Displaying machine with certain OS
Hi, We are on version 5.5 and I want to look for any machines with Windows 10. How do I do that? Nevermind -I just searched "Windows 10" in top right corner. Thanks,TT
View ArticleESXi 6.5 connectivity issue on PowerEdge R430
Dear, We encountering connectivity issue on newly install esxi 6.5 on PE R430Whenever we preform file copy (30-40GB files size) from one of the VM Guest to another machine thought network (100MB), it...
View ArticleSnapshot rendered machine useless
Hello, ESXi 5.5 build 1892794Veeam backupmachine - Window 7 A few days ago, a machine was frozen during a snapshot (progress at 50%, stuck over half a day). We called support and they went through to...
View ArticleFailed to import new SSH certificate on ESXi 6.5 free
Im trying to install a certificate into ESXi using the web browser but the key I'm pasting isn't working. I'm not sure if it's an issue with the ESXi host or with the key. The error message I'm...
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VM problem blue screen VMware ESXi 6.5.0 ???
Greeting,but a few times it happens that I get a blue screen on the server machine vm Server2016. Below I will show you a log and images to try to help tosolve the problem...LOG...
View ArticleVirtual NVMe Controller in supported guest OS - ESXi 6.5U1
Hello folks, I'm a little bit confused about the new virtual NVMe Controller in ESXi 6.5+. According to KB2147714 : "Virtual NVMe devices have reduced guest I/O processing overhead, which allows more...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS VMWare ESXI
I am using VMware ESXi and when i try to connect via the console i get the following error:Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe \\.\pipe\vmware-authdpipe within retry period.I...
View ArticleESXi 6.5U1 can't download
Hi, When I go to https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search and search for any updates for ESXi and choose 6.5.0 it shows zero results. Has it been removed or is there something I'm missing as...
View ArticleCannot boot -> ESXi 6.5 NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/vmkernel/core/bootModule.c:492
Hi all, can you help me? After reinstall ESXI it works correctly, no problems....but after few days (1, sometimes 2) it is not possible to start. After user loaded successfully, it crash and display...
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Downgraded from 6.5 to 6.0 Datastores are now missing
One of the guys on my team was trying to downgrade from 6.5 to 6.0 so we could import this remote host into our main vpshere serverc which is on 6.0u2, as well as reset the root password which was...
View ArticleMember of pool not rebuilding itself.
Hi all, Having a few problems after I had to revert to an old snapshot of our vcenter server. had to disconnect and reconnect to our domain as well as reconnect our hosts as the snapshot was a lot...
View ArticleRouter-VM on ESXi 5
We signed up for ESXi 5 server in Hetzner.deWe have a problem in configuring the router-VM to enable us us additional subnet.Hetzner has detailed WIKI with nice examples but is seems we do one little...
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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 ArticleChanging all data drives and resuming operation, specifically FreePBX
Hi All, I have a Dell Poweredge 2950 running ESXi 6.5.0 that I need to upgrade from 4x 300gb drives & 2x 146gb running as a single raid5 (I know, I'm just starting with raid), to 4x2tb drives and...
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After Restarting, ESXi Host becomes Disconnected. After Connect, VMs become...
Hi, We apply the latest patch to ESXi 6 Update 3 Host. The remediation stops at 25% and status is disconnected. Then we connect the ESXi to Cluster. However, there are a number of stopped VM becomes...
View ArticleESXi 6.0 boot from iSCSI
I'm trying to figure out the big picture steps for doing boot from iSCSI. I don't need anything fancy as this for study purposes (VCP). My hardware does not support iSCSI so I figured I would use an...
View Articlevmw_ahci I/O errors and corruption - 6.5 whitebox
I upgraded to 6.5 on my whitebox hypervisor system (Intel Sandy Bridge), I had been running a Marvel HBA storage adapter on community drivers, but looked forward to the return of native AHCI drivers in...
View ArticleUnable to backup Windows AD Server with VMware Tools installed
Hi Folks We have some Windows Server 2012 R2 VMs running in DMZ environment. An easy way to backup them is using the integrated Windows Server backup functionality. We recently updated our VMware Tools...
View ArticleESX 6.0 - Firewall with Dynamic IP (Dynamic DNS)
Hi all, is it possible im vmware esx 6.0 to point the firewall to a hostname instead an ip?At home I have a dynamic IP and i use my own DynDNS-Service, making myself reachable via DNS (every 5min the...
View Articlepatching esxi using CLI
hello, I have been trying to patch my ESXi 5.1 server using Cli I keep getting errors. here is my command.. c:\program files (x86)\VMWAre\VMWare vSphere CLI>esxcli --server=xxx.xxx.xxx...
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