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RAID with "HP Smart Array Controller B120i"

December 8, 2015, 9:11 am
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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!

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[HELP] - HPE DL380 G10 - SmartArray S100i SR

May 14, 2020, 4:17 pm
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Hello community,

this is mostly a request to confirm my doubts... am I right in assuming that ESXi 6.7.0 HPE Edition does not support the HBA in the title?

 

That is the integrated Controller in my server and it needed to be cheap...

Smart Array S100i SR does only software raid from what I could understand... am I right?

 

Is there a way to make it work somehow?

 

I have connected 4x 4TB drives in Raid5...

 

Thanks for any help

 

If this does not work what is a cheap raid card I can throw in this server to make it operational?

 

Thanks again! o/

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ESXi Cert - SAN mismatch

May 14, 2020, 6:24 pm
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Hi

 

I am running into a strange issue. After my ESXi host has completed it's installation, when I try join it to vCenter, the VC refuses to join the host. It errors out about the host name not matching the name in the self signed cert. I know there is a KB that say just re-generate the cert. My issuse is I am trying to understand why when I use the same boot process I intermittently get this issue.

 

At a high level my hosts are all built via PXE boot and the run a kickstart script that does some basic setup then when the hosts reboots there is a first boot scritp that will configure the host name and static IP. At which point it will be joined to the VC.

 

Some pointers would be helpful

 

Thansk

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ESXi 5.1 / 5.5 u1,2,3 on HP BL460c G7 - psod

December 7, 2015, 1:12 am
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Hi,

 

I'm upgrading some of our older blades (bl460c G8 and G9's passed without a hitch) to esxi5.5, but the installer keeps crashing.

I've been trying every update of the 5.1 and 5.5 customised HP images, to no avail.

 

Installer seems to launch, but then PSOD's as soon as the network drivers load (that's what I concluded). I applied the latest Proliant service pack (2015.10.0), so firmwares are as up to date as can be (interesting note: with the older 2011 firmware the host installed successfully, but network was unusable)

 

Some 5.5u3 (hp cust) screens:

 

Here the installer stops loading:

 

HPcust-esxi5.5u3-BL460cG7-loading.jpg

 

And then it psod's:

HPcust-esxi5.5u3-BL460cG7-psod.jpg

 

Any suggestion or other resource I could give a try (Tried some vanilla esxi iso's as well, didn't help) ? I'd really like these ones to join the main cluster, a RAM upgrade and they could be running smoothly for another couple of years.

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Alert Message: This host permits installation of untrusted software.

May 14, 2020, 11:31 am
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Hi,

 

i need a hint, what is the source of this alert?

esxi-alert.jpg

How can this be changed?

 

Kind regards

Stefan

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showing an error type in my esxi events for specific host

May 15, 2020, 1:09 am
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One of my esxi host in the cluster show this event as error type :

 

05/15/2020, 12:35:11 PMAlarm 'Host hardware sensor state' on

host11

triggered by event -370454225 'Sensor -1 type , Description Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers #15 state assert for . Part Name/Number N/A N/A Manufacturer N/A'

 

what is issue ? how can solve this . I am not using EVC mode. all of my servers in same model .

 

 

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The object has already been deleted or has not been completely created - pyvmomi

May 15, 2020, 2:17 am
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Hi Team,

 

I'm using pyvmomi, facing one issue intermittently. I'm using following function to get the VM object by passing VM Name, this method sometime throws "The object 'vim.VirtualMachine:vm-4078' has already been deleted or has not been completely created" error (This error occurs at line  if c.name == vm_name: line). Any suggestion on handling this issue is much appreciated. Thanks.

 

def get_vm_by_name(self, content, vm_name=None):

   try:

         vm_obj = None
         container = content.viewManager.CreateContainerView(content.rootFolder, [vim.VirtualMachine], True)

          for c in container.view:

              if vm_name:

                  if c.name == vm_name:

                      vm_obj = c

                      break

        return vm_obj

   except Exception as ex:

   raise Exception("failed to get vm details")

 

Please note that, same API had returned result for the same VM few seconds before.

 

VSphere version 6.7.0.20000

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No Network Adapters error during install

May 16, 2020, 4:58 am
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I am trying to install ESXi on my server.

During installation I get the message 'no network adapters'.

It is a Gigabyte ga-h77n-wifi MOBO and ESXi version 7.0.

I have tried versions 6.5 and 6.7 before but that didn't work out.

 

Does anyone have a solution for this?

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503 Service Unavailable Failed to connect to endpoint:

May 16, 2020, 4:34 am
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Hi,

 

One of our ESXi 6.0 hosts was reporting back to vcenter and was accepting connections from the fat client, however connections to the host directly via https were being immediately redirected back to the log in page with "Failed to load host summary" error in all browsers.

 

SSH works

 

[root@esxi:/var/log] df -h

Filesystem   Size   Used Available Use% Mounted on

NFS          5.2T   2.7T      2.5T  52% /vmfs/volumes/nfs

VMFS-5       3.5T   1.3T      2.2T  38% /vmfs/volumes/ds

vfat       285.8M 205.6M     80.3M  72% /vmfs/volumes/5cc70836-eecb7702-d4b7-20677cd872b8

vfat       249.7M 205.6M     44.1M  82% /vmfs/volumes/94a5dae7-ce13fd61-32f5-239e1c8e6234

vfat       249.7M   4.0K    249.7M   0% /vmfs/volumes/1ddca3e4-be359492-f0b6-a8dbffd34bb7

 

after we attempting to restart hostd and vpxa we are seeing "503 Service Unavailable" instead of the log in page via HTTPS, esxi is no longer showing up as connected to vcenter, but we can still SSH to the host.

 

[root@esxi:/var/log] esxcli vm process list

Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure.

 

[root@esxi:~] /etc/init.d/hostd restart

watchdog-hostd: Terminating watchdog process with PID 34438 hostd stopped. Ramdisk 'hostd' with estimated size of 747MB already exists hostd started.

[root@esxi:~] /etc/init.d/vpxa restart

watchdog-vpxa: Terminating watchdog process with PID 35047 vpxa stopped.

 

vdf shows that I am out of space in the tmp directory

 

Ramdisk              1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

root                     32768       240     32528   0% --

etc                      28672       232     28440   0% --

opt                      32768       396     32372   1% --

var                      49152       972     48180   1% --

tmp                     262144    262144         0 100% --

iofilters                32768         0     32768   0% --

hostdstats              764928      4720    760208   0% --

 

also hostd.log indicates a problem with the space as well

 

2020-05-16T11:43:52.603Z info hostd[FFF9EB70] [Originator@6876 sub=Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr]

Event 1 : The ramdisk 'tmp' is full.  As a result, the file /tmp/.SwapInfoHLS.lock.LOCK.9565543 could not be written.

2020-05-16T11:43:52.604Z panic hostd[FFC90B20] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] backtrace:

 

 

Any help is appreciated

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vmkfstools --growfs returning Error: No such file or directory

November 11, 2015, 8:44 am
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Hi all,

i am trying to grow a datastore. I follwed this guide:  VMware KB:    Growing a local datastore from the command line in vSphere ESXi 4.x and 5.x


Everything went fine up to the last step. I checked after and the end sector had been correctly changed for the datastore partition. Also verified the partition was at the end of the table with the free space after it.


When I try the last command "vmkfstools --growfs" it always comes back with "Error No such file or directory":


vmkfstools --growfs "/vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_850_EVO_500GB_______________S21JNX

AG598701W_____:3" "/vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_850_EVO_500GB_______________S21JNXAG598701W_____:3"

Not found

Error: No such file or directory

 

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Toni

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Problem with Management Agants

May 16, 2020, 1:58 am
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Hi

When I want to login Remotely in ESXi, I get this message : Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password

and i have to restart Management Agents, after few minutes this problem will repeat ...

can anyone help me ?

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//.ssh will be gone after reboot

May 17, 2020, 12:19 am
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Hi,

 

I want to login to another server with public/private key authentication

I configured it last week and it worked correctly.

 

I had to reboot the server for some reasons last night and then i found the //.ssh directorynot exists.

Also i had some files on /optand all of them was disappeared after reboot!!

 

(VMware ESXi 6.0.0)

 

Please help me to fix this issue.

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Intel Xeon W-2275

May 17, 2020, 4:52 am
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Hello,

 

I tried to search the compability matrix but unable to find any specific details about Intel Xeon W-2275 support for ESXi.

Simple question: Is it supported? (ESXi 5.5)

 

Thanks, BR

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Not able to access VMware ESXi free version from Ubuntu 20.04

May 17, 2020, 4:25 pm
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I run Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 pro on a dual-boot computer. When on Ubuntu, I have both tried to access my ESXi server through a browser and through my VMware workstation pro that I have installed on Ubuntu 20.04 but in both cases I am unable to access it. When I try to connect to it using VMware workstation, it tells me a connection to the server could not be established and when I try the same thing from a browser, it is unable to connect. The interesting part is that when I switch to Windows 10, I have no trouble accessing my ESXi server. How is that possible? Any help would be appreciated.

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pvscsi vmware kernel crash

May 17, 2020, 9:41 pm
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Our ESXi 6.7 crashed today with the following stack trace:

Screen Shot 2020-05-18 at 11.27.48 .png

Is there anything we can do to mitigate this?

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Upgrade ESXi 6.0u2 to u3

May 17, 2020, 5:53 pm
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Hi guys,

 

I've tried a few different routes to upgrading my HP DL360, Gen 7s from 6.0u2 to u3 and failed. tried to upload the iso to Update Manager and that fails.

Then tried to boot from iso and upgrading via mounting the iso, that also failed.

Downloaded the iso from vmware portal. tried the standard version "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update03-5050593.x86_64" that failed to upload to Update Manager and failed to upgrade via mounting.

Then downloaded pre Gen9 iso, again from the vmware portal, "VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-Update3-9313334-HPE-preGen9-600.9.8.5.4-Sep2018" that again has failed. i dont want to have to rebuild from scratch as it requires a lot of manual config post built.

i'm running vCenter version 6.5

 

I'm sure DL360 Gen 7 is compatible to run/install ESXi6.0u3, has anyone had the same problem? 

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Cannot download Vsphere Hypervisor 6 (free) - download link does not work

August 25, 2015, 1:05 pm
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This has been happening since at least Saturday, and others have reported this as well (in the regular Hypervisor forums).

 

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi6

 

Neither the "manually download" nor the "Download Manager" links do anything.

 

I've tried 6 different computers (Windows XP and Windows 7 Home and Windows 7 Enterprise), 4 different web browsers (IE10, IE11, Firefox, chrome), and 3 different ISP (Verizon FIOS, Road Runner, and whoever supplies our Corporate LAN--AT&T or something).

 

I'm not sure VMware is even aware that there's an issue.

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Getting error: The capacity of the parent virtual disk and the capacity of the child disk are different (67).

December 16, 2012, 5:28 pm
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Hi,

 

I was trying to increase the hard disk space of a 10GB linux vm to a 20GB. I shut down the vm then ssh'd into the ESXi server. From there I ran the command:

 

vmkfstools -X 20G Apatite.vmdk

 

The command ran successfully. Then, when I powered up the vm I got and still am getting:

 

Reason: The capacity of the parent virtual disk and the capacity of the child disk are different.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/503fd5b8-d1cef086-eb4a-10bf487b38db/Apatite/Apatite-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

 

I have tried numerous things such as cloning the Apatite.vmdk to Apatite-repaired.vmdk. That works, however, I am getting an older version of the VM. i am not getting my changes from either Apatite-000001.vmdk or Apatite-000001-delta.vmdk.

 

I have some really important work on my VM that I am trying to restore. I should have backed it up before doing anything but I did. Now it seems like I am paying the price.

 

Can anyone help me recover my VM? Is there a way to increase the size of the snapshot (Apatite-000001.vmdk) or reduce the size of the parent so they match and the vm starts up?

 

Please help.

 

 

Thank you

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ESXI 6.7 Removing Datastore: Setting Scratch location back to non-persistence

May 18, 2020, 5:56 pm
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Having problems removing a datastore and noticed the vSphere client does not let me set advanced settings such as:

ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation
ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation

to

[] /scratch/log/.locker

Any ideas on the solution? I suspect the issue is with vSphere and having to directly go the esxi portal or shell in.

 

Update

shelled in:

mkdir -p /tmp/scratch

On vSphere I changed the advanced setting ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation to /tmp/scratch but anytime I try to set ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation to /tmp/scratch or /tmp/scratch/.locker I get an error message.

I briefly went through VMware Knowledge Base and it mentioned a restart was needed for that setting to be changed so I restarted. But when I went back to the hosts advanced settings those settings were reset back to the original datastore?

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esxi cannot boot after updating to 6.7 u3! how to fix it?

August 20, 2019, 11:00 pm
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esxi cannot boot after updating to 6.7 u3! how to fix it?

here is the error message "Shutting down firmware services... Page allocation error: Out of resources Failed to shutdown the boot services. Unrecoverable error"

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