Hot Plug Option in VMware vSphere

Today we will see the most important topic about the hotplug option in VMware vSphere. There are two types of hot plugs available. Enable Memory Hot Add Enable CPU Hot Add Enable Memory Hot Add Memory hot add lets you add memory resources for a virtual machine while that virtual machine is powered on. Enabling … Read more

Fix An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a domain controller in the domain being joined has failed.

An attempt to resolve the DNS name

Trying to join client to domain?  Authentication pops up, followed by this error: An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a domain controller in the domain being joined has failed. Please verify this client is configured to reach a DNS server that can resolve DNS names in the target domain. For information about network … Read more

How to check the mac address of a virtual machine in a vsphere web client?

To check the MAC address of a virtual machine in the vSphere web client follow the below steps: Right-click the virtual machine from the left pane of the vSphere client. Select Edit Settings from the menu. Under Virtual Hardware tab, Expand Network Adapter 1. Navigate to MAC Address section to see the MAC address of … Read more

The ramdisk ‘tmp’ is full. As a result, the file /tmp/bbJ7VowB.tmp could not be written.

vsphere ramdisk 'tmp' is full

Today we will see about the error message “The ramdisk ‘tmp’ is full. As a result, the file /tmp/bbJ7VowB.tmp could not be written.” in VMware ESXi. What is ESXi ramdisk? Ramdisk is a container inside the memory (RAM) for that working read/write copy. Using the branching technique, ESXi VMkernel uses the read/write copy instead of … Read more

Degraded Storage Path Redundancy On The VMware ESXi Host

Degraded Storage Path Redundancy On The VMware ESXi Host

We will check for the possible solutions on the alert of Degraded Storage Path Redundancy On The VMware ESXi Host. We know that there are different multi-pathing options are available when interacting with a storage device, there might be a situation where one or more than one of these paths might not be available for … Read more

Host Memory usage alarm VMware

Host Memory Usage

We have seen the VMware ESXi host memory usage alarm in the vSphere console many times during the operations. Today we will discuss what course of action can be taken to remediate this issue. The ESXi host memory usage go to high when the hosted Virtual Machines utilize higher memory than usual may be during … Read more

VMware Downloading and licensing vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 6.x & 7.x)

vmware vsphere hypervisor 7.0 download

 In this blog post, we will provide steps for VMware downloading and licensing vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 6.x & 7.x). This is taken from the VMware KB article given here. Downloading vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 6.x & 7.x)  To download and activate ESXi 6.x & 7.x: Navigate to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Download Center. From the Select … Read more

Fix Windows cannot find the Microsoft license software terms

windows cannot find the microsoft software license terms

Hello Techies! We are back with the amazing content for our readers after a short break. Today we will discuss the common error some people get during Windows installation: Windows Cannot Find The Microsoft Software License Terms. If you also get this error, you might think that your ISO file is corrupted. But that not … Read more

How to force shutdown VMware Virtual Machine

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In this blogpost, we’ll see how you can shutdown forcefully an unresponsive or hung VMware virtual machine using esxcli command-line. In this case scenario, you will not able to shutdown or power off the virtual machine through the vSphere and inside the Guest OS. Let’s begin with the steps now. SSH into the host where … Read more