Vsphere 6.5 U1 update on Windows fails
Installation of component VCSServiceManager failed with error code '1603'. Check the logs for more detailsI tried to turn on all dot net
View ArticlevmStatsProvider - Event ID 256 / 258
Has anyone seen these event log entries on virtual windows servers - they seem to be floooding the application logs. Where do they come from, what do they mean and can I stop them from being logged...
View ArticleManipulating Guest CPUID
Hi there,I wish all a happy new year! Did anybody ever tried to manipulate the CPUID, which is shown to the guest OS? I have the following scenario:CPUID shown in the guest OS: 0FABFBFF00020651...
View ArticleMigrate XenServer Vm's to ESXi VM's
Hi,we have some XenServer Vm's running and need to migrate them to ESXi because of stability issues with XenServer. my major problem is, that we don't have access to the VM's (no Admin Credentials)....
View ArticleThe remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable
Due to frozen the ESXi 6.0 server , we restarted the Management agent services by the following command by reference of...
View ArticleIncrease Memory while VM is Running
Dear Experts, I have a question for adding more memory to a VM while it is running. We have a VM with guest OS of Win 2008 R2 x64. When creating this VM we gave 4GB Mem. to it, but now the requirement...
View Articleimport vmdk file into ESXi 5.5?
hi Howto import vmdk file into ESXi 5.5 and run it as a guest VM, for example: http://www.firefart.net/analyzing-hp-thinpro-firmware/
View ArticleESXi 6.5, Oct Build and macOS High Sierra 10.13
Has anyone been able to use high sierra on 6.5update1 w/ all patches to date? Upgrades of vms from 10.12 to 10.13 result in an error in booting represented by a circle with a cross through it....
View ArticleUnable to get ESXI 6.5 to see hard drives (after flash drive install)
Greetings, I know enough to be dangerous here but ran into a bit of a snag. I have installed ESXI 6.5 on an old Alienware Aurora and I used a flash drive to install the software on (which works great)...
View Article64-bit VirtualBox inside a VM
I need to setup a Windows 8.1 64-bit VM on my VMWare environment. Inside it I need to run a 64-bit VM with VirtualBox. I've installed Windows on the VM and installed VirtualBox, however, I can't get...
View ArticleESXI Evaluation question
We've just installed ESXI 5.5 and it's up and running with 1x VM so far. I was under the impression that ESXI 5.5 was free but I am getting Evaluation messages within the vSphere client software. Can...
View ArticleVMtools error in Application events on server 2016
Hi,we have faulting application errors every ~5-10 minutes on our 2016 servers with vm tools:Faulting application name: WmiApSrv.exe, version: 10.0.14393.0, time stamp: 0x57899ac8Faulting module name:...
View ArticleVM guest fails to boot with error "Device 'Bootstrap' is not available"
I have an old linux (kernel 2.2x) server that we virtualized a few years ago that I am trying to transition to an ESXi 6.0U1a server. It was initially created with VMware Workstation version 6. The...
View ArticleHELP. The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or...
Greetings. I have a ESXi 5.5 environment with a Red Hat 5.10 operating system. The operating system worked fine until a few days ago. ESXi shows the error "The CPU has been disabled by the guest...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 - vSphere Web Client download
I just installed VMware ESXi 5.5 Free Edition on a Dell server, when I open up VMware vSphere Client it says the following:"In vSphere 5.5, all new vSphere features are available only through the...
View ArticleHow to determine ESXI host UUID
Hi,How to determine ESXI host UUID, either by vClient or CLI?
View Articlepatching esxi using CLI
hello, I have been trying to patch my ESXi 5.1 server using Cli I keep getting errors. here is my command.. c:\program files (x86)\VMWAre\VMWare vSphere CLI>esxcli --server=xxx.xxx.xxx...
View ArticleNIC speed 100mbps instead of 1000mbps
I have two HP DL380G6 servers running ESX4i. These servers are equipped with four 1-gigabit NICs. On Server1 all 4NICs are configured and running at 1000mbps. However, Server2 indicates that one of...
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