Upgrade standalone ESXi host from 5.5 to 6.5
Pls advise, I have 2 separate standalone ESXi hosts that are currently running ESXi 5.5. These are IBM HS22 and IBM HS23 physical blade servers. They are not clustered, just standalone individual ESXi...
View ArticleESXi compatible
Good afternoon! I have a server with an Intel Core i5-9500 processor. Realtek RTL 8168/8111 network card. Which version of ESXi is right for me?
View ArticleIssues with ESXi
I have 5 windows-10 VMs running on a ESXi node. On each VM is a application call Hiperwall Sender. This is a content management system and on the admin GUI I'm getting an error every 20 minutes that...
View ArticleBest upgrade path or method for upgrading ESXi 5.5 on 4GB SD card to 6.5?
A few questions: 1. What is the best way to determine how much space ESXi is currently using when booting and run from an SD Card on a HP server with no local hard drive?2. VMware says that 1GB minimum...
View ArticleESXI 6.5 host randomly rebooting
I have a host that has been running good for about a year. The other day it has started to randomly reboot, sometimes every ten minutes sometimes 24 hours. I believe it is hardware related. What logs...
View ArticleReconnecting disk to datastore after RAID array rebuild
Hello, Yesterday one of our ESX datastore drives died and was replaced. The datastore disk was a part of RAID5 and was rebuilt soon after, but ESX hasn't reconnected the disk to the datastore.On ESX...
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VMWARE vAPI ENDPOINT stopped suddently
Hi everyone. Some one know why could it cause that VMWARE vAPI ENDPOINT service stopped suddently (2 times in the last week) . That issue impacts on avamar backups.Vsphere 6.5.0 Thanks in advance.
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Esxi 6.5.0 stopped booting
I have a small Esxi install at home with 6.5.0 release build 8294253 installed. Booting it up has never been a problem until now when it stops when it says "vmkapi_v2_1_0_0_vmkernel_shim loaded...
View ArticleESXi and QinQ
Good day to all! Very relevant question to me - can or can not Guest work with QinQ traffic? I looked over all the Internet, have read tons of articles. The answer is only one - You can't, even in VTG...
View Articleesxi psod
hi, I could not access the esxi server when moving virtual machines to another esxi host. I have a little research vm tool version I think there is a problem. Could this be because of the vm tools...
View ArticleStrange situation with ESXi 6.7 u2, u3 on servers R740XD with the network...
Hi all, Have a strange situation with server R740XD with ESXi 6.7 u2, u3.After reboot, when ESXi is loaded disappears access to web-control ESXi after some time, access time can be various, but VM's...
View ArticleLicencing - Help
I apoligise if this is in the incorrect place. I looking for a little help I have setup esxi on a host (128gb ram) 2cpu(10cores each) hyperthreaded i currently have 4 vm's setup on this in a...
View ArticleIBM system x3850 x5 firmware issue to support 6.0u3 as per VMware HCL
Hi, We have IBM System x3850 X5 7143-B2G rack mount servers that we are planning to upgrade to ESXi 6.0u3. The hardware is withdrawn and the firmware listed under the VMware compatibility matrix...
View ArticleESXi on a MacBook Pro 11,4 or newer
I have been trying to install ESXi 6.0, 6.5, or 6.7 on a MacBook Pro 11,4 and 11,5 bare metal to no avail. When I tried on a MacBook Pro 11,2 there were no issues. The installer recognized the...
View ArticleESXi 5.5- been rebooting in the morning
Hello, I am running a few VM's on ESXi 5.5. For the past two days it's been rebooting and I can't figure out why. It's not a power issue as I have other computers plugged into the same APC strip....
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VMware Tools on Linux.
Hello,The VMware Tools is installed and running:# service vmtoolsd statusvmtoolsd (pid 1956) is running...But, My server memory become full and crashed:Any special configuration for VMware Tools?#...
View Articlemessages "sfcb-vmware_raw{XXXXX]" show in syslog.log
I have a cluter including a few hosts(version Esxi 6.5) .In one host of cluter ,I have found that messages "sfcb-vmware_raw{XXXXX]" show in /var/log/syslog.log repeatly. Also ,files such as...
View ArticleStuck after reboot dvfilter-gener ic-fastpath loaded successfully
Hello, After install Dell Custom Image update03-14320388.x86_64 rebootStuck dvfilter-gener ic-fastpath loaded successfully and install VMware Update Patch update-from-esxi6.7-6.7_update03Still stuck...
View ArticleA reboot occurred.
Suddenly with esxi5.5.0 build-2456374 Update2 (HP customization)A reboot occurred.I saw all the logs, but only after startup.Is there a problem with this version that suddenly restarts?
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