VMware Load-Based Teaming (LBT) and Route Based on Physical NIC Load
Hi, I came across a question regarding LBT, IF I am using Route Based on Physical NIC Route Based on Physical NIC Load for a portgroup with 2 Uplinks, Each vmnic connected to different physical...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and supporting...
Purpose of this post is simple and obvious... bring back development to thick client. THANKS!
View ArticleReduce VMs memory
Hi Guys, Just a simple question here.I have few VMs that have high amount of memory assigned compare to what they use.What is the impact on the VMs if I reduce the memory?
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Plug-ins In VMware vSphere SiteSurvey
VMware SiteSurvey is a free add-on utility which analyzes vSphere ESX and ESXi hosts for VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) compatibility. My good friend Eric Siebert wrote in depth about this piece of...
View Articleesxi 6.5 Forced reboot
server -hpe DL380 Gen9esxi - 6.5 u1 5969303 Restart without causeThe logs before restart are listed below. 2017-10-15T10:00:56.244Z cpu69:2649724)FSS: 6766: Failed to open file 'hpilo-d0ccb0';...
View ArticlevSphere Server 6.5 web client - endless session
I have installed vSphere Server 6.5 on Windows Server 2016I need an endless session. I used this manual: Increasing the VMware vSphere Web Client session timeout period (2040626) | VMware KB1. In the...
View ArticleLimiting the number of concurrent vMotions
Hello everyone.We have installed vSphere Server 6.5 on Windows Server 2016.We need change maximum number of concurrent vMotions: we need only one simultaneous vMotion.For vSphere server 5.0 we uses...
View Articlerestore the Vm at loss snapshot
Hi,I have a very incomprehensible problem occurred. After a scheduled reboot of the physical server, one of the virtual machines failed. The virtual disk of this machine was replaced by the esxi itself...
View ArticlevmWare and VLANs troubles
Hello community! Previously I have absolutely flat network structure with wide network mask /21. All services are worked fine except of some network freezesRecently I have implemented VLANs to...
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vSphere web client - how to identify licensed CPUs? Those show up in the fat...
Hi everyone, While using the vSphere web client (esxi.x.x/ui) I noticed that I can't see some info which I could with the old binary client -- how can one identify licensed CPUs in the web client?...
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Erro Inicialização ESXi 6.5 "vmkapi_v2_2_0_0 vmkernel _shim loaded successfully"
O sistema ESXi 6.5 está funcionando normalmente, porem ao reiniciar ou iniciar o servidor fisico ele trava no arranque do hypervisor ele fica congelado na tela com a mensagem "vmkapi_v2_2_0_0 vmkernel...
View ArticleThe right network card to run pfsense in a ESXi virtual machine on a dell...
I'm looking for a cost effective NIC card that will support pfsense running in a virtual machine on an ESXi host.Specifically, I'd like that the existing NIC on the T20 will continue be shared between...
View ArticleESXi: 6.0 - 'root' lock out cause by pam_tally with correct credentials
Dear all,I am using the ESXi free edition version 6.0.0 (2494585) and once a week I have a problem with the vSphere client which cannot connect to the ESXi host. I narrowed the problem down to the new...
View Article"Remote access for ESXi local user account 'root' has been locked for 120...
Hello everyone I got the following message every hour: "Remote access for ESXi local user account 'root' has been locked for 120 seconds..." I found a lot of information how to figure this out:...
View ArticleHow to configure automatic restart of /etc/init.d/hostd in ESX 5.5
Hi people, Could you help me to configure automatic restart of management agent ( hostd + vpxa ) in my ESX 5.5 i already do that manually but i don't know how to schedule it, because sometime it crash...
View ArticleHA Physical server configuration
In a vSphere HA cluster, Do all the physical machines need to be the same configuration? If they don't have to be the same configuration, Is there a way to automatically set one of them as the master...
View Articlevmware hba driver upgrade
Hi, I tried to upgrade vmware hba driver , before doing upgrade i have taken the following information . esxcli storage core adapter listHBA Name Driver Link State UID...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 Build 5969303 slow copy over network
Hi, We are using the ESXi 6.5 with build 5969303 on a Dell PowerEdge R430.I downloadet the Dell ESXi 6.5 Image. When i copy files or a VM over the Internet (100MBit syncron business ) i only can get...
View Articlemount and unmount iSCSI LUN not possible because system busy
Hello, i have an VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-4887370 (VMware ESXi 6.5.0 GA) with a iSCSI Target on NAS. The Target provides two LUNs. One LUN can be mountet, but the second not. During the mounting the...
View Articleiscsi connection inside vm
This has been driving me nuts for 2 days. I am trying to get an EMC Unity iscsi to show up on a fedora VM so I can map an NFS folder to the EMC Unity volume, and I can only get the iscsi to connect at...
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