VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I am using VMware ESXi and I am trying to setup a guest that is Windows 7 that will have an ATI Radeon video card passed through to it. I actually had this working on a previous system but I had to...
View ArticleHow to determine ESXI host UUID
Hi,How to determine ESXI host UUID, either by vClient or CLI?
View ArticleVM .vswp files
Hello All, Good Day to you! In my customer environment, we have a 100GB LUN specified solely for swapping. However it is now full, with only 322 MB remaining - and right now it doesn't allow any host...
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 ArticleIntel X710 nic woes
We recently purchased 8 new HPE DL380 Gen10 servers. They came with two 10Gbe ports embedded on the motherboard and two 10Gbe ports on a PCI card. All of these use the Intel X710 controller. Before I...
View ArticleDatastore not mounted after reboot of ESXi5.5
Current configuration: HP Proliant ML350e with Smart Array cardESXi 5.5 from HP Custom ROMBoot from 4GB SataDOMTwo logical arrays on Smart Array (LUN 0/Datastore 1 and 1/Datastore 2)Windows Server...
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...
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 ArticleCan't edit VM settings in ESXi 6.5 web client
It throws this javascript error in my browser.I tried firefox, chrome, and IE; both Win 7 and Server 2012R2. No luck! Haven't tried using VM Workstation to edit VM settings (if that is even possible,...
View ArticleHow to get hardware report of a esxi host
Hi, Can anyone help me figure out how we can fetch a hardware report from esxi host (from vSphere client or vCenter). This is for dell power edge server and esxi host installed with few running VMs on...
View ArticlePassthru not working after 6.7 update
I was able to passthru my AMD gpu and a Renesas usb controller in 6.5 but after updating to 6.7 my Windows 10 vm startup just shows a black screen on the console. Normally, the VMWare logo displays and...
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 ArticleUnderstanding Esxi Maintenance mode and Standyby mode
Dear All, I would like to understand about maintenance mode, for example I've two hosts in a cluster and I need to perform firmware upgrade on Host A. Now before I do that I must migrate the virtual...
View ArticleWhere can I get/extract vmxnet3 x64 drivers (from ESX 5.5) for 2012 Server R2?
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View Articleimpact of restarting esx management service
Dear team, in my environment i have esx 3.5.0 (64607),4.0,4.1 hosts, just want to know is there any impact if i restart management service on production esx hosts 3.5.0, 4.0,4.1 be fore restarting this...
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 Articlehow to reset root password
i cant login to a esxi host. dont have the root password. what are my options to reset the password?
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...
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Error:Unexpected character '' (code 65279 / 0xfeff) in prolog; expected '
Hi All, I'm using Windows C# client as below version: Somehow I got random / intermittent error popped up: Error:Unexpected character '' (code 65279 / 0xfeff) in prolog; expected '<' at [row,col...
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