Support USB for ESXi

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• Support processor for ESXi 5.0?

  Our company is currently using vSphere deployed on ESXi 4.1 servers and we are looking to try out the new 5.0 before actually buying the upgrade, but we wanted a devil of a time finding a server it will run on. When I try to install on our servers, they say that the LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions are not supported on this processor. It's probably expect that the waiters are about 5 years, so I decided I would build my own server to test with. Looking at the page system requirements 5.0 ESX http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1003661 looks like it is said the Intel Xeon 3100 series is supported.

  So my question is: is the supported Intel L3110 processor for sure?

  I got the specs on this processor from: http://Ark.Intel.com/products/32709/Intel-Xeon-processor-L3110-%286M-cache-3_00-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB%29

  You can perform a search in the hardware compatibility matrix below

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

  But Ko say its taken care of, so it will be supported, give it a try and see... But as the hardware compatibility of vmware matirix said not his only supported on esx (i) 4.1 and lower version, could be the case, the HCL site is not updated. See the link on intel xenon 3100 and the version of esxi supported below

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=Server&ProductID=13032&deviceCategory=Server&cpuSeries=8&page=1&display_interval=10&SortColumn=partner&SortOrder=ASC

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• Rufus (free utility) takes 2 minutes to create a USB bootable for ESXi installation starting source who becomes the target of the installation, even for 5.5

  Just info, one of these open Windows source rare beads that are becoming more and more difficult to find on the web these days, in the middle of a see payloads of downloader.

  Rufus I found to be very convenient for the quick creation of a USB flash drive you can start from, and then only install, for ESXi, no command-line stuff to memorize necessary and very fast:

  TinkerTry.com/rufus-takes-2-minutes-to-create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive-for-esxi-installation

  works very well with ESXi 5.5 also:

  TinkerTry.com/download-vsphere-5-lab

  and when finished with this flash drive and you want to use it for something else (but normal reformatting does not work), she who manages, even on Windows 8.1:

  TinkerTry.com/rufus-lets-you-quickly-and-easily-reformat-an-esxi-usb-flash-drive-back-to-full-capacity

  Especially useful for people to start who shy away from Linux VMware procedure:

  Format a USB to start the ESXi Installation or upgrade

  Documentation Centre of vSphere 5.5

  Windows diskpart commands or potentially dangerous. Really fair, fast and useful for pretty much everyone.

  Thoughts and opinions?

  Just a follow up on my comment about several injection of VIB in the ISO that you use as a file source for Rufus (a few months back, seen above):

  Here is the article that came out of this subject (Yes, it works!):

  TinkerTry.com/use-esxi-customizer-gui-to-inject-multiple-driver-vibs-into-your-esxi-installer-iso

• Local storage for ESXi - SD USB or a traditional hard drive

  We will replace our ESX host soon with new hardware and I'm on the fence about the use of a player USB SD 4 GB or traditional hard drives in a RAID. Obviously, the reader SD has its advantages, namely its speed and reliability, but is reliable enough to give up using redundant hard drives?

  As someone mentioned previously, we spend much of our time concerned with our redundant hard disks, expecting to fail. Several times the failure is related to moving parts in the drive also. SD readers have the pleasure of having no moving parts to wear out or fail. But what good are they?

  Sells the dealer that I spoke with them for 3 years and never heard of a failure. His $62 for 4 GB, so it's not a bottom of the line edit. It is designed to be in a HP DL380G7, once again, I doubt that it is a lower end model.

  I'm leaning toward the SD drive rather than traditional drives, but I wanted to get feedback from others who may have used this before configuration. I'm looking for the successes and failures (and the reason for the failure).

  4 GB is enough for installation (ESXi 4.1) and I have not any more local storage as VM is on the shared storage and the assistance as AppSpeed and esXpress VM program I can also install it on the shared storage (where in our current datacenter these are installed on the local storage). Or should I worry about this size with respect to logging or something else?

  Thanks in advance, please discuss.

  Eduard Tieseler

  I had a fight 100 ESX hosts running by USB - only questions I ever had were with the original green USB keys that HP provided in the first days of ESXi on USB.

  I like the approach of USB for several reasons:

  1. no local physical disk required, less moving parts = less material problems

  2. If you have local physical disks, you can use these as the dumping grounds for the ISOs etc.

  3. If rebuilding a server, I can remove the old USB key and press a new - and recover simply by replacing the OLD USB key

  4. I can pre-generate a USB one double key as a method of construction of servers in bulk (not tested on 4.1u1 well)

  5. I've had many many hard drive failures. . USB (except Green HP ones) have never failed on me.

  In addition, your syslog problem isn't treally a 0 - practice problem is to get servers to connect to a centralized in any case syslog box (I would even if I used not USB/SD)

  Good luck - let us know what you decide.

• not supported for ESXi 4 NIC... Can I simply add a NETWORK card?

  Maybe it's painfully obvious, but I don't want to assume anything.  I tried to install ESXi 4u1 this morning on a machine just to see if it would work, and I have not reported any supported network cards.  Can I buy a NETWORK card support and then ESXi 4 will work?  Is it really as simple as that, or is there some other stuff that I'm not aware of?

  Scott

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• USB passthrough esxi 5

  Hello

  We want to transfer a large amount of data to usb. I was looking for stick the HDD to esxi host and add the usb device in the virtual machine hardware...

  The steps I

  1 - Add USB controller to the virtual computer

  2. Insert USB physical host key * (ESXi 5)

  I was wondering that usb passthrought would be automatically turned on and I have no configuration passthrought in vcenter, Am I missing something.  ???

  Also my USB key is not in the supported usb devices... Anyone know if there is problem when you fix a USB not supported...

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & externalId = 1021345

  Any help to be highly appreciated

  Concerning

  Sam

  There are two ways to accomplish USB transfer in vSphere 5. You can use the USB connected client method mentioned above, or you can use connected USB host devices.  If you want to use a USB drive connected directly to the host, you first add the USB controller in your virtual machine, and then add a USB device. If the USB drive is detected correctly, it will be shown as a USB device is available and can be passed through to your VM.  This method could perform better since the USB data transfer will be internal to the host and not sent over a network link.

• Support USB and APC software

  I have a few questions I'm having a hard time finding answers to.

  Am all initially, am I right to say ESXi does not support USB?  If so, it benefits in the paid ESX?

  Secondly, does anyone know if there is a version of APC Powerchute Nework Shutdown for ESXi?  Or does anyone have any experience with it?  Is it really necessary to stop the ESXi host graciously, or can I use PCNS to stop guests, then the host left to die?  Are there other options to stop the ESXi host without using the NCP?

  Thank you.

  And it is a position of APC to a thread in the newgroup VIMA

  Good afternoon
  PowerChute Network Shutdown for VMware ESXi will be available in 2009.
  It is a fully compatible with VIMA and ESXi version.
  John Noone
  Product Manager
  American Power Conversion

  My understanding is that the APC software runs inside VIMA and stop guests and the ESXi host graciously.  For some reason, I thought the software was due to this quarter, but the quote above is not specific.

  Hope this helps

  Guy

• NI-VISA 5.3 driver Wizard does not support USB 3.0 devices

  Hi all

  It seems that NI-VISA 5.3 does not support USB 3.0 devices. When I try to use the driver Wizard to create a driver for a USB 3.0 device, I get the error "ERROR-1073807178: device descriptor error - value not valid bMaxPacketSize0 (must be set to 8, 16, 32, or 64 bytes). I noticed that the unit has been giving wMaxPacketSize0 of 512 (2 ^ 9). But the driver Wizard treats the value 9. So I think that Assistant driver does not support USB 3.0 devices. If someone could confirm this?

  Thank you very much in advance!

  Jackie

  Hello Jackie,.

  Unfortunately, USB 3.0 is not officially supported in VISA 5.3 when you use VISA Driver Wizard.

  A non-official solution is to work around the "information in the descriptor' by selecting 'Other' in the list of devices. You will need to manually enter the 'USB manufacturer ID (vendor ID)' and 'type USB (Product ID) Code. You will then need to find your driver in Windows Device Manager, right click and select "update driver software". This, however, is not a workaround solution guaranteed as NI-VISA 5.3 is not officially compatible USB 3.0.

• Find a feature / example code in VB to activate channnels to support USB-9472

  Hi all, we have bought support USB-9472 to be used in an RF test Set up. 4 of the 8 channels are connected to 4 switches (2 States) that are connected to several Instruments of measurement. I'll try to find a NI DAQmx C API function (or set of functions) to use in a VB application that will allow me to change / activate 1 or 2 (24 V) channels to the NI USB-9472 carrier - which is connected via USB with PC. Can someone help me with this? Thank you, Dan

  Hi Wallace,

  I used the DAQmxWriteDigitalLines function.

  Initially, I tried with the parameter: DAQmx_Val_ChanForAllLines and created the 1 task for all lines. But the param. writeArray (which is of type Byte) accepts - VB - only the values 0 or 1 (it should be between 0 and 255) i.e.:

  Dim ByteArray As Byte

  DAQmxErrChk DAQmxCreateTask("", TaskHandle)

  DAQmxErrChk DAQmxResetBufInputBufSize (TaskHandle)

  DAQmxErrChk DAQmxCreateDOChan(TaskHandle, "Dev1/port0/line0:7", "", DAQmx_Val_ChanForAllLines)

  ByteArray = 2

  DAQmxErrChk DAQmxWriteDigitalLines(TaskHandle, 1, True, 5000, DAQmx_Val_GroupByChannel, ByteArray, 0, 0)

  DAQmxErrChk DAQmxStartTask (TaskHandle)

  StopTask (a subroutine to stop and cancel the task)

  For example, when I assign Val. 2 (which equals '00000010' in binary), I get the following error message:

  DAQmx =-200562 error code

  Error message = side = attempt to write digital data which are not supported.

  If I assigned the values 0 or 1 to ByteArray, then everything is OK, except that I can activate the line 1 (when ByteArray = 1)

  For example, instead of using the param. DAQmx_Val_ChanForAllLines, I used DAQmx_Val_ChanPerLine and I created 4 spots - 1 for each of the 4 lines that I use to connect to the switches.

  In this way, I only need to use 0 (OFF) or 1 (ENABLED) for each line - and it works.

  The issue should be considered to be resolved.

  Thank you and best regards,

• I allredy backup data, how to restore backup of key USB for windows 2008 r2 standard?

  I allredy backup data, how to restore backup of key USB for windows 2008 r2 standard?

  Hello

  The question you posted would be better suited in the TechNet Forums. I suggest you to send your query to the TechNet forum for better support.

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• Does my motherboard support usb 3.0?

  I have an Acer Aspire M3920 desktop computer.

  Motherboard of this computer supports usb 3.0?

  I was thinking of buying a new cabinet with a USB 3.0 in the front of the cabinet, because I lack for this option. My Acer original box have today 10 port usb 2.0, but without usb 3.0.

  Edit:

  found this in the Manual:

  "MOTHERBOARD KIT ASERENA FOR M3.
  ACER INTEL H67 INTEL 82579V LOGO
  ΜATX W/O LF 1394 W/O W/E/S USB3.0
  SHIELD. "

  That means it is not supported usb 3.0?

  only USB 2.0

• MEM for ESXi 5.5 plugin

  Hello

  I Equallogic PS6100 and wanted to know if Dell EqualLogic Multipathing Extension Module v1.1.2 will work in ESXi 5.5? If not, when can we expect the plugin to be updated.

  Thank you

  Bala

  Hello

  Version 1.2 will be soon and which is certified for ESXi 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5.   It does not support ESXi v4.1

  Kind regards

• OMSA for ESXi 5.5

  Hello

  Are there plans when an OMSA for ESXi 5.5 is released? Current OMSA has only support for 5.1 and down.

  Thank you

  Hello

  Here is the link to download the OMSA to ESXi 5.5

  http://www.Dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriverDetails?driverId=4D4JN

  Thank you

• Service profile of the CISCO UCS for ESXi

  Do you need multiple boot LUN on the storage array for each host that you want to apply the service profile to? I'm just confused, let's say I have 12 blades that I want to designate as boot SAN for ESXi, y aura-t 12 profiles of separate service for each of them, and will need me 12 different LUNS on our storage? I am new to this and I just want to make it as clean as possible! Any help is appreciated.

  Hi Justin,

  You can have the same LUN ID for multiple service profiles, as well as the same target ID. However, your initiators will be different and you will need to configure the zoning on your switch upstream if you use the end host mode.

  Here is a good guide, review the basics and how to put in place.

  http://jeffsaidso.com/2010/11/boot-from-San-101-with-Cisco-UCS/

  Also here is an excellent guide to troubleshooting;

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/UCS-...

  Kind regards

• I would add a wireless keyboard to a 'double Receiver USB' for a wireless mouse.

  I have successfully installed the small 'Inteli-mouse' (microsoft mobile 6000 wireless mouse) by using the center of update online that I was sent to when I inserted the installation CD. I like the small USB receiver, is it possible to update the driver, so I can also use my "Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 700 V2.0" with this USB receiver? I am running "Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit on an HP G71 laptop. I like the wireless keyboard because the screen is great & because of some physical problems I can keep the keyboard closer to me and the screen further when the House. It's not important, I wondered? Thank you, KC973

  Hi KC973,

  Welcome to the Microsoft Answers site!

  You will not be able to add a wireless keyboard to a 'double Receiver USB' for a wireless mouse. To use the wireless keyboard, you can use the receiver that came with the key board and the receiver double USB mouse will not recognize the wireless keyboard.

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