Re: IBM M5015 firmware update on ESXi 5.5 (slow performance on controller)
Hi JarryG, I am using the exact same controller as you do, the IBM M5016. Can I just "rebrand" the controller with the original LSI drivers as you describe in your post? Or are there any other steps to...
View ArticleRe: $global:defaultVIServer variable gets overwritten with datastores in...
Is there a better way to get the list of datastores (and their paths) with PowerCLI 6.0?Are you looking for something like this?function Get-ChildEntityRecursion{ param( $ChildEntity,...
View ArticleRe: Cannot install VMWare Storage Appliance
Hi Lennynyli, When you try to deploy the appliance from OVF, what is the error message that you're getting? When you mention you're trying to install from DVD, is this a physical DVD or an ISO image...
View ArticleAdd vCenter fails with CertificateChainValidator - vCO 6.0.3
I had a self-service portal running off vCO 5.5 that a bunch of users use. I deployed a vCO 6.0.3 appliance VM and imported the config. I finished the configuration and all radio buttons are green in...
View ArticleRe: 4x vCPU 100% whene FT enabled ?
Hi DZint, Bit stumped on this one. Is there currently a workload running on the VM?
View ArticleRe: Slow ESXi 6 disk performance over lan
How does your setup compare to the one posted in that reddit link? VM to VM should be much faster, what NIC are you presenting to the VM's? E1000 or VMXNET3?If you're thinking that it could be disk...
View ArticleRe: Deploying VCSA on new cluster?
In terms of my original question, I realized that the VCSA only requires one portgroup to work (i.e. associated with its own IP address), since the VCSA requires only one network interface. With that,...
View ArticleRe: Why only DirectX 9.0EX and OpenGL 2.1 in Fusion 8.0.1?
Hi Michael, See attached. Thanks!
View ArticleRe: Error setting up my VCSA
Assuming that your CPU supports the required features, you need to enable VT in BIOS. CPU requirements for running a 64 bit guest OS VMware vSphere 5.1
View ArticleRe: vrops for view desktop agent wont connect.
At some point the VROM - Horizon broker agent pairing broke. Removing the conf folder where the ssl keys are stored and re-installing the agent resolved the issue. VMware KB: Pairing the VMware...
View ArticleSetting the time for sending report mail
Hi all, Usage Meter can report to assigned mail address monthly,Can we set the time for sending monthly reporting mail in Usage Meter ?(i.e. 8AM JST or CST...) Your advice will be appreciated....
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Re: VSAN Node Crashed - R730xd - PF Exception 14 in world 33571: Cmpl-vmhba0-...
UPDATE: On the second backplane Dell sent, I continued to get voltage errors on. System wouldn't boot at all with the newer backplane cards. They believe the power cable may have been the issue. Just...
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Re: VSAN Node Crashed - R730xd - PF Exception 14 in world 33571: Cmpl-vmhba0-...
Oh... here was the fun...
View ArticleUpgrading ESX but still wanting to avoid webclient
Aloha,I am now sitting at ESX 5.5 U1. All VM's are at hardware version 8. I use the C/functionalclient and all is good. If I upgrade to U3 and maintain hardware version 8, I can still avoid having the...
View ArticlevSphere 5.5 to 6.0 upgrade
Current vSphere 5.5U3 environment. I would like to upgrade the infrastructure to 6.0U1 which will include a decommission of a vCenter 5.5 server running on Dell hardware and virtualizing a vCenter6...
View ArticleRe: defualt user/password
What are the username and password for the management server?
View ArticleRe: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
VMware has now fixed the download links found at the X552/X557 download site:https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=DT-ESXI55-INTEL-IXGBE-4111&productId=353and it turns out yes,...
View ArticleRe: VSAN Node Crashed - R730xd - PF Exception 14 in world 33571: Cmpl-vmhba0-...
I know another VSAN R730 customer who Dell did the same replacement set on. Curious if there was a bad batch or something. I've also heard anecdotal references from large Dell resellers about power...
View ArticleRe: two flash disks in one disk group vsan
RAID 1 mirroring the SSD is NOT supported Now you could keep a spare SSD in the host and flag it as usable after the failure (I'd have to lab/test this), but I'm still not certain this would trigger a...
View ArticleRe: two flash disks in one disk group vsan
Thanks John. Yeah same I wasn't sure how it would react but just adding a second flash ssd into the disk group, if It still went offline completely or stayed online, did a recync etc. I was already...
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