If you are converting an Oracle VirtualBox VDI (Virtual Disk Image) to a VMDK for use with VMware ESXi, you might come across the following error: Unsupported or invalid disk type 2 for ‘scsi0:0’. Ensure that the disk has been imported The invalid disk type 2 is typically a giveaway that the VMDK was mostly…
Month: May 2023
Quick Tip – How to monitor when ESXi filesystem and partitions are filling up?
Here is another tidbit on how you can leverage the power of vSphere Events, which now includes over 2K+ as of vSphere 8.0 Update 1 to help monitor when an ESXi filesystem and/or partition is low on disk space. With vSphere 6.7 or later, we have two events that you can use to help alert…
DDR5 SODIMM capable kits for ESXi
After successfully confirming the new non-binary 48GB DDR5 SODIMM modules (96GB total) is fully functional with any DDR5 capable system, I started receiving questions about which DDR5 kits are currently available today and that can also be used with ESXi? The ASUS PN64-E1 is definitely a top contender for anyone in the market for a…
ASUS PN64-E1 on ESXi
There are not many small form factor kits out there right now that supports Thunderbolt 4, so I was really interested in what ASUS had to offer with their release of the PN64-E1. I have actually never worked with an ASUS kit before, so I was definitely looking forward to getting my hands on one…
vSphere Pods using VDS based Supervisor in vSphere with Tanzu?
vSphere with Tanzu has received an exciting update with the release of vSphere 8.0 Update 1, which removes the restriction for requiring NSX-based networking to deploy Supervisor Services. This is really cool because customers with only a VDS based Supervisor can now also get the benefits of the various Supervisor Services that vSphere with Tanzu…
Frigate NVR with Coral TPU & iGPU passthrough using ESXi on Intel NUC
For the past couple of weeks, I have been investigating some issues reported by the community when using ESXi with the popular Google Coral Edge TPU for accelerating machine learning (ML) inferencing. Fortunately, with the help from one of our engineers, Songtao, we were able to find a solution! You can find the complete write-up…
96GB SODIMM memory for DDR5 system with ESXi
Back in February of this year, I had shared that non-binary 24GB and 48GB SODIMM memory was finally available, but I quickly realized that the news from Samsung was only for traditional memory modules and not the laptop SODIMM memory, which is also commonly used in small form factor systems like an Intel NUC. Three…
Refresher on Nested ESXi Networking Requirements
Using Nested Virtualization and specifically Nested ESXi, which is running ESXi inside of a VM, has become so automatic and second nature for me and many in the VMware community, that I sometimes forget we still have brand new users who are experiencing ESXi for the very first time. Nested ESXi is an extremely powerful…
Benefits of VM Templates (VMTX) in vSphere Content Library
A commonly miss-understood capability of the vSphere Content Library is managing and distributing Virtual Machine Templates (VMTX), which was introduced in vSphere 6.7 Update 2. When vSphere Content Library was first released in vSphere 5.0, content was distributed by using a pull-based replication where the subscriber vCenter Server would setup initiate the content subscription to…
Quick Tip – Preserving MachineGUID in Windows using vCenter Converter
When using the popular vCenter Converter tool for performing a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) or Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migration of Microsoft Windows, the MachineGuid (HKLM->SOFTWARE->Microsoft->Cryptography->MachineGuid) can change based on your migration settings. By default, the Reconfigure destination virtual machine option is selected to help ensure the converted virtual machine will properly start in the destination environment as outlined…