Re: profile service keeps stopping intermittently
Make sure the same user account was starting the following services. VMware VirtualCenter Management WebservicesVMware VirtualCenter ServerVMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage ServiceVMware vSphere...
View ArticleRe: ESXi antivirus
ESX/ESXi is not a general purpose computing environment and to keep up the security, they insist on following the best practices that are followed for a typical network based appliances.Refer this...
View ArticleRe: Trunk port on VM
I am using 6.5 on an HP Gen7.Standard Switch with a Guest os of Debian Squeeze thanks,
View ArticleRe: Connect HP SAS Tape Drive to ESX 6.5
As far as I know, this is not supported by VMware, In case of any issue VMware wont help you on this. BUT, the recommended method by vendors and partners, is to use what is commonly referred to as VM...
View ArticleNFS for ESXi logs
I'm using an NFS datastore for a persistent scratch location for ESXi logs for my cluster. I've just been told that the storage will be offline for 6-8 hours this weekend for maintenance. What happens...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.5 - USB HID Devices into Guest VM
Just another way to get it working.. Enable USB Support for ESXi with VMDirectPath
View ArticleChange host Swapfile location without VM downtime
Hi all. I've seen this discussion (see link below) where it is hinted that it's possible to do - and it does make sense so im hopeful. I just wanted to know if anyone has done this before and see how...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.5 Slow vms, High "average response time"
I'm not sure if this helps but a couple of the VMs with issues are now responding properly. Somehow the VMXNET3 network cards had directpath i/o turned on when we don't use that feature. After...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and...
Hi! When browsing datastore files, sorting does not stay the same after you delete for example a folder or move in to a folder.vc6.5 with webclient
View ArticleSafe to add second VDS in 5.5?
Hi all, have a large production environment of 5.5 enterprise plus. Some of our VM's need to use jumbo frames and our live distributed switch doesn't have the MTU set for that. I would prefer to not...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.5 Slow vms, High "average response time"
One more small update. A few of the systems non-responsive were thin provisioned so we ran windows defrag/optimize to trim the storage and that helped them get back to working properly and responding...
View ArticleVMs and Templates - Unable to move VM into Folder "The operation is not...
This link shows that the functionality did not exist in version 4.0. VMs and Templates - Unable to move VM into Folder "The operation is not supported on the object."Can someone tell me if this has...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and...
Hi!Could we have an option to remove orphaned VMs in Web Client?Now I have to fire up PowerCLI to do that.
View ArticleRe: vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and...
"So do I have vmware tools installed or not ?" Questions: a) Can you share what the Guest OS is (version helps)? b) Did you recently install VMware tools onto the Guest OS? c) I was told that it's...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and...
Can you paste a screenshot of the Action Menu (Right Click) you get on an orphaned VM, for our reference?
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ESXi 6.0.0, 3029758 Update patch
Hi,Three questions.1-what's the best/safest way to update patches for standalone host. No vCenter only have vSphere.2-How can I monitor host hardware. 3- Host got hand getting following error-any idea...
View ArticleRe: Windows Server 2012 R2 Bad Performance
Good afternoon everyone, I just got off the phone with VMware and they have identified the problem and it will be fixed in 6.5 Update1. Update1 will be released sometime in July. I'm not sure of the...
View ArticleRe: Safe to add second VDS in 5.5?
Based on the vSphere configuration maximums you can have up to 16 distributed switches per host (128 per vCenter), so since VMware allows multiples vDS per host I can't understand why it is not safe....
View ArticleRe: Mounting a datastore to ESXi host
Hi Richiethis sounds like it should be solvable.If you are still looking for help download http://sanbarrow.com/livecds/moa64-nogui/MOA64-nogui-incl-src-111014-efi.isoand call me via skype.Ulli
View ArticleRe: Preferred path not available Update 3
Also having the same issue not being able to select a Preferred path with 6.0 Update 3. We have no issues on our 5.5 hosts but after upgrading it says applying storage policy but never shows Active I/O...
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