If your VMware ESXi virtual Linux server syslog is filled with these kind of errors: This might solve the issue. By default VMWare doesn’t provide information needed by udev to generate /dev/disk/by-id. This can be done by setting the following:
I had a problem with my vCenter server randomly intermittently disconnecting from the ESXi host for about 3 minutes a couple of times per day. In this article I will share how I finally managed to fix it. I read many articles addressing this issue when heartbeats are not received, but none of them really…
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This is an easy and good way of doing snapshot backups of your virtual machines in VMware and copy them to another datastore or NAS. It’s a simple script that you can run on one of the virtual machines on the host. Requirements: plink.exe, to connect to the host and run CLI commands to perform…
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Experiencing poor performance in VMware ESXi 6.5 with virtual machines on your SSD disk? Talking about 4-5 Mb/s in file transfers. I did and I fixed it by following tips on forums to disable the native AHCI driver. I have since upgraded to ESXi 6.7 and no longer have the issue. Solution Execute this command…
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