Cannot Disable SR-IOV no matter how many times I toggle it...
What is going on here... I admit I had just started to play with SR-IOV for the first tie on a new HP server I had. My server has 8 physical NICs.(1 Broadcom Quad Port card & 4 Intel ports on the...
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ESXi 6.5a, Cable modem pass through to VM...not working...any idea ?
Hey all,I've done this a ton of times now. . I my system was a ESX 5.5, all was good (ran into a problem but, it seemed strait forward). I take the cable modem, plug it into a network port, create a...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and supporting...
Purpose of this post is simple and obvious... bring back development to thick client. THANKS!
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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...
View Articlerdm disks can't be remove from the vm when the vm has snapshot
1.create a vm and attach a rdm disk(-z mode)to it2.take a snapshot.3.after that, the rdm disk can't be delete due to the error "Failed - Invalid configuration for device '7'. Cannot remove virtual disk...
View ArticleUSB Disk problem on ESXi 6
Hello everyone I have installed an ESXi on a server of mine to test and use it as experience. I had a USB Disk connected to it and was using it as datastore and everything was fine, until I did...
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Very slow Storage vMotion (VSAN migration)
Hi, I am seeing an issue which I don't fully understand. I'm in the process of planning the last stages of a VSAN migration and need to move some big VMs from hosts with locally attached storage to a...
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot unplanned host restart - Initiated through DCUI
Hello. We had a restart of one host in a cluster with threee hosts running 6.0.0 (4600944) in HA mode. Warning on the host: "The host is being rebooted through the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)....
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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ESXi 6.5 AMD 1800X Support?
Does anyone have information on an update to ESXi to support the new AMD CPUs? I have an 1800X crying to run ESXi. At this point I am forced to run VMware Workstation Pro on it due to incompatibility...
View ArticlevSphere 6.0 -> Starting Order
Hello,we use vSphere 6.0 Std. in a cluster with HA.Today we had a crash from one ESXi server and the VMs starts on another one.Is it possible to define an order that some machines (e. g. DC's, DB...
View ArticleTeaming 4 NICs with 1Gb speed must give me a NIC with 4Gb speed in a VM?
Hello.My server has 4 NICs and each one has 1Gb speed. I'm using NIC teaming but my Windows machine NIC just show me 1Gb speed. Is it OK? Thank you.
View ArticlevSphere Client 6.x for ESXi 5.1/5.5/6.0?
I think should be possible, but I'm asking just to be sure. I have a few ESXi-servers, which I manage directly with the traditional "fat" client (not web-client). Up to now, they are all 5.1, with the...
View ArticleMy Question on Vcenter
What is the version esxi version to mange ESXI host by vcenter 6.0 or upper version.
View ArticleVM vCPU consideration, NUMA node
hi,i have a host with the below specs:ESXi v 6.5Processor: 2 x 22 (2 CPU, 22 core each)\Memory :512GB Question:-what is the size of the Physical NUMA node ?- the user created a VM with 48 CPU and...
View ArticleSystem logs on non-persistent storage
Hello. I am receiving an alert that states "System logs on host are stored on non-persistent storage." This is on an ESXi 6 host. I have moved my scratch space to an iSCSI datastore and the system logs...
View Articlefault.CannotAccessVmDevice.summary
Using vSphere Client connected to a vCenter 6 server.I'm attempting to migrate a virtual machine from one host to another (have migrated all the other virtual machines from this host to other host...
View ArticleKernel tracebacks after vSphere upgrade to 6.0
Hi all, We have this vAPP in vCloud that VMs have been working flawlessly since day 1. But after we updated our vSphere environment to version 6.0, VMs started rebooting themselves all the sudden and...
View Articlevmx-12 error / ovf import vSphere 5.5
Hello, I tried to import ovf file to vSphere 5.5 and ended with an error vmx-12 incompatible.My VM was created with VMware Workstation 12.5 Pro.Why this error? Kind regards,Roland
View ArticleCannot Login to WebAccess but to ESXi console
Hi *, i can access the ESXi console with my root & pw, but not the WebAccess with "root" & pw. The pw is the same, there are no spell / keyboard language issues. We have a single ESXi 6.5...
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