Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro strange random network disruption with vSAN
Hello there dear community, I see an odd behaviour with the card in the title and I would like to ask if anyone had the same experience or an idea? Description of the setup:The card is a Mellanox...
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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 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 ArticleYet another "Failed - Transport (VMDB) error -45" issue after updating esxi...
Like others (Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to peer process , Re: " Failed - Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to peer process. " after reinstall , Transport (VMDB) error...
View ArticleHow to identify the HDD type / Serialnr
Hi Community,I would like to know if it is possible to identify which HDD I do access concretely: In an esxi 5.5 scenario, I have 2 or 3 identical HDDs which cannot be distinguished by the Capacity...
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 reset root password
i cant login to a esxi host. dont have the root password. what are my options to reset the password?
View ArticleConnect an usb disk to an esxi and present the disk as datastore
I would like to connect an usb harddisk to an esxi host. It is possible to present the usb disk to a guest with the usb device. But I would like to present the usb disk to the host and use it as a...
View ArticlevmStatsProvider - Event ID 256 / 258
Has anyone seen these event log entries on virtual windows servers - they seem to be floooding the application logs. Where do they come from, what do they mean and can I stop them from being logged...
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...
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...
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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 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 ArticleMax VM resolution (1280x800)
Hi, I am using ESXi 5.5. The VM have VMware Tools installed with SVGA driver. I can't change the resolution higher than 1280X800. You know why? You know how to crank to 1920x1980 ? Thank you,
View ArticleHow to identify the HDD type / Serialnr
Hi Community,I would like to know if it is possible to identify which HDD I do access concretely: In an esxi 5.5 scenario, I have 2 or 3 identical HDDs which cannot be distinguished by the Capacity...
View ArticleYet another "Failed - Transport (VMDB) error -45" issue after updating esxi...
Like others (Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to peer process , Re: " Failed - Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to peer process. " after reinstall , Transport (VMDB) error...
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ESXi - Plex server and NAS - one or two VM`s?
Dear all, I am trying to decide whether I should have one or two VM`s on my ESXi 6.7.I know that the best practice would be to separate my Plex Media Server VM and OpenMediaVault NAS VM and have 2...
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...
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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 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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