Slow vMotion and Copies from 1 SAN to another SAN
I am migrating VMs from 5.5 Cluster to 6.5 Cluster. I am seeing problems when migrating VMS from VMAX 10K to VMAX 3 All Flash. When I move/copy a VM to stay with in each storage array the performance...
View ArticleTwo or more instances of vimclient
I'm writing a C# application that needs to access two or more vSphere hosts, not vCenter. I can connect to all fine and list the VM's but when I query a VM it takes the vimClient information from the...
View ArticleRe: X710 SR-IOV on ubuntu guest on ESXI v5.5
Is VMware Tools installed in the Linux Virtual machine? Installing VMware Tools in an Ubuntu virtual machine (1022525) | VMware KB.
View ArticlePower On virtual machine VM Device 'Bootstrap' is not available.
While powering on the serve it getting the error. Error:Power On virtual machine VM Device 'Bootstrap' is not available.
View ArticleRe: Power On virtual machine VM Device 'Bootstrap' is not available.
What was leading up to it? Did you restore it, migrated from VMware Workstation or copied from another ESX/ESXi server version or anything similar? As a first step I would suggest creating a new VM...
View Articlemoving my virtual machines from vmware workstation to vmware vsphere
Hello, i would like to know how to move or migrate my openstack environemment from vmware workstation to a real hypervisor such as vmware vsphere (3 virtual machines total). can someone help ? And...
View ArticleHow to run Esxi host 6.5 with 2GB memory!
I built a lab on my laptop, everything is running inside VMware Workstation 12 Pro. I installed Esxi 6.5 with 4GB RAM, it's working fine. I am now running low on memory and I reduce my Esxi to 2GB of...
View ArticleRe: How to run Esxi host 6.5 with 2GB memory!
Looks like you have to have at least 4 GB of memory ESXi6.5 requires a host machine with at least two CPU coresESXi6.5 requires a minimum of 4 GB of physical RAM. It is recommended to provide at least...
View ArticleNetwork Adapter now showing after clone (Windows 2008 R2)
A machine i cloned can't connect to the LAN, the network adapter section is blank as it doesn't have any network adapters associated to it, i have tried to re-install the drivers, re-installed the...
View ArticleRe: Network Adapter now showing after clone (Windows 2008 R2)
When you say "... re-installed the nics ...", does this mean that you removed/added virtual network adapters to the VM's configuration? What type/model of virtual NIC did you add (E1000, E1000E,...
View ArticleRe: Network Adapter now showing after clone (Windows 2008 R2)
Yes i removed and added the nics, both E1000 and VMXNET3
View ArticleRe: Network Adapter now showing after clone (Windows 2008 R2)
That sounds strange. Please open the Device Manager within the VM, and enable "Hidden Devices". If any network adapters show up, try to delete them, and then let Windows scan for new hardware. André
View ArticleRe: Network Adapter now showing after clone (Windows 2008 R2)
wierd... there's nothing on the device manager (hidden devices enabled) also this is the Admin user
View ArticleRe: Network Adapter now showing after clone (Windows 2008 R2)
Ok, it looks like like a Windows issue in this case.What you may try at this point is to run (both from an elevated command prompt):chkdsk c: /fsfc /scannowIf these commands don't help, you may try to...
View ArticleRe: Network Adapter now showing after clone (Windows 2008 R2)
one of the first thing we tried was to create a new clone, but the problem persist, going to try the commands
View ArticleRe: moving my virtual machines from vmware workstation to vmware vsphere
This may be able to move the VM's: VMware vCenter Converter: P2V Virtual Machine Converter There may be issues using converter due to the changes in the hardware that is presented to the VM (MAC...
View ArticleRe: moving my virtual machines from vmware workstation to vmware vsphere
hey, thank you for the reply. yes i'm looking to dual boot, is it ok ?
View ArticleRe: moving my virtual machines from vmware workstation to vmware vsphere
A Dualboot setup with ESXi and Windows 10 on one host is possible but makes no real sense at all.There is no chance to share a filesystem between both bootoptions other than Fat32 - which is not...
View ArticleRe: moving my virtual machines from vmware workstation to vmware vsphere
why not ? since i'm going to install esxi on a second partition ! and why the FAT32 ?
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