System Management Software 1 SEL Fullness: Log almost full
Hi, I am runing IBM system x 3690 ESX 4.1.0,433742 and getting a following warning "System Management Software 1 SEL Fullness: Log almost full" I could not find any issue by looking at the IMM logs....
View ArticlevMotion failure
Hi There, We've always had working vMotion in our cluster and suddenly it stopped working.There is supposed to be a reason for that, but we just seem can't find it.What happens is as follows: some...
View ArticleSnapshot - Quiesce Guest File System.
What is meaning of option "Quiesce Guest File System" while taking snapshot. And what is its use? Please share deep dive.
View ArticleUnable to add an ESXi host to vCenter Server
Hi All, I am new vmware and trying to set up a test lab enviroment. I have installed and set up the sphere server. I cannot add the esxi host as I am using a free licence. it comes up with License...
View ArticleError: Read-only file system during write on /dev/disks/naa.* : tried all...
Dear all, I tried hundreds of forums and posts, but nothing seem to help! I have vSphere ESXi 5.5. and when starting ESXi the first time it created and formatted a storage automatically.For some reason...
View Articleesxcli comand Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure via host ssh shell
My host dropped out of vcenter again, firewall crash suspected, but the comand is just not comming up. ~ # esxcli network firewall getConnect to localhost failed: Connection failure I have seen this...
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...
View ArticleESXi 6.7 - LSI 9260-8i RAID Controller
I'm currently on ESXi 6.5u1 (without vCenter) and have MegaRAID discovery working and can see the status and get alerts but I would like to update to ESXi 6.7. Has anyone come up with a decent way to...
View ArticleExtract ESXi host information from vm guest server
Hi All, I have an issue with one of the vm's in our environment, what i would like to do is, extract esxi host information (hostname or IP) from a guest virtual machine running server 2008, could...
View ArticleCannot remove datastore because file system is busy. Correct the problem and...
Hi all,I have a fresh install of ESXi 6.5a on a server that had previously had esxi 5.5 installed. I am trying to delete a datastore and i keep getting that error in the title. I'll outline below, i...
View ArticleCloning virtual machine and running sysprep for Windows
Dear All, If we clone a working Windows virtual machine with some applications configured on it, do we need to run Windows sysprep on cloned machine before joining it to network ? Because I have a...
View ArticleFailed to expand VMFS datastore... - Cannot change the host configuration
Dear reader I am a sys-admin with 'some' VMware knowledge. Our IT partner helped us increase the server capacity with two additional drives.First drive was added to the raid volume, the second one is...
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 ArticleVM goes into System Recovery mode after reboot
Hello everyone,I hope that someone has come across a similar issue and I will be able to resolve the problem.I have a VM (Windows 2008 R2 STD), 4 GB of RAM and 2 vCPUs, 2 drives (one system – 50 GB,...
View ArticleSee if USB drive is connected
hi there, I'm trying to get a usb disk connected to a VM on an ESXi 5.0 server in a remote office. I'm told by staff in the office that the drive is plugged into the ESXi server, yet when I try to add...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 Disable TLSv1.0
Hi, I need to disable TLSv1.0 for PCI on an ESXi server running 6.5. I can do this on my 6.0 servers easily enough using the following commands esxcli system settings advanced set -o...
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datastores not consumed
Hi, Seeing a bit of a strange one - we have 3PAR LUNs presented to a 6.5 HPE blade cluster via FC and each datastore is presented too all hosts.They all work fine however on a host reboot some of the...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS: Internal error
Can anybody help me with this error "Unable to connect to the MKS: Internal error" It's appear on my console, when i want to install my first Host. I'm using Vmware ESX Thanks,
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install ESXi, stop on "Relocating modules and starting up the kernel"
My computer is Intel NUC5PPYH, the processor is a 14nm Pentium n3700.Hardware: Intel® NUC Kit NUC5PPYH SpecificationsAccording to the official website of the information, VT-x/VT-d are supported. but i...
View ArticleUnable to Delete VMDK File
I recently deleted a VM with a large (1.4TB) VMDK file attached. When I checked the datastore a few weeks later a there was still a "vmname-flat.vmdk" file left over. However when I tried to delete it...
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