Cannot open the disk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
After a crash I'm getting the following on one server. An unexpected error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM vm-10961.Reason: Failed to lock the file.Cannot open the disk...
View ArticleAlert Host IPMI System Event Log status.
I have a VMware cluster running on a blade server and all but one of the HOSTS report this error Alert Host IPMI System Event Log status. I did a Google search and came up with this fix VMware...
View Articlecheck who is connected with vm Console
How to check all those users those who are accessing the particular vm console.
View ArticleESXi 6.5 - Device Passthrough
Hello all, I'm an ESXi beginner trying to get my graphics cards to passthrough my VM. In ESXi under Host>Manage> under the "hardware tab">PCI Devices, it states the device is not capable for...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 - USB HID Devices into Guest VM
Hello Everyone, I'll start by saying I've spent the last few days consistently trying to find a solution to my problem. If the answer is obviously out there, I'm sorry, cause I missed it. My host has...
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 ArticleVMWare ESXi 6.7 Open Source Disclosure Toolchain and Source Availability
I couldn't see this within the VMWare Open Source Disclosure listings at: https://my.vmware.com/en/group/vmware/info?slug=datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/6_7#open_sourceThere's only...
View ArticlevCSA 6.5
hello allvCSA 6.5 OVA file deploy in VMware workstation stuck in [Waiting for RPM Installation to finish (64% done.)]take a long time no change what is the problem
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 ArticleUpdate a stand alone (free) ESXi 5.1 to 6.5?
Hi there,I have an ESXi 5.1.0 (799733) running fine here, and since I have some time, wanted to start planning an update to latest 6.5 Version. I have the free Version.Basically my System is a "PC"...
View ArticleESXI - AMD Threadripper Testing - Having Issues.
Hi All, I have been playing with a new Threadripper 1950X build and was thinking about seeing if I could get ESXi working. So far I haven't been having much luck and my build keeps getting stuck at the...
View ArticleGuest OS not obtain IP adress via DHCP
Hello all Server - DELL PowerEdge T620ESXI - VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.5.0-1331820.x86_64-Dell_Customized_A00 1. Create instanse ( Windows 2012R2 )2. add network adapter ( all default, Network...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 USB Devices attached to VMs Issues?
Has anyone else experienced any issues with ESXi 6.5 and host USB 3 devices attached to VMs? I'm seeing messages like this from an Arch Linux VM that has a number of USB 3 hard disks attached to it:...
View Article"PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM Operating system not found" when trying to...
Hi, First time post!I am having trouble installing server 2008 r2 from an ISO that I downloaded from Technet. I have done checksum and the iso is okay. I have created a virtual machine using server...
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 Articlevsphere 6.7 LSI raid card, can't get drive status
Hi! I have this server setup at home: SuperMicro X10SLL-FIntel Xeon E3-1241 v332GB 3CC 1600LSI 8708EM22x Velociraptor 10k 300gb RAID 14x WD Red 2TB Raid 5 I was running Vsphere 6.0 since a long time,...
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 ArticleUndelete deleted VM with vSphere Web Client
Maybe this was asked, i reading things for 4 days now, and its very confusing, but i got this situation, some admin sabotaged the virtual machines and backups, he turned of machines and issued Delete...
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...
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...
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