Slow Performance VMware Workstation 17.0.x – Windows 10 / Windows 11
Noticed horrible performance using VMware Workstation 17 on my system. I was running Hyper-V side-by-side, so I decided to nuke Hyper-V and the subsystems from that. Removed the…
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Reclaiming space from thin provisioned disks in VMware ESXi
This is the procedure that has worked for me. There are various methods dating as far back as 2011 across the internet, but this step-by-step works in my…
Backup VMware ESXi Host
Backup using vim-cmd To ensure that the configuration of the target ESXi host is synchronized with persistent storage, run the following command: vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/sync_config To back up ESXi…
Configuration mismatch: The virtual machine cannot be restored because the snapshot was taken with VHV enabled.
Upon migrating a VM from one ESXi host to another ESXi host, I received the following message. Configuration mismatch: The virtual machine cannot be restored because the snapshot…
Intel Xeon E7540 replaced with X7560
Recently I've been dealing with CPU RDY of about 5% across two ESXi hosts. I've load balanced the best I could given necessary workloads and was able to…
Performance tuning iSCSI Round Robin policies in ESXi for Nimble storage
Here's an ESXi console script to loop through each Nimble eui.* adapter and set IOPS=0 and BYTES=0 (per Nimble recommendations). for x in `esxcli storage nmp device list…
My Notes and Benchmarks on VMware Flash Read Cache
I've spent some time exploring and studying the use and configuration of VMware Flash Read Cache (vFRC) and its benefits. These are my notes. Useful Resources VMware Flash…
VMware vSphere 6.5 Test Drive
This will be an evolving post as I document/note the installation process and some configuration and testing. I'm installing VMware vSphere 6.5 under my current virtualization platform to…
Monitoring CPU Ready VMware Guest
CPU Ready value is cumulative between the number of vCPUs the VM is assigned. For example, a one vCPU VM has the measurement of 1000ms. For a VM…
Sysprep Windows Server 2016 for Virtualization
Finally getting around to installing Windows Server 2016 (Standard, Desktop Experience) to use for application testing and upgrade plans this year. I haven't tested this release since Technical…
Monitor ESXi Free using SNMP
ESXi 4.1 and 5.0 Enable SNMP SSH to host and edit the SNMP.XML file: vi /etc/vmware/snmp.xml Make the following changes: <config> <snmpSettings> <enable>true</enable> <communities>public</communities> <targets>192.168.1.100@public</targets> </snmpSettings> </config> Restart management…
vCenter Converter unable to see disks on source
I'm working on converting a physical 2008 R2 server to a virtual machine for ESX 4.1. I installed vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 on this machine and ran through…
VMWare ESX 4.1 Upgrade to ESXi 5.0 Checklist
I'm starting to plan for an upgrade of VMWare ESX 4.1 U1 to ESXi 5.0 and since ESXi 5.0 makes this possible to do an in place upgrade,…
Hyper-V: Windows Server 2012 R2 Bugcheck 0x109
I am consistently getting a bugcheck 0x109 on a 2012 R2 evaluation install on my Windows 8.1 x64 Hyper-V client.
vCenter Converter fails to import machine at 1%
I got kicked in the face by this again, and I even had the resolution documented internally. Lost 45 minutes looking through logs before I finally search VMware…