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Re: "vCenter HA" option not listed in vCenter server configure tab

hussainbte — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 09:11:45 GMT

I am using vCenter 7.0 U3. I cannot find the option either.

Applying ESXi Patch ESXi650-202005401-SG

hussainbte — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 07:10:37 GMT

Hi,

just had a question about applying a ESXi patch recently released

ESXi650-202005401-SG

My ESXi 6.5 U2 Patch 3.

I have been told by VMware Support that applying the subject patch on my ESXi host will take my ESXi to 6.5 Update 3.

I dont want my ESXi to be updated to ESXi 6.5 Update 3. (some compatibility issues)

I find it difficult to accept that applying a patch which fixes a certain vulnerability requires your ESXi update version to also be upgraded.

appreciate any inputs which can clear this out for me..

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

hussainbte — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 07:02:10 GMT

This is providing only the driver version, have any of you guys used this to get firmware version of the HBA?

Synergy 4820C 10/20/25Gb CNA Mezzanine card with ESXi 6.5

hussainbte — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 06:37:11 GMT

My Synergy g10 blades have Synergy 4820C 10/20/25Gb CNA Mezzanine with ESXi 6.5 U2 installed.

I have realized that on some bladed in my cluster I see the storage adapter as vmhbaXX/XX and on some blades it is reported as vmnic

below are the driver and firmware versions of the card. I need to know why is it reporting liek that with driver, firmware and ESXi versions being the same.

any help is much appreciated

Driver Info: qedf:1.3.22.0

Host Device Name: vmhba65, cdev Name: qedfc1

ISP: ISP165c

Firmware Version: 08.37.09.00

MFW Version: 08.37.15.00

Synergy 4820C 10/20/25Gb CNA Mezzanine Slot 3 08.37.34

Re: Pink Screen of Death

hussainbte — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 10:03:13 GMT

if you have support agreement open a ticket with VMware support.

Re: Is VPC reuqired for LBT

hussainbte — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 08:06:55 GMT

if there is VPC enabled? will this configuration work?

route based on physical nic load with both nics active

Re: Default VDP password

hussainbte — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 08:15:34 GMT

what you are checking for is VDR..

check below link:

VMware Knowledge Base

Re: NUMA node count not right

hussainbte — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 09:40:20 GMT

22 cores per socket and 4 sockets..

so that is a total of 88 cores. that is a lot of compute power

Re: NUMA node count not right

hussainbte — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 08:06:50 GMT

how many cores per socket ..? i would like to know the total number of cores you have on the server..

also can you navigate through these BIOS setting and share an output..

Setting NUMA Group Size Optimization

From the System Utilities screen, select System Configuration > BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) > Performance Options > Advanced Performance Tuning Options > NUMA Group Size Optimization

Re: How to change management network VLAN painlessly

hussainbte — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:53:06 GMT

Yes I am thinking about setting up a standard switch for a secondary Management network.

here is the plan I have in mind.

1) Disable HA and DRS in the cluster to avoid any issues.

2) Setup a standard switch on the ESXi hosts with the new management network. vLAN1000 and a new vmkernel port enabled with management traffic.

3) as we need to put our vCenter also on the same management network setup a VM port-group on the new standard switch for vLAN1000(you are OK to do this just for the host on which the vCenter is running on).

4) Once the setup is ready access the host directly and swap the vCEnter network from old vLAN to vLAN1000.

5) if you have everything configured with host-names using DNS this can actually be helpful. swap the IP in DNS server for the ESXi and vCenter hostname.

6) Once your vCenter is up with the new IP in new vLAN with all the services working fine, you are almost there.

7) Set the vCenter managed IP in vCenter to the new IP.

remove all hosts from vcenter one by one and add them again with the new IP..

9) if the migration goes smooth all you you have to do later ois discard the management from the old DVS switch and migrate the networking from standard to DVS

the only think I am concerned about is how these individual vCenter services work on changing the vCenter IP.

if you a vCenter appliance or a vCenter with all services running in a single machine well and good..

best of luck !!!

Re: ESXi Physical vmnic down ?

hussainbte — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:30:34 GMT

ask you network admin to check the speed and duplex of the switch port where that physical nic is connected.

I have not checked the VMware HCL and I am assuming all the hardware is supported..

Re: ESXi Physical vmnic down ?

hussainbte — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:52:11 GMT

so we know now that the NIC or the switch port is not supporting 1000MBps

you might want to find out .. as 100MBps is too little these days .. specially if you are allowing anything other than management on that.

Re: Convert an EC2 Linux instance to vSphere environment

hussainbte — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 07:56:52 GMT

I believe the reason why the EC2 linux is not available as an import option with standalone converter is because the import requires the converter to be installed on the EC2 instance.

and the converter standalone comes in .exe.

I have not used this but there is

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2 Open Source

which has a .tgz download.. Again its something I have not tried, I did not find a doc for open source converter which talks about : Remote Hot Cloning of Powered On Source Machines That Are Running Linux.

there are other options available out there like the VM Import/Export which might help you get the VM back to your on-premises environment

Re: How to change management network VLAN painlessly

hussainbte — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 07:04:51 GMT

what is the versions of ESXi hosts.

do you have multiple physical nics on the ESXi hosts.. may be one in spare to use in standard switch?

if it is not an issues I would suggest you to specify vLANs you currently ate and the vLANs you want to move to.. we dont want the discussion to get confusing.

Re: Newly deployed Windows VM leaves the Domain

hussainbte — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 06:46:50 GMT

run the sysprep with Generalize and shutdown.

then convert the VM to template.

you should then be able to join it to the domain as well.

Re: ESXi Physical vmnic down ?

hussainbte — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 06:42:37 GMT

run this froim the console of ESXi, if you have console access.

esxcfg-nics -s 100 -d full vmnic0

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Re: VMWare Updates showing in Windows Update

hussainbte — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:41:14 GMT

from 10.3.10 version of VMtools which comes with 6.5 U3, 6.7 U3 and 6.0p08

the release notes says vmxnet3 and paravirtual scsi controller update are available from windows updates.

check the Microsoft catalog

VMware Tools 10.3.10 Release Notes

Microsoft Update Catalog

Re: VMware Replication on isolated network issue

hussainbte — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 11:24:07 GMT

Yes.. the first interface is in the same network as vCenter and PSC.. which is management

you can add another interface for incoming storage traffic.

Create a VM Network Adapter to Use for Incoming Replication Traffic on the Combined vSphere Replication Appliance

Re: VMware Replication on isolated network issue

hussainbte — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 11:20:36 GMT

Is 192.168.x.x a stretched vLAN?

Re: Network transfer speed issue

hussainbte — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 11:05:49 GMT

honestly.. I am getting little unsure of what we are chasing here exactly.

Linux in general as an operating system is much faster than windows... so I don't know how to just differentiate these when in come to copy or data write.