It may be long to migrate a VM from a datastore to another.. or not
Hello, I am testing the migration of VMs between two datastores. Small VMs go pretty quickly (few minutes), a bigger one goes slowly and I can't see why. The situation : I am alone to work on the test...
View ArticlevCenterServer 6.0U3b with ESXI Hosts 6.0.0 4600944 (Dell customized) ?
Hello, I have a system with three ESXi Hosts and one vCenter Server all running on ESXi 5.1.0 (1483097).I don't want to upgrade the vCenter Server (on W2012R2), but install a new one. The ESXI host...
View ArticleAre vmware patches cumulative ?
Hi Folks I am about to update vcenter and ESXIs from vsphere 6.0 to update 3. Just curious if I have to install Update 1 and 2 in sequence or can I install update 3 directly.
View ArticleUNMAP in ESXi 6.0, EnableBlockDelete and Windows 2012 R2 VMs
Hi, with regards to enabling Windows 2012 R2 VMs to automatically perform the UNMAP upon a file deletion within the OS and have this command passed onto the host and up to the storage level, I...
View ArticleEVC on ESXi 5.5 Cluster of both Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 (Haswell) and Intel...
I have an existing Cluster of ESXi 5.5 Hosts (build 2068190), running on Cisco UCS blades running Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 (codename Haswell). I have purchased additional Cisco UCS blades and they are...
View ArticlePing latency to locahost
Hello, I am using ESXi 5.1 and i created a new windows server 2012r2 with the vmxnet3 nic. I tried to ping to localhost address (127.0.0.1) with the psping utility and i get results with high response...
View ArticleMoving a CD with the VM to another datastore
Imagine an ESXi 5.5 host member of a vSphete infrastructure.The ESXi host is connected to 2 different datastores, let's say Datastore1 and Datastore2.On Datastore1 a VM botts from an .iso image stored...
View ArticleData Center Changes
We are merging with another group and have a lot to do on the infrastructure side of things. They are across town and have an essentials version of 5.5 which they share resources with another group no...
View ArticleESXi 5.x on an Intel J1900 board (Q1900-ITX Asrock) issue
Hello everyone! I have been trying to install ESXi 5.1u1 & 5.1u2 & 5.5u1 on the following configuration to no success so far:Asrock Q1900-ITX mobo (Intel J1900 Baytrail SoC, BIOS 1.20 with VT-x...
View ArticleDisks format vmdks
Thick provisioning lazy zeroed, Thick Provision Eager Zeroed and Thin Provision Although I understood the difference I did not understand when to use them On what occasions do you use one rather than...
View Articleesxi and FreeNas on same datastore
I am installing ESX 6.5 on a 128GB USB drive. I would like to also install FreeNas on the same local storage. I am doing this to share my storage through FreeNas. The issue is that I am not seeing...
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USB "device not found error" when adding to VM - ESXi 6.5
I'm having a weird problem while trying to add a host-connected USB device to my VM. I can see the device when I do lsusb in ESXi ssh terminal: [root@xxx:~] lsusbBus 001 Device 005: ID 0529:0620...
View Articleesxi standard switch not working with multiple vlans
I have a standard switch in esx 6.5. I created it with 6.5 compatibility. I also have it setup with NIC teaming. I have multiple vlans under that vswitch. The issue is that only one of the vlans work...
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hpe microserver gen8, esxi 6.5 hp packet error:...
hello, im new in this forum and also the esxi.But then te business.. i got this error when installing hp version of esxinormal 6.5 works fine but the raidcontroller is not supported.. both give the...
View ArticlevCSA 6.5
hello allvCSA 6.5 OVA file deploy in VMware workstation stuck in [Waiting for RPM Installation to finish (64% done.)]take a long time no change what is the problem
View ArticlevSphere 5.5 latest Update details needed for Patching
Hi All, Can any body please suggest me for the latest patch (build) for vSphere 5.5, in the web its showing 5230635 ( https://esxi-patches.v-front.de/ESXi-5.5.0.html )? Please provide me the release...
View ArticleProblem USB UPS Eaton with VM on VMware ESXI
Hi, I have a problem with my Eaton Pro Ellipse 1200VA. Indeed, when i launch Eaton Intelligent Power management in a VM with the OS Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, this one do not detected my UPS in...
View ArticleDisk IO performance question
Hello, I am investigating why the IO performance of our VM's is poor in comparison to our physical servers connected to the same storage (Dell Compellent SAN).Here are some figures:...
View ArticleOverhead when enabling hot-add/hot-plug - with modern OS?
A colleague told me the other day that using hot-add for memory/CPU on VMs wasn't recommended due to the overhead. This had me puzzled since I've managed environments with several thousand VMs with...
View ArticleiSCSI port binding
I came across with a VMware iSCSI connectivity guide as on the link belowhttps://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2038869 This made me to...
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