We believe we have run into the issue described in KB Article 2014323. The resolution directs us to disable MSI-X on the Qlogic cards. Does anyone know the performance impact by disabling MSI-X?
Thanks
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ESXi 5 Disable MSI-X or Multiqueue on the QLogic Driver
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ESXi Manufacturer/Model String Corrupt -> Can't add to vCenter
I previously installed ESXi 5.0u1 on a Supermicro X9SCL. In the summary tab, the Manufacturer and Model always displayed corrupt:
I have since upgraded to ESXi 5.1 and the problem persists. It wasn't a problem, but it appears to prevent me from adding the host to vCenter:
Therefore I would like to get it fixed. Where is this data stored?
As a side note, I have a fresh ESXi 5.1 install (on an identical machine) that correctly displays this information.
Thoughts?
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ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
I am an ESXi novice in charge of three Dell Poweredge servers with two to six VMs on each host. Each host has two datastores and boot from a USB memory stick using hard drive emulation.
I am updating them interactively using a DVD with the iso burned to it.
One of the choices given is to Install (default) or Upgrade.
My past experience in the PC world, when given that choice when installing a MS OS, I would opt for a clean install vs. an upgrade, mostly to keep any ghosts out and help me to isolate any issues that may arise.
What are the differences between the two and why should I choose one over the other?
If I install, will I loose access to the existing datastores and the VMs on them? What settings, if any, am I likely to need to reapply?
What are the cons of an upgrade?
Any, and all, advise is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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Driver for Intel X540-AT2 and Intel Corporation 4-Port SATA/SAS Controller
Hello together,
i'm currently evaluating VMWare vSphere for our company and got stuck on the installation of two devices in an ESXi 5.1 host running on an Intel S2600GZ server board, where both are essential for the evalution:
The first is an Intel X540-AT2 network card, that was installed after the installation of the ESXi host (perhabs the problem?). Looking into the dmesg output, here is what i got:
/etc/vmware # lspci | grep X540
00:07:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X540-AT2 [vmnic6]
00:07:00.1 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X540-AT2 [vmnic7]
And for getting VID and DID:
/etc/vmware # lspci -p | grep 00:07
00:07:00.0 8086:1528 8086:0001 10/ 10/0xd8 B V vmnic6
00:07:00.1 8086:1528 8086:0001 11/ 11/0x21 A V vmnic7
I saw that there was no driver attached, so i went to the VMware Compatibility Guide and found this ixgbe driver, what perfectly matched my device.
But after downloading and installing the new driver nothing changed. I checked the installation to be sure:
/etc/vmware # esxcli software vib list | grep ixgbe
net-ixgbe 3.11.32-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Intel VMwareCertified 2012-12-20
and as a last approach i thought that looking into dmesg would bring more light into the problem:
/etc/vmware # dmesg
...
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)<6>Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver - version 3.11.32iov
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)<6>Copyright (c) 1999-2012 Intel Corporation.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)PCI: driver ixgbe is looking for devices
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.0' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.0' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.0' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 654: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.0' destroyed.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)LinPCI: LinuxPCI_DeviceUnclaimed:147: Device 0000:07:00 unclaimed.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.1' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.1' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.1' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 654: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.1' destroyed.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)LinPCI: LinuxPCI_DeviceUnclaimed:147: Device 0000:07:01 unclaimed.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)PCI: driver ixgbe claimed 0 device
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)Mod: 4485: Initialization of ixgbe succeeded with module ID 27.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)ixgbe loaded successfully.
...
Didn't help me much, but i hope you can get something from that.
On the second device, an Intel Corporation Patsburg 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller, I ran the same approach:
/etc/vmware # lspci -p | grep 00:09
00:09:00.0 8086:1d69 8086:3583 11/ 11/0xd0 A V vmhba3
00:09:00.3 8086:1d70 8086:3582 5/ / C V
found driver rste (build in into 5.1), but as well, this driver didn't claim the device (perhabs because it is running in sata mode?):
/etc/vmware # dmesg
...
2012-12-20T15:49:42.137Z cpu2:8852)Loading module rste ...
2012-12-20T15:49:42.138Z cpu2:8852)Elf: 1852: module rste has license BSD
2012-12-20T15:49:42.143Z cpu2:8852)Device: 90: Registered driver 'RSTe' from 68
2012-12-20T15:49:42.143Z cpu2:8852)Mod: 4485: Initialization of rste succeeded with module ID 68.
2012-12-20T15:49:42.143Z cpu2:8852)rste loaded successfully.
...
And i found this:
/etc/vmware # cat /var/log/vmkdevmgr.log | grep rste
2012-12-20T15:49:42.499Z| vthread-3| I120: Found driver rste for device bus=pci addr=00:09:00.0 id=8086:1d69 8086:3583.
2012-12-20T15:49:42.502Z| vthread-3| I120: Error binding driver rste for bus=pci addr=00:09:00.0 id=8086:1d69 8086:3583: No such file or directory
I really hope you guys get a clue on this, or you have another point i can look at.
Greets,
Markus Andree
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SEVERE BUG: vSphere client 5.1.0 - captures entire host OS screen
I'm running vSphere client 5.1.0 installed on a Windows Server 2008R2 (x64) OS running inside Parallels on a Mac Pro system.
When I connect to a vSphere server, then select a running SUSE Linux VM, then select the console tab and click on the console, the mouse is captured in the VM console window. Fine.
The problem is that I can never get the mouse *un*attached. I can press the usual <Ctrl><Alt> key combo to sort-of release the cursor, but the instant I try to click on something *outside* of the vSphere client itself, it immediately pops back to the VM's console window. There is no way I can find to get it to release without shutting down the VM. Obviously this is totally unacceptable.
I did install the latest VMWare helper tools into the VM but that made no difference. Even if I did not, it's a severe bug for the vSphere client to capture the mouse when it's outside of the console window after releasing it with <Ctrl><Alt>.
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Setting up a virtual network
Hi All,
Sorry if this question's been asked a million times but, as a newbie to ESXi, I'm having a few problems configuring my virtual network. Any pointers in the right direction or links to beginners' guides would be gratefully accepted.
Basically at the moment I have Win 2K8 R2 x64 and Win 7 x64 VMs set up on my ESXi server. The 2k8 is a DC on my existing external domain. It is also a DHCP and DNS server (I'll get around to RRAS later). It has 2 vNICs. The first (wan) adapter is getting an ip address off my broadband router and is therefore fine (I'll deal with public IP addresses later). The second is the lan/vlan interface and is configured with a static ip, 192.168.20.5, which is the dns server address and in the ip subnet (192.168.20.x) served by DHCP . Ideally I want to connect this to a physical NIC for the physical internal network as well as a virtual internal network which vms in the same domain can connect to.
The Win7 vm has one vNIC and at the present isn't getting an address. It is configured on VM2 as is the internal vNIC of the DC.
At a later date I also intend to add a second separate domain and DC with the same setup (we run two businesses from the same site). There cannot be any connection between the two. The physical aspect of this is pretty straighforward. Would it merely be a case of extra physical NICs and duplicating the setup for the first domain?
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks in advance.
Graeme
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Management interface failes after changing IP of vmotion vmkernel port
Hi community,
I have a litte problem which is confusing me.
I wanted to change the IP address of a vmkernel which is used for vmotion -> because I wanted to add them to a seperate vlan.
After changing the IP of the port, the management interface is not reachable - i mean its definitly down, i cant ping it. two of four servers work fine with the new ip, the other two are down. I had the same error on the same version bevore a month on the same customer, I deleted the vmkernel port via commandline and restartet the management interface...
is there any known bug in version 5.0 821926???
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ESXi partition
Is there any partition for esxi ? during installation, it does not asks us about any of these details ?
Thanks
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ESXi 5.0 CLI Support
Can anyone tell me what ESXi 5.0 Free build did VMware remove support for vSphere CLI commands?
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Snapshot is lost after export to OVF template
Hi guys
I installed Guest OSes in some VMs on ESXi5 & took some snapshots & I exported them to OVF template & then Imported them in VMware workstation 8. Finally i found there is no snapshot. Why & how did it happen? how can i preserve all the snapshots?
thanks
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Need Clarification before upgrade to ESXI 5
Hi all
I am in process to upgrade ESXI 4 AND ESX4 TO ESXI 5.0
But before starting just I have a few question.
Environment 1
ESX4.1 linked with EMC storage - HA enabled
Environment 2
ESXI4.1 Linked with Hitachi storage- HA enabled
1-is there any issue if I upgrade while the disks are online or I should disable them.
2- Is there any points should I consider before upgrading from ESX TO ESXI.
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Upgrade to ESX5.1 - High CPU, but VM idles
Hi everybody,
after an update from ESX 4.1 to 5.1.0 (838463) I got a problem with one Linux VM.
The VM runs Suse Enterprise Linux in 32 bit and is idle 90% of the time normally.
If I run "top" at the OS shell it tells me the machine is 99% idle, but at the same time vCenter says the machine would use 3500 to 4000 MHz.
I did the virtual hardware upgrade to vmx-09, so I can´t shift the VM back to a ESX 4.1 Host for testing.
So I can´t tell if the problem arises from the virtual hardware change or the shift to ESX5.1.
Anyone else who got that problem and maybe solved it?
Regards
Florian Götz
Edit:
The most recent version of the vmware-tools is installed.
RAM usage is normal, like before the upgrade. Only CPU usage is out of limits.
Nachricht geändert durch goflo
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Esxi 5.1 + n40L errors
Hello,
I am using EsXi 5.1 and followed the instructions in http://blog.davidwarburton.net/2010/10/25/rdm-mapping-of-local-sata-storage-for-esxi/ to mount my hard drives to the VM(Solaris 11)
when I ssh into the ESxI host and runa dmesg, I see quite a few of the below error messages.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
2013-01-06T06:11:58.483Z cpu1:4941)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2319: Cmd 0x1a (0x41240080ddc0, 4941) to dev "t10.ATA_____ST2000DM0012D9YN164__________________________________W1E1HAM0" on path "vmhba35:C0:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense da$
2013-01-06T06:11:58.483Z cpu1:4941)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x41240080ddc0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x80000280 from world 4941 to dev "t10.ATA_____ST2000DM0012D9YN164__________________________________W1E1HAM0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.
2013-01-06T06:11:58.699Z cpu1:4941)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x41240080e9c0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x80000268 from world 4941 to dev "t10.ATA_____ST2000DM0012D9YN164__________________________________W1E1HAM0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.
2013-01-06T06:11:58.701Z cpu1:4941)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x4124008166c0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x800002c0 from world 4941 to dev "t10.ATA_____ST2000DM0012D9YN164__________________________________W1E1HAM0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.
2013-01-06T06:11:58.703Z cpu1:4941)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x4124008166c0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x80000328 from world 4941 to dev "t10.ATA_____ST2000DM0012D9YN164__________________________________W1E1HAM0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.
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Dual boot ESXi 5 and Windows 7 ??
Hi,
Have a laptop that I would like to use as a lab for ESXi. I've installed ESXi on it and it worked fine, vsphere connected fine from another pc and seems to work properly.
The laptop has a 1TB hard drive, laptop is a standard one that only has one physical hard drive.
What I would like to know is, can I dual boot Windows 7 and ESXi? If I split the hard drive in 2, so roughly 500GB each partition, can I use one for Windows 7 and one for ESXi (with datastore and space for VMs)?
If so, can someone please advise on how I do that or point me in the right direction.
Thanks.
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Shrink VMDK on ESXi 5, vmkfstools -K doesn't do the trick
Hey guys,
I'm trying to reclaim space back on VM's with thinprovisioned disks. I've use sdelete inside the guest (Win 2003) which wrote 0's across all the free space, then I switched the VM off, ssh into the host and tried to shrink it using vmkfstools -K /path/to/disk-name.vmdk, wich said it was punchzeroing the disk, but in the end of it, the VMDK stays exactly the same size as before, no free space claimed back.
Could anyone please assist me with this? I really appreciate any advice on this.
Thanks!
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Virtual Machine Disk grows extremely due to large vmware.log
Dear all,
We have a couple of Ubuntu 10.04 64 bits guests installed on vSphere 5.0 on two separate physical machines (HP DL380 G5).
All servers are running OK, except two specific servers, one on each separate physical machine are growing due toe extreme number of log entries in vmware.log with the below entry repeated every couple of milliseconds.
2013-01-12T22:15:04.307Z| vcpu-1| E1000: ReadPHY: got unknown reg: 28
2013-01-12T22:15:04.545Z| vcpu-0| E1000: ReadPHY: got unknown reg: 11
2013-01-12T22:15:04.545Z| vcpu-0| E1000: ReadPHY: got unknown reg: 12
2013-01-12T22:15:04.545Z| vcpu-0| E1000: ReadPHY: got unknown reg: 13
2013-01-12T22:15:04.545Z| vcpu-0| E1000: ReadPHY: got unknown reg: 14
We have now limited the log size and number of logs to keep although I would like to know what the issue is.
Both machines run the same Reverse proxy service, that's what makes them the same.
Each machine was installed separately, no restore or copy that could explain why both share the same behaviour.
I hope any of you can point me in a direction as I have been searching the web without any results for two days now.
Kind Regards,
Arthur Steijlen
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Health Status is ESXi 5 with MegaRAID and Dell C2100
I have a new Dell C2100, with two of LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i controllers, the ESXi is version 5.0 build 469512.
I was hoping to be able to see controllers/drives raid status from the health status by installing a VIB from LSI website (VMWare SMIS Provider VIB - 5.5)
I'm not seeing the storage on this box. I'm not sure what I'm missing in this configuration.
I have several other model Dell servers the 2950 and R710, they're using older ESXi 4.1, and ESX 3.5, they do show health status.
Another interesting items I found is that I have two identical PowerEdge 2950, both run ESX 3.5.0 317866, one server has health status tab, the other one doesn't. That's just odd.
Did I miss something in here on the C2100 server and the 9260-8i controllers not showing health status? With this C2100, ESXi 5, often it would show In Progress for a very long time when I do a reset sensors. Anyone has any idea on this?
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VMware ESXi Fibre Cards on MacPro
What fibre cards are supported on a VMWare ESXi installed on a Mac Pro?
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LSI 9266-4i cim problem
Having a very strange problem. I have the latest vib installed and everything works fine. I can see the card under the health status using the vsphere client and I can connect from a remote workstation using the MSM.
As soon as I connect one of my intel 520 SSD drives, I can no longer connect via the msm or see the card under the health status.
I have tried reinstalling the VIB, latest FW on the raid card, rebooting and even clearing all configuration. As soon as the SSD drive is connected it jsut doesnt want to know.
I have logged a ticket with LSI, but I thought I would try here as well.
Anyone esle seen this before?
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Variable Length Segment Size in VDP?
What is Variable Length Segment Size in VDP?
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