What is the ideal MTU Size for NFS Storage in VMware?
Hello, We have performance issues on Storage where NFS Volumes GAVG/cmd goes upto 200 and keep fluctuating betwwen 150 to 200. This happens whenever we clone a VM or migrate a VM. Upon checking...
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vmware.log file missing log or time gap
Hi All,i faced an issue with VM, when i was checking its vmware.log i see some of the log lines are missing. Any one have idea what and why there was no log recorded.You can see in below image after...
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Maintenance mode at startup
Hi Everyone!I have ESXi 6.7 13981272 Build.After i update it from 6.5 to current build i have an issue with maintenance mode.Every time i start esxi the system runs in maintanence mode. Than i exit...
View ArticleNvDimm not showing up in esxi 6.7
Hi i´m having trouble getting my newly installed nvdimms to show up in vmware esxi.Some background, I have 5 servers hpe dl360g9 with 64gig of nvdimm installed at each hardware, the nvdimms shows up in...
View ArticlePatching from ESXi 6.7u1 to 6.7u2
If I want to update a host from ESXi 6.7u1-10302608 to the latest ESXi 6.7u2-13981272... Do I have to do "update-from-esxi6.7-6.7_update02" (13006603) first and then "ESXi670-201906002" (13981272) or...
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Unable to power on VM. VMDK file not found error.
Hello All, I have run into a critical issue here. We had a ransomware attack in our datacenter last week. We started the restore process from backups. Two of our critical servers were live mounted from...
View ArticleHost Memory Status on some ESXi - False error
Hi everyone ! First, sorry for my bad English, I'm a French user. So, my problem is the following : I manage different VMware / Vcenter with some ESXi on each platform.Sometimes, an alert is up for...
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USB passthrough not working anymore since upgrade to 6.7
Hi, We have a virtual machine that scans USB drives with an anti-virus software when they're plugged in the server, then shares them on our network if they're considered safe.To do this, we have...
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After upgrade to ESXi 6.5 U3 LSI SMI-S CIM Provider (LSIprovider) don't work
Hello. I have upgraded my ESXi 6.5 U2 to U3 and got troubles. No more monitoring for LSI Magaraid SAS 9260-4i.And I see in Event this warning "An application (/bin/sfcbd) running on ESXi host has...
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Storage Adapter Status "Unknown"
I recently noticed that both of my ESXi 6.7 U2 hosts are currently showing status "unknown" for their storage adapters but everything seems to be working fine. Should I be concerned? Thank you.
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VMware Tools on Remote Desktop Services VM
I'm about to P2V an existing physical server running Windows Server 2016 with MultiPoint Role (Remote Desktop Services). Server hosts about 25 existing user profiles. My question is regarding the...
View ArticleChanging Timestamp format in 6.x ESXI Syslog
Hi all, I'm trying to modify the Syslog timestamp format with no luck. This is the current timestamp format of my ESXi Syslog:2019-08-05T12:59:01.669+02:00 info hostd[03469] [Originator@6876...
View ArticleFailing Disk - partedUtil getptbl showing "unknown"
Hi everyone, I have a failing SATA disk on a home test lab that I'd like to try to save if possible. I have a backup of the data but it's taking forever to download (multiple TB). The drive still spins...
View ArticleESXi 6 - backup snapshot
Is there way to backup snapshot of VM in ESXi 6.0 environment?
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I want to change the location of my snapshot
Hello folks, I want to change the location of my snapshot due to less space for VM under ESXI 6.0. However, this KB 1002929 returns a blank page and I couldn't t find the steps anywhere else !Any help...
View ArticleESXi 6.7 - Secure Boot and startup script
Hi, Hope someone may have run in to this problem before and maybe able to help. We have a customer that needs to boot with Secure Boot enabled. All works fine apart from the ability to run a simple...
View ArticleVMware Site Recovery Manager
Hello, I have question. I ran a recovery test and received an error on one of the servers. Has anyone seen this error before? Error - A general system error occurred: PBM error occurred during...
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Datastore unavailable after RAID crash/rebuild
I had an ESXi 6.5 server on a Dell R520 with 8-disk RAID6 ( 8 x 3TB, 18TB) As mentioned in several threads here, following a RAID crash and drive rebuild, the only datastore disappeared. esxcli storage...
View ArticleUCS with ESXi 6.5 Dead on Arrival. Can I local storage swap to new UCS and...
Long story short i'm on a short deployment, UCS chassis running ESXi DOA'd ... I used the Local storage on one of the 2 other chassis and built the required VMs for the project. We are waiting on an...
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problem with virtual machine
hi all,i have a vmware installation (5.5)i have many host(win 2016, win 10)recently the host with windows 2016 running slow, i don't make any change in configuration, and the host with windows 10...
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