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Virtual Machine is showing as Invalid (vSphere 5.1)
I understand that vSphere 5.1 is EOL and we are moving on to 6.7. However, I have a strange issue that one of our virtual machines is showing as "Invalid" with no descriptions. It seems like it is...
View ArticleESXi 6.7 hangs @ dma mapper iommu screen after GPU pass-through
After setting up an ESXi 6.7 server which was running fine I added 4 GeForce GTX 1080Ti GPUs. To enable GPU pass-through in the advanced configuration menu of ESXi I found some hints (e.g....
View ArticleESXI 6.5 and Vcenter 6.7
Hey Guys, I was hoping that someone on here would be able to point me in the right direction. I am having major issues getting two servers to connect to our vcenter server. We keep getting this dreaded...
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Can't RDP or UNC into VMs on host
Good afternoon everyone, I have a home lab server that I've been setting up over the last week. I have a Windows 10 VM and a FreeNAS VM on the host. I can ping both VMs from a PC outside of the host....
View Articleesxi firmware
I want to upgrade esxi 5.1 to 5.5 . i get rvtools report . what is mean bios date . i must upgrade server firmware or not ? VMware Compatibility Guide - System Search ModelBIOS VersionBIOS...
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Includes realtek 8168 gigabit driver
can install esxi 6.5 on realtek 8168 nic motherboard ..
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Physical adapter on Uplink mapped to a port group question
Hi all, We had a DVS configured with 4 uplink. 2 of these uplink didnt not have a physical adapter.We have a port group for VLAN XX mapped on these 4 uplink ( all 4 are active ) and routing is based on...
View ArticleHardware Version after ESXi host upgrade
After upgrading an ESXi host to 6.5 from 5.5, are the guest machines that are migrated back to the now 6.5 host hardware version automatically updated to version 13?
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Setting up a virtual DHCP server connecting with uplink port
Hello, I am trying to set up a DHCP server in ESXi 6.5. My plan is the server connect to a physical switch via uplink port(vmnic2) and provide DHCP IP to other computers. It sort of acts like a router....
View Articlehyperthreading inactive
Hi, the CPUs of the physical servers do not support hyper threading. ESX Hyperthreading is inactive .for example there are 4 vCPUs in the virtual machine but on the windows task manager also sees 1...
View ArticleProblem with rotating RDX Tape
Hi,how is it solved to attach a rotating sata rdx tape to a virtual machine in esxi 6.5? My known solution is to add the sata RDX tape as a virtual disk into the machine.But if we swap out the tape...
View ArticleServer 2016 VMware tools (vmstatsprovider.dll) issue
We have an issue on all Server 2016 VMs; vmstatsprovider.dll is crashing as shown in WER logs and application log. Other OS do not exhibit this issue. We updated to tools 10.1.10 from 10.1.7 (10.1.10...
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configure software iSCSI with two physical NIC
Hi, We have 2*ESXi 6.5 server. Each server have dedicated 2 Physical NIC reserved for software iSCSI storage. Can anyone tell, if i should create one vSwitch with both the NIC as active or i should...
View ArticleHost Client shows wrong IP information
Hi guys, I would like to ask about Host Client error in my environment.One of VMs has one NIC. The ip address was assigned by DHCP and I edited it manually.I can see correct IP address info in Web...
View Articleis my server vulnerable to security threats?
Hi. my server is not connected to the internet, is in vulnerable to security threat? I have a VM that is running RedHat and I want to know if its vulnerable to mutagen astronomy vulnerability general...
View ArticleExporting VM IMages to EC2
I am know at this game. What is the best VM product to use to develop Linux images to export to AWS.Any help would be appreciated.
View ArticleRemove esxi Host from cluster
HI gurus as you can tell still learning vmware, so need some help I would like to remove a host from the cluster , so I have read and found the followng steps 1) remove hosts from vDS2) add to new...
View Articleexsi 4.1 upgrade to 5.5
hi can someone provide the best plan of attack to upgradeI have an ibm server 3650 that is running exsi 4.1 local storage. I like to upgarde it to 5.5. can I do an inplace upgrade of this host. what...
View ArticleVMware free ESXi 6.5 and 6.7 limitation and features
Where can I locate a detailed and up-to-date description of the features and limitation of the 6.5 and 6.7 versions of the free ESXi hypervisor?Regardsmariua
View ArticleESXi
Dear ladies and gentlemen,in March 2017 we bought an ESXi Licence and thought we will have support with it. So we extented the "support" in 2018 for another 3 years. But as we know now, the...
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