Hi,
We need help on our newly setup ESXi server. It appears that the disk status is Normal, Degraded. Anybody who can help on how to change/set this to normal? Or what have we done wrong? We have also reported this to Dell since we are using PowerEdge R640 and they said that iDrac logs indicate that everything is optimal. Your help will be very much appreciated.
Hi all, apologies as this question might seem very basic, this is because I'm a total beginner in creating VMs on vSphere.
I just installed ESXi on a standalone server with a purpose of creating some test VMs.
Installation & configuration of ESXi went through without any hiccups. I created several VMs but this VM isn't able to ping to my local network. I have assign IP to that VM & configure VM network to the appropriate VLAN ID which this IP sits in, still I'm not able to ping to the rest of the servers in my network.
May I know what did I do wrong here? I'm using the default delivered vswitch0 & VM Network.
Hi,
I have seen this topic brought up on various posts online, but have never seen a real answer on how to address it. In older versions of ESXi it sounds like the System Resource Reservation was tunable, but newer versions removed the capability. I mean 16GB reserved might be fine in large memory configurations, but not ideal for lab environments that are often smaller.
I have a home lab with 3 small servers running VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 15160138. Each server has 32GB of memory in them. With 0 VM's running on a given host, there is ~17GB of memory reserved by the VMKernel. Basically about 50% of the memory.
I have a 6.0 installation on a host that has numerous VM's running and the VMKernel is only reserved ~3GB of memory.
Here's what Vcenter shows for "System Resource Reservation" on a host:
Here's what Vcenter Performance Monitor shows for VMKernel consumed memory for a given host with 0 VM's running. It stays flat lined around 16GB:
Here is what "esxtop" shows from the host. You can see vmk using ~16GB of memory with 0 VM's running:
So trying to figure out ESXi 6.7 is reserving so much memory for VMKernel in this case. I thought these small servers would be good for a home lab, but they aren't so cost effective if 50% of the memory is lost to the VMKernel.
ESXi 6.0 is only using less than 3GB of memory for VMkernel on another installation I have with numerous VM's running
The major difference between the ESXi 6.7 and 6.0 installation in my case is that Vsan is being used on the ESXi 6.7 cluster where as the 6.0 cluster uses a shared FC VMFS datastore.
I would like to understand if this is simply a hard coded setting in ESXi 6.7 that all hosts reserve a minimum of 16GB of memory for a host, or perhaps ESXi is calculating the reservation incorrectly for some reason. Then obviously I want to know if there is a way to modify the VMKernel resource reservation to something more reasonable like 3GB.
I have seen numerous posts on this with no real answer.
Thanks,
Steve....
Works fine, then after a few weeks always stops responding through the webpage or crashes and we have to reinstall ESXi to recover.
Any help greatly appreciated
Thank you
Mark
I'm running vSphere 6.7. VMs are a mix of Windows, Linux and FreeBSD so RDP just won't cut it. I don't have Horizon either, my datacenter is too small to need it--it barely needs vCenter anymore.
I use Fusion, sometimes Workstation, to connect to vCenter and to the VMs whatever host from that single point--is there a protocol/thin client that supports this?
I'd like to have some stationary thing that launches directly into vSphere without having to login to open an app to having to login again having that feeling that you're still layers deep in an app versus the experience of a thin client –for better or for worse– where you can't accidentally swipe your trackpad away to another desktop.
I took a look at Horizon, the discount for the Advance edition is very tempting but for non-business users it's still too expensive both in licensing and resources. I can't even gather the minimum 10 licensees to justify it. Hopefully there's a hardware version of Fusion.
Thanks.
Hi guys,
After installing the newest Freepbx15 distro on VMware ESXI Hypervisor, it was taking a very long time to reboot or shutdown the system.
I figured out that the reason is MariaDB server, which hangs during the stopping process and, actually, it stops only after 5 minutes, when it reaches the timeout.
Here is what I can see in /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log when executing “systemctl stop mariadb” :
200129 11:21:21 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Normal shutdown
200129 11:21:21 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events
200129 11:21:21 InnoDB: Starting shutdown…
200129 11:22:21 InnoDB: Waiting for worker threads to be suspended
200129 11:23:22 InnoDB: Waiting for worker threads to be suspended
200129 11:24:22 InnoDB: Waiting for worker threads to be suspended
200129 11:25:22 InnoDB: Waiting for worker threads to be suspended
Than, after executing “systemctl start mariadb” I get this output in /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log :
200129 11:45:36 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
200129 11:45:36 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld (mysqld 5.5.60-MariaDB) starting as process 28309 …
200129 11:45:36 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
200129 11:45:36 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
200129 11:45:36 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.7
200129 11:45:36 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
200129 11:45:36 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
200129 11:45:36 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
200129 11:45:36 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
200129 11:45:36 InnoDB: Starting crash recovery from checkpoint LSN=32237726
InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite buffer…
200129 11:45:36 InnoDB: Starting final batch to recover 40 pages from redo log
200129 11:45:36 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
200129 11:45:37 Percona XtraDB (http://www.percona.com) 5.5.59-MariaDB-38.11 started; log sequence number 32575033
200129 11:45:37 [Note] Plugin ‘FEEDBACK’ is disabled.
200129 11:45:37 [Note] Server socket created on IP: ‘0.0.0.0’.
200129 11:45:37 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
200129 11:45:37 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: ‘5.5.60-MariaDB’ socket: ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’ port: 3306 MariaDB Server.
I found some info, that it can be related with the time settings, so have made the appropriate changes, but no luck. Time and date settings seems correct.
The output of “timedatectl” is:
Local time: Wed 2020-01-29 12:01:08 +04
Universal time: Wed 2020-01-29 08:01:08 UTC
RTC time: Wed 2020-01-29 12:01:08
Time zone: Asia/Yerevan (+04, +0400)
NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: yes
DST active: n/a
One interesting moment, when I shut down the virtual machine and disable the Ethernet from the Hypervisor settings and power on the VM again, MariaDB starts working great.
I even tried to clone the virtual machine, with malfunctioning MariaDB server to my Desktop PC and run it in VMware Workstation Pro, and it worked just awesome, even with enabled Ethernet.
Also, I can decrease the timeout time from 300 sec to, let’s say, 30 sec, but the main issue will not be resolved.
I couldn’t find any useful info about the possible reasons of the described issue.
Additional info:
ESXI Version: 6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 15160138)
Guest OS: Other 3.x Linux (64-bit)
Compatibility: ESXi 6.7 virtual machine
VMware Tools: Yes
CPUs: 4
Memory: 12 GB
Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
Best.
Hi There
We have 3 blades (Dell M640) and one PowerEdge VRTX, VMware 6.7Update 1, We have spoke to Dell and there have recommended the following - update all drives on esxi and update all vmware on the blades and chassis.
I am thinking we should update the vmware 6.7 to update 3 first and see how it goes, also I ran the following cmd esxcli software vib list | grep qfle, and i see alot about the qfle3f driver for QLogic.
qfle3 1.0.69.0-1OEM.670.0.0.7535516 QLC VMwareCertified 2019-01-07
qfle3f 1.0.51.0-1OEM.670.0.0.7535516 QLC VMwareCertified 2019-01-07
qfle3i 1.0.16.0-1OEM.670.0.0.7535516 QLC VMwareCertified 2019-01-07
esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------ ------------ ------ ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ------------------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:18:00.0 qfle3 Up Up 10000 Full dc:f4:01:06:ef:71 1500 QLogic Corporation NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet
vmnic1 0000:18:00.1 qfle3 Up Up 10000 Full dc:f4:01:06:ef:74 1500 QLogic Corporation NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Really looking for any recommendations or anyone else experiencing this issue before.
Thanks
John
Hi,
I have added 400 GB as E drive but its not visible at OS level even after re-scanning the disks though its visible at VMware level.Please find the screenshot.
Any help on this will be appreciated. Thanks
thanks
vm2014
Dear,
I need help to recover my Esxi 6.7 host data due to some data store corruption issue. I am trying to recover and I got this software (Disk Internals VMFS Recovery) and found that data is available but I need to recover all my data. is there any utility in the vmware repository that I use to recover my data.
kindly advice.
Hello,
I have a problem with the "HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i" controller and the customized HP image:
Server: ProLiant MicroServer Gen8
Tried following images: "VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-Update1-3073146-HP-600.9.4.34-Nov2015.iso" and "VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-Update2-2000251-HP-5.69.2-Nov2014.iso"
The vSphere client recognizes the Smart Array but if I want to add the array to ESXi storage it is only possible to add single physical discs instead of the raid array.
Take a look at the pictures for more details.
Can anybody please explain how to use the B120i controller with ESXi 6. The customized image doesn't seem to solve the problem?
Is it even possible to use this raid controller with ESXi?
Thanks!
Hi there,
Wherer can i find a supported PCI-Express Serial Cards with for example 8 or 16 Ports to allow me passthrough to different Guests.
example: COM1 to Guest 1
com2+3 TO Guest 2
and so on.
I searched the VMware Compatibility Matrix but found nothing.
So which PCI Express Serial Cards are supported in ESXi 6.7.
Thanks you!
Greets
Michael
Using ESXI 6.7u3
Have 3 SSD drives in a 1U Supermicro SYS-5019D-FN8TP
1x Samsung EVO 840 (ESXI install)
1x Samsung 970 PRO nvme (Datastore)
1x Samsung 960 PRO SATA (Datastore)
Via cli, I can see the following:
Both SATA drives are reported as having 73 degrees while the M.2 drive as 30 degrees.
I have tested with a live Linux USB and all 3 SSDs are idling at 25-30 degrees Celsius, with a maximum temperature of ~35 degrees for the two SATA and ~55 for the M.2 under load.Ambient temperature is 22 degrees Celsius.
I am pretty sure the reported values for both SATA SSDs are incorrect, but then again, I not 100%.
Anyone with similar Samsung SSDs can please tell me how their devices are reported temperature wise?
Thank you
Hello everybody,
I need the HPE Eth 10gb 2p 562LFR-T Adptr. working at my new HPE Server ProLiant DL385 Gen10 AMD EPYC 7251 Performance. I used google and I installed the ixgben-1.8.7-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922.x86_64.vib. After e reboot I didn`t see any other network adapter. There are only the 4 preinstalled network ports. Could anyone maybe help me. Its the first time for me with new hardware and esxi
Thanks
Benedikt
We have a bunch of standalone ESXi 6.7.0 (Build 8169922) hosts with local storage. I've run into the problem that when I move a VM from host A to host B using an SCP transfer, and that VM currently has a snapshot, it will not start on host B. The error message is "Failed to power on virtual machine. Unable to enumerate all disks."
Now I've been running ESXi hosts for probably a decade and this always used to work without a problem, so I think this is a problem starting in ESXi > 6.5 maybe? I do nothing weird, shutdown the VM on host A, do an SCP of the entire VM directory to host B and boot it there. It only happens when the VM has a snapshot. If I SCP the same VM without a snapshot it will boot fine on host B. If I edit out the snapshot of the VM on host B after the transfer (by editing/removing references to the snap manually) it will also boot fine.
I have no clue why this won't work, because all the references for the snapshot should be in the VM directory (specifically the .vmsn and .vmsd file), not on the ESXi host. The hosts are the same ESXi version.
When I try to boot the VM and get the mentioned error, nothing is written to vmware.log in the VM directory. Also the ESXi host seems to write no logs about the error.
If I attempt to consolidate disks on the host B webinterface I get "Disk consolidation for VM has failed: The operation is not supported on the object". Also the snapshot manager in the web interface does show the current snapshots, but I can't delete them or create a new snapshot. All give a generic "failed" error.
Any help appreciated or confirmation that you have the same issue. If there are workarounds I'd love to hear them!
After performing upgrade to 6.7.0 U3 from 6.5, I get an alert at boot-up: (ne1000): failed to identify hardware.
The NIC in question is: intel pro 1000 pt dual port server adapter - which according to the compatibility docs says should be fine - e1000e and ne1000.
Of course, the NIC is being used for my management interface.
Regardless, I don't know how to resolve.
Hi all!
After installing ESXi host I got his partition table:
[root@esx:~] df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
vfat 285.8M 172.9M 112.9M 60% /vmfs/volumes/5c52dbe5-9ee717e2-6f58-3a9fa14000ba
vfat 249.7M 227.3M 22.4M 91% /vmfs/volumes/5039b0eb-245b9a3e-d595-58efc249425a
vfat 249.7M 232.6M 17.1M 93% /vmfs/volumes/07ac5fe1-e6780032-5912-27bc4b104cad
[root@esx:~] partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0"
gpt
968 255 63 15564800
1 64 8191 C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B systemPartition 128
5 8224 520191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0
6 520224 1032191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0
7 1032224 1257471 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0
8 1257504 1843199 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0
mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 - Is a 8GB SD card.
Now I want to increase size of partition to be able to install VMWare updates (there no spase to prestage them). How I can do this? Is this only way is a reinstalling ESXi host?
I'm a bit confused on my vCPU and particularly memory allocation. Can anyone provide some insight? My system is in GCP With 1 vCPU, 4 GB memory.
And after that every day some point of time i used to get 522 time out error with my showing that ( The origin web server timed out responding to this request.)
Can anyone explain how the Memory limit for a VM works?
i mean what is the best combination i can use for it .so that my VM resources get this error.
I have recently upated the ESXI to 6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 14320388) but the guest OS options do not include Windows 10, Server 2016, server 2019. How do I update he guest OS list.
Many thanks
Hello
I want to know which logs in ESXi show change configuration logs and Authentication logs?
where are they located and how can I only get those logs?
how can I find them in syslog logs?
Thanks a lot
I've installed ESXI on an old laptop as a way to learn how to use it.
I've also installed a vm machine, which I can manage from the web interface on my pc.
Now I need to use the Guest os from the laptop ( on which ESXI installation and the guest OS installation reside ).
I enabled the shell and the ssh. I also powered on the vm from the comman line. But how do I display the virtual machine on the laptop?