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ESXi 6.5 - how to access data from old installation datastore

May 25, 2019, 1:15 am
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I had to reinstall my ESXi6.5 host. To my surprise by default it sees only the datastore linked to the system disk.

I have an additional SATA disk in the system which was unaffected by this reinstallation. It is seen as a device in the new ESXi but it's not automatically mounted as a usable Datastore as far as I can tell. It seems like the GUI allows me to create a Datastore on this disk, but I don't want that, I just want to access the old data.

How do I do that considering this is a standalone host (no vSphere)?

 

Thanks!!

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Consolidate datastore failed end up eating space

May 25, 2019, 9:58 am
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Hi Guys,

 

Here's the thing, after migrate my vm to another host, my vendor advise to consolidate disk and delete all snapshot, end up the consolidate progress failed and consume all of my datastore space, attach with before and after the consolidation. The error code i found from log is ConsolidateEnd: Snapshot consolidate complete: The operation failed (36). Im newb please guide me

 

https://ibb.co/Wcvr9JV  - before

https://ibb.co/DVgxZvh  - after

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ESXi PSOD #PF Exception 14 in world vmm2, CpuSched

May 25, 2019, 1:44 am
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VMware ESXi 6.5 EP 09    ESXi650-201810001    10/02/2018    10175896

IBM System x3550 M4

Error: #PF Exception 14 in world 69288:vmm2:KG-VMac IP 0x418028ace13b addr 0x1000e528020

 

Hello!

I don't know when it started. Every week i get a purple screen of death and the system needs to be rebooted. It takes down the host as well as all of the vm's. I extracted a core dump file and was hoping someone could make some sense of it.

Googling around there doesn't seem to be anyone else reporting that same error:

#PF Exception 14 in world 69288:vmm2:VMName

 

Does anyone know what it might be?

 

 

Full Dump:

 

2019-05-25T06:54:17.412Z cpu7:69288)VMware ESXi 6.5.0 [Releasebuild-10175896 x86_64]

#PF Exception 14 in world 69288:vmm2:KG-VMac IP 0x418028ace13b addr 0x1000e528020

PTEs:0x0;

 

2019-05-25T06:54:17.414Z cpu7:69288)@BlueScreen: #PF Exception 14 in world 69288:vmm2:KG-VMach IP 0x418028ace13b addr 0x1000e528020

PTEs:0x0;

2019-05-25T06:54:17.414Z cpu7:69288)Code start: 0x418028800000 VMK uptime: 7:01:13:13.995

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fatal error 33 error loading /b.b00

May 2, 2019, 2:46 am
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Hello, I had to restart my esxhost today and it's not starting anymore.

 

I got a fata error 33 error loadin /b.b00

 

I would like to copy the corrupted file from an other esx host running fine.

 

Could you help as I don't know to boot from live cd (which one) and mount the root as read write access to copy the file from usb ?

 

any chance with fsck ?

I'm running esx  6.0.0

 

 

thank you for your help

 

 

regards.

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Again USB passthrough issues

May 27, 2019, 1:14 am
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Hi all,

 

I'm running ESXi 6.7u2 on a Supermicro mini server.

I had no issue with older ESXi releases but with this one here I can't manage to see USB devices available for passthrough in the UI.

I've followed another discussion where a bug was fixed with 6.7u1 but still I can't manage to make USB devices seen by the VM.

 

I've tried adding a USB controller, 2.0 and/or 3.0 but still nothing.

through the CLI the device is seen (see below) but it doesn't appear available in the UI (it's all greyed out)

Any clue??

thanks!

 

 

 

 

[root@localhost:~] lsusb

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP2102/CP2109 UART Bridge Controller [CP210x family]

 

[root@localhost:~] esxcli hardware usb passthrough device list

Bus  Dev  VendorId  ProductId  Enabled  Can Connect to VM  Name

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

1    2    10c4      ea60          true  yes                Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP2102/CP2109 UART Bridge Contr

 

[root@localhost:~] /etc/init.d/usbarbitrator status

usbarbitrator is running

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esxcli --proxy not working in 6.5.0

June 7, 2018, 7:25 am
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I manage ESXi 6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 7967591) under free license.

I would like to upgrade it to 6.7 (because better macOS client support). There is no .zip file patch yet.

Hypervisor is in restricted network where all HTTP comunication must go through proxy 10.1.2.3:3128.

 

First I disable firewall to be able to connect to port 3128. I verify this by running nc -vz 10.1.2.3 3128.

 

When I run either of these commands:

esxcli software sources profile list --depot https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-d
epot-index.xml --proxy=http://10.1.2.3:3128
esxcli software sources profile list --depot https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-d
epot-index.xml --proxy=https://10.1.2.3:3128
esxcli software sources profile list --depot https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-d
epot-index.xml --proxy=10.1.2.3:3128

I get:

 [MetadataDownloadError]
 Could not download from depot at https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml, skipping (('https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml', '', 'file not found'))        url = https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml
 Please refer to the log file for more details.

I am able to use http_proxy enviroment varible to use `wget` to download files from the internet.

Is there something wrong with my command or is --proxy switch broken in 6.5.0?

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Switches for ESXi iSCSI not on the LAN - is this a normal configuration?

May 27, 2019, 2:40 am
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Hello,

 

I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 connected to a Dell PowerVault MD3200i with two Dell PowerConnect 5524 switches in between them. The R610 and MD3200i are connected with iSCSI.

 

The Dell switches are not accessible from the rest of the LAN even though their IP addresses are in the same range as the rest of the LAN - so I can only log into the switches by bringing a PC into the server room and setting it up next to the switches. I'm guessing that some sort of block was implemented when the switches were installed (no one knows if that's the case or even who setup the switches in the first place).

 

My question is, is this the normal procedure for a setup like this? Is there a good reason not to have these switches accessible on the LAN?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

David

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[ERRNO 28] No space left on device. Problem with update from ESXi 6.7.0u1 to ESXi 6.7.0u2

May 27, 2019, 6:16 am
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convert vmware vm to qemu vm

May 28, 2019, 1:08 am
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    Hello VMware community. I have come to a problem  and ned your help.

  I want to migrate a vm from vmware to kvm center. at the same time,  keep the vm business is still online , or the bussines can be down for  less than 3minuyes.

  First of all, i should obtain a  vmdk file which contains  the full vm data,then convert it to  qcow2 file.

There are  the following steps:

    1. enable cbt,take a snapshot,

    2. call Vsphere web api   QueryChangedDiskAreasans , get (offset ,length) list result;

    3. with result from step 2 , get effective blocks from all allocated blocks from snap file, write these effective blocks to target  vmdk file ;

    4. take another snapshot, call QueryChangedDiskAreasans , and get (offset ,length) list result ,just get  effective blocks from xxxx-delta.vmdk,then write these effective  blocks to target file

    repeat step 4  several times ,  when vm business is free then  convert target file to  qcow2 file.

   my question is how to access  xxxx-delta.vmdk between two snapshots and  read effective blocks ?

   what i want to do is get base data from step 2 and 3,  combine inc content from serveral steps just like step 4, then i can get all i need,so as not to miss anything

   Please help me ,thank you all.

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ESXI and portfoward ?

May 28, 2019, 9:54 am
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Hi,

sorry for my bad english, i'm not an english native speaker.

 

I try to connect to my esxi from outside.

 

I know how to port foward a VM, but i don't know how to do this with ESXI web interface.

 

I have ESXi-6.7.0-8169922.

I already try to active some ports like the 443 but it doesn't work.

 

I someone can help me, thanks a lot

-Ben

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Cannot reach ESXi through LAN, but it's up and running just fine

May 28, 2019, 7:06 am
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No idea what happened, if I've done something or it just melted or what not.

I have this ESXi instance v 6.0.0 which I've set up years ago and is running fine (I've done a few updates from the web client but the last one was quite some time ago). I remember some weeks ago I tried running the update from UI but I can't remember why it was failing (the download I think; it was in the early stages as I would start it then operate on some VMs, so most likely the download).

All VMs power up when started as expected, they operate fine, they are accessible all is good.

I wanted to change something on a VM the other day and vsphere client failed to connect. Tried ssh, same. Http client, same. They all used to work. Again, LAN is operating fine. Ping replies.

nmap however shows no open ports.

I know for sure I didn't fiddle with the firewall on it.

 

esxcli network firewall ruleset allowedip list

 

shows ALL for every rule.

 

Obviously tried to reboot solution, no game.

 

Any ideas, clues what to check, what to try? Getting tired of managing the VMs from command line.

 

This is a single/standalone esxi 6.0 free install with a bunch of VMs, no fancy stuff. Well, there is vmdirectpath passthrough if it makes a difference.

 

Thanks

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Esxi 6 startup with host - disabled

May 28, 2019, 7:35 am
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I've configured the startup/shutdown with the host for each VM. While I can configure settings for shutdown and order - for each machine - the startup is "disabled".

When I simulate a power-out (i.e, UPS reaches low battery) the host shutdown but the machines (VMs) are not being gracefully shutdown. It is just the host being shutdown.

 

My impression is that the "startup/shutdown with host" is somehow disabled?

 

The vmware tools are installed on each machine.

 

This is a small implementation and so not part of a cluster.

 

Any help on how to enable the shutdown with host would be appreciated.

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PCPU : no heartbeat

February 22, 2014, 6:03 am
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Hello, friends!

I need help.

Hardware:

Platform Supermicro SYS-6027R-WRF

CPU Xeon E5-2620 2.00GHz - 2 pcs

LSI Logic SAS/SATA RAID 9271-8i SGL 8 Int.

Memory DDR3-1333MHz 8Gb Kingston KVR1333D3D4R9S/8G ECC Reg CL9 (Dual Rank)

Network adapter Intel 1Gb Dual Port I350T2BLK, PCI-E x4, 2*RJ45

SAS 3,5" Seagate 300Gb ST3300657SS Cheetah 15K.7, SAS-2, 6 Gbit/s, 16Mb, 15000rpm - 4 pcs

HDD's are in Raid 10.

Software:

VMware ESXi 5.5.0 release build - 1331820 x86_64

There is only one virtual machine, type 7, with OS Windows Server 2008R2x64 standard on it.

For about 4 month everything was fine. But today I've got purple screen (see attached file).

IMG_20140222_145215.jpg

I have been googled for a while and found this article. I'm not sure it is suitable for my case because it is about ESXI 4.0

If somebody have some experiense help me please.

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ESXi 6.5 U1 on HP Proliant ML110 Gen10

April 11, 2018, 10:40 am
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I have a problem with installation of ESXi 6.5 HPE Custom (VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update1-7388607-HPE-650.U1.10.2.0.23-Feb2018.iso) on HP Proliant ML110 Gen10 and SmartArray active.

ESXi not fount any Disk!!!!!

If i try with SATA mode (not ARRAY) ESX work and found three disk.... not in RAID

Wy?

Tnx and sorry for my english.

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Esxi loading stops on "vFlash loading"

May 29, 2019, 6:11 am
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hi community,

 

something strange happens when i boot and start a esxi host its a HPE BL460c Gen8 its booted fine loads of times but then ive tried to add it to vSAN and had an issue where the HA AGENT wouldnt initalize then the drives were showing up not healthy which was strange as well because before i added it they showed as healthy but then when i restarted the host it just stops on "vflash loading" and doesnt do anything then the second time it showed an error of cpu0 something and then this time it shows  loading module osfs and doesnt do anything? im confused as to why its doing this after adding it to vsan. ?

 

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DL380 G7 stuck loading at vmkibft loaded

July 19, 2017, 3:00 pm
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Hi,

 

I have an old DL380 G7 on which I have run an SPP update from April this year, and runs Bios P67.

This model is listed on the HCL for old version like 5.0 and 5.5, including 6.0 plus updates.

 

I have installed on a USB key and am trying to boot (same happens for the installer), but the boot just gets stuck on "vmkibft loaded successfully"

 

Am at a loss on why this is getting stuck here, and looking for some guidance.

Have also tried ensuring the inbuilt raid controller has no default volumes set for boot.

 

Cheers

James

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Multiple VLANs in virtual ESXi (VM)

May 29, 2019, 7:44 am
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Hello

 

I created lab with virtual ESXi installed on VM.

Now i want add second vmk adapter with another network.

What i need to do with VM or physical host for that?

 

Physical ESXi have multiple portgroups with vlan 1,2,3 with different networks and gateways.

I created new portgroup with VLAN 4095 and assign it to VM with ESX.

 

Settings vESX, vmk0:

vswitch0

vlan 1

mgmt ip 10.10.1.1

gw 10.10.1.254

 

Add new vmk1:

vswitch0

vlan 2

ip 10.10.2.1

gw 10.10.2.254

 

But i cant ping vmk1 from outside.

 

If i add vmk1 on physical ESXi host - everything works fine. Problem when submitting VLANs to a virtual machine.

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10GB Network Cards not recognized by ESXi 6.0 host

November 16, 2018, 10:43 am
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I am installing ESXi 6.0 on 6 Dell PowerEdge R440's  They all have 2 default onboard 1GB nics installed as well as Broadcom 57412 Dual Port 10GB SFP+ PCIe Adapter and Broadcom 57416 Dual Port 10 GB E BaseT Network LOM Mezz Card.  Both are on the HCL for this version of ESXi.

 

After installing 6.0 on the hardware, I went in to configure the network and the only NICs I see are the onboard 1GB nics.  From vCenter all I can see are the 2 onboard nics.  I thought maybe it was a Driver issue  so I researched and found the vib file from VM to install the driver on my host.  When I run the esxcli software vib command, it returned that it skipped the vib for the driver.

 

I run lspci and I find all 6 nic's in the list.  I run esxcli network nic list, but only see the 2 onboard nics.  If I go into my vCenter, I can find the additional 4 cards when I go to the host\Manage\ Hardware\PCI Devices and Edit PCI Device Availability, but that enables passthrough so that the VM's can directly access the ports, but that is not what I want.  I want them in the vSwitch so all VM's use those ports instead of the 1GB ports.

 

Any suggestions\help would be greatly appreciated.

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VMFS Datastore won't mount

May 29, 2019, 11:22 pm
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Hi,

 

for some reasons, ESXi servers lost connection to datastore.

Datastore located on MD3200 connected via SAS adapters.

 

Some logs info:

 

/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6f01faf000e927eb0000064654643e88

gpt

801855 255 63 12881814528

1 2048 12881813503 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0

Checking offset found at 2048:

0200000 d00d c001

0200004

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1400000

0140001d  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|

*

 

~ # voma -m vmfs -f check -d /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6f01faf000e927eb0000064654643e88:1

Checking if device is actively used by other hosts

Running VMFS Checker version 1.0 in check mode

Initializing LVM metadata, Basic Checks will be done

Phase 1: Checking VMFS header and resource files

         ERROR: Missing VMFS magic. Not a VMFS volume

   VOMA failed to check device : Not a VMFS volume

 

 

Total Errors Found:           0

 

VMFS Header dump first 1536 MB:

VMFS-Header-dump.7z - Google Drive

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ESXi 6.7: can't login to WebUI

May 29, 2019, 5:34 am
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Brand new ESXi 6.7.0.update02-13006603 installation, no issues at installation time. Set password, configure management network (i use private address for ESXi host by security reason), test management network is Ok, all looks fine. Use IP address for access to WebUI https://ip.add.re.ss/ui/, get logo and User name/Password fields, use root as username and appropriate password (have no other users) and get error "Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password." I can login to DCUI, and "Confiure Lockdown Mode" is grayed (see attach). If enable ESXi shell, i can login as root, but i can't login by ssh.
How to get access to WebUI?

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