Should I disable EVC ?
Hi, I see in our 6.0 u3 envionment that EVC is still enabled from when we replaced our hosts. The 3 hosts are identical so I wonder if we should disable EVC or not. Is there an impact on performance on...
View ArticleESXi 6.5U1 got random Lost access to volume
Hello,My setup has a few ESXi nodes installed on HP DL380 G9, which have Intel 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port for iSCSI to connect to a 3PAR 8200.The Intel driver is lastest: ixgbe version 4.5.1The 3PAR...
View ArticleTrying to upgrade Dell server - need to remove VIB
I have a power Edge R520 server installed with Dell-ESXi-5.5U2-2068190-A00 I have uploaded the ESX 6.5U1 ISO image (not the custom Dell one)Update manager returns:The upgrade contains the following set...
View ArticlePreciso taggear os hosts ESXi com a mesma VLAN do switch físico?
Galera! Pode ser uma pergunta idiota, mas se vocês conseguirem me ajudar eu agradeço, rs.Eu tenho 2 switches configurados com uma VLAN dedicada para SAN. Meus hosts serão conectados também nesse range...
View ArticleiSCSI LUN's not visible on all ESXi hosts running 6.5
Replicated LUN presented to new cluster with 10 hosts, registered new datastore on one host, registered Datastore not visible on all hosts, registered datastore on all hosts, storage team confirmed LUN...
View Articlethin lun
i have one vm os. it has 1tb . now i will delete 500 tb data in that os. storage will understand that ? vm 1 tb thin disk and lun thin ( 3 par storage ) and we use esxi 5.5 u2 . also if we use 1 th...
View Articlereclamation storage
1- storage area 90%. I am deleting the virtual machine but the storage space is still 90% . Is storage space reduced if I make a storage vmotion and make a thin disk?2- Also, What should I do when I...
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Disks always need to be consolidated, why?
Running a RHEL6 server with vCenter 6.0. Seems like weekly that the disks need to be consolidated. Today I come into the office and the disks need to be consolidated and the VM was powered off. I...
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Cannot attach VM Kernel adapter to vmhba for iSCSI port binding
Hi Gurus, I have a strange problem. I am trying to bind a VMkernel adapter to iSCSI storage adapter but the VMKernel adapter that I want to use is not shown in the list. Let me attach the screen shots...
View Articlehp ML 150 gen9 VSphere OS 6.0
Hi all , I am very new here, and I have very basic knowledge in networking .We got one hp ML 150 gen9 server, on this server we want to have 2 - 3 vm running (server 2012 r2), so we decided to go with...
View ArticleVM's performance drops after ejecting VMWare Tools installer
I'm running into an odd issue that I have not found any information on. I'm running ESXi 5.1 Update 3, fully patched. Two Server 2012r2 virtual machine instances, fully patched, VMWare Tools installed....
View ArticleDeprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host - ESXi 6.5 update 1
Hello, I have this warning on all my hosts who are in version 6.5u1. I have 2 Datastores in VMFS3 and i can't migrate them for now.I have found a kb for this problem but it's for ESXi 6.0 and it's seem...
View ArticleFalse Thin Provision capacity threshold alert not allowing us to create new...
Hello Everyone, Due to an upgrade our storage systems VASA integration caused it to send an "Thin provision capacity threshold alert" for all the Datastores attached to certain cluster in vCenter. Now...
View ArticleTcpip_Vmk: 96: get connection stats failed with error code 195887136
My ESXI6.5 have a lot of this message,who can fix it?1、Tcpip_Vmk: 129: get connection pkt trace failed with error code 195887136；Tcpip_Vmk: 96: get connection stats failed with error code 195887136
View Articlethin lun
virtual machine size 500 gb and this virtual machine disk type thick ( paravirtualization ) . There is 200 gb of data in it on that vm. we are using 3par. There will be 200 gb of data on the 3rd par...
View ArticleSnapshot Restore
created a snapshot of VM server before patching the server.server got one disk of 70 GB and the harddisk was mentioned as servername-000001.VMDK after snapshot was taken.Since we had issues after...
View ArticleHow do I assign Ethernet ports (NIC) to each VM created? (VMware ESXi 6.5 Web...
Hello: I am a novice when it comes to VMware and this is my first time creating Virtual Machines. Currently, I am stuck, trying to assign individual internet connections to each individual VM. My setup...
View ArticleESXi6.5u1 with HPE Gen10 blade.
Hello, I am trying to install ESXi 6.5u1 using the latest HPE image on a Gen10 blade that has HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630FLB Adapter. During the installation its unable to find the nics and aborting...
View ArticleAdmission control Policy
Hi All, We have two hosts in cluster having sufficient resource 5 VMs but Admission control Policy is disabled on this cluster Do we need to enable the Admission control Policy? Thanks for advance...
View ArticleAny pros and cons for Lenovo x3650 vs HPE DL380?
We're a small shop, with 6 IBM x3650 hosts running VMware Essentials. We're thinking of getting an additional host. We recently went from using only IBM storage to trying out an HPE MSA 1040 and really...
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