SDDC - Manager Dashbooard issue.
Good Morning, At the moment i am trying to resolve an issue with the SDDC manager dashboard (SDDC 3.7.2). Far as i can tell everything is up, i can ping the host and it is online. However i either get...
View ArticleVMware ESXI 6.7 Serial Port problem with Ziton
Dear all, Bear with me, I am quite new to ESXI, but not new to virtualisation or computers. I have a Ziton fire panel which is connected to a PC via an RS-485 serial link. This was running on my...
View ArticlePower usage and cpu load of server export to csv
I am supporting a Green IT pilot with a lot of big companies in The Netherlands.We want to investigate impact of power setting on servers to look for baseline and changes when altering BIOS and power...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 6.7 Driver for Mellanox Technologies MT27500/MT27520 Family
For Mellanox ethernet controller ConnectX-3/ConnectX-3, VMware Knowledge Base describes to use driver "nmlx4_en 3.16.11.10 (6.5 driver) or new releases (6.7 driver)". The nmlx4_en 3.16.11.10 release is...
View ArticleTerrifying Copy Speeds!
Supermicro Box with a MegaRaid 9361-8i RAID Controller 12Gb/s 2GB Cache, with a mixture of SAS and SATA 6Gb/s 7200rpm disks. Plenty of memory and 2 multicore CPU's. Disks are in a RAID0 Config, created...
View ArticleGet-Log in cluster with VMCrypt VMs
We enabled vmcrypt for a few VMs in our 6.7 vsphere environment months ago and thought no more of it. Alas it seems that as these VMs have moved around the cluster "Host Encryption Mode" is being...
View ArticleProblems after install security patch ESXi670-201912001 in ESX cluster
Hi, After installing the security patch (ESXi670-201912001) in all our ESXs that are part of a cluster, we have had network problems (timeouts, lost connections) and even had error alarms on the...
View Article"writable_type=" entry in snapvol.cfg
I have noticed that in recent App Volumes versions a "writable_type" variable has been added to the snapvol.cfg config with a possble value of "profile" or "uia".Is this a mandatory variable, and what...
View ArticleUpdated: working config! How to keep the writable volume as clean as possible?
Update: i have renamed this post to better represent the content. All our users have 1 Writable Volume for OST and Search storage and a few Appstacks.The Writable Volume is configured (snapvol.cfg)...
View ArticleNSX Host Preparation Not ready
Dear All.I am going to configure NSX 6.4.6 on ESXI 6.7.0. Clusters and NSX Controller have been configured and running succesfully. But i click on the host preparation and try to install following...
View ArticleVersion 5.3.0 (15225262) & MacOS 10.15.2
Sigh do you actually test the software pre release. Mouse clicks don't work still, product is unusable, extrermely annoyed. Re: VMWARE HORIZON and MAC CATALINA 10.15
View ArticleRegarding remote collector
Consider above scenario and the management pack limitation as 10 ms latency . I want to monitor 4 component in one vrops so all are with the Different geo-locatio and the connected via WAN.In above...
View ArticleDevice/Credential Guard error on Windows 10 Home
I recently upgraded to the latest version of VMware Workstation (14.1.1) and am now encountering the following problem when trying to launch VM's that worked fine previously. "VMware Workstation and...
View ArticleFinding VM disk larger than 7 TB
Hi all,We are using vRops 7.5 and I received a request to find all VM's within our environment with disks larger than 7 TB. I have tried to figure this out, but I'm only able to find disks C: and D:...
View ArticleSet storage policy
Hi, is it possible to set a storage policy on a VM / disks via vRO?I havent been able to located any workflow, actions or documenation about this..Can anyone give a hint?Thanks K
View ArticleFiles in vmware-caf directory filling up partition
Running ESXI 5.5.0 Build 3717267. Guest is running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4.Guest is running open-vm-tools. Guest is continuously creating files in directory:...
View ArticleCloud Builder Maximum Hosts
Has anyone tried to deploy more than 4 hosts via Cloud Builder bringup? Do we know how many hosts VCF Cloud Builder supports? I know you can do 4 hosts and then once SDDC Manager is online you can...
View ArticleSupressing the message "A virtual machine is attempting to monitor all...
I am using Fusion 5.0 to run ESXi and keep getting this message when I start up ESXi. It is rather annoying. Is there any way that I can supress the message ? Ron
View ArticleVMWARE HORIZON and MAC CATALINA 10.15
Author : jacquiewURL : http:////docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon-Client-for-Mac/4.3/com.vmware.horizon.mac-client-43-doc/GUID-48210A98-6377-4486-BBE2-99AAD4912714.htmlTopic Name : System Requirements...
View ArticleLost SFCBD RAID CIM provider after ESXi 6.5 update on various Dell servers
Somewhere inbetween A00 and A02 we've lost the RAID CIM provider. The biggest drawback is that RAID failures are no longer reported to our SNMP-based monitoring system. When going to the Host - Monitor...
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