Slow VM Windows 2012 with VM ESX Nested
Hi, I have a new laptop MSI PE60-6QE i7-6700HQ 32Go RAM 1To SSD. I installed VMware Workstation 12 Pro. Then I installed a VM ESXi 5.5 and a VM vCenter on VMware Workstation 12. And from the VM...
View ArticleServer Appliance - VMWare Tools driving me crazy...
I have recently took over management of our companies VM Servers. Everything was years out of date, so started with patching up to the latest 5.5 on the hosts and the Server Appliance. I then upgraded...
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Re: ESXi 5.5U3 Storage Failure - troubleshooting advice is needed
First Identify all the datastore that are reporting unmanaged workload detected.Check /var/log/vobd.log for < Detected a non vi workload on datastore > followed by the friendly name of the...
View ArticleRe: Cant Open edit setting of any vm
Already restarted the hostd and other management services. We are directly connecting the esx through vsphere client through root.
View ArticleESXI 5.5 - Cannot ping gateway and some hosts on same network
My setup includes 4 ESXI hosts and about 35 virtual machines. We had to move our environment between buildings and this process took place over several months so until last week we had all vm's running...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5U3 Storage Failure - troubleshooting advice is needed
Hi dekoshal, Thank you for your quick answer. I've checked the VMFS datastore which is referred to < Detected a non vi workload on datastore xxx > I saw the flow chart on a VMWare KB, but the...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5U3 Storage Failure - troubleshooting advice is needed
Yes, There is difference between both SIOC and Adaptative Queuing for how they manage qdepth on esxi host. SIOC take prioritization of VM into consideration in term of assigned share value regardless...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5U3 Storage Failure - troubleshooting advice is needed
It would be interesting to see if you have received error similar to below log snippet in vmkernel.log 2016-12-28T07:54:18.215Z cpu34:39468718)lpfc: lpfc_scsi_cmd_iocb_cmpl:2185: 0:(0):3271: FCP cmd...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5U3 Storage Failure - troubleshooting advice is needed
Thanks for explanation, by default we use 32 and 4 as default values as HP3PAR prescribe. I'm gonna check the log out , but i don't think I've ever seen some lines like that. Edit : I didn't found the...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5U3 Storage Failure - troubleshooting advice is needed
In the logs look for SCSI or other storage error code which will help you narrow down the issue and indicate the reason why the host needed to stop the I/O.Failed write command to write-quiesced...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5U3 Storage Failure - troubleshooting advice is needed
Some more info on queue depth. Queue Depth basics 1. The queue depth is per-LUN, not per initiator (HBA) 2. Queue depth : a. Decides how many commands can be active at one time to a given LUN. b....
View ArticleRe: VMware 5.1 VM with large RDM - options to get VM into Vcenter 6.0 system?
Due to unforseen circumstances we had to cancel our conversion, but we ran a test instead. We used our SAN to create a copy of the 9 TB LUN/RDM.We attached that copy to a test VM in Vcenter v5.5We used...
View ArticleWhy DRS disables POOLS
Hi folks, I have a question I know what is DRS and Resource POOL, wondering why when we disable DRS it removes the resource Pools
View ArticleRe: Advice on changing SAN setup after upgrade to ESXi 5.5
Hello, Some reading to look over before deciding your...
View ArticleRe: Make ESXi keep SSH keys after reboot
Hello, If I read this correctly, you are wanting to keep the etc/ssh/ssh_host* keys. If that is the case run auto-backup.sh after making changes to these keys to save the changes to the state file....
View ArticleRe: Why DRS disables POOLS
Hello, This is due to DRS being a requirement to have resource pools in the first place. You can of course snapshot and revert them to avoid their loss, disabling DRS in Web Client will prompt you to...
View ArticleRe: Why DRS disables POOLS
You can retain the resource pool from webclient when disabling DRS Retaining resource pools when disabling VMware DRS clusters in the vSphere Web Client (2032893) | VMware KB If you found this or any...
View ArticleRe: Permission denied when attempting to backup ESXi
Dario, Thank you! I was using the vicfg-user.pl when I thought I could update Roles. But, as you told me, their no Roles when you have a Standalone ESXi Host. Roles are used when you have vCenter...
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Re: Vsphere ESXi 6.5 external network connectivity lost on DL380Gen8
To resume : ESXI 6.5 I have a guest with two network card.One with E1000 on Vswitch1 with nic0 (mtu 1500)One with VMXNet3 on Vswitch2 with nic1 (mtu 9000) The MTU is OK on the each nic and vswitch....
View ArticleRe: Samsung 960 Pro not showing on ESX 6.5 install
If anyone is interested this was the in VM disk performance using the new virtual NVMe controller
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