Physical Drive corruption
I got a new Raid Array, and stupid me took one of my Vsphere 2TB drives to make sure the Raid array supported 2TB. I just plugged the drive in and looked on the management to see if it showed up. it...
View ArticleAdvantages for two Hypervisor servers
Are there any any advantages to have two Hypervisor servers? Like can I setup a fail over or combine the two servers in to one
View Articleesxi 5.5 cant recognize pci lan-pci slots
helloi have a pc for my lab.motherbord : ga-z97-d3hcpu :core7i 1155 4790lan on bord :Intel® GbE LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)pci lan :2 Dlink DGE-528Ti have a lot of problem with this motherbord becuse...
View ArticleEnable passthrough for my storage device
My Current set up for this project. Case: NORCO RPC-4220PSU: Corsair TX750W CMPSU-750TX 750WCPU: AMD Phenom II 1055TMOBO Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5Memory: G.SKILL Rip Jaws...
View ArticlevShield and vShield Endpoint requirements
Hey Pals, Just wondering if vShield Endpoint can be integrated immediately to vSphere Essentials Plus License. If not, what is the minimum requirement? I understand that vShield Zones is only present...
View ArticlevSphere 5 issues?
I am facing several issues that may be the result of the vSphere 5 upgrade. I figured I would throw them out here incase someone is facing a similar issue.After upgrading from vCenter from vCenter 4...
View Articlehow to use HP smart array B110i RAID controller (software)
I'm just purchased a new HP Proliant ML 150 G6 server with embedded Smart Array B110i SATA Raid controller.Searching on this forum I've discoverd that it is a software RAID controller and not an...
View Articlesetting rx ring buffer size
Hi, I am a vmware newbie. I want to set rx ring buffer size on a physical nic in my vmware server. Currently I use the command "ethtool -G vmnic0 rx 4096" to increase the rx ring size; but I have to...
View ArticleBIOS Serial Number
Hello all. I am trying to set the BIOS Serial number in the .vmx file. I need to set it to something like "VM-ABC123". I am using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to push images to this VM. The MDT process...
View ArticleCan't delete corrupted swap file, or folder in datastore ESXI 4.1
Hey guys After days of reading I thought I would give the forms a try. I have a vsphere hypervisor 4.1 setup using sata hard drives for a test environment, which has been working perfect for about 6...
View ArticleVsphere client error OVF export
Hello, I have an ESXI hypervisor installed and vsphere client to manage it.I have installed some VMs on it and i want to save its.I tried to export the VMs into OVF by clicking in files > export...
View Articleopenflow in vShere Hypervisor?
I am guessing that the free ESXi Hypervisor does not support openflow or vDS. I am making that assumption as I can not find any information on how to configure it or see anything in the client GUI to...
View ArticleReclaiming space from deleted VM with thin provisioning disk
Hi,I deleted a vm with a thin disk of 50GB but did not free space on the Datastore. Looking at google I found several documents on how to do if the space is to be released on a vm active, but none when...
View ArticlevCenter 6 and the VMRC - Mouse is erratic
OK, since I have problems with IE getting to a VM's console, I gave the VMRC a try.I installed it and clicked the "Open in VMRC" then a message box said that the mouse settings were not optimal, would...
View Articletboot.b00 fatal error: 6 (buffer too small)
I'm running v6 of the free vmware hypervisor in my home lab. ESXi is running from an 8Gb USB stick. I have 8 drives hanging off an adaptec 71605q, partitioned up into 2 RAID5 and 1 RAID0 arrays. I...
View Articlenot detecting hard drives (vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 installation)
Hi I Would Install vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 on a Supermicro Server but i can not found any Harddisk.Maybe a Driver Probem, but i have not found any Solution that work.. We work with OSX. Many thanks for...
View ArticleNIOC Shares
Hi If I set 100 shares for VM traffic , 100 shares for Management and 50 for vMotion. Assuiming there will be a contention and vMtion will not revice the right amount of bandwedith what will happen in...
View ArticlePower On virtual machine VM Device 'Bootstrap' is not available.
While powering on the serve it getting the error. Error:Power On virtual machine VM Device 'Bootstrap' is not available.
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 Article"Maximum vCPUs per virtual machine: 8"
The above is one of the limitation with ESXI 6.What does this actually mean?If I have a 4 physical CPU server with 16 cores each, can I assign all processors and cores to a single machineor am I...
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