How to get hardware report of a esxi host
Hi, Can anyone help me figure out how we can fetch a hardware report from esxi host (from vSphere client or vCenter). This is for dell power edge server and esxi host installed with few running VMs on...
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ESXi 6.5a (newest version), VM is not getting DHCP... any idea ?
Hi, I have been battling with this one for about 4 days now and have hit a brick wall. I was trying to get a Motorolla cable modem working but, even with a DHCP server, I got nothing on a VM. The...
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Unable to increase datastore capacity
The "increase" button has been greyed out even though I can see the capacity of the device is greater than the filesystem size(datastore).Please see the below screenshot for more details. I appreciate...
View ArticleVMtools error in Application events on server 2016
Hi,we have faulting application errors every ~5-10 minutes on our 2016 servers with vm tools:Faulting application name: WmiApSrv.exe, version: 10.0.14393.0, time stamp: 0x57899ac8Faulting module name:...
View ArticleMigration using physical RDMs
Currently there is a cluster where there is 4 hosts.2 of the 4 hosts has a SQL VMs clustered via Microsoft Clustering.They are sharing 1 disk (quorum disk) via physical RDM on an EMC storage.Now the...
View ArticleCannot assign user to a role
Hi *, i want to assign some new created users to some roles. But i am not able, to assign them to the default roles like "Administrators" or even to edit this roles. Also if i create a new role, i am...
View ArticleAsus RS520-E8-RS8 V2 + PIKE II 3108-8i / 240PD / 2G VMWARE ESXi 6.5
Hello! Where to download MegaRAID SMIS Providers Asus PIKE II 3108-8i / 240PD / 2G for VMWare ESX 6.5? Where to download the drivers for the Asus RS520-E8-RS8 V2 platform sensors for VMWare ESX 6.5?
View ArticleOpenSUSE 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 ArticleFailed to create VMFS datastore on ESXi 6.5
I'm quite new to Vmware ESXi any did a complete clean install 2 days ago. Since then I'm struggeling to get a new datastore online. I'm using a HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 Server. Installing VmWare ESXi...
View ArticleWhat happens if scratch partition goes away?
Hello, What happens if the scratch partition suddenly goes away? I've got the ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation set to a NFS mounted datastore.and Syslog.global.logDir set to /scratch/log What...
View ArticleHow to manage NTP from command line in ESXi 6?
Is there a way to manage ntp from the ESXi shell without setting up DCLI and access to the vicfg-ntp command?
View ArticleWindows Server 2016 Really slow on ESXI 6.5
Hi,I have installed Windows Server 2016 on the latest version of ESXI 6.5.0b but it's almost unusable.The VM has 2 CPU and 2GB of RAM with VMware Tools 10.1.5 (5055683) and is used for Active Directory...
View ArticleConstant login failure for VMWare identity service
I am getting constant login failures for a bad password for the VMWareIdentityService.exe and can't find anywhere to change the password for it. Everything seems to be working amongst the VMWare...
View ArticleVMware Linux Repository Key Expired
VMware Repository Key Expiredthese key are expired http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys pub 1024D/04BBAA7B 2010-09-08 [expired: 2017-07-25]uid VMware, Inc. -- Linux Packaging DSA...
View ArticleDoes anyone understand "hostupdate.vmware.com"?
I can do this in ESXi, my hosts are running 6.0.0 U1: [root@ucs-esx314:~] esxcli software sources profile list -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml | grep...
View ArticleVM not power on
Hi , I am getting below error while try to power on VM : "A general system error occurred: Invalid response code: 503 Service Unavailable" Note : VM is running on ESXi-5.5 and connected through vCenter...
View ArticleRDM LUNS visible when selecting "Add Storage"
Hello,Running Vsphere 6.0 I am trying to understanding why I am seeing RDM LUNs in the "add storage" section in the vpshere client on only one of my 8 cluster hosts, when the RDMs are already in use by...
View ArticleVMWare ESXi cluster of 4 hosts, goes crazy
Yesterday we had a power issue which caused one of our 4 hosts to stop because of faulty redundant power supplies, but the other 3 hosts was fine,After fixing power issue and starting the 4th host,...
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creating vmkernel port breaks connectivity to management network
cisco ucs 220 v4 serveresxi 5.5 custom image for cisco2 physical 2 vmnics currently have 1 vswitch. managment network(vmnic0) is configured on this vswitch. trying to setup vmkernel port for iscsi...
View ArticleChanging of ESXi hostname
Does changing of ESXI hostname has an effect on the current VMs that are running on the hosts?ESXi hosts are not yet joined to vCenter Server
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