Recent content by JohnOCFII

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    Failed ESXi 6U2 upgrade - suggestions please

    Yep - that was it. The BIOS default is IOMMU (for VT-d support) disabled. I needed it enabled. Phew! That is now working. "I will always have multiple backups" "I will always have multiple backups" "I will always have multiple backups" "I will always have multiple backups" "I will...
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    Failed ESXi 6U2 upgrade - suggestions please

    Good News! I got the upgrade to take! I found someone else on the Internet who solved the issue by copying all the files in BOOTBANK to ALTBOOTBANK. I loaded my boot USB in a different Linux machine and copied over all the files. That was enough for the upgrade to work correctly. The main...
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    Taking a pulse: One huge page or multiple pages?

    Option #3, for the reasons you listed. John
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    Failed ESXi 6U2 upgrade - suggestions please

    Greetings, I'm new here. Two years ago I built a home-server for ESXi based on an AMD 8 core processor and ASRocks motherboard. It's been working great until my power supply failed a week ago. Unfortunately, that power supply failed as I was trying to do an ESXi patch upgrade from the ESXi...