Hot standby (Activate/Standby)
Dear Expert, Which VMware product is for Hot Standby for double servers? thx!Liu Wei
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 ArticleVM cloning to different datastore
Hi all, I copied a VM from NetApp based datastore to local datastore (via Datastore browser in the vSphere web client). Source & destination ESXi Hosts have the same version 6.5.0.ESX source...
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 ArticleHow much RAM can be reservated for a single VM
Hi, I have a 6.5u1 standalone host with 10GB of RAM, and one VM on it. As there is a passthrough device assaigned I would like to reservate as much as possible RAM to this VM, but as soon I increase...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 u1 vlan assignment issues when virt has more than 3 NICs
I'm running a student version of ESXi 6.5 u1 that is essentially the enterprise plus version, but limited to only 1 vhost and no license for vCenter. I'm having issues with a virtual appliance that has...
View ArticleUpgrade from vsphere Hypervisor 6.0.0 free version to vsphere Esxi 6.5
Hi, We are currently running vSphere Hypervisor 6.0.0 (free version) and wish to go with the paid version to integrate vSphere server. My question might be silly, do I just need to change the...
View ArticleiSCSI Connectivity issues
Greetings, This is a lab environment. ESXi 6.7 version is running on Dell R710 SFF Server. We created a storage on another Dell R710 LFF with a capacity of 8 TB one volume and 5 TB one volume as...
View ArticleError adding Datastores ESXi 5.1 U1
Just did a fresh install of ESXi 5.1 U1 to a brand new Dell Poweredge R520, but have some issues with this one. When i try to create a new Datastore i get the following error "Call...
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Hypervisor installtion issues.
Hello trying to instal hypervisor 6.0 on a Dell R710As per KB i updated BIOS to latest 6.4.0 and all firmware. I keep getting this error: This programs has encountered and error"Error:partedutil failed...
View ArticleESX 6 to 6.5 Conflicting_Vibs error - Fujitsu RX
Hi! I recently successfully updated a single Fujitsu RX350 ESXi from 5.1.0 to 6.0 Update 2. When trying to upgrade from 6 to 6.5 following error appears: CONFLICTING_VIBS ERROR: Vibs on the host are...
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New datastore grayed out
I have installed Esxi 6.7 in USB drive and I did Raid 5 on 3 disks SAS 15 krpm 300GB, I can see my 3 disks as one drive but when I try to create the second datastore I find the link of create new data...
View ArticleESXI 6.5 root account
I have a bad feeling you all will tell me I am out of Luck but I have run into an issue. I have an ESXi Hypervisor running at home. It is the free version running on an older Dell PC I have. I only...
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...
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 ArticleFirewall in free VMware Hypervisor 5
Hi, does the firewall in the free version of VMware Hypervisor 5 work or do I need the paid version for that feature? I have restricted the ports for SSH and the vSphere client to a single IP address...
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...
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 ArticleThick and Thin Provisioning Differences
I understand it in general but I can't comprehend how it exactly utilizes the space. What I meant. For example, I am having a limitation of 256GB for guest VM hard disk. If I am going to create a new...
View ArticleUnable to write data to the transport connection.
I am getting this error: Unable to write data to the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. I am trying to upload a OVF to my host. I have my ESXi host...
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