Duplicate UUID's - bunch of questions
Hello. I have a vm that keeps failing to backup. checking the error received by the backup software "encountered more than one virtual machine disk with the same UUID".I don't know much about the...
View ArticlevSphere Client 6.0 reports connection issue
I'm getting this error message on my laptop with vSphere Client 6.0 when I'm trying to connect ESXi Server 6.0 -> Please see below the logfile.On other computers there are no problems with...
View ArticleCannot Create DataStore - ESXi 6.5 - RAID Configuration?
I have a brand new Dell T430. Just installed Dell Customized Image ESXi 6.5 A00 (based on ESXi VMKernel Release Build 4564106). Installed ESXi on SD card. For virtual machine storage I have a RAID 5...
View ArticleSnapshot Consolidation
Hi, I am running VMware 5.5 Environment.One of our windows server 2008 VM is having Hard Disk Provisioning grayed out.When I investigated I got to know that the disk which I have is actually created by...
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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 ArticleDoes ESXI 6.5 support Intel Skylake-X CPU likes i7 7800X?
Hello, May I know, does ESXI 6.5 support Intel Skylake-X CPU likes i7 7800X? Sincerely,Patrick
View ArticleInstallation hangs at "Initializing storage stack..."
When trying to install vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5.5.0), the system consistently hangs on the yellow screen at Initializing storage stack... Has anyone seen this, or have any idea what may be causing...
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Change smtp port to send emails notification from vCenter not working
Hello vmware community ! We have 3 vCenter (with 3 essential license) and I'm trying to send notification via vCenter using gmail account (with TLS autentication). I changed in Advance setting, the...
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vmware-vmrc.exe desktop shortcut won't connect to ESXi 5.1
I am trying to use a desktop shortcut for vmware-vmrc.exe to open the remote console of a ESXi 5.1 vm. When I attempt to open the shortcut I receive the following error. "Unable to connect to the...
View ArticleHow to do hardening check on vSphere 6.5 using script?
I am having an issue trying to figure out a way to the a hardening check based on vSphere 6.5 Hardening guideline using a script that is able to be used in Ansible. This is so that I am able to check...
View ArticleFrustrating problem with vSphere client on Hypervisor 5.5
Hi folks, Yesterday for the first time we installed the plain 5.5 ESXi Hypervisor on a host that previously ran ESX v4.1 (clean install), not upgrade. I installed the 5.5.0 vSphere client and tried...
View ArticleNIC Teaming Failover Not happened on ESXi 5.5
Hi Guys, We have ESXi 5.5 HP Blade server configured with HP Virtual Connect. Yesterday ,one of the network adapter out of two configured with vSwitch was down due to Pause flooding issue on the port....
View ArticleHW clock / system clock in ESXi
In ESX (not ESXi) there were two clocks, the hardware clock (CMOS clock, BIOS clock) and the system clock ("linux kernel" clock). The hardware clock could be synchronised manually to the time of the...
View Articlewget command returning 404 Not Found error
I am trying to copy a file from a datastore into my one of the directories in my Ubuntu VM. The path to the file in the datastore (datastore1) is,...
View ArticleError When creating a new NAS Datastore
Error When creating a new NAS Datastore Call "HostDatastoreSystem.CreateNasDatastore" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "192.168.100.50" failed. Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable to...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 Free Edition - How to automate backups?
Hello All, I've been digging through the help docs on this site for a few solid hours now and I'm still at a loss concerning the functionality of the free edition that I'm using. This website, along...
View ArticleESXi Host FC HBAs Not Updating New LUN Targets
Greetings all!Looking for some help here with a strange storage issue I’m seeing. Our ESXi 5.01 hosts are fiber connected with qlogic hbas to an IBM XIV SAN, through IBM SVC clusters.The storage team...
View ArticleAtheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Hi, I've installed ESXi 5.0 and found my NIC is not recognized. My motherborard has an on-board Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller. Does anyone knows if there's a driver for this...
View ArticleESXi v5.1 Ram/Memory Help
Hey Guys, I just built a machine to run ESXi v5.1 on. Built the machine and did a fresh install of ESXi v5.1. Anyway, I am having a problem with ESXi not recognizing the maximum ram I have on my...
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