Category Archives: ESXi issue

VMware Licensing issue after the Broadcom portal migration

Posted on May 31, 2024 by Ganadmin

We already own the perpetual licensing for vSphere and after the migration we have noticed ESXi 8.0 license are started showing as end date and when we applied it to the new ESXi hosts it started showing the expire date … Continue reading →

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ESXi host logs to Splunk issue got resolved in the latest VMware release, 7.0 Update 3o

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Ganadmin

We have noticed that our ESXI hosts are acting as Syslog clients and data from those hosts are being sent to our Syslog Server(port 6514) and then we are redirecting those logs  to Splunk. We noticed that ESXI host stops reporting … Continue reading →

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NFS4.1 datastore disconnected after the Netapp storage upgrade\failover.

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Ganadmin

Update Jun2024: Looks like issue has been fixed in Update 3f, pls check this blog. we have NFS-3 and NFS 4.1 presented to this ESXI hosts both are from the same Netapp storage. As part of the Netapp Storage upgrade failover was … Continue reading →

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Datastore with NFS4 slowness issue and Netapp\VMware findings.

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Ganadmin

Update: Pls check this blog and issue has been fixed. Already mentioned in my previous blog here about the NFS 4 slowness issue compared to the NFS3 and we captured the packets and worked with the Netapp, below are the … Continue reading →

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NFSv3 datastore is much faster than NFSv4

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Ganadmin

Update June 2024: Pls check this blog and issue has been fixed. Recently we have noticed in a few datastore the search operation is taking more time than expected and in our testing, it was identified that compare to NFSv4, … Continue reading →

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Issue on SSH login to the ESXi 6.7 host with the AD user account

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Ganadmin

We were not able to login to the ESXi ssh using the AD account and when we tried to leave the account or add the domain it is getting failed. [root@esx:~] /usr/lib/vmware/likewise/bin/domainjoin-cli join prd.com admin – While adding the host … Continue reading →

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Packet drop issue on HP Gen 9 \ Gen 10 servers running ESXi6.7.

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

We have noticed the packet drop on all of our HP BL460c Gen 9 \ Gen 10 across the region which is running ESXi, 6.7.0, 16316930 and the Network adapter presently installed on the server is HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB … Continue reading →

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Steps to blacklist the problematic DCs in VMware VCSA 6.7U3

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Ganadmin

We had a DNS issue in one of the DC running active directory integrated  DNS service and it caused our vCenter to fail to connect the domain in AD so we have changed the  DNS to the IPs which is … Continue reading →

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vCenter VPXD crashes because of high memory.

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Ganadmin

We have a vcenter environment with around  500 ESXi hosts running on multiple clusters and for the past several weeks we had the issue of Vcetner down because of VPXD crash and the service will be in stopped status. VMware … Continue reading →

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Bug in network introspection driver (vnetflt.sys) VMtools 11265 (11.0.1)

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Ganadmin

Recently we have upgraded the VMtools version from 10.305\10.346 to 11265 – 11.0.1 and we noticed few VMs went to hung status and noticed the below alert in windows VMs. vmware.log: 2020-02-07T12:50:58.182Z| vcpu-0| I125: Guest: vsep: AUDIT: VFileSocketMgrCloseSocket : Mux … Continue reading →

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