vm network
I have one linux server and its working one nic. now I added another one. I can't ping the second added nic. Do I need to make another setting on the vcenter. vlan definitions on vcenter are correct....
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Vswitch is not working, network connectivity between vitual machishes is broken.
I'm facing stange issue with esxi 6.7. i have one vm with 7 interfaces and another vm with 1 interface. Both VMs connected via dedicated vswitch (7th vswitch) and have no connection between.When I...
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Unable to load module /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/vmfs3: Failure
Greetings! I have seen similar problems reported in threads dated 2011 so I thought I better start a new one. I am trying to install ESXi 6.0 U3 on a Proliant DL380 Gen7, which, according to the...
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vmware 6.5 - NIC teaming not working after hardware upgrade
I just upgraded the hardware in my home/lab box to use a new motherboard and Intel I5-9600k. No issues during boot, and all vms came up fine. The only hardware difference is that now I'm using 2 PCIE...
View ArticleSAN and NFS storage
I have a cluster running SAN and now we want to attach NFS as well. one esxi will have SAN storage and NFS storage attached. what can be the drawbacks by using these storage protocols on same esx...
View Article5.0 to 6.5 Upgrade question.
I have 3 servers I need to upgrade from 5.0 to 6.5. I have vcenter 5 installed on a virtual machine on one of the 3 servers. I really want to have clean installs and not upgrade. I was thinking about...
View ArticleFix corrupted secondary GPT table
Hi, I will start by saying im not a professional with ESXi, and started using it as a hobby. After a while of using it I setup a freenas vm for a network drive. That is the problem I now have, is with...
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ESXi 6.7 Windows 2016/2019 freeze
Dear VMWare Community, I have serious trouble with Windows 2016/2019 VM guests on ESXi 6.7. Every 3,4,5 days several VMs are unresponsible and hang. The only way to bring the VM back to life is the...
View ArticleUpgrading to vSphere Replication 8.1.
Hi all, Before following the below article to deploy the new vSphere Replication 8.1 OVF, on the networking step, can anybody clarify how it actually gets a temporary IP address? Do I have to initially...
View ArticlevCPU max latency below a few microseconds ?
Hi, We have a networking intensive application running inside a CentOS 7.6 VM with 8 vCPUs. It is latency sensitive and needs response time around a few microseconds but sometimes the threads are stuck...
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Thin provisioned disks grow up to its limits
Hi everyone! I am using Esxi 6.7 on one HP server with the image "HPE Customized Image ESXi 6.7.0 Update 1 version 670.U1.10.3.5 released on October 2018 and based on ESXi 6.7.0 Update 1 Vmkernel...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 BSOD 0x0000013c
Hello, We had a Server 2012 R2 crash and not sure what caused it. ntoskrnl.exe+1554a0 Attached is the memory dump. I looked it up and came across forums on here asking if anyone else has a dump file...
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esx6.5 unable to expand datastore
Trying to expand an existing datastore. I see the added free space but I'm stuck here. It doesnt allow me to select anything.
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VMWare Tools on Guest OS timing out
HPE Customized Image ESXi 6.5.0 Update 2 version 650.U2.10.3.5. Recently updated from a non customized image 6.5.0 Update 2. I can get the previous build number if needed. Been having a problem with...
View Articleunable to delete a datastore
Hi ! a datastore was nearly full, so i decide to increase it. The datastore was used by a partition 's VM Here how i proceed : 1 - I put the datastore offline2 - I umount the datastore from vcenter3 -...
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Esxi linux passthrough problems
Hello, I kinda noobies then comes to stuff about ESXi, but I having trouble all day. I made two VM one Linux another window. trying passthrough and video card (Radeon 580) with windows vm everything...
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Installing VM in ESXi does not show Hard Drives
Hi there,I am learning and experimenting in a small home lab with VMware and all those things. I do have a physical server with ESXi 6.5.0 installed on it, and created two datastores with the drives....
View ArticleVMDK size auto increase after backup VM
Hi,VMDK auto increase from 200GB to 700 GB on datastore after backup VM by commvault. I don't know why. Please help!
View ArticleDatastore NFS or iSCSI
Hello, I am installing my new VMware 6.7 infrastructure on my storage but I have the choice between NFS or iSCSI. I know this question has already asked but when I see older discussion on it, it is on...
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mount datastore to additional host hangs
I would like to mount a existing Datastore to a new ESXi host into the same cluster. When I launch the wizard I never have the hosts list (I am waiting 1 hour and I have always this screen. Perhaps...
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