Power 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 ArticleHP DL 160 G5 server 's embedded sata raid not support by ESXi/Vsphere????
Bios Utlity show raid formed for 4 hard disks ( 10) but during install vsphere cd it show 4 hd separately. any idea?
View ArticleMaintenance mode and graceful shutdown
Dear All, I would like to create a script to shutdown the host (and its guests) when a power failure occure. I find a nice script on the web, and I can see that it put the host in maintenance mode...
View ArticleHome Edition license
so where download the home edition license for my hypervisor esxi 6.0 and what about the limitati
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 ArticleVMware ESXi, 5.5.0, 1331820 to ESXi-5.5.0-20170904001-standard (Build...
hi I was trying to update VMware ESXi, 5.5.0, 1331820 to ESXi-5.5.0-20170904001-standard (Build 6480324), there was lot of updates in between, I have reach to 3343343 and it was working fine. but...
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 ArticleHow to get the list of the last log session VMs of a datacenter?
Hi everybody We have a datacenter with more than 1000 vms in our v-center. we need to get the access logs of the last 90 days for each VM. Does anybody know the way to do it from Vcenter? I hope you...
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howto fix this ??? multiple vmdk files
This night the vmware server stoped some servers because disc space was low Currently I see for one server multiple vmdk files The server was configured for 400 G but it has 1.18 T I removed the...
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 ArticleVSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0 update
I'm new to this so bear with me I've downloaded the free VMware VSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0 (version 5.0.0, release date 2011-08-24) and installed it on a IntelSC5650DP server. Installed the VMware...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 loosing RAM?
Hi Community, I have this strange problem (or feature, for which I did not find any explanation): The first "server" (virtual computer) I tested with ESXi had 2GB RAM, and after booting I have seen "2...
View ArticleVM automatically reverts to most recent snapshot during startup
I am trying to bring back an old sbs2003 server to the domain as there is some exchange data we need to recover. My plan is to rejoin the previously decommissioned machine to the domain, ensure AD...
View ArticleVsphere Client On Linux
Hi ,I want to intall Vfabric Application performance manager which requires Vsphere client.Following link provide information for windows installation of Vsphere client...
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 ArticlevSphere 5.x Notes & Tips
Hi All ...My Name is Shady Ali Ahmed El-Malatawey. I’m working as VMware System Engineer with 4 years experience (I know it’s too short ). Currently certified as:MCITP: Virtualization...
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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 ArticlevSphere 5.5 - Boot Menu - Scripted vsphere Installer
Sigh... for support reasons of a software vendor I have to maintain a 5.5u2 cluster. Trying to stage for class / POC environment (hyperconvergence so has to work on hardware level), so I have to...
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Migration Fail - Unable to access file...
Hi, When I migrate a VM on a ESXi, I got the error message: Unable to access file /vmfs/volumes/551e68f9-XXXXXXXX-1f80-0025b501103f/vmhost01.abc.com (vmhost01)/vmhost01.abc.com (vmhost01)-000002.vmdk....
View ArticleI don't understand core vs pricing
I picked up a used Dell R610. It has two processors which I believe have 6 cores(?) each for a total CPU count of 12?!?!? I've attached a screenshot of the hypervisor resources. You tell me! I'm...
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