VM Power Management - Suspend vs Put guest OS into standby
Hi, Can someone explain what's the difference between the options "Suspend the virtual machine" and "Put the guest OS into standby mode and leave the virtual machine powered on" ? Best regards.
View ArticleProblems adding new disks to a Virtual Machine using datastorageClusters
The first question I have is it possible to add a disk using a different datastoreCluster than was used when the VM was cloned from template? Does it require a particular affinity to be set up?...
View ArticleESXI 6.5 lowering syslog logging levels (again..)
Hi, there were a couple of discussions about configuring the syslog logging level of an ESXi server. So, I we all know these links: Enabling trivia logging in VMware vCenter Server (1001584) | VMware...
View ArticleNetwork Adapter now showing after clone (Windows 2008 R2)
A machine i cloned can't connect to the LAN, the network adapter section is blank as it doesn't have any network adapters associated to it, i have tried to re-install the drivers, re-installed the...
View ArticleI am seeing one host not responding on vCenter
Hi, one of my host is showing as not responding in my vCenter on testing environment. I can able to ping it which is interesting
View Articlehow to through esxi 6.5 manage the raid adapter h730p mini ?
i have a dell server dell r730xd, i want to manage raid adapter h730p , how can i make it ?yes, i can manage raid adapter through idrac,thank you
View ArticleThick vs Thin provisioning
Hello All, Let me start off by saying this is a great forum and everyone here has had some great feedback. I have a new environment that I am using to migrate our VM's off of older ESX servers.The VM's...
View ArticleFirewall requirements for vSphere 6.5
I'm planning to setup a vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 in a secured environment and would like to know what outgoing and/or incoming network connections are required for normal operation. I'm planning to buy a...
View ArticleHP ProLiant MicroServer SB700 RAID Not Supported
I have a HP ProLiant MicroServer (N40L) which has a SB700 disk controller based on the on-board AMD chipset, and unfortunately VMware ESXi Hypervisor 5.0.0 (build 469512) does not support this...
View ArticleLSI 1068e background rebuild deactivates LUN
Hello, I'm using the Intel SASUC8I (LSI 1068) controller with ESXi4.1 for simple RAID1 storage. Everything is fine, even if I remove one disk, but as soon as I insert any repleacement disk, when...
View ArticleESXi 6.7.0 PCPU 7 Locked up failed to ack TLB invalidate
Hello everybody, For the last couple of months I've been struggling to get my ESXi 6.7.0 host to run stable, to no avail. First I identified that the SSD on which ESXi was installed was not properly...
View ArticleGuests are not reachable
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...
View ArticlePSOD on new Dell server ESXI 6.7 U1
We have been having some issues with a new Dell server we purchased ST 7GWWHQ2. It is currently running ESXI 6.7.0 U1 but has been run into PSOD issues every couple weeks. We have gone through the dell...
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 ArticleHypervisor + Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8200 ?
After getting some malware on my home PC, I am considering wiping it out and installing vSphere Hypervisor (and then buying a 32-bit copy of Windows Vista, because my CPU is 64-bit but won't support...
View ArticleError: Failed to lock the file
I have received 9 vhd files and 1 vmx file.I have copied them to a folder at vSphere volume. Added them to inventory. When trying to start this VM for the first time, I got the following errors: Cannot...
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Cannot start HA VM: Insufficient resources to satisfy configured failover...
Hi all, i'm actually creating some virual machines on Vsphere (Version 5.5) I made 4 VMs as depicted in picture. Actually Running VMs: VM1(HA) and VM2 (NOT HA) When i try to start VM4(HA) vmware won't...
View ArticleESXI 6.5 - Intel gigabit ct slow performance
Hi everyone, I'm having a small issue with my esxi 6.5 and an intel gigabit ct EXPI9301CTBLK which are supposed to be supported by esxi. I can't seem to achieve gigabit speed. Whatever I do I cannot...
View ArticleConsolidate snapshots error
Hello, I have an ESXi Host running a single VM (Windows Server 2012).I'm trying to consolidate snapshots but it fails. All snapshots have been deleted and they don't appear in the Snapshot Manager.I...
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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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