Purple Screen on Cisco UCS server with ESXi 6.5 Build 5146846 (March 9, 2017)
Last week I patched our (7) lab ESXi 6.5 servers to the current patch level (Build 5146846 - from March 9, 2017). The (5) Dell servers have been running flawlessly on this new patch level. However,...
View ArticlevSphere ESXi 6.5.0 Hardware Sensors
Hello Everyone, I have a Q170 based motherboard and have successfully loaded ESXi 6.5.0. However, ESXi does not display any Hardware Sensor Data and reports "No Sensor Data Available". Does ESXi...
View ArticleMake ESXi keep SSH keys after reboot
I'm trying to get ESXi to keep SSH keys after reboot. Is there any way to do a stateful/diskful install of ESXi or some way to tell it to hold on to particular files? This whole "load everything into...
View ArticleHow can i get the fc stat in ESXi 5.0
In ESXi 5.5,use "localcli storage san fc stats get" can get the hba adapter port stat information,as blow:How can i get the fc stat in ESXi 5.0??@ FcStat: Adapter: vmhba2 Tx Frames: 3096109174 Rx...
View ArticleHow to selectively disable smart on specific drives
I have several VM hosts that are reporting "libsmartsata: Not an ATA SMART device...." to our syslog server. Some drives for whatever reason don't report SMART. Is there a way to filter out this...
View Article"There are no USB devices available on host"
Hello everybody. To start things off, I realize this has been posted many times, and I will say that I have been researching a fix for this for many many hours over the past few days. I just want to...
View ArticleAfter upgraded vCenter Server Appliance from 5.5 to 6.5 - Migrate No...
Hi,I just upgraded the vCSA from version 5.5 to 6.5 to keep the same configurations.I was working fine to do the migration from A host's VMs to B host (local disks: shutdown VM > Migrate > select...
View Articlevmware workstation 12 player上でesxiを使う場合のネットワーク設定
http://vm.study234.com/archives/336上記を参考にネットワークアダプタの設定をブリッジ接続で行なった後、vsphere clientからログインすることができません。 NAT接続ではログインすることができます。 どのようにすれば、ブリッジ接続でvsphere clientからログインすることができますか? 使用しているのは無償版です。
View ArticleFault Tolerance LOgging Best practice
Hi, we plan on integrating VMware Fault Tolerance in our environment.Our hosts are each equipped with 2x 10G uplinks. So far we run everything over these uplinks (NFS, management, vMotion, VM Traffic)....
View Articleeth0: tx hang
Got one node tx hang when running MR jobs, this node is one of datanodes from our hadoop cluster, we are importing databases from sqoop when got below errors, any ideas ? Jun 1 14:01:19 kernel:...
View ArticleConfiguring ESXi to use Syslog on a Non-Standard TCP or UDP Port
Hi, Has anyone been able to configure syslog on ESXi to send logs on a non-standard TCP or UDP port (Not 514)? I've been through Configuring syslog on ESXi (2003322) | VMware KB Here's a dump of the...
View ArticleVirtual Machines losing IP address/VMWare tools fail
Hi I am using ESXi 5.5 and have recently noticed some random issues with our Virtual Machines. I can be RDP'd to a VM and I will suddenly lose connection. When I check the summary tab of the VM, Tools...
View ArticleFreeBSD 10 guest - CAM status: SCSI Status Error
Hi, I'm running into a serious problem wrt. a FreeBSD guest under ESXi 5 (VMware vCenter Server V 5.5.0 Build 1623101 to be exact): From time to time for no apparent reason I get the following errors...
View ArticleDatastore not mounted after reboot of ESXi5.5
Current configuration: HP Proliant ML350e with Smart Array cardESXi 5.5 from HP Custom ROMBoot from 4GB SataDOMTwo logical arrays on Smart Array (LUN 0/Datastore 1 and 1/Datastore 2)Windows Server...
View ArticleA general system error occurred: No such device or address when consolidating...
My vcenter server is having issues. IT would startup but then lose complete network connectivity. All vms on the same host and vlan are fine. Its just the vcenter vm. IN the summary tab I see virtual...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 Slow vms, High "average response time"
I am running esxi 6.5 with the latest patches and vmware tools 10.1.5 I am having very inconsistent performance issues with both of my hosts. Basically the windows 2016/windows 10 guests are sluggish...
View ArticleESXI 6.5 web client problem
I have a new install of 6.5 on a Supermicro server. All seemed to be going well except for only 2 out of 4 of my network interfaces are showing up. After about an hour of using the web client it just...
View ArticleLost Access to Volume messages during path failover?
We're running ESXi 5.5U3 and just recently migrated to vCenter 6U3b. We're running a UCS infrastructure and during UCS firmware upgrades when the A side or B side HBAs drop we're seeing these lost...
View Articlecannot login VC 4.0 via remote machine
Hello everyone, Recently we encoutner an issue which cannot login vc via remote machine. but it's ok for local login. below is version info and error snapshot VC version: Virtual Center 4.0 ESXi...
View Articleprofile service keeps stopping intermittently
I am running vcenter 5.1 and while the web services and vcenter services is stopped and set to manual. The profile service is running but stops intermittently and restarts. any idea why it wont stay...
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