Passthrough NIC does not pick IP address from DHCP, nor work wit static one.
Hello Community!I just set up my first white box with ESXi 6 Hypervisor and basically everything went quite smooth. However I have a problem with passthrough networking. I have 2 ports Realtek 8111 NIC...
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 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 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...
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Connect vSphere to ESXi Server over VPN
I've read a few posts, but so far none of them quite cover what I'm looking for. Here's the setup that I have: Site 1:ESXi Server --> Tomato VPN WRT54GL --> Cisco ASA* --> ISP Site...
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 ArticleHow to move Hypervisor VMDK to different datastore without vmotion
I have a Hypervisor vmware host version 5.0 with 4 virtual machines. I one of my virtual machines has 2 VMDK files. I need to move one of these VMDK files to a different datastore without using...
View ArticleVMware Hypervisor 6 - VMware Tools is rolled back on Windows 2008 R2 (x64)...
Hello VMware Gurus, over the weekend I installed VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.0.I migrated a VMware instance, from VMware Player, via VMware Converter.When I try to upgrade the VMware Tools, at the end...
View ArticleUnable to add additional CPU's to a VM.
I have a DELL PowerEdge R720 Host running ESXi 5.5 1474528 and it host 3 VM.I am using vCenter Server 5.5.0 Build 1476327 Essentials accessing it through the vSpere web client 40 logical processors20...
View ArticleThere are insufficient licenses to complete this operation - but why?
Hi Everyone, I'm a fairly new VMware administrator. Took over duties from someone who recently left our organization. I'm familiar with most cloud computing basics (at least in theory), but still...
View ArticleSlow Mouse Movement after Upgrade to 4.1
Hi, after upgrading my testserver from ESXi 4.0 U2 to Hypervisor 4.1 the mouse movement in the remote Console of vSphere Client ist very slow and it is hard to use. This Problem occurs with Win 7 x64...
View ArticleAtheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Hi, I've installed ESXi 5.0 and found my NIC is not recognized. My motherborard has an on-board Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller. Does anyone knows if there's a driver for this...
View ArticleLocating-finding vm on the hosting physical host
Hi All, I am trying to find a way of knowing/locating the HOST (physical host) of virtual machine from the actual virtual machine i.e. the host that is the virtual machine is running on. Here is the...
View ArticleGpu Passthrough for guest WebGL availability
Hello.I have esxi 5.5.0 installed on a custom built pc.Gigabyte motherboard with i5 3470 cpu and dedicated geforce gtx 260 and one pci intel 1000mbps nic.I went to config->advanced then ticked the...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 6 vs Vmware Workstation 11 Performance?
Hi,I currently have two machine - one server. Apologize for the length - wanted to be a specific as i can. Intel - S5000PSLSATAR (Intel® Server Board S5000PSL) Intel S5000PSLSATAR Server Board,...
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 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 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...
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