Hi All
after reinstall esxi 6.5 15256549 i can not add rdm disk to vm
i have 2 files rdmp.vmdk and vmdk on folder VM
vmkfstools -z /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____HGST_HUS724040Axxxx__________________________PN2334PAKVWNRT /vmfs/volumes/DataSore_xxx/vm/rdm_xxxxx.vmdk
ls -l /vmfs/devices/disks
can`t show
t10.F405E46494C4540046F455B64787D285941707D203F45765
He show
naa.600508b1001c0d2e32c6d4xxxxxx:1 / 2 / 3
or vml.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx symlink!?
What wrong
How to add?
We are running ESXi 6.7 and the decision to upgrade to 7.0 depends on several factors. We are running 50 VMs, 35 of them Windows 2019 and the rest various flavors of Linux. We also have a small VDI setup using Horizon to present 160 Windows 10 desktops that have GPUs via nVidia grid cards. In our situation, are there compelling reasons to upgrade to ESXi 7.0? Our hardware compliment of HPE DL380 Gen10s and Nimble Storage can be used with ESXi 7.
Hello,
This is my situation/scenario:
Needed to move a virtual machine off a vCenter/esxi 6.5 environment.
The department purchased a 5TiB USB external drive. It is known that any drive over 2TiB will not work with 6.X.
Used commands to actually connect the USB drive to a host.
The host actually read the drive and was able to mount it. I then was able to migrate (vMotion) the virtual machine to the USB datastore.
This drive was not going to be used as pass-through to a virtual machine.
It was to be used as a datastore to house a virtual machine.
Thinking that if I could mount the 5TiB USB drive and migrate a virtual machine to it, then I could mount the drive to another esxi host.
That was not the case.
The device was seen as an enclosure and the 4.55 disk was seen.
But it could not be mounted and the datastore could not be attached.
So I tested the same situation/scenario with a 2TiB drive with vCenter 6.X and esxi 6.7.
This worked.
I attached the 2TiB drive, rescanned, then mounted the datastore.
Yes, I know that VMware does not support this situation, and that any drive over 2TiB will not actually work.
Will VMware eventually allow USB drives over 2TiB to work with possible future releases?
Also, has anyone else experienced this and somehow found a work around?
Thanks.
I recently changed the IP schema of my network from 192.168.x.x to 172.x.x.x due to addressing conflicts. I'm using this in a home environment for personal use, but I also support remote sites for work and I kept having issues with my home network clashing with work site IPs. Ever since this transition, I am only able to open VM consoles if I log in using the FQDN, but not is I log in via IP.
ESXI old IP - 192.168.1.20
ESXi new IP - 172.16.1.20
ESXI FQDN - esxi.kurort (DNS resolution works perfectly and resolves to the new IP)
VM1 old ip - 192.168.1.31
VM1 new IP - 172.16.1.31
etc.
ESXi and all VMs get their IPs via DHCP using reservations. They pick up the correct IPs, and they are all accessible perfectly fine both via IP and their specific FQDNs.
If I log into ESXi using the IP address (172.16.1.20), the little console preview just spins and never loads a screenshot, and VRMC times out and then errors with:
"Failed to connect to 192.168.1.20: Invalid or expired session ticket"
Note that the user account seems to be "stuck" with the old IP as well.
If I log into ESXi using the FQDN (esxi.kurort) I have no problem using the consoles, and both browser and VRMC consoles work fine.
How can this be fixed?
Does anybody know how to troubleshoot the "Hardware RNG raw data failed health check" installation error?
VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.7 U3 only.
The VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.7 U2 installs OK.
My system is based on the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X.
Thanks,
Toma
I was able to passthru my AMD gpu and a Renesas usb controller in 6.5 but after updating to 6.7 my Windows 10 vm startup just shows a black screen on the console. Normally, the VMWare logo displays and Windows boots up. Rolling back to 6.5 and passthru works again. Any ideas?
Hi!
I've noted , from some time, that when I'm logged to any VM on my ESXi 6.5 host, the keys that I press by means my keyboard are almost alway repeated.
Thi is a very annoying issue.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance
Hi,
I am a developper, but always been insterested in infrastructure.
I always thought that I should not depend on the infrascture and therefore able to set up my own servers myself.
And with VMWare i did it !
It is now a bit more than 10 years i am using VMWare technologie as a free user to manage my home networks.
I am running an ESXI on a fanless computeur i5. I don't have a lot of servers, only 3 (1 linux debian as web server, 1 windows server as data server, 1 zabbix server),I added an electric inverter to be able to serve my web content with 99.99% availability. With VMWare i feel like nothing is impossible. Reliability is at the rendezvous.
I never lost data, i am using my own script (in shell) to back up the VM to a distant using a mount in NFS, mounted at each reboot using /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh.
Snapshots works really great, each time i want to update/upgrade a systeme, make critical change, i can save the state before doing big change, being able to get back if something wrong happend.
When i install a new system i can use snapshot to save states to test it and validate it before making it consistent.
Recently i added Zabbix to my system to check if all is going well, and being able o get alerts when ever someting is going wrong. And even there VMWare was there to help me monitoring it !
SNMP is available to send data to it, it is not perfect ( i dont get cpu infos and ram infos) but it is really great to be able to monitor it with services included in ESXI
Even Esxi updates/upgrades work like a charm, i started on Esxi 5.0 and upgraded it to 6.7 with each intermediate version, and each times it worked without any troubles !
The system is a core linux with minimal functionnalities, but all the services i need are there, it is possible to add some extra services if they are missing as it is linux compliant (ncftp for exemple).
If i need to virtualize a phisical machine, VMWare has the tools for it ! and again it worked for me without any troubles.
and there is so much more to say ... (IPFail over, virtual network, live vm edit ... + all i still not know)
Since i use your tools i feel like i really upgraded my knowlegde and possibilities.
So even if my post is useless, i really want to say a big thanks to VMWare staff, you are really doing a great job !
I wish you the best for the future
Does anyone know why my ESX 7 server cannot sync its time with a Windows 10 time server? I confirmed the time server works, and the firewall is open on ESX7 and Windows 10, but the time is not the same, its always 2 minutes like it was before, which is what I'm trying to fix. ntpq -pn shows it sits in INIT all the time.
eg.
[root@local:~] ntpq -pn
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
192.168.1.16 .INIT. 16 u - 256 0 0.000 +0.000 0.000
ESX says the service is running and the IP is of the Windows 10 machine at 192.168.1.16 is correct. 
Any guidance would be great, it simply doesn't work. Its difficult to test a UDP connect to 192.168.1.16 at port 123 so I'm only 99% sure thats open. other machines with NTP client testing tools can get the time at 192.168.1.16 perfectly fine so I'm sure its ok.
I have a ESXI v6 u3 installed on a DL380 G9. I have done Raid from the HP provisioning itself. After installing the ESXI and presenting the disks to it. The disks show me as degraded:
naa.600508b1001ce2641dcf3c827c33d0df
Display Name: HP Serial Attached SCSI Disk (naa.600508b1001ce2641dcf3c827c33d 0df)
Has Settable Display Name: true
Size: 1144609
Device Type: Direct-Access
Multipath Plugin: NMP
Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600508b1001ce2641dcf3c827c33d0df
Vendor: HP
Model: LOGICAL VOLUME
Revision: 5.04
SCSI Level: 5
Is Pseudo: false
Status: degraded
Is RDM Capable: true
Is Local: false
Is Removable: false
Is SSD: false
Is VVOL PE: false
Is Offline: false
Is Perennially Reserved: false
Queue Full Sample Size: 0
Queue Full Threshold: 0
Thin Provisioning Status: unknown
Attached Filters:
VAAI Status: unknown
Other UIDs: vml.0200010000600508b1001ce2641dcf3c827c33d0df4c4f47494341
Is Shared Clusterwide: true
Is Local SAS Device: false
Is SAS: true
Is USB: false
Is Boot USB Device: false
Is Boot Device: true
Device Max Queue Depth: 1024
No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 32
Drive Type: logical
RAID Level: RAID1
Number of Physical Drives: 2
Protection Enabled: false
PI Activated: false
PI Type: 0
PI Protection Mask: NO PROTECTION
Supported Guard Types: NO GUARD SUPPORT
DIX Enabled: false
DIX Guard Type: NO GUARD SUPPORT
Emulated DIX/DIF Enabled: false
May I know the reason for this and how to fix it.
Hello,
I'm trying to configure Multipathing iSCSI over RDMA (iSER) using ConnectX-5 Ex EN network interface card 100GbE dual-port QSFP28 (MCX516A-CCAT) and ESXi 7.0.
I designate a separate vSphere switch for each virtual-to-physical adapter pair.
IP addresses:
iSCSI Server: 172.16.0.1 - vmk1: 172.16.0.2
iSCSI Server: 172.16.1.1 - vmk2: 172.16.1.2
But path status is Not used.
The same problem occurs when configuring one vSwitch. What is the problem and how can i solve it?
Thank you.
Hi everyone,
Let me start by saying I'm by no means a SysAdmin so my knowledge of this subject is pretty limited. I'm a Software Engineer and for our next sprint we wanted to reuse an old PowerEdge R410 server for testing by installing VMware on it and hosting different virtual servers.
So I'm trying to get VMware vSphere 7.0 installed on it but I keep running into the problem that when I have to select a Disk to install it on, it shows there is no disks to select. I first downloaded the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image and burned it to a DVD. And I also tried the DellEMC Custom Image for ESXi 7.0 Install CD since we thought it may have something to do with the Raid controllers? It has the hardware raid controller so it should be compatible.
Like I said, my knowledge on this subject is very limited, so any help would be appreciated.
Hi i'm using some Marvell FastLinQ BCM57711 10-Gigabit Ethernet network cards in my vsphere home lab.
They worked perfectly on vsphere 6.7 however under vsphere 7 they should use the native driver but are not seen or detected.
They are on the Vsphere 7 HW compatibility list
VMware Compatibility Guide - I/O Device Search
with these exact identifier
14e4:164f 14e4:1113
However looking at the qfle3.map file i cannot see any identifier that matches.
Seems to me or the HW compatibility list is wrong, or the driver map is lacking the identifiers to actually load the driver.
please advise.
When I go to export my VM I initially exported without nvram because it wasn't selected by default, when I tried to deploy the VM, it said I was missing the nvram and vmdk even tho the vmdk was selected with the ovf. I tried to export the OVF with the nvram selected and it opens a new tab that just says "not found" and the other files download fine but the task hangs at 50%.
I looked through the logs and there was nothing about the nvram file or anything similar. I am kinda lost at what to do.
I tried looking through the documentation and it was very unclear and more of a marketing pitch lol, if someone has a link to documentation and troubleshooting steps that would be awesome.
I would post pictures of the errors but its just a blank webpage saying "not found" and the task doesn't fail so there no relevant error output.
This is the error on ESXI 6.7 environment im trying to deploy it to, I select the OVF, VMDK, and MF file when I do the upload and it thinks I dont have the VMDK?? when I do the export with NVRAM selected, i dont get the MF file.
Side Note: is .nvram required when deploying a OVF template?
Does anyone have instructions on how to replace the certificate with an external CA on a ESXi 6.7 host instead of the default self signed? I would of thought it would be integrated into vCenter now but that doesn't seem to be the case
Hello team,
In the past I've had ESXi running a sole NGFW appliance, with all available NICs passed through to the NGFW appliance - works a treat. Representation is below.
Physical | Virtual Switch | Port Group | vNIC on NGFW VM
NIC0 --> ETH0 - ETH0 - ETH0 WAN
NIC1 --> ETH1 - ETH1 - ETH1 LAN (Note also sharing management to esxi host)
NIC2 --> ETH2 - ETH2 - ETH2 LAN
NIC3 --> ETH3 - ETH3 - ETH3 LAN
With the example above was done recently with a Fortigate VM, utilising a fortigate feature called Software switch. For those who don't know its essentially a way at the firmware level within the VM to allow multiple interfaces to work together as a switch (Eth1, Eth2 and Eth3 in the software Switch which operates as LAN).
What I'm trying to figure out and having difficulty finding a definitive answer to whether its even possible is this - I'd like to be able to bypass the software switch in the VM level and have ESXi do that function instead, so the VM is instead presented with 2 vNICS instead of 4.
Physical | Virtual Switch | Port Group | vNIC on NGFW VM
NIC0 --> ETH0 - ETH0 - ETH0 WAN
The second one would be the following
NIC1, NIC2, NIC3 --> LAN - LAN - ETH1 LAN
This would mean that NIC1, NIC2 and NIC3 are in the same broadcast domain (LAN), and would operate as a standard switch.
Documentation regarding Virtual switch capabilities lead me to believe this may be possible (I don't believe teaming NICs will accomplish this).
I'm not concerned about performance implications that may arise, I'm more interested to know if its possible and if so how.
I'm using ESXi 6.7u3
Thank you
Josh
according to statements from KB and blog, there are disadvantages(primarily about logging and partition) if you choose SD card as boot device for ESXi, as shown in figure below.
I would like to know:
is choosing top level of SD card(such as V90 speed and more than 32GB capacity) a total solution to get rid of the disadvantages(described above)?
or maybe ESXi(6.7 or 7.0 for example) requires high IO throughput boot device which is what SD card cannot offer yet?
Hi,
this morning, I noticed something very strange. I was installing a new VM (linux) but when the time came to enter details (username/password/...) my keyboard didn't work anymore inside the VM console window.
I then tried another (allready running) VM, same problem (also linux based). Next I tried a windows server based VM, there I could use the keyboard/mouse without any problem... Again, tried another linux VM, nothing. Except I still could use the crtl-c (xC) keyboard combo, that got displayed on the console window, but no other keys were accepted, not even the enter key.
I tried another browser, the same issue. I tried the VMRC console option (trough vmware workstation) same issue...
I then rebooted my host PC, now it's working again. Anyone also had this problem before? Seems really strange that only the linux based VM's didn't accept keyboard strokes and the windows based VM's had no problem?
Any ideas are welcome!
Hi
I'm trying to get some more information on the following knowledge base article
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1035833
My ESXi 6.7 U3 configuration has 4 x NTP sources. two NTP souces are internal and two are External. One of these internal NTP sources is the MS AD domain controller. With this configuration do I still need to follow the recommendations in the above knowledge base or is this only required if all NTP sources are internal?
Hey,
I want to configure more than 2 DNS servers for a ESXi 5.1 host.
Per vSphere-Client, or per DCUI I only can set 2 entries for that.
Is it possible to implement a third DNS server??
Best Regards,
Andre