Windows Server 2016 losing network connection
Thanks in advance for reading. I am running VMware ESXi 5.5.0 build-2068190 / VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Update 2 and vCenter 6.5 running. I have the latest VMware tools installed on my Windows 2016 Server...
View ArticleWhat vSphere Essentials 6.5 backup / restore VMs are available?
In follow Up - how simple and quick would it be to take a backup/snapshot made on failed hardware - and restore it to other hardware. I am building a Windows 2012 R2 Essentials server and considering...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 and Lenovo uEFI settings! vs 6.0 and 5.5??
Hi, On Lenovo System X servers (was IBM) it's always been that with ESXI 5.5 and 6.0 you had to change two uEFI settings to successfully install and boot ESXI. PCI 64-Bit Resource Allocation from the...
View Articlemore 1 TB data can't be reclaimed on the datastore through VMware vSphere 6.5
Hi, I created 8TB vmfs 6 datastore in ESXi 6.5. Deploy VMs which used ~7.3 TB space. Set the auto reclaim priority as 'high'. Then deleted all of the VMS. Will see the reclaim is starting from...
View Articleesxi 6.0 ntpd server not responding if source port is not 123
We are running an esxi 6.0 host as an ntp server and it is working fine but it does not reply to requests where the source port is not 123.client-ip:123 -> esxi-host-ip:123 requestesxi-host-ip:123...
View Articlecom.vmware.kext.vmmemctl panic in OSX 10.9.2 - somtimes
Hi, have here 2 MacPro 5,1 64GB with a couple of VMs (40) and 3 OSX per box. Running under vSphere 5.5. Once in 14 days or so, one of the OSX Servers crashes with com.vmware.kext.vmmemctl, even our...
View ArticleUpgrading Free ESXI from 6.0 to 6.5
Hi geeks, Greetings, I have a doubt in upgrading my ESXI server. I using free ESXI 6.0 with 6 Active VM’s. Now am planning to upgrade my ESXI server from version 6.0 to 6.5. So it is possible to...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Bad Performance
Hello, I've a vSphere cluster running with 7x IBM HS22V blades / 2x Intel Xeon X3650 / 256 GB memory in every host.Running at vSphere 5.5 23202651, with around 150 VM's. Since a few months we are...
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Storage QoS (Limit IOPS)
Hello all, Are any of you setting a limit on IOPS for a VM/VMDKs? We are using it, but we are having an issue, or several issues, and getting pretty much nowhere with support. Tested it on ESXi 6.5 and...
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I'm getting purple screen and "Spin count exceeded - possible deadlock with...
Hello community I'm testing this ESXi 6.5.0 and I'm facing a situation with two guest VM linux after a while I'm getting this error, any recommendation or comment about it?
View ArticleRecovery Help Needed - ESXi 6.0 - VMDK errors after snapshot removal
Hi, I really hope someone can help, my ESX. My problems seem to have started after I tried to remove a snapshot from a VM that was on a disk that was full. At the moment the VM won't start because it...
View Articleenabling iSCSI software adapter on Lenovo System x Custom Image for ESXi 6.5a...
I have installed the recently released Lenovo System X Custom Image for ESXi 6.5a on three separate physical servers and one nested ESXi image. When I enable the iSCSI software adapter and reboot, I...
View Articleesxi
I have a stand alone esxi without any internet connect and I want to load vmware software. Is there anyway this can be done?
View ArticleMissing 'Use Windows session credentials' checkbox
Hello, Maybe I'm missing something here but we are running 3 ESXI hosts without vCenter. The Hosts are all running the free version of ESXI 6.5. We are able to log into the web client just fine with...
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...
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vmk, improtant impact
Hi All, I configured iSCSI Software adapter in ESXi 6.5, but got the following pic. Could you help me？ Thanks.
View ArticleGuest XP can't see vCenter
Hello everybody. My config is as follows: - ESX1 (192.168.1.150)- ESX2 (192.168.1.160)- vCenter (192.168.1.50)- Domain Controller (192.168.1.10) All of them joined by vmnet2 (Workstation Host-Only)....
View ArticleCorrupt delta file - Sync IO issued on cow disk xxx failed with short IO 0...
After a weird system hang I restarted the ESXI host and ended up not able to boot up of the VM's. The VM had a snapshot and it seems the -delta file of the snapshot got corrupted, or final block was...
View ArticleHost cannot download files from Update Manager
HiI'm trying to update some hosts in the Environment but it always fails with the following Error "Host cannot download files from VMware vSphere Update Manager patch store. Check the network...
View Article'Off-esxi' backups?
Hi. I have an ESXi 5.5 installation running here at home on an HP Proliant. I take periodic clones of my twelve VMs. I would like to get them off of the host and onto my Desktop Mac, to be backed up...
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