ESXi 6.0 U2 installation on Cisco UCS B200-M4 blade server (double free or...
Greetings,I am facing an issue with 4k disk drives on Cisco UCS B200-M4 servers and VMware ESXi 6.0 U2, during the installation at the stage when I have to select a disk to install ESXi on it , VMware...
View Articleupgrade licensed esxi6 update 2 to esxi 6.5?
I have a licensed esxi6 update 2 on 2 of my servers. Is esxi 6.5 a free update? Or, do I have to purchase another license?
View ArticleCannot upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5: always see "Pre-upgrade checks are in...
Hello, Cannot upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5always see "Pre-upgrade checks are in progress ..." on stage 2
View ArticleVMWare Guru's.. Need help moving from Hyper-V to ESXi
All.. I've searching for quite some time but am unable to find the "best" solution to move from Hyper-V to ESXi and was hoping someone could provide the steps. Current Setup: 1) SINGLE Hyper-V Server...
View ArticleESXi 5: Kickstart Problems
Hi, in my lab environment I install with kickstart and PXE. I just set it up with ESXi 5 and have some problems the worst of which being the root password. I have tried "rootpw *******" and "rootpw...
View Articlecan you migrate vitual machines from 5.1 host to 6.5 host
Our current VMware environment includes 4, ESXi 5.1 host servers running 58 virtual machines.For whatever reason, the previous VMware Admin, did not upgrade VMware and we are now getting ready to do a...
View ArticleUpgrade to large disks VMWare ESXI 6.0
Hi! I'm using VMWare ESXI 6.0 on a HP Proliant Server. It have 2 disks in RAID 1, 600GB for the virtual machines.I want to migrate all to new disks that are already there. 2 disks in RAID 1, 1.2TB.What...
View ArticleCannot upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5 - Internal error occurs during Export of...
Hello, Cannot upgrade VCSA 6.0 to VCSA 6.5always on stage 2 i get this error:ErrorInternal error occurs during Export of vSphere ESX Agent Manager.ResolutionSend upgrade log files to VMware technical...
View ArticlevCenter upgrade from 5.1 to 6.0 fails with error
Hello together! We wanted to do an upgrade from vCenterServer 5.1 to 6.0.But we get an error after I have to enter the vCenter Server Credentials.It is the following error: Error: IP Address:...
View ArticleUnable to install VMWARE tools on WIndows 10 VM - ESXi 6.5.0
Hi all, Did a clean install of a ESXi host version 6.5.0.First VM was a Sophos UTM. I could install VMware tools on that VM.Just added a VM, Windows 10. I 'm not able to install VMware tools on this...
View ArticleVcenter install - Minimum disk size for a small virtual lab ?
Hi, Reading the documentation, and noted the minimums of 120GB, 8GB RAM and 2 CPUs for the vCenter install. This is my first time installing, I am trying to build a home lab and to learn and obtain...
View ArticleGPU Passthrough / Windows Terminal Services / Horizon
I have a 5.5 VM running Server 2008 R2 with Terminal Services I can pass through an AMD GPU but the VM does offload video rendering to the GPU Do I need to use a product like Horizon first to make this...
View Articlehow to migrate VMs in vSphere 5.1 to vSphere 6.5?
Hello All, My current environment:- 1 venter server 5.1 (windows edition)- 4 ESXi 5.1 hosts - 1 Datacenter A My goal: move all VMs in Datacenter A to a brand new vSphere 6.5 Datacenter B new...
View ArticleDependency error while upgrading from 6.0 to 6.5
This is what i do:[root@vm:~]esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.5.0-4564106-no-tools -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml [DependencyError] VIB...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client VCSA 6.0 login problem as administrator
Hi, i installed the VCSA with the install from the ISO file and everything seems to be ok. Apart from the problem that i can connect to the vSphere web client and not be able to login as...
View Articlebare metal install - eSXI 6 ISO on Lenovo w540 laptop
Hi all,I'm trying to install eSXI 6 on a Lenovo w540 laptop to add it to my existing vSphere home lab environment, but I'm running into issues during the install - getting error messages: Memory map...
View Article5.0 ---> 6.0 : Upgrade or Migrate?
Hello, Having a hard time deciding which path to take. Current environment: Single HP C7000 blade chassis with 4 blades connected to an HP P2000 G3 SAN. ESXi 5 hosts and vcenter Server 5. Bought 3 new...
View ArticleMigration - vCenter 6.0 to 6.5 - Certificateerror?
Hi,we want to migrate from vCenter 6.0 on Windows Server 2008 to vCenter Appliance 6.5. But during Stage 1 we recieve some errors like 'during connection appears the connection to migrationsassistant...
View ArticleUninstall ESXi 6.5
Hi, Haha this is the other way around question of what they normally ask I have installed esxi for testing purposes. Now I want to install windows on that machine again (clean install) OK I have put...
View ArticlevSphere Client: Error connecting, server took too long to respond
Dear all, I just installed VCenter on a Win 2012 R2 server using the installation media and using the Simple Install method, with a local SQL express 2008 R2 Database instance (all default). Whenever i...
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