pci passthrough and pci-to-pcie bridge
Hi all. I want to use ESXi with PCI fieldbus communication board, but modern chipsets doesn't native support PCI (not PCI Express), only over pci-to-pcie bridge. Are there any problems with this bridge...
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Network Pause Frames
Hi Guys, in our infra we are observing NIC tagged to iSCSI is losing connectivity and couldn't observed network ranges. If I manually make the NIC down and up through CLI, It is up again and function...
View ArticleJoin Active Directory
Hi,i tried to join a domain with my ESX Hosts in our Production. It won't work and i don't know why.Here is the Case, probabyl someone has got an answer, that will work for me. Production:ESX6 Version...
View ArticleExplicit Datastore & Folder Permissions on ESXi 6U3 free edition
Are these accessible? Can't seem to find a way to map, for example a role to be allowed to manage datastore01, I have 2 other datastores that would need to remain inaccessible. I know this is possible...
View ArticleCannot shutdown or restart guest when vmware tools is running
Hello, I am a new ESXi user. I have used VMware Workstation for years. I have a Windows 7 VM running in ESXi (6.5.0 update1) with vmware tools installed. While logged in the guest VM, when I try to...
View ArticleUpgrading ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 odd conflicting vib issue
Hey everyone, I'm having an issue updating to ESXi 6.5 using VUM. VUM sees all of our hosts as non-compliant (not listing any conflicting VIBs) until I remediate. Once remediation starts, it will error...
View ArticleCLUSTER CONFIGURATION
It's a general question regarding the cluster configuration in ESXi. Is it possible to cluster with two different CPU manufactures (EX:Intel and AMD) if it possible can we perform normal clustering...
View ArticleSeveral errors Provider method implementation threw unexpected exception:...
Hello,i am logged in with my domain admin-account in vsphere 6.5B.In several parts of the configuration i receive the following error (see attachment). My domain-administrator-account is having...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 - Wildcard SSL help needed
Hi all, I have ISPconfig with few personal websites and I got Comodo Positive SSL Wildcard. Using ISPconfigI went thru process generating CSR for *.mydomain.com and sending it to where I got SSL from...
View ArticleHTML 5 error when starting
Hello,i am running the latest version of vmware vcenter 6.5When starting the HTML-version i receive the following error (see attachment).How to fix this?
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Some VMs un-contactable after host reboot UNTIL I reboot my core switches.
Hello, Hoping someone here can help. We are running 6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 5969303). My recent background is predominately hyper-v, although I was VMWare back in ESXi 2.5/3 days. Whenever we reboot our...
View ArticleConfigure Boot Delay on Startup
Hi NG,we tried to configure a boot delay on two customer servers. The reason for this is, that without the delay the ESXi servers come up before the SAN, and ESXi cannot see datastores.Thus VMs do not...
View ArticleCold/Hot migrations to VVOLS
Hi. I can't find any information discussing how we can migrate our vm's that presently reside on NFS/VMFS/pRDM/vRDM to VVOLS. Can someone point me in that direction? Lots of articles explaining what...
View ArticleSimple Memory Question...
If I give a VM 24 gigs of RAM will that VM be able to use additional memory available on the ESXi hosts if the VM consumes all 24 gigs? Or since I set the VM at 24 gigs is that the limit it will...
View ArticleESXI - AMD Threadripper Testing - Having Issues.
Hi All, I have been playing with a new Threadripper 1950X build and was thinking about seeing if I could get ESXi working. So far I haven't been having much luck and my build keeps getting stuck at the...
View ArticleEsxi 6.5 U1 Active Directory integration
Hello guys!Im having a problem my Esxi 6.5 U1 and my Active Directory 2012, i cant join the Esxi to the active directory domain. Both Esxi and AD are in the same network (in fact the W2012 its a VM in...
View ArticleRight-clicking in vSphere Web Client opens Flash popup window AND context...
This is probably is trivial thing to resolve but I'm just getting acquainted with the Web Client and whenever I right-click anywhere in the web clientm I get that idiotic Adobe Flash popup menu on top...
View ArticleMount Host USB Device in VMRC or Web Client
Hi folks,Im tearing my hair out over this one.I have spent the last day poring over google and trying to work out how to mount a USB drive from my host device to my VM on ESXi 6.5.I have added a USB...
View ArticleCopy and Paste into VMRC / ESXi 6.5
Hi folks, I have tried to enable Copy and Paste function to allow me to paste text into a VMRC session, on my ESXi 6.5 server but so far I have been unsuccessful. I have set the following configuration...
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Transferring VM files from ESXi 6.5 to ESXi 6.0
Scenario: I must create a VM on my local ESXi 6.5 stack then physically mail the files within the datastore to my customer who will upload them to their own datastore and create a new VM on ESXi 6.0....
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