How to export a vm to ova file on ESXI6.5 with SSH command?
How to export a vm to ova file on ESXI6.5 with SSH command? I wanna use the ssh tool to export a vm to an ova file, how can i do?
View ArticleIssue about Netbackup and WIN SVR 2000 VM
Hello, I am wondering about backup issue. One of my clients use VERITAS Netbackup and VMware system. 1 weeks ago, One of VMs (especially windows svr 2000) had an issue. When Backup process was run,...
View ArticleESXi 6 - CPUID advanced configuration option not taking effect
Hello, ESXi version is 6. CPU is E-2650 v2. In order to be able to use 1GB Huge Pages from within a CentOS 6.7 guest, I'm trying to configure ESXi to expose the 'pdpe1gb' CPU instruction. To do that, I...
View ArticleCertificate for ESXi 6.5
Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a lab with one (for the moment) ESXi6.5I have a problem to upload an image into datastore, I must have a valid certificate. I want to install an certificate on my...
View ArticleSetting up DR site
Hi, Setting up DR site.Is anyone can suggest the best way to setup with following hardware? Need to setup ESXi 6.5 environment (DR-site) .Have 2 HP Proliant DL360 G9 with Dell Powervault MD3420 SAN.I...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 web client - log in failure
Every time I enable SSH or SNMP or ESX shell - i can no longer log into the web client interface. I can still log onto the ESX server console but not the web client. Is there a fix for this?
View ArticleHP DL160 GEN9
I'm attempting (using HP's custom build) to get ESXI to work with the B140i Raid controller. Installing ESXi is fine, but when I install a guest I get latency times of 2700+ms and the creation of my...
View ArticleHow to run an Emulator on a Virtual Machine?
Hey, I'm a pretty big technoob. I need to run an emulator (Memu/Noxx/Moba) on a remote desktop. My Laptop is not strong enough to run multiple instances. I tried googlecloud. But their Servers/Machines...
View ArticleVMware ESXi Licensing
We are providing 1 ESXi host to a customer. I have noticed that the vsphere hypervisor is a free license, for operations management we are buying vcenter server foundation. can anyone confirm that...
View Articlebackup solution for standalone esxi host
what is recommended backup solution for a single host esxi? create snapshots and delete them weekly? I dont have third party solution or budget
View ArticleESXi 5.5 - 6.5 Upgrade using 6.5 Update Manager stuck at %
Hi all,I forwarded the steps in the video VMware vSphere 6.5 Embedded Update Manager (VUM) Demo - YouTube to upgrade my ESXi 5.5 host (HP ProLiant Gen 8) to 6.5. The only thing differed from the video...
View Articlesvmotion Traffic Flow
• ESXi 6.0 • NFS Datastores (NetApp) Hey Guys... We are doing a VM migration (compute and storage).. the compute migration is complete.Our ESXi Host has the source and target datastores (different...
View ArticleCan't get the remote audio recording device
Hi, Setup:VMware ESXi set up to look like Windows 7 Enterprise (my terminology is all wrong, I know. I hope I am making sense).An external Windows 7 Enterprise PC.Using the external's Remote Desktop...
View ArticleMissing datastore
Hi guys, Today I've been working on RAID reconfiguration (added one more LUN on local storage), but after ESXi host reboot one of datastores disappeared. Tried this article but with no luck:Recreating...
View ArticleIs ESXi / VM supports PTP time sources
Is ESXi supporting the PTP time sync configurations ?
View Articleconvert delta.vmdk to qcow2
I want to migration a vm from vmware to kvm. But I don't want to stop the vm business. So I create an snapshot for this vm, download the flat.vmdk. then use qemu to convert the vmdk file to...
View ArticleIncrease ESXI Datastore after local RAID 1 Volume was increased
Hello, i have a ESXI 6.5 running on a small machine with a RAID 1 ( HP DL G7). After one disk crashed I replaced both step by step with bigger ones. But now i Need to amend the DataStore size within...
View ArticleHP Microserver Gen8 USB2.0 not working in ESXi5.5/6.0/6.5
I'm completely lost. When installing HPE customized ISO/Image for their Microserver Gen8 the USB2.0 (or legacy so you want) are not recognized within ESXi and therefore not working. The only two USB3.0...
View ArticleError VPXA next refresh with ESXi 6.5
This is the log I have:2017-09-24T01:25:17.817Z verbose vpxa[A733B70] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxaInvtVm] [VpxaInvtVm_ScheduleVmSpaceRefresh] Next refresh will start in 128.633331...
View Articleswapping SD card and disks into new hardware rather than rebuilding vSphere
Currently we have a host built with 6.5 and we need to swap out this server. In the old days, years ago, with older version of ESX, we used to be able to pull drives, pop them into new server, power...
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