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Hey, so I just set up vmxnet3 drivers in OmniOS new install, 151028b on ESXi 6.7U1. Went to test throughput to see what the difference between the E1000 and vmxnet3 drivers were like, so I fired up iperf3 on pfsense as a server, and sent the most basic test from the OmniOS VM as a client...

We are considering a ZFS Storage Server for our VMware VSphere 6.7 Environment. Dell's SAN solutions do not appear to be price competitive. I'm open to other enterprise supported solutions. ZFS provides minimal vender lock-in and gives us a lower cost to expand by adding 24 drive or 60 drive...

I have a very simple ESXi AIO server functioning as a firewall (pfSense) and storage server (FreeNAS), which also hosts a half dozen or so VMs, and during the winter months it serves as a space heater, too. :) I hopped on a deal last year and bought 2 Sun F40 Flash Accelerators, passed them...

I have an issue using VMware Workstation that has bothered me for a while (OK, that is an understatement, it drives me nuts), but until a recent "project" required continuous copy / paste from my workstation to VMs accessed via VMware workstation, I never attempted to resolve. So finally I...

Hello Gang, I'm implementing a new ESXi infrastructure at work, and I'm running into a little bit of a quandary with migrating VMs between different environments. I'll give you an overview of the environment to make this question easier to follow. Current Infrastructure: - 3 ESXi 5.1 hosts in...

Hi, I've been using a combination of Mint 17 as a host with VirtualBox running my development VM's including my every day Windows 10 workstation that I need for my daily duties at work. The downside I face is my Windows Vm degrades in performance over a matter or 24 to 48 hours, to the point...

So i'm now roughly half a week into my second attempts at troubleshooting GPU passthrough. I've researched information on VMware's site, as well as this great thread: Troubleshooting GPU passthrough ESXi 6.5 Unfortunately, i just cannot seem to figure out where i'm going wrong and was...

Please help a neophyte attempting to learn a thing or two about a thing or two, by enabling me to update my ESXi 6.5 custom Cisco image with the latest two (2) patches. Current custom Cisco version: ESXi 6.5.0d (2017-04-18) 5310538 Need these two updates: ESXi 6.5 U1 Express Patch 4...

Hello all, Just noticed this on Mellanox site today - iSer driver for VMWare 6.5. http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=29 There is a new tab called 'iSer Download'. Seem there's support for ConnectX-3 Eth drivers as well. Thanks Gurvinder

Just tried the latest VMware ESXi 6.5u1 ISO and the VMware-ESXi-6.5U1-RollupISO.iso with the Intel Atom C3000 series "Denverton" using onboard 10GbE: Since U1 was released about three weeks ago, it looks like there is going to be some time where one needs to slipstream new Intel drivers into...

Hi All, I been working on my storage for home server. While working on it, i been upgrading vms, patching servers firmware, etc. Now one of main server, my windows server 2012 r2 essentials vm is hanging. Seems fine for a few hours then it just completely hangs. I need to reboot the host to...

Hi all I know here's a number of people related to vmware. I'm about to pull a trigger on VMUG advantage, just because of evalexperience. There's a VMUG meet in Wisconsin, May 25 and I wanna attend it, but I wanna try NSX before that. Job interview coming :) Sooo... Does anyone know where I...

gents, a user on reddit just managed to boot up ESXi on ryzen. says all he did was disable SMT on bios. appreciate if ryzen owners could confirm that? thread here.

Hi All, I currently have an HP ML310e G8 and whilst its a good server it is bottlenecked by the fact it only supports 32GB DDR3 UDIMM RAM and I use it as a ESXi host. The processor is a E3-1220 V2 (Quad Core no HT) and I have 2 of these servers running max ram and loaded with 4 x 3TB drives in...

Had this fun one today where I was provisioning a Ubuntu VM on ESXi as a Rancher node. While provisioning I got an error "mac value is blank!" I still have not fixed this but a workaround seems to be finding the MAC address in a VM and using that. Foreman will recognize the MAC. VMware will PXE...

When creating a new NFS datastore I noticed that VMware only supports v3 and v4.1. Unfortunately Synology only officially support NFS v4 and not 4.1. I was poking around my syno and the kernal they are using does in fact support 4.1. By making a simple edit I am able to enable this...

Hi all, I've added an HP DL380 G7 to my homelab and installed the latest HP ESXi 6.0 update to the server. Also added it to my vCenter 6.5 appliance. The server shows up and everything looks peachy, however the hardware status tab under Monitoring just shows "No host data available." I can't...

Hi I've been reading through the website for quite sometime now. and this is my first time joining and posting on this forum. (recommended by someone) I need some help and guidance setting up a vSphere Cluster, im not well verse in Vmware products as this is my first time setting up them. The...

Thought I would see if anyone was interested in this lab setup before I go to eBay with it. HP/Compaq 22u rack Cisco 2970 - $75 3x Dell R610 II - $250/ea 2x X-series @ 2.8Ghz 96GB SAS6/i (non-RAID) iDRAC Enterprise 1x SMC 2U - $1,000 2x X-series @ 2.8Ghz 48GB On-board LSI is RAID w/ No JBOD...

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