Upgrade to ESXi 5.5 vs Linux VM with software raid for >2TB LUN
I have a Cisco UCS running ESXi 5.0.0 with 7 8TB drives in hardware raid 6, making a 22.74TB drive, and I would like to create a VM with a 20TB drive running Linux. Would it be better to upgrade to...
View ArticleProblems with vSwitch (Lab 7 task 3 VMWARE ICM 6.0 official lab guide)
Hello everybody. I am following the step by step guide of the official VMWare ICM 6.0. I am completely stuck on "Lab 7: Using Standard Switches", task 3 "Assigning VM a new port group". It has to be...
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hello alli am quite confused about the amount of the products vmware offers.short story: i develop a peace of hardware and would love to sell it. but for testing purpose and some mandatory scripting i...
View ArticleNeed to add hardware (RAM,HDD) for ESXi single (standalone)
Hi, I need to add more hardware for 1 single esxi host. Running (5) VM-guests. Along with Veeam backup (VM). Need to make sure have good backup hostANDguest prior to upgrade hardware. What's the best...
View ArticleBind Real-Time CPU process of multiCore vCPU linux OS to specific PCPU on Host
We have been working to get a real-time, latency sensitive communications application to run without errors in a virtual environment under ESXi 6.5.0 Hypervisor. Unfortunately to date we have had...
View ArticleUnhandled exception
When logging in via the web gui I get the following exception Unhandled exception (1) Cause: Error: [$rootScope:inprog] http://errors.angularjs.org/1.3.2/$rootScope/inprog?p0=%24digest Version: 1.8.0...
View ArticlePCI Passthrough of µPD720201 USB 3.0 Controller w/ ESXi 5.0u2
Hello! I'm trying to "passthrough" a USB 3.0 Host Conroller PCIe Card with the NEC/Renesas µPD720201 4-Port Chip to a Windows Server 2003 guest with ESXi 5.0 update 2: - The USB controller card shows...
View ArticleESXi -> Tandberg Data USB 2.0 RDX
HiI got my new 500GB RDX Cardritch and try it on my Laptop it work with the first generation RDX Case.When I plug it on my Server the dont appear. The new USB 3.0 Version is in the list.Does the old...
View Articlekill snapshot removal process
how do I kill or stop a snapshot removal process. I did a cancel from vcenter but it did not stop it
View ArticleVmware vSphere Web client
Добрый день. Может кто сталкивался с такой проблемой . Имеется настроенный vcenter vmware. На него можно было подключаться как через VMware vSphere Client и через web client, но в один прекрасный...
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NFS 4.1 on ESXi 6.5: unable to browse datastore
I mounted a NFS 4.1 share on ESXi 6.5a (single host, no vcenter). This is the CLI command, but I can also mount it via web interface: esxcli storage nfs41 add -a AUTH_SYS -H 192.168.98.4 -v MyLinuxNFS...
View ArticleConsumed Memory
For a Virtual Machine, Consumed Memory is the physical memory 'touched' by the VM. During idle conditions, no hot ESXi and no memory pressure:Does the consumed memory go down? this counter should...
View ArticleThird Party Ethernet to Serial driver keeps gets into unresponsive state
We use Perle's Trueport software (COM Re-director) to create virtual comports on a Windows Server 2012 R2. Starting in May after the Wannacry we received tickets in which the Trueport windows service...
View ArticleHowto backup an ESXi Server itself? Not configuration, not virtual machines!
I've got already good and tested solutions for backing up the configuration of my two ESXi systemsbacking up the virtual machines including the vSphere Appliance But: Before updating or even upgrading...
View ArticleWindows Server 2016 losing network connection
Thanks in advance for reading. I am running VMware ESXi 5.5.0 build-2068190 / VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Update 2 and vCenter 6.5 running. I have the latest VMware tools installed on my Windows 2016 Server...
View ArticleWhat vSphere Essentials 6.5 backup / restore VMs are available?
In follow Up - how simple and quick would it be to take a backup/snapshot made on failed hardware - and restore it to other hardware. I am building a Windows 2012 R2 Essentials server and considering...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 and Lenovo uEFI settings! vs 6.0 and 5.5??
Hi, On Lenovo System X servers (was IBM) it's always been that with ESXI 5.5 and 6.0 you had to change two uEFI settings to successfully install and boot ESXI. PCI 64-Bit Resource Allocation from the...
View Articlemore 1 TB data can't be reclaimed on the datastore through VMware vSphere 6.5
Hi, I created 8TB vmfs 6 datastore in ESXi 6.5. Deploy VMs which used ~7.3 TB space. Set the auto reclaim priority as 'high'. Then deleted all of the VMS. Will see the reclaim is starting from...
View Articleesxi 6.0 ntpd server not responding if source port is not 123
We are running an esxi 6.0 host as an ntp server and it is working fine but it does not reply to requests where the source port is not 123.client-ip:123 -> esxi-host-ip:123 requestesxi-host-ip:123...
View Articlecom.vmware.kext.vmmemctl panic in OSX 10.9.2 - somtimes
Hi, have here 2 MacPro 5,1 64GB with a couple of VMs (40) and 3 OSX per box. Running under vSphere 5.5. Once in 14 days or so, one of the OSX Servers crashes with com.vmware.kext.vmmemctl, even our...
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