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VMWare 5.5 vSphere HA has no errors or warnings but does not work, neither...
Hi all, I have 3 hosts running ESXi 5.5. I manage these hosts from a vCenter server. I have created a cluster out of these hosts and enabled HA on the cluster. There are no error messages or no...
View ArticlevSphere compatible RAID Controller
Hi, I have a P410 RAID Controller in my Server, according to this site: VMware Compatibility Guide - I/O Device Search it is supported up to vSphere 6.0 but I can't see anything about the latest...
View Articlevmxnet3 rxcompletion descriptor is returning len field as 0 for both Standard...
Hello experts, We are running the below ESX version and running FreeBSD 11 as guest with vmxnet3 interface.[root@localhost:~] uname -aVMkernel localhost 6.0.0 #1 SMP Release build-3620759 Mar 3 2016...
View ArticleDO we have powercli script to health check the ESXi hosts?
DO we have powercli script to health check the ESXi hosts?
View ArticleAndyg
Hi I need to set 2 new firewall rules on the esx server 6.5 they are TCP rules port 135 and 445 but the web client does not let me add these rules and they are not in the predefined rules ? can anyone...
View Articleany idea how to find which host a vm is on
I got a windows VM. is it possible to find which host the vm is on via its vmware tools?
View ArticleRight ISO for upgrading ESXi from 5.5 to 6.5
Hi, I have a Dell PowerEdge R430 running Dell customized 5.5 image. My question is does it matter if I use VMware's own 6.5 ISO or Dell customized 6.5 ISO to perform the upgrade? VMware upgrade doc...
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XFS and RHEL7 guest os
Hi All, Just trying to find some help in troubleshooting an issue we are having. When we have a client do an rsync to a XFS partition on a RHEL 7 guest , it's causing the guest vm to hang and the only...
View Articlewhy windows 2008 R2 network adapter needs to be reconfigured after patch update?
ESXI 6.0 After auto update of windows 2008 R2, VM detects new card and got APIPA network. Old NIC detected as disabled. Any KB on this?
View ArticleLinux Host Memory Consumption Lower Than ESXi Reporting Used
ESXi is reporting 8GiB used, however top is showing about 3.2ish GiB used.
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esxi license expired
Hello, I just started my host and got connected via vSphere client on Windows.I immdiately got the prompt that the licence become invalid. But as far as I understood the license cant become invalid...
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VMWare Management Network Redundancy Problem
There is a very strange thing happening here. my network setup; Fibre A and B NICs from the host are connected to the fabric switch which has trunk to core switch.Copper port is connected to copper...
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VMWare Management Network Redundancy Question
Hi all, I have 3 hosts with 2 Fibre NICs (vmnic5 and vmnic4) which are connected to 2 stacked fibre switches (Fibresw 1 and Fibresw2). I also have a Distributed Switch set up in my vSphere for this...
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VMWare Teaming and Failover Question
Hi all, If I want to use two NICs for Active/Active setup in Teaming and Failover for my management portgroup in DVSwitch, which policy should I pick? What if I wanted to use one NIC as Active and the...
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Deleting snapshots on thin provisioned disks results in fully allocated vmdk...
This was an interesting development today. In my lab, all of the VMDKs are thinly provisioned. iSCSI connects the backend Synology to the ESXi host (6.5.0 Update 1 - build 7526125). The NAS is VAAI...
View ArticleGet CPU sensors info on platform with no IPMI
Is there a way to get the CPU temperature on a platform with no IPMI, running ESXi ? [root@localhost:~] esxcli hardware platform get Platform Information UUID: 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0...
View Article2nd raid doesn't show in Storage tab
Hi everyoneI have dl380 g6 and run Esxi 6.0.0, 5224934 on SD card.before install Esxi, I update server with HPE Service Pack for Proliant 2016.10I attached 2 series hdd to this server:1. raid 10 : 4*...
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ESXI DataStore Errors
So I'm having a problem while trying to create datastores, I get to the select partitioning options when trying to make a DataStore in the HTML5 configurator for ESXI 6.5 and I get this error:Cause:...
View ArticlePXE EFI Boot not working
Hello, (Update: I move this question to ESXi forum because I think it is more related to it...) we are trying to boot a virtual machine by using PXE EFI boot and we are unable. This is our setup:-...
View ArticleKB4088875 and KB4088878 vmxnet3
does this happen only on vmxnet3 adapters on 2008 machines? I pastched a host with E1000 and was unaffected
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