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

EDIT: 2020-06-09:

Added the

vhv.allowPassthru = TRUE

flag, and that didn't help either.

Hi gurus

I had a hung task Migrate virtual machine, that got stuck on 13%, that was the only machine to get stuck all other VM migrated correctly, I ssh to the esxi and found the vmx process not to hard as it was the only VM, Kill the parent process, but vcenter after logoff and back on and refresh and kick , it still shows the vm stuck as 13% and cant do anything to it

am I missing something after the kill so vcenter get the info and let me do new stuff on the VM

Thanks all

I increased hard drive space on a win svr 08 vm, by going to edit settings on the vm, I am not seeing the new space on the vm do I need to reboot the vm to see the space?

I'm trying to enable passthrough of a SATA controller. I can't get past the "Enabled / Needs reboot" state. I have an NVMe PCIe card which is passed through to the guest successfully so the bios is set to permit virtualization.

Running VMware ESXi 7.0.0 build 16324942

ASRock x570m-pro4 AMD motherboard

Booting ESXi off USB drive

ESXi appears to have correctly added the device /etc/vmware/passthru.map :

[root@x:/etc/vmware] grep vmhba0 *

esx.conf:/vmkdevmgr/pci/p0000:08:00.0/alias = "vmhba0"

esx.conf:/vmkdevmgr/logical/pci#p0000:08:00.0#0/alias = "vmhba0"

[root@x:/etc/vmware] tail -n 2 passthru.map

# AMD FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]

1022 7901 d3d0 default

Should I be able to add the SATA controller to the guest VM using "add other device" ?

Hi all,

I had an issue where I lost connectivity to my ESXi machine, and it looked like the vSphere itself was the culprit. After being unable to connect to it or operate it directly from the terminal, I hard reset the machine.

It turned out that a faulty switch was to blame for a lack of connectivity, and I'd plugged the terminal output into the main VGA out (which was giving a BIOS message as an output), not realising there was a DVI graphics card in the machine as well (where the VMware hypervisor was outputting).

So, the hard reset was totally pointless. Unfortunatley, when the machine came back up, one of my datastores had gone.

The ESXi web console shows the storage as still being there, and will also show the partition. partedUtil states that the partition table is fine, but if I try to mount it, I'm told that the volume doesn't exist.

I then ran

voma -m vmfs -f check -d [diskname]

And received the following message:

Running VMFS Checker version 2.1 in check mode              

Initializing LVM metadata, Basic Checks will be done        

         ERROR: IO failed: Input/output error               

   VOMA failed to check device : IO error                   

Total Errors Found:           0

   Kindly Consult VMware Support for further assistance

Is this drive toast? It has some data on it that I would like to retrieve.

Any advice greatly appreciated!

Chris.

Is it possible (and allowed) to install the vCenter foundation version from the essentials plus bundle in a linked mode to connect to vCenter standard in our central location?

like this...

vCenter standard <- 5x vCenter foundation linked mode

We want to manage all our remote locations from our central vCenter standard.

If its possible, what about the WAN bandwith we should use for this.

Good afternoon,

I'm trying to upload some test -flat.vmdk files from a workstation to the datastore on a standalone vSphere 6.0 host (upgrading next year) over a local gigabit connection and the upload is extremely slow. Like ~80mbps slow. I tried another upload from the same workstation to a share I created on one of the VMs on that host and the upload speed was about 950mbps. I tried Googling this issue but found nothing applicable. Any ideas on what is causing my slow upload speeds?

Thanks,

Joe B

Hi,

We built the VM (ESXi 6.5) server and installed 'ESXi650-201912002.zip' patch by executing "esxcli software vib install -d /path/to/ESXi650-201912002.zip" during installation.

Now the how can I verify that the patch has been installed from the console of the built ESXi server? I ran 'esxcli software vib list' and didn't see the name 'ESXi650-201912002' from output, there are several entries with version containing '6.5.0...', but how can I know if one of them is the patch, or even if the patch has (or not) been installed during the installation?

TIA

Hello everyone, I can not install ESXi versions from 6.0 to 6.7 on the HP BL 460c G8 Server, the HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB Adapter is installed on the server, but every time vmware cannot see the network adapter, here are psod errors. Thank you, best regards, Ivan.

Dear Community,

It's been a while since I crashed face-first into an error, but I'm back! I'm currently working with an actual server, with the following specs:

• 4x Intel Xeon E7-8870's
• 64GB (16x4GB) DDR3 ECC
• 1x HP 518216-002 146GB
  • 4x HP 507127-B21 300GB
• using the server's integrated graphics

As I mentioned in the title, I managed to get ESXi 6.5 installed on the server. But I've been getting these PSOD's after about 8-9 minutes of just letting the thing idle:

Can this be caused my faulty memory modules? Or am I missing something. If necessary, I can grab dumps from the server (by just waiting for it to PSOD again). This is the only thing between me and having a relatively quiet VM server to play with at my house. I really want to make this a footnote in the journey

Hallo liebe Community,

ich bin noch ganz neu im Theme Vmware und Esxi. Ich habe da ein kleines Problemchen. Ich weiss leider nicht wie ich wirklich nach dem Problem suchen soll/kann. Ich habe eine Virtuelle Maschine die per vSwitch an eine Portgruppe und per physischem Netzwerk an einem anderen Netzwerk hängt. Wenn ich nun das Netzwerkkabel ziehe, dann ist die Verbindung zum externen Netzwerk getrennt. Die virtuelle Maschine erkennt auch, dass das Netzwerk getrennt wurde, allerdings bleibt die virtelle Netzwerkkarte aktiv, da Sie ja die Verbindung zur vSwitch hat. Nun meine Frage: Ist es möglich die vSwitch so einzustellen, dass bei gezogenem Netzwerkkabel auch die Netzwerkkarte der virtuellen Maschine down geht? Kann man bei Esxi ein virtuelles Netzwerk direkt an eine physische Netzwerkkarte anhängen? Vielen Dank schon mal vorab fürs Lesen und für eine Antwort wäre ich sehr Dankbar.

Grüße SB

Hello community,

sorry for the terrible english. I'm new in the Vmware and Esxi. I don't know how should I search for this Problem. I have an virtual maschine the virtual network is connected to an vswitch and a portgroup and then to the physical device. If the physical Network is broken the virtual maschine recognize that the connection is down to the physical network. The virtual networkcard is still active because th virtual connection to the vswitch is ok. Now my question: is it possible setting the vswitch so that the virtual network from the maschine is going down also? Is is possible setting the Esxi to add a virtual network directly to an physical network without vswitch ? Thanks for reading my terrible english. I say thanks for an answer.

Greets CB

Hi All,

Question - I have eSXI 6.7 on a Dell host. For security reasons, I am patching in-between Dell releasing image updates. So technically, I am running the current version of eSXI. Now Dell has released a new image, which I would like to apply for driver support. My question is whether there is any problem with installing the image from Dell because technically, it an older version than what I am running now - I am at 6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 16713306) and the Dell image is at  ESXi 6.7 U3 Dell Version: A05, Build# 16075168.

Coming hot off the heels of the previous issue, I now have yet another one to attend to. I have the following drives sitting in the DL580 G7's front bays:

• 1x HP 518216-002 146GB HDD
• 1x Western Digital WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB SATA SSD
• 4x HP 507127-B21 300GB HDDs
• 1x 500GB Seagate Video ST500VT003 HDD

But only the HP 518216-002 and one of the HP 507127-B21's seem to have been detected by ESXi. However, if I look in iLO 3 (HP remote management), all of the drives show up. The SSD shows up as faulty, which means that it is possibly incompatible with my server. I can deal with the SSD issue later. My primary concern is that most of my spinning disks aren't detected in ESXi, even though iLO 3 shows them as being fault-free. Do I simply need to initialise the drives first, or am I missing something here? I apologise if this is a stupid question. Any assistance would be appreciated.

I have added Intel x722 10Gb adapter into my server.

ESXi (from 6.0 to 7.0) doesn't detect this adapter. The adapter doesn't appeared nor in Networking nor in Hardware list (also lspci). I have tried Live Linux on this machine - network adapter detected correctly. I have tried Windows Server installed onto this host - network adapter detected. How I can force ESXi to detect the adapter?

I'll hop straight to the point. I have ESXi 6.5 U3 installed to a HDD on my server, because I don't have enough thumb drives to spare for the server to have a dedicated one, and my budget is pretty tight at the moment. I used most of it to make sure I'd have a functioning server and spare parts, in case anything went up during initial setup. I want to use the remaining free space on said drive for a datastore (which will hold ISO's and other important materials), and an currently trying to create it via SSH. Here are the materials I have read through thus far:

• VMware Knowledge Base - Identifying disks in ESX/ESXi
• VMware Knowledge Base - Using the partedUtil command
• VMware Knowledge Base - Manually creating a VMFS volumes with vmkfstools
• https://serverfault.com/questions/959224/i-cant-create-a-datastore-in-esxi-6-7-u1
• https://darkglade.com/2019/07/05/building-a-datastore-on-your-esxi-boot-usb/

Here is what I've tried in SSH so far:

clear

esxcli storage core path list

ls /dev/disks/

*The first command lists device/LUN paths.*
*The second lists devices and partitions.*
*I must match results from ^^^^ to find the drive with partitions 1/5/6/7/8 defined.*
*In my case, it's naa.600508b1001c5dd0b075505fceb1e350 - time to dump a parition table...*

partedUtil getptbl /dev/disks/naa.600508b1001c5dd0b075505fceb1e350

*In the output, the second line is misc data about the disk in question.*
*I need two numbers:*
*the last number of the 2nd line, which is the last sector of the disk*
*the 3rd column of the last line, which is 1 minus the start sector - gotta add 1*

*My data:*


gpt
17844 255 63 286677120
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
9 1843200 7086079 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0
2 7086080 15472639 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0
3 15472640 286677086 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0


*END_DATA*


*Numbers of interest: 286677120, 286677086*

*"Note the AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 - this is a fixed string denoting VMFS volumes so you will have to use the same."*

*Time to attempt repartitioning. We'll use 4, since that partition doesn't already exist...*



partedUtil add /dev/disks/naa.600508b1001c5dd0b075505fceb1e350 gpt "4 286677087 286677120 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 0"
*failed - the 'add' option does not exist*

partedUtil set "/dev/disks/naa.600508b1001c5dd0b075505fceb1e350" "4 286677087 286677120 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 0"
*failed - "Invalid Partition information"*

Is the following line:

• 3 15472640 286677086 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0

the vmfs partition that i should be focusing on, rather than trying to create yet another one by hand? Do I only need to do something like:

• vmkfstools -C vmfs6 -S ISO_Store /dev/disks/naa.600508b1001c5dd0b075505fceb1e350:3

To have the datastore that I want? Just curious...

Message was edited by: TopHat Productions115 Removed redundant commands, copy+paste error

I have a 2-node vSAN cluster with Dell r730xd hosts, running ESXi v7.0. I put one of the hosts into maintenance mode today, to start updating them both to 7.0b. When I tried to run the update from vCenter, it stopped with an error and checking the esxupdate log made it seem like something to do with the bootbank not being found. The host has ESXi installed on SD card via the Dell Dual SD Module. iDRAC shows both SD cards in the mirror to be healthy and working normally.

I rebooted the host, and it does seem to boot okay, and comes back online to vCenter but now shows that "No coredump target has been configured. Host core dumps cannot be saved." and trying the update again still produces same error in esxupdate log. I really am still learning vSphere but I would deduce something is wrong with the bootbank partition on the SD card, even though the system still boots okay... I even tried to use a 7.0b ISO USB installer to upgrade ESXi but when the installer gets to scanning devices, it quickly produces some error about "UnicodeDecodeError" and not being able to "decode byte 0x99 in position 5" because of "Invalid Start Byte". I'm guessing when the installer is scanning the SD cards to find existing ESXi, whatever bootbank issue is there causes an error out on installer booting from USB stick.

Either way, what can I do to check into why I am suddenly having what seems to be a bootbank issue and can I repair it somehow?

I bought a server Dell PowerEdge 440 a year ago. I downloaded ESXi 6.7.0 (build number 11675023) made for this server from dell.com. All was working normal but yesterday I restarted the host and now my VM is not working. A license key is needed. I read all about licensing and more but I can't register my product in VMWare.com. (when I downloaded the iso file from dell. com there was no option to register the free product.) On a Licensing page in my host is written:

Key: 00000-00000-00000-00000-00000

Expiration date: Never

Someone can help me with this issue?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Coming hot off the heels of the lasttwo issues, I now have only one more to address before I start applying security patches (last step before moving forward with VM creation). I'm trying to access the drive mentioned here (WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB SATA SSD) in ESXi 6.5, but can't seem to touch it at all. When I try to make a new datastore, I receive the following error:

• Failed to create VMFS datastore - Cannot change the host configuration.

Do I need to enable SSH and ready the SSD from command line (If so, how)? And when following the instructions given in officialdocumentation, I can't seem to find Virtual Flash Resource Management for the life of me. Does this feature require use of vCenter by chance? I understand that this prompt seems very fragmented, so I'll put it like this:

I want to use the SSD as Virtual Flash, first and foremost. If that can't be done, how would I go about fixing the error above to make it into a VMFS datastore instead?

If you need me to pull up logs or other materials, please let me know. I've seen other posts with this error message, but I'm not sure how to fix this myself.

Hello,

First off  I should state that I am an linux/esx noob...

I'm running esxi 6.7.0 I am trying to keep a persistent list of aliases for the esx shell so I am using /etc/profile.local to store them.

The problem I am running into now is that I want to make further changes to the list I have already created but every time I reboot the new changes are lost.

I can edit the file and cat it to verify the changes are saved but after every reboot my changes are lost. Only my original 4 aliases remain in profile.local with no way to add/change them.

Ive also tried added changes to  /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh but the same thing happens on reboot.

After some searching I learned about  /sbin/auto-backup.sh and thinking that would help I also ran it but same issue.

There is a file called /etc/.#profile.local (which I did not create)   but the content of it is just some comments and not the content of my few aliases in /etc/profile.local

Can someone tell me why I was once able to persist changes to  /etc/profile.local but now cannot?

Thanks.

Hello everyone

I installed a network card with Realtek 8111G chip in my Pc with Esxi 7.0

From the shell of Esxi 7.0 I can see the network cards (see image01.png)

But from the management interface of Esxi 7.0 I can't see the network cards

I see only the main network card (see image02.png)

I have deduced that the drivers must be installed, probably.

Where can I retrieve the drivers to install on Esxi 7.0 and how to install them?

Thank you