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Install the required graphics card(s) into your server, and power on the ESXi host. Go to VCenter and find the ESXi host the card was installed in. Click on Configure -> PCI Devices and Configure Passthrough Select the GPUs and Audio Controller. The Audio Controller is not necessary, but I tend to use it anyway. …
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Noticed an oddity in the F@H Appliance that William Lam aka vGhetto of VMware fame. After deploying a couple of his appliances without issue on vCenter 7, I started noticing behavior where the appliance would happily fold, and then crash and restart. Even after reinstalling the appliance I encountered the same behavoir. I logged into …
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Login to your Synology and launch iSCSI Manager Select Target and click Create Name your Target and Select Next Click Next to create a new LUN Name your LUN and select the size Click Apply and wait for the LUN to setup Login to your Vcenter, select a ESXi Server and click on Configure and …
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Download and Mount 6.7 ISO. In my case its via SuperMicro iKVM 2. Boot from the Media 3. Follow the Installer 4. Select the Media that contains the ESXi 6.5 Install and hit Enter 5. Select Upgrade and press F11 6. Press F11 to reboot to the new install
Encountered a new error that I have not seen before working with ESXi 6.5. I was upgrading from the base VMUG ESXi 6.5 image to the latest patched and received the following error [InstallationError] [Errno 28] No space left on device vibs = VMware_locker_tools-light_6.5.0-1.33.7273056 Please refer to the log file for more details. The datastore …
Log into your vSphere Web Client and click Menu – Content Library. Click the plus sign to add a new Content Library Add a Name and Location Select a Local Content Library if you wish to upload ISOs, OVAs, and other templates. Select your storage location, I use my local Freenas NFS Store. Click Finish …
I recently had user colicstew comment that they could not get Freenas 9.10.2 U3 to see drives on his LSI2116. Luckily I have some unused 2TB Drives and LSI 2116 Controller as part of my Xeon D Lab. First step was to passthrough my LSI2116 Controller and Reboot the Server. You should see Enabled/Active for …
Another VMware basics post and this time I will teach you how to set up Swap for an ESXi Host. The Swap here is for the VMKernel, and basically can create performance boost for those hosts that are heavily utilized. For myself, I created a RAID 1 Volume of two Intel DC3710 800GB SSDs to …
I have been in the process of rebuilding my Plex Server and restoring the data. I popped in four 4TB WD Red NAS Drives and attached them to my 12G Controller. I figured it would be easy to create a datastore across the Raid 5 Drive and contine on my way. Unfortunately that was …
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