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What is the root cause of message "Warning: Unable to remove deleted USB...
when reboot ESXi, It randomly pops the warning message: Unable to remove deleted USB storage adapters.Can anyone help answer the root cause of the message? Thanks! I see other people also mention the...
View ArticleActivated Passthrough on USB Host Adapters (DELL PowerEdge R530) - No...
Hello, we have accidentally lost access to our internal USB SD cards were the Hypervisor and Config is residing. We activated passthrough on both USB Host Adapters, so the internal SD cards are no...
View ArticleWhen is this major bug in ESXi going to be fixed?
ESXi 6.5 was released a year ago. ESXi 6.5 Update 1 was released 4 months ago. This bug still persists which is one of the reasons we have not upgradedVMware Knowledge Base
View ArticleEsx 5.5 - Purple Screen failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.
hi all,I have a 5.5 host that I use for testing - every so often I get a purple crash screen, reboot and think nothing of it; this time its different. All storage is onboard. I have caught the dump and...
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Migrate VM to new farm
Hi guys, Need proper advise for migration, Scenarioi have 3 ESXi host, with one vCenter, and now plan to do some hardware refresh which replace the host with new host. Existing3x DELL R530 (plan for...
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Software FCOE Adapter not showing up
Hi,I am trying to configure a new ESX Server (Dell R740). We are using ESXi 6.5U1 where the server is connected to a Cisco Nexus 5548 NX-OS 7.0 There I have a problem to configure a software...
View ArticleHost connection failure
Dears,, I am facing a strange issue, i have a VSAN cluster, one of the ESXIs hosts every day appears as "not responding" on the Vcenter, however, i can successfully ping the host and i can access the...
View ArticleGuest OS is crashed
HI I am using VM for SAP PI practice. i got the dump installed in my external hard disk. So i have vmdk and vmx files in HDD. When i tried to access those files in the vm, the vmx file is worked for...
View Articlehelp - snapshot question
so we have our datastore become full and stopped the one main server vm from running. in haste i deleted the 00001.vmdk file and now that the server boots up with errors and crashes. - thats not my...
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PSOD - PF exception 14
Hi,Getting PSOD on esxi host (5.1) during backup (veeam) of guests sometimes.What I see in PSOD is "PF exception 14 in world 521:idle17" and "PF exception 14 in world 3421:vmm1:VMName"..I´m thinking...
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hard drives not showing up in ESXi Host
We have two HP Proliant servers that we installed ESXi 6.5 on a regular 2.5" hard drive. After that was all done, we added an additional 3 hard drives to each server for internal storage however when...
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Cannot delete snaphsots, but can create new ones.
First of all, I want to thank everyone here for all the help and resources, without all your help I wouldn't have been able to make the switch to ESXi. Now, some background before I dwell into my...
View ArticleLoad balance VMware Management network
I have two dedicated physical nicks used for Management traffic on each of our ESXi hosts. We are setting up VVOL and use Veeam to backup all vm´s. When using VVOL, backup is done through the...
View ArticleESXI 6.5 instalation problem
Hi I am trying to install ESXI on a Mini Desktop which as a N3050 Intel processor.And I get the "Relocating modules and starting up the kernel..." freeze at the end of the boot. I see many post on the...
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vm memory consumed
Dear,just a tiny doubt, what is "memory consumed" ? vrealize says 28.66 gb is enough but memory consumed says 90.75 gb is enough. Could RedHat admin have misconfigured the ram configuration. From time...
View Article3D Support Settings
Im abit confused on the 3D support check box on vcenter for esxi hosts settings. When i check the enable 3D support box the VM is really slow? compared to when it isn't checked is there anything that...
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increasing a VMDK thick provision lazy zeroed
Hi, I am running ESXI 5.10 Build 1065491 (This is the Free version of ESXI) VSphere Client 5.10 build 1064113 I have 1 windows server 2008 R2 SP1 with 2 VMDK's Drive c: had 60GB assigned to it but...
View ArticleNew servers, ESXi 6.0 or 6.5?
We will be purchasing 7 new HPE DL380 Gen10 or Dell R740 servers in the next month. In production it will be two servers for server virtualization and three for VDI. The three for VDI will have the...
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esxi 4.0 (free) add a mirrored pair as a datastore?
Before I get down to it, should esxi 4.0 see a mirrored pair (BIOS level) as a single logical unit/datastore? Currently have individual drives installed that are each seen as individual datastores.
View ArticleLockdown mode vs. Changing Root Password
Our internal security department has always asked us to use Lockdown Mode on our ESXi hosts. Which I agree is a great way to manage the use of the Root user on ESXi. We also use a password vault that...
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