Hello guys,

I'm having issues to install VMWare ESXi 6.5.0 on a HPE ProLiant ML110 Gen9.  I'm using a RAID1, but when i'm installing VMWare is shows 2 data storages and doesn't show the RAID1 that I created. What can I do?

Dear all,

in my configuration there is an ESXi 6.7U2 server and I'd like to pass through an NVIDIA NVS310 to my VMs. The GPU card is a PCIe x16 and it is installed on the PCIe x8 slot in my HPe Proliant Microserver Gen10.

The GPU card is recognized by the ESXi and is also visible in the vSphere GUI. When I enable GPU PCIe passthrough it is active/ reboot necessary. In the esx.conf it is visible that passthrough for the GPU card is enabled. The passthrough is only possible when the audio HD also is passed through.

/device/00000:003:00.0/owner = "passthru"

/device/00000:003:00.0/device = "107d"

/device/00000:003:00.0/vendor = "10de"

/device/00000:003:00.1/vendor = "10de"

/device/00000:003:00.1/device = "e08"

/device/00000:003:00.1/owner = "passthru"

After rebooting the server the GPU card is in the disabled state again and the configuration is not visible in the esx.conf anymore.

What can be done to keep the GPU card enabled after reboot?

Well... this was unexpected.

I went restarting my ESXi 6.5 standalone host and I got the following message. The boot device is hosted on a local RAID controller set in RAID1 and both disks are absolutely fine.

I'm not sure what's the best way to fix this?...

Hi everyone, since the dimension of vswp equals the assigned ram (consider no reservation), what happens if I hot add virtual ram on a virtual machine? Does the vswp hot-increase its dimension or not? Thank you

Hello.

At the beginning I have installed esxi 7.0 on a 64 GB USB stick. Wnen I tried to upgrade esxi 7,it stopped the procedure telling that there is not enough space on the disk. Then I have cloned byte by byte the content of the USB stick to a larger USB disk. When the cloning process is finished I rebooted the PC and I clicked on the item "UEFI OS (WD 3200BMV External 1.75) the disk where I have cloned the USB stick and I saw that it does not boots at all. It says : "Hypervisor not found". I mean : the disk boots properly,but as soon as it did,that error message is displayed and it comes back to the main boot menu. Is there a special reason for that ? thanks.

hello,

I knew the os release about GA, Stable, RC, Bete, Update.

and from VMware Knowledge Base ,what's the meaning of P0,EP,U1, U2b, U2C ?

If anybodys knew this, please let me know, thanks.

How to get a free license for ESXi 7.0?

Hello All,

I ran into a bit of a problem. I had a machine with 64GB disk space available, on which Windows 10 Pro was running. 64GB However proved to be slightly too short of what I required it to be. While the machine was running, I increased the disk size in ESXI (Edit -> Hard Disk 1 -> from 64 to 480). In windows I created a new volume of around 400GB with the new space that was available, and everything was just nice and as expected. Until I rebooted.

"An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system."

Now, I haven't changed anything other than increasing the disk size and adding a new volume. Why can't it find the operating system anymore? I went into the bios and checked if it somehow tried to boot off the other volume, but I can't even find it there; just "Hard Drive" with VMware Virtual SCSI Hard Drive and Bootable Add-in Cards "in" it. I have no idea how to resolve this issue, but I really can't miss this VM.

Any help or advice would be highly appreciated:)

Kind regards,

Remy

----------------------- Edit --------------------------

I have booted from the installation CD and removed the extra volume I've created. No success.

Tried to do a Start-up Repair, Uninstall Updates, System Restore, nothing works. They all just fail.

Diskpart at least still sees the 64gb volume as the C drive, so that's something.

----------------------- Edit 2--------------------------

I tried to rebuild the BCD, resulting in something rather unexpected. It successfully found a Windows installation, but when I tell it to add the installation to the boot list, it prompts me with "The requested system device cannot be found.", even though it just found it. urgh.

----------------------- Edit 3--------------------------

The hard disk is listed as SCSI, listing it as SATA or IDE doesn't work either.

There are too many vmhba 32,33,34 etc under the storage adapter. what do these mean? why do i see so much could this be a problem do i need to delete ?

why does windows 7 32 bit guest reboot upon profiling with performance counters enabled on VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 14320388

the same profiler works instead in windows 2012 server R2 guest, even with performance counters disabled, what could it be ?

I'm having a strange issue that I hope someone else has come across it, hostd.log doesn't show any information except to confirm the boot time is slower (16 seconds!).

Using this script.

for ($i=1; $i -le 25; $i++)    {    Start-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost01 Test') -Confirm:$false    Start-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost02 Test') -Confirm:$false    Start-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost03 Test') -Confirm:$false    sleep -seconds 2    Stop-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost01 Test') -Confirm:$false    Stop-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost02 Test') -Confirm:$false    Stop-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost03 Test') -Confirm:$false    sleep -seconds 2    }

Screenshots to show consistency.

All systems have local nvme disks, 2.1Ghz gold procs, and are booting a new & empty vm, same hardware versions, same os patch, same everything.

Systems all running `VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 10302608`

Each Server is configured exactly the same:

(1) SD w/ESXi installed

(1) NVMe SSD for Datastore, all datastores are local.

(2) Intel Gold 2.1Ghz 6130 Processors

768 GB of DDR4 RAM

**Host1**

12788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] State Transition (VM_STATE_OFF -> VM_STATE_POWERING_ON)
2018-10-23T14:26:35.376Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] SIOC: SIOC is notified not to start injector
2018-10-23T14:26:35.376Z warning hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Hostsvc.Tpm20Provider opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Unable to retrieve TPM/TXT status. TPM functionality will be unavailable. Failure reason: Unable to get node: Sysinfo error: Not foundSee VMkernel log for details..
2018-10-23T14:26:35.378Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2018-10-23T14:26:35.378Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Could not expand environment variable HOME.
2018-10-23T14:26:35.378Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "~/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2018-10-23T14:26:35.380Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Found vmx as /bin/vmx
2018-10-23T14:26:35.380Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Starting vmx as /bin/vmx
2018-10-23T14:26:35.380Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=vm opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] VigorExecVMXExCommon: VM /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb253-6d8a5196-5fdc-ac1f6b0e6418/New Virtual Machine/New Virtual Machine.vmx in directory /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb253-6d8a5196-5fdc-ac1f6b0e6418/New Virtual Machine
2018-10-23T14:26:35.380Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=vm opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] VigorExecVMXExCommon: Exec()'ing /bin/vmx /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb253-6d8a5196-5fdc-ac1f6b0e6418/New Virtual Machine/New Virtual Machine.vmx.
2018-10-23T14:26:35.381Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Vigor: VMKernel_ForkExec(/bin/vmx, detached=1): status=0 pid=2110313
2018-10-23T14:26:35.765Z info hostd[2099717] [Originator@6876 sub=Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr] Event 223 : New Virtual Machine on  localhost in ha-datacenter is powered on

**Host2** (and host3)

12788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] State Transition (VM_STATE_OFF -> VM_STATE_POWERING_ON)
2018-10-23T07:26:44.667Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] SIOC: SIOC is notified not to start injector
2018-10-23T07:26:44.667Z warning hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Hostsvc.Tpm20Provider opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Unable to retrieve TPM/TXT status. TPM functionality will be unavailable. Failure reason: Unable to get node: Sysinfo error: Not foundSee VMkernel log for details..
2018-10-23T07:26:44.669Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2018-10-23T07:26:44.669Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Could not expand environment variable HOME.
2018-10-23T07:26:44.669Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "~/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2018-10-23T07:26:44.671Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Found vmx as /bin/vmx
2018-10-23T07:26:44.671Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Starting vmx as /bin/vmx
2018-10-23T07:26:44.671Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=vm opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] VigorExecVMXExCommon: VM /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb26a-d53a0f08-9b51-ac1f6b0e6454/New Virtual Machine/New Virtual Machine.vmx in directory /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb26a-d53a0f08-9b51-ac1f6b0e6454/New Virtual Machine
2018-10-23T07:26:44.671Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=vm opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] VigorExecVMXExCommon: Exec()'ing /bin/vmx /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb26a-d53a0f08-9b51-ac1f6b0e6454/New Virtual Machine/New Virtual Machine.vmx.
2018-10-23T07:26:44.672Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Vigor: VMKernel_ForkExec(/bin/vmx, detached=1): status=0 pid=2107626
2018-10-23T07:27:00.067Z info hostd[2100473] [Originator@6876 sub=Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr] Event 131 : New Virtual Machine on  localhost in ha-datacenter is powered on

The content of the following screen content text is extracted as follows：

VMuare ESXi 6.0.0 [ Re leasebui ld-3620759 x86 64]

# GP Exception 13 in world 36494 : vmm0 : NET-044 @ 0x418020812095

cr0=0x80010031 cr2=0xafd0000 cr3=0xlcdecf000 cr4=0x42668

frame=0x43917471bd00 ip=0x418020812095 err=0 rflags=0x10006

rax =0xa7840fc08548 rbx =0x41804a501e00 rcx =0x0

rdx =0xffffffff rbp=0x1f30f8cc3dedcd rsi=0x1

rdi=0x0 r8=0x4391f4f27b00 r9=0x43008d008010

r10=0x9 r11=0x41804a501e00 r12=0x4 1802084f628

r13=0x0 r14=0x1 r 15=0x29

* PCPU41 :36494/vmm0: NET-044

PCPU 0: VSWWWVUVSVVSVSVVWWVUVVVVSWVUUVVSVVWVU

Code start: 0x418020600000 VMK upt ime: 39:01 :59:20.580

0x43917471bdc0: 0x418020812095 ] CpuSchedDispatch@vmkernel# nover+0x56d stack: 0x41804a501e00

base fs=0x0 gs=0x41804a400000 Kgs =0x0

Coredunp to disk. Slot 1 of 1.

Finalized dump header (13/13) DiskDump: Successful.

No file conf igured to dump data .

No port for remote debugger. ' Escape for local debugger。

Hi, i am trying to configure an ESXI 6.5 to use some National Instrument PCI cards in a virtualized environment. I had a lot of problems so far, caused by the design of my system: The computer on which ESXI is installed is also the client machine which permit to use some P2V VM with National Instrument PCI carde using Passthru.

The structure work fine, I have acces to ESXI, my master VM, and my P2V VMs on the same machine (and the same screen).
I’m using a PCIe-Q370-r11 Motherboard with a PXE-13S-r50 backplane (8 Pci slots divided in two bridges, 4 Pcie slot.
Actually i’m using 4 pci and 2 pcie slots:
- Gpu Quadro P2000 and USB controller with passthrough to the master VM

- 4 National Instrument pci cards with passthrough to the P2V Vm.

Problem: Passthrough works fine on all VMs, I can start all of them. But on the P2V Vms, PCI cards don’t work. Windows know they’re here, drivers seems to be installed correctly, National Instrument software also detect them correctly.

When I go using lspci on my ESXI, those cards are marqued as  ´´Class FF00’´ (Unassigned class). They are all on the same PCI bridge. The cards names are correct, their ID seems OK too. But the cards Serial Number won’t show up in my VM.

I don’t get it why it’s behaving like this.
The PCI cards are not unknown to ESXI, but for some reason, they are not correctly used by VMs.

Maybe a problem with pci bridge's drivers? Or pci.ids incorrect?

If anybody had this issue before, i’ll be happy to hear it!

Thanks for reading the entire post with my terrible English level 

I am using ESXI7.0 and I can't find a mib that gives me comulative usage of memory and CPU , I have downloaded official mibs and all

Hi There,

Getting the below error during bring up process using cloud builder.  Any pointers to fix the below issue is much appreciated.

2020-10-20T13:58:58.956+0000 [bringup,426d4f6474f7d65f,9528] ERROR [c.v.e.s.o.model.error.ErrorFactory,pool-3-thread-17] [KL9DSV] IMPORT_ESX_CERTIFICATE_FAILED Failed to import ESXi certificate in trust store

com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.exceptions.OrchTaskException: Failed to import ESXi certificate in trust store

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.input.generation.ValidateEsxThumbprintsAction.execute(ValidateEsxThumbprintsAction.java:135)

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.input.generation.ValidateEsxThumbprintsAction.execute(ValidateEsxThumbprintsAction.java:44)

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.platform.action.FsmActionState.lambda$static$0(FsmActionState.java:14)

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.platform.action.FsmActionState.invoke(FsmActionState.java:62)

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.platform.action.FsmActionPlugin.invoke(FsmActionPlugin.java:168)

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.platform.action.FsmActionPlugin.invoke(FsmActionPlugin.java:153)

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.core.ProcessingTaskSubscriber.invokeMethod(ProcessingTaskSubscriber.java:399)

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.core.ProcessingTaskSubscriber.processTask(ProcessingTaskSubscriber.java:519)

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.core.ProcessingTaskSubscriber.accept(ProcessingTaskSubscriber.java:123)

        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1541.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)

        at com.google.common.eventbus.Subscriber.invokeSubscriberMethod(Subscriber.java:87)

        at com.google.common.eventbus.Subscriber$1.run(Subscriber.java:72)

        at org.springframework.cloud.sleuth.instrument.async.TraceRunnable.run(TraceRunnable.java:67)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)

        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: The class com.vmware.evo.sddc.input.generation.BringupInputProgressMessages must define the key VALIDATE_ESX_THUMBPRINT in the bundle com.vmware.evo.sddc.input.generation.progress-messages

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.common.core.i18n.LocalizableMessage.getDefaultMessage(LocalizableMessage.java:55)

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.common.core.i18n.LocalizableMessage.withArgs(LocalizableMessage.java:64)

        at com.vmware.evo.sddc.input.generation.ValidateEsxThumbprintsAction.execute(ValidateEsxThumbprintsAction.java:107)

        ... 17 common frames omitted

2020-10-20T13:58:58.959+0000 [bringup,426d4f6474f7d65f,9528] DEBUG [c.v.e.s.o.c.ProcessingTaskSubscriber,pool-3-thread-17] Collected the following errors for task with name ValidateEsxThumbprintsAction and ID 7f000001-7525-12a6-8175-2b41ae8b01ab: [ExecutionError [errorCode=null, errorResponse=LocalizableErrorResponse(messageBundle=com.vmware.evo.sddc.input.generation.error.messages)]]

Just suddenly in the last couple days, we cannot take snapshots on a handful of our VMs. Trying to do so gets to about 90% and eventually fails with "A general system error occurred:".

Ive done some searching and every result I found that included this error had something after the "has occurred".

Any thoughts on how to get more info on this or what may be causing this?

Thanks!

I've run into a problem as follows:

The ESXI 6.7 UI is not allowing me to login from any pc or any browser. I've tried 4 different browsers to no avail. I am using the correct credentials but the whenever I try to login it throws the following "error", "Please refresh your browser" that pops up right underneath the VMware ESXi logo. This is the first time its done this. I am wondering if it has something to do with the certificate but I'm not really sure. It does have a error on certificate but again not sure if that will cause this.

Thank You for your help.

I'm install esxi 7.0 in my 8635U 24GB mini pc with 6 82583V gigabit lan ports

but get the message "No network adapters"

I check for VMware Compatibility Guide, 82583V 8086:150c is support.

How can i get esxi 7.0 to support 82583V.

in ESXI 6.7 U3 is support for this.

Thanks.

Hi, please help me!

ESXI 7.0u1 no disk present to install flex system x240 (ibm blade system mt8721hc1)

Dear community

The environment:

- vCenter 6.7

- two ESXi 6.7 in a HA Cluster

- Network connectivity:

• Host1 (one Uplink)<-> Switch1 <-> Destination
• Host2 (one Uplink)<-> Switch2 <-> Destination

- Two VMs

- All VMs are placed on Host1

Goal: if Switch1 or the Uplink of Host1 to Switch1 fails, failover of all VMs would be happened to Host2 to restore the connectivity.

How can it be done? With HA or Fault Tolerance?

Thank you.