Re: my ESXi has weird traffic
View this KB VMware KB: Output of esxtop defaults to non-interactive CSV with unknown TermInfo Regards
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Thank! "TERM=xterm esxtop" works for me now . and i got this list in network monitoring: 1:53:51am up 1 day 13:01, 195 worlds; CPU load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.03 PORT-ID USED-BY...
View ArticleSnapshot bug with single-file hard disk in ESXi 4.1
I have just found a bug in ESXi 4.1 about snapshot and single-file hard disk. It took me quite some time to realize it's related to single-file hard disk and I'm able to reproduce the problem. This...
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Strange situation.You have enabled vmotion or fault tolerance in this VMKernel network interface? this might be the origin of the traffic You can also try to capture traffic for analysis with tcpdump...
View ArticleRe: Snapshot bug with single-file hard disk in ESXi 4.1
ESXi doesn't support Workstation/Player sparse .vmdk file formats, but uses a two file format. One of the .vmdk files (<vmname>.vmdk) is the descriptor file and the second one...
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i checked tcpdump-uw, and got a lot of logs below.seems NTP reflection attacks since the beginning of this year.https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/NTP+reflection+attack/17300 i found a solution for EXSI...
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Re: my ESXi has weird traffic
Aha! it's amost there ,i found another page :http://ar0.me/blog/en/posts/2014/01/howto-prevent-malicious-usage-of-vmware-esxi-in-ntp-reflection-attacks.html just change ntp.conf and restart ntpd,my...
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Fantastic, I'm glad you solved and be of some help. Regards
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Re: Snapshot bug with single-file hard disk in ESXi 4.1
By "sparse .vmdk file format", did you mean "single file but non preallocated"? After deploying VM on ESXi, I sometimes still need to download them back to my Workstation for a lot of reasons like...
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
In response to technobro1's second question, this has been my goal all along, to pass the video via PCoIP to thick, thin, or zero client. I thought many were doing this when reporting success, but I...
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https://communities.vmware.com/message/2291367Link to emulateEDID method
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There is a Microsoft utility that can manage devices. I found that if I let the VM boot with both SVGA and AMD graphics adapters enabled, that I could then disable the SVGA card in windows and have...
View ArticleRe: FreeNAS and iSCSI issue. Path but no device.
for iSCSI storage try thisHow to create iSCSI target on windows server 2008 R2 for ESXi host
View ArticleClarification Regarding Cores
Just to clarify, here's what I have: 2 Sockets4 CoresHyperthreading: ActiveThis should mean I have 16 Logical Processors that I can tinker with before getting to a point where my VMs with more cores...
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It actually depends on the workload of the VM's. ESXi does a pretty good job with CPU scheduling, so you could even provision more vCPUs, than available logical processors. In any case, don't forget...
View ArticleRe: Clarification Regarding Cores
Right, at this point in time I just have so many hosts available that I may as well spread the load out and never go beyond the amount of logical processors. I was more concerned with the strange idea...
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Re: Reclaim unused space on thin provisioned disk?
toelie888, sorry, I can't help you out with an answer to your question just yet, but I wondered if you could elaborate on things for the benefit of my simple mind?I too have the same setup, with...
View ArticleRe: Reclaim unused space on thin provisioned disk?
I've never heard that expression he used but he gave the command he used to accomplish it with the offline vmdk: vmkfstools -K someserverdisk.vmdk
View ArticleRe: Reclaim unused space on thin provisioned disk?
VMware also uses the term of "punching zeros". Please look here:Removing Zeroed Blocks Removing Zeroed Blocks Use the vmkfstools command to convert any thin, zeroedthick, or eagerzeroedthick virtual...
View Article4.1 to 5.5 Upgrade Help
Hello Everyone, Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this topic, but it seemed most appropriate. I have just started working for a new company, who currently have ESXI 4.1, I have previous...
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