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Unexpected vCenter shutdown
Hello Guys, I am stuck with a problem where in either one or both vCenter will shut down at different times. After checking the vCenter VM vmware.log file, i believe it is a soft reboot initiated by VM...
View ArticleDuplicate Boot Disk from 32GB Flash Card to 64GB
The ESXi server starts from a 32GB USB flash card.I wanted to duplicate it on a second USB Flash Card, always 32GB but of different brand.I used ImageUSB, but it tells me that the destination Flash...
View ArticleProblems with esxi on hyperv 2016
Hello, anyone can help-me whats wrong with my configuration? My hyper-v server use the intel RI350 adapter and i download the offline bundle net-igb-5.3.2 and net55-r8168 (to intel hyperv) and...
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Does a diagnostic partition on a LUN preclude anything else from using the...
I have a SAN LUN with 8TB of space. There is a diagnostic partition on that LUN taking up approx 110GB. VMWare doesn't recognize the rest of the space on that LUN.Why not?
View ArticleQLA2462 HBA - driver issues with VMDirectPath on 6.7
I'm using virtual machine with QLA2462 & SCST ( SCST: A Generic SCSI Target Subsystem for Linux ) via Passthrough. It's working fine so far, there is ony one problem - on initial connect between...
View ArticleAfter upgrading ESXI Host form 5.5 to 6.5 , host cann't connect to vCenter
HelloI have update vCenter Server from 5.5 to VCSA 6.5 the proccess completed successfully, after that i updated the 1st ESXI host to 6.5 U1, during the task running and at 44% the host disconnected...
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Unmanaged workload detected on SIOC-enabled datastore
Hi. I need help with this problem: Three weeks ago, we updated our VMware build number. From many compilations to the last 10719132 (ESXi600-201811001.zip). This is because we try to mitigate the...
View ArticleVMFS5.6 Space Reclamation
I have a 4TB datastore named "Prod4T", which is thin provisioned, there is a production VM running inside, and it consumes only 2.8TB spaces.Is it safe to use the following command to reclam spaces in...
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After vMotion some VMs loses network connectivity
Hi, Recently we been upgrading our environment to 6.7 , at the same time we also patched/updated drivers and firmware to supported versions.After this upgrade we have seen issues with VMs intermittent...
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Move VMDKs to a another VM
Hi Here is the situation: I have a Windows Server 2003 Server that I need to decommission and move the disks to a Windows Server 2016. In order to move the disk, i need to offline the disks and detach...
View ArticleWhy is NVMe SSD drive failing registration?
Hi, We have developed a NVME SSD PCIe drive that works on Linux and Windows. The card has a minimum block size of 4K. I tested the card on ESXI 6.7. The card shows up as vmhba2 but does not appear in...
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Import of EXSI VM I created always fails
I'm a vmware noob, and am having some trouble building my linux appliance. My goal is to build a linux server on my esxi box, export it to an ova, and distribute it for others to use. The problem is...
View ArticleESXi dont see raid1+0
helloIm trying to install ESXi 6.5U1 with HPE custimizationson HP Proliant ML110 G7 but ESXi installer see my hard drivesas separate devices, not as raid1+0 which I configured already tried withESXi...
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vmdk corrupt?
I have a datastore on an esxi 5.5 box that looks to be corrupt.Last week I had 1 drive in the raid go bad, and have not been able to backup or migrate it since.It houses 2 windows 2012 servers that are...
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VMWare ESXI Login Page not available > MergePoint Embedded Management...
Hello, when trying to access the VMWare ESXI 6.7 Login Page (https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/login.html) from my PC I am redirected to this Page (MergePoint Embedded Management Software): If I open the...
View ArticlePermission issue while deploying OVA template
Hi all,I need to deploy ova template in my vcenter infra ( version 6.5)I faced certificate related issues, and then i tried directly on the host.Am using custom cert.I face the same error, when i try...
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Disk space issue in ESXi
In one of my ESXi where I use SSD, disk space shown by df -h command seems to be wrong. It shows disk space as full but I am not able to find out how about 300GB of disk space is being used? Please...
View ArticleHow to convert three files into a single ova file?
I am trying to create windows vm for esxi. I have created three files with the following extensions (vmdk, mf & ovf). My question is how to convert all three files into a single ova using the...
View Articlefirmware
I have RH5885H V3 Huawei server and I will install 6.7u1. I didn't find firmware for this server on the Huawei website. maybe I'm looking at the wrong places . can you share true firmware file name /...
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Vsphere shows incorrect VMDK size
Hi, I was extending a disk for my server and the process got stuck so I had to kill the job. Now I have an incorrect size. vSphere says my disk is 2.2 TB Yet on my datastore I see the following. My...
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