Hello there,
I have 2 VMware Datastores located on a Dell EMC.
I have increased the size on the Dell EMC, and then Increased the DataStore size in VMware.
However, the size showing in the client or the web console keeps reverting back.
This pictures shows what it keeps reverting back to:
Then all I do is hit the Refresh and it shows the correct Capacity, but that only lasts an hour at most:
Can anyone tell me how to get the 7TB to stick?
Windows 10 guest on Esxi 6.5.0 Update 3. The guest console is not working. The web console just show blue background with "vmware". Show menu items but none of them is working. For example nothing happens if I chose shutdown from the console menu.
The web gui of esxi works and I can shutdown the VM from the web gui. Here is the log I found under the vm:
2020-06-03T14:10:45.072Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransportProcessClientPayload: opID=esxui-444-2c49 seq=58802: Receiving MKS.IssueTicket request.
2020-06-03T14:10:45.072Z| vmx| I125: SOCKET 132 (113) creating new listening socket on port -1
2020-06-03T14:10:45.072Z| vmx| I125: Issuing new webmks ticket 4efa17... (120 seconds)
2020-06-03T14:10:45.072Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransport_ServerSendResponse opID=esxui-444-2c49 seq=58802: Completed MKS request.
2020-06-03T14:10:45.201Z| mks| I125: Accepting connection for webmks ticket 4efa17...
2020-06-03T14:10:45.201Z| mks| I125: Expiring webmks ticket 4efa17...
2020-06-03T14:10:45.201Z| mks| I125: MKS-RemoteMgr: Negotiated Web Socket protocol=binary
2020-06-03T14:10:45.201Z| mks| W115: SOCKET 133 (146) unable to determine remote IP address
2020-06-03T14:10:45.202Z| mks| I125: SOCKET 133 (146) Creating VNC remote connection.
2020-06-03T14:10:45.202Z| mks| I125: MKSControlMgr: New VNC connection 4
2020-06-03T14:10:45.586Z| mks| I125: SOCKET 133 (146) Received websocket close frame with empty status code
2020-06-03T14:10:45.586Z| mks| I125: SOCKET 133 (146) Sending websocket close frame, status code = 1000
2020-06-03T14:10:45.586Z| mks| I125: SOCKET 133 (146) VNC Remote Disconnect: socket closed.
2020-06-03T14:10:45.586Z| mks| I125: MKSControlMgr: Remove VNC connection 4
The alternative I am using now is connect to the VM using VNC.
Tested on different workstations, one on the same LAN segment, one behind a router. Same results. Port scan from both workstation shows port 443 and 902 are open.
Any idea how to trouble-shoot this?
Thanks
I have (2) ESXi 6.7 hosts setup to use the same NTP server (time.nist.gov). One host keeps the time fine, even though sometimes the logs will display a warning that it has lost connection to the NTP server. The other host loses time gradually. When I noticed the problem, I simply restarted the NTP Daemon and the time was corrected and in sync with the first host.
One week later, there is a 5 second difference between the 2 hosts. The NTP service is configured exactly the same on both hosts. Any suggestions on what I should try next? I figured I'd try the forums before contacting support.
Hi,
Running ESXi 6.7 15160138, a converged host/storage combo where many datastores are running off an OmniOS VM with an LSI-2008 passed through.
Boots hang at the command:
esxcli boot storage restore --nfs-volumes
The startup recovers, but it takes quite a while and the error is not graceful.
Does anyone know of a kernelopt or advanced setting that can prevent this behavior at boot, since the NFS volumes are not available until the host starts up the VM?
Thank you
Avery
Author : Chris Bedford
Topic Name : Choose Network Adapters for the Management Network
Publication Name : vSphere Installation and Setup
Product/Version : VMware vSphere/6.0
Question :
How can I configure the management interfaces through the console? I am trying to automate building esxi hosts that use vmnic5 as the management interface and all other interfaces should not be used for management.
Hi,
our penetration test team criticizes a running SLP Service on Port 427 tcp/udp on all our ESXi hosts 5.0 (HP380G6-G8).
Does someone know if this Service is needed on a standard ESXi host connectet to a vCenter (maby for the hardware tab)?
We are NOT running any third party tools to monitor the hosts (HP agent e.g). But we have installed the CIM Provider for the vCenter integration.
Just closing "CIM SLP" via firewall rules did not bring up any problems promptly as far as I see, but I want to be really sure.
Any help would be appreciated.
Chris
Hello.
Im trying to create a new datastore for esxi 7 because I want to boot the physical installation of Windows 10 that I have on the Samsung EVO ssd disk,but it seems that I'm not able to create a new datastore. Infact below you can see that my disk devices are recognized :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YSfBr0P7w3NlZe6W1Gc_7X5WZmOlBb32/view?usp=sharing
but,as u can see below,none of my disks are recognized anymore when I try to create a new datastore :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LSTPciBRyOZYNj1zX8FZFgrIh-YT3I1I/view?usp=sharing
It says : "no devices with free space" but also "the following devices are unclaimed". So,what it looks for ? is asking for an empty sata disk ?
Hi,
In KB article VMware Knowledge Base it says to apply settings to your VMXNET3 network adapter at the guest operating system. Does anyone know these settings also apply to ESXi 7.0
In the article in states that the related versions are up to and including ESXi 6.7.x
Hi,
During fresh installation of ESXi7, it complains about incompatible hardware with number 1000:0073 1028:1f51
I can complete the install.
The incompatible device it complains about, is the Perc H310 embedded RAID controller, which is on the compatibility list with the exact same number.
VMware Compatibility Guide - I/O Device Search
The driver is loaded:
lsi-mr3 Broadcom Native MegaRAID SAS driver for vmkernel 7.712.50.00-1vmw.700.1.0.15843807 VMW Tuesday, April 07, 2020, 17:20:48 +0200
Commands esxcli storage core adapter list and esxcli storage nmp device list do not list the adapter.
Any suggestions are very much appreciated
Niels
Hi I have an isolated nested isolated lab. Inside this lab, I want to block all ports except allowing the Internet to come in. I don't really know how to achieve this. Someone suggested I try M0n0wall, but that appliance requires 128 GB of RAM and only runs inside memory, so that's not going to work for me. I would like to use pfsense, but that is a little over my head and complex. I might try opnsense, but I don't have anyone to bounce questions off of. There's gotta be a user-friendly way to make this happen.
If there an easy appliance I can use as say the gateway in that nested environment, where I can block all ports except internet. I imagine for Internet, I'd just allow 80 and 443, is that right? Also I would I set this appliance as the gateway for all my ESXi hosts and VMs?
I currently have Windows Server 2016 as the DC, DNS, and so forth. Could I achieve this simply through the DC?
Any help would be appreciated. I thank you in advance. Very eager to try to get this setup working. An isolated lab where I can have Internet, but not really have to worry about much else.
Thanks!
I used to have a datastore defined across 2 disks (spanned 2 partitions on 2 disks). After some disk maintenance the datastore disappeared.
The 2 vmfs partitions on 2 disks seem to still be there:
naa.6842b2b07523ad00266e747a07b4f40c:3
naa.6842b2b07523ad0022b0972b1b2d9380:1
Here are a couple of things I see in the logs:
2020-06-07T01:18:16.558Z cpu3:2097803)ScsiDeviceIO: 3015: Cmd(0x459a6a755f80) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x1944 from world 0 to dev "naa.6842b2b07523ad00266e747a07b4f40c" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.
2020-06-07T01:18:16.558Z cpu3:2102696)LVM: 11279: Device naa.6842b2b07523ad00266e747a07b4f40c:3 detected to be a snapshot:
2020-06-07T01:18:16.558Z cpu3:2102696)LVM: 11286: queried disk ID: <type 2, len 22, lun 0, devType 0, scsi 0, h(id) 9838619252749419043>
2020-06-07T01:18:16.558Z cpu3:2102696)LVM: 11293: on-disk disk ID: <type 2, len 22, lun 0, devType 0, scsi 0, h(id) 12515120875663827942>
2020-06-07T01:18:17.051Z cpu11:2097804)ScsiDeviceIO: 3015: Cmd(0x45a2403d9480) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x19f4 from world 0 to dev "naa.6842b2b07523ad00266e747a07b4f40c" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.
2020-06-07T01:18:17.096Z cpu11:2097804)ScsiDeviceIO: 3015: Cmd(0x45a240214b40) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x1a09 from world 0 to dev "naa.6842b2b07523ad0022b0972b1b2d9380" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.
2020-06-07T01:18:17.103Z cpu12:2098768)LVM: 14889: Extent zero missing
Output of command esxcfg-volume -l:
VMFS UUID/label: 5b1f0184-de3a7854-541e-842b2b5ad05e/datastore1
Can mount: No (some extents missing)
Can resignature: No (some extents missing)
Extent name: naa.6842b2b07523ad00266e747a07b4f40c:3 range: 0 - 277759 (MB)
Any help will be much appreciated.
I'm having trouble finding gpus amd or nvidia that aren't A coprocessors ie tesla or amd firepro coproccessors and are 1U cards and C are compatible with vmware esxi 6.5. my server is a 1U with 6 pin/8pin gpu pcie power connector. are there any out there or am i screwed?
Hi,
I have a datastore made of a 20TB disk and an extent of about 40TB (local disks, areca raid controller).
Long story short, I had to delete and re-create the 40TB volume on the RAID controller (without initalization, of course).
Now all the data is there but eui changed for the 40TB volume and vmware is unable to mount it.
log/hostd.log:2016-05-10T07:17:16.107Z info hostd[3D380B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr] Event 118 : An attached device eui.001b4d2051676528:1 may be offline. The file system [backvol1, 55e980d4-386dfa7f-7cb2-0cc47a09ba36] is now in a degraded state. While the datastore is still available, parts of data that reside on the extent that went offline might be inaccessible.
[root@esxi2:/vmfs/volumes/55e980d4-386dfa7f-7cb2-0cc47a09ba36] esxcli storage vmfs snapshot list
Volume Name:
VMFS UUID:
Can mount: false
Reason for un-mountability: some extents missing
Can resignature: false
Reason for non-resignaturability: some extents missing
Unresolved Extent Count: 1
Can anyone help me please?
Thank you!
Hello,
Is it possible to export a VM as a single OVA file from the free ESXi 6.5? I know this is possible with the paid version of ESXi through vCenter, but all we have are free ESXi host machines. When I right-click on a VM, there is an Export option, but it offers no choices. It automatically creates a multi-file OVF export, which is not what I need in this case.
Any assistance would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom
ESXi version: 6.7.0 Update 2 (Build 13006603)
Motherboard: SuperMicro X10SRH-CF BIOS v 3.2 (latest)
OS VMs - WIndows 7 Ultimate and 2012R2, with all mandatory updates installed
Hard drives: 1TB SanDIsk SSD for ESXi attached to motherboard SATA, and various 6TB data drives
I've only just started experimenting with using VMs and so far I like it.
But last week I was copying very large files (90GB or larger) between a USB3.1 hard drive and a WD SATA 6TB drive attached to the motherboard's controller on a Windows 7 VM, and discovered that the WD 6TB was corrupting the data (and NTFS' various file structures, according to chkdsk). I assumed it was a problem with the drive (though there were no indications in the SMART data that there was a problem) and swapped it out.
The new drive started having the same problems so I decided it must be a cable or controller issue. Swapping cables made no difference so I tried mounting the drive via an LSI SAS controller and SATA breakout cable. No problems. OK, so it appeared to be an issue with the motherboard's SATA controller. I installed SuperMicro's latest chipset drivers and plugged the drive back into the SATA controller but that made no difference. The same problems were exhibited under a Win 2012R2 VM, too. I tried sfc /scannow on both VMs, as well as chkdsk on the system drives, but they no found no issues.
I upgraded the motherboard's BIOS but that made no difference. On a hunch I swapped the ESXi boot drive for a Windows 2012R2 drive so I could run that on the bare metal and... no problems with the drive using the motherboard SATA controller. I copied terabytes of data around over the course of a couple of days and no issues whatsoever. When I replugged in the ESXi and booted that, I immediately started having the corruption and NTFS directory structure problems again.
So I am obliged to conclude the problem is with ESXi.
Does ESXi have the equivalent of sfc /scannow so I can check the integrity of the installation? Is there a way to re-install its chipset/SATA drivers? Any other ideas about what might be going on?
ESXi version: 5.5u3
Motherboard: SuperMicro X10SRH-CF BIOS v 3.2 (latest)
OS VMs - WIndows 2012R2, with all mandatory updates installed
I'm using this ancient version of ESXi because it's the last one that SuperMicro asserts supports this motherboard.
Windows 2012R2 can successfully access various PCI passthrough controllers in PCI slots, but when I enable the onboard SAS 3008 controller, it won't boot.
But a Debian 10 vm starts fine and can talk to the 3008 without issue. So this is clearly related to Windows.
I'm a ESXi n00b. How do I go about debugging this? Which logs should I examine?
OK, this is baffling.
I have a Cavium / Brocade / Qlogic 16Gb / 10GbE FCoE CNA Network HBA (BR0110401-38 / RS-1860-2A01).
It has two SFP+ ports and is configured for FCoE, which means it shows as 4 devices (2 NIC and 2 FC) but when I attempt to select one in Host->Manage->Hardware->PCI Devices in order to toggle PCI passthrough, the 4 devices start randomly auto-selecting and deselecting... by themselves! It's like an animation - see the attached .mp4 which I took on my phone.
This occurs on both my hosts (ESXi 6.7U3 on a Supermicro machine, and ESXi 7.0 on a Dell R730) when accessed using Firefox, Chrome or Opera browsers running on Windows 7 & 2012R2 on three different machines.
I've updated the firmware on the HBA to the latest version, as well as all the BIOS/Firmware on the SuperMicro & Dell.
Anyone else come across anything like this???
I have 2 HCL listed - VMWare servers that I recently upgraded to ESXi 7.0 from 6.5.
I'm attempting to get DDPIO working with some dedicated legacy SSL Accelerator cards (I know, I know, it's legacy support)
With ESXi 6.5, I was able to get around this problem by using the following syntax inside of the .vmx files and importing them.
vhv.enable = TRUE
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = FALSE
However 7.0 doesn't seem to be respecting these flags and I continue to get the following:
PCI passthrough devices cannot be added when Nested Hardware-Assisted Virtualization is enabled.
I'm not seeing anything in the release notes that would indicate that these customization would stop working..
I'm not expecting them to support the Guest or any of the passthrough configuration/functionality, but c'mon, I can't even power on the VM.
Before I jump in and open a ticket, does anyone have any direction on doing this on ESXi 7.0?
Thanks,
Garrett
Great Video on PCI Passthrough: PCI pass-through & Folding at Home on the VMware appliance (VMware vSphere ESXi 7) Jason Meers - YouTube
I have installed ESXI 6.7 U3, the custom HP ISO file, on a DL360 Gen 10 and noticed under the storage I can see additional components related to the various components in uknown state.
The storage array controller and disks are displayed correctly
I have attached screenshot of the issue
Any ideas as to the issue, to confirm I have used the custom ISO file from HP
We currently support 25TB of unstructured data on several SAN-attached file servers and I've been considering replacing them with a NAS or NAS gateway solution, but I also think just supporting access to this data for ~1,000 Windows clients would work fine on a virtualized 2-4 node WSFC.
We need to keep the solution on-premise, we've already invested in a tradition 3-tier architecture (HPE ProLiant/Synergy for compute, Cisco for network and DDN/Tintri/Tegile for FC storage) and I really just want higher availability that what I get with the current solution.
I've spoken to some local peers about their solutions; one is migrating to VMs built around Nutanix AFS and another to VMs using NetApp's Data ONTAP solution. What have you guys employed to support unstructured data for Windows client access that's highly available? Thank you.