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Strange thing : User dcui@127.0.0.1 logged in and out messages flooding in...
In ESXi's hot web page's event list, nearly every minutes, there are messages saying "User dcui@127.0.0.1 logged in as" and immediately "User dcui@127.0.0.1 logged out". Even if I reboot the host, the...
View Articlesome VMs showing vmware tools version status as "unsupported"
some VMs are showing vmware tools version status as "unsupported" , on my ESXi 6 hosts. 10282 is current, but unsupported are versions 10246, 10249, 9389 and 9344 . Can these vms be improved using the...
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vSphere web client slow/unresponsive
Hello all, First time posting here, so please go easy. I've included a diagram with the basic setup. I can provide additional gory details of the networking done with Virtual Switches and Port Groups...
View Articlerevisiting the separation of networks
i have for sometime been using a lab with 4 supermicro mini servers to try to learn more and I had a reasonably good setup with cisco switch and pfsense vm handling routing and vlans.Recently I...
View Articleinternet access to VMs va vsphere ESXI 6
I installed Vsphere 6.0 on a VM workstation 11 and on booting it gave me an IP address (static) - 192.168.254.XX and i used the same address to log into the Vsphere Client. In Vsphere Client, I created...
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Looking for some help about POWER EDGE R710
Hi, I'm trying to install esxi on a power edge r710 ESXI 6.7 because it's the trail one.I'm not sure it's working with R710. Right now, when i'm booting with my USB with ESXI 6.7 on it, when the...
View Articleport monitoring cisco ucs 6248
any idea how to monitor all the UCS traffic coming out from the Fabric interconnect to a VM or to another physical device?
View ArticleNested Homelab
Looking into building a newly nested homelab with VMware Workstation on Windows 10. See the attached BOM list of what I am looking to build out. I want to run vSphere, vSAN, NSX, nested.I want to...
View ArticleGuest Memory Limit Set?
I have been doing some troubleshooting regarding some ballooning on a resource pool I have setup. I roughly have 65 VMs in this pool and while I was poking around I randomly noticed a guest memory...
View ArticleESXi EVC
helloI want to configure the cluster.Do I have to configure evc? cpuPlatinum 8168 2.70GhzPlatinum 8180 2.50Ghz or is vmotion possible without evc?
View ArticleSingle Host Test: : MGMT Tests: : CIM PCI - Status test fail for VMWare Ready
We have encountered a problem in VMware pre- cert Test process, the 'Single Host Test: : MGMT Tests: : CIM PCI - Status' always Test Fail, we are in strict accordance with the VMware Server...
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new esxi 6.7.0 host will not connect to the same nfs server the esxi 6.0.0...
I have seen many of the unanswered questions about esxi mysteriously not mounting NFS shares. This one provides perhaps a chance to track down what is going on. The situation: I have built a new esxi...
View ArticleCan't update from 6.7 (build 10176752) to 6.7 U1 (build 10302608) -...
Hello, I'm currently trying to update from 6.7 (Build 10176752) to 6.7 U1 (Build 10302608) via command line. [root@esxi:~] esxcli software vib update -d...
View ArticleWindows Server VM with Physical Monitor
Hi, We use ESXi 6.7 U1 on a few machines that are used for build and automated testing of our visual-effects software products. For our tests to run properly, they need hardware-accelerated OpenGL and...
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Performance regression in ESXi CPU Schduler in 6.5 and 6.7 (vs 6.0)
Has anyone else experienced an increase in CPU scheduler latency when moving from 6.0 to 6.5 (and 6.7)? I'm finding that the %RDY values are gnerally higher on 6.5 and 6.7 for equivalently loaded...
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ESXi 6.7.0 (build 8169922 x86_64) failed to install
Hello, We have a HPZ840 workstation with INTEL® XEON® PROCESSOR E5-2650 V3 (25M Cache, 2.30 GHz).During the install we ran into the "could not start pcpu 6" error screen (please see attached pic).We...
View ArticleHugepages
Hello, I am running ESXi 6.7 and I have enabled hugapages support as per Huge Pages but this still doesn't do anything cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i hugeAnonHugePages: 329728 kBShmemHugePages:...
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How do I transfer guest to another host on ESXi6.0 without vCenter Server.
Hi there. We are planning to transfer the Linux guest VM to another ESXi6.0 host. We have two ESXi6.0 hosts: * Host A ( The Linux X is in this host machine). * Host B Note that: We don't have a...
View ArticleVmrun deleteVM command failed with "The File in use"
Hi Team, Vmware Workstation v14 Pro(14.1.5 build-10950780) We have created a ruby wrapper for VMRUNcommands and distributed for our internal use. When I call start_vm, first we do linked_clone and then...
View Articlevirtual machines from esxi 5.5 to esxi 6.7
I am moving my virtual machines from esxi 5.5 to esxi 6.7 is this best with veeam, I would like to try vmotion but I do not see a test or trial for vmotion 6.7 unless vmware calls it something new
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