When attempting to enter maintenance mode:

From vCenter:

A general system error occurred: Connection reset by peer: The connection is terminated by the remote end with a reset packet. Usually, this is a sign of a network problem, timeout, or service overload.

Command line running:

esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable true

I receive the error:

A general system error occurred: Broken pipe: The communication pipe/socket is explicitly closed by the remote service.

VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 10764712

vCenter

And vCenter:

Host connection failure (Event IDs) 6070554 and 608233, 608188, 608150

We see these alerts generating constantly (happens every few mins) , every single night, and nothing in the logs that would indicate what is causing the problem, no backups occurring, log entries are empty and all of the sudden VMs showing as disconnecting, then host not responding, then the disconnect, then sometime later, often times within seconds, but other times up to 40 minutes later, I see "Established a connection".. 

I don't believe the VMs or the host are actually disconnecting from the network, otherwise, we would see other alerts triggered from our monitoring system that has hooks directly into the guest OS and would text our support staff.

We recently upgraded our vCenter installations from 6.0 to  6.7 and still having the issues. Anyone else having this issue with 6.7?

Hi all,

I am currently documenting and planning this upgrade, after deploying the new vSphere Replication Appliance from OVF Template via the 8.1.1 ISO, when the VM is powered on and I select the Upgrade option, VMWare docs states the below:

So does the old host name, IP Address etc get migrated to new the appliance?

And if so, does the old configurations get wiped from the old appliance and leaving it basically blank?

Regards,

Zoen

Hi there,

I want to add a different storage capacity along with the two storage that I created at esxi

But when I create VMS, I encounter the following error message

Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for the object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESX "192.168.0.2" failed

There are currently two storage compartments with the following capacities and no problem

On a Raid controller, a 956-gigabyte storage capacity of 8 hard drive 146 GB

On the Raid controller, a 838GB of storage is made up of 4 hard drive 300 gigabytes.

On the same Raid controller capacity 410 gigabyte  made up of four 146 GB hard drives, but when making VMS, the above error

Guides What can be the cause of this problem? And how can I fix it.

I have ESXI 6.7 on Mac MIni Late 2014

There is a need for me to have Windows VM with around 20 network adapters.

The problem is I can add only 10, but adding more than 10 I get an error:

Failed to reconfigure virtual machine Windows Server 2012 R2. Number of virtual devices exceeds the maximum for a given controller

How to solve it? I did not find an answer when Google it.

Moreover, if I install 2nd virtual machine, I can have common 20 network adapters, but this way is bad as I got 2 virtual machines running with lags.

I'm needing to install ESXi on 64 servers (and then more in the future). I've been doing a lot of research on how to install ESXi over PXE with an answer file to expedite installs. I've been struggling to get it this to function as I assume I've got the PXE settings and TFTP server configured incorrectly. VMwares KB Articles are a bit sparse on this so I was hoping someone had a more detailed guide to setting this up. Unfortunately vCenter\Auto Deploy isn't an option in this scenario.

Any assistance or other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Hey all,

Trying to Enable TLS1.0 Versions on ESXi Host 6.7 which is disable but default now.

Looked at this link Enable or Disable TLS Versions on ESXi Hosts Which looked easy enough but…

ssh on to host ./reconfigureEsx: not found

VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-10302608 HPE image

Any help would be great thanks.

Hey password change questions,

ESXi 6.X new install has the following automatic user accounts:

root

daemon

dcui

nfsnobody

daemon, dcui and nfsnobody, is it technically feasible to change the passwords on them or will this have functional/operational impact?

Thanks,

We have a Vmware 6.0 cluster and using Netapp FAS2240-4 (8.23) for storage.

We've been experiencing disconnects on vm's hard drives.

on the netapp error log I can see this:

ISCSI: New session from initiator iqn.1990-07.com.emulex:dev-svr-03 at IP addr 10.0.0.3

ISCSI: New session from initiator iqn.1990-07.com.emulex:dev-svr-03 at IP addr 10.0.0.19

ISCSI: New session request from initiator iqn.1990-07.com.emulex:dev-svr-03, a session from this initiator already exists.

each esxi host is using hardware iscsi has vmhba1 and vmhba2 configured with an ip address each as above. I'm just wondering why it's trying to connect with both and therefore giving us this error?

We have a Vmware 6.0 cluster and using Netapp FAS2240-4 (8.23) for storage.

Each esxi host is using hardware iscsi has vmhba1 and vmhba2 configured with an ip address each

on an esxi host if I check the MTU for the iscsi adapter I see:

[root@dev-svr-03:~] esxcfg-hwiscsi -l vmhba1

DHCP Configuration Disabled

ARP Redirection Disabled

MTU Size = 8342

This seems to be the maximum the card we are using can support as mentioned here:MTU question

Our switch is set to 9198 and the netapp is set to 9000.

Should they all be set to 8342?

Also how can I test the mtu settings. I've seen you can vmkping but how can I do that from vmhba1 as it's doesn't have a network interface but is assigned an ip address?

Hi,

These are the requirements:

1) I would like to build a server to host VM's.

2) Users must be able to build/stop/run/use vm's through network.

3) There would be something between 1-3 machines running at the same time.

4) The way I would like an user to interact with each vm is simple.He can build a vm if needed. He can start the machine and connect to it to start working inside it. The machines will be mainly used for developing. After the user finishes his work the machine will be switched off.

Is VMWare EXSI the right tool for this scenario? I have been checking some documentation and it seems to be a good solution but not sure.

On the other hand, could you please suggest a valid hardware configuration (Processor, memory, etc.) to support my previous requirements? I have been thingking about:

- 1 ryzen 2700X

- 16 GB ram

- 1 TB

What do you think?

Cheers

Using REST API v 6.5

POST https://{server}/rest/com/vmware/vcenter/ovf/library-item/id:{ovf_library_item_id}?~action=deploy

vSphere Automation API - VMware API Explorer - VMware {code}

{

    "client_token": null,

    "deployment_spec": {

        "accept_all_EULA": true,

        "annotation": null,

        "default_datastore_id": "datastore-29",

        "flags": null,

        "locale": null,

        "name": "VM-7099",

        "network_mappings": null,

        "storage_mappings": null,

        "storage_profile_id": null,

        "storage_provisioning": null,

        "additional_parameters": [

        {

            "@class": "com.vmware.vcenter.ovf.property_params",

            "type": "PropertyParams",

            "properties": [

                {

                    "instance_id": "",

                    "class_id": "",

                    "description": "The gateway IP for this virtual appliance.",

                    "id": "gateway",

                    "label": "Default Gateway Address",

                    "category": "LAN",

                    "type": "ip",

                    "value": "192.168.0.1",

                    "ui_optional": true

                }

            ]

        },

        {

            "@class": "com.vmware.vcenter.ovf.ip_allocation_params",

            "type": "IpAllocationParams",

            "ip_allocation_policy": "STATIC_MANUAL",

            "ip_protocol": "IPV4",

            "supported_allocation_scheme": [

                "OVF_ENVIRONMENT"

            ],

            "supported_ip_allocation_policy": [

                "STATIC_MANUAL"

            ],

            "supported_ip_protocol": [

                "IPV4"

            ]

        }

    ]

    },

    "target": {

        "folder_id": "group-v22",

        "host_id": "host-28",

        "resource_pool_id": "resgroup-27"

    }

}

What I do wrong?

Hi, I wanna build veracrypt to directly encrypt disk from ESXi. I have downloaded "VMware-TOOLCHAIN-ODP" and "VMware-ESXI-650-ODP" iso. Follow instruction in them, with some errors fixed myself, I had built successfully Toolchain lin32, lin64, noarch, win64 on "tc-rhel-7.3-x32", and ESXi on CentOS 5.

My problem that I dont see any documents that tell me what should I need to do. How do I use that Toolchain to build wxwaget and veracrypt? Thank you and sorry because my bad English

P/S: because some of missing, some of errors on toolchain disk, I write up this git, GitHub - jstonion/ESXi.ToolChain_Download_Java_Quickly, it help to fix and auto almost build steps.

I know there are many, many previous discussions on this topic and have not yet found out the issue.

I have two hosts in a cluster, which both were running ESXi, 6.5.0, 7388607. These hosts are HP BL460c Gen9 in an HP c7000 enclosure with flex fabric virtual connects. I wanted to upgrade these hosts but b/c these hosts were using the old net-bnx2x driver and not the qfle3 driver the normal VUM upgrade would fail when the host would come back up to a black screen. So instead of doing alot of manual driver updates, etc. my team opted to do a "fresh" install of 6.5.0, 11925212 (latest) since we've had multiple versions upgraded over the years. This fresh install would reuse the same management IP and vMotion IP's configured. I did a fresh install on the first host to 6.5.0, 11925212. Everything went great as any previous host reinstall that I've done. When I was ready to start on the second host, when the VM's vMotioned to the first host (now upgraded to latest), half of the VM's lost network connection when they landed on this host. Some VM's in the same VLAN were not affected after vMotion. A quick vmotion back didn't seem to fix the issue (my recollection on this part is fuzzy, I was just trying to do everything I could to get VM's back on network). I had another cluster of hosts using 6.5.0, 11925212 that see's the same storage for these VM's and when I vmotioned the VM's to that cluster the VM's randomly still would not have a network connection (but some would automatically ping). Once the VM Windows Guest was restarted or powered off and on, the network connection would come back. Since then I have upgraded the second host in the previous two host cluster to 6.5.0, 11925212, so now the hosts match versions. I have a few VM's left in this cluster still that if I vmotion to the other host (either host back and forth) that it randomly loses network connection. Sometimes it doesnt. For ex - Scenario 1 - VM1 on Host1 is pinging. I migrate VM1 to Host2, it will stop pinging. Migrate VM1 back to Host1, still not pinging. Power off VM or restart and it will resume pinging. Scenario 2 - VM1 on Host1 is pinging. I migrate VM1 to Host2, it will still ping.

Before 6.5.0, 11925212 we did not have this issue on these hosts with the same set of VM's in this cluster. Only after upgrading to 6.5.0, 11925212. For additional troubleshooting, I can edit the VM settings and sometimes choose a different port on the network adapter that is open and the VM resumes its network connection. Sometimes not. I am at a loss as to what the issue is here, but it seems related to 6.5.0, 11925212??? The same vDS is used across ALL clusters in the environment so its not that. I'm less inclined to think its out upstream physical switch b/c we did not have these issues before 6.5.0, 11925212. For now I turned off DRS so VM's do not move around. It does seem like both hosts have this issue. I do have a VMware SR open and am waiting to hear back, but I am very curious what the communities thoughts are.

Other observations in VM1's current network state:

--------------------------------

From my workstation:

-Cannot ping VM1

From Host2 VM1 is on:

-Cannot ping VM1 from its host (host mgmt is in different vlan)

From VM1 with connectivity issues:

-Cannot ping its host

-CAN ping another VM on the same vlan and same host (interesting)

-Cannot ping its gateway

-Cannot ping another VM on the same vlan on a different host in the cluster

From another (lets say VM2) without network connectivity issues on the same host:

-CAN ping the problematic VM successfully

-----------------------------------

An ESXTOP -n on the host indicates VM1 (problematic) and VM2 (no problems) are both using vmnic4

vmnic4 shows 100 under %DRPTX which from the surface seems alarming

vmnic5 shows 0.00 under %DRPTX

All,

Last night I attempted to move my VM (with a single snapshot) from one datastore to another. In doing so, one of the files must not have copied because when  I tried to power on the machine it complained about a file being missing (I don't remember what). One of the threads I read said to remove and readd the virtual drive. When I did this, the machine now boots up but it's missing the data from the single snapshot file. The problem is that the base OS (without the snapshot) is over a month old now.

How do I go about "fixing" this so that the VM boots up with the snapshot attached? I have both the original vmdk and a second file with the server name and then "-000001-delta.vmdk".

What files can I provide to help with this issue?

THANK YOU!

I Googled this, and found a few weird sites that talk about hacking up ESXi to work with some specific application.  I'd like to try to avoid downloading things from untrusted sites.  Is there a recommended way to add rsync to ESXi?  I'd really, really, really prefer to do that than to have to scp everything.

I have a PC running ESXi 6.7, managed by vcenter running on a different server. This PC has 1 SSD for local vfms 6 datastore, and 9 HDD's mapped thru RDM and used in two VMs. This setup has being working for several years since ESXi 5.5, 6.0, and last year upgraded to 6.7.

But today, when I was doing some VM management, when I shutdown, removed the RDM HDD, and later tried to added it back, it failed with error "Incompatible device backing specified for device 0". I just cannot add the RDM disk back to the VM. At this time, the other VM with the 8 RDM HDD's is still running fine. Then I stopped that VM, and check the settings, again, the RDM disks for that VM is showing in red error as well. Now none of the RDM HDD's is working for me.

I originally used the vmkfstools -z command to create the RDM vmdk in a common @RDM subfolder in the local SSD vmfs datastore. Now I cannot rm these vmdk files. When I tried to create these RDM vmdk files in a different @RDM2 subfolder, I get the following error:

[root@... ... .../@RDM2] vmkfstools -z t10.ATA_____ST32000542AS_____________________

___________________5XW0XR9N  ST32000542AS_5XW0XR9N.vmdk

Raw device, '/vmfs/volumes/5c5c96da-3ffa9809-d5cd-bc5ff4d4f02c/@RDM2/t10.ATA_____ST32000542AS________________________________________5XW0XR9N' doesn't exist, or isn't a disk.

Now I even reinstalled the ESXi to the latest 6.7 20190104001, but the problem is same.

I searched on the web and cannot find any answers. Anyone can help me with this? Thanks.

Hi

I have some problems with the Backup of Windows Server VM's since i upgraded my Hardware. Before the Upgrade i used the VMware ESXi Version 5.5 U2 without any problem. Everything works fine, but after changing my Hardware to HP Microserver Gen8 with HP VMware Version 5.5 U3 installed i get some errors every 3-4 days.

I get some different errors, but the most errors are VSS errors. The first VM is a Domain Controller and the second VM is a SQL Server. The following errors comes after 3-4 days and persists until i reboot the server.

Domain Controller Error:
--------------------
Fehlercode: 253
Module: 83
Zeileninfo: c7610e0a857bedf4
Felder:
Nachricht: VMware-Fehler: 'Remote-Methodenaufruf ist fehlgeschlagen.'.

--------------------

Fehlercode: 32
Module: 0
Zeileninfo: c7610e0a857bedf4
Felder:
Nachricht: Erwarteter Task 'CreateSnapshot' fehlgeschlagen. Ursache: An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine..
--------------------

and later this one:
--------------------

Fehlercode: 3003
Module: 538
Zeileninfo: 38b2393b56c5aa77
Felder:  StringAlertId : ntds vss writer disabled
Nachricht: Alarm 'Konvertierter Agent'

SQL Server Error:

--------------------
Fehlercode: 253
Module: 83
Zeileninfo: c7610e0a857bedf4
Felder:
Nachricht: VMware-Fehler: 'Remote-Methodenaufruf ist fehlgeschlagen.'.

--------------------

Fehlercode: 32
Module: 0
Zeileninfo: c7610e0a857bedf4
Felder:
Nachricht: Erwarteter Task 'CreateSnapshot' fehlgeschlagen. Ursache: An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine..

--------------------
Fehlercode: 3003
Module: 538
Zeileninfo: 38b2393b56c5aa77
Felder:  StringAlertId : sql vss writer disabled
Nachricht: Alarm 'Konvertierter Agent'

I tried the following things:

1. VMware Tools reinstall (many times)
2. VMware ESXi Update to Version 5.5 U3a (HP Version)
3. Create Snapshot via vCenter without any problem.

I have check the status of the vss writers and noticed that some writers hat the state "Timeout".

Can you help me to solve this problem?

kind regards

Rico

Hello Expert

We have  vm windows 2012 running on 6.5 we saw RAM utilization high and users are complaining slowness.

When this vm was on 6.0 RAM utilization was 68% inside OS , 64 GB ram assigned.

After migrate it on 6.5 RAM utilization +80% inside guest OS

vmware tool etc upgraded.

Any suggestion appreciated

Hi *,

i can access the ESXi console with my root & pw, but not the WebAccess with "root" & pw. The pw is the same, there are no spell / keyboard language issues.

We have a single ESXi 6.5 (4887370), no vCenter. No Domain Account, just local.

Best regards

Max