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 ReadingLately, I troubleshooted some NIC driver problems in VMware ESXi. During the troubleshooting, I needed to Identify the NIC driver, the software version used, and the latest driver version supported by VMware. Here are the steps outlined. Identify the NIC driver and software version: Make an SSH …
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 ReadingI create a simple PowerCLI script that backups all the VMware ESXi host configurations that are connected to a vCenter Server. This script can be scheduled to make for example every week a backup of the ESXi server configs. You can easily customize the script for your own needs. #Variables $Folder = …
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