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VMware Hypervisor 6 - VMware Tools is rolled back on Windows 2008 R2 (x64) that was migrated from VMware Player

March 16, 2015, 3:41 am
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Hello VMware Gurus,

 

over the weekend I installed VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.0.

I migrated a VMware instance, from VMware Player, via VMware Converter.

When I try to upgrade the VMware Tools, at the end - it is rolling back the actions.

The instance OS = Microsoft Windows 2008 Server x64 R2 (with latest patches).

I also tried to uninstall the VMware Tools successfully before and after uninstallation run the installation again (with reboot of course).

It is still rolling back the VMware Tools at the end.

 

I checked the system, application logs of the OS instance for the reason, why the installation wasn’t a success, but couldn’t not find a cause reported there.

 

Where is VMware Tools writing the logs, so I can search VMware KB and or this forum for solution?

In case someone already had the same issue and found a solution, many thanks for sharing …

 

Best regards

 

 

 

Carlos Behlau

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VMware vSphere 5.5 Hypervisor doesn't support 12 cores

April 29, 2015, 3:13 am
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Hi All,

  

I would like to create a VM with 12 cores on my ESXi VMware vSphere 5.5 Hypervisor (free license)

 

I get a error message

"There are insufficient licenses to complete this operation. Feature vsmp not licensed, requires 12 have 8."


I guess there is a need for a additional VM Ware license.


What can I do in order to be able to address all availible 12 CPU cores?

    

 

Thanks for your ideas.

 

Mariusz

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Moving from Hyper-V - conversion issues

May 17, 2015, 3:53 pm
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Hi

I am planing to move from Hyper-V to VMWare

Before to do it definitely we start using the free VM option vSphere Hypervisor 6

 

I was trying to move from our microsoft VM's first with converter, but had a lot of issues.

So I google and found a way to convert VM's with a tool Starwind V2V everything works great on the conversion

 

The single caveat is the Hyper-V VM was created as growable disk but to convert to ESXi I have to use full allocation (127GB in my case)

 

With that said, I have my three VM's converted as ESXi with 127GB each.

 

Is there any way I can convert my VM's into growable disks?

Can I change in any way the size of the disks? all three VM are Ubuntu linux servers

 

Shall I use a different tool to convert the vhd disk and get this done? (growable disk)

 

Thanks for helping me

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Cannot register vmx file

May 29, 2015, 5:04 am
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I got VM image from a customer and cannot register now the vmx file on my ESXi 5.5 server. I'm getting the status in the inventory list "Unknow (invalid)".

The error log files have been attached.


What can be the reason for this issue?

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NO network adapter error when installing ESXi 5.1 and above on Windows

September 18, 2015, 2:31 pm
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Hi all,

I am hoping some one can help me here.

I have a Dell laptop using Windows 7 OS where I have installed VMplayer.

 

On the VMplayer, I want to install an ESXI 5.x as a separate Virtual machine.

During half way of the isntallation, I am getting the erro No network adapter found..

I have found articles that says that ESXi ISO image do not support some adapters esp for Dell laptops.

 

I have an Intel(R) 82577LM GigNIC for LAN and for

Wirelss : Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate -N6300AGN -- this is what I ma using to get to the internet.

 

I have tried customizing the ISO image using the below link :

http://blog.kihltech.com/2014/01/how-to-add-intel-nic-drivers-to-an-esxi-5-5-iso/

 

I am not sure which driver (.vib file) i need to use for my purpose, I have tried with all the 3 below  with no luck in getting the ESXi working..

– Intel Driver (net-e1001e-1.0.0.x86_64.vib) (3rd Gen NUC)

– Intel Driver (net-e1000e-2.3.2.x86_64.vib) (4th Gen NUC)

- SATA Controller (sata-xahci-1.27-1.x86_64.vib) (4th Gen NUC) from v-front.de

 

Can anyone please help me..

 

Thanks

Jessi

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vCenter 6 Appliance - AD Integration Group Failing to add Rights

December 15, 2015, 11:07 am
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Fresh build and installation of vCenter 6u1.   Single AD environment.  Basic setup of nodes migrated from working and existing vCenter 6 (windows installation) into this new installation (aka AD works and is working with other vCenter 6 still).

 

Setup was per guide i found online + made my own notes:

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Now Join system authentication to AD and set permissions:

http://wojcieh.net/vcenter-server-appliance-6-vcsa-configuration/

 

Input Domain Details: Example  "ibm.aessatl.arrow.com"

 

Test

 

Assign "IBM\Domain Admins" to top level rights of vCenter

Global Permissions -> "+"

Select group "domain admins"

 

Add

 

Set Permission for vCenter based on same steps above

 

Now set the SSO permission for the appliance

vCenter Home -> Administration ->Manage

 

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When I login, I get "no inventory"

 

When I add a user from AD it give me rights (aka AD working), so it is some kind of group permission issue.

 

Nothing I see in logs to guide to help debug this.  Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

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One of the extents LUN was missing from the datastore and cause some VMs cannot power-on

May 22, 2017, 9:07 pm
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Hi,

 

I have a problem regarding datastore extents issue.

 

 

Normally, I have one datastore provisioned from the local disk (300GB x 4 with RAID5), ESXi was installed on this datastore.

 

It's working fine for a while and last week I decided to increase the datastore capacity using "increase" button on the datastore, I added another iSCSI LUN into the datastore so the total capacity has increased, now the datastore combined with two storages (Local Disk + iSCSI LUN).

 

Unfortunately, there was a power outage yesterday which cause SAN storage down for a few minutes. I found the error in ESXi that our VM has a problem with VMDK file. In the datastore properties, iSCSI LUN was missing from the datastore, it used to has two storages (Local + iSCSI) but now there is only local disk as below.

 

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Total Capacity = 1.79TB but there is only local disk which is 833.22GB

 

If I try to increase the capacity again, it shows the storage which is missing from the Extents datastore.2.PNG

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I'm not sure that if I go ahead next -> next -> finish. All my data will lose?


I use the command vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/xxxx , it shows that device naa.6exxxx might be offline
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How can I bring it online or manually put it back to the datastore?

 

Here is the VMkernel.log

2017-05-22T12:21:51.423Z cpu3:2839)WARNING: LVM: 13178: An attached device went offline. naa.6e843b63fd07072d0790d467cdac56d7:2 file system [datastore1, 50d07035-651a6a7f-10a2-2c768a52e739]

2017-05-22T12:21:53.106Z cpu5:2883)Config: 346: "SIOControlFlag1" = 0, Old Value: 0, (Status: 0x0)

2017-05-22T12:21:54.618Z cpu0:2839)Config: 346: "SIOControlFlag2" = 0, Old Value: 0, (Status: 0x0)

2017-05-22T12:21:58.589Z cpu2:2839)Config: 346: "VMOverheadGrowthLimit" = -1, Old Value: -1, (Status: 0x0)

2017-05-22T12:21:59.006Z cpu1:2839)WARNING: LVM: 13178: An attached device went offline. naa.6e843b63fd07072d0790d467cdac56d7:2 file system [datastore1, 50d07035-651a6a7f-10a2-2c768a52e739]

2017-05-22T12:22:02.790Z cpu11:3158)Loading module hpilo ...

2017-05-22T12:22:02.791Z cpu11:3158)Elf: 1862: module hpilo has license GPLv2

2017-05-22T12:22:02.791Z cpu11:3158)module heap: Initial heap size: 102400, max heap size: 5562368

2017-05-22T12:22:02.791Z cpu11:3158)vmklnx_module_mempool_init: Mempool max 5562368 being used for module: 58

 

Does somebody used to has this kind of problem?

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how to through esxi 6.5 manage the raid adapter h730p mini ?

December 25, 2017, 9:41 pm
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i have a dell server dell r730xd, i want to manage raid adapter h730p , how can i make it ?

yes, i can manage raid adapter through idrac,

thank you

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Host [ESXI 6.0.0 3620759] shutdown unexpected

January 25, 2019, 8:29 am
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Hi Everyone.

 

I'm running a physical server Dell T430 - CPU E5-2620 v4 @2.1GHz, My ESXI server with version 6.0.0 and yesterday it's facing an unexpected shutdown then i had to manually turned it on.

 

Could someone help looking on the attached file then tell me what is the root cause with my server, please?

 

Thank you very much

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ESXi Host Management Network Redundancy

October 5, 2017, 9:04 am
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Hi All,

 

Need some suggestions on configuring the ESXi host Management network redundancy (NIC Teaming) with 2 Uplink adapters.

 

I have installed the ESXi6.5 on Dell R810 Server and below is the network configuration.

 

Note: Both Uplink adapters are configured as a Trunk port.

 

Configured the management IP address as 192.168.1.10 (with VLAN10) during the ESXi installation. Right now only one Uplink adapter for the vSwitch0

To achieve ESXi host management redundancy, added the 2nd NIC as Uplink adapter to the vSwitch0

 

To test the ESXi host redundancy, I had disconnected the vmnic0 network cable and lost access to the ESXi host. As per my understanding the the ESXi host should use the vmnic2 (2nd NIC) to communicate to the external network however it didn't work. And also lost access to the VMs.

 

Both the adapters are selected as active only. There is no standby adapter selected in the vSwitch0.

 

Please let me know if am missing any steps here. My requirement is, the ESXi host should be available over the network if any one of the adapter goes down (vmnic0 or vmnic2).

 

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Health monitoring - Perc h700

January 23, 2018, 5:49 am
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I have a white box home test lab that I use for training. I recently upgraded to a Dell Perc h700 and ESX 6.5. Everything is working great but I cannot seem to be able to get the health monitor to show the Perc h700. ESXi is definitely seeing the card. Doing a lspci and I can see the card. Ideas?

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Esxi 6.5a Nvidia GTX750Ti passthrough

July 2, 2017, 8:48 pm
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Hi, guys, I have tried esxi 6.5a on my HP workstation. The host installation and guest vm works ok, but  I can not setup passthrough for the display card. Here is my host configuration:

 

main board: z77 (with vt-d  configured)

CPU: xeon E3-1230

Mem: 8G ddr3

GPU: MSI GTX750-Ti (use dvi)

 

I switch the GPU (PCI device) to passthrough in the web client, and assigned to a win7-x64 vm guest. The guest have installed the latest nvidia driver, and it show the GPU works fine from the device manager pannel. And when I connect the monitor to the DVI interface, the monitor shows no signal, reboot the host and vm makes no use.

 

Can somebody tell me how to solve it? Does the GTX gpu can not passthrough?

thanks.

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Hot standby (Activate/Standby)

August 29, 2017, 5:58 pm
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Dear Expert,

 

Which VMware product is for Hot Standby for double servers?

 

thx!

Liu Wei

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Hypervisor 6.7U Licensing with 2 physical cpu

December 20, 2018, 9:12 am
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Hi Everyone,

 

I'm trying to assign hypervisor 6.7u license to host with 2 cpu sockets and get the following message:

 

"This host has more sockets (2) than the provided license is valid for (1), please provide a different license"

 

On the hypervisor page I see "Recommended minimum: dual socket with four or more cores per CPU"

 

Any idea how to generate the appropriate hypervisor license?

 

Thank You!

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ESXi 5.5 Console Unresponsive

January 16, 2014, 9:54 pm
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Currently experiencing a problem using the vSphere Client console (and Workstation 10 console) to access one particular VM running on ESXi 5.5.0 hypervisor.  When clicking within the console, keyboard and mouse input is captured but no action is taken.  i.e., after clicking within the console window, the mouse cursor disappears, and if the focus is in an input field, no characters are received when typing with the keyboard.  Because this is the initial startup screen it is the Windows logon.  Problem only affects one VM, all others work fine and the problem VM can be accessed without issues using Windows RDC.

 

VM was originally created from a Paragon HDM 14 backup of a Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit machine using Paragon HDM 14 to create a vmx-9 VM. Opened this using VMware Workstation 10 and had no issues using the console to access the VM.  Had to deal with a few hardware problems as original physical machine used fingerprint logon but after sorting these issues out, access via VMware Workstation 10 was smooth.

 

vCenter Converter Standalone Client was then used to upload to an ESXi instance.  Originally showed that VMware tools was not installed although the Workstation 10 version of tools was installed.  After starting the VM, ESXi conceded that tools were installed and current.  On this initial install was not able to interact with the console but could logon using RDC.  Used vSphere Client to reinstall VMware tools and discovered two versions of VMware Tools were installed; 9.6.x from Workstation 10 and 9.4.x from vSphere Client 5.5

 

Uninstalled both versions of VMware tools and restarted.  Still cannot interact with console.  Installed only the vSphere Client version (9.4.x), restarted and still no luck.

 

Using VMware Workstation 10 to access the VM running on ESXi still doesn't allow interaction with the console although when the VM was running on VMware Workstation 10 console interaction was fine.

 

Have similar issues been noticed before?

 

Any pointers on how to resolve as there are no obvious error messages.  That said I am not that familiar with debugging issues like this and may not be looking in the right places.

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ESXi 6.0 u1 not start with LSI (Avago) 9341-4i

October 28, 2015, 1:53 pm
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Hello! I have got RAID controller LSI (Avago) 9341-4i and this hardware: CPU Intel Core i5-4460 board on MSI Z97IAC, 8GB RAM, 2x1TB HDD, 1 SSD 64GB, 1HDD 640 GB.

 

I use USB to install ESXi 6 u1 to my SSD. Installation is successful.

 

But ESXi do not started. ESXi stoped with PSOD if RAID controller is plug-in. I figured it empirically =) Please watch this video to see a problem ESXi 6.0 u1 not start with LSI (Avago) 9341-4i - YouTube

 

Can you help me?

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ESXI on external Hard Disk

November 23, 2015, 7:19 pm
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I have few questions,

 

  • Do we have the free licenses for personal use
  • When i say personal use, i want to install ESXI on my external hard disk, Is that possible ?
  • What IP i should assign if i can install ESXI on Hard Disk
  • If i can install ESXI and on HD and i create few VM, Can i access those VM's by its IP address ?  If yes How ?

 

 

Thanks,

Avadhoot

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Licensing vCenter Server 6

April 10, 2017, 1:01 pm
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I have entered my license key to license vCenter Server. After doing so I got an EULA licensing error that said I needed to license at least one asset. I went in to the hosts and clusters and figured I would just assign a license to a host, but I am getting an error there also. I get "Cannot add the following license keys. Existing Licenses: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fix or remove these license keys to proceed." Thank you for any help.

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Does ESXI 6.5 support Intel Skylake-X CPU likes i7 7800X?

April 11, 2018, 2:51 am
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Hello,

 

May I know, does ESXI 6.5 support Intel Skylake-X CPU likes i7 7800X?

 

Sincerely,

Patrick

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New datastore grayed out

April 22, 2018, 12:50 pm
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I have installed Esxi 6.7 in USB drive and I did Raid 5 on 3 disks SAS 15 krpm 300GB, I can see my 3 disks as one drive but when I try to create the second datastore I find the link of create new data store grayed out after creation of the first datastore despite the space availability.

Also when I go to Storage --> DataStores I find New Datastore link enabled but the wizard give me "No devices with free space"

I noticed the Smart Array P440ar status is Unknown, Is it normal or something wrong with drivers ?

I have spent around 5 days digging into Internet pages without success. Any Idea's ?

 

My server is HP Proliant DL-380

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