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How best to upgrade my storage on ESXi 6.5
I've been running ESXi 6.5 for some time on an old Dell T110 server. It hosts a Centos 7 distro, running one main application - Plex Media Server. It all runs on one 1TB WD Red disk, and the disk is...
View ArticleVMware DHCP PXE Inconsistently
Hello, We are trying to get PXE boot working in VMware. I am seeing very inconsistency when i do PXE boot installation. Sometime it does get DHCP address and works and sometimes it does not and time...
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windows 10 1809 slow
I downloaded the Windows 10 1809 and Server 2019 ISOs the day they became available so I can start working on my templates. I built the templates with EFI, paravirtual for the C drive and vmxnet3...
View ArticleESXi 6.7 - LSI 9260-8i RAID Controller
I'm currently on ESXi 6.5u1 (without vCenter) and have MegaRAID discovery working and can see the status and get alerts but I would like to update to ESXi 6.7. Has anyone come up with a decent way to...
View ArticleAre there any advanced settings to override hardware information?
Motherboard I'm using with esxi came preloaded with default strings for Manufacturer and Model information. Both show up as "To Be Filled By O.E.M." within esxi. Alas these strings are not...
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IPSEC behavior changed between v6.0 and v6.7
Hi,did anyone come across the problem that two identically configured ESXi talking to a linux server over ipv6, one with version 6.0 will work but v6.7 won't. Further debugging the problem lies in the...
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...
View ArticleESXi 6.0
I have a ESXi host sat in a vCenter Cluster, from a virtualisation layer everything is working fine, VMs are sat on host, can migrate to and from host. All the hosts in the cluster are running the same...
View ArticleHost patch ESXi670-201912001 conflicts with package EMU_bootbank
I've upgraded a HP Proliant Gen9 to VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 15160138 using the latest custom image.After that I checked compliance for baseline Critical Host Patches (Predefined) - and get the status...
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VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-14320388.x86_64.iso is failing to...
VMware ESXI 6.7 on a VM created with virtualbox 6.1 is failing with GP exception 13. Where as the same version of ESXI is installable on a VM created with VirtualBox 6.0. I was initially using...
View ArticleVmware Esxi Update No Space Left On Device Error
Hello,I'm trying to install updates from a zip file but always gives the same error. "No Space Left On Device"But there is a plenty of space on Device.When i try to runesxcli software vib update -d...
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vmkapi dependency
ESXi 6.7 fully patched Was trying to update an LSI driver and got the following message : esxcli software vib install -v /tmp/lsi-mr3-7.707.11.00-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922.x86_64.vib --no-sig-check...
View Articleshared disk in ESXI 6.5
Hello everyone, I am trying to share disk between tow VMs hosted in serveur with ESXI 6.5 the two vm are down and I added the shared disk in the first VM of course with all configuration to make it...
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ESXi 6.7.0 - How to create multiple networks in seperate networks/subnets?
Hello,I have a server that I installed the latest version of ESXi 6.7 on. I have been using the hypervisor on other servers for quite a while. I have always wanted to know how to allow VMs to connect...
View ArticleMigrating from VSS to VDS with no downtime
hi dear friendsi have 4 dl380g10 and 4 or 3 port group on each of them.PG 1 and 2 are similar but other are diffrent.one PG for vm and mgmt with 2 VMNIC .one PG with 1 vmnic for VMotion .other PG for...
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ESXi datastore sizing question
I installed ESXi 6.7 on a system whose only storage is a 2TB SSD. I see that the datastore occupies all available space left over after the installation. I want the space occupied by the datastore to...
View ArticleUnable to add an ESXi host to vCenter Server
Hi All, I am new vmware and trying to set up a test lab enviroment. I have installed and set up the sphere server. I cannot add the esxi host as I am using a free licence. it comes up with License...
View Articleutopia.net malware in startup process.
Apologies if this is in the wrong section. I have a Dell PowerEdge T130 I bought specifically to run multiple VMs on ESXi. Specifically, pfSense and FreeNAS, plus any other OS that I need to install in...
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Static Assigned MAC Not Working
Hello, We have VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 13932383. We are trying to set a static MAC on a VMXNET3 adapter. (we have tried E1000, same issue.) When using C1:73:xx:xx:xx:xx the adapter in Windows comes up with...
View ArticleUpgrade Esxi 6.7 U1 to Esxi 6.7 U2 Failed due to No space left on device
Update command:# esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20190402001-standard -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml[OSError][Errno 28] No space left on...
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