Dear Community members,

I need your help in resolving an issue about our VM hosts.

Our setup is so simple 2 ESXi hosts with a standard switch with windows based vcenter server running on windows server 2008 r2.

ESXi02 is running fine.

ESXI01 local storage on megaraid SAS controller struck on unmount/inactive mode.

When contacted with vmware support, they advised to upgrade the sas driver, which I have now, When tried to update through ssh below error throws. Kindly provide your views on this issue.

~ # esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/ESXi5.5-megaraid_sas-6.612.07.00-offline_bundle-4692957.zip --dry-run

Installation Result

   Message: Dryrun only, host not changed. The following installers will be applied: [BootBankInstaller]

   Reboot Required: true

   VIBs Installed: Avago_bootbank_scsi-megaraid-sas_6.612.07.00-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820

   VIBs Removed: LSI_bootbank_scsi-megaraid-sas_6.603.55.00-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820

   VIBs Skipped:

~ #

~ # esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/ESXi5.5-megaraid_sas-6.612.07.00-offline_bundle-4692957.zip

[InstallationError]

Error in clearing bootcfg or DB for bootbank /altbootbank: ('/altbootbank/imgdb.tgz', "Error writing tar database: [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/altbootbank/imgdb.tgz.new'.")

Please refer to the log file for more details.

~ #

Looking forward.

Mohamed Marzook.

Hello,

I'm trying to limit the access on ESXI machine to a certain number of IP addresses. Although I modified the firewall whitelisting needed IP addresses, the web client is still accessible coming from other IP address. Is not enough to add the IPs in the firewall rule for vSphere Web Client (443 port)?

thank you!

Hi all,

Have a strange situation with server R740XD with ESXi 6.7 u2, u3.

After reboot, when ESXi is loaded disappears access to web-control ESXi after some time, access time can be various, but VM's still works normally without any problem.

When I make "Network Testing" via ESXi-control, web-control starts work but not for a long time...

Early I don't notice this problem, but servers had a different network configuration. The problem appeared when using network adapters Broadcom 57416 2x10Gb BT + 2x1Gb BT, with intel adapter I don't have the same problem.

I use VMware ESXi 6.7 update 2 A03 or update 3 A00 with standard configuration.

Iso-images downloaded from the dell.com site.

I use two Broadcom 57416 2x10Gb BT in bond in vSwitch0(one-Active, second-Standby), vSwitch0 using for VLAN VM's and VLAN Management Network.

Broadcom adapters

PS: when I use one network adapter in vSwitch0 all work fine, but I can't use this scheme, because two adapters connect to the various switch and providing reservations. And I can't use 2x1Gb BT adapters, because they have low speed

Hello!

I am using ESXi 6.7.0. Is it possible to increase file descriptor limit on the dedicated server?

ulimit -Hn
1024

ulimit -Sn
256

I am afraid I have exceeded it as our dedicated server produces quite weird network network problems that made us think it is caused by reaching the limit of file descriptors.

I have tested this with my CIM client software (Adaptec Storage Manager) and with curl and I can only authenticate to CIM using the root account with the administrator role assigned. I would like to use a service account with limited access. I have tried using a different role with all permissions assigned just to test but it stills fails 401 unauthorized. I have seen some posts about this being a bug from years ago but i am on ESXI 6.7u2 so I am confused if this is still a bug or not. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi folks,

I am reasonably new to PowerShell - PowerCLI and attepting to export a VM from ESXi to OVA format.  All of the required CLI syntax works with exception of "Export-VApp"; I get the following error below and looking for a resolution please.

Export-vApp PowerShell Error

Export-vApp : 13/05/2020 9:24:38 AM     Export-VApp             Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation.

At line:1 char:51

+ ... iance_v1200_dhcp_1" | Export-vApp -Destination "C:\Utils" -Format OVA

+                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Export-VApp], RestrictedVersion

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VappServiceImpl_ExportVApp_Error,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.ExportVApp

My ESXi Environment:

Client version: 1.33.4

Client build number: 14093553

ESXi version:6.7.0

ESXi build number: 14320388

Thank you!

I have a NUC8I5BEH with StandAlone esxi 7(free version) installed on a USB-stick.

Every host-config is lost during and the host is returned to state of installation.

I have also tried to add a USB-Network-interface but it seems like connected USB-devices is not shown in vSphere.

CLI "lsusb" show all connected devices.

I guess it may is some variant of this case => https://serverfault.com/a/557950

How can I solve this?

I have installed ESXi 6.5 ISO on Hetzner machine. I had to use customizer to get working network drivers otherwise installation would not proceed.

After days of fixing this I have got ESXi 6.5 working, but I can't get the VM to share same internet connection as the host/machine. I do not have any additional IPs, I just have a basic server with 1 IP but I have seen setups where people have been able to get internet without problems on the VM with the host/machine IP.

Please don't ask me to search or say it has been solved in many other posts, I promise I tried searching but all results I have seen have such specific setups. I do not want to use pfSense or anything like that. I just want the VM to use same internet connection as the host/machine.

Thank you so much really appreciate any help!

I ran into something today that I think could be a bug.

Trying to mount an NFS 4.1 share with :

esxcli storage nfs41 add -H 10.10.10.1 -s /data/nfstest -v nfstest

results in:

Unable to complete Sysinfo operation.  Please see the VMkernel log file for more details.: Timeout

Running tcpdump from the NFS server shows that ESXi issues an arp request, but never follows up with communication.

I can ping the NFS server from the host and furthermore:

[root@esx:~] nc -z 10.10.10.1 2049

Connection to 10.10.10.1 2049 port [tcp/nfs] succeeded!

vmkernel.log shows the following relevant lines:

2020-05-12T19:06:44.598Z cpu3:2099718 opID=997a8ef8)World: 12458: VC opID esxcli-0f-b668 maps to vmkernel opID 997a8ef8

2020-05-12T19:06:44.598Z cpu3:2099718 opID=997a8ef8)NFS41: NFS41_VSIMountSet:403: Mount server: 10.10.10.1, port: 2049, path: /data/nfstest, label: nfstest, security: 1 user: , options: <none>

2020-05-12T19:06:44.598Z cpu3:2099718 opID=997a8ef8)StorageApdHandler: 976: APD Handle  Created with lock[StorageApd-0x431d75a03540]

2020-05-12T19:06:44.598Z cpu3:2099718 opID=997a8ef8)NFS41: NFS41_ConnectionLookup:785: Created new connection for address tcp 10.10.10.1.8.1

2020-05-12T19:06:59.601Z cpu12:2107491)WARNING: SunRPC: 3936: fail all pending calls for client 0x430944c01370 IP 10.10.10.1.8.1 (socket disconnected)

2020-05-12T19:07:14.600Z cpu3:2099718 opID=997a8ef8)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FSWaitForCluster:3702: Failed to wait for the cluster to be located: Timeout

2020-05-12T19:07:14.600Z cpu3:2099718 opID=997a8ef8)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41_FSMount:4814: NFS41FSDoMount failed: Timeout

2020-05-12T19:07:14.600Z cpu6:2098147)NFS41: NFS41_ConnectionRemove:1071: Connection: 0x431d75a042f0 [55] addr: tcp 10.10.10.1.8.1

2020-05-12T19:07:14.600Z cpu3:2099718 opID=997a8ef8)StorageApdHandler: 1062: Freeing APD handle 0x431d75a03540 []

2020-05-12T19:07:14.600Z cpu3:2099718 opID=997a8ef8)StorageApdHandler: 1146: APD Handle freed!

2020-05-12T19:07:14.600Z cpu3:2099718 opID=997a8ef8)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41_VSIMountSet:411: NFS41_FSMount failed: Timeout

2020-05-12T19:07:14.601Z cpu6:2098147)SunRPC: 1104: Destroying world 0x202863

Note the IP 10.10.10.1.8.1. Where did it get .8.1 from?? Between seeing the additional numbers on the address and not seeing communication (besides a single arp request) via tcpdump on the nfs server, it looks to me like NFS might be buggy on ESXi 7. Unless I'm missing something, but I have had good luck with NFS on previous versions of ESXi.

Updated before posting
I attempted using esxcli storage nfs add -H 10.10.10.1 -s /data/nfstest -v nfstest with a result of:

2020-05-12T19:14:50.383Z cpu12:2099721 opID=58765395)World: 12458: VC opID esxcli-4a-b6a0 maps to vmkernel opID 58765395

2020-05-12T19:14:50.383Z cpu12:2099721 opID=58765395)NFS: 162: Command: (mount) Server: (10.10.10.1) IP: (10.10.10.1) Path: (/data/nfstest) Label: (nfstest) Options: (None)

2020-05-12T19:14:50.383Z cpu12:2099721 opID=58765395)StorageApdHandler: 976: APD Handle 05893e1b-b8b24cee Created with lock[StorageApd-0x431d23c028b0]

2020-05-12T19:15:00.551Z cpu15:2099721 opID=58765395)SunRPC: 3306: Synchronous RPC abort for client 0x430944c01370 IP 10.10.10.1.0.111 proc 3 xid 0x5066cf32 attempt 1 of 3

2020-05-12T19:15:11.551Z cpu15:2099721 opID=58765395)SunRPC: 3306: Synchronous RPC abort for client 0x430944c01370 IP 10.10.10.1.0.111 proc 3 xid 0x5066cf32 attempt 2 of 3

2020-05-12T19:15:22.551Z cpu15:2099721 opID=58765395)SunRPC: 3306: Synchronous RPC abort for client 0x430944c01370 IP 10.10.10.1.0.111 proc 3 xid 0x5066cf32 attempt 3 of 3

2020-05-12T19:15:22.551Z cpu15:2099721 opID=58765395)SunRPC: 1104: Destroying world 0x202877

2020-05-12T19:15:22.551Z cpu15:2099721 opID=58765395)StorageApdHandler: 1062: Freeing APD handle 0x431d23c028b0 [05893e1b-b8b24cee]

2020-05-12T19:15:22.551Z cpu15:2099721 opID=58765395)StorageApdHandler: 1146: APD Handle freed!

2020-05-12T19:15:22.551Z cpu15:2099721 opID=58765395)NFS: 173: NFS mount 10.10.10.1:/data/nfstest failed: Unable to connect to NFS server.

In this one it shows IP 10.10.10.1.0.111. NFSv3 is enabled on the server side. Running tcpdump on the NFS server shows a similar lack of layer 3 communication after the arp requests.

NFS seems to load successfully on boot and my network interfaces are on the HCL.

2020-05-12T04:44:12.366Z cpu11:2097688)Activating Jumpstart plugin nfs.

2020-05-12T04:44:12.366Z cpu12:2097716)Activating Jumpstart plugin nfs41.

2020-05-12T04:44:12.448Z cpu23:2097649)Loading module nfsclient ...

2020-05-12T04:44:12.471Z cpu23:2097649)Elf: 2048: module nfsclient has license VMware

2020-05-12T04:44:12.474Z cpu23:2097649)FSS: 1153: Registered fs nfs, module 4e, fsTypeNum 0xb00f

2020-05-12T04:44:12.474Z cpu23:2097649)VProbe: 802: Loaded   3 static probes from: nfsclient

2020-05-12T04:44:12.474Z cpu23:2097649)Mod: 4997: Initialization of nfsclient succeeded with module ID 78.

2020-05-12T04:44:12.474Z cpu23:2097649)nfsclient loaded successfully.

2020-05-12T04:44:12.497Z cpu11:2097688)Jumpstart plugin nfs activated.

2020-05-12T04:44:12.516Z cpu23:2097649)Loading module nfs41client ...

2020-05-12T04:44:12.541Z cpu23:2097649)Elf: 2048: module nfs41client has license VMware

2020-05-12T04:44:12.549Z cpu23:2097649)VProbe: 802: Loaded   5 static probes from: nfs41client

2020-05-12T04:44:12.549Z cpu23:2097649)Mod: 4997: Initialization of nfs41client succeeded with module ID 79.

2020-05-12T04:44:12.549Z cpu23:2097649)nfs41client loaded successfully.

2020-05-12T04:44:12.573Z cpu12:2097716)Jumpstart plugin nfs41 activated.

2020-05-12T04:44:25.332Z cpu3:2097682)Activating Jumpstart plugin restore-nfs-volumes.

2020-05-12T04:44:25.351Z cpu3:2097682)Jumpstart plugin restore-nfs-volumes activated.

Hello all,

I recently began working as an IT Support specialist at one of my local schools. I've been given the task of troubleshooting and fixing the VPN server that is

based in ESXi. I can currently RDP into the server, and ping it by IP and hostname. But I'm unable to connect via VPN. I've been wondering if it was something

within the ESXi firewall.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Having an issue with pretty much all of our new HPE Synergy hosts dropping packets.  When I look at the nic stats I see "Receive over error" counts that match the packets dropped count.  I'm struggling to find a clear explanation of what exactly that metric is though.  Anyone have an idea?

esxcli network nic stats get -n vmnic3

NIC statistics for vmnic3

   Packets received: 21262710237

   Packets sent: 6187578237

   Bytes received: 30679697006681

   Bytes sent: 9342694768474

   Receive packets dropped: 4118227

   Transmit packets dropped: 0

   Multicast packets received: 229098747

   Broadcast packets received: 820989027

   Multicast packets sent: 253765

   Broadcast packets sent: 6863267

   Total receive errors: 0

   Receive length errors: 0

   Receive over errors: 4118227

Using HPE-ESXi 6.5.0,

Made a registry change for activate TLS 1.5 manually and rebooted our Windows 2012 r2 server.  After the reboot, server wasn't able to boot back up.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks

Hi ,

How to update esxi using esxcli method when only vSAN datastore is mounted to ESXi ? Can i upload esxi-offline.zip file directly to vSAN datastore and run esxcli command to update esxi ?

My vSphere cluster details are below,

Running ESXi version       -   6.5 U1 HPE-Custom image

Required ESXi version      - 6.5 U3 HPE-custom image

Datastore mounted           - vSAN datastore ( no other datastore's are available or mounted )

Cluster Features enabled - HA, DRS,vSAN

vSAN storage policy         - vSAN default storage policy ( FTT-1)

Kindly help me out !

Thanks,

Navaneeth

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

Hi AlessandroRomeo68 ,

I buy a dedicated server on Hetzner and setup VMware 7.x

Then I order  one additional IP and /29 subnet.

I created a support ticket and say I want redirect my subnet to my additional IP to they.

Created a a vSwitch and Port on VMware.

Created a new Router Ubuntu 20.04 machine and edit /etc/networks/interfaces and /etc/sysctl.conf files.

Created a new Windows Server 2019 machine and used my new subnet but can't reach internet.

What is the problem?

Thanks again.

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?

Hi,

Is it possible to subscribe to hotplug events in the hypervisor/ESX kernel (not hotplug for the Guest OS)?

I am developing telemetry software to work across different bare-metal OSes and this is a capability I need. Is this possible in ESX? Any pointers/leads are appreciated.

I had a disk crash on my DATA raid5 made by 3x 8TB SATA HDD. The controller is an Adapted 6805T and ESXi has been installed with a custom ISO with vendor specific .vib. It worked fine for years...

Due to a supplier issue the disk was replaced with a different brand (old brand Toshiba, new brand is Seagate), still I read up in Internet and was also reassured by the vendor you can mix and match different HDD make, so I have installed it. Initialised the disk using the controller BIOS, added to the RAID5 and the re-sync immediately started. At that point I restarted the box to allow for ESXi to come back online.

Now... I personally don't think this has anything to do with the different HDD brand here but my issue is: after about 24 hours the RAID5 is still reported as degraded:

However... using arcconf I get a different message:

Logical Device number 2
   Logical Device name                      : DATA
   Block Size of member drives              : 512 Bytes
   RAID level                               : 5
   Unique Identifier                        : D63F93AD
   Status of Logical Device                 : Optimal
   Additional details                       : Initialized with Build/Clear
   Size                                     : 15257590 MB
   Parity space                             : 7628800 MB
   Stripe-unit size                         : 256 KB
   Interface Type                           : Serial ATA
   Device Type                              : HDD
   Read-cache setting                       : Enabled
   Read-cache status                        : On
   Write-cache setting                      : Disabled
   Write-cache status                       : Off
   Partitioned                              : Yes
   Protected by Hot-Spare                   : No
   Bootable                                 : No
   Failed stripes                           : No
   Power settings                           : Disabled
   --------------------------------------------------------
   Logical Device segment information
   --------------------------------------------------------
   Segment 0                                : Present (7630885MB, SATA, HDD, Connector:1, Device:0)             WKD068VK
   Segment 1                                : Present (7630885MB, SATA, HDD, Connector:1, Device:1)         27M2K0VBFP9E
   Segment 2                                : Present (7630885MB, SATA, HDD, Connector:1, Device:2)         27M2K0VLFP9E
 

I suppose rebooting the box would be a thing to try but I'm worried about the re-sync to start over. Who to believe here?

I'm currently on ESXi 6.5u1 (without vCenter) and have MegaRAID discovery working and can see the status and get alerts but I would like to update to ESXi 6.7.

Has anyone come up with a decent way to monitor and send email alerts about RAID, drive, battery, etc. issues concerning a ESXi 6.7 machine that has a LSI 9260-8i controller card? It seems VMWare and Broadcom will never add support for ESXi 6.7.

Dell R640

6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 14320388)

I worked with the system for months and now that it is on site the iDRAC port works, the VMWare VM network port works (I can ping the running VMs) but the ESXi Management port is not responding.

There is now some question as to the correct port. To test we just connected all 4 of the R640 Ethernet ports to a switch with a laptop and pinged all the IP addresses but the management port never replied.

They even checked the ESXi console and there are no errors and it displays the same IP address I’ve been using.

Is it something odd where you must have the correct port connected at boot or it will not work?