Category Archives: ESXi Patches

Datastore with NFS4 slowness issue and Netapp\VMware findings.

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Ganadmin

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 findings of our test when we tried ls -lahR | … Continue reading →

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NFSv3 datastore is much faster than NFSv4

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Ganadmin

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, NFSv3 results are better. Our testing is to first list files from … 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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Solution for the SMB1 AD Authentication issue – ESXi 6.5U3 update

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Ganadmin

As per my previous blog on SMB1 AD authentication issue in 6.5u1 , VMware communicated that it will be fixed  after the 6.7 U2 update but it looks like in the recent 6.5 U3 update it got fixed.In the release … Continue reading →

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Useful links about Meltdown and Spectre

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Ganadmin

Everyone is  working on to fix the Meltdown and Spectre so just thought of sharing few links which will help to handle the issue efficiently . HP Today HP has released update for System ROM and we can find below link to … Continue reading →

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Reverting to a previous version of ESXi patch,update or upgrade.

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Ganadmin

This is not something new to the most of VMware Admins out there, but still there are a lot of doubts about this and even VMware support engineer was not sure about the steps so I decided to put few … Continue reading →

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Information about ESXi Patches

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Ganadmin

Before updating the new patches on the ESXi host, I was looking to find the patches which were  already applied on the hosts and I used the command “esxcli software vib list “ but  only got the VIBs and drivers info … Continue reading →

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