Hi All,
Is there a way to setup an alarm definition so we can be notified if the NIC speed is 100 Mbps/s instead of 1000 Mbps/s on vSphere ESXi host ?
We have vSphere Server 5.5 and vSphere ESXi 5.1 hosts connected to the vSphere Server.
I know it is possible to do it on the switch side, but we would prefer doing it on the server side, if possible.
Thank you,
Dominic
Hi,
I am setting up the VMware home Lab using the link below and I've reached a stage where I need to install the vCenter.
http://boerlowie.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/building-the-ultimate-vsphere-lab-part-8-vcenter/
I downloaded the vCenter from the link below and it is an ISO (disk image) file with the name VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.5.0-2105955-20140901-update02.
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=vsphere-55
As this being an ISO file, I assume, it will have to be mounted on the Virtual Machine where I need to install the vCenter server. I have used VMWare Work station 10 to create VMs. So, can some one please assist on how to mount this ISO file on the VM running Windows server 2008 R2 guest OS?
Thanks,
Muks
Hello,
I upgraded the switched on my network over the weekend and since than the VM servers are having problems finding the gateway? I checked all the setting on the switches and they are correct. It is also just our VM servers which are having problems find the gateway, all other physical computers are fine? When I did an ipconfig all the DNS information was out of date as well if that is a clue??
Thanks
Warren
Hi there,
I am running Esxi 5.5 with the latest patches and every so often my server will just freeze. The only way to get it back is to power off.
Can someone give me a starting point of where to look to determine the cause?
Thanks
My build is as follows:
Supermicro X8DTi-F
Corsair CX500 500W PSU
(2) Intel Xeon W5590 @3.3GHZ
24GB G.SKILL DDR3 1333 (6 x 4GB)
(1) 2TB WD HDD connected to onboard controller (Datastore to hold VMs)
(5) 3TB Seagate ST3000DM001s connected to LSI 9220-8i cross flashed to a LSI9211-8i in IT mode
(1)Intel EXPI9402PT Dual Port Gigabit PCI-E
Working my way to an All-In-One setup. Currently I have a Windows Server Standard 2012 R2 VM that has access to the (5) Seagate drives through Physical RDM (and they said I'd have to passthrough the whole controller :P). Trying to get a PfSesnse Vm running. Plan was to passthrough the Intel NIC and use one port for WAN and one for LAN. However, when I try to start the PfSense VM it doesn't boot.
Event tab shows error:
VMware ESX unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) PCIPassthruChangeIntrSettings: 02:00.0 failed to register interrupt (error code 195887110)
After ESXi host reboot if PfSesne is first VM turned on(no other running) it boots and PfSense can see Intel NIC and I can ping it and access webconfig from another computer.
If I turn on the Win Server 2012 VM things work ok for a bit but then PfSense becomes unreachable and wont respond to pings. Trying to reboot PfSense VM then results in previously mentioned error.
After some googling I found this article
Being a VMware noob I didn't fully understand it, but when configuring passthrough vSphere forces you to make both ports available for passthrough since they are on the same card. I then removed the passthrough of the 2:00.0 port from the PfSesne VM (other NIC port was 2:00.1) it booted , but PfSesne didn't see any interfaces.
I've pretty much tried everything I can think of ,so any help or guidance anyone can lend is greatly appreciated.
I have an environment with the following specification.
VMware View 5.3.2
VMware vCenter Server 5.5 U1
In my thin client have the following version of the VMware View client, will work with VMware View 5.3.2 ?
Hi all 
We are running ESXi 5.1.
When I try to clear an alarm I get this error:
How do I fix this?
thanks
Tracy
Hi. I just wanted to pass along my experience that I had recently setting up shared storage using the Dell MD3200 SAS appliance.
Setup:
VMware ESXi, 5.5.0, 1746974
Image Profile Dell-ESXi-5.5.0-1746974-A04
2 Dell T420 Hosts with 6Gps HBA SAS Controllers
1 MD3200 SAS appliance 4disk RAID 5 with hotspare
1 8TB LUN
I was experiencing very high disk latency (~100-200ms) and couldn't understand why. My entire setup was HCL approved, etc.
Turns out the issue was with the mptsas driver version on the Dell image that I was using (see above specs). I reinstalled the host using VMware ESXi, 5.5.0, 2068190 with the Image Profile ESXi-5.5.0-20140902001-standard
The Dell driver was version 18.0.0.0 and it sucked balls.
The vanilla driver from the stock Vmware image, version 14.0.0.0, worked like a charm.
I wanted to post this here in case anyone else had a similar setup.
Hi,
I need a Linux VM with NVIDIA OpenGL 4.x support, so after having read about vDGA I have purchased an NVIDIA K600 and put it in our Dell PowerEdge r720, configured it for passthrough and assigned it to a VM running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. I have also configured the VM with pciHole.start=2048, without really knowing why, other than documentation states that I should do this, if the VM has more than 2GiB, which it does - it has 8GiB. After rebooting the VM I can see the card with lspci:
[root ~]# lspci |grep NVIDIA
13:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107GL [Quadro K600] (rev a1)
13:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)
I have installed the NVIDIA recommended driver 340.24 for the NVIDIA Quadro K600 and the driver installation proceeds without any incidents. After this I can also see the driver is loaded:
[root ~]# lsmod |grep -i nvidia
nvidia 10533126 0
i2c_core 31084 6 nvidia,i2c_piix4,nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
However, when I try to start X at first it fails to find the device, after helping it by setting the BusID in /etc/X11/xorg.conf I get the following error when starting X:
| [ | 63.729] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in | |
| [ | 63.731] (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 | |
| [ | 63.731] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 | |
| [ | 63.731] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor | |
| [ | 63.731] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) | |
| [ | 63.731] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration | |
| [ | 63.759] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): The NVIDIA GPU at PCI:19:0:0 is not supported by the 340.24 | |
| [ | 63.759] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): | NVIDIA driver. |
| [ | 63.759] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device! | |
| [ | 63.759] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failing initialization of X screen 0 |
After this I found the following in the dmesg log:
[root ~]# dmesg | tail -4
nvidia 0000:13:00.0: irq 68 for MSI/MSI-X
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x23:0x2f:566)
NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
NVRM: nvidia_frontend_open: minor 0, module->open() failed, error -5
So, the GPU is there, the driver can load, but things don't quite work.
I have attached the vmx file for my VM.
I desperately need your help to get this working :-)
Best regards,
Thomas
Hi everyone.
I'm having an issue with what appears to be capped bandwidth from and between my hosts.
What I have are two hosts that have exactly the same hardware specs. Each has 6 x 1 Gb/s Broadcom 5720 NICS.
The NICS that are connected register as 1000 Full
I have both shared storage and locally attached.
Both hosts run 5.5
In the past, before installing my shared storage appliance, I've been able to migrate host and datastore at 100 MB/s. Worked like a charm.
Since I've installed my shared storage (Dell MD3200 SAS) I've noticed that the top speeds that I get during a migration is 10 MB/s.
At first I thought that it was related to the share storage somehow (even though it wasn't IP based storage). So as a test I tried migrating a test VM as I did in the past using the DAS. The speeds are still 10 MB/s.
I also tried VM to VM transfer. 10MB/s. even with the vmxnet adapters registering 10Gb/s inside the VM
I tried datastore to physical boxes on the same Gb switch. 10MB/s.
Can anyone shed some light on this or seen something like this in the past?
As I said earlier, before I was getting the correct speeds but now I'm so 1995. Help!
First i just want to say i spent 3 entire weeks at trying to copy a virtual machine over to another datashare. So heres what i have done so far:
I bought x2 500GB hard drives.
Both VM's (windows 2012 server and ubuntu 12.04 server) are residing on my 1TB hard drive.
I have both VM's as thin provisioned.
I make sure to have the VM's powered down and for good measure I restart the esxi 5.5 server.
once the esxi 5.5 server is rebooted (and VM's still powered down) I log into my esxi 5.5 server from a different phsical pc using the provided vsphere client. Once logged in I go to the datastores. My new x2 500GB hard drives has their own datashare completely empty as well.
I then open up the datashares and try to copy one VM's folder to the other datashare. I keep recieving an error message saying "Error caused by ...." then the source datastore becomes unavailable and im forced to restart the server every single time this happens. It took attemps for 3 days and finally got the ubuntu server onto one of my new datastores. and for the other 2 weeks i still cant get my windows VM over to the other datastore. So heres what i do know:
Do I have enough space to accommodate my VM on the new datastore? YES!
Do I have anything attached to the DVD/CD drive on the VM's? NO!
Do I have anything locked? I really doubt it but could be a possibility, I did ssh into the server and did a grep on the VM and nothing came up.
Did I google this? YES!!!! lol I can't find anything that works
Did I use stand alone converter? YES! The exact same thing happens when trying to copy the files directly from the datastore.
Did I try to use Veeam backup? YES! This only worked on my ubuntu 12.04 server VM and NOT my Windows 2012 server VM.
Did I try to just copy over the minimum (which is 78GB)? YES! Still doesn work.
Did I defrag the Windows 2012 server? YES!
This is killing me. 3 weeks is way to long! lol
Thanks in advance to anyone who is able to shed light on this problem.
Has anyone ever used any 3rd party kernel based modules for anti-virus and/or firewalling? Such as Trend-Micro, Kaspersky, Juniper's VMware anti-virus and firewall products? Or any others I haven't listed here?
Up to now, I have always kept a straight unpolluted VMware ESXi service console. Its nice to be able to call support on not have it adulterated with somebody else's product to complicate things.
However, now and then, I hear about people that come in and pitch some products to my managers that say they can insert anti-virus or firewalling capabilities in the network stream in between VMware's kernel and networking stack. Everything is puppies and rainbows and there are NEVER any issues according to sales people. I usually hear about this stuff after the fact without a chance to ask practical questions and find out what issues arise from using their product. I fear one day an installer is going to show up in my office and want to start installing their product and I will be caught flat-footed.
To better arm myself with some questions and know things to look for, has anyone every used any of these types of products? I really would like to know what your experiences are, what questions I should be asking, and have you every regretted using any of these products. Does this drive up the CPU and Memory of the SC, cause networking issues, our have there been outright outages caused by these products, have there been kernel panics, and whatever else I haven't thought of. If your experience is a great one and these are really good products I should be getting into, let me know too.
Thanks!
I'm trying to use esxi for my vms since it allows even cpu load distribution but when I load up a video game over esxi I get horrible fps but loading a game in workstation gets me the same fps I would if I ran the game on my pc itself.
Any help?
We are getting an error telling us we can't apply our Essentials Plus license to bring us out of evaluation mode because we are using a Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS). We are using a VDS as a part of the VSAN license that we already bought and applied to the cluster. So the question is, are we required to assign Essentials Plus license before we assign our VSAN license? If this is true (which I really hope is not), will we be able to move the VSAN from using a VDS to a Vswitch without causing a major VSAN issue?
This seems a bit wild that the licensing would have to be applied in a specific order so hopefully there is a way through this mess.
Thanks
Hi:
I moved a Windows 2008 R2 VM from an ESXi 5.1 host to an ESXi 5.5 host using vCenter Converter Standalone. The C: / System Drive increased in size substantially to where I now need to extend the volume. Is this expected/normal behavior? Perhaps the conversion/move created temp files that I can delete?
Thanks very much for any insights.
Can I downgrade from ESXi 5.5 Update 2 to ESXi 5.1 Update 1?
ESXi 5.5 Update 2 has the TcpAckFrequency bug with Exchange 2013 thus the need for downgrade:
VMware ESXi 5.5 U2 - TcpAckFrequency
Thanks
Good Day
I have an Consumer grade SSD drive i wanted to add to my server.
Its running esxi in a home environment (free version).
Its running on a hp DL360 G5
The ssd drive is detected, i configured it as a single drive int he raid controller and vmware can see the drive.
I can query the partition table using
esxcli getptbl /dev/disks/<drive id>
but the first line (the label? ) is listed as unknown
When i try to right to it.
esxcli mklabel /dev/disks/<drive id> ir esxcli setptbl /dev/disks/<drive id> "gpt" "1 2048 other numbers i don't remember right now "
they both come back with timeouts. When i do stats on the drive it shows only failures for read and write requests.
So i guess a few questions. Is there a way i can configure this drive to make vmware able to use it. Or is this an instance where the SSD drive i have isn't going to be compatible?
the drive is a kingston SSDNow v300 240 GB
any information would help. I did take the drive and wipe it clean in windows and try, and i tried creating a standard partition stucture with no luck
I set it up for gpt last night and i will try, but my expectations are low. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Setup nested ESXi as below:
1. Physical host has 2 sockets, 8 cores/socket for a total of 32 logical processors and 64GB of RAM
2. Physical host runs ESXi 5.5.0.
3. Nested ESXi (as VM) runs ESXi 5.1.0 update 2 [followed the instructions in http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/08/how-to-enable-nested-esxi-other.html ]
4. Nested ESXi is provisioned with 2 sockets, 4 cores/socket and 2 GB of vRAM
5. Created 10 linux VMs on the nested ESXi host (each with 1 vCPU + 48 MB vRAM)
6. When powering-on the 7th VM, below error message is seen
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Could not power on VM : @&!*@*@(msg.vmk.status.VMK_VCPU_LIMIT_EXCEEDED)Number of running VCPUs limit exceeded.
Max VMs limit reached: 6 (2048 worlds)
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I have looked at below discussions
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/425429
and
ESXi 5.1 - Failed to power on VM. Max VMs limit reached: 200.
Former thread suggests increasing vRAM as a solution. Tried doubling the vRAM from 2 GB to 4 GB and the same issue is hit when powering-up the 16th VM
Is 6 VMs (or 15 VMs with 4GB vRAM) the best I can provision in this setup? I need to keep the vRAM at 2GB so as to fit as many nested ESXi hosts on this server.
Please clarify.
Its strange for me, first time i have came across VMs with BSOD (Blue screen of Death) error on the VM screen.
We are running with ESXi 5.1 with Dell R720 and their is no any hardware change on the server. Am not sure why all of a sudden BSOD error comes.
VMs was running with Windows 7 , with 4 GB RAM and 2 Processor
The error on the(BSOD) was
"irql_not_less_or_equal"
Does any one came across such issue, if yes please spread the resolution message you did.
Thanks a ton in Avance
Hi,
I've setup a Ubuntu virtual machine on a vSphere server with
However, when I try to start up the VM I get a "Could not start VMX: msg.vmk.status.VMK_NO_MEMORY" error.
This is the error stack: Heap globalCartel-1 already at its maximum size of 7869288. Cannot expand. Could not start VMX: msg.vmk.status.VMK_NO_MEMORY.
However the server has 32GB of RAM with only 12GB actually in use.
On another ESXI server I've done exactly the same (with the server being identical to the one with the error) and it's working fine.
I'd appreciate any help!