From UUID to Windows Licensing intersects w/ VMware DRS
Hi folks the title kind of seems to be missy, I have a question and I hope I posted it in the right place. As much as I know as a learner that Windows when licensed it bind that license to the Hardware...
View ArticleNetwork Adapter Detected
While installing vSphere I get an error: No network adapters where detected. Either no network adapters are physically connected to the system, or a suitable driver could not be loaded. A third party...
View ArticleVMware and HP ProLiant DL380 G5
Running 6.5.0 (Build 4887370) Hey guys quite new to the server world, I wanted to turn it into a VM machine so I went to install VMware. Seemed to installed fine, but it's not picking up the RAIDed...
View ArticleESXi free license?
Hi, Does exist something like free ESXi? I need some hypervisor for my home lab (to replace KVM) but I wouldn't like to end up with trial license expiration in 45 days or so. Would the following be...
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ESXi Host Management Network Redundancy
Hi All, Need some suggestions on configuring the ESXi host Management network redundancy (NIC Teaming) with 2 Uplink adapters. I have installed the ESXi6.5 on Dell R810 Server and below is the network...
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VM CPU Usage in GHz more then configured CPU resources for VM
Hi, I have a VM with 2 sockets and 16 cores per socket (total of 32 cores). At peak times, the applications running inside the VM will use as much CPU resources as they can get (due to an application...
View ArticleNIC Passthrough not working
Hi community,I'm having trouble setting up passthrough mode on my dell r710 running ESXi 6.0.0. I'm trying to pass one NIC to a pfsense VM WAN interface.I used the instructions found here KB1010789 to...
View ArticleESXI Software/Onboard RAID Intel® C236 Chipsatz
Hello, I just wanted to ask if there is by now a method to use a software-raid with the ESXI-Hypervisor. I am using the inbuild RAID-Funktion of the Fujitsu D3446-Mainboard with Intel C236 chipset and...
View ArticleBoot error after converting from Hyper-V to VMWare
I converted with VMWare Converter a Linux Ubuntu VM from Hyper-V to VMWare and I'm getting now an issue with starting the new converted VM on ESXi 6.0 server.The error messages can be found in the...
View Articlehow can see vm performance for 1 week or custom time without vCenter
Dear allHi i have single esxi and don't have vCenter now i want to see an average resource use for 1 week from some of my vms but on esxi just can show real time performance and can not select a custom...
View ArticleI don't understand core vs pricing
I picked up a used Dell R610. It has two processors which I believe have 6 cores(?) each for a total CPU count of 12?!?!? I've attached a screenshot of the hypervisor resources. You tell me! I'm...
View ArticleVM hardware version and upgrading VM Hardware in deployed OVF and OVAs
I have some older deployed OVF/OVA appliances from 3rd parties such as Trend Deep Security (and Vshield), CISCO virtual appliances and other misc deployed appliances that came from vendors as OVF/OVA...
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EXSi 6.5 can not find driver when deploy VM as Windows Server 2012R2
Dear All, who face this problem such as attached screen capture. when i deploy a VM which use O/S is Windows Server 2012R2, but this operation is failure due to HDD can not active. if your have same...
View ArticleLimitations and release notes
Greetings!Im new with ESXi and looks good for me, or at least for doing a couple of things.What limitations do i have? I want to setup a little lab with windows server 2012 and a couple of Linux VM....
View ArticleHP DL380G7 - Disable processor
In HP BIOS (DL380G7 system), it is possible to disable core. Options : activate one core, half the cores or all the core. This is applicable to each processor in the system. So if I have a single quad...
View ArticleExpand size of thin provisioned disk
I'm making semi-final config changes to a new VMware installation that should go live in the next 1-2 weeks. As I loaded data into my SQL VM, I realized that I didn't allow enough space on the data...
View ArticleEsxi Equivalent command as for linux FREE command
Hi All I would appreciate your help and time, i am looking for way where i can query Esxi hypervisor in particular 4.1 the same way i would query a Linux server with following commands Free or cat...
View ArticleClonning C:\ Drive Only of VM for recovery purposes
Hi AllI have a Windows 2000 server VM and this server has 3 different drives presented to it, C: D: and E:, we dont have much space left on the datastore and we trying to clone the server for...
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Your evaluation license will expire within 11 days!
Im not sure what licence this is talking about i log onto my ESXI 5 server through vSphere Client and this pops up: What license do i need? ESXi 5? or vSphere? Im confused because when i click "Assign...
View Articlemigration was canceled because the amount of changing memory for the virtual...
Hi Anyone has seen this error The migration was canceled because the amount of changing memory for the virtual machine was greater than the available network bandwidth. Attempt the migration again when...
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