ESXI 5.5 - Cannot ping gateway and some hosts on same network
My setup includes 4 ESXI hosts and about 35 virtual machines. We had to move our environment between buildings and this process took place over several months so until last week we had all vm's running...
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ESXi 5.5U3 Storage Failure - troubleshooting advice is needed
Hello, I'm currently working on 6 ESXi 5.5 U3 build 4722766 (on HP DL360 G9 Servers).All of them are linked with fiber through a switch fiber to a HP 3PAR Disk bay where all volumes are stored. Last...
View ArticleAdvice on changing SAN setup after upgrade to ESXi 5.5
I have inherited an older VmWare system that I want to look at changing the setup.We have a HP MSA 2040 SAN that has been setup as below12 x 4Tb SAS drives setup into 2 x Disk Pools of 16Tb each, RAID...
View ArticleMake ESXi keep SSH keys after reboot
I'm trying to get ESXi to keep SSH keys after reboot. Is there any way to do a stateful/diskful install of ESXi or some way to tell it to hold on to particular files? This whole "load everything into...
View ArticleWhy DRS disables POOLS
Hi folks, I have a question I know what is DRS and Resource POOL, wondering why when we disable DRS it removes the resource Pools
View Articlevmw_ahci I/O errors and corruption - 6.5 whitebox
I upgraded to 6.5 on my whitebox hypervisor system (Intel Sandy Bridge), I had been running a Marvel HBA storage adapter on community drivers, but looked forward to the return of native AHCI drivers in...
View ArticleHaving trouble with police scanner Serial to USB cable on VM
I am running an ESXI on a desktop computer with 2 VMs. My windows 10 VM is used for recording and monitoring my 2 police scanners using proscan software. I am having trouble getting the VM to recognize...
View Articleexporting installed vib from host
An ESXi 5.5 host has a vib installed which i can see in the output of the esxcli software vib list command that I need to try installing on a 6.0 host. I no longer have the original zip file that was...
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fusion-io / sandisk ioDrive2 + ioTurbine / ioSphere on ESXi 6.0
Anyone have caching working with an ioDrive2 or similar card + ioTurbine on ESXi 6.0? I've got the card running on the host with the libvsl-600-1.0.0-3.2.15.1699.zip,...
View ArticleBest options for my setup...
I'm just getting to the final testing phase of a server re-vamp, looking for advice on best VM setup options... The end result on a 20 user setup is this...2008r2 64bit running as domain controller,...
View ArticlePSOD - ESXi 6.5 caused by sfcb-smx
We have a new server (HP DL380 G9) running VMware ESX 6.5 (build 4564106, HPE customised ISO).Recently an error triggered a PSOD. The kernel dump indicates the cause was sfcb-smx (see...
View ArticleUnable to update the latest patch for ESXi 6 Server
Hi, I am trying to update the latest patch to my home ESXi server. But I am getting following error. Could you please help me to resolve this issue? [root@adesxi:~] esxcli network firewall ruleset set...
View ArticlemacOS Sierra VM resolution is blurry
Team, I’m running a macOS Sierra 10.12.5 VM on ESXi 6.5 but when I change the VM resolution to the same as the native resolution of my MacBook Pro 15” w/ Retina (2880×1800) the image is too large for...
View ArticleEVGA GeForce GT 710 2GB DDR3 video card is allowed only 128MB video memory
Team, In ESXi 6.5, if I try to set the video memory of this card to anything higher than 128MB on my macOS Sierra VM, the following configuration error is thrown. Failed to reconfigure virtual machine...
View ArticleAdd a disk controller to an existing ESXI 6.5
I am looking to add a HBA disk controller to an existing ESXI 6.5 server to pass-through to a VM. When I use the old vSphere client I can see the adapter in the Storage Adapters section, but I cannot...
View ArticleWeb Client - vm user role can power off vm but cannot power on
I have two users that can in the vm user role (sample) who can power off any VMs but cannot power on any. When they power on the VM, they receive the error below. "The "Power on virtual machine"...
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ESXI 6.0 on Intel NUC Crashing Randomly with Hardware Error
Over the past year, my VM box will crash at random times, sometimes months apart. I was on 5.5 and now am running 6.0. The NUC is a 5i7 with 32GB RAM and the datastore is on a Synology NAS. When this...
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot an unresponsive ESXi host?
Hi, we have a VSAN cluster built with 4 ESXi hosts. For some reason one of those hosts become unresponsive - 2nd time within three weeks. This means: ESXi host lost his connectivity to vCenter Server....
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Fault Tolerance only support on Thick Provision Eager Zeroed??
Thick Provision Lazy ZeroedCreates a virtual disk in a default thick format. Space required for the virtual disk is allocated when the virtual disk is created. Data remaining on the physical device...
View ArticleSQL Geo-Clustered Virtual machine
Wasn't too sure where else to post this but wanted to know if anyone knows or can point to a white paper if its possible running Windows 2012/2016 SQL Geo-Clustered (SQL Cluster between two data...
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