unable to delete a powered off VM. It does not have any snapshots
any idea?
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a general system error occured: concurrent access
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Is it possible to keep same MAC address while restoring VM from Netbackup? (Restored VM should have same MAC address by default)
Hi Friends,
We have Linux API appliances running on ESXi 5.5 and using Netbackup 7.5 for snapshot level backups, But whenever we restored VM by using existing snapshot backup, every time MAC address is getting changed.
Is this a normal behavior or we can change anything to restore with same MAC address ?
Also just a note that we are not looking to change MAC address manually after restoring the VM.
Thankq.
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Cannot connect the virtual device ide0:0
Hi.
I've P2V a running Windows server 2003 machine by means VMWare Converter
When I start the converted VM on VMWare workstation 12.x, I see this
If I choose yes (or not) the VM start without problem.
The questions are:
- why this message (and what means)
- how to solve the issue and avoid it
Thanks in advance
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changing from basic disk to dynamic
I need to expand a 2 TB volume (D drive) current full and have data in it to a dynamic disk
Will there be an issue changing it from basic disk to dynamic and adding 200 gb to this volume?
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ESXi 5.5 - vCenter 6 - EVC Haswell
Hi,
We have one cluster with:
- 5 ESXi 5.5u3 Dell R730 / R630 with E5-2687W v3 and E5-2697 v3 processors.
- vCenter 6 (build 3339084)
When i choose EVC on cluster with "Intel Haswell Generation", I get the followingerror for all hosts:
The host's CPU hardware should support the cluster's current Enhanced vMotion Compatibility mode, but some of the necessary CPU features are missing from the host.
Check the host's BIOS configuration to ensure that no necessary features are disabled (such as XD, VT, AES, or PCLMULQDQ for Intel, or NX for AMD). For more information, see KB articles 1003212 and 1034926.
In Bios i have this settings:
Which settings I missed?
Thank you
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VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Kit for 3 hosts (3 physical servers)
Hello,
I'm currently using many servers with free edition of VMWare ESXi 5.
So now, I want to use more RAM and want to have more tools like backup, clone tool.
I have read a lot in vmware site but it makes me a bit confuse.
Can someone clarify this for me:
1. What do I need to do after order "VMware vSphere Essentials Kit" which allows me to manage 3 physical servers while I'm using "VMware vSphere Client" free edition?
2. Do I need to change or have some action with "VMware vSphere Hypervisor"?
3. The fee of $495, is a lifetime fee, or this is annual fee? The subscription is required first year only, is that right?
4. "VMware vSphere Essentials Kit" supports up to 192GB of RAM per Physical server and max of 32GB of RAM per Virtual Machine?
5. What's difference with "VMware vSphere Standard" edition?
This is some links I have read:
www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/compare.html
store.vmware.com/store/vmware/en_US/home
store.vmware.com/store/vmware/en_US/pd/productID.282883900&src=WWW_eBIZ_productpage_Essentials_Buy_US
www.vmware.com/ve/products/vsphere/pricing.html
Thank you very much!
Message was edited by: a.p. fixed the title (all caps)
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Failed to open disk scsi0:0: Unsupported or invalid disk type 22. Ensure that the disk has been imported.
Hi,
I manually copied a vmdk file from local system to datastore, then edited *.vmx file of existing VM and changed name vmdk file to my coped file.
But, after that I could not start the VM and getting following errors
Module DevicePowerOn power on failed.
Unable to create virtual SCSI device for scsi0:0, '/vmfs/volumes/501d2d81-855b9cce-e103-00177c108b21/testdsk/vcentermain.vmdk'
Failed to open disk scsi0:0: Unsupported or invalid disk type 22. Ensure that the disk has been imported.
Screenshot attached
Thanks,
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Connect an usb disk to an esxi and present the disk as datastore
I would like to connect an usb harddisk to an esxi host. It is possible to present the usb disk to a guest with the usb device. But I would like to present the usb disk to the host and use it as a datastore.
Are there any of you out there who has been trying that ?
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Cancelling Clone action on VM with Very Large Snapshot
Hi guys, I have a very large snapshot on a 3tb storage server in the order of 900GB currently
It was about 540gb when I discovered it and to try and ensure no loss I initiated a cloned the system (kinda easier than dealing with our backup system), which of course created another snapshot.
Tomorrow ill be okay to stop the cloning as the last few discs on the VM are not essential. The issue im now facing is that the snapshot for the clone will now in the order of 4-500gb by itself.
I really need this VM to stay up and not lock up when this snap gets removed (when I cancel the cloning operation), is there a way of cancelling the clone operation but keeping the snapshot?
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Bad Performance
Hello,
I've a vSphere cluster running with 7x IBM HS22V blades / 2x Intel Xeon X3650 / 256 GB memory in every host.
Running at vSphere 5.5 23202651, with around 150 VM's.
Since a few months we are implementing Windows Server 2012 R2, and since a few weeks we've a new Citrix environment running at 2012 R2 to.
Currently the performance of the Windows Server 2012 machines is really really bad.
The respond slow and it doesn't feel right, the older VM's (W2K8 R2) are running great.
I've searched the internet, and I found that a lot of people had/have problems running 2012 on vSphere.
But I didn't found any solutions or things I could try to solve our problems.
Hopefully you guys have some tips for me, because I'm stuck...
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
DXK
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vm locked
Hello,
i have the esxi 5.1. build 2323236 whit an virtual machine linux locket .
1) I can not back up because it faults (Veeam . Trilead)
2) i can not copy because it faults
3) the vm start on and work ok.
i have start voma
voma -m vmfs -f check -d /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600508b1001c26d62806fd6a9c726bd6:3
whit erro 0 but Found stale lock, PLEAE HELP ME!!!
/dev/disks # voma -m vmfs -f check -d /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600508b1001c26d62806fd6a9c726bd6:3
Checking if device is actively used by other hosts
Running VMFS Checker version 0.9 in check mode
Initializing LVM metadata, Basic Checks will be done
Phase 1: Checking VMFS header and resource files
Detected file system (labeled:'datastore1') with UUID:4f4e2130-98286e20-fe3c-441ea15addd9, Version 5:54
Phase 2: Checking VMFS heartbeat region
Phase 3: Checking all file descriptors.
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 49614848 v 107391, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 714841
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 49672192 v 103008, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 1963
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 49694720 v 103011, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 2087
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 49756160 v 106439, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 153378
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 49793024 v 102993, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 1340
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 49815552 v 107387, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 591166
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 49827840 v 103014, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 2173
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 49920000 v 107389, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 670038
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 49928192 v 107384, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 591021
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 49940480 v 102999, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 1627
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 49942528 v 111584, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 994925
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 50231296 v 106954, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 192768
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Found stale lock [type 10c00001 offset 50276352 v 106967, hb offset 3244032
gen 123, mode 1, owner 55f3f9d8-395937c9-187c-441ea15adddb mtime 193926
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Phase 4: Checking pathname and connectivity.
Phase 5: Checking resource reference counts.
Total Errors Found: 0
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ESXI always stripping outer vlan from incoming ethernet packets
I am running below:
You are running Dell Customized Image ESXi 5.5.0 Update 2 A01 (based on ESXi 5.5.0 VMKernel Release Build 2009162)
I have enabled "allow all VLAN" in vSwitch settings
Whenever a packet is received with VLAN tags ESXI stripping outer VLAN,
Let me know any configuration to be done to not strip outer VLAN...??
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vSphere crash
we are running vSphere VMware ESXi 5.1.0 on that we are running the following VM
windows sbs 2011 server that acts as our main domain controller, exchange and file storage
windows 7 computer, this computer runs our back up that we do every night
Redmine, ticket and issues tracking system
solar winds log and event manager
solar winds application server, windows 2012 R2
after my company bought solarwinds i set up the application server, the windows 2012 R2, added it to the domain and every thing was running smooth then for no reason my vSphere will lock up and crash casueing all of my VM to crash and forcing me to do a hard reboot on the server. attached is a picture of the crash screen. not sure what is casing it
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VSMP not licensed
Hi,
I powered off my server, when powering back up it claims I don't have the correct license for my servers.
Error message "Feature vsmp not licensed, requires 16 have 8"
I have not done any other changes to the server.
Server details:
HP Proliant DL380 G6
Processor sockets: 2
Processors cores per socket: 6
Logical processors: 24
Hyperthreading: Enabled
Details for license:
Product: VMware vSphere 5 Hypervisor Licensed for 2 physical CPUs (unlimited cores per CPU)
License Key: [Removed]
Expires: Never
Product Features:
Up to 8-way virtual SMP
Anyone else had this problem?
If I change the settings and lower the CPU's the server starts.
Any help would be appreciated :-)
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Can't unmount datastore(s) - file system is busy error even though it's not in use
We are going through doing some cleanup on our datastores. So we are sVmotioning VMs off some datastores then deleting the LUNs.
For every datastore we are cleaning up there about 3 out of 16 hosts won't unmount the datastore. It is not always the same 3 hosts it varies.
The error that is occurring indicates that the file system is busy.
Cannot unmount volume 'Datastore Name: Hosted_FC_LUN70 VMFS uuid: 5202965c-e09a124d-9e1b-001a64c85540' because file system is busy. Correct the problem and retry the operation.
But there are not anything on the datastore in use. All VMs have been migrated off, the datastore is not used for heartbeat, vsantraced is disabled, SIOC is disabled, it is not apart of a datastore cluster, and the coredumps have all been cleared.
/vmfs/volumes/5202965c-e09a124d-9e1b-001a64c85540 # ls -allh
total 799744
drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1.2K Sep 10 15:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Sep 10 15:12 ..
-r-------- 1 root root 10.3M Aug 7 2013 .fbb.sf
-r-------- 1 root root 254.7M Aug 7 2013 .fdc.sf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.0M Aug 14 2013 .iormstats.sf
-r-------- 1 root root 1.1M Aug 7 2013 .pb2.sf
-r-------- 1 root root 256.0M Aug 7 2013 .pbc.sf
-r-------- 1 root root 250.6M Aug 7 2013 .sbc.sf
-r-------- 1 root root 4.0M Aug 7 2013 .vh.sf
I also ran lsof and could not find any files in use on that LUN. I have also tried unmounting them from the command line and by connecting to the hosts directly with the vsphere client.
Right now the only resolution has been to reboot the hosts that are having a problem. Although this is getting to be quite annoying considering I have 30 datastores to cleanup and cannot continue on the next datastore until the one I'm working on is completely unmounted and then re-purposed.
We also have very strict rules regarding host reboots and they can only be performed in the evening. So I am looking at a month before all the cleanup can be finished in our current state.
These datastores I'm cleaning up are either VMFS3 or VMFS 5.54.
Does anyone have any ideas on why these won't unmount?
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Error in VMware ESXi 5.1.0 (Lost connectivity to storage device)
Hello,
I have a server with ESXi and two virtual machine. They have been running correctly for one year and a half and there was not any error. Three months ago, one of the virtual machine stopped and I had to shutdown the full physical machine and start it again to restart the both virtual machine and they ran correctly. Now, I have again the same problem. All the datastore are saved into physical hard disk into the physical server machine. Which could be the problem? Could be a hard disk physical error? The errors that gave the VMware ESXi were the following:
- Device or filesystem with identifier HardDiskID has entered the All Paths Down state. Warning 03/01/2017 1:08:30
- Lost connectivity to storage device HardDiskID. Path vmhba33:C0:T0:L0 is down, Affected datastore: DatastoreName Error 03/01/2017 1:08:30
- Lost access of volume VolumeID due to connectivity issues. Recovery attempt is in progress and outcome will be reported shortly. Info 03/01/2017 1:08:30
- Device or filesystem with identifier HardDiskID has entered the All Paths Down Timeout state after being in the All Paths Down state for 140 seconds. I/Os will be fast failed. Warning 03/01/2017 1:10:50
- Error message on VirtualMachineName: NVRAM: write failed. Error 03/01/2017 1:11:51
Thank you.
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Memory map contains over lapping ranges.
Hi,
Anyone has any idea about these messages:
Memory map contains over lapping ranges.
Multiboot memmap contains overlapping ranges.
Server: HP DL980 G7 - 64 x 8 GB Memory
ESXi 5.5 U3 (Any build)
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Add a new disk to a vSphere protected VM?
Hi folks,
I need to add a new 100GB hard disk to a VM that is protected by vSphere based replication.
It's currently paused because it detected that I added a new hard disk.
Is it just a matter of running the reconfigure to include the new disk as protected?
No other changes on the recovery site?
Thanks,
romatlo
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esxi free 5.5, spostare macchina virtuale su altro datastore
Ciao a tutti, sto usando la versione free di esxi 5.5 e avrei necessità di spostare alcune macchine virtuali su altro datastore locale,
è possibile?
grazie
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iSCSI MPIO
Hi Folks,
It may be the old topic but couldn't get what I needed. We have two hardware iSCSI ports in ESXi box. We have created two VMkernel port group each with single physical NIC and mapped it to each hardware iSCSI under network configuration. Could not find anything better from VMware documentations. In this way i believe it is only active/passive. Is there any better configuration we can do to improve the throughput?
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