Last week ik blogged about the “Broadcom adapter data corruption on ESXi/ESX hosts using the tg3 driver and TSO enabled” NIC problem. Link This week I found two new vSphere NIC issues worth to mention: Hosts with virtual machines using the E1000/E1000E adapter have networking issues after upgrading …
Continue ReadingUpdate: 09-09-2014: Today VMware released a new vSphere Client (vSphere Windows client). With vSphere Client 5.5.0 Build 1993072 (available with ESXi 5.5 Update 2) it is possible to edit hardware version 10 VMs settings. When editing a hardware version 10 VM it is only possible to edit hardware …
Continue ReadingOne of the steps of a vShield Endpoint based deployment is to enable the vShield driver in VMware tools. The vShield driver is not enabled by default. This can be done manually or automatically for example in the golden image of a VDI desktop. Here are the manually steps when the VMware tools …
Continue ReadingAfter configuring the network portion for your ESXi servers you need to test if the redundancy is working as accepted. From the ESXi layer you can bringing down/up one or more uplinks to test the network resilience. No longer you need to pull out the UTP cables. Since ESXi5 this can be done by using …
Continue ReadingThe following VMware releases are supported with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012: OS Supported versions Windows 8 32/64 Bits Workstation 9 Fusion 5.0 ESXi 5.0 U1 ESXi 5.1 Windows Server 2012 64 Bits Workstation 9 Fusion 5.0 ESXi 5.0 U1 ESXi 5.1 Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are supported on …
Continue ReadingIn this blog post I explain how you can install Windows 2012 Server Release Candidate (RC) in VMware ESXi and enable the Hyper-V role. It is possible to build a Hyper-V cluster LAB and live migrate VMs between the virtual Hyper-V nodes on one VMware ESXi 5 host. Before you begin make sure: Windows …
Continue ReadingDuring a VMware health check, I noticed that the syslog files aren’t updated anymore in the repository from he vSphere Syslog Collector server. Here are some basic steps I used to troubleshoot this problem. VMware ESXi hosts On the VMware ESXi hosts check the following settings: Syslog destination. …
Continue ReadingIn ESX(i) 3.x and 4.x snapshots files are default created in the virtual machine’s working directory (home directory). The working directory is the same directory as the were the virtual machine configuration (*.vmx) file is stored. In this example a VM called “test” that has two disks (VMDK’s) …
Continue ReadingThere are different ways to kill an unresponsable VM by using the vCLI or the console. In VMware ESXi, it is possible to kill a running VM process by using esxtop or resxtop. For VMware ESXi you need to enter Tech Support Mode (TSM) first to run esxtop. The following procedure can be used to kill a …
Continue ReadingWhen you want to customize the VMware ESXi 5 installation media you need to use Image Builder. Image Builder CLI is a set of PowerCLI cmdlets that you can use to manage vSphere image profiles and VIB (VMware Installation Bundle) packages, such as driver VIBs and update VIBs. You can also use Image …
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