“No device drivers were found” when installing Windows 10 You may have experienced this issue while installing Windows 10 or newer inside a VMware VM that has been built with a VMware paravirtual controller. The Windows 10 image doesn’t have the driver for this controller type, so Windows can’t see the virtual disk that has […]
wget not working in ESXi 7 U3
WGET (World Wide Web GET) is a free tool that allows us to download web content from the internet easily through command line. I recently installed vSphere environment as below. My purpose was to install a Windows 10 guest inside the ESXi host but I didn’t have an ISO. While I was thinking wget came […]
vCenter 6.5 stopped working after ESXi upgraded 6.5 to 7.0 mistakenly without doing vCenter upgrade.
vCenter 6.5.0 17999427 ESXi version 7.0.3 build-20842708 I was able to troubleshoot interesting issue today. Have you ever upgrade the ESXi to higher version before the vCenter. This is interesting why ESXi has been upgraded to version 7.0 U3 while vCenter is running with 6.5. There were two hosts in this cluster one was 6.5 […]
ESXi Upgrade using ESXCLi 6.5 U3 to 7.0 U3
Today I am going to show you and explain how can we upgrade the ESXi version via command line and also how to resolve the issues might face during the upgrade. I hope this could help you and make your life easier. Server model : ProLiant DL20 Gen10 Current ESXi version and details: First you […]
Step by step ESXI install on Cisco Blade server UCS B200 M4
Here I am going to show you how to check Cisco and VMware compatibility and how you can install ESXi through UCS manager. what is UCS manager see. I was asked to install compatible supported ESXi version 6.7 on below server. Cisco UCS B200 M4 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 Series processor If you are asked […]
Step by step VMware horizon 7 installation guide.
Software version used: Please find the below steps which should perform to install VMware connection server. Please note that the steps are relevant only with connection server installation assuming other dependencies have been already configured like active directory etc. VIEW Connection server installation Install the windows 2019 server and copy the VMware connection server binary. […]
USB dongle passthrough is not working in ESXi
usb 2-2 : resumed, xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: clear USB_PORT_FEAT_SUSPEND, <6>usb 2-2: suspended Today I was able to help one of my colleagues to troubleshoot his ESXi level issue. What he wanted to do is connect his dongle to one of his VMs to get internet access through that dongle. So he has tried to connect a […]
Networking troubleshooting with VMware side and Network layer
#VMware #vSphereNetworking #DVS #NICTeaming #CLI Today I was asked by friend about the pinging issue in his vSphere environment. After the discussion i had with him I decided to visit the site and check what was the reason behind this case. I will briefly summarize the issue was. They have two ESXi servers in their […]
Cannot create Tags in vCenter 6.7
Operation Failed! (vmodl.fault.SystemError) { faultCause = null, faultMessage = null, reason = invalid fault } vCenter version 6.7.0 build-17137327 Today I had an issue with one of our vCenters when creating the vSphere tag. Suddenly it pops up below the error message. Try different browsers, different logins (SSO Admin ) etc. but no luck This […]
vCenter Standalone converter installation (P2V) failed in windows server 2003
Error 1920.Service VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Server (vmware-converter-server) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services. Today I had a chance to work on the p2v conversion after a long time. This is to migrate windows server 2003 physical server to VMware VM. I downloaded the vCenter converter 6.2 and […]