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Help understanding what caused a crash - ESXi 6.0.0 Heartbeat
Hi all, We had a VSphere ESXi 6.0.0 crash the other day, trying to find the root caused as to why this happened. i have searched for the heartbeat error, however all I can find online is KB...
View ArticleRe: Create virtualmachine snapshot - 100% for 40mins
Yes, i checked and found same type of logs mentioned in above.
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VMFS volume missing physical extents
Hi Folks, I'm getting error as below while trying to extend VMFS volume. I can see in properties that total LUN size and extents size doesn't tally.Also I can see the extend in add datastore wizard. I...
View ArticleRe: Create virtualmachine snapshot - 100% for 40mins
okie,Did you try to take snapshot individually by login to standalone ESXI? How did it go?could you also check the resource utilization of vCenter?
View ArticlePreferred path not available Update 3
Hi all, Since I updated some of my ESXi hosts to 6.0 Update 3 I'm unable to change Preferred path for my LUNs.It still works on all hosts which are on Update 2 I've also update vCenter server to U3....
View ArticleRe: Create virtualmachine snapshot - 100% for 40mins
Manual snapshot is working fine. But in VPXD.log seeing below timeout errors a lot 2017-06-14T14:45:00.605-05:00 error vpxd[06776] [Originator@6876 sub=SSL SoapAdapter.HTTPService] Failed to read...
View ArticleRe: when vm has a ide disk, can't change settings while it is powered on
I would not consider it a bug - it is the same behaviour with real hardware.Hot-plug features with real hardware is only available for SATA or SCSI.I assume that making it available would be possible...
View ArticleRe: VMFS volume missing physical extents
Your VMFS-volume already is assembled using two extents - one of them offline.You cant expand it further without bringing that offline extend back online.In case that extend marked as offline does no...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.5 Slow vms, High "average response time"
I am having similar issues. HP 380 Gen9 32GB RAM5 x 600GB 10k SAS discs I have installed the latest version of VM ware esxi 6.5 on the server and created a vm with windows 2016 . everything is just...
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I would double check your scenario. The registry setting has fixed all occurrences of this so far. I would suspect you are running into something else, assuming you rebooted after making the registry...
View Article.iorm.sf/access events in ESXi 6.0 host syslogs (across clusters and storage...
I noticed that the events below appear in the syslog of our ESXi 6.0 hosts frequently. Our hosts have been connected to NFS datastores for a long time, and SIOC is not (and unfortunately cannot) be...
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I did not add the registry key as it all ready existed. it was however set to 0 - so i changed it to 1 and rebooted. I dont feel that anything changed, everything is still running like stuck in glue on...
View ArticleRe: when vm has a ide disk, can't change settings while it is powered on
But the setting to be changed is such as Network Connected (Y/N). And for vmware workstation the operation is ok.
View ArticleRe: .iorm.sf/access events in ESXi 6.0 host syslogs (across clusters and...
Hi stacycarter , I don't think it's an issue if SIOC is disabled (it's pretty normal ) because .iorm.sf file has been created by SIOC. it can't access because there is no file. sdrsinjector.log file is...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 : should PCI ID match with /device/ID/vmkname in esx.conf?
Hi, We're having some weird intermittent connectivity issues after the firmware update (including NIC firmware) on ESXi 5.5 U1. VMs from different VLANs on the same ESXi host occasionally can't...
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I have to agree on that part. Switching network on and off should not be affected by the disk type.
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Re: Integrate ESXi 6 with LDAP?
I know this is old but it's the only real answer I found in June 2017 so I marked it helpful. It's a shame VMware doesn't support non AD LDAP anymore (I found a note for an older version on how to do...
View ArticleRe: dvSwitch - IPv6 address limits on hosts attached?
Bumping this up again - I've done further testing and determined that this problem -only- occurs with dvSwitches. The issue does not occur with standard VMware switches nor the Cisco N1kv. So there's...
View ArticleVMware HOL for VCP
Hi folks, I am studing VCP-DCV so do you recommend a specific VMware-HOL Lab Numbers to lab it up?
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