We are currently running vCenter version 6.5 with 110 ESXi 6 hosts. All hosts redirect their logs to a NFS share. Unfortunately my company keeps killing additional monitoring tools for the environment to provide us with further insight like vRealize, Log Insight etc... Please note, we are using Dell Foglight now which is ok, but looking for something better plus a  central logging solution so we can have all ESXi logs in one place and do a global search for an event.

Thoughts??????

ESXi server not reachable via the vsphere client. Im able to ping both the ILO of the server and the ESXi server. I can even get into the webpage of the ESX server (192.168.27.101) and I get the welcome screen etc. Im  able to download the client etc but when i then use the downloaded client to get to the vcentre, I get the following error

The request failed because the server 192.168.27.101 closed the onnection (The underlying connectionwas close: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server

Call "ServiceInstance.RetrieveInternalContent" for object "ServiceInstance" on ESXi "192.168.27.101" failed.


ILO board is not helping much either since Im not able to reach that although Im prompted its an unsafe site by the browser but yet I cannot get onto it when I click past the warnings - not sure if thats related.

Server is a Proliant G6 1U with 5 SCSI 2.5" Disks in, the server has 4 Guests on it.

Thanks

A recent client.

A VMware esx/vsphere client 5.5 VM running sserver 2008r2 with exchange 2013.
The M has 17 temp snapshots spanning  several  years created by veeam backup Each snapshot is identified as having data such that it can not be deleted, or at least that is my reading of the message.

Would using VM snapshot manager and triggering the consolidation be a safe and the correct way to go?

I currently have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with VMWare ESXi 5.5.0, 1623387, 2 Intel Xeon CPU E5440, VMware vSphere 5 Hypervisor- Licensed for 2 Physical CPUs (unlimited cores per CPU), 16GB RAM with 2 1TB drive in RAID 1. I have 2 WIN7 VMs installed on the machine. I need to load a new VM running either Server 2008, Server 2012 or Server 2016. These are requirements of the software that needs to be loaded to the machine. When going through the wizard on vSphere client to add new machine, under Guest Operating System>Windows, the latest OS this version of VMWare is capable of loading is MS Server 2012. I have spoken to my 2 main vendors for MS Licensing (CDW & Tech Data) and they have both told me the oldest downgrade version the can sell me is Server 2012 R2. Can anybody please direct me to my best course of action. I know I have multiple options but am not sure which to take. Any help would be greatly appreciated. End user does not want to have to purchase new hardware to install software on if possible.

Hi Is there a benifit to having a high end graphics card in a vmware (esxi) server?  I use a laptop to suck up servers and make a backup of them.  I wanted to get a better unit since it sometimes ends up being the server while I build them a new esxi server.  I notice allot of the high end laptops have 1080 graphics cards with them.  That seems like a waste.  

Thanks all.

Hi,

Anyone has got an idea on how the datastore copying / Move works . I would like to know more Technical details like which network is used while we copy files using the Datastore browser. Is it the same as how files are copied between VM's?

Environment : vSphere 6.0 and Software iSCSI to HP P2000 G3 SAN

Eg : I am facing slowness when copying Data from a VM to another VM but its faster while copying from one Datastore to another datastore using the Datastore browser.

Thanks in advance.

Cant click in Vmware workstation 11 on Windows 10.  This vm was working on Win 7, and I had to upgrade to 10.  I have it running in compat mode for 7.  Any assistance is appreciated.
Thank you,
Mark

Running VMware 6.5.  Can you create an alarm for when permissions are changed?  If not is their a way to monitor this?

Hello Team,

This script gives a great output for Memory and CPU usage average over a period of time. I was trying to get Memory and CPU Usage with Minimum & Maximum. Is there a way to do it via PowerCLI?

What I'm trying to achieve is resources allocated to VMs against their utilisation, so that I can do some right sizing to the environment.

Thanks

Get-VM | Where {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} | Select Name, Host, NumCpu, MemoryMB, `
@{N="CPU Usage (Average), Mhz" ; E={[Math]::Round((($_ | Get-Stat -Stat cpu.usagemhz.average -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-30) -IntervalMins 5 | Measure-Object Value -Average).Average),2)}}, `
@{N="Memory Usage (Average), %" ; E={[Math]::Round((($_ | Get-Stat -Stat mem.usage.average -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-30) -IntervalMins 5 | Measure-Object Value -Average).Average),2)}} , `
@{N="Network Usage (Average), KBps" ; E={[Math]::Round((($_ | Get-Stat -Stat net.usage.average -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-30) -IntervalMins 5 | Measure-Object Value -Average).Average),2)}} , `
@{N="Disk Usage (Average), KBps" ; E={[Math]::Round((($_ | Get-Stat -Stat disk.usage.average -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-30) -IntervalMins 5 | Measure-Object Value -Average).Average),2)}} |`
Export-Csv -Path C:\temp\AverageUsage.csv

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We are running vCenter 6.5 with 110 ESXi 6 hosts. We have two main production cluster that have 37 hosts each. I know the max number of hosts per cluster is 64 but wondering if we should create another cluster to there is  another HA boundary since we have a number of large VM's in the mix?

Thoughts?

Hi, I was loading ESXi VMWare 6.0 on a new computer and when it gets to the choose your hard drive, it dosen't show up.  I started with an M.2 went to a SSD then a spinner drive.  Windows finds it, as does the BIOS, but ESXi  sees nothing.  This is the same media that I have used before.  The computer is a PowerSpec from MicroCenter, I'm using the onboard sata interface to connect the drives like I usually do.

Question how to rectify this.   Also, is there a place to download a newer iso for ESXi 6.0?  One with a bazillion drivers for storage and network cards?

Thanks all.

i have a few VMs in vCenter 6.5 which are OFF

How can I Get Virtual Machine Last On and Off Time using a simple method.
How can I get who logged in last

Can we find this information from ESXi Host.

Its on Windows  and Linux Environment.

Hello,

I just setup a new Windows 2016 VM.  The Ethernet Controller and Base System Device have an exclaimation mark in device manager.

Anyone knows the location on the windows 2016 dvd to update the drivers?

I picked VMXNET3 when I built the VM.  

Thanks.