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ESXi 6.5 - Device Passthrough
Hello all, I'm an ESXi beginner trying to get my graphics cards to passthrough my VM. In ESXi under Host>Manage> under the "hardware tab">PCI Devices, it states the device is not capable for...
View ArticleErrors with dd on some esxi hosts...
I have 3 ESXi 6.0 hosts, all 3 with taste patches installed. On 2 of them, the dd command is not working if i use the bs= argument.On the 3rd one, it works as expected. [code]root@XServe3-ESXi: ls...
View Articlefailed to upgrade Esxi to 6.5 U1
Esxi is installed on a 8GB USB stick, and when I try to upgrade it o 6.5 U1, the progress failed with some errors messages. vmware -vl VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-5310538VMware ESXi 6.5.0 GA md5sum...
View Articleesxi vcpu memory and sharing resources
hi guys. vm has vcpu, memory, provisioned space. On existing esxi with VMs when i add new vm which of this can be shared/overlapped , for example if i have 8 vcpu and 5 of them assigned already but my...
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Problem with vSphere ESXi 6.5 and 3Ware 9690sa-4i
Hey, just installed vSphere ESXi 6.5 and i got a 3Ware 9690sa-4i installed with 4 SATA which are in an RAID5. I can also see the card in the hardware tab of the Internet Management window. But i can't...
View ArticleRestart Windows 2008 R2 Virtual system
Is it possible to restart the virtual system from within the O/S by running shutdown -r -t 0 or is it better to issue the restart command from within vSphere client?
View ArticleInstalling Storage api
How do install the Storage api? From what I've read they should be included in your licensed copy of vSphere. Or is it a separate license and install?
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How to replicate to another place
Hi, We have a vmware on couple of servers. We have vcenter installed and all the 20 virtual machines are running. We are using 6.0. We want to replicate the vmware servers to another place. I really am...
View Articleglobal vSphere swap dir configuration
Hello, I'm using vSphere Hypervisor free edition (HPE custom image). I have a RAID-6 storage volume consisting of 4 WD RE harddisks. Due to loud access sounds of these 4 WD RE when running a VM even in...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 & TLS 1.2 with vCenter
Moving an environment from 5.5 to 6 and im wanting to implement TLS 1.2. I can implement TLS 1.2 for vCenter connection but what about the connection between the ESXi hosts & vCenter. I assume...
View ArticleMouse clicks are not recognized in a VMware
keyboard is recognized in a VMware. Mouse clicks are not recognized in a VMware esxi5.5 324857 guest os - windows 2008 r2 How can I solve this
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ESXi 6.5.0 cannot import OVA - unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'
We want to import an OVA image to ESXi, however, the import failed, because of this error message:unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'How can we successfully import it?
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random vmx corruption on reboot, affects only passthru/ partial workaround.
Esxi 6.5; running on intel Xeon e5 2690 ; windows 10 vm's. The vmx files randomly become corrupted when rebooting the host. This occurs whether or not I put the machine in maintenance mode prior to...
View Articledetach/attach network labels from/to the vGuest via ESXi shell
Hello, I'm looking for the way about how to modify the network label of the vGuest via ESXi shell.seems this command will add the virt-ether adapter to the vGuest but there seems nothing deletenic,...
View ArticleWhy is my disk write performance FASTER using a snapshot?
I've been doing some disk performance benchmarks as part of my evaluation of vSphere 6.5 and have a few questions about behaviour that I can't explain. The most puzzling one of which is a write...
View ArticleNetworking configuration
I need to move two ESXi 5.5 host to a new rack and I want to optimize the use of physical network interfaces.What document or site can I use to determine the best network interface configuration...
View ArticleMicrosoft Clustering between sites?
I can´t find any information if it is possible to run MSCS between VMware sites. I found the information that it is possible to run between physical hosts but does anyone know if it works between...
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VMWare 6.5.0 (Build 5310538) serial/com port passthrough issues.
Hi All, Go easy on me, i'm new around here. We had a VM with access control software on an old ESXi server (5.5). It was working fine and had a USB to Serial converter that then had a card reader...
View ArticleUpdate Path Selection Policy from Command Line
Hello. I'd like to 1) change the default policy for new datastores added from MRU to RR, and 2) also change a few existing one at a time to RR too. Can anyone explain how to do this? In my searches,...
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UCS-CPU-E52697AE bug report for ESXi 5.5 U3 or higher
Hi Team, We are planning to use E52697AE CPU on proposed Hypervisor to be built on UCS C240. But before that, we would like to have any bug report for this particular processor w.r.t ESXi 5.5 U3 or...
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