ESXi 6.5U1 vulnerability to Spectre with unpatched BIOS
I have an older ESXi server functioning as a home lab. It is based on the Westmere architecture (Xeon X5670), and will likely *never* see a BIOS patch from the vendor to address Spectre. I *have*...
View ArticleHelp! How to move VM out of vApp?
I dragged one of my vms in a vApp and now I'm trying to drag it back but I get an error "The operaion is not supported on the object". How do I move the vm back? Please help Thanks
View Articlecan't able to move out vms from vapp
Hi All, Can't able to move out the vms from the vapp can any one help me out on this ??
View Articlebootbank cannot be found at path /bootbank
HiIn vCenter for one of the ESXi server I am getting error as "bootbank cannot be found at path /bootbank"Reboot is temporary solution for this. Out of two devices there is none USB device at boot...
View ArticlePCPU : no heartbeat
Hello, friends!I need help.Hardware:Platform Supermicro SYS-6027R-WRFCPU Xeon E5-2620 2.00GHz - 2 pcsLSI Logic SAS/SATA RAID 9271-8i SGL 8 Int.Memory DDR3-1333MHz 8Gb Kingston KVR1333D3D4R9S/8G ECC Reg...
View ArticleThe operation on file "/vmfs/devices/deltadisks/test.vmdk" failed. ESXi 6.0
Hi, I'm using a image created using qemu-img and I get "The operation on file "/vmfs/devices/deltadisks/test.vmdk" failed. ...." in the WebUI and I can see this errors in VMWare log in the...
View ArticlepCPU vs vCPU - Relation/Ratio
Hi all. I have a doubt concerning the relation between the physical capacity and virtual capacity for processing. Suppose that I have a cluster which has 3 servers with 2 pCPU, each pCOU with 10 cores...
View ArticleHBA - Disks not showing up
I have a freshly updated supermicro X11SSL -cF motherboard with onboard LSI Logic Fusion-MPT 12GSAS SAS3008 PCI-Express controller flashed to IT mode. In esxi web, I see the controller and am able to...
View ArticleESXi host vswitch bottlenecks
All, I am trying to check performance with vmxnet3 DPDK driver in the guest hosted on ESXi 6.5 hypervisor. What I observe is, for a target of 10G performance, the vswitch on ESXi host is becoming...
View ArticleError:Unexpected character '' (code 65279 / 0xfeff) in prolog; expected '
Hi All, I'm using Windows C# client as below version: Somehow I got random / intermittent error popped up: Error:Unexpected character '' (code 65279 / 0xfeff) in prolog; expected '<' at [row,col...
View ArticleConfigured scratch location doesn't work after upgrade to ESXi 6.5
Hi,My configured scratch location for some reason doesn't work after upgrading to ESXi 6.5.I set up parameter ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation to a persistent storage. The folder exists and...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 syslog level options
possible to modify remote syslog properties on the host to filter out low priority entries? VCSA has a nice 'Common Log Level' function to perform this task but ESXi hosts do not.
View ArticleAMD Ryzen для исполнения ESXi, Workstation
1.Стоит ли покупать процессор AMD Ryzen 5 для оснащения ПК, если планируется запустить на данном ПК гипервизор ESXi ?Инструмент "VMware Compatibility Guide"...
View ArticleReload new ssl certificate without reboot
I use let's encrypt ssl certificates on ESXi 6.5 (ESXi-6.5.0-20170702001-standard) and it has been working well. Every few weeks when the certificates expire I just copied the new certificates to...
View ArticleRedimensionar Arquivos vmdk
Olá pessoal, preciso mudar uma VM de Host mas o arquivo vmdk esta muito grande, provisionado 410 Gb e utilizado apenas 110 Gb. Trabalho com vSphere 5.0.0. Abracos
View ArticleReset Password root host ESXI 6.5
Hello guysI need to reset the root password of an esxi host. I tried to live cd but the raid virtual disk is not recognized. I have configured Array 1 + 0My hardware is an HP DL160ESXI 6.5Any other way...
View Articleerror codes 30
have been expressing an error, while patching hosts an specific cluster "The host returns esxupdate error codes:30. Check the update Manager log files and esxupdate log files for more details". checked...
View ArticleData store lost after update
Dear All,after installing the latest update 6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 7526125) we lost one data store.we have 3 data stores which were mounted SSD/DATA/ReplicaNow we detect only SSD/DATA after we rescan...
View ArticleIntel Xeon E3-1225v3 Dell T20 vs AMD FX-9590 custom build - Advice needed!
Hi all, I have a Dell T20 Intel Xeon E3-1225v3, 32GB ECC un-registered RAM running ESXi with various VM's (Plex Server, Web Server, Cloud Server etc etc). My Plex server is heavily used and transcodes...
View ArticleFailing while doing Esx 6.5 patch update via cli.
[root@localhost:~] esxcli software vib update -d /vmfs/volumes/paul\/ESXi650-201712001.zip [StatelessError] The transaction is not supported: VIB VMW_bootbank_nmlx4-core_3.16.0.0-1vmw.650.0.0.4564106...
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