ESXi antivirus
Hi Team, please suggest what could be the best anti-virus for ESX/ESXi. or is it required to install any antivirus on ESX/ESXi ? regardsVINAY
View ArticleConnect HP SAS Tape Drive to ESX 6.5
Hi, I've got 1 HP DL380 Gen9 + HP H241 HBA + HP Ultrium 3000 SAS and installed ESX 6.5Is it possible to connect that Tape Drive to a Windows VM and use it with Veeam for Backups? If yes, how can I do...
View ArticleNFS for ESXi logs
I'm using an NFS datastore for a persistent scratch location for ESXi logs for my cluster. I've just been told that the storage will be offline for 6-8 hours this weekend for maintenance. What happens...
View ArticleChange host Swapfile location without VM downtime
Hi all. I've seen this discussion (see link below) where it is hinted that it's possible to do - and it does make sense so im hopeful. I just wanted to know if anyone has done this before and see how...
View ArticleVMs and Templates - Unable to move VM into Folder "The operation is not...
This link shows that the functionality did not exist in version 4.0. VMs and Templates - Unable to move VM into Folder "The operation is not supported on the object."Can someone tell me if this has...
View ArticleSafe to add second VDS in 5.5?
Hi all, have a large production environment of 5.5 enterprise plus. Some of our VM's need to use jumbo frames and our live distributed switch doesn't have the MTU set for that. I would prefer to not...
View ArticlePreferred path not available Update 3
Hi all, Since I updated some of my ESXi hosts to 6.0 Update 3 I'm unable to change Preferred path for my LUNs.It still works on all hosts which are on Update 2 I've also update vCenter server to U3....
View ArticleExtracting OVA, this could take some time ...
Trying to migrate a VM from Citrix XenServer 6.5 to ESXI 6.5. I exported it from XenServer, copied the .ova to a temporary VM on the target server and tried to import it from there. I ran the ESXi...
View ArticleWhy does ESXi 6.5 GUI creates VMFS-volumes that are not alligned to 1MB blocks ?
Why does ESXi 6.5 GUI creates VMFS-volumes that are not alligned to 1MB blocks ? VMFS 6 - 100gb datastore partedUtil getptbl mpx.vmhba3\:C0\:T0\:L0gpt13054 255 63 2097152001 128 209715160...
View ArticleExchange 2010 DAG failures with ESXi6 DRS vMotion
After upgrading our environment to ESXi6, we've been experiencing DAG failover at least once a week during DRS vMotion failover. However, if we manually perform the failover, there are no issues....
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ESXi 6.0.0, 3029758 Update patch
Hi,Three questions.1-what's the best/safest way to update patches for standalone host. No vCenter only have vSphere.2-How can I monitor host hardware. 3- Host got hand getting following error-any idea...
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2 x DL380P G8 VMWARE BSOD
Hi all,I have 2 DL380P G8 with VMWARE ESXI 6.5. Ramdomly the servers stops and show the BSOD and healt led flashing in red. Many thanks in advance
View ArticleESXi 5, HP P212 and LTO 5 tape drive goes offline
Hi there, We have purchased a support ticket from VMware but we are still currently going some steps but so far with no succes.We have an HP DL180 G6 with an HP P212 SAS card and a HP Ultrium 5 Tape...
View ArticleVMware 5.1 VM with large RDM - options to get VM into Vcenter 6.0 system?
Hello, Hopefully this is the right forum. We have a VMware 5.1 Vcenter system. We're in the process of migrating the VM's into a Vcenter 6.0 system at another data center (but we're not in charge of...
View ArticleUSB Error
Hi I have a strange issue. I have an USB license key. I have added the USB device to the virtual machine and then added the UBS key to the VM. When i log into the machine through vSphere i can use the...
View ArticleALERT: NMI: 709: NMI IPI received. xxxxxxx
hello all, from vmkernel.log, we always got messege "ALERT: NMI: 709: NMI IPI received. xxxxxxx" every 5 minutes or more. Its marked by vcenter as an alert, and always send email notification. why this...
View ArticleSome template deployments won't auto-release mouse cursor
We upgraded to vSphere 6.5/ESXi 6.5 back in December and i've noticed ever since then that about half of the time when I deploy a template it won't auto-release the mouse cursor and the only fix is to...
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Removing iSCSI port bindings
Greetings ! I need to remove the iSCSI port bindings from 2 VMKernal ports, I've found VMware KB1020674 that requires the hosts to be rebooted, commands run to enable, disable and then remove the vmk...
View ArticleResource pools on ESXi 6.5
Upgraded a stand-alone 6.0 ESXi host to 6.5.0b this morning. Put it into maintenance mode using the thick client for the last time... makes me sad. Anyway upgrade went smoothly except for the fact...
View ArticleLoading ESXi installer issue " Relocating modules and starting up the kernel"
Hi experts i am using HP 460 Gen9 servers and i am getting error the below error" Relocating modules and starting up the kernel" Please guide me how to fix this issue
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