Efficient way to mesure disk MB/s ?
I suspect that our vm windows 10 run tree time slower than windows server 2008/201 so I'm trying to mesure IOPS but the result vary with the tool i use.we are ESXI 6.0.0 and vmfs 5.for exemple on...
View Articledead I/O on igb-nic (ESXi 6.7)
Hi, I'm running a homelab with ESXi 6.7 (13006603). I got three nics in my host, two are onboard and one is an Intel ET 82576 dual-port pci-e card. All nics are assigned to the same vSwitch; actually...
View ArticleVMware ESXi Crashing Dell R510 when shutting down VM
Evening all! Just wondered if anyone could shed any light on an issue I'm having. I'm running VMware ESXi 6.7.0U2 on a Dell Poweredge R510, I have FreeNAS and Windows 2016 server running as VM's both...
View ArticleESXi 6.7U2 Web Host Client does not send any keystroke to Windows VMs
What did I miss with this new release of Vmware Esxi 6.7U2?There is no way to unlock a Windows machine using the send the keystroke feature within the Web host client. I am using a Apple computer and...
View Articleesxi5.5 vlan tag error
esxi 5.5,vmnic with ixgbe driver(intel 82599 10G) can't recv packet with vlan tag,but tg3 driver(NetXtreme BCM5719 1G) can.help
View ArticleFile Server Service Migration to vmware
Hello All,I need some opinion concerning a migration of my MS cluster which contains Fileserver as Service and application to Vmware vCenter 6.5.I have the following scenario:I have two physical...
View ArticleUnable to vMotion error is "Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to...
Unable to vMotion one VM from one ESXi host to different ESXi host under same cluster. But Below error happen. Please let me know what to check and what should be the solution. Status :A general system...
View ArticleStart VM failed
=======update fixed=======I make a new directory named 172.31.18.143 in /vmfs/volumes/5bcf481f-70bab5a4-9131-c4b8b42ec002/,...
View ArticleHow to handle (iscsi) storage access temporary outage
Hello ! I was wondering if anyone could give me advices on how to handle storage access failures for VMs. For exemple, we have a iSCSI storage array located on datacenter 1, and VMs accessing it from...
View ArticleHost Not responding
Hello All, Esxi host HP ProLiant BL490c G6 got not responding state after the reboot. please suggest how can i bring it up.From DCUI everything is fine, checked with the local site engineer confirmed...
View ArticleDell R240 and BCM5720
Hi, I have a new DELL R240 with a BCM5720 and the latest version of vmware esxi 6.7u2 installed. Actually I only get 100Mbit.Switch and cable would already be changed.Switching the driver from ntg3 to...
View ArticleVMKernel Explanation
This may be overly simple, however, I am looking for an explanation as to what exactly the VMkernel is. In some cases (as I understand it) it's defined as an OS that lies on top of the hypervisor...
View ArticleSlow network performance for ESXi 6.7 Host
Hi I'm quite new to ESXi but I seem to be having an issue I can't manage to google up a solution for.I have a Dell T420 running ESXi 6.7 with several guests on (Windows/Linux/other). When I try to...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 not responding
Hi all,I have an ESXi 6.5 host Lenovo Flex System appears as disconnected in VMware vCenter ServerConnecting to the ESXi host directly using the vSphere Client failsCan not execute esxcli...
View ArticlePlease help - Esxi Losing data-storage and VM's when enabling USB 3 pass-through
Hello, I'm very new to esxi and trying to my usb3 passthrough to work. Every time I enable the onboard usb3 headers for passthrough and reset the system to take effect, I end up losing my data storage...
View ArticleHow to port forward from internet > home router > ESXI host > VMs
I am having troubles figuring out what i'm doing wrong with networking to my ESXI host, and onward to the VMs within from my internet gateway / home router. I have an ESXI host with 3 vms connected...
View ArticleError Transfer Failed while Exporting / Importing OVF by OVFTool
I checked the video on you tube and followed the same instruction and also tried on different PC but the error is same. I have ESXI 6.5 image on my Laptop folder which has four files *.ovf ,...
View ArticleUnable to Update ([Errno 28] No space left on device) Using...
I'm attempting to update a fresh install of ESXI using the VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-Update2-13006603-HPE-Gen9plus-670.U2.10.4.1.8-Apr2019.iso The install goes fine and the machine boots happily. I get a CVE...
View ArticleImport VM to Workstation
HI Team, i tried to Map the Virtual disk (.vmdk) files in Windows 10, it showing the error reading volume information.Even i tried in OVF template also, it is not opening.
View ArticleCannot execute upgrade script on host
Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade a server from 6.0 to 6.5 and running into the above error. Remediation precheck seems to run fine and I've looked a a bunch of blogs. The only error message I see in the...
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