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ESXi 6.5U1 on a Lenovo Thinkstation P500?
I found a good deal on one of these workstations, and I was wondering if anyone had had any luck using one as a home lab. I haven't bothered to look on the HCL since it's a workstation, not a server....
View Articleconsolidate snapshot without snapshot manager
Hi there, its a few days ago, that we have problems with one vm after crash while consolidate snapshots.The vm ist now running again, but we have a small problem. In the snapshot manager is just one...
View ArticleLink Start & Stop of multiple VMs
Not sure how to ask this but what I want is that when VM-01 is started either automatically or manually that VM-02 starts as well. I'm guessing there may not be anything built into ESXi but maybe in...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 - update using dell custom image failed
I installed (or attempted to install) a Dell Custom image in ZIP format from here:VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 3 Driver Details | Dell US Using the command:esxcli software profile update -p...
View ArticleSpeculationControl vm sessions
Hi All, What is your output of the MS SpeculationControl Powershell in VM sessions? Even after Patching the ESXi Host (6.0) (HPE Proliant DL380 Gen9) with the 2.54 FW/Bios and updating to...
View Articleesxi 5.1 : enabling Database Retention Policy after years...
Hello everybody, Yes we have discovered that our legacy vcenter 5.1 is collecting data since... the beginning (at least 2011). That's 60 to 80 GB of data. We would like to enable retention to stop the...
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Upgrade Dell PE2900 from 5.5 to 6.x?
I want to upgrade our single ESXi host to the newest version of ESXi possible but I’ve only done this with newer Dell servers that have the customized images for the specific model. They made it very...
View ArticleVMFS datastore doesn't match partition size
I'm on an ESXi 6.5 host using VMFS-6. I expanded a LUN and tried to increase space on the VMFS datastore to use the new free space. It looks like the underlying partition was re-sized but the VMFS...
View ArticleCannot connect to ESXi vSphere Web Client
Hi, Hopefully this is the right place to ask this question. So I have a server at home with a ESXi 6.5 install that had been working fine. I have setup and managed VM's and been able to connect to the...
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massive verbose loggin from esxi host
one of my esxi host has been reporte to send out massive verbose logs. i check under advance settings and everything is verbose from factory default. any idea how to stop loggin completely?
View ArticleOpenGL 3.0 on ESXi
Hello, I want to have a virtual machine in ESXi 5.5 that allows us to render works made with Sketchup. The latest version of this software requires openGL 3.0, but my virtual machine reports that it...
View ArticleDisks degraded in ESXi
I have a ESXI v6 u3 installed on a DL380 G9. I have done Raid from the HP provisioning itself. After installing the ESXI and presenting the disks to it. The disks show me as degraded:...
View ArticleEsxi Lock
Hello, I need some feedback regarding a problem we had on production. The reason apresented is not the best for me. Cenario:Cluster VMWare with 16 ESXhost8 host on site A 8 hosts site B Both Sites are...
View Articlecant ping host ip address (mgmt) from source VM on same host - loopback issue
i have a strange issue where i cannot ping my esxi host 's mgmt ip address from any of the VMs that are running on that host. the host as well cannot ping any of these VMs. any help or suggestions...
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How do Meltdown/Spectra affect VMware
Hello everyone, I manage a dozen VMware ESXi 6.0 servers i a clustered environment consisting of 4 clusters. My question is: Will they affect ESXi only, or will they affect the guest operating systems...
View ArticleSoftware 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 Articlecannot login as local user on esxi
I created an account on my local esxi server with admin role but cannot login with the password I set any idea?
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Shutdown all VM's except one
Running ESXi v6.5u1. I would like to shutdown all running VM's except for one.Running /sbin/shutdown.sh will shutdown all running VM's (auto started vm's with vmware tools installed, that is) but I...
View ArticleProblem Installing EXSI 6.5 Update 1 on SuperServer 6018R-TD
Hi, I face the followings problem when installing EXSI 6.5 Update into SuperServer 6018R-TD.Error Loading /User.b00Compressed MD5: 5f56957c8e7b16358db3bf32c31d27065Decompressed mD5:...
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Storage controllers no longer visible to ESXi after applying ESXi600-201801001
After patching the VCSA to 6.0 u3d, we patched our DL380 Gen9 ESXi hosts with ESXi600-201801001 (patch and microcode). After reboot, the two hpsa P440 and P440ar storage controllers were not visible...
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