Upgrading Free ESXI from 6.0 to 6.5
Hi geeks, Greetings, I have a doubt in upgrading my ESXI server. I using free ESXI 6.0 with 6 Active VM’s. Now am planning to upgrade my ESXI server from version 6.0 to 6.5. So it is possible to...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Bad Performance
Hello, I've a vSphere cluster running with 7x IBM HS22V blades / 2x Intel Xeon X3650 / 256 GB memory in every host.Running at vSphere 5.5 23202651, with around 150 VM's. Since a few months we are...
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Storage QoS (Limit IOPS)
Hello all, Are any of you setting a limit on IOPS for a VM/VMDKs? We are using it, but we are having an issue, or several issues, and getting pretty much nowhere with support. Tested it on ESXi 6.5 and...
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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?
View ArticleRecovery Help Needed - ESXi 6.0 - VMDK errors after snapshot removal
Hi, I really hope someone can help, my ESX. My problems seem to have started after I tried to remove a snapshot from a VM that was on a disk that was full. At the moment the VM won't start because it...
View Articleenabling iSCSI software adapter on Lenovo System x Custom Image for ESXi 6.5a...
I have installed the recently released Lenovo System X Custom Image for ESXi 6.5a on three separate physical servers and one nested ESXi image. When I enable the iSCSI software adapter and reboot, I...
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I have a stand alone esxi without any internet connect and I want to load vmware software. Is there anyway this can be done?
View ArticleMissing 'Use Windows session credentials' checkbox
Hello, Maybe I'm missing something here but we are running 3 ESXI hosts without vCenter. The Hosts are all running the free version of ESXI 6.5. We are able to log into the web client just fine with...
View ArticleConfigured scratch location doesn't work after upgrade to ESXi 6.5
Hi,My configured scratch location for some reason doesn't work after upgrading to ESXi 6.5.I set up parameter ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation to a persistent storage. The folder exists and...
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vmk, improtant impact
Hi All, I configured iSCSI Software adapter in ESXi 6.5, but got the following pic. Could you help me？ Thanks.
View ArticleGuest XP can't see vCenter
Hello everybody. My config is as follows: - ESX1 (192.168.1.150)- ESX2 (192.168.1.160)- vCenter (192.168.1.50)- Domain Controller (192.168.1.10) All of them joined by vmnet2 (Workstation Host-Only)....
View ArticleCorrupt delta file - Sync IO issued on cow disk xxx failed with short IO 0...
After a weird system hang I restarted the ESXI host and ended up not able to boot up of the VM's. The VM had a snapshot and it seems the -delta file of the snapshot got corrupted, or final block was...
View ArticleHost cannot download files from Update Manager
HiI'm trying to update some hosts in the Environment but it always fails with the following Error "Host cannot download files from VMware vSphere Update Manager patch store. Check the network...
View Article'Off-esxi' backups?
Hi. I have an ESXi 5.5 installation running here at home on an HP Proliant. I take periodic clones of my twelve VMs. I would like to get them off of the host and onto my Desktop Mac, to be backed up...
View ArticleUploading VMDK files to datastore
Hi,We are migrating relatively small workload from hyper-v to VMware.For reasons I won't get into here, we have ended up with a bunch of VMDKs, which we need to upload to a datastore.The environment is...
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vConverter speeds extremely slow
Hi,We are migrating a small workload of 6 guests currently running on vSphere and Hyper-v, across the internet via a VPN and into a vSphere cluster of two hosts, direct attached storage running...
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ESXi 6.5 - How to make second Port Group available to add to Virtual Machine...
I'm new to VMWare/vSphere/ESXi so struggling getting this initial configuration complete. I have installed ESXi 6.5, and have been able to complete most of the configuration on the host. I installed a...
View Articlevmtools timeout
Virtual machine can ping, unable to open the console, Vmtools display "not running"; After the virtual machine is restarted, the virtual machine is running normally, and the Vmtools response time...
View ArticleUnable to take quiesced snapshot
After a reboot of a server, it can happen that it is not possible to take a quiesced snapshot.It happened after an update to 6U1 from 6.0. Before the update there were no problems. We did the following...
View Article0xc000014c Error after Disk Resize
Hi All, Looking for some assistance please. A critical resize of a disk was required, we shut the VM down and resized to 1.5TB from 1TB. When trying to boot, it fails with the error: Windows Failed to...
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