This table contains a list of systems, motherboards, storage controllers and network cards that have been tested and found to work with ESXi 5.x. Please check out the source column for a system you are considering using as some systems will include special steps to enable ESXi to run on that system or have other …
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ESXi 5.0 has some additional installation requirements that you should consider before upgrading from a prior version of ESX(i) or before starting a new installation. Memory – 2098 MB is the stated requirements. Most host systems will have far more than that, but if you’re installing ESXi into a virtual machine you may need to …
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One of the neat new features in VMware Workstation 8.0 is the ability to manage ESXi hosts and vCenter Server. To connect to an ESXi host or vCenter Server click the Connect to Remote Server link on the Home screen. Enter the hostname or IP address for the host and your login information. You may …
When vSphere was first released one of the elements observed by many was the differences in CPU core support between the various license editions. As you can see on this page most editions only support 6 cores per CPUs with the exception of Advanced and Enterprise Plus which support 12 cores. This lead to the …
There have been numerous discussions such as this one requesting additional NIC support for more common desktop models. It seems that VMware is listening to those requests. ESXi 4.1 includes a Marvell (sky2) driver and perhaps this signals that VMware will add additional support for other NICs support as the Realtek 8169 series. No Marvell NICs are …
A question that comes up on VMware’s forums occasionally is about the ESXi root account and the possibility of deleting the account. The account should not be deleted, but it is possible to remove the account from the Administrator role that it is granted at the host level. That prevents the root account from being …
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If you wish to restrict visibility to the licensing information on your host you need to create a custom role which: 1) Restricts access to this information on the Licensed Features screen2) Disables any changes to the permissions and roles set up on the host The following image shows that the test login is not …
I recently encountered an error on one of my ESXi 4.1 lab hosts trying to make a configuration change to the host. The error image is shown below and the text of the error stack pointed to full root file system: I used the command vdf -h to confirm the error message and as shown …
If you boot a system with two ESXi installations, the following PSOD may be displayed with the this error: “Two Filesystems with the same UUID have been detected. Make sure you do not have two ESXi installations.” This is shown in the first image below. In some cases this error is helpful as it may …
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I was recently helping a customer with some IBM x3690 hosts running ESXi 4.1 Update 1 that was spontaneously rebooting. IBM suggested that the cause was the MegaRAID SAS driver and that the driver should be updated to the latest release. Given that the customer was not using local storage and it was a priority …
