I've been having a dog of a time trying to add a dual 10GBe nic to ESXi.  I've tried installing the drivers and everything appears that it is installing but ESXi doesn't seem to be loading the drivers for some reason.  This is an Intel NUC NUC7i5BNK host with a OWC Mercury Helios 3  Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Expansion Chassis housing the NIC.  The NIC and the expansion chassis is known good on other OS's so everything points to a configuration issue on ESXi or in the bios of the NUC.  I've enabled thunderbolt at boot so I think that rules out the BIOS.

[root@esxi1:~] lspci -v | grep -A1 -i ethernet

0000:00:1f.6 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (4) I219-V [vmnic0]

         Class 0200: 8086:15d8

--

0000:06:00.0 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel(R) 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Network Connection

         Class 0200: 8086:10fb

--

0000:06:00.1 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel(R) 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Network Connection

         Class 0200: 8086:10fb

[root@esxi1:~] vmkload_mod -l |grep drivername

[root@esxi1:~] vmkload_mod -l |grep ixgben

[root@esxi1:~] esxcfg-nics -l

Name    PCI          Driver      Link Speed      Duplex MAC Address       MTU    Description

vmnic0  0000:00:1f.6 ne1000      Up   1000Mbps   Full   94:c6:91:15:0b:e4 9000   Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (4) I219-V

[root@esxi1:~] esxcli software vib install -d "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/VMW-ESX-

6.7.0-ixgben-1.7.10-offline_bundle-10105563.zip"

Installation Result

   Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.

   Reboot Required: true

   VIBs Installed: INT_bootbank_ixgben_1.7.10-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922

   VIBs Removed: INT_bootbank_ixgben_1.7.1-1OEM.670.0.0.7535516

   VIBs Skipped:

Still no joy after reboot

[root@esxi1:~] esxcli hardware pci list

0000:06:00.0

   Address: 0000:06:00.0

   Segment: 0x0000

   Bus: 0x06

   Slot: 0x00

   Function: 0x0

   VMkernel Name:

   Vendor Name: Intel Corporation

   Device Name: 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection

   Configured Owner: VMkernel

   Current Owner: VMkernel

   Vendor ID: 0x8086

   Device ID: 0x10fb

   SubVendor ID: 0x8086

   SubDevice ID: 0x7a11

   Device Class: 0x0200

   Device Class Name: Ethernet controller

   Programming Interface: 0x00

   Revision ID: 0x01

   Interrupt Line: 0xff

   IRQ: 255

   Interrupt Vector: 0x00

   PCI Pin: 0x00

   Spawned Bus: 0x00

   Flags: 0x3219

   Module ID: -1

   Module Name: None

   Chassis: 0

   Physical Slot: 4294967295

   Slot Description:

   Passthru Capable: true

   Parent Device: PCI 0:5:1:0

   Dependent Device: PCI 0:6:0:0

   Reset Method: Function reset

   FPT Sharable: true

0000:06:00.1

   Address: 0000:06:00.1

   Segment: 0x0000

   Bus: 0x06

   Slot: 0x00

   Function: 0x1

   VMkernel Name:

   Vendor Name: Intel Corporation

   Device Name: 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection

   Configured Owner: VMkernel

   Current Owner: VMkernel

   Vendor ID: 0x8086

   Device ID: 0x10fb

   SubVendor ID: 0x8086

   SubDevice ID: 0x7a11

   Device Class: 0x0200

   Device Class Name: Ethernet controller

   Programming Interface: 0x00

   Revision ID: 0x01

   Interrupt Line: 0xff

   IRQ: 255

   Interrupt Vector: 0x00

   PCI Pin: 0x01

   Spawned Bus: 0x00

   Flags: 0x3219

   Module ID: -1

   Module Name: None

   Chassis: 0

   Physical Slot: 4294967295

   Slot Description:

   Passthru Capable: true

   Parent Device: PCI 0:5:1:0

   Dependent Device: PCI 0:6:0:1

   Reset Method: Function reset

   FPT Sharable: true

[root@esxi1:~] esxcfg-nics -l

Name    PCI          Driver      Link Speed      Duplex MAC Address       MTU    Description

vmnic0  0000:00:1f.6 ne1000      Up   1000Mbps   Full   94:c6:91:15:0b:e4 9000   Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (4) I219-V

I will make two VMs at HP server DL380 Gen 10.

One is for the Domain Server, The other is for the Application, whose operating system might be Windows7 ult or Windows server 2008.

I need your experience.

Thanks a lot in advance.

I am trying to re-add a disconnected cluster. There was an issue with the license, which has been recently resolved and the new license has been applied.

I have had a quick look through the existing threads and cannot find a comparable issue.

Things of note:

Specifically the vDRS has been turned off on the cluster, and at the moment it is not required (single host).

The IP address of the vcenter has also changed, it is very likely either of the license change or the recent IP address change have caused the issue (it needed to be moved to another network).

I have updated the vpxa.conf with the new IP address, and have set the port to no avail.

vCenter host has also been rebooted.

vpxa.log does not seem to be updating.

vCenter Version: 6.50.20000 Build 9451637

ESXi version:

6.5.0 Build Number 8294253

There is a firewall between the 2 however the firewall is definitely not blocking traffic between the two IP addresses.

Here is the output of the syslog:

2018-12-11T15:57:40Z watchdog-vpxa: [8456549] Begin '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa', min-uptime = 60, max-quick-failures = 5, max-total-failures = 1000000, bg_pid_file = '', reboot-flag = '0'

2018-12-11T15:57:40Z watchdog-vpxa: Executing '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa'

2018-12-11T15:57:45Z backup.sh.8456580: Locking esx.conf

2018-12-11T15:57:45Z backup.sh.8456580: Creating archive

2018-12-11T15:57:45Z backup.sh.8456580: Unlocking esx.conf

2018-12-11T15:57:50Z watchdog-vpxa: '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa' exited after 10 seconds (quick failure 1) 134

2018-12-11T15:57:50Z watchdog-vpxa: Executing '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa'

2018-12-11T15:57:54Z smad[8063535]: Failed: no available HP iLO channels

2018-12-11T15:57:54Z smad[8063535]: Failed bmc_init(). Exit smad.

2018-12-11T15:58:01Z watchdog-vpxa: '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa' exited after 11 seconds (quick failure 2) 134

2018-12-11T15:58:01Z watchdog-vpxa: Executing '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa'

2018-12-11T15:58:09Z smad[100962]: Failed: no available HP iLO channels

2018-12-11T15:58:09Z smad[100962]: Failed bmc_init(). Exit smad.

2018-12-11T15:58:12Z watchdog-vpxa: '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa' exited after 11 seconds (quick failure 3) 134

2018-12-11T15:58:12Z watchdog-vpxa: Executing '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa'

2018-12-11T15:58:23Z watchdog-vpxa: '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa' exited after 11 seconds (quick failure 4) 134

2018-12-11T15:58:23Z watchdog-vpxa: Executing '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa'

2018-12-11T15:58:24Z smad[8456832]: Failed: no available HP iLO channels

2018-12-11T15:58:24Z smad[8456832]: Failed bmc_init(). Exit smad.

2018-12-11T15:58:34Z watchdog-vpxa: '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa' exited after 11 seconds (quick failure 5) 134

2018-12-11T15:58:34Z watchdog-vpxa: Executing '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa'

2018-12-11T15:58:39Z smad[8456846]: Failed: no available HP iLO channels

2018-12-11T15:58:39Z smad[8456846]: Failed bmc_init(). Exit smad.

2018-12-11T15:58:44Z watchdog-vpxa: '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa' exited after 10 seconds (quick failure 6) 134

2018-12-11T15:58:44Z watchdog-vpxa: End '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swapscope=system -D /etc/vmware/vpxa', failure limit reached

vpxa.conf (IP addresses obfuscated)

<config>

  <dvs>

    <portSyncBatchLimit>100</portSyncBatchLimit>

  </dvs>

  <httpNfc>

    <accessMode>proxyAuto</accessMode>

    <enabled>true</enabled>

  </httpNfc>

  <level id="SoapAdapter.HTTPService">

    <logLevel>info</logLevel>

    <logName>SoapAdapter.HTTPService</logName>

  </level>

  <level id="SoapAdapter.HTTPService.HttpConnection">

    <logLevel>info</logLevel>

    <logName>SoapAdapter.HTTPService.HttpConnection</logName>

  </level>

  <log>

    <level>verbose</level>

    <maxFileNum>10</maxFileNum>

    <maxFileSize>1048576</maxFileSize>

    <memoryLevel>verbose</memoryLevel>

    <outputToConsole>false</outputToConsole>

    <outputToFiles>false</outputToFiles>

    <outputToSyslog>true</outputToSyslog>

    <syslog>

      <facility>local4</facility>

      <ident>Vpxa</ident>

      <logHeaderFile>/var/run/vmware/vpxaLogHeader.txt</logHeaderFile>

    </syslog>

  </log>

  <nfc>

    <loglevel>error</loglevel>

  </nfc>

  <task>

    <completedMaxEntries>1000</completedMaxEntries>

    <maxThreads>98</maxThreads>

    <minCompletedLifetime>120</minCompletedLifetime>

  </task>

  <trace>

    <mutex>

      <profiledMutexes>InvtLock</profiledMutexes>

    </mutex>

    <vmomi>

      <calls>false</calls>

    </vmomi>

  </trace>

  <vmacore>

    <http>

      <defaultClientPoolConnectionsPerServer>300</defaultClientPoolConnectionsPerServer>

    </http>

    <soap>

      <sessionTimeout>1440</sessionTimeout>

    </soap>

    <ssl>

      <doVersionCheck>false</doVersionCheck>

    </ssl>

    <threadPool>

      <IoMax>9</IoMax>

      <TaskMax>4</TaskMax>

      <ThreadStackSizeKb>128</ThreadStackSizeKb>

      <threadNamePrefix>vpxa</threadNamePrefix>

    </threadPool>

  </vmacore>

  <vpxa>

    <bundleVersion>1000000</bundleVersion>

    <datastorePrincipal>root</datastorePrincipal>

    <hostIp>X.X.X.X</hostIp>

    <hostKey/>

    <hostPort>443</hostPort>

    <licenseExpiryNotificationThreshold>15</licenseExpiryNotificationThreshold>

    <memoryCheckerTimeInSecs>30</memoryCheckerTimeInSecs>

    <serverIp>Y.Y.Y.Y</serverIP>

    <serverPort>902</serverPort>

  </vpxa>

  <workingDir>/var/log/vmware/vpx</workingDir>

Update:

vmkernel.log:

2018-12-11T20:58:11.027Z cpu13:8510156)User: 3089: vpxa: wantCoreDump:vpxa signal:6 exitCode:0 coredump:enabled

2018-12-11T20:58:11.203Z cpu4:8510156)UserDump: 3024: vpxa: Dumping cartel 8510156 (from world 8510156) to file /var/core/vpxa-zdump.003 ...

2018-12-11T20:58:21.532Z cpu16:8510156)UserDump: 3172: vpxa: Userworld(vpxa) coredump complete.

When Editing a particular VM on ESXi 6.5 standalone it gets  stuck on "loading".

See image in attachment.

Not sure even  what I can try from here...

P.S. I have unregistered/registered again no luck

Hello,

I've changed esxi server (phisical) and whant to add this server to vCenter. I would like to use same name? but i cannot do this. when i'm trying to add new server i cannot do this.

error message is: The host XXX is already connected to YYY vCenter Server.

In vCenter Server Database in ENTITY table i don't see this hostname... (i thought may be old server was not removed correctly and some thing should be in DB). But any way i think thomthing left in DB and i don't know how to clean DB...

May be somebode had this problem...

Thanks in advance

Hello Community,

I'm wondering what exactly means that limitation of 11000 connections in ESXi default TCP/IP Stack.

Is that a limitation of all connections for the entire Host?

Due to the fact that VMs don't use kernel Ports, is there another limitation for VMs max number of connections, just like a limits.conf file or something like that?

thanks for any help to clarify that.

Hi all!

I just upgraded my (free) ESXi 6.5.0a to 6.5.0u2 on my test server, and it looks as if this version is no longer able to create thick-provisioned hard disks through the web gui.

Can somebody please confirm or deny it?

Thank you

Error message when I try to start an old guest machine on ESXI 5.1 host

[msg.hbacommon.corruptredo] The redo log of xxx-000001.vmdk is corrupted. If the problem persists, discard the redo log

Below is the file list, I tired to consolidate and remove all snapshots but it failed and the snapshots disappeared/dimmed from the vShpere client so I restored it to its previous status before my consolidation attempt.

What to do now, knowing that removing snapshots/delete all and consolidation did not solve the problem before.

hello, I have been trying to patch my ESXi 5.1 server using Cli I keep getting errors.

here is my command..

c:\program files (x86)\VMWAre\VMWare vSphere CLI>esxcli --server=xxx.xxx.xxx --username=root software vib sources list--depot=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/

I receive the following output.

<

[MetadataDownloadError]

Could not download from depot at zip:/vmfs/volumes/4ba918b6-9a1e601f-1671-001

75207c/UPDATE/ESXI510-20142001.zip?index.xml, skipping (('zip:/vmfs/volumes/4

18b6-9a1e601f-1671-0018fe75207c/UPDATE/ESXI510-20142001.zip?index.xml', '', "

or extracting index.xml from /vmfs/volumes/4ba918b6-9a1e601f-1671-0018fe75207

PDATE/ESXI510-20142001.zip: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/vmfs/volum

4ba918b6-9a1e601f-1671-0018fe75207c/UPDATE/ESXI510-20142001.zip'"))

       url = zip:/vmfs/volumes/4ba918b6-9a1e601f-1671-0018fe75207c/UPDATE/ESX

0-20142001.zip?index.xml

Please refer to the log file for more details.

I was trying to get a list of VIBs first.  So that wasn't working, so I tried to update the thing with this command. 

c:\program files (x86)\VMWAre\VMWare vSphere CLI>esxcli --server=xxx.xxx.xxx --username=root software vib update --depot=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/patches/patch.zip

I receive this output,

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI>esxcli --server=xxx.xxx.xxx -

-username=root software vib update --depot=/vmfs/volumes/VMs Datastore Partition

/UPDATE/ESXi510-20142001.zip

Enter password:

Error: Invalid option Datastore

not sure what to do...I have tried using the short name of the datastore and full ID of the datastore...please help..

Running ESXi 6.5 Update 2. (Dell version).

I was trying to convert the seven images from Thick provisions to thin provisions (my mistake not realizing what thick vs thin was at the time). After digging around online I found a suggestion that cloning the VMDK file will allow you to create the clone as a thin provision drive.

Below are the commands I used to do so just for reference.

-Cloning the original file. This created a cloned vmdk file along with a new *flat-vmdk file.

"vmkfstools -i VMname.vmdk -d thin thin-VMname.vmdk"

-Renamed the original VMDK files (the main and flat file) with a .old at the end.

"mv OldName.vmdk NewName.vmdk"

-Renamed the cloned vmdk files to match the original files.

"mv Cloned.vmdk Original.vmdk"

Unregister the image then Re Register it back in.

This worked perfectly fine for my first image. But when trying this with the second the esxi server can't find the vmdk file. Taking a look at the datastore I can see it's present but when trying to add a new drive and looking at the same path it's not shown.

Renaming everything back to the way it was resolves the issue.

Did something go wrong with the clone process or is something else going on?

The drives are setup to be single file and not multiple. I don't have any snapshots.

I am about to start a small scale business. I don’t know what supply chain software I should use to make work easy for employees? How can I choose the right one?

Hello!

In my job we have UCS C220M3 with Emulex OneConnect OCe10100 NIC and ESXi 6.0. We want upgrade this ESXi to 6.7 but when we did it UpLinks on this NIC doesn't work. We read in VMware article that this card is no longer support, but it's posible to manualy add drivers to ESXi 6.7 for the NIC work correctly???

Regards,
Maciej

Hello,

I am currently a Software Engineering student and I also maintain a small Windows network at my family's company. I am looking to build a white box server for home use, in order to better understand ESXi and Linux.

I have been studying Supermicro's webpage for quite some time now, and I have noticed that the overwhelming majority of their latest server boards (X11) are not certified for booting ESXi from UEFI. Almost all of their boards are certified for booting ESXi from BIOS, however.

My questions:

1. Is UEFI ESXi booting important for a new (as in modern) server?
2. Is it possible that their latest X11 motherboards which are only certified for ESXi BIOS boot could also be booted in UEFI without problems? I am thinking that Supermicro did not want to go through the trouble of certifying certain boards, based on their use case.
3. Is it possible to boot a ESXi UEFI certified board into ESXi BIOS without problems?
4. Are there any differences in device passthrough between ESXi BIOS boot and UEFI?

All of the above questions are assuming a new install of ESXi on the server.

As you can tell, I am a total noob to ESXi. I would really appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance.

How to install esxi 6.7 on Hyper V server please ?

Hi

Is it possible to prevent ESXi from shutting down if the power button on a server/workstation is pressed?

You can do this easily enough on a physical Windows box but cannot see this setting in vsphere/esxi.

Thanks.

Dear Community,

       Please bare with me, for I am new to hypervisor operation(s). As such, I may make simple mistakes along the way. I purchased a Dell Precision T7500 from a 3rd party recently, with the following specifications:

• CPU :: (1x6crs.) Intel Xeon X5650
• RAM :: (6x2GB) 12GB DDR3

                   NOTE :: 3 active memory channels

• GPU :: (1x) nVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

                   (1x) nVIDIA GeForce GT 520

• SFX :: (1x) Creative 'SoundBlaster' Audigy 2
• STR :: (1x) 4TB HDD

                  (1x) 500GB HDD

                  (1x) 320GB HDD

In addition to this, I should be receiving a CPU/RAM riser and a 2nd (identical) CPU in the mail in a few days/weeks. In that case, I'll have 2 of the same CPU in this workstation instead of one - and that will be the only thing changing. During the installation, I attempted to install ESXi to the 4TB HDD, to no avail. Here is a video of how my installation went:

ESXi Install Attempt :: Part I - YouTube

The final error that I arrive at is:

• Unable to successfully execute 'tryFormatDevice' after 3 tries

I've searched across Google, and have only arrived at one possible solution:

Expand the LUN (size?) from 8GB to 16GB.

Possibly related topic: ESX 6.5 is unable to format a partition when installing on iSCSI.

But, how does one expand/extend LUN? Is it in BIOS? Is it something that must be performed in the installer? Please help.

I have exported OVF file and now after creating new machine  try to deploy OVF template and  it gives an error Failed to Deploy OVF package. Th task was cancelled by user.

we recently buy a Dell R640 server with ESXi

and one Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 dual port Gigabit Ethernet

and one Broadcom BCM57416 NetXtreme-E dual port 10GBASE-T

i create a Vswitch0 with the two gigabit ethernet card for management

i create a Vswitch1 with the two 10GBASE-T card for all virtuals machines (actually just one vm)

firmware ok, driver ok, ESXi version ok, linkspeed auto-negotiation enable

everything seems to be ok but i can't ping my only virtual machine

thx for your ideas

A Windows VM hosted by a VMware ESXI 6.5 (member of a vSphere 6.5 infrastructure) has a VMDK disk whose size is 400 GB and whose format is thin.

The VMDK disk contains a partition whose size is 200 GB.

How can I reduce the size of the VMDK disk to, let's say, 300 GB?

Regards

marius

Hello everyone

For my old IIS web server  SRV1:  Dell R730 .esxi 6.0 10k SAS drives  raid5  perc h730p mini  :  ( VM for web: 32 GB ram, 8vCPU Thick Eager Zeroed, LSI Logical Sas , E1000e network )

I purchased new server hardware  SRV2 :  Dell R740 ESXi 6.5 u3 with 2x ssd hard drives raid 1

and create for web server following VM  ( 256 GB ram,24 core vCPU  ( 2 sockets) 350 Gb Disk, Thick Eager Zeroed,  controller LSI Logical Sas , E1000e network )

but performance in SRV1 is more good than in a new server, the new server has more memory and more CPU

web loads faster in srv1's VM than the second server's VM

both are connected to the same DBA

any ideas what is the solution to increase performance?

or what will be best configuration recommendation for the IIS web server

p.s i am not GURU for VMware and need good advice

thanks a lot

updates are done for all

latest VMware tools installed as well