IP address (virtual?) for 4 VMs -- virtual MACs?
Hello,I have a basic Hypervisor setup with 4 VMs. The VMs show up in the ESXi interface with the hardware NIC and its physical MAC, but they are not broadcasting (port 53) to receive a virtual LAN IP...
View ArticleIs VOB igbn 1.4.10 included in vSphere 6.7U3?
Basic question I know but result is shown in: esxcli software vib list | grep igbn
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I've checked on my site:VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-15160138VMware ESXi 6.7.0 Update 3[root@xxxxxx:~] esxcli software vib list | grep igbnigbn 1.4.4-1OEM.670.0.0.7535516...
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same build number shows me: igbn 1.4.7-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922 INT VMwareCertified 2019-12-10 Customized Dell 6.7U3-ISO with patch ESXi-6.7.0-20191204001-standard
View ArticleInvestigating hung VM
I'm running an Ubuntu 18 VM that hangs quite frequently: about once a week. I these instructions (Arcserve Support, VMware Knowledge Base ) to create and convert the suspended hung VM to a memory dump...
View ArticleRe: Investigating hung VM
Have you found nothing useful in the vmware.log of the affected VM and in vmkernel,log ?Trying to fix issues with the troubleshooting tools could easily take you on a completely unrelated track.
View ArticleRe: Investigating hung VM
I saw these about the time when the hang occurred. The VM's datastore UUID is 5e42b030-36babddb-5e13-0cc47aa5eba8. I followed VMware Knowledge Base because of the "CPU has been disabled" message....
View ArticleRe: Does ESXi work with AMD Ryzen?
I'll say "YES" Ryzen 7 3700X, stock cooler, ASRock B450M Pro4-F mainboard, 32Gig G.Skill Ripjaws 3400Mhz RAM, SSD and SATA HDDs. Uptime of 14 days now, collection of 10 x Windows Server 2012R2, Linux...
View ArticleRe: Investigating hung VM
I also have a VM that is hanging with the same error message in the vmware.log file. Right around the same time the hang's started occurring I discovered the kernel was upgraded to 4.15.0-88, which...
View ArticleRe: Investigating hung VM
I have 3 VM's including this one that hangs once a week. Out of the other two: one never hangs, and another hangs about once a month. All 3 are running 4.15.0-88. The VM's that hang do much more...
View ArticleRe: 6 ESXi free version has some limitation to hardware
An Overview of ESXi Free Limitations and Restrictions
View ArticleRe: Does ESXi work with AMD Ryzen?
I prepare to build a esxi for Nas and Plex. And I find your list. it is great. And could the Ryzen 3400G APU passthrough on ESXI? Thank you in advance
View ArticleUpgrade ESXI to newer version (6.5 / 6.7) if booting from USB
I have an older ESXI 6.0 that boots from a USB Stick to load the system / Hypervisor. What would the process to upgrade this to 6.5 and then 6.7? If I had the system installed on drivers in the...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade ESXI to newer version (6.5 / 6.7) if booting from USB
you can boot the newer version from cd/dvd or a second usb ,then upgrade the installed version on usb. the installer runs from memory.be care to choose "preserve vmfs" when upgradingyou can directly...
View ArticleHot remove cpu/ram from vm
Hi everyone, I'm struggling to understand if is it possible to hot-remove cpu or ram from a vm as well as I can hot-add. Thank you
View ArticleRe: Hot remove cpu/ram from vm
Hi, You can do it if the Guest operating system allows it and it has been previously set to accept "hotadd"Enable CPU Hot...
View ArticleRe: Hot remove cpu/ram from vm
Some of the new operating systems will permit hot CPU remove, but no OS (to my knowledge) will support hot remove of RAM. This is because RAM, unlike CPU, is not a compressible resource.
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Thank you @AlessandroRomeo68...but I asked if it was possible to REMOVE not ADD!!
View ArticleRe: Hot remove cpu/ram from vm
Thank you @daphnissov ... do you have any documentation about that? Which OS supported hot cpu remove?
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