After upgrading one of my home lab servers to VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 3, I’ve got the following error when trying to boot: Shutting down firmware services… Page allocation error: Out of resources Failed to shutdown the boot services. Unrecoverable error After changing the boot mode from UEFI …
Continue ReadingI started exploring Home Assistant Hass.io on a Raspberry Pi. After several SD card crashes I decided to installed Hass.io as Virtual Machine (VM) on VMware ESXi. There is a VMDK version available (link ) that can attached (this involves manual steps) but I prefer a clean installation. VMware ESXi …
Continue ReadingThere are multiple tools available to create a bootable VMware ESXi USB stick/drive/key such as: UNetbootin, link Rufus, link My favorite tool to create a VMware ESXi USB stick/key is Rufus. I use Rufus because it’s small, fast, Windows-based, open-sourced and the tool is updated frequently. …
Continue ReadingWhen implementing a new Cisco UCS environment I encountered the following error when trying to install VMware ESXi 6.5 on a Cisco UCS Blade server with a FlexFlash SD card: Operation failed This program has encountered an error: partedUtil failed with message: “Error: Can’t have a a partition …
Continue ReadingTo activate this feature the following advanced settings must be changed on each ESXi host: Set the advanced ToolsRamdisk option to 1 by using this command: [code language=“text”]esxcli system settings advanced set -o /UserVars/ToolsRamdisk -i 1 [/code] After changing the setting reboot …
Continue ReadingWith VMware ESXi 6 the password policy is changed and require to use more complex passwords. The password policy in ESXi 6 has the following requirements: Passwords must contain characters from at least three character classes. Passwords containing characters from three character classes must be at …
Continue ReadingAfter upgrading all the hosts in the lab environment to VMware ESXi 6, I tried to upgrade the VMware tools version of a Dutch Windows 7 golden VM used by VMware Horizon View. The VMware tools upgrade fails with the following message: VMware Tools Setup Wizard ended prematurely This is a known bug in …
Continue ReadingVIBSearch is a simple PowerShell script with a GUI that will search for a specified VIB or all the VIBS installed on the ESXi hosts. A VIB stands for vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB). VIBs are used to package and distribute ESXi software such as drivers. The GUI is designed with SAPIEN PowerShell …
Continue ReadingThe last weeks several customers contacted me that one or more ESXi hosts are not manageable anymore. The ESXi host has the following symptoms: Unable to manage using the vSphere Client, Web Client or SSH. Unable to perform a vMotion On the ESXi console there is a message: can’t fork Enable …
Continue ReadingSome time ago I needed to make a SSH connection to a new installed ESXi server. The default root password the customer was using was not working. The admin who installed the ESXi server didn’t known the password anymore. So i needed to reset the password. The VMware Knowledge Base states the …
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