setting 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 ArticleESXi in hibernate
Is it possible to put the ESXi in hibernate mode along with it virtual machines ? if it possible give me the command or any possible way
View ArticleEsxi 5.0.0 U1 and B110i Smart Array SATA Controller
Hi, i have an HP DL180 G6 Server - 12GB with 4 x 1TB HDD configurated in RAID 0/1. When i try to install Esxi, i can install it only in one of 4 HDD. It's no recognize the RAID for installation. How...
View ArticleESXi History Command
All, for ESXi is there a history command and if so what is the syntax?
View ArticleVirtual machine PhoenixBIOS Setup Boot sequence
Need help with the Boot sequence on the PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility on Virtual Machine instance. Details:I have a VSphere host running with VSphere hypervisor (free version) - ESXi 5.1. Virtual...
View ArticleWhat is a difference between "Logical CPUs" and "Logical CPUs per host"?
Hello everyone! In VMware official document "vsphere-51-configuration-maximums" or "vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf" in section "ESXi host maximums \ Compute Maximums" exists to items:"Host CPU...
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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iSCSI - DVSwitch LACP
I have been researching design. I need to have a single DVswitch across the environment, (need single managment control plane for VLAN creation / migration etc..). I have moved all my hosts to 2 x...
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...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 no free space on device after adding disk to RAID 5 array
Hello everyone, I'm trying to figure out why my ESXi 6.5 standalone host cannot see the free space available on my RAID 5 volume after adding a new disk. I checked the IMM and the disk space is...
View ArticleHot standby (Activate/Standby)
Dear Expert, Which VMware product is for Hot Standby for double servers? thx!Liu Wei
View ArticleVM crash
Hi, We have a ESXi 6.0 Dell host and 3 VMs running on it. Last week one of the VMs went down a few times and eventually vSphere logged the following message: "Error message on VM: We will respond on...
View Article"Free" ESXI license expired?
Hi, I've been running ESXi Hypervisior for sometime now in a home lab. I've recently reinstalled onto larger storage (same physical machine), imported my OVF's from the previous storage. But when I try...
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 ArticleOpening OVA file in ESXi 4.1 via vSphere client
Just installed VMWare vSphere ESXi 4.1. Then I installed the corresponding vSphere client on my laptop and connected to ESXi. I have a OVA file. How do I open it in ESXi thru vSphere client app? thanks
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 ArticleInspect contents of .vib before installation
I would like to install community-created .vib files, e.g. this one: Configure ESXi 5.0 as NTP server Call me sceptical, but I'd like to verify the contents of a .vib before installing it on servers to...
View ArticleConfirm Microsoft Server licensing in clusters
Hello, just wanted to confirm my understanding of how the Microsoft licensing works. Just to keep things simple. Lets say I have a Blade chassis with 8 Blades,so 8 Physical servers with 2 physical...
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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 Installation Error: Fatal Error 10 (Out of resources)
Hi, I am attempting to install ESXi 6 U2 on a new server. The hardware is as follows: SuperMicro motherboard X11SSH-LN4F (BIOS 1.0a, 12/29/2015)32GB DDR4 RAM (2 x 16GB)AVAGO MegaRAID SAS 9361-4i...
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