Re: Poor SR-IOV 10Gb performance
The speed of your physical NIC and underlying physical network are irrelevant if the VMs are connected to the same port group in your vSwitch. The packets between those VMs never touch the driver for...
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Re: Poor SR-IOV 10Gb performance
I understood that was the case for vmxnet3, but i thought sr-iov exposed the nic hardware directly to the vm bypassing the host kernel? Either way, any suggestions for tracking down the bottleneck?
View ArticleESXi Lockdown Mode grey'ed out
Hi, I'm struggling to add a host back in to vCenter 6.5 applianceESXi 6.5, build 16207673 when i try to web client to the host i get the message503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint:...
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Check if the following VMware KB article helps: VMware Knowledge Base
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vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 hangs/freezes for 3 seconds every 20 seconds
Hello, I'm using "VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0" (latest build) on an HP DL360p G8.Installation works fine, but the hypervisor freezes every 20 seconds for about 2/3 seconds. The guest OS's are...
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Seems as though ESXi 6.5 was the last version supported on a DL360 Gen8 - only DL360 Gen9 and Gen10 appear in the results for 6.7 or 7.0. VMware Compatibility Guide - System SearchorVMware from HPE...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 hangs/freezes for 3 seconds every 20 seconds
Indeed, also found that. I did receive a warning saying that CPU will not be supported in future releases, but only the warning. Problem is that I can't download 6.5 or 6.7 anymore (registration link...
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6.7 wouldn't be supported either, as above. Paying customers can still download 6.5, so I guess you either need to buy a license (such as the vSphere Essentials Kit) or buy new hardware.
View ArticleRe: vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 hangs/freezes for 3 seconds every 20 seconds
Hello, Status update: Just tried version 6.5U2 and I have the same issue.I really don't understand what the issue is caused by! Anyone experience with this? Thanks.
View ArticleRe: vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 hangs/freezes for 3 seconds every 20 seconds
Do you see any related entries in the host's log files?You may press Alt-F12 on the host's console to view the vmkernel.log. Just to rule that out. If you have a CD/DVD in the host's drive, please...
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Re: vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 hangs/freezes for 3 seconds every 20 seconds
Hey André, Nothing specific in the log, only from system startup, after that, nothing.Host doesn't have a CD/DVD device. Also checked the other logs, nothing that comes back every 20 seconds.
View ArticleRe: vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 hangs/freezes for 3 seconds every 20 seconds
Status update: Same problem with HPE version 6.5U3 (preGen9) version.Tried on an identical server with other RAID config, same issue. So it had to be something on the hardware side... BIOS...
View ArticlevSphere 7.0 Security Configuration Guide
Hello, I am looking for the vSphere 7.0 Security Configuration Guide to hardening the VMs and ESXi hosts. Can anyone point me to the link where to get this document. Please help. Regards,-Clint
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Security Hardening Guides - VMware Security isn't showing a version 7 yet. Mike Foley would probably know if it is due soon...
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Re: vSphere 7.0 Security Configuration Guide
Tim, Thank you. Mike sent an email to my colleague already. For now, it is planning to have available in mid-August. Regards,-Clint
View ArticleRe: vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 hangs/freezes for 3 seconds every 20 seconds
Hey everyone, The issue has been fixed.To be honest, there was no issue on the server or hypervisor. Apparently the issue was due to my wireless devices.RDP and Remote management connections were...
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Re: vSphere 5.5 - Boot Menu - Scripted vsphere Installer
Hi everybody, Did anyone ever figure this out? I'm having the same issue as described before -- the installation successfully enters the rEFInd boot menu; however, all changes made to refind.conf are...
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Re: Expand Space without Rebooting VM
This an old thread but is the first hit when you search for this task.blentzz has provided the correct answered and helped me resolve this issue. Thanks!
View ArticleRe: ESXi Lockdown Mode grey'ed out
Hello, No, lockdown mode does not cause "503 service unavailable error." It seems an error about management plane. Please make sure hostd service is running:/etc/init.d/hostd status...
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