Recovery Help Needed - ESXi 6.0 - VMDK errors after snapshot removal
Hi, I really hope someone can help, my ESX. My problems seem to have started after I tried to remove a snapshot from a VM that was on a disk that was full. At the moment the VM won't start because it...
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Storage QoS (Limit IOPS)
Hello all, Are any of you setting a limit on IOPS for a VM/VMDKs? We are using it, but we are having an issue, or several issues, and getting pretty much nowhere with support. Tested it on ESXi 6.5 and...
View ArticleGuest XP can't see vCenter
Hello everybody. My config is as follows: - ESX1 (192.168.1.150)- ESX2 (192.168.1.160)- vCenter (192.168.1.50)- Domain Controller (192.168.1.10) All of them joined by vmnet2 (Workstation Host-Only)....
View ArticleMissing 'Use Windows session credentials' checkbox
Hello, Maybe I'm missing something here but we are running 3 ESXI hosts without vCenter. The Hosts are all running the free version of ESXI 6.5. We are able to log into the web client just fine with...
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I have a stand alone esxi without any internet connect and I want to load vmware software. Is there anyway this can be done?
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vmk, improtant impact
Hi All, I configured iSCSI Software adapter in ESXi 6.5, but got the following pic. Could you help me？ Thanks.
View ArticleHost cannot download files from Update Manager
HiI'm trying to update some hosts in the Environment but it always fails with the following Error "Host cannot download files from VMware vSphere Update Manager patch store. Check the network...
View ArticleCorrupt delta file - Sync IO issued on cow disk xxx failed with short IO 0...
After a weird system hang I restarted the ESXI host and ended up not able to boot up of the VM's. The VM had a snapshot and it seems the -delta file of the snapshot got corrupted, or final block was...
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'Off-esxi' backups?
Hi. I have an ESXi 5.5 installation running here at home on an HP Proliant. I take periodic clones of my twelve VMs. I would like to get them off of the host and onto my Desktop Mac, to be backed up...
View ArticleUploading VMDK files to datastore
Hi,We are migrating relatively small workload from hyper-v to VMware.For reasons I won't get into here, we have ended up with a bunch of VMDKs, which we need to upload to a datastore.The environment is...
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vConverter speeds extremely slow
Hi,We are migrating a small workload of 6 guests currently running on vSphere and Hyper-v, across the internet via a VPN and into a vSphere cluster of two hosts, direct attached storage running...
View Articlevmtools timeout
Virtual machine can ping, unable to open the console, Vmtools display "not running"; After the virtual machine is restarted, the virtual machine is running normally, and the Vmtools response time...
View Article0xc000014c Error after Disk Resize
Hi All, Looking for some assistance please. A critical resize of a disk was required, we shut the VM down and resized to 1.5TB from 1TB. When trying to boot, it fails with the error: Windows Failed to...
View ArticleESXi 6.5.0 crash (kernel panic?)
Hello, We have an HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server.In the last couple of days, we have had hangs on our VMs, nothing was respoding. We logged in into the console the see the crashdump you see on the...
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ESXi 6.5 - Used cli to add a port group fine, however the web ui or vcenter...
Hi all, on Esxi 6.0/6.5 I used the following cli fine, and esxcfg-vswitch -l show everything was added correctly. However the web ui from the esxi host or vcenter web ui doesn't show the port group....
View Articlevcenter 6.0.0 patch
what is the best way to patch vcenter 6.0.0 2559268 (windows +SQL Express) I can see a lot of KBs about appliance but not able to find on windows vcenter. thanks in advance.
View ArticleVMtools error in Application events on server 2016
Hi,we have faulting application errors every ~5-10 minutes on our 2016 servers with vm tools:Faulting application name: WmiApSrv.exe, version: 10.0.14393.0, time stamp: 0x57899ac8Faulting module name:...
View ArticleHow to identify exact drive VMDK from The VM
Hello All, If we are increasing VMDK of windows VM OS End C Drive 60GB D Drive 100GB E Drive 100Gb F Drive 100Gb I want to increase E Drive to 150GB, My question is how to identify exact E drive VMDK...
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Any connections made from 10Gb physical ports don't work
We've recently upgraded our network equipment, so we can now make use of the 10Gb ports on our servers. Two servers have Cisco VIC 1227 cards, and the other two have Intel x520 (both are dual 10Gb...
View ArticleStormagic version
Hi Can someone help me to get command to collect stormagic appliance firmware version via script.I tried search in google,but no luck.Please share your ideas if anyone have details. Regards Sen
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