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Preferred path not available Update 3
Hi all, Since I updated some of my ESXi hosts to 6.0 Update 3 I'm unable to change Preferred path for my LUNs.It still works on all hosts which are on Update 2 I've also update vCenter server to U3....
View ArticleRestart Windows 2008 R2 Virtual system
Is it possible to restart the virtual system from within the O/S by running shutdown -r -t 0 or is it better to issue the restart command from within vSphere client?
View ArticleInstalling Storage api
How do install the Storage api? From what I've read they should be included in your licensed copy of vSphere. Or is it a separate license and install?
View ArticleHow to replicate to another place
Hi, We have a vmware on couple of servers. We have vcenter installed and all the 20 virtual machines are running. We are using 6.0. We want to replicate the vmware servers to another place. I really am...
View Articleglobal vSphere swap dir configuration
Hello, I'm using vSphere Hypervisor free edition (HPE custom image). I have a RAID-6 storage volume consisting of 4 WD RE harddisks. Due to loud access sounds of these 4 WD RE when running a VM even in...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 U1 not able to install on HP 460 G7
Hi , I am unable to install esxi 6.5 u1 on hp 460 gen 7 server, after booting with iso some time will run then suddenly it stops. Any one have idea on this
View ArticleP2V ESXi 5.1.0 - Guest on Boot Continually Reverting to Previous Snapshot
Extremely urgent here unfortunately.We used stand-alone converter our PDC (Server 2003 x64) that runs Exchange 2007 a week back to convert an aging and somewhat failing physical server. Everything went...
View ArticleProblem with update Esxi 6.0u2 to 6.0u3
i tried update esxi6u2 （3620759）to esxi 6.0u3（5572656）but it failed with error message in esxupdate.log:[root@vnvdiesxi09:~] tail -n 400 /var/log/esxupdate.log 2017-08-24T06:03:34Z esxupdate:...
View ArticleBackup
Hi,Good Afternoon.I need to take backup of VMDK files in VMWare ESXI 5.0.0. could anyone help. Thanks in Advance...
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ESXi 6.5.0 cannot import OVA - unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'
We want to import an OVA image to ESXi, however, the import failed, because of this error message:unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'How can we successfully import it?
View ArticleMouse clicks are not recognized in a VMware
keyboard is recognized in a VMware. Mouse clicks are not recognized in a VMware esxi5.5 324857 guest os - windows 2008 r2 How can I solve this
View ArticleESXi 5.5 & TLS 1.2 with vCenter
Moving an environment from 5.5 to 6 and im wanting to implement TLS 1.2. I can implement TLS 1.2 for vCenter connection but what about the connection between the ESXi hosts & vCenter. I assume...
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random vmx corruption on reboot, affects only passthru/ partial workaround.
Esxi 6.5; running on intel Xeon e5 2690 ; windows 10 vm's. The vmx files randomly become corrupted when rebooting the host. This occurs whether or not I put the machine in maintenance mode prior to...
View Articledetach/attach network labels from/to the vGuest via ESXi shell
Hello, I'm looking for the way about how to modify the network label of the vGuest via ESXi shell.seems this command will add the virt-ether adapter to the vGuest but there seems nothing deletenic,...
View ArticleEsxi 6.0 5572656 sfcbd-watchdog stopped/started (WorldList: malloc failed...
Hi there, i have recently Issues with the sfcbd-watchdog service. it's stopping/starting in a loop. maybe anyone have an Idea what the AllNode List Error means? 2017-08-24T10:01:06Z sfcbd: Starting...
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VMWare 6.5.0 (Build 5310538) serial/com port passthrough issues.
Hi All, Go easy on me, i'm new around here. We had a VM with access control software on an old ESXi server (5.5). It was working fine and had a USB to Serial converter that then had a card reader...
View ArticleUpdate Path Selection Policy from Command Line
Hello. I'd like to 1) change the default policy for new datastores added from MRU to RR, and 2) also change a few existing one at a time to RR too. Can anyone explain how to do this? In my searches,...
View ArticleUCS-CPU-E52697AE bug report for ESXi 5.5 U3 or higher
Hi Team, We are planning to use E52697AE CPU on proposed Hypervisor to be built on UCS C240. But before that, we would like to have any bug report for this particular processor w.r.t ESXi 5.5 U3 or...
View ArticleVMware Upgrade path from 5.x to 6.x
What are the licensing requirements for upgrading VMware vCenter Server / vSphere / ESXi from 5.x to 6.x? Are new licenses required for this or is this just an upgrade to a newer version? Also what...
View ArticleESXi 5.1, IBM DS3200 SAS - high disk latency with 2 hosts running
(2) IBM x3650 hosts running esxi 5.1 with 2xHBA SAS connections to IBM DS3200 dual controller SAN. I have 2 arrays, both set to multi-host access for vmware. With a single host powered on and running...
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