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My Home Network
Hi All, So i took advantage of some black friday deals and got myself a whitebox to use for playing with ESXi at home. i have been using workstation for a while, but not as much as i would like, so i...
View ArticleTesting vSphere ESXi Free Hypervisor, clon baremetal server?
Hi,I'm testing VMWare vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, the free one. I'm trying to get advise which motherboard should I buy for testing the vSphere Hypervisor? I tested in a few motherboard form Intel and...
View ArticleChanging guest OS: is it safe?
Hi,I want to install linux-OS (Gentoo) which is not officially supported but reported to work. But when I try to create new VM and pick "Other Linux (64-bit)" as guest OS, the only network adapter I...
View ArticleESXi 5.0U1 - Configuring 802.3ad Link Aggregation Using LACP
Hi all--I could use some help here. We have some new hosts going in with 10G nics and my networking guy is telling me to configure them for 802.3ad Link Aggregation. He says they should negotiate...
View ArticleBoot from SAN for Dell R710 and Dell MD3200i!
Hi all, I am having Dell R710 and Dell MD3200i, now i would like to install the hyperviosr in a SAN lun. Can anyone guide me that ? Thanks, Tho
View ArticleFTP Server for Exsi
Hi there Can anyone reccommend an FTP Server application for Exsi ( Not for windows etc. but "bare metal" or at least as mutch as possible) with user management, folder management etc. Thanks
View ArticleVmware vSphere Hypervisor installation network adapter problem
Good day, I am a beginner in virtualization technology.The first server I wanted to setup is a normal PC (CPU Core2Duo, VIA motherboard, integrated network adapter). I downloaded iso image (from VMware...
View ArticleVMware-viclient 5.1.0 doesn't work on Windows 8 x64 !!!! (The type...
Hi all,I have installed VMware viclient latest version 5.1.0-1064113 on a Windows 8 Enterprise x64 machine.Unfortunately it doesn't happened to work Same version installed on Windows 7 Enterprise x64...
View ArticleIs Tunneling Suported?
I want to use a VPS at another location to tunnel traffic to my server (for DDoS protection) and I was wondering if its possible with Hypervisor. Is tunneling supported on the hypervisor console...
View ArticleFailed to power on virtual machine after delete snaphot
I have an Esxi server free edition. I have made a virtual machine (windows 2012 server R2). Everything was all right up the moment i have take a snapshot. Because it takes me a lot of disk usage, i...
View Articlelatest vSphere 5.5 + Intel I350-T4 = SRIOV?
We installed Intel I350-T4 Server Adapter which supports SR IOV and by doing "esxcfg-module igb -s max_vfs=7,7,7,7", we get: Unable to set module parameters the following params are invalid: max_vfs...
View ArticleBy upgrading the cpu, will vSphere 5.5 automatically recognise new features...
My company currently owns a Dell T100 II with an Intel Pentium G620. I plan to change the CPU to an Intel Xeon e3-1240v2, which offers many new features, including Vt-d. My question: upon power on,...
View ArticleUSB contention in host? (UPS Monitor loses connection to USB)
I have a ESXi 5.5 (U1) host running off a USB stick on my HP Proliant Microserver (N40L). The host runs off the USB port directly attached to the M/B of the N40L. Virtualised on the host are 3 VMs -...
View ArticleTrouble Setting MTU to 9000 on ESX host and guests
I just set the mtu to 9000 on the ESXi host.Then I changed the MTU to 9000 on the linux guests. Now the network fails.Shouldn't this be supported?
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 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 ArticlevSphere 6 - "Launch Console" is all black screen
OK, I have my lab of 3 ESXi 6 Hosts, VMware Platform Services and vCenter server 6 up and running. Every time I try to get to a VM's console by clicking the "Launch Console" link the console is all...
View ArticleDell R900 vSphere 5.5u2 LACP Issue
Has anyone had any issues with the integrated NICs on the R900 management card not working properly with LACP in vSphere 5.5u2? I have two 6800s using add-in cards on my Extreme Summit 400 stack that...
View ArticleVMWare ESXI 3WARE 9550SXU-8LP SATA Controller Install
I am new to VMWare ESXi and trying to install it to test it out for possible production deployment. I have obtained an older server to perform testing. I am having difficulty installing the VMWare ESXi...
View ArticleEsxi Equivalent command as for linux FREE command
Hi All I would appreciate your help and time, i am looking for way where i can query Esxi hypervisor in particular 4.1 the same way i would query a Linux server with following commands Free or cat...
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