impact 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 Articlesocket and core clarification
Hi all Customer asked for 4vCPU i would like to know which one i can choose to have better performance. number of virtual socket * number of cores per socket = total number...
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 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 ArticleVIB 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 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 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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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...
View ArticlevCenter 6.5 - vCenter Appliance stops working
Hi, this issue started 2 days ago when I attempted to update from 6.5.0.20100 to "VC-6.5.0U2b-Appliance-FP" (6.5.0.21000 Build Number 8815520) in the vSphere Appliance Management. It stopped at 60% and...
View Articleunable to connect to MKS:Could not connect to pipe \\.\pipe\vmware-authdpipe...
I first download VM ESXi4.0 file VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0-171294.x86_64.iso and install on DELL PE2950 Box.After finish creating VM and open VM console(through vSphere Client, as root user...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 connectivity issue on PowerEdge R430
Dear, We encountering connectivity issue on newly install esxi 6.5 on PE R430Whenever we preform file copy (30-40GB files size) from one of the VM Guest to another machine thought network (100MB), it...
View Articleerror loading s.v00 fatal error 33 inconsistent data
hi, i was shuffling around things in the office and when i turned on the server again now i'm getting:error loading /s.v00fatal error: 33 inconsistent datawhat can i do to fix it?please advise asap.any...
View Articleesxcli comand Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure via host ssh shell
My host dropped out of vcenter again, firewall crash suspected, but the comand is just not comming up. ~ # esxcli network firewall getConnect to localhost failed: Connection failure I have seen this...
View ArticleUpgrading VMware Tools without restart
Hi, Can the VMware Tools on Windows Server virtual machine be upgraded without restarting the vm after update?
View Articlefree vSphere limit on cores
According to VMware KB: Product offerings for vSphere 6.x , the free Hypervisor version of vSphere 6 allows up to 128 cores (Maximum virtual SMP). However, when I downloaded it and installed a...
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:...
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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 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...
View Articlevcenter alarm - host hardware voltage, status of other hardware objects
i keep getting this alarm coming back on 2 hosts host hardware voltage and status of other hardware objects but when i go to th hardware status tab, Its not giving me any data. Its not updating. I...
View ArticleRemove snapshot stuck at 99%
Hi all, i try to remove snapshot, but it stuck at 99% since 13 hours.i can't start my vm because all option are grey... do you know mean to stop removal job ? or start muy vm ? it's important vm and i...
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