Upgrade your current version of ESXi 6.7. See https://knowledgegainedandshared.com/2017/05/13/easy-esxi-patch-updates/. You could also see the No Space left on the device error, I did. https://knowledgegainedandshared.com/2018/04/04/no-space-left-on-device-esxi-patching/ Reboot the server and follow the steps posted below, except using the ESXi 7 ISO. https://knowledgegainedandshared.com/2019/01/07/upgrade-esxi-6-5-to-6-7/ Verify any Unsupported Device Warnings are an issue. To determine what the hardware component do …
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How to Setup Swap in ESXi 6.5
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 …
How to Add a Physical Nic to a Virtual Switch
With my brand new VMware ESXi Installation, it takes some time to configure everything to your liking and to best practices. ESXi 6.5 is not shy about warning you when you do not have redundancy or something configured as it should. With my setup I have two 1Gbe NICs but ESXi only configured one NIC as …
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ESXI 6.5 Install on SuperMicro Xeon D Hardware
Purpose of this guide is very simple, show an ESXI Install from start to finish and to help me remember how I did the install if I need to do it again. Hopefully it will help guide some first timers as well. Our hardware is as follows SuperMicro X10SDV-7TP4F 4X Intel DC S3710 400GB Sata SSD …
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Building a Home Lab – Back to the Future!
In my current role, I don’t do much System Engineer work, and frankly it’s boring to not. I’ve decided that I need to keep my skills up and I’m working on rebuilding in my home lab what we had with the old team. Compiling a list this is what I need to build, and what …
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