Can I delete a .vmfsBalloon file ?
I started an unmap command, vmkfstools -y 65 and all was good. I went away for 60 min and when I returned, I had lost my vpn connection and my putty connection ,and have a 143 GB .vmfsBalloon file in...
View ArticleRe: Petition VMware to Open Source ESXi Thick Client
Yes! Open Source C# Client! The latest debacle with Chrome/Flash is a perfect example of why the user community needs a "thick" client. In infrastructure administration, it is imperative that all...
View ArticleRe: False Thin Provision capacity threshold alert not allowing us to create...
Was there a resolution on the storage side? I have been looking for a vCenter side resolution and have yet to find one.
View ArticleRe: Resource pools on ESXi 6.5
I'll back up this question. Being new on 6.5, I've noticed the same thing and was wondering, if there still is a way to manage users through resource pools just like iLikeMoney described. I'm still at...
View ArticleRe: how to get device uuid for a given disk
You can run this command to get a UUID for the virtual disk which is stored in the descriptor file: vmkfstools -J getuuid /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VM/vm.vmdk Where datastore is the name of the VMFS...
View ArticleRe: Network issue since 5.5.0 Build 4722766
Discussion moved from General Issues to VMware ESXi
View ArticleRe: False Thin Provision capacity threshold alert not allowing us to create...
Yes, editing the vCenter Database and setting the thin_prov_space_flag value back to 0 fixed the datastores.
View ArticleRe: how to get device uuid for a given disk
you are talking about VMDK UUID.we need the disk uuid (lun that is exposed to the ESX server)
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5 - repeatedly getting consolidation errors
Sorry - I didn't get any notification that there was a response! Whoops...*sg* Anyway, we're already patched to the latest 5.5. The storage is direct attached, very high performance disks. We haven't...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5 - repeatedly getting consolidation errors
I think this is "left over delta's" issue, if i recall it happened to me few years ago when snapshot was taken for backup but failed...It error-out due to storage timeout issue from different VM's...
View ArticleRe: How to connect cd/dvd drive to virtual machine from esxi shell
I have a similar situation. Due to security concerns, I have to keep my laptop updated regularly. A recent update to Chrome for OSX has broken the flash interface on vCenter v6 and the HTML 5...
View ArticleRe: esxi 6.5 Forced reboot
Have you looked at Determining why an ESXi/ESX host was powered off or restarted (1019238) | VMware KB ? The time difference between the log snippets makes it look like there was an event that caused...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.5 - Used cli to add a port group fine, however the web ui or...
That "Correct Answer" is for VMWare 5, which makes it NOT the correct answer. I found the solution for out vCenter 6 environment was to put the affected ESX host into maintenance mode and reboot it....
View ArticleCreating snapshots in a different location than default virtual machine...
Dear All,Lately we cannot take a backup of our VM on using VEEAM backup and replicationthe error is Processing Error: Skipping VM processing due to insufficient free disk space on datastore Data....
View ArticleRe: PSOD: Spin count exceeded - possible deadlock with PCPU 3
I've got the same issue.i have a Dell R900. 4x Xeon 7460 CPU's, 128GB RAM, 5x 2GB SATA hard drives (RAID-5 configuration on Dell PERC-6). latest Dell BIOS.I installed ESXI 6.5 a couple of months ago....
View ArticleRe: Creating snapshots in a different location than default virtual machine...
Hello Centosuser, This workingDir line is not in the .vmx by default thus why the kb article states "Add these lines to the .vmx configuration file of the virtual machine" If you are wondering where...
View ArticleRe: iscsi connection inside vm
I feel like an idiot, I had ports on my switch that the EMC was plugged into set to a virtual port for another subnet. I removed that added it to my 10.1.10.x internal network and it works
View ArticleRe: Creating snapshots in a different location than default virtual machine...
Hello Centosuser, You have a typo in the directory path - a space between the datastore UUID and /vm-snapshots. Other than this it looks okay, test that this is functioning as intended by taking a...
View ArticleRe: Creating snapshots in a different location than default virtual machine...
Thank you for your answer.I haven't read the article carefully.added the below lines and it start working. thank you so much for pointing me workingDir =...
View ArticleRe: About vDS configuration
It's connected under vCenter / even VM under additional host. But this VM can't communicate with gateway
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