I have downloaded the VMWare vSphere Hypervisor and put it on a USB. When I try to boot from it on multiple machines I get an error "An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system". Can anyone give me some ideas of what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
Hello Everyone,
I just brought a Dell T5500 workstation and need to learn Vmware and other products.
I found that it can not be used with VMware Esxi 6.7 latest update, But i am curious about how many esxi host can be create within my workstation.
Specs: Dual Xeon X6550 2.00 GHz, 2TB (4 x 500gb ), 36GB(4GB x 9 stick).
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thank You
We would like to use direct access to GPUs Nvidia Tesla P100 & V100 under Linux VMs that are hosting on VMWare ESXi 6.0 & 6.5 hosts.
Which VMWare licenses do we need in order to enable this feature?
Hi Everyone,
I'm a fairly new VMware administrator. Took over duties from someone who recently left our organization. I'm familiar with most cloud computing basics (at least in theory), but still getting used to VMware's setup and administration.
We are currently running VMware ESXi 6.5. (We have the free version.) I have 5 VMs setup, some with 8 CPU's, some with 4, some with 2, etc I recently tried to create a new VM with 2 CPUs, and I received the error, "Failed to reconfigure virtual machine [VM Name}. There are insufficient licenses to complete this operation." I figured I must have reached the limit on the number of CPUs I can use on my current version of VMware. So I went to one of my other machines that has 8 cores, but definitely doesn't need 8 cores, and I attempted to reduce its number of cores to 4. But I received the same message. "Insufficient licences to complete the operation..."
I could understand getting that message when trying to add CPUs to a VM, but I don't know why I'm getting it when removing CPUs from a VM.
I've made sure that my license key is still active. It says it never expires. And nothing on the license side has changed.
If anyone has any recommendations on other things I can investigate, I’d greatly appreciate it!
Thanks!
Steve
Good day, i downloaded and installed Esxi with the fre elimited license, everything was right in the last 40 days until this morning,
when gui start to show up the message: your license will expire in 30 days.
Based on what i read this limited free version is free forever, what's i'm doing wrong? and what can i do to fix this and avoid to expire?
Thanks for help
Curious problem. vCenter 6.7u1 (and u2), when I browse a datastore, go into a vm folder and try to download the vmware.log for that particular vm it directs me to the wrong host. It's all web based of course so careful on speculation. It is consistent though as it tries to go to the same (wrong) host for any/every VM I try. Funny thing is, when you click download it redirects you to a specific host that it passes the download through. Since the VM doesn't live on that host you get an error, if you just go to the address bar and change the hostname to the correct host it downloads it with no issue. HTML5 or Flex has the same result.
I've tried 2 different clusters, one on u1 and one on u2, same issue. Kinda of a odd problem to google for verbiage. Any else have this issue?
Hello, just wanted to confirm my understanding of how the Microsoft licensing works.
Just to keep things simple. Lets say I have a Blade chassis with 8 Blades,so 8 Physical servers with 2 physical processors in each blade.
One Vcenter server that is virtual
About 50 Vm's
If I had one HA cluster with all 50 Vm's spread out throughout the 8 Blades then I would need 25 (Windows Licenses) * 8 (physical Servers) = 200 Windows Server Licenses or 8 Datacenter server licenses. This I believe i have right. You get two VM's per license thats why im cutting in half
But what if I split it it up into 2 HA Clusters? Spreading out roughly 25 VM's between the two clusters with 4 Blades in each cluster.
Then the math would work out to be
13 (Windows Licenses) * 4 (physical Servers) = 52 Windows Server licenses per cluster, so 104 licenses total.
Big Difference if it works out that i can split the clusters like so.
Now if there was an actual Microsoft Audit, do they look at it and see 8 Physical servers and require the 200 licenses or do they look at it from a cluster standpoint?
Hopefully that made sense
I have entered my license key to license vCenter Server. After doing so I got an EULA licensing error that said I needed to license at least one asset. I went in to the hosts and clusters and figured I would just assign a license to a host, but I am getting an error there also. I get "Cannot add the following license keys. Existing Licenses: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fix or remove these license keys to proceed." Thank you for any help.
My vsphere 6.5 host just rebooted on me about 1/2 hour ago. Where can I find a log telling me why?
After esxi upgrade from 5.5 to 6.5 and registration for a new license I always get this error message returned:
This host has more sockets (2) than the provided license is valid for (1), please provide a different license.
The free license worked for 5.5 fine. All pages I read says that the two socket system of our old dell r720 should also work. The evaluation will end in around a month.
Can I generate a free license which better fit?
Do I need to buy a license for two socket systems?
Did I miss any settings to disable to get it work?
Hi all
I've just done a complete fresh install of esxi 6.7U1 on my HPE microserver gen 8.
When I tried to configure a passthrough device using the web UI of esxi I saw a really weird UI bug.
If I click on the line about the ILO4 devices in the hardware tab, several devices' tickboxes begin to quickly and randomly check and uncheck without any way to stop them and any action from me.
I first thought it was a bug of my browser or OS
But I have reproduced the issue on edge Firefox chrome and on Linux windows and Android.
With previous versions of esxi I've never noticed the issue but I must say I didn't check this part very often.
Does anybody already saw this behaviour ?
I am new and need some help.
I can ping my VMWare 6.7 host from anywhere on my network but I cannot ping my 2 Windows 10 guests or my vCenter vSphere server.
I installed the VMware host and then installed the vCenter server appliance and everything seems to be working. I installed 3 vSwitches because I have 4 NICs on the host.I changed the name of the first bridged switch. I then installed 2 Windows 10 guest and assigned them to the vSwitch-2 but the could not get an IP. The system said I needed to reboot and so I rebooted and when my system came up, I the have the following situation:
1. The host is working and I can ping the host from computers outside the host.
2. I lost access to the vCenter server and I cannot ping it any more and it will not come up on my browser
3. The 2 Windows 10 guests cannot ping the host or each other even though I assigned them IPs in the same subnet and they are in the same vSwitch.
So the host is working, but I cannot get to any of its guests and the guests cannot communicate with each other, the host, or anything for that matter.
I will appreciate your help
I just upgrade ESXi 6.5 to 6.7，unfortunately I can not power on any of the VM.
I try to create a new VM. The same thing happened.
Thanks for your help!
Hi everyone,
Sorry if this is a trivial question, but I am new to VMWare and still trying to get to know it a bit better.
I have a server with VMWare ESXi 6.5U2 (free Hypervisor) installed, which is connected to my internet router. Since this is a free license, I do not have vCenter available. Now, I would like to host a linux server as a virtual machine (web server etc.) that is protected by a transparent firewall setup (OPNsense or similar) placed as a virtual machine "before" the virtual host. Incomfing traffice would be routed to the ESXi host (port forwarding), through the transparent firewall and to the linux server.
However, I am at loss on how I can possibly configure the vSwitches in the ESXi Web Interface to allow for such a scenario. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Any help is appreciated!
Best,
Andreas
Hi,
I detach a disk from one VM and move it to other VM. while doing that the disk was changing from thin to thick. I want to mention that the disk is full capacity.
Why does VMware changing it to thick without mention it anywhere?
What will happen when i delete files from the disk? is it still going to stay thick?
thanks.
Hi , Im New here.
After load image from iso it was coming a black mirror ...Then on the display
Shutting down firmware service ...
Relocating modules and starting up the kernel.
What is the problem ?
We have requirements to change passwords periodically. I understand that the root password, if ever lost, is not recoverable other than through re-installation of the hypervisor. However, all I'm looking to do is change the password since we know it. I can log in to the ESXi host, see the warning that it's being managed by the vCenter Server, and I can get to the user config and edit the 'root' account where it shows the password fields, but I'm wondering if it's that simple to change it since I had an issue a while back that was strange, and since I'm not sure if changing it here also impacts the SSH and DCUI access for the host. Is it that simple? (I believe I had changed it this way once and tried to log into the DCUI as root but it used an older password, which I still knew, so I'm skeptical)
Host Image:
Guest Settings:
Our domain has Smart Card enforcement enabled for all workstations through group policy. Deploying our Windows 10 enterprise image to local VMware Workstation Pro (licensed), I can connect Shared Dell Smart Card Reader Keyboard to the VM to be able to log in through the console. We have now purchased a machine to have as a stand-alone host for Hypervisor. Whether I use browser console, VMRC, or VMware Workstation Pro remotely connected to the server, I am unable to connect the Dell keyboard for smart card logon. Using RDP I am able to log in normally, but I would prefer having users log into the web console and just give them the VM name to use instead of having to fish the IP address each time. Would a remote connection to the host be preventing a shared keyboard (technical limitation), or is it a limitation of being not connected to a vCenter server? Is there an advanced setting I am missing that I have not been able to find any documentation on so far?
Dear All,
I have a case where we need to convert a physical server to virtual machine. The host destination is an vmware ESXi 6.7 environment (managed by VCSA 6.7)
The Server OS is a Debian 9.
I have tryed with the Standalone vCenter Converter with almost all possible versions, all result where unsuccefull.
My question: It is possible to do it by another way? Specifically, can I setup (add an existing disk) using the VM with the .RAW file format?
I hope you can enlighten me with your knowledge.
Regards.-