"No more disc space" error, despite 1TB free!
Overnight, one of my VMs stopped. vCentre was reporting "No more disc space for virtual disc XXXX.vmdk". The datastore where the VM & VMDKs are stored had over 1TB of free disc space. Googling only...
View ArticleESXi 6.x - how to allow outgoing connections to an SMTP server ?
Hello, I've several ESXi servers with LSI raid card. LSI is providing a tool (stocli) that can display the RAID status, so I want to run a script that will filter the output of storcli and send an...
View ArticleParent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created.
I recently had one of my virtual machines go down and I couldn't login to it to access anything, so I mounted it as an additional hard drive to another virtual machine in order to access data I needed....
View ArticleReclaim space from ESXI local datastore.
While building my lab, I allocated 100 GB disk to each of 5 ESXIs without realizing I would deploy Freenas and will use most of it for all ISOs and VMs. Now I am feeling that 500 GB allocated space for...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 Slow vms, High "average response time"
I am running esxi 6.5 with the latest patches and vmware tools 10.1.5 I am having very inconsistent performance issues with both of my hosts. Basically the windows 2016/windows 10 guests are sluggish...
View ArticleThe Parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created.
I am having the same problem, but I have two errors. I am not sure what happened (relatively new to VMware). One weekend I got a call from a user saying that the VM was down. This is the error I got....
View ArticleSQL Transaction Log Corruption since update to vSphere 6.0
Ever since we have upgraded to vSphere 6.0, we have been getting corrupted trans log errors while taking transaction log backups of a SQL instance running on a VM. The error message from SQL is: Backup...
View ArticlePSOD - how to connect using remote debugger to ESXi 6.0?
Hello, i got PSOD and at the end there is:"Remote debugger waiting on serial port com1. "Escape" for local debugger.Remote debugger activated. Local debugger no longer available" I have connected com1...
View ArticleESXI 6.5 - Cannot open HTML5 Client in any browser IE, FireFox or Chrome
I have updated my ESXI from 6.0 to 6.5 on a Dell T310 server (32GB Memory). Now I cannot open HTML5 Client in any browser IE, FireFox or Chrome. The browser just hangs there or comes up the the Blue...
View ArticleEsxi 6.0 keep triggering false alarm
Hi all, When I shutdown or power on the virtual machine in esxi host, some alarms with be triggered. When power off vmAlarm "Virtual machine memory usage" changed from green to GrayAlarm "Virtual...
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Abnormal KAVG, DAVG & QAVG after upgrade to vSphere Hypervisor 6.5a
I've just update my home server from vSphere Hypervisor 6.0 to 6.5 and facing very low disk performance issue.I've attached 2 SSD to my home server (NO RAID), one is Sandisk X210 512GB, which has this...
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ESXi 6.5 - Device Passthrough
Hello all, I'm an ESXi beginner trying to get my graphics cards to passthrough my VM. In ESXi under Host>Manage> under the "hardware tab">PCI Devices, it states the device is not capable for...
View Article[SOLVED] stuck after reboot: "vmkapei loaded successfully"
Hello, After a fresh install of esxi 5.5 my system doesn't seem to work properly after rebooting the host. When all setup was done with datastores and other settings I wanted to passthrough my graphics...
View ArticleNew to HP servers, are these log entries normal?
I'm setting up some new HP servers for the first time (normally use Dell) with the HP iso for ESXI 6.5. I'm checking the logs to make sure everything is ok and I'm seeing the following in the...
View ArticleErrors with dd on some esxi hosts...
I have 3 ESXi 6.0 hosts, all 3 with taste patches installed. On 2 of them, the dd command is not working if i use the bs= argument.On the 3rd one, it works as expected. [code]root@XServe3-ESXi: ls...
View Articleesxi vcpu memory and sharing resources
hi guys. vm has vcpu, memory, provisioned space. On existing esxi with VMs when i add new vm which of this can be shared/overlapped , for example if i have 8 vcpu and 5 of them assigned already but my...
View Articlevsphere 6.5 web console - typematic rate AND copy/paste not working
As stated - the web console does not allow copy/paste (event plain text) into the VM console.I am having the issue in differnt guest OS versions - 2008, 2008r2, 2106.All have the latest vm tools...
View ArticleVmware Tools defect since Version 10.x.x with server 2012R2...
Hello Community, I am facing with a Snapshot Problem with one Single Server 2012R2 VM with Exchange 2013. Environment:Dell R430, ESXi 6.0 U3 5572656. The Error Message is the following and the Snapshot...
View Articlefailed to upgrade Esxi to 6.5 U1
Esxi is installed on a 8GB USB stick, and when I try to upgrade it o 6.5 U1, the progress failed with some errors messages. vmware -vl VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-5310538VMware ESXi 6.5.0 GA md5sum...
View ArticleProblem with vSphere ESXi 6.5 and 3Ware 9690sa-4i
Hey, just installed vSphere ESXi 6.5 and i got a 3Ware 9690sa-4i installed with 4 SATA which are in an RAID5. I can also see the card in the hardware tab of the Internet Management window. But i can't...
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