Extracting OVA, this could take some time ...
Trying to migrate a VM from Citrix XenServer 6.5 to ESXI 6.5. I exported it from XenServer, copied the .ova to a temporary VM on the target server and tried to import it from there. I ran the ESXi...
View ArticleRe: Why does ESXi 6.5 GUI creates VMFS-volumes that are not alligned to 1MB...
Hi, Yeah, I had fixed it from the cli.. But I had already patched the host with the latest patch set.. It is running 6.5.0 (Build 5310538) right now. Is that new enough? It doesn't matter much though...
View ArticleRe: How to selectively disable smart on specific drives
Hello, Did some digging and was unable to find any way to disable this for individual drives. Looking at what is running it is all or nothing.
View ArticleRe: Exchange 2010 DAG failures with ESXi6 DRS vMotion
Check the cluster sensitivity- http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/using-vmware-HA-DRS-and-vmotion-with-exchange-2010-dags.pdf Relavent section is 5.2 I believe. This seemed to work for us- at least, the...
View ArticleRe: Exchange 2010 DAG failures with ESXi6 DRS vMotion
Whoops didn't read your whole post. That is odd indeed, if you already have the sensitivity relaxed.
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Re: ESXi 6.0.0, 3029758 Update patch
1. Please use the esxcli software command to update the ESXi host patch “esxcli software vib” commands to patch an ESXi 5.x/6.x host (2008939) | VMware KB 2.Could you be more specific interms of what...
View ArticleRe: Windows Server 2012 R2 Bad Performance
Thanks Adam these are really good news, except for waiting so long till the update will arrive.
View ArticleRe: VMs and Templates - Unable to move VM into Folder "The operation is not...
I think functionality remains same.You can't move individual VM's which are part of vApp in to Folders, however if you want to achieve this then take VM out of vApp and then move(already mentioned in...
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2 x DL380P G8 VMWARE BSOD
Hi all,I have 2 DL380P G8 with VMWARE ESXI 6.5. Ramdomly the servers stops and show the BSOD and healt led flashing in red. Many thanks in advance
View ArticleRe: Virtual Machines losing IP address/VMWare tools fail
Hi Raul I am still waiting user feedback for the fix, but I just wanted to give you a quick update. I have noticed when the machine loses IP address and tools isnt running, when I switch to Console...
View ArticleRe: 2 x DL380P G8 VMWARE BSOD
Strange that it isn't purple. But have a look at this anyway whether it applies to your scenario as the NMI entries are there in the photo....
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.5 Slow vms, High "average response time"
I have just gotten off the phone with support, and they have confirmed to me that the engineering team are currently aware of an issue with the latest version of the pvscsi driver.Our entire estate of...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and...
Already removed the orphaned ones. Everything was grayed out in the Action Menu. Could not even drag & drop them to different folder so I could've removed the folders with the VMs as instructed in...
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Removing iSCSI port bindings
Greetings ! I need to remove the iSCSI port bindings from 2 VMKernal ports, I've found VMware KB1020674 that requires the hosts to be rebooted, commands run to enable, disable and then remove the vmk...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and...
While migrating VMs "details" column in Recent tasks is empty. However, details are shown in monitor -> tasks&events -> tasks.Also, selection of columns in "recent tasks" reset every time you...
View ArticleRe: Windows Server 2012 R2 Bad Performance
Hello Adam, Good to hear there you have some progress on the issue.Since last friday the problem is getting worse every day. A simple copy job of 5GB takes about 9 minutes to complete.Disk queue length...
View ArticleRe: "There are no USB devices available on host"
Hello, that is exactly what I am trying to do. If it isn't supposed to be possible, what exactly did these guys do in order to get it to work? I am essentially just attempting to do the same thing...
View ArticleRe: "There are no USB devices available on host"
Also, I ran the cat /dev/usbdevices and my mouse actually came up as V: Available for passthrough.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.0.0, 3029758 Update patch
Thank you MS, Sure I'll go through the link to update host patch via CLI. As far host is ESXi 6.0.0, 3029758. How would/find i know about the current version bnx driver?
View ArticleRe: Virtual Machines losing IP address/VMWare tools fail
I do not find the vSphere console to be slow. Please check the following; - Maybe your system is over-burdened or you are experiencing network issues. - Ensure you have turned off pointer shadow in...
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