Intel I350-T4 only recognized by Esx 5.5, not by 5.5 U2
Hi all, I relative new to ESx, sind 5.0.Until 5.5 all went fine, inserting the Quadport I350 in 5.5, rebooting, NICs were recognied. Made an Udate to 5.5 U2 via ESX-Cli and the four ports...
View ArticleShould I use LAGs for vSphere hosts?
I have two vSphere hosts (e.g., H0 and H1) with multi-port NICs connected to the same managed switch. I want the VMs on both hosts to have the highest network throughput.1. On the switch, should I...
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...
View ArticleVC memory stats show lower utilization than Windows task manager
I know this has been asked before but I was hoping for a good clear reason I can tell another group in IT. VM is a Windows 2008R2 16GB RAM, 4 vCPU running SQL, SSIS,etc. SQL max limit is 12GB. Lots of...
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 ArticleHow many hosts could the free vSphere Hyperviser be installed to?
I can't find description about the limitation of hosts. Let's say I have two machines, can I install the free vSphere Hyperviser to these machines and use the same free serial number?
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...
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 ArticleHardware for esxi 5.5-6.7
First of all I want to apologize for my ignorance as I am new to VMware. I got access to an old dell Poweredge 1950 server for my home lab. Without checking the compatibility list I tried to...
View ArticleNewbie: VMWare Hypervisor to host transparent firewall
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...
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 ArticleVmware installation not recognizing hard drives connected to Intel motherboard
When I go to install ESXi 5.1 on the server it the installation software doesn't recognize the 1TB hard drive that I have installed. I've updated the BIOS, but that didn't get me any closer to solving...
View Article传输 (VMDB) 错误 -45: Failed to connect to peer process
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!
View Articlevmx application crashed
Hi all, I am having some issues with VMware ESXi 5.1.0, 799733 My vm's (all debian linux hosts with vmware tools installed ) seem to get killed from time to time without any obvious ( atleast for me )...
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 ArticleUpgrading from ESXi 4.0
Hi I am not new to virtualization and have upgraded from previous version of ESXi before. I have downloaded the following file upgrade-from-ESXi4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release and when I try to use...
View ArticleESX 3.5 upgrade to vsphere4
Hi Guys, We have vCentre 4 which manages hosts for VI 3.5 and also vSphere 4 hosts as part of migration to vSphere 4. Due to hardware differences, I had to perform cold migration on vm's from VI 3.5 to...
View ArticleCan Only Add 1 Datastore in ESXi 5
I installed ESXi 5.0 U1 on a new Dell PowerEdge T320. It is installed on a USB disk so I could reserve the 3-disk RAID 5 array to my heart's desire. The array is 1.8TB and ESX sees it fine. I'm able...
View ArticleCan't migrate a virtual disk
Hello community! I have one more problem with a Hypervisor that runs VMware ESXi 5.1.0 (Build 799733). Please allow me to explain a little the history in order to let you understand what I am facing....
View ArticleDifference between SR-IOV and DirectPath I/O
Hello, I am testing some pass-through features in order to better the network latency of a virtual machine, those features being DirectPath I/O and SR-IOV (As per the whitepapper...
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