usb modems will not dialout after 6.5 upgrade
I have 2x USB modems inside a Server 2008R2 instance for remote connectivity to customers. After upgrading to esxi 6.5, I can still see the USB modems inside the VM and inside the OS displaying as...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.5 Slow vms, High "average response time"
We've tested the @galbitz_cv suggested change on two of our clusters (one connected via ISCSI, the other via NFS) and it appears to workaround the problems for us. Hosts are now patched to current...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.5 Slow vms, High "average response time"
Cool, can anyone else confirm? Just curious did you ever have any linux machines affected by this?
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.5 Slow vms, High "average response time"
Linux machines are not affected by this bug but (dont know if youd use discards on mtab)... 191201 – Randomly freezes due to VMXNET3
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Interesting fix, the registry change looks to disable TRIM support. How will this affect Optimize and Defrag to reclaim space when it comes to Thin Provisioned disks? Is there some compatibility issue...
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My take is that vmware asked me to set the registry key as a way to narrow the problem down. They suspected the issue was a result of the unmap changes made in the patches but they were not sure. The...
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psmith - have you noticed an IOPS decrease on your back end storage? Our biggest issue right now is we have a lot of IOPS showing up on our SAN but nowhere else in any other metrics to match it, so...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.0.0, 3029758 Update patch
Hi MS, 1) When logon vSphere Webclient using Chrome or IE and click on VM edit setting its just spining/thinking, any idea?2) Working on SQL update project from 2005 to 2014-but don't have enough disk...
View ArticleRe: Small-Scale Hyperconverged
Always Get Help From VMware Support, You can contact VMware via local numbers. According to the description of your setup the following product should be ok for you. VMware vSphere Essentials Plus for...
View ArticleRe: esxi 6.0 + DELL raid
ESXi does not support any version of software Raid.ESXi will only support a limited set of hardware raid-controllers.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.5 Slow vms, High "average response time"
We also experienced the performance problems on the VM's that are on our all flash Compellent and the fix seems to have fixed the issue. I did the registry fix on 10 VM's, all Windows 2012 R2 and so...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 6 FT Multi CPU
To elaborate a bit more on this problem: When using the traditional thick client to enable FT, it only supports "legacy FT" which does not support SMP. To fix this, you need to remove the VM from FT...
View Articleclone and resize a vmdk disk
I got a disk 2 on a VM that I want to clone and resize it its a 2TB vmdk disk and I want to clone it to 1.7TB. can i do this from vmkfstools or do I need converter?
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Shrink virtual disk size is supported using vCenter Converter, see: Growing, thinning, and shrinking virtual disks for VMware ESX and ESXi (1002019) | VMware KB ShrinkingVirtual disk shrinking is...
View ArticleRe: clone and resize a vmdk disk
Like I posted in my previous post in red, you cannot use vmkfstools.
View ArticleRe: 3ware 9650SE - not supported in ESXi 6?
I have two 3ware 9650SE 8 port cards installed and working just fine as can be seen from the attached. Unfortunately I get the same issue as "kx14" when upgrading to 6.5.I believe the...
View Article"Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe...
Hi, Esxi 6.5 When i try to connect to console (web or client) i get "Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe \\.\pipe\vmware-authdpipe within retry period"from logs i see:...
View ArticleAppliance Management Health alarm is red (critical)
What does this alarm mean exactly? I do have a datastore that is almost full, is that why this alarm is triggered?
View ArticleRe: VMware ESX 6 Datastore Upload missing
Sometimes using wget is a good alternative:# connect to the esxi with sshcd /vmfs/volumes/datastore/iso-directorywget http://somewhere.com/name.iso
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