After upgrading all the hosts in the lab environment to VMware ESXi 6, I tried to upgrade the VMware tools version of a Dutch Windows 7 golden VM used by VMware Horizon View. The VMware tools upgrade fails with the following message: VMware Tools Setup Wizard ended prematurely This is a known bug in …
Continue ReadingFor a couple of months I’m searching for an extra whitebox host for extending my home lab environment. My current lab whitebox is a Haswell based whitebox (see: link). Here is an overview of the new lab environment: For the new whitebox I had the following requirements: Hardware such as NICs must be …
Continue ReadingVIBSearch is a simple PowerShell script with a GUI that will search for a specified VIB or all the VIBS installed on the ESXi hosts. A VIB stands for vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB). VIBs are used to package and distribute ESXi software such as drivers. The GUI is designed with SAPIEN PowerShell …
Continue ReadingThe last weeks several customers contacted me that one or more ESXi hosts are not manageable anymore. The ESXi host has the following symptoms: Unable to manage using the vSphere Client, Web Client or SSH. Unable to perform a vMotion On the ESXi console there is a message: can’t fork Enable …
Continue ReadingSome time ago I needed to make a SSH connection to a new installed ESXi server. The default root password the customer was using was not working. The admin who installed the ESXi server didn’t known the password anymore. So i needed to reset the password. The VMware Knowledge Base states the …
Continue ReadingLast 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 ReadingLast week I did a VMware vSphere and VMware View 4 to 5 upgrade. The ESXi servers for the VMware View environment uses Fusion-IO (HP IO Accelerators) PCI flash cards for there non-persistent VDI pools. After the upgrade to vSphere 5.1 I imported the latest Fusion-IO drivers and created a baseline in …
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 ReadingI was searching for a new whitebox for my home lab. I had the following requirements for the new whitebox: Low power consumption for 24x7 running >16 GB memory Expansion slots for PCI(-E) cards Good performance Low noise A couple of weeks ago Intel released the new 4th generation Haswell CPUs …
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