ESXi 5.5 - Support of Intel Q77 Express integrated RAID controller / Best...
Hi,I want to use ESXi 5.5 on a system with the following hardware specifications:- Chipset: Intel Q77 Express- Processor: i5-3470- Memory: 4x2GB RAM- Storage: 3x 500GB SATA 3- RAID: Integrated Intel...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VMXNET3 Driver Stripping VLAN TAGS
VMXNET3 Driver removes VLAN TAGS, E1000 Does not. ETH1 = VMXNET3ETH3 = E1000 They are both connected to the same PORTGROUP See screenshot below.ESXi = 6Commands in Yellow Box's. Guest = Linux Server...
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ESXi Host Management Network Redundancy
Hi All, Need some suggestions on configuring the ESXi host Management network redundancy (NIC Teaming) with 2 Uplink adapters. I have installed the ESXi6.5 on Dell R810 Server and below is the network...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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 ArticleVsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
I have installed ESXi5.5 in a server with Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NICs.I have installed the last driver for this nic - elxnet-10.0.575.9-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib. After some network activity of...
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 ArticleVsphere - Promiscuous Mode?
I have a VM that runs in the Vsphere Hypervisor. I am attempting to install a VPN utility (SoftEther) that requires the network adapter to be set in Promiscuous mode. After reviewing ESXI...
View ArticleHow to monitor Raid on a Hypervisor server?
Hello all! I have 2 servers (dell R420) running vmware hypervisor 5.5 and 1 server running version 5 I installed a few windows servers VM machines on them and everything is running great however I...
View ArticleIntel VT-x mode issue
I'm provisionig Windows 7 x64 VM (guest) in the ESXi 5.0 and 5.5 (host) environment. Now I want to virtualize via VMWare Player in this Win 7 VM (guest) further 64 Bit Windows/Linux systems. I'm...
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...
View ArticleCannot register vmx file
I got VM image from a customer and cannot register now the vmx file on my ESXi 5.5 server. I'm getting the status in the inventory list "Unknow (invalid)".The error log files have been attached.What...
View ArticleRaid not recognized in ESXI 6
Hi guys.Trying to install: "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update01-3029758.x86_64.iso" on SuperMicro Server. Server type: Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SLM+-FIt...
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 ArticleVMotion and FC shared storage
Hi,I'm looking at VMotion and shared storage, specifically a fiber channel SAN for VM storage, with blade servers at the host end running Qlogic QME2662 IO cards.It's the first time I've put together...
View ArticleTP-Link 10/100 Mbps PCI NEtwork Adapter ESXi 6.5 compatibility.
I've installed a TP-Link 10/100 Mbps PCI Network Adapter TF-3239DL on an available PCI slot on my FUJITSU Primergy TX 150 server but it isn't detected from my ESXi 6.5 server.Any idea on how to solve...
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 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 ArticleSupport for Third party software switch
From which Vsphere version Vmware has stopped supporting third party switch
View ArticleRTL8111D with ESXi 5.1U1 - poor performance
2 days before, I removed a Intel e1000 pcie card from my ESXi-Server to free one PCIe-slot which is needed for a RAID-controller. Instead of the e1000, I configured the onboard-NIC with RTL8111D, which...
View Article