Help sought for upgrade free ESXi 5.0 to 5.5
Good day.Please be gentle. I am a tyro. We are a 24 hour 7 day operation for which down time is critical. We are running free ESXi 5.0 and wish to update to free ESXi 5.5U1. We have 3 VMs on one...
View ArticleRe: Help sought for upgrade free ESXi 5.0 to 5.5
Welcome to the Community, you are right, backup is always a good idea and snapshots are no backup replacements. With the free Hypervisor you are actually limited with image/VM based backup options. The...
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vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips
Hi All ...My Name is Shady Ali Ahmed El-Malatawey. I’m working as VMware System Engineer with 4 years experience (I know it’s too short ). Currently certified as:MCITP: Virtualization...
View ArticleRe: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
This issue has been addressed by N1k in the release 4.2(1)SV2(2.2) that was released in Jan 2014. It is documented in the bug report CSCuj81943. We addressed it by using a different API to retrieve...
View Articlelatest vSphere 5.5 + Intel I350-T4 = SRIOV?
We installed Intel I350-T4 Server Adapter which supports SR IOV and by doing "esxcfg-module igb -s max_vfs=7,7,7,7", we get: Unable to set module parameters the following params are invalid: max_vfs...
View ArticleRe: latest vSphere 5.5 + Intel I350-T4 = SRIOV?
Have you installed the async driver?VMware Compatibility Guide: I/O Device Search
View ArticleRe: latest vSphere 5.5 + Intel I350-T4 = SRIOV?
Thank you for help so far. Installed driver and still doesn't work: ~ # ethtool -i vmnic2driver: igbversion: 5.2.5firmware-version: 0.93, 0x800005fcbus-info: 0000:07:00.0~ # esxcfg-module igb -s...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 Whitebox recommendations
Hi, I am in the process of making a cheap ESXi 5.5 box for using in my lab at home.The following are requirements:Able to run:1x: Windows 2k12 server (only for AD connection)2-4x: low demand linux...
View ArticlevCenter is very slow to load or configure
Hi guys, I've self-studied VMWare vSphere 5.5 with my laptop: Windows 8.1 Update 1Core i7 3610Q 2.3GHz8GB of RAMsVMWare Workstation 10 I've deployed an ESXi 5.5 on a virtual machine (with 4GB of RAM),...
View ArticleRe: vCenter is very slow to load or configure
Running vCenter Server as a nested VM and with reduced memory is certainly the reason for the slowness. What I do in my lab is to run vCenter Server as a virtual machine directly in VMware Workstation....
View ArticleRe: vCenter is very slow to load or configure
If you can, upgrade the RAM to 16GB. Or, consider setting up your home lab on a desktop computer with 16 or 32GB. Most people use 32GB for their home labs.8GB really don't cut it for a product designed...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5 Whitebox recommendations
Hi Welcome to communities. I will suggest to go for iSCSI storage and Intel chip set.
View ArticleRe: latest vSphere 5.5 + Intel I350-T4 = SRIOV?
Have you looked at this KB? This looks different compared to the syntax you are using. // Linjo
View ArticleCheapest license for standalone ESXi
Hi Community, can't answer the simple question by myself. We have powerful standalone server with only 1 VM that requires 24 vCPUs. Unfortunately ESXi free license has limitation of 8 vCPUs per VM. I...
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The only suitable options I have found so far is vSphere Standard license, but that is too expensive for just 1 VM considering that the physical host has 2 CPUs and I will need two licenses.
View ArticleRe: latest vSphere 5.5 + Intel I350-T4 = SRIOV?
Sorry, this is the one I was thinking...
View ArticleRe: latest vSphere 5.5 + Intel I350-T4 = SRIOV?
~ # esxcli system module parameters set -m igb -p "max_vfs=0,7,0,0"Unable to set module parameters the following params are invalid: max_vfs Waiting for your reply..
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