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Stuck during vMotion at 13% - Invoking callbacks
We are tried perform patching at environment at cluster level.( by VUM )We have 4 hosts in cluster. hosts: ESXi 6u1Example name of Hosts:CMP1CMP2CMP3CMP4 We start install patches on 1st host with...
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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 ArticleVmware Tools defect since Version 10.x.x with server 2012R2...
Hello Community, I am facing with a Snapshot Problem with one Single Server 2012R2 VM with Exchange 2013. Environment:Dell R430, ESXi 6.0 U3 5572656. The Error Message is the following and the Snapshot...
View ArticleConnect HP SAS Tape Drive to ESX 6.5
Hi, I've got 1 HP DL380 Gen9 + HP H241 HBA + HP Ultrium 3000 SAS and installed ESX 6.5Is it possible to connect that Tape Drive to a Windows VM and use it with Veeam for Backups? If yes, how can I do...
View ArticleESXi 5.x on an Intel J1900 board (Q1900-ITX Asrock) issue
Hello everyone! I have been trying to install ESXi 5.1u1 & 5.1u2 & 5.5u1 on the following configuration to no success so far:Asrock Q1900-ITX mobo (Intel J1900 Baytrail SoC, BIOS 1.20 with VT-x...
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 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...
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ESXi 6.5.0 hangs during uploads of ISO to Datastore
Brand new R330PERC H7305 X Disk SAS 931GB RAID 5 (Datastore1)32GB USB Internal (ESXi)32GB RAM Very Typical small business setup. Fresh ESXi 6.5.0 installed yesterday to internal USB drive, setup...
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 ArticleSCP SSH not working between ESXi hosts
Hello, I have two servers with ESXi 5, both I can access through ssh (putty) but I if try prompt the one of ESXi5 to other ESXi I can´t access, my ping works, I try use SCP between two but don´t work,...
View ArticleCannot PXE boot VMware machine
Hello - I am trying to PXE boot to our WDS/MDT server on a VM and it continually gives me an TFTP download error. Failed to restart TFTP. It works with no problems on a physical machine, so i'm not...
View ArticleRole of .vmsd and .vmxf files
What is the role of these files initially when vm is created?I know .vmsd is snapshot descriptor and .vmxf is extended configuration file but why those are created initially. Is that due to vm depends...
View Articlewhat is an acceptable read/write latency on a virtual disk?
what is an acceptable read/write latency on a virtual disk? I have a figure in my head of 20ms threshhold, or 50ms threshhold(spikes) for SAN disks on physical hardware, what about VMs?
View ArticleVMDirectPath 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 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 trigger NTP client to sync time?
I have an internal NTP server in the LAN (so there's no need to configure any firewall for this matter) but my ESXi 4.1U1 servers are totally out of time (3 to 5 minutes). I've tried to restart the NTP...
View ArticleWhere can I get/extract vmxnet3 x64 drivers (from ESX 5.5) for 2012 Server R2?
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View Articleconnecting local CD/DVD drive hangs
Hi! I have seen this problem several times in the last days: When trying to connect my local DVD drive through vSphere Client with a VM, the CD/DVD button shows "connecting..." but never actually...
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 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:...
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