VIB install fail - due to dependency
I am getting the below error when attempting to install a enic driver manually. I have tried with the offline bundle .zip as well as the .vib file. There is not an image profile on this host, can...
View ArticleVM's lose network connectivity randomly
We have been experiencing some VM's losing network connectivity sporadically. The VM's stay online for a while then suddenly it acts like it is no longer on the network. Everything appears to be...
View ArticleESXi 6.7 - OVF Export Fails on VMDK export
I just installed VMware ESXi on a Dell R620 to test with. I have an opensuse 42.3 Linux guest VM that is powered off. When I go to export as OVF I can fetch the .ovf file, but it fails to fetch the...
View Article"Remote access for ESXi local user account 'root' has been locked for 120...
Hello everyone I got the following message every hour: "Remote access for ESXi local user account 'root' has been locked for 120 seconds..." I found a lot of information how to figure this out:...
View ArticleHow to determine ESXI host UUID
Hi,How to determine ESXI host UUID, either by vClient or CLI?
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 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 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 ArticleSystem logs on non-persistent storage
Hello. I am receiving an alert that states "System logs on host are stored on non-persistent storage." This is on an ESXi 6 host. I have moved my scratch space to an iSCSI datastore and the system logs...
View Articleconvert Hyper-V VM to VMWare
Hi,I need to transfer couple of VMs from Hyper-V (Server 2008R2) to vSphere 5.1.I did this last year... may be I forgot something. But in my head I think I installed a plugin into vCenter and than made...
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vSphere Client could not connect to Host. An unknown connection error occurred.
Hi, When I tried to connect ESXi5.0 using vclient, it shows error message as " vSphere Client could not connect to Host. An unknown connection error occurred( The request failed because of a...
View ArticleExpand vmdk that is larger that 2Tb
I've upgrade to Esxi 5.5 already and created a vmdk to 4.7 Tb and would like to expand it to 5.6 Tb. I get the following error message when I attempt to expand it and I don't know why or how to bypass...
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 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 ArticleIs it normal for the vmkdump folder to contain a dumpfile?
Hi everyone, It might be a stupid question, but I was wondering about the following: I was trying to clean up one of our datastores, and came across a Folder called "vmkdump" containing a single file...
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Cannot delete snaphsots, but can create new ones.
First of all, I want to thank everyone here for all the help and resources, without all your help I wouldn't have been able to make the switch to ESXi. Now, some background before I dwell into my...
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...
View ArticleMoving virtual hard disk from one VM to another VM
I have a VM (Windows Server 2008r2) with 3 virtual hard disks. 2 of the hard disks (C, D drives) were created in the same datastore as the VM when the VM was created. The 3rd virtual hard disk (E...
View ArticleUSB drives not detected
I am no longer able to connect USB hard drives to any guest. I have the them connected directly to the host, but when I try to connect it to a guest in vSphere it is not listed. I can see the USB...
View ArticlevSphere HA agent on this host cannot reach some of the management network...
vSphere HA agent on this host cannot reach some of the management network addresses of other hosts, and HA may not be able to restart VMs if a host failure occurshow to resolve thsi issue
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