Hi!
I'm looking at the toolchain and open source components of ESXi 5.5 Update 2. Why? Just as an exercise in curiosity. But, the included instructions mention the requirement of a file "headers.tar.bz2", which I can't seem to locate anywhere, and appears to be required to build the ESXi part of the toolchain.
Can anyone tell me where I'm supposed to find this file?
Thank you!
-Ben
Hi,
This is my first try in using ESXI.
Today, I installed the Esxi 5.5 U2 on a 4Gb USB stick in my Dell Precision M4700 Mobile Workstation (with a customized network adapter vib). Everything boots nicely. I installed the client on my another PC. I try to create a VM on NFS and get this error (A general system error occurred: Operation failed with no error message)
Can anyone point to me what is causing this error as i am new to ESXI?
Thanks.
Hi,
We have installed SSO in vCenter server but the SSO is service not showing in vCenter server. When i try to re-install its shows option for remove only.
Looking for help to fix this issue.
thanks
vm2014
I have 2 HP Servers and each had vSphere 5.0
To upgrade them I did the following:
1. I installed vCenter Server on a physical machine.
2. Moved all the VMs from first ESX to secoond ESX
3. Installed vSphere 5.5 on first server
4. Moved all the VMs to first ESX
5. Installed vSphere 5.5 on the second server
6. Put back VMs on second ESX
For 2 days all was working well!
Then suddenly all the VMs became inaccessible on server 2. vCenter showed a message that there is a problem accessing one of the LUNs and the message next to the VMs that are located on that LUN said inaccessible, but I can't reach any of the VMs on that host.
It does not want to open the console even to those VMs that are supposedly not affected. The only way to solve this is a reboot. After the reboot, the problematic LUN is not listed in the storage view of my host configuration and it takes many tries to
add it back.
And then the next day the same thing happened to server 1.
After reboot and after I added the missing storage I thought that all is well - end of story.
It happened again and again... one day server 1, next day server 2 and so forth (3 times so far)
I don't have any vMotion or other advanced configuration applied.
I don't even know where to start troubleshooting this issue (Log files, where are they? never used the command prompt on vSphere)... today I can't even add the missing Disk/LUN. I go through all the steps as before, I select the storage the system finds but it does not add it!
Any ideas?
Deki
Let me first explain the setup of my system.
I have a Hypervisor running ESXi 5.0(licensed version) with multiple virtual machines running assorted versions of windows.
My vMA is running SUSE Linux 11.
I have a Tripplite Poweralert UPS connected to the server via the serial connection.
I would like to set up the system so the virtuals and ESXi perform a graceful shutdown in the event of a power loss.
I am wondering if anyone has accomplished this in ESXi 5.0 with vMA 5 using the same, or even similar setup which I am using.
I have attempted to set this up using different tutorials and discussions from this site and others, however most of them point to earlier versions of ESXi and I was unable to get them to work. Whether the version difference is the actual reason for my failures is yet to be determined since i am a relatvely novice user when it comes to Linux, vMA, and Hyperservers.
Any help or suggestions is highly appreciated.
Thanks
Hi,
I would like to migrate OFFILINE a VM that has a NIC connected to a dVS portgroup to another host that is part of another distributed switch ( with different portgroups ) .
I try to do the migration , I get a warning that the vm uses the network distributed virtual switch bla bla bla which is not accessible ( which is normal ) , and when it tries to move it I I get the error :
Cannot create Distributed Port Group dvportgroup-184 of VDS bla on the host xxx1
vDS operation failed on host xxx1 , Received SOAP response fault from [<cs p:000000000d3a72b0, TCP:xxx1:443>]: applyDVPortgroup Received SOAP response fault from [<cs p:1f331598, TCP:localhost:8307>]: applyDVPortgroup
fault.DvsApplyOperationFault.summary got (vim.fault.DvsApplyOperationFault) exception
If I try to move the VM to another datacenter/ another host that has no distributed switch , the migration is successful ( and I can then go and at the vmnic and choose another network instead of Invalid backing.
How can I perform this migration ? I do not want to remove the nic , do the migration then add the nic again ( and set the mac address to manual with the old mac , to preserve the settings)
Forgot to mention - vCenter 5.5 , ESXi 5.5 latest builds.
Thank you very much in advance ! 
I am getting unknow status on my sdrs datastore cluster. any idea why I tried disabling the alarm and renabling and didnt work.
On a Dell Poweredge 2950 I'd like to install Dell's OpenManage Server Administrator.
The server is running a esxi 5.5 u2 with an essentials license.
In Dell's guides vMA (VMware vSphere Management Assistant) is used to deploy/install OpenManage Server Administrator
I'm unsureif the exsi 5.5 u2 already has the vMA installed or if I should install the vMA? https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=352&downloadGroup=VMA550
/Morten
Hi ,
I was trying to get the iscsi software adapter from ESXi host using VIJAVA library. Here I am using HostInternetScsiHba.isIsSoftwareBased() api to get only iscsi software adapter.
Following is the high level code snap :
HostStorageDeviceInfo storageDevice = host.getConfig().getStorageDevice();
if(storageDevice.isSoftwareInternetScsiEnabled()) {
HostHostBusAdapter[] adapters = storageDevice.getHostBusAdapter();
if (adapters != null) {
for (HostHostBusAdapter adapter : adapters) {
if (adapter instanceof HostInternetScsiHba) {
HostInternetScsiHba scsiAdapter = (HostInternetScsiHba) adapter;
if(scsiAdapter.isIsSoftwareBased()) {
//Adapter is software based.
}
}
}
}
}
Now when I attached the multi-function NICs ( Lets say NIC from Vendor "ABCD") the JAVA code is giving two iscsi software adapter .But I just want to get the default iscsi software adapter.
It would be helpful if some guide how to get the default iscsi software adapter only using Java code from ESxi host.
Thanks in Advance.
Hi,
I have several webservers inside my VMware ESXi 5.5.0 build-1331820 .
Do i need to update my ESXi for openssl patch?
Thank you
I'm trying to upload a Windows7 VM/Guest from VMWare Fusion 7 Pro to ESXi v5.5 and I keep getting an error "The operation is not supported on the object"
No other information to go on. Other Linux VM's uploaded just fine.
I've tried ovftool also and same error. Also tried it from Workstation v10, same error against the same ESXi v5.5 host.
The VM works fine in Fusion 7 Pro and Workstation v10.
What's going wrong here? How do I get this uploaded onto ESXi v5.5?
Hello together ,
when i tried on a new System ( 2 Host, 1 iSCII-SAN , Vmware Essentials 5.5) somethings with new VMs
and after i have created one , it was working but we saw, wrong Operation-system.
So we decided to stop this machine , and delete it from the SAN.
This work we doning with VSphere Client and evrything seems okay.
This morning we started the first time our VSpherWebClient and we see still this machine in the inventory list.
We couldn´t make anything for to delete our something else,because in WebClient there is no editable function
and in VSpehre Client the machine isn´t present.
Anybody has an idea ?
regards
Hi all,
We had an issue with one of our ESXi5.5 hosts in our HA Cluster this weekend.
Hardware: Dell Blade M620, Broadcom BCM57810 10Gb
It threw a PSOD complaining about PCPU no heart beat and showing broadcom errors (see pic attached).
Going through the vmkernel logs it seems that one of the HBAs failed
Extract from vmkernel.log
2014-12-05T23:13:58.377Z cpu8:10592052)WARNING: LinScsi: SCSILinuxAbortCommands:1837: Failed, Driver bnx2i, for vmhba36
...
2014-12-05T23:14:11.151Z cpu0:33497)<1>bnx2i::0x4109c61eab40: ####CID leaked bnx2i_tear_down_conn: sess 0x4109c75f4738 ep 0x4109dc859690 {0x5a, 0x1a}
...
2014-12-05T23:14:11.401Z cpu6:33497)bnx2i::0x4109c61eab40: bnx2i_conn_stop::vmnic3 - sess 0x4109c75f9948 conn 0x4109c75f9d20, icid 41, cmd stats={p=0,a=1,ts=1950037,tc=1950036}, ofld_conns 9
I will check whether there are new drivers available, but also including pic of current driver details....
Has anyone come across this before?
Am I right in assuming that the issue is with the physical nic?
What is strange is that in the vmkernel log file I cannot see any problems from the other 10Gb card (same model, I know it should be a different vendor) which should keep working an not failing the host (heartbeat).
Comments are appreciated.
I am running ESXI 5.5 on a mac-mini with 16GB RAM.
I observed that a few of my RHEL-6-64 guest OSes occasionally lock up with the
above message. The interesting thing is that it's always khugepaged (pid varies between systems though)
Has anyone seen these before and has a solution?
I don't really know where to start looking..
Mathias
Hi all!
First time of starting a discussion, so sorry if I leave out information. I will try to write down everything I could already come up:
So: I run a ESXi 5.5 on a custom built server, 2 socket F Opterons, an HP sata/raid card, old but still functional motherboard, and 12 gigs of ram from 2 different manifactures.
- I have free license, no vCenter.
-I have DAS. 1 RAID10 array, 1 RAID5 array.
- No vMotion, no nothing.
Yeah. You might have guessed: Not so rich.
I have this machine in a public datacenter. Nice and chilly.
The server has a WAN port, to that a pfSense VM is connected.
This VM serves as an software based router, to the additional VMs running inside the Host.
And this VM started to randomly drop all connections followed by these log entries in the vmkernel.log
NetPort: 1589: disable port: 0x20000005 <= This is the LAN port
NetPort 1589: disable port: 0x3000004 <= This is the WAN port
VSCSI: 6360: handle 8192(vscsi0:0):Destroying Device for world34956
Net: 3278: disconnected client from port: 0x20000005
WARNING: Uplink 4738: requesting cap 0x0!
Net: 3278: disconnected client from port: 0x30000004
WARNING: PFrame: vm 34956: 1571: Deallocating pinned pgNum 0x140e, pinCount 1 trottle 0. <= Got disconnected from the SCSI Disk?
- I will run a Memtest86 tonight for 12 hours, and see what happends.
- pfSense is based on FreeBSD.
- Both network cards are VMXNET3.
- Obviously something major is happening, and because of that everything is disconnected from the VM, but when I log on to the shell, the VM is still "powered on", and when I reboot it's start up like nothing happend.
- Therefore no PSOD.
What logs am I still need to find?
What I could find is all realted to higher VmWare features, wich are all disabled by my free license.
Help me guys, I'm facing a serious WTF here!
Hello, this is on ESXi 5.5 with 3 VMhosts. I tried to vMotion a handful of virtual machines. One of them moved 100%, the other moved but the progress bar got stuck at 91%, the other failed. In all cases the machines got stuck at an indeterminate state, if I right click on them the only actions I get are "console" and "snapshots" (no power on, or shut down, etc). So the VMs seem to be stuck in a "migrating" state. Any idea what is going on? The VMs are practically useless under these circumstances. Thanks.
Guys,
I have 2 VMs (Domain controllers) and I would like to separate these VMs between hosts in a cluster. I have created DRS rule with a "Separate Virtual Machines" policy. But I can migrate these VMs to the single host using vMotion.
How to protect VMs against migration to a single host? I would like that DRS still working for these VMs.
Dont know if anyone can advise on this I have had some good support from Vmware however the solution seems a tad drastic if anyone can I trying something else first I will give it a go.
Background Info:
ESXi 5.1
- Host crashed and could not be reconnected to the cluster even after a reboot.
- Removed the ghost host and attempted to re-add it however was confronted with the aforementioned error.
Apparently this is a known KB and effects 5.1 specifically not not 5.5. VMware suggested solution is ...
1. Bring up VM's on the cluster, remove them from the affected host
2. Power down the host
3. Remove ALL targets from the host (or remove the host from the storage group on the array)
4. boot host (no storage but local)
5. add host to cluster
6. power down host
7. Re-Add targets (or add host back to storage group)
8. Boot host back up.
Just wondered if anyone had a link to this KB I cant quite find one that fits the issue and only effects ESXi 5.1. Additionally is there anything else I can try first, any input would be welcome.
Here's a scenario we recently encountered and what was necessary in order to address it. I'm entering this here in the hopes of helping future users.
Hardware:
Dell PowerEdge M710HD
Two Broadcom 57712-k NICs
PowerConnect M8024-k 10GbE switches
Each of the ports on the Broadcom card can be partitioned four times, for a total of eight partitions across two switch ports.
Odd numbered partitions become odd numbered vmnics, connected to switch-01, port tengigabitethernet 1/0/1
Even numbered partition become even numbered vmnics, connected to switch-02, port tengigabitethernet 1/0/1
ESXi 5.x Enterprise Plus
Scenario
Host ESXHOST-01 has vSwitch0 (Management Network, vmk0 on VLAN100), assigned vmnic0 and vmnic1.
Port group Management-VLAN100 is created in DVSwitch0, assigned vmnic2 and vmnic3.
Guest VCENTER-01 on ESX01 has a single interface in port group Management-VLAN100
At this point, both the host and guest have working interfaces in VLAN100 with fully working configurations; however, VCENTER-01 cannot reach ESXHOST-01 when both are bound to vmnics on the same Broadcom NIC but different partitions (e.g. vmnic1 and vmnic3). When using partitions on different Broadcom NICs (e.g. vmnic0 and vmnic3) the connection is successful.
This occurs because partitions are treated as separate physical links connected to a single physical switch port. When the guest issues an ARP request for the ESX host, that request is broadcast by the switch to all links EXCEPT for the one where it originated, which prevents the host from ever seeing the lookup request. When the partitions are on different physical NICs spanning different physical ports, the ARP broadcast is received.
Solution:
We selected solution #2. This requires one extra step when defining the management network (adding a VM network alongside the vmkernel).
Notes
This issue is not limited to traffic between guests and ESX hosts. Essentially, two guests on a single ESX host would experience the same issue if:
and
and
It's not likely that anyone would create multiple virtual switches supporting the same VLAN, so this scenario isn't as likely to come up.
Hello everybody,
I'm not a direct user of vmware products but i have a issue in direct link.
Two different customers have given us access to a vm under windows 2003 R2 and another one under windows 2008 for install our software.
We access to these VM with RDP.
Our issue is the comportement of the vm under 2003, when we connect for launch our processing and we disconnect the RDP session, the VM seem to enter in a "sleep/freeze mode".
When we reconnect to this vm for example 2 hours after, the processing resume exactly at the point where it was when we were disconnecting.
We have this problem only with the vm under Win 2003 not with Win 2008.
The IT technician of our customers don't have any idea.
I dont know yet what is the version of Vmware but when my customers will reply to me, i will edit my thread.
Do you have an idea?
Thank you for your help
FP