. Examples - 2008r2 VM, remote desktop services, users logged on, 2xVCPU, 12228MB ram configured, in...
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" Failed - Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to peer process. "...
Seemed to nuke my host by changing the PCI passthru in places I shouldn't have. I run ESXi 6.5 from a USB however since reinstalling the host (no hardware changes) I am face with the following error...
View ArticleiSCSI Mutlipath recovery time
Hello, I have a problem with recovery time on link loose between esxi 6.5 (free registered version) and a Huawei SAN using iSCSI. Our setup : Servers with 2x10GE NIC connected to a dedicated switches...
View ArticleScript for Host local user creation
Hello Friends, I have 90+ ESXi hosts running in different VC's, I want to create host local user, user name and password is unique for all 90 Host's Please help me,If Vsphere Power cli script is...
View Articlehow to grant the existing user,read only access in a multiple ESXi Hosts...
how to grant the existing user,read only access in a multiple ESXi Hosts using power client.
View ArticleError - "An application (/sbin/sfcbd) running on esxi host has crashed..."
Get alot of this error on my hosts, "An application (/sbin/sfcbd) running on esxi host has crashed...". Cant find any helpful kb, seems like sfcbd has something to do with hardware health monitoring....
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com.vmware.vcHms : Check what is update policy.
Guys I just joined a company having multiple data-centers and thousands of clusters across globe, still going through KT about company's vmware infrastructure. One of my cluster's host rebooted and...
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