Hi,
check if a storage LUN attached to an ESXi supports VAAI
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Category Archives: Virtualisation
All about virtualisation. VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, ESXi and vCenter, qemu
ESXi: No space left on device, ramdisk (root) is full
Hi,
a VMware ESXi becomes unresponsive when the root ramdisk is full.
Symptoms:
- Can’t move VMs away from an ESXi host (vMotion)
- vSphere HA is not working
- ESXi Host does not join the cluster
- Could not start vpxa daemon
~ # cat /var/log/vmkwarning.log
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ESXi: Capture Network packets on a vSwitch port or on a VM’s NIC
Hi,
ESXi offers some extented methods to capture network packets. Here are some examples.
First of all logon to your ESXi host by ssh.
To capture all traffic on a vmkernel interface use tcpdump-uw.
List all vmkernel interfaces
~ # esxcfg-vmknic -l
Interface
vmk0 .....
vmk1 .....
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Virtualbox: VM does not start after creating a snapshot. EFail (0x80004005)
Hi,
when using vhd disks or when you convert other disk formats (vmdk, vhd) to vdi and you create a snapshot, the virtual machine won’t boot.
An error occurs while starting the vm:
Fehlercode: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: ProgressProxy
Interface: IProgress {c20238e4-3221-4d3f-8891-81ce92d9f913}In this case the manager for virtual medias shows an error that the parent UUID of the snapshot file does not matches the UUID of parent medium stored in the media registry c:\Users\Username\.virtualbox\VirtualBox.xml.
This can be fixed 🙂 Get the UUID of the parent disk
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VMware: List Users who have a active Console Connection to a virtual machine
Hi,
there are multiple active console connections and you want to know who are currently connected?
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