vmware – Harddrive

Slow pxe boot in Vmware using UEFI bios

Loading “Light Touch Windows PE” i takes forever, almost 10 minutes

Solution: Go to the Windows pxe server and change the Tftp setting on the Windows Deployment service. Variable Window Extension must be disable.

NO internet switch på VMWARE ESXI

Hvis du ønsker at opsætte en virtual maskine med netkort adgang men uden internet.

Klik på Networking – Virtual switches –Add standard virtual switch.

2. Navngiv til ønsket. eks test eller no intenet

3. Klik på: Port group – Add port group.

4. Navngiv til ønsket og vælg din virtual switch.

5. Klik på virtual Machines– Actions – Edit settings.

6. Ændre Network adapter til det opsatte.

Certificate on esxi 6.7 / 7.0

You have a vmware server without a connection to vsphere, you want to have a valid certificate from a third party supplier like digicert.com og ssls.com installed on the server.

You might think you should use the guide “Generate FQDN Signing request” from the web interface but you are wrong. Don’t use this funktion.

Start setting up your server with at FQDN (hostname). Go to networking/default “TDC/ip stack” fill out domain name.

1.Now it is time to buy a ssl ssl certificate.

Save the private key CSR on your pc

Verify your certificate by e-mail.
Download dit certificate.
Rename your certificate to rui.crt
Rename your private key til rui.txt
Enable ssh on the esxi server

Set your server in maintenance mode

Install Winscp. Login with root and upload the 2 files to: Befor your upload make a backup of the 2 files.

cd /etc/vmware/ssl

Restart your esxi server

DNS

Make a “a record” pointing to your domain.

test the connection in a new browser

Lang boot tid på ESXI virtuel maskine

du oplever følgende problemer

Symptoms

Det kan tage 30 minutter at boot en virtuel maskine op efter en genstart

Du får får følgende fejl i din log

WARNING: VSCSI: 3510: handle 8514(vscsi0:0):WaitForCIF: Is

Virtual Machines that use SEsparse virtual disk format stops responding while running specific I/O workloads.

You are unable to suspend the affected virtual machine.

Restarting the management agents on the ESXi host does not resolve the issue.

Host reboot is required to recover the virtual machine.

In the /var/log/vmkernel.log file, you see the entries similar to:

vmkernel.4:2016-09-30T22:49:50.786Z cpu46:36668)VSCSI: 2590: handle 8193(vscsi0:1):Reset request on FSS handle 134428 (3 outstanding commands) from (vmm0:RUDWV-VDIFS201)
vmkernel.4:2016-09-30T22:49:50.786Z cpu28:33140)VSCSI: 2868: handle 8193(vscsi0:1):Reset [Retries: 0/0] from (vmm0:RUDWV-VDIFS201)
vmkernel.4:2016-09-30T22:49:50.786Z cpu28:33140)PVSCSI: 1593: ctx=0xffffe0018c781220 cdb0=0x8a on scsi0:1 completed during reset (0x8)
vmkernel.4:2016-09-30T22:49:53.788Z cpu46:36668)WARNING: VSCSI: 3697: handle 8193(vscsi0:1):WaitForCIF: Issuing reset; number of CIF:3
vmkernel.4:2016-09-30T22:49:53.788Z cpu46:36668)WARNING: VSCSI: 2627: handle 8193(vscsi0:1):Ignoring double reset
2016-09-30T22:50:21.395Z cpu28:33140)VSCSI: 2868: handle 8193(vscsi0:1):Reset [Retries: 1/0] from (vmm0:RUDWV-VDIFS201

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