When installing a patch on a VMware ESXi host using the ESXCLI command you need to specify the image profile that is available in the ESXi patch. Here are the steps for patching a VMware ESXi host with the correct image profile: Go to the Customer Connect Patch Downloads page. Download the patch …
Continue ReadingVMware has released a new KB article (2072515) on possible data corruption with Broadcom adapters that use the tg3 driver. This problem can occur when: The system is configured with greater than 4 GB RAM TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) is enabled on the adapter The system is running ESXi/ESX 3.5, …
Continue ReadingThe motherboard of my Haswell whitebox contains an Intel I217-V network card. See my “Haswell low power whitebox for ESXi and Hyper-V ” post for more information. The Intel I217-V network card is not recognized by VMware ESXi 5.x by default. On the VMware community I found a post with the Intel …
Continue ReadingRecently I had to troubleshoot a VMware View Client connection problem. In a new VMware View environment the customer has installed a VMware Horizon View Security Server for the external connections. When a external View Client tried to connect through the Security Server using the PCoIP protocol to …
Continue ReadingDuring a health check of a vSphere environment i notices dropped packets on several VMs. In ESXTOP the %DRPRX value showed dropped receive packets on several VMs. In the screenshot an example: The customer uses vSphere 4.0 build 244038. All the VMs that experiencing the dropped packets problem were …
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