Re: Problem vm loosing network occasionally
Do you have set any traffic filter in switch level?Do you have enabled to LBT in switch level?are you ping the gateway or public network.
View ArticleVMkernel failover on teamed NIC's does not work
Hi,in my ESXi (4.1) setup i have 2 physical adapters in a NIC team connected to vSwitch0on this vSwitch i have VM portgroup, and 3 VMkernel PortsVirtual Machine Port Group (VM traffic)vmk0 (management...
View ArticleRe: Shellshock bug
No issues. You may be interested to know that VMware now has released a security advisory on the same:This has a more comprehensive list of products affected and whether a patch will be made available....
View ArticleDecommision VM And Storage
I have been asked to decommission a test vm and all its storage which was never used. How do i do this? Is it the case of just deleting from disk? how do i decommission the storage on this vm which is...
View ArticleRe: Decommision VM And Storage
If you want just remove the VM and its associated virtual disks, right click on VM and select "Delete from Disk". If you want remove the "datastore" where the VM virtual disk resides, check this blog...
View ArticleRe: How to Migrate and Convert Physical RDMs
Since this "HOW TO" was first written there has been a lot of KBs and other blog posts on this topic, and some are extremely useful in understanding the processes and behaviors around migrating and...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.1 lockdown mode access confirmation no vCenter server access
For anyone else that may not be sure to these questions, I can confirm that with root credentials, you can login to the hosts directly and disable lockdown mode regardless of vCenter availability....
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How to NAT with pfsense on ESXI
I install esxi 4 on my server with 1 public static ip(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)Then, i created 1 vswitchs named "DMZ" with no nic attached.So i have 2 vswitch(vswitch 0(portgroup Managerment) and VM...
View ArticleNetgear ReadyNAS device disconnects (NFS)
Hello again everybody, I'm trying to copy a couple of 50GB Virtual machines from the primary hard drives datastore to the newly mounted Netgear ReadyNAS device via NFS. I first tried it via the...
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I'm thinking of putting up a new ESXi with 64GB RAM, anybody did that successfully with passthrough (VGA + USB at a minimum) ? if so, what's your HW spec?
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Re: High %lat_c CPU Latency for 1 VM
This problem is still driving us crazy. At the time of these screenshots, I am down to 17 VMs on a machine with 40 cores (with Hyper-threading 80) and 512GB of RAM. Total vCPUs is less than 34....
View ArticleRe: High %lat_c CPU Latency for 1 VM
ps. Physical SAN is a 10GB iSCSI device that is heavy on SSD (read and write cache), reads and writes are averaging sub 1 ms as viewed from the host, from the VMs and from the VSAN in question. Yet...
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
Hey everyone, It's been a while. I've finally spent a bit more time on my setup after leaving a working 5.0U1 install alone for a a few years. Was wondering if anyone came across the problem of not...
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
there could be a memory limitation. a SCSI drive requires a larger addressable space than the IDE one. You could try mingling with the pciHole see if that helps.
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
How well does 5.5U2 work? Did it solve the problems with devices not remaining assigned to the VM through reboots? Were there any other lingering problems from 5.5 that didn't exist in 5.0?
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I played around with the ordering of the passthrough PCI devices and it now works, it required a very specific order. For my case it's: AMD Video card > SATA controller > USB controller >...
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
Can you give a little more detail on how you went about this. Running into same issue.Much appreciated.
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
Hi Afarrugia, I have exactly the same thing with the video playback issue appearing after few minutes, have you been able to fix it? I wonder if it is since I upgraded to 5.5u1 Thanks
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