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Network connectivity restored on virtual switch - but never went down?
Hello guys, Let me briefly apologize in advance as I am not a vmware engineer and don't understand the intricacies of vmware. I stumbled across this issue trying to troubleshoot why our Windows...
View ArticleIn-Guest UNMAP, doesn't work with windows server 2019 or windows 10 1809 / 1903
Using VMware vSphere 6.7 U2Windows server 2019VM is configured as 'thin'when you try to run the built-in defrag which supposed to run the UNAMP (Trim) command, it comes with an error, it's not...
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Cannot add physical NIC's to vSwitch
I built this ESXi 6.5 lab machine (6.5.0 (Build 4887370) with 2x physical NIC's and it's been fine. I wired up and verified the second NIC pair recently. They won't add to the machine.vmnic0 and vmnic1...
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Freeware Hypervisor
Gents,Please suggest the name of Freeware opensource Hypervisor I can test & run my development environment for R&D. Thanks in advance.
View ArticleTrying to recover datastore after RAID10 rebuild
So, we had some drive failures on a box living at a colo facility, and over the course of the reboot and rebuild process, our install has fallen into "The ESXi host does not have persistent storage"...
View ArticleESXi 6.7 stuck on initializing scheduler
I restarted my ESXi vSphere 6.7 (update 2) server to add another SSD but it is now stuck on initializing scheduler. The only answer to this problem I have found online suggests disabling USB legacy...
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Purple Screen on ESXI 6.5u2
Hello to everyone, i tried to open a support request, but it seems i can't, even if my supportwill expired on July. Anyway, i have this problem, randomly.It seems it can be something about the CPU,...
View Articlecannot vmkping own ip.
we have just upgraded ( actually reinstalled) a bunch of hosts to 6.5 and on one host we cannot vmkping anything on the vmotion interface. ( works on all the others ) Vmotion to and from this host...
View ArticleEverytime I clone a vm i get this error message "An error occurred while...
I have a cluster located in new york and vcenter 6.7 is connecting to that cluster using a VPN, this VPN was pointing to this network xx.xx.10.x.we later change where the VPN is pointing to, now is...
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Can ESX host attached USB Drives be named
I have several USB drives that are attached to two hosts. One host has 2 drives the other 4 drives. I have these drives attached to VM's running on the same host where the drives are attached (I do...
View ArticleRemoved host from vcenter. Repurposing server elsewhere as standalone, still...
Hello, I haven't been able to find KB articles of exactly this situation, but its as follows. An ESXi host was removed from vcenter (a newer server ended up replacing it). I'm noticing the host that...
View Articlelogfilter for Thermal interrupt in vmkernel not working
Hey there, so i'm troubleshooting something in the vmkernel log on my laptop with ESXi 6.7 U2. But the vmkernel.log is getting spammed with:2019-05-24T22:23:40.081Z cpu1:2099203)WARNING: APIC: 898:...
View ArticleW2008 R2 VMS in ESXi 4.1 host, BSOD after updating
Hi everyone, today I just realized and issue that is wondering me and don't know when it started happening and why. I have several ESXi 4.1 hosts with several VMs since years, most of the machines run...
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ESXI ISSUE ON DELL SERVER
I have installed ESXI 6.0 on DELL Server R720 with RAID 1.Iam facing parity check in progress warning in vsphere client on storage.after sometime one harddrive goes into foreign and led becomes orange...
View ArticleESXi PSOD #PF Exception 14 in world vmm2, CpuSched
VMware ESXi 6.5 EP 09 ESXi650-201810001 10/02/2018 10175896IBM System x3550 M4Error: #PF Exception 14 in world 69288:vmm2:KG-VMac IP 0x418028ace13b addr 0x1000e528020 Hello!I don't know when...
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can not get IP over bridge.
I installed VMware workstation 14. But I cannot use bridge mode. i do search on the internet, All solution is about to fix it from "virtual network editor". but from below picture, you can see that...
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Consolidate datastore failed end up eating space
Hi Guys, Here's the thing, after migrate my vm to another host, my vendor advise to consolidate disk and delete all snapshot, end up the consolidate progress failed and consume all of my datastore...
View Articlesimultaneous unmap sessions limit
is there a limit or recommendation on how many simulataneous unmap commands I can run per datastore simultaneously on a single host? I got over 100 luns attached to a cluster and I want to run unmap on...
View ArticleAgain USB passthrough issues
Hi all, I'm running ESXi 6.7u2 on a Supermicro mini server.I had no issue with older ESXi releases but with this one here I can't manage to see USB devices available for passthrough in the UI.I've...
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Switches for ESXi iSCSI not on the LAN - is this a normal configuration?
Hello, I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 connected to a Dell PowerVault MD3200i with two Dell PowerConnect 5524 switches in between them. The R610 and MD3200i are connected with iSCSI. The Dell switches are...
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