VSAN and shutting down all hosts in a stack
The question: What is the official recommended way to shut down all physical hosts in a vsphere datacenter, that will keep VSAN happy when the hosts are powered back up? The scenario:We are spinning up...
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Stateless caching to USB problems with ESXi 5.5U1 on Cisco UCS
Hi everyone, I am setting up a vSphere 5.5 environment in the lab that is to use stateless caching to USB. I am under the gun to get this into production yesterday. The hardware used is a Cisco UCS...
View Article"Out of Memory" errors after Windows 10 Creators Update
Windows 8.1 guest on Windows 10 host will only run for a few minutes before getting memory error message. Have had to hard reset host machine 3 times this evening when guest VM running in...
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Cannot Rename folder Windows 10 AppStack Open/Save Dialog
I am having an issue where if the user goes to File -> Open or File -> Save and creates a new folder, they are unable to rename the newly created folder, or rename any existing folders from...
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VMware ESXi 6.5.0 PSOD Error - Spin Count exceeded - possible deadlock
We have installed brand new HP Proliant ML350 running ESXi 6.5.0 [Releasebuild 4564106 x86_64] It has now crashed twice with a complete VMware host hang and a purple screen of death. Crashes tended to...
View ArticleVMware VCenter features.
Hi geeks, Greetings, I have a one question for you all in our organization we have 2 ESXI host. For example, the 2 ESXI host names are TestESXI 1 and TestESXI 2 The 2-new ESXI hosts are connected in...
View ArticleApplying Windows updates to the VMware View Server infrastructure
How are people handling windows updates, we are having some replication issues between our connection servers, which I think may be related to the automatic patching done of the horizon view...
View ArticleNeed help on migration virtual machine from vsphere 5.5 to 6.0 vcenter
Hello Everyone, I need some help on migration activity from vCenter 5.5 to vCenter 6.0, could it be possible from vsphere replication ? if yes can any buddy help me procedure, Regards,Buddy
View Articlesyslog location to esxi hostname
Anyone who know`s an easy way to setup remote syslog collector, so that the folders isn`t named with the ip address of the host, but with the FQDN or just hostname of the ESX server..???
View ArticleUpgraded 3 Dell PowerEdge servers from 6.0 to 6.5 fine. VMware tools upgrade...
I have three Dell Poweredge Servers, two in a cluster and a third one for Veeam and other stuff. Each one upgraded fine from 6.0 to 6.5. All is up and running great except of course in vCenter all of...
View ArticleVmWare Vcenter Installation
Hi geeks, Greetings, Am looking to install VMware VCenter 6.5 on Linux based VM. Can you assist me to complete this task? Please provide me any guides documents to complete this task Thanks &...
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Unexpected early boot module when booting ESXi 6.5 via PXE
Hi all, I am attempting to boot ESXi via a linux PXE server. It appears however that ESXi is purple screening while loading modules. Immediately after it begins loading the vmkernel I get this...
View ArticleCannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password
Hello everyone, Not sure where to post this issue I am unable to log into my VMware Vsphere client I keep getting the following message "Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or...
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Running multiple branches of a workflow at the same time?
I'm trying to figure out if this is something I can do. If you are familiar with the service-now workflow engine they have a Branch activity. This activity allows you to split the running leg of the...
View ArticlevRealize Operations Manager 6.6 Sizing
We have an existing appliance that is not sized properly and I am trying to establish a way forward. The existing appliance is v6.6, but it is single node only showing 890306 metrics in progress which...
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VMmark 3.0 Released
I'm pleased to announce that VMmark 3.0, VMware’s multi-host virtualization benchmark is generally availablehere. VMmark3 is a free cluster-level benchmark that measures the performance, scalability,...
View ArticleRemovable devices not showing: VMware Workstation 9
Greetings to all, New to virtualization. I got me VMware Workstation 9 on windows 7 ultimate host running Ubuntu 12.04 guest and BackTrack_5_R3. On both, I see no removable devices that the host Win 7...
View ArticleError in webclient 6.5 - (fling sdk) setGlobalRefreshHandler is not a function
Hi,using fling sdk and with the angular component file have the code this.gs.getWebPlatform().setGlobalRefreshHandler(this.refresh.bind(this), document);When registred with VCSA 6.5 html client it says...
View ArticleNetwork configuration on physical switch side.
If i have a esxi host that will host Vm´s on vlan 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, etc etc, what configuration do i need on the physical port on the switch side, that this esxi host connects ? Does it need to be a...
View ArticlePermission denied when attempting to backup ESXi
All, I am new to VMware. I have a standalone ESXi host running an evaluation ESXi license. I want to upgrade the ESXi host. Before I upgrade, I want to back it up. Can I do that? The reason I ask, I...
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