Hi
I am facing issue with one of the vsphere host. I am unable to power on VM. when I try to power on the VM, getting an error message "
Failed to power on VM
Could not power on VM, No space left on device
Failed to extend swap file from 0KB to 4194304KB
Need help ..?
Hello.
I have a ESXi 5.5 Server. The Boot HDD crashed, red light is always on.
In the VSphere Client is the following Message: Connection to Device naa.6...., which the boot file-system contained /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600.... is lost. All changes on the host
will not store.
What can i do?
I buy a new HDD (SSD 32 byte) but if i connected it to the server it do nothing.
Best regards.
MCClane88
Sorry for my bad english.
Hey all
So i got a vm that's at VM ver 7. Its cpu and core are not changeable via the web client. The VM itself is running SUSE 10 64bit.
The help message says I must be in compliant with the guest OS, number of licensed CPU on a host and number of CPU supported by the OS.
So here is what I am not sure about: I can't give it more cpu/cores because the guest OS is too old or my VM HW version is too old? I don't think I have a license problem cause I got Ent+ license.
Thanks
Hello,
Our ESXi (5.5u2) hosts use a NetApp NFS storage (FAS2240) for datastores. The NetApp device is using 1 Gb connections, and we added recently 10 Gb interfaces, configured with IP addresses on another subnet.
The idea is to redeploy hosts with NFS mounts pointing to the new IP addresses on the 10 Gb network.
Unfortunately, ESXi computes an UUID for NFS datastores based on the IP address and the NFS share name, so it considers the datastores as different.
I think we can shutdown the VM, change the references to datastores in config files and register them to the redeployed hosts, or use SVMotion to move VM between datastores, but both solutions are a bit painful...
Is there another solution which would avoid downtime or SVMotion ? Is it possible to mount the NFS datastores by forcing the UUID to a specific value ?
Thanks in advance,
Christophe
Are there recommended SCSI timeout values for using raw devices on Linux VMs?
VMware Tools creates a udev rule to change the timeout for devices classified by Vendor "VMware" or attribute "Virtual Disk" from 30 seconds to 180 seconds. This rule does not apply to raw devices since they do not appear as virtual disks to the VM.
[root@server1 ~]# lsscsi
[2:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sda
[2:0:1:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdb
[2:0:2:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdc
[2:0:3:0] disk DGC VRAID 0532 /dev/sdd
[2:0:4:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sde
[2:0:5:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdf
[2:0:6:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdg
[3:0:0:0] disk DGC VRAID 0532 /dev/sdh
[3:0:1:0] disk DGC VRAID 0532 /dev/sdi
[3:0:2:0] disk DGC VRAID 0532 /dev/sdj
[root@server1 ~]# find /sys/class/scsi_device/*/device/timeout -exec grep -H . '{}' \;
/sys/class/scsi_device/2:0:0:0/device/timeout:180
/sys/class/scsi_device/2:0:1:0/device/timeout:180
/sys/class/scsi_device/2:0:2:0/device/timeout:180
/sys/class/scsi_device/2:0:3:0/device/timeout:30
/sys/class/scsi_device/2:0:4:0/device/timeout:180
/sys/class/scsi_device/2:0:5:0/device/timeout:180
/sys/class/scsi_device/2:0:6:0/device/timeout:180
/sys/class/scsi_device/3:0:0:0/device/timeout:30
/sys/class/scsi_device/3:0:1:0/device/timeout:30
/sys/class/scsi_device/3:0:2:0/device/timeout:30
Does VMware recommend changing these to 180 as well or leaving them to the default settings? Does it matter if the RDM is in virtual or physical mode? (RDM-V vs. RDM-P)
Hi Folks,
I am trying to add an esxi host to an existing environment and trying to scan existing LUN, scaning went fail and log this messages in vmkernel .
All hosts connecting to storage cable through SAS cable and all of esxi host versions 5.1
2015-03-18T15:26:18.624Z cpu10:34338)Vol3: 705: Couldn't read volume header from control: Not supported
2015-03-18T15:26:18.624Z cpu10:34338)Vol3: 705: Couldn't read volume header from control: Not supported
2015-03-18T15:26:18.624Z cpu10:34338)FSS: 4972: No FS driver claimed device 'control': Not supported
2015-03-18T15:26:18.651Z cpu10:34338)VC: 1585: Device rescan time 17 msec (total number of devices 4)
2015-03-18T15:26:18.651Z cpu10:34338)VC: 1588: Filesystem probe time 84 msec (devices probed 4 of 4)
It seems that the host sees the LUNS (Probing) , but can not be able to listed and vsphere client.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Basem Shalabi
Olá.
Ao tentar iniciar uma VM, recebo a mensagem abaixo:
An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM tec-windows2008.sp01.local.
Transport (VMDB) error -41: The operation has timed out.
Failed to power on '/vmfs/volumes/53bec3b1-447cf786-3621-5cf3fc947fb8/tec-windows2008.sp01.local/tec-windows2008.sp01.local.vmx'.
Esse erro passou a ocorrer depois que um dos Admins do ambiente alterou a quantidade de memoria que nosso pool de VMs poderia alocar.
Não encontro nada a respeito deste erro. Podem me ajudar?
Obrigado.
Google translate:
Hello.
When I trying to start a VM, I get the following message:
An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM-tec windows2008.sp01.local.
Transport (VMDB) error -41: The operation has timed October
Failed to power on'/vmfs/volumes/53bec3b1-447cf786-3621-5cf3fc947fb8/tec-windows2008.sp01.local/tec-windows2008.sp01.local.vmx'.
This error started to occur after one of the environmental Admins changed the amount of memory that our VMs pool could allocate.
I can not find anything about this error. Can you help?
Regards.
i got some nimble storage iscsi volumes that are showing as mounted under the iscsi hba but it is not showing up as a datastore .
any idea?
Hi,
I have an esxi 5.5, and I wanted to test nic teaming for vmk management address.
I set a distributed vswitch on 2 physical nics (vmnic0 & vmnic1), each one on a different physical switch
A port group with vlan id, failback to No & load balancing to physical nic load
A management vmk on this port group
I shut one physical switch port (connected to one of the two vmnics :
esxi sees uplink down & lost redundancy, we lost one packet when pinging the esxi
2015-03-18T09:44:54.003Z [79980B70 info 'Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr'] Event 2002 : Lost uplink redundancy on DVPorts: "1738/08 09 23 50 9b 30 e6 89-3c 8e 65 73 a1 83 f1 7b", "1738/08 09 23 50 9b 30 e6 89-3c 8e 65 73 a1 83 f1 7b". Physical NIC vmnic1 is down.
2015-03-18T09:51:40.842Z cpu6:33515)<6>igb: vmnic1 NIC Link is Down
So my traffic is through vmnic0.
> I re-enable the uplink of vmnic1 on the physical switch : I expect nothing because I set failback to No and my traffic is already on vmnic0..
But I lose esxi connection for a few seconds,lose 7 to 10 packets when pinging esxi management address.
In the logs I see :
2015-03-18T09:47:09.003Z [799C1B70 info 'Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr'] Event 2004 : Uplink redundancy restored on DVPorts: "1738/08 09 23 50 9b 30 e6 89-3c 8e 65 73 a1 83 f1 7b", "1738/08 09 23 50 9b 30 e6 89-3c 8e 65 73 a
2015-03-18T09:47:11.965Z [799C1B70 info 'Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr'] Event 2005 : The dvPort 1738 link was down in the vSphere Distributed Switch in ha-datacenter
2015-03-18T09:47:11.966Z [799C1B70 info 'Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr'] Event 2006 : The dvPort 1738 was unblocked in the vSphere Distributed Switch in ha-datacenter.
2015-03-18T09:47:11.968Z [799C1B70 info 'Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr'] Event 2007 : The dvPort 1738 link was up in the vSphere Distributed Switch in ha-datacenter
(in vmkernel.log)
2015-03-18T09:52:11.753Z cpu2:33533)<6>igb: vmnic1 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX
2015-03-18T09:52:12.954Z cpu0:32884)NetPort: 1632: disabled port 0x3000004
2015-03-18T09:52:12.954Z cpu0:32884)NetPort: 2905: resuming traffic on DV port 1738
2015-03-18T09:52:12.955Z cpu0:32884)Uplink: 6529: enabled port 0x3000004 with mac 0c:c4:7a:48:fe:ab
Is this behaviour "normal" ?
Why enabling one physical NIC in the team causes a lost of management network for 10 seconds ?
vinny
I have a VM running on an ESXi 5.5 host. When I export that VM to an OVF, then reimport to another ESXi 5.5 host it always fails saying "Invalid configuration for device '10'".
However, if I use the ovftool I can export the same VM between those same two ESXi hosts with no problem.
Any ideas as to how I can export the vm to a file and successfully import to another ESXi host?
BTW, device '10' indicates a CD-ROM drive. I've tried both to manually edit the xml file to get around this but nothing seems to work. I've also used VMWare workstation 11 to import the vm and edit the settings to remove the cdrom, then export that but it will not import back onto ESXi. I'm terribly frustrated that I cannot export from one ESXi host to another without such difficulty.
I have a DELL R710 that is running ESXI, 4.0.0, 208 I have another one in my vCenter that is somehow did not get left behind and was upgraded to 5.1.0,1483097. When I look at the server/ESXi box that got left behind it says Software modules oem-dell-esxi published by third party vendor are installed on the host. Upgrading the host will remove these modules. What modules are these? Are they really so special I can't do the upgrade?
Hi,
We are trying to replace two HP DL 360 G6 running Esxi 5.1 with HP DL 380G9 with Esxi 5.5. We have Esxi Essentials plus license and limit to two servers but we want to add two new servers to Vcenter, so that we can migrate the VMs from old servers to new servers, however our license is only for two servers, so how that would work ?
What is the best way to approach this ?
How can we utilize maximum benefit of Esxi 5.5 with HP G9 servers. we can use NAS if needed.
What must be confiurged on new Servers before migrating the VMs? vMotion or HA (if supported in Essentials plus)
Many thanks
Maz
I'm on ESXi 5.5 with 1x10GbE NIC on each host dedicated for vMotion vmnics but still I can get only 4 concurrent vmotions per host.
While it should be 8 concurrent vMotions.
Any idea what am I missing or what can I check ?
RTT value is less then 1ms, so there's no latency on my vmotion network.
Thanks in advance
This is an interesting one guys, and i've working to trouble shoot it for a while.
I have two hosts in a cluster, all on the same VLAN, number 3. Each host can communicate with the vcenter server perfectly fine, ping and all other vmware traffic passes. From VLAN 1 i can ping host 1 but not host 2.
Both hosts MGMT networks are tagged for VLAN 3, i have gone through all the settings for the vswitch and the vmkernel and compared and can't find a difference. I contacted the switching company and had them take a look and based on all the settings they can't deduce any reason from a switching standpoint why one host can be pinged but not the other. Any ideas where i should look to deal with this? I've compared all kinds of settings on the hosts and kind find any differences at all.
Even just pointing me in the right direction would be a huge help.
Thanks guys. If i can provide any more information please let me know.
Hi,
I'm trying to install windows server 2003 32 bit on an HP DL380p g8/VMware 5.5. It's hanging on: "windows setup" during the installation. I'm aware of the fact 2k3 32bit is no longer supported on HP dl380p g8 bare metal.
Has anyone run this configuration?
TIA - pwc
Dears
we are experience issues with one of vmware Esxi 5.5.0 Release build-2068190 X86_64 that is running under UCSB-B200-M3 system with custom image ESXI-5.5.0-1746018
the case is the Esxi server got purple screen of death
any body has experience on same case might help and support
With Regards
Mohammed
When using OS X Fusion 7.1.1 connecting to vSphere 5.5 I'm always using the passthrough of USB devices from my machine to the remote host.
Fusion 7.1.1 BROKE this completely and it wouldn't work until I installed version 7.1.0 over the top. Running Fusion 7.1.0 fixes is.
Thanks VMWare!
-T
Hi
One of our VMs had gone to unresponsive state and i killed its process with esxcli vm process kill --type force --world-id <ID>
after that veeam can not take a snapshot and in vcenter it shows "another task is already in progress"
I have got the task list for this vm in esxi console
vim-cmd vmsvc/get.tasklist haTask-1086-vim.VirtualMachine.createSnapshot-436735209
(vim.fault.NotFound) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
msg = "Unable to find a VM corresponding to "haTask-1086-vim.VirtualMachine.createSnapshot-436735209"",
}
what can I do ?
it is ESXi 5.1
Thanks
DRS migrated off a VM from host A to host B and all of a sudden VM performance got spiked and everything became slow on that VM. Then a reboot didnt fixed the issue but migrating the VM off of that host B to some host C made everything look normal again. Not sure what have caused the problem. All other vms on the host were functioning normally. Any help as of what have caused this would be helpful.
VMs are running on ESXi 5.5 on DELL M620 blades
Thanks
Varun
Hi,
Please find the script to get cpu and memory usage of VM.
Attached script is working fine for single VM. We are getting output for only one vm, even there are multiple vm in source file. Output file is also attached.
