Thick 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 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 ArticleJumbo Frames - VMotion
Hi Guys, I've inherited a VM system at my new job and looking over the configuration which I feel is incorrect but would like a steer from some on you experts. The System1 Dell Compellant FC Storage 3...
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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 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 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 ArticleIs there a fix for "The VMRC console has disconnected...attempting to reconnect
Is there a fix for Windows 8 client running the vSphere Client and when you launch the VM, you get the message "The VMRC console has disconnected...attempting to reconnect" ? I am now using Wndows 8...
View ArticlevShpere Hypervisor: Can't mount a guest OS to VM
After I installed VSphere Hypervisor and client, tried to create 2 VM for Windows 8.1 and Linux. I never got a success due to no OS found. Attached is image of screen. I tried many options to locate...
View ArticleX710 SR-IOV on ubuntu guest on ESXI v5.5
HiI am using X710 Intel NIC cards on HP host with SR-IOV enabled. I am using DPDK igb-uio drivers on a Ubuntu VM on ESXI v5.5. The VF driver on Guest fails to initialize, some times fails with below...
View Articleimplication of having a vmdk disk following snapshot file naming convention?
Hi, platform: ESXi 6VM: RHEL 6 I am posting this to see if anyone encounters the similar issue or has suggestions... We have a VM that has no snapshots listed in the snapshot manager. in the datastore,...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 6.5.0 intaller fails to recognize Intel Xeon D-1541 x552 NIC
I am installing VSphere Hpervisor 6.5.0 Update 1 to a Intel Xeon D-1541 based server. It is setup to do PXE UEFI install. I am able to boot from the D-1541 embedded X522 NIC. However, the installer...
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 ArticleESXi free license?
Hi, Does exist something like free ESXi? I need some hypervisor for my home lab (to replace KVM) but I wouldn't like to end up with trial license expiration in 45 days or so. Would the following be...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 U3 HP Branded // ML30 // KMODE Exception not handled
Hello,we have a major problem with an old ESXi 5.5 U3 Host. Specs:HP Proliant ML30 Gen9ESXi 5.5 U3 HP Branded Image We need to ensure that Windows 10 can be setup as VM on this system. Before we...
View ArticleVM CONVERSION
Dear All, I have a case where we need to convert a physical server to virtual machine. The host destination is an vmware ESXi 6.7 environment (managed by VCSA 6.7)The Server OS is a Debian 9. I have...
View ArticleESXi performance data is currently not available for this entity
I am running ESXi 6.0 U2 and vCenter 6.0 U2. I am able to see ESXi performance up to Past day, but when I chose rest of the options (Past Week, Past Month and Custom), it gives me this error "esxi...
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...
View ArticleSpan a Virtual Machine across two Physical Servers
How can I span a Virtual Machine across two physical servers? Each server is a Poweredge R230 with CPU(4 cores, 8 threads), 64GB RAM, a dual 10Gb/s PCIe Ethernet adapter. These two servers will be...
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 ArticleVMWare\Windows performance monitor counters
I am looking for the threshold measurement criteria of the VMWare Performance Counters introduced inside Windows Performance Monitor (perfmon). I would appreciate if anybody has any idea on this or...
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