Can't power off, reset or kill one VMs
Dear all, one of my VM is unaccessible I want want to reset it somehow. From command line:vim-cmd vmsvc/power.off 288Powering off VM:Power off failed or another try to killesxcli vm process kill -t...
View ArticleVssSyncStart' operation failed
Hi, I just face a event log as below: Warning message from localhost.localdomain: The guest OS has reported an error during quiescing. The error code was: 5 The error message was: 'VssSyncStart'...
View ArticleFailed to connect virtual device ethernet0.
I cannot connect my VM to the network/ When I select device status : Connected. It fails and gives an error Failed to connect virtual device ethernet0 The nic is e1000
View ArticleVM Ping/ARP issue
We are having a problem with some of our virtual machines intermittently losing communication with each other, and I’m at a loss as to the source. We have about 250 VM’s running on about 20 HP BL465C...
View ArticleVMs not getting IP from DHCP
Hello! I'm just switching from Xenserver to ESXi. Created a couple of VMs and neither of them gets an IP from our DHCP server (DHCP server is a physical PC), and instead they get some 192.168.x.y...
View ArticleCannot add VMFS datastore to ESXi host
Hello all, I have an issue with 1 FC LUN that can be seen as a device through multiple paths on all 10 hosts in a cluster but it only appear as a VMFS datastore on 6 of the hosts. Other LUNs from the...
View ArticleHow to shutdown VMs during host poweroff, without using autostart
I have a scenario whereby I have a single ESXi host, and would like VMs to gracefully shutdown when a shutdown command is issued to the host. For reasons I won't go into, I do not wish for VMs to...
View ArticleRemoving hard disk from a virtual machine
Hello, I have added hard disks to many virtual machines but never in a situation where we need to remove them. For example below with a virtual machine named "exchange1" with 3 disks. I need to...
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problem with Broadcom BCM57416 NetXtreme-E dual port 10GBASE-T
we recently buy a Dell R640 server with ESXi and one Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 dual port Gigabit Ethernetand one Broadcom BCM57416 NetXtreme-E dual port 10GBASE-T i create a Vswitch0 with the two...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 maintenance mode stuck at 19%
Hello everyone, One of the ESXi host 6.5 stuck at maintenance mode at 19% and 2 VM's still running and fails to vmotions. Remaining all the VM's successfully migrated to another hosts. VCSA is 6.5....
View ArticleUnable to upgrade VMtools after ESXi 6.5 upgrade
I have upgraded my lab environment to 6.5 and am now unable to mount the vmtools installer through the web client. I was successful mounting the iso directly to the VM and upgrading interactively but...
View ArticleCannot PXE boot VMware machine
Hello - I am trying to PXE boot to our WDS/MDT server on a VM and it continually gives me an TFTP download error. Failed to restart TFTP. It works with no problems on a physical machine, so i'm not...
View ArticleHow to determine ESXI host UUID
Hi,How to determine ESXI host UUID, either by vClient or CLI?
View ArticleConnection control operation failed for disk 'ide1:0'
An ESXi 5.5 host is member of a vSphere 5.5 infrastructure.After cloning a VM I cannot connect an .iso image hosted by a NFS datastore.The error I get is Connection control operation failed for disk...
View ArticleRename esxi 6 host
Hello, I try to rename my esxi host via : - dcui -> DNS Configuration / Hostname - vsphereclient - webuioresxcli system hostname set --fqdn localhost.domain But my system keep my old hostname ......
View ArticleTrunk port on VM
Hello, We are installing a VM that requires a trunk port and through the VM we will tag the vlans. I have created a vnic on vlan 4095. Below is the cisco config of the port. I am tagging the vm with...
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Deploy Error : A required disk image was missing.
hi when i try to deploy vm in new server give me blew Error: A required disk image was missing. any body can help me to solved this problem ?
View ArticleVM cannot ping default gateway nor ESXi host
Hi, ESXi 4.1.0,260247, on Intel S5520HC board with onboard dual Intel 82575EB adapters Have a few VMs running for a month without issues and somehow one of the VMs stopped talking to the default...
View Articlehow to zip and unzip from the host
Sorry if this sounds like a newbie question - but I am. Due to poor communications, I would like to transfer files from one client to the ESX4i datastore as a zip file. e.g. the VM is 80GB but when...
View ArticleHP Gen8 with HPE Customized ESXi 6.7 U2 - Problem with patch...
Hello, i try to update one of our HP Gen8 Server to ESXi-6.7.0-20190404001 unfortunately the whole thing does not work due to a dependency problem.(I know it's not officially supported for Gen8...
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