Google... Found several open repositories at university and other sites with install ISOs and patches and keys. Just installed ESXI6 onto an old appliance with an Atom C2758 then upgraded it to 7.0U3p using free unrestricted licenses. Thats as far as this can be updated but everything including vsphere 8 in online to be found. Absolutely sucks and learning Proxmox but not ready for that just yet.
Yes, I loved your original video, and it tutored me on how to install it onto my system. So, I'll watch this and see if there are many changes -- or GOTTA-YA's. Thanks for your great content.
Another thing that should be said here: if you want to install Windows 11 with TPM support, then you will need vCenter, which is included in vSphere, which is not on the free ESXi. Off course, you can always bypass TMP, but this is not a viable solution on a company, where there are compliance rules.
@2GuysTek thank you for the video. This Christmas break I am migrating our 3 host servers from Windows Server 2019/Hyper-V to ESXi 8 VMWare Exciting.. I have been expecting this change, and our company is big enough now to require the ditch of Microsoft as our Hypervisor.
Bonjour, toujours le meme souci avec ESXi, avec l'affichage d'erreur, "no network adapters". Je me suis tourner vers Proxmox, et aucun soucis d'installation sur mon Dell T3500.
Quelle interface réseau avez-vous installée sur l'hôte ? La carte réseau intégrée devrait être prise en charge, mais si vous utilisez une carte réseau différente comme Realtek, vous devez vous assurer qu'elle est prise en charge par VMware.
I ask you to clarify consistently all the important points during installation and configuration: 1) Which motherboard is used in the test 2) Which video cards are physically present in the PC 3) What settings of the motherboard were set for the best performance of ESXi 8 (maybe just default settings, and maybe additionally set parameters like ASPM/MSR/Above 4G decoding/Re-Size BAR/PTT/MCTP/ACS) 4) The installation of ESXi 8 was performed under what CSM settings 5) Have changes been made to ESXi 8 in the /etc/vmware/passthru.map file 6) How exactly was the Win 10 virtual machine installed, i.e. what type of virtualization core was used (default/8,..,7,..,6,...) and what type of bios was chosen for it (EFI/BIOS) 7) After installing Win 10, plugging the NVIDIA graphics card into it and installing drivers, have any changes been made to the file of the virtual machine itself *.vmx 8) I believe that at the first start after installing the drivers into the Win 10 virtual machine, the screen image from the reset video card appeared on a separate connected real monitor, but the main question is whether the reset video card continues to work correctly if you just turn off and turn off or restart this very virtual machine without restarting ESXi8 itself (in my case, how once again, this option does NOT work, i.e. the image on the real monitor remains static from the previous launch and the reset video card stops working correctly and error 43 appears in the Win10 device manager for this video card, but if you restart ESXi8 itself, then everything starts working again, but again only until the virtual machine is turned off or restarted, after which the signal from the reset video card it disappears again and then you have to reload ESXi8 again) Can someone answer all my questions in detail, and especially question 8, what is the reason for this error and how to treat it?
I followed the instructions on this and installed to an NVME, however any settings I change on the host client are never saved after a reboot. Any ideas?
19:39 > Here it must be added that if the disk has data on it, then it won't be recognized by ESXi. I had two SSDs an in one of them, I installed ESXi. The other had an old Ubuntu installation that I wanted to delete. I thought that I could delete it on ESXi and add it as a Datastore, but it wasn't listed at all. Then I logged into SSH and I could see that the second SSD was indeed enabled. I tried somethings that I found on the forums, but it didn't work. Then I decided to go to the BIOS and secure erase the second SSD. I started EXSi and then it was recognized.
Hi, I have to install my homelab and I have identified 2 workstations that I would like to use but I don't know if esxi 8.0 is compatible with the processors they mount. One is a Z1 G9 which features an Intel I9-13900 or i7-13700 and the other is a Dell Precision 5860 which features a Xeon W3-2425. Can you tell me if they are supported, I couldn't find them among the compatible hardware on the vmware website. Thank you.
I'm told that you can't use a free license, if you plan on labing with Veeam backup. Because the free license, doesn't support the feature used to backup?
You are correct, but it's not because of any specific rule. The free version of ESXi is API limited to read-online functionality, Veeam and other VM backup software need to be able to tell ESXi to do things, like snapshot a VM, and then mount the VMDK to backup the data. Unfortunately this isn't something you can do without giving VMware some cash. Consider VMUG advantage ($200/yr) to get access to much of the good stuff VMware makes, or shell out $300 for a vSphere Essentials license which (currently) is perpetual and very feature-basic, however it does allow for the full API.
Hi, Thanks for the tutorial , I have one question, I am installing on my home-dev-lab esxi server on IBM lenovo m910q tiny PC, now i want to attach it to additional SATA SSD , i bought a (M.2 NGEF B-Key Sata to sata3 expansion card, but i am not sure how to put the physical M.2 card in the tiny lenovo PC ( i know i am silly, i bought it and now thinking how to :)) can you advise?
If you bought an add-in card for the SATA M.2, you should be able to just install it into a free PCIe slot on your motherboard, and then create the datastore in ESXi.
at 4 minutes 36 seconds, 4:36 before the selection of the disk, you have an Error. Regarding Jumpstart plugin and scratch partition. can you please let me How did you resolve it? I am facing the same error and cannot move fwd.
I'm not exactly sure what are you're referencing, at that timestamp in the video I'm not seeing an error. I'd recommend joining our Discord and getting some help there!
Question. I setup my ESXi host, but whenever I set a static IP and ping my gateway or any devices I get failed. This is just on a basic Xfinity router. What am I missing here?
How many NICs do you have in your host currently? I’d go back and check to make sure the NIC you’ve assigned to your management interface is the NIC that’s currently connected to your network.
I am planning on setting up TrueNAS Scale in a VM on my freshly installed vSphere implementation (using this video to hold my hand). I have a 500gb OS disk that I was thinking will also store my TrueNAS VM, for max speed, but I want to store all my other VMs on TrueNAS VDEVs. I have 2 x 2tb NVMes connected to each of their own SlimSAS ports and 4 x 4gb SSDs on another SlimSAS port using a breakout cable. My thinking was that I could pass all these disks through to the TrueNAS VM via PCIe passthrough and mount the NVMe disks with a virtual NVMe controller and the SSDs with a virtual SATA controller. Does this sound kosher and would it give TrueNAS the fastest performance for these disks?
Seems like there are a few video ideas in there also. Speaking of video ideas, I have been playing with the idea of creating a golden template snapshot that I would use Horizon to create linked clones. I have a need for many VMs that are very near identical and I am hoping that Horizon will aid in making OS and App updates easier and centralized. Any experience with Horizons?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'server interface', but I'm assuming you mean you see the yellow and gray screen of the ESXi console? If so, you'll use a web browser on another system to access ESXi's management web interface.
well you can use DHCP as long as you add DHCP reservation all dhcp server support that so every boot it will get that IP address plus it avoids clients from trying to snipe the address if you can not make room for a static range before DHCP servers if you need all of the addresses
I have a laptop with dual boot but grew tired of rebooting every time I want to use windows and would like to "wrap" it completely in Linux. I am interested in making a virtual machine that allows me to pasthrough a Nvidia GPU to a Windows guest. In my laptop I have two discs, a 512 gb SSD where currently I have installed Fedora in one partition and Windows in the other partition. And a 1tb mechanic disc for storage. Could I create a third partition in my SSD that could be recognizable for the virtual machine to install VMWare ESXi8 there? Thanks in advance and thanks for sharing the video.
Unfortunately, you won't be able to do this. ESXi's installation will force you to wipe the drive and partition it out for it's use, there's no way to co-exist.
it keeps saying the iso file isn't bootable. I did it through rufus, but rufus is having issues with it etcher too is saying it's not a bootable iso and I cant use it to install anywhere. my other iso files that are seen as bootable work just fine
@@2GuysTek of course I know my mistake… I left the block size on standard. MBR is a smaller block size and has to be written as such (sometimes)… even if there isn’t a bootable partition the first block remains in tact and there it is
That depends on your motherboard, but usually the fix is to go into your BIOS and reset your TPM. There’s a few solutions on the ‘net you can search for to help with your specific system. Regardless, the issue causes no problems for your virtualization and can be ignored as well.
It sounds like your RAID HBA isn't supported by ESXi - this could be because it's very old, or because it's a software RAID and VMware does not support software RAID.
Ask a friend who does not use VMware ESXi for a key. Let say your father. That way you do not have to feed fake ID to VMware in order to get another license key.
Do i a need a second pc to connect to esxi through web browser? In proxmox i can install a gui desktop like gnome and coonect to proxmox using a web browser in that desktop , so need for a second pc. Is the same thing possible in esxi ?
Unfortunately no, you cannot install a full desktop environment on ESXi. All of your interaction is done solely via its web interface, but you’ll need to use another computer to do it.
Excellent video. Could you please help me with a solution to my problem? We are running esxi 7.0 16 host cluster farm in our environment. Out of 16 only 5 hosts load CBT module automatically after reboot and rest 11 dont. We have to manually load them through vmkload command. Can you plz tell me how to set auto load on the CBT module? We need this module for backup solution.
To add more information, we have another cluster for different environment with similar esxi 7.0.3 version and their hosts auto load cbt module after reboot. In our cluster, only 5 hosts auto load the module. Vmware support is taking too much time to revert to our query
Changed block tracking is enabled on a per-VM basis and to my knowledge doesn’t require any thing special to be loaded to take advantage of it with your backup software. Is this a 3rd party module or something else? What changed in the environment that now this is failing?
@@2GuysTek thats the actual confusion. As per vmware articles the module is on vms and not on host but when we run vmkmodule list on esxi after reboot it shows cbt enabled but not loaded. Then we have to load it manually for vm backups to run successfully. We changed our backup software to rubrik which uses this module and rubrik support also came up with same solution that cbt module on host is not loading. I m not sure how it autoloads on 5 out 16 hosts post reboot. I have searched rigorously through host configs, advanced settings etc but didnt find anything. We have same esxi image and patch level applied on all hosts in the datacenter. But only these 11 hosts in our cluster fail to load it automatically.
@@2GuysTek if you enable ssh and esxshell and connect to host through putty you can check using following commands. Esxcli system module list --enabled=true | grep cbt
You can go about building a bootable install USB stick in so many ways! Windows was what was handy and Rufus does the trick for Windows! Thanks for the comment!
It's very likely this is because your SATA controller isn't supported by ESXi out of the box. What SATA controller are you using in your host? Onboard? Add-in card? HBA (RAID card)?
@@2GuysTek I stuck on 4:39 in the video so I don't think it has anything to do with my browser. I do have 12700k and it gave me some error complaining about the intel p-core and e-core. I fixed it by entering some command lines I found online. And then I got stuck on the welcome page.
Sadly you're not wrong. The bad guys are always after unpatched systems and ESXi is a valuable target due to its enterprise install base. The best thing you can do for _any_ system is to never expose it directly to the Internet, and ESXi is no exception.. That and make sure your patch management is on point. When VMware makes patches available, get on them and don't wait. Thanks for the comment!
Not sure what you are on about.... forever free key.. It's valid for 60 days.. Unless that means forever for you... Looks like some pretty important false statement...
When you registered for the download for ESXi, you are presented a key. The 60-day eval exists for all new installs. It’s in the video, step by step. Check timestamp 1:30 for details.
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As of today (February 12, 2024) VMware ESXi free is no longer available. 😰
kb.vmware.com/s/article/2107518?lang=en_US
thas just sad :(
seems a bit unfair
Do you know where can I buy the license ? I'm currently installing my homelab server and I was planning on having one ESXi server t
did you ever get an answer, I am in same situation, thanks@@moises32123
Google... Found several open repositories at university and other sites with install ISOs and patches and keys. Just installed ESXI6 onto an old appliance with an Atom C2758 then upgraded it to 7.0U3p using free unrestricted licenses. Thats as far as this can be updated but everything including vsphere 8 in online to be found. Absolutely sucks and learning Proxmox but not ready for that just yet.
Awesome 2 guys!! Very detailed explanation...pls keep more videos coming!! :)
Nice simple tutorial. Short and sweet. You’re right on the money with your information.
I actually upgraded to VMware vSphere ESXi 8 a couple months ago, and the UI Change is very nice! Yesterday I updated the Hypervisor to 8.0b.
It was a well-needed improvement!
You have been SUPER HELPFUL. Thanks a lot for such an easy explanation.
Yes, I loved your original video, and it tutored me on how to install it onto my system. So, I'll watch this and see if there are many changes -- or GOTTA-YA's. Thanks for your great content.
Insightful video.
Got it to install on my 'ancient' Ryzen 1700x CPU with an activated license key to boot.
Great tutorial. Short and sweet.
Another thing that should be said here: if you want to install Windows 11 with TPM support, then you will need vCenter, which is included in vSphere, which is not on the free ESXi. Off course, you can always bypass TMP, but this is not a viable solution on a company, where there are compliance rules.
I’m first, have to grab a coffee then enjoy this awesome content.
Excellent video, excellent.
Another fantastic tutorial! Thanks for putting this together. I wonder if my old T7600 will run ESXi 8.
While it's not supported, it's possible if you add the boot parameter: allowLegacyCPU=true and you'll be off and running!
@@2GuysTek I'll give it a shot! Thanks!
@2GuysTek thank you for the video. This Christmas break I am migrating our 3 host servers from Windows Server 2019/Hyper-V to ESXi 8 VMWare
Exciting.. I have been expecting this change, and our company is big enough now to require the ditch of Microsoft as our Hypervisor.
Thank you so much Very informative Video.
Glad it helped! Please let us know if there are other ESXi videos you'd like to see us create!
Great video 🤘
Great Work !!!!!!
Why are we creating the boot stick using MBR instead of GPT?
Great work, thanks.
Bonjour, toujours le meme souci avec ESXi, avec l'affichage d'erreur, "no network adapters". Je me suis tourner vers Proxmox, et aucun soucis d'installation sur mon Dell T3500.
Quelle interface réseau avez-vous installée sur l'hôte ? La carte réseau intégrée devrait être prise en charge, mais si vous utilisez une carte réseau différente comme Realtek, vous devez vous assurer qu'elle est prise en charge par VMware.
License key is no longer provided, you only have an option to evaluate esxi 8.0 for 60 days.
I ask you to clarify consistently all the important points during installation and configuration:
1) Which motherboard is used in the test
2) Which video cards are physically present in the PC
3) What settings of the motherboard were set for the best performance of ESXi 8 (maybe just default settings, and maybe additionally set parameters like ASPM/MSR/Above 4G decoding/Re-Size BAR/PTT/MCTP/ACS)
4) The installation of ESXi 8 was performed under what CSM settings
5) Have changes been made to ESXi 8 in the /etc/vmware/passthru.map file
6) How exactly was the Win 10 virtual machine installed, i.e. what type of virtualization core was used (default/8,..,7,..,6,...) and what type of bios was chosen for it (EFI/BIOS)
7) After installing Win 10, plugging the NVIDIA graphics card into it and installing drivers, have any changes been made to the file of the virtual machine itself *.vmx
8) I believe that at the first start after installing the drivers into the Win 10 virtual machine, the screen image from the reset video card appeared on a separate connected real monitor, but the main question is whether the reset video card continues to work correctly if you just turn off and turn off or restart this very virtual machine without restarting ESXi8 itself (in my case, how once again, this option does NOT work, i.e. the image on the real monitor remains static from the previous launch and the reset video card stops working correctly and error 43 appears in the Win10 device manager for this video card, but if you restart ESXi8 itself, then everything starts working again, but again only until the virtual machine is turned off or restarted, after which the signal from the reset video card it disappears again and then you have to reload ESXi8 again)
Can someone answer all my questions in detail, and especially question 8, what is the reason for this error and how to treat it?
I followed the instructions on this and installed to an NVME, however any settings I change on the host client are never saved after a reboot. Any ideas?
19:39 > Here it must be added that if the disk has data on it, then it won't be recognized by ESXi. I had two SSDs an in one of them, I installed ESXi. The other had an old Ubuntu installation that I wanted to delete. I thought that I could delete it on ESXi and add it as a Datastore, but it wasn't listed at all.
Then I logged into SSH and I could see that the second SSD was indeed enabled. I tried somethings that I found on the forums, but it didn't work.
Then I decided to go to the BIOS and secure erase the second SSD. I started EXSi and then it was recognized.
Great vídeo
Very nice bro ..... This is how it should ...can you please do vsan witness appliance. It will be really helpful for my job.
Awesome video! I tried getting mine setup only to find out Realtek network drivers aren't supported... I gotta shop around lol
Welcome to the VMware hardware compatibility list! ;-)
Excellent tutorial, just i have a question, is it possible to do an ESXi dual boot with existing windows ?
Unfortunately it’s not using a single grub bootloader, but if your had separate disks with installs you could use your BIOS to disk boot.
Hi, I have to install my homelab and I have identified 2 workstations that I would like to use but I don't know if esxi 8.0 is compatible with the processors they mount. One is a Z1 G9 which features an Intel I9-13900 or i7-13700 and the other is a Dell Precision 5860 which features a Xeon W3-2425. Can you tell me if they are supported, I couldn't find them among the compatible hardware on the vmware website. Thank you.
All of your systems are very much supported!
I'm told that you can't use a free license, if you plan on labing with Veeam backup. Because the free license, doesn't support the feature used to backup?
You are correct, but it's not because of any specific rule. The free version of ESXi is API limited to read-online functionality, Veeam and other VM backup software need to be able to tell ESXi to do things, like snapshot a VM, and then mount the VMDK to backup the data. Unfortunately this isn't something you can do without giving VMware some cash. Consider VMUG advantage ($200/yr) to get access to much of the good stuff VMware makes, or shell out $300 for a vSphere Essentials license which (currently) is perpetual and very feature-basic, however it does allow for the full API.
Hi,
Thanks for the tutorial ,
I have one question, I am installing on my home-dev-lab esxi server on IBM lenovo m910q tiny PC, now i want to attach it to additional SATA SSD , i bought a (M.2 NGEF B-Key Sata to sata3 expansion card, but i am not sure how to put the physical M.2 card in the tiny lenovo PC ( i know i am silly, i bought it and now thinking how to :)) can you advise?
If you bought an add-in card for the SATA M.2, you should be able to just install it into a free PCIe slot on your motherboard, and then create the datastore in ESXi.
at 4 minutes 36 seconds, 4:36 before the selection of the disk, you have an Error. Regarding Jumpstart plugin and scratch partition. can you please let me How did you resolve it?
I am facing the same error and cannot move fwd.
I'm not exactly sure what are you're referencing, at that timestamp in the video I'm not seeing an error. I'd recommend joining our Discord and getting some help there!
Okay @2GuysTek now you then have three nodes/servers, how to make a cluster out of em?
You buy vCenter and you deploy it. That’s the limitation of ESXi.
Question. I setup my ESXi host, but whenever I set a static IP and ping my gateway or any devices I get failed. This is just on a basic Xfinity router. What am I missing here?
How many NICs do you have in your host currently? I’d go back and check to make sure the NIC you’ve assigned to your management interface is the NIC that’s currently connected to your network.
@@2GuysTek not sure what happened but it suddenly started working lol..thanks for the response! And great tutorial!!
OK well vsphere won't run anyway as I haven't found any guides on how to integrate the fling driver for it. They are all old esxi versions...
Question: ESXi won't have an option to enable TPM correct? I was trying to build windows 11 and I couldn't.
That is true - you'd need vCenter to have vTPM modules be available to your VMs. That being said, you can make Windows 11 bypass the TPM requirement.
i have a hp proliant dl380 gen 9 server, how do i insert 4 rams into
I am planning on setting up TrueNAS Scale in a VM on my freshly installed vSphere implementation (using this video to hold my hand). I have a 500gb OS disk that I was thinking will also store my TrueNAS VM, for max speed, but I want to store all my other VMs on TrueNAS VDEVs. I have 2 x 2tb NVMes connected to each of their own SlimSAS ports and 4 x 4gb SSDs on another SlimSAS port using a breakout cable. My thinking was that I could pass all these disks through to the TrueNAS VM via PCIe passthrough and mount the NVMe disks with a virtual NVMe controller and the SSDs with a virtual SATA controller. Does this sound kosher and would it give TrueNAS the fastest performance for these disks?
Seems like there are a few video ideas in there also. Speaking of video ideas, I have been playing with the idea of creating a golden template snapshot that I would use Horizon to create linked clones. I have a need for many VMs that are very near identical and I am hoping that Horizon will aid in making OS and App updates easier and centralized. Any experience with Horizons?
I've got limited knowledge in Horizon currently, however what you describing is exactly what linked clones are for, so you should be good.
Should you install ESXi on the same drive where your VMs should be sitting or should be separate ?
Always have a separate disk for OS install and datastore. While it's technically possible to run on both, it's not a great deployment strategy.
Hello Sir, i installed esxi today and when the server rebooted, it didn;t show the exsi interface, just the server interface
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'server interface', but I'm assuming you mean you see the yellow and gray screen of the ESXi console? If so, you'll use a web browser on another system to access ESXi's management web interface.
well you can use DHCP as long as you add DHCP reservation all dhcp server support that so every boot it will get that IP address plus it avoids clients from trying to snipe the address if you can not make room for a static range before DHCP servers if you need all of the addresses
I have a laptop with dual boot but grew tired of rebooting every time I want to use windows and would like to "wrap" it completely in Linux. I am interested in making a virtual machine that allows me to pasthrough a Nvidia GPU to a Windows guest. In my laptop I have two discs, a 512 gb SSD where currently I have installed Fedora in one partition and Windows in the other partition. And a 1tb mechanic disc for storage. Could I create a third partition in my SSD that could be recognizable for the virtual machine to install VMWare ESXi8 there? Thanks in advance and thanks for sharing the video.
I fully understand what you're trying to do, and while it's not impossible, it's gonna be tough.
Can someone tell me if I can do it with creating an empty Partition on my Bootdrive to get it working? I don't wanna erase anything
Unfortunately, you won't be able to do this. ESXi's installation will force you to wipe the drive and partition it out for it's use, there's no way to co-exist.
it keeps saying the iso file isn't bootable. I did it through rufus, but rufus is having issues with it etcher too is saying it's not a bootable iso and I cant use it to install anywhere. my other iso files that are seen as bootable work just fine
When you downloaded the file from VMware, did you get an ISO or a Zip? I’d recommend re-downloading the ISO file again.
@@2GuysTek iso
@@2GuysTek of course I know my mistake… I left the block size on standard. MBR is a smaller block size and has to be written as such (sometimes)… even if there isn’t a bootable partition the first block remains in tact and there it is
I can not get a license key how do I go about getting one or fix that and if I don’t have a license jet what happens after the trail
1:32 we walk you though getting a copy of ESXi and a key.
How do you fix TPM 2.0 device detected but a connection cannot be established.
That depends on your motherboard, but usually the fix is to go into your BIOS and reset your TPM. There’s a few solutions on the ‘net you can search for to help with your specific system. Regardless, the issue causes no problems for your virtualization and can be ignored as well.
Personally, i would never let my hypervisor join an AD Domain. Great video tho!
how to install vmware exsi on RAID disk. my T350 dell server not detect raid disk when install vmware
It sounds like your RAID HBA isn't supported by ESXi - this could be because it's very old, or because it's a software RAID and VMware does not support software RAID.
Thank you@@2GuysTek
can i use an already configured raid 5 drive (16tb) for extra datastore storage?
As long as the RAID HBA is supported by VMware you certainly could.
any idea the cost of the esxi 8?
If I wish to build 2 ESXi hosts, do I need 2 separate license keys? If yes, how do I get a secondary license key?
If they are standalone hosts you can use the key without issue.
Ask a friend who does not use VMware ESXi for a key. Let say your father. That way you do not have to feed fake ID to VMware in order to get another license key.
Do i a need a second pc to connect to esxi through web browser?
In proxmox i can install a gui desktop like gnome and coonect to proxmox using a web browser in that desktop , so need for a second pc. Is the same thing possible in esxi ?
Unfortunately no, you cannot install a full desktop environment on ESXi. All of your interaction is done solely via its web interface, but you’ll need to use another computer to do it.
@@2GuysTek 🌹🌹🌹🌹
So wait i need to have a seperate nvme drive in order to install this thing or else my existing one will be wiped?
You don’t need to have a dedicated disk. As I showed in the install, you can use a single disk. Initial installation and setup is destructive.
Excellent video. Could you please help me with a solution to my problem? We are running esxi 7.0 16 host cluster farm in our environment. Out of 16 only 5 hosts load CBT module automatically after reboot and rest 11 dont. We have to manually load them through vmkload command. Can you plz tell me how to set auto load on the CBT module? We need this module for backup solution.
To add more information, we have another cluster for different environment with similar esxi 7.0.3 version and their hosts auto load cbt module after reboot. In our cluster, only 5 hosts auto load the module. Vmware support is taking too much time to revert to our query
Changed block tracking is enabled on a per-VM basis and to my knowledge doesn’t require any thing special to be loaded to take advantage of it with your backup software. Is this a 3rd party module or something else? What changed in the environment that now this is failing?
@@2GuysTek thats the actual confusion. As per vmware articles the module is on vms and not on host but when we run vmkmodule list on esxi after reboot it shows cbt enabled but not loaded. Then we have to load it manually for vm backups to run successfully. We changed our backup software to rubrik which uses this module and rubrik support also came up with same solution that cbt module on host is not loading. I m not sure how it autoloads on 5 out 16 hosts post reboot. I have searched rigorously through host configs, advanced settings etc but didnt find anything. We have same esxi image and patch level applied on all hosts in the datacenter. But only these 11 hosts in our cluster fail to load it automatically.
@@2GuysTek if you enable ssh and esxshell and connect to host through putty you can check using following commands.
Esxcli system module list --enabled=true | grep cbt
@@2GuysTek i m not sure if its a 3rd party module loaded in esxi. How can I find that?is there any command to check?
Why using Rufus instead of dd (disk duplicate) on Linux?
You can go about building a bootable install USB stick in so many ways! Windows was what was handy and Rufus does the trick for Windows! Thanks for the comment!
I can get the license key but cannot download the packages it says Unable to process your request. Please try again later.
I'm guessing VMware's having some website issues - give it a bit and try again.
Any idea why my drives don't show when I try to create a data store?
It's very likely this is because your SATA controller isn't supported by ESXi out of the box. What SATA controller are you using in your host? Onboard? Add-in card? HBA (RAID card)?
@@2GuysTek ahh just onboard from a b660 motherboard 😅
On the welcome page I can’t press enter to continue 😢
You have any browser plugins that might be blocking you?
@@2GuysTek I stuck on 4:39 in the video so I don't think it has anything to do with my browser. I do have 12700k and it gave me some error complaining about the intel p-core and e-core. I fixed it by entering some command lines I found online. And then I got stuck on the welcome page.
Hey, While installing for me its stucks in 73%
Does the installer eventually fail? What are you targeting the install to? SSD? NVMe? HDD?
I still prefer Nutanix Prism interface. VMware is stable though
hi there are lots of attacks these days over EXSI systems
Sadly you're not wrong. The bad guys are always after unpatched systems and ESXi is a valuable target due to its enterprise install base. The best thing you can do for _any_ system is to never expose it directly to the Internet, and ESXi is no exception.. That and make sure your patch management is on point. When VMware makes patches available, get on them and don't wait. Thanks for the comment!
@2GuysTek actually it's something with the kernel itself even ovf and vmdk files
13:52 -> Yes, unlimited VMs, but all VMs can have at most 8 vCPUs, so for the next video please say this
Next video: how to passthrough gameing gpu to vm.
Awesome idea! We’ll get it done!
oh no you did not just slurp your coffee.
Who said it was coffee…?
Not sure what you are on about.... forever free key.. It's valid for 60 days.. Unless that means forever for you... Looks like some pretty important false statement...
When you registered for the download for ESXi, you are presented a key. The 60-day eval exists for all new installs. It’s in the video, step by step. Check timestamp 1:30 for details.
@@2GuysTek When I registered it said the trial was valid, no key was needed and none was shown
@@2GuysTek No key was show for me either. They might have done away with them.