Esxi PCI passthrough device always hung at reboot needed? (esxi white box)
screenshot: log: /var/log/boot.gz workaround was to disable ACS
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recovering from an unresponsive hostd after a datastore/storage goes PDL
Hostd crashes with the below: Scsi Decoder: Link In my case, The volume appeared to have gone offline because the…
joining Esxi to domain fails with LW_ERROR_INVALID_MESSAGE [code 0x00009c46]
Joining Esxi to doamin fails with the below message: Cat /etc/hosts show below: In some cases, the hostname on the…
Passing through a Nvidia GTX970 to a VMware Virtual machine
Create a virtual machine with EFI boot, install windows + tools and power down the VM Open ssh to the…
Creating a Cent OS7 template for VMware Guest Customization and Deployment
To start off with, Download the latest version of CentOs7 from https://www.centos.org/download/ At the time of writing, this is: CentOS-7 (1804) Lets…
Generate a memory dump for a frozen VMware, windows virtual machine.
Enable complete memory dump feature by changing following registry keys: Enable keyboard crash dump feature by adding following registry keys:…
remount Esxi boot bank
In certain scenario when Esxi’s local/alt boot bank/ boot volume goes offline (symlinks broken),if the boot device is available, it…
adding VCSA to domain renames the dns suffix to the domain.
The other day, I had a customer having all management applications on a different DNS suffux as that of the…
Esxi Root password lock out/ Determining source of last failed ssh login on Esxi
Generally. Should the root account be locked out, SSH and UI/client access to the host fails. In order to work…
Deploy A VM using OVFtool
Syntax: Example: Note: VM Network = the vmnetwork of the ovf at the time of export If you are not…