Hello,

I just wanted to ask if there is by now a method to use a software-raid with the ESXI-Hypervisor. I am using the inbuild RAID-Funktion of the Fujitsu D3446-Mainboard with Intel C236 chipset and as far as I can say from my investigation it seems that it is not a hardware but a software RAID.

I already found some topics about this but wanted to make sure that:

1. Intel C236 chipset is actually using a software RAID and there is not any other problem with it (The current symptom is that whether I created a RAID 1 in the BIOS the ESXI 6.5 Installer shows two independend disks)
2. There is still no workaround to use a software raid, for example via adding the driver to the esxi-installer like I can do for windows based OS.

Thanks in advance,

Niklas

Hi,

I am attempting to install ESXi 6 U2 on a new server. The hardware is as follows:

SuperMicro motherboard X11SSH-LN4F (BIOS 1.0a, 12/29/2015)

32GB DDR4 RAM (2 x 16GB)

AVAGO MegaRAID SAS 9361-4i (Firmware 6.31.03.0, 1/25/2016)

4 x 2TB disk drives in RAID5

When running the ESXi install from CD, the following error occurs after only a short way through:

IMG_20160425_112039.jpg - Google Drive

Error loading /s.v00

Compressed MD5: 206f......

Decompressed MD5: 0000......

Fatal error: 10 (Out of resources)

I'm trying to find how I can troubleshoot this error. I have tried three different media to install from, including 5.5 U3b, all with the same error. I would appreciate any help on the next steps.

Many thanks and regards,

Alex

Just installed VMWare vSphere ESXi 4.1.  Then I installed the corresponding vSphere client on my laptop and connected to ESXi.

I have a OVA file.  How do I open it in ESXi thru vSphere client app?

thanks

Hi,

Our organization is new to virtualization and will be deploying the following configuration:

Two servers: primary VMWare Server (to be purchased, running 10 VMs (mostly RHEL))  and backup server (already purchased), which will come online only if failure/problems with primary.

iSCSI SAN for shared storage. Backups performed to Buffalo NAS appliance.

We have been using the free vSphere Hypervisor in testing with the VMs on the soon-to-be backup server.

We are well-aware of the advantages of the licensed version and vCenter Server.

However, we would like to continue to use the free Hypervisor and are trying to develop a high availablity/failover strategy with the backup server. I state this relatively, because this is not a time-critical environment that requires immediate availability and zero downtime.

Our current exploratory strategy:

1. Primary server goes down.

2. Start secondary server.

3. Access resource manager and login.

4. Search for and remove any locks on file system datastores (iSCSI reservations?).

5. open VMWare Client.

6. Search for and instantiate VMs that were previously managed on the primary server from shared storage.

We have not tested this and are making a number of assumptions about this process.

Does anyone have experience with this with the free Hypervisor?

Thanks,

Hi guys,

I'm researching Vmware ESXi and I have some problem . I wonder what's the difference between Move and Migrate.
Could somebody help me explain this problem ?

Thank you so much

Hi

Had a search for this but cannot find anything..

I believe I read somewhere that the data transfer between 2 vm's on the same host travelled via the motherboard/hard drive and didn't travel through the network card to the switch then back again. How true is this? The transfer speeds I have seen in the past say otherwise. I am upgrading a server at the weekend and have a 140GB Exchange store that needs to go from one server to the other, if I could maximise this transfer then that would be ideal.

Any suggestions appreciated

Cheers

Dave

Hello everyone!

In VMware official document "vsphere-51-configuration-maximums" or "vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf" in section "ESXi host maximums \ Compute Maximums" exists to items:

"Host CPU maximums \ Logical CPU per host" ( vSphere 5.1: 160;   vSphere 5.5: 320 )

and

"Virtual machine maximums \ Virtual CPUs per host" (vSphere 5.1: 2048;    vSphere 5.5: 4096)

Question: what is the difference between these two items?

And one more complex thing from maximums:

Virtual machines per host: 512

Hosts per cluster: 32

Therefore, in the cluster can exist Virtual Machines (in maximum): 521 * 32 = 16384

But in document we have only 4000 VMs in maximum.

Why?

Thank you

Hi everyone,

i have a question,

I have a PC with core i5 cpu that is with a 1 socket and 4 cores with no supporting off hyperthreading,

I have installed ESXi5.5 on it, When I want to create a vm I can put 3 cpus and 3 cores per socket= 9 cores ????, and then it tells to me that I have one socket,

I think I do not know the real meaning of the cpus and cores per sockets in the vsphere web client, Can anyone help me please?

And another question, When for example we limit a cpu of a vm for 300MHZ is that limit pe each core or for all cores?

Thanks

Hi guys, I was wondering if I could get some help in trying to track down what's causing my ESXi host to crash.

I've run ESXi for a number of years, but this hardware setup for probably only a year and a half. The hardware is pretty off the shelf simple, Core i7, 16gig RAM, ASRock motherboard with support for VT-d, a pair of 1Gb Intel NICs, an IBM raid controller converted to LSI2008 in passthrough, a bunch of HDDs for a NAS and an Intel SSD for the datastore. Every once in a while, and this is the worst part about it, I get the purple screen. It doesn't happen with any regularity, once every couple months maybe, and it's driving me nuts. I recently swapped the PSU and have actually swapped CPUs as well. I'm out of ideas other than swapping hardware one by one and waiting 6 months which is a pretty crummy way to troubleshoot this. I unfortunately don't have a dump from the last crash, just a picture of the screen. It actually indicates that dumping failed anyway so.. I also grabbed everything from the /var/log directory so if there is anything that can help please ask and I'll post it ASAP.

If all that can be done is you guys tell me what to setup to capture more useful info for next time please pass that info along as well.

Something from vmkwarning.log

2014-04-04T03:00:01.759Z cpu2:1647387)WARNING: LinScsi: SCSILinuxQueueCommand:1207: queuecommand failed with status = 0x1056 Unknown status vmhba0:0:0:0 (driver name: ahci) - Message repeated 1 time

2014-04-04T07:09:01.873Z cpu3:32868)WARNING: LinScsi: SCSILinuxQueueCommand:1207: queuecommand failed with status = 0x1056 Unknown status vmhba0:0:0:0 (driver name: ahci) - Message repeated 1 time

0:00:00:00.000 cpu0:1)WARNING: Serial: 806: Serial port com1 failed during initialization.

0:00:00:00.000 cpu0:1)WARNING: Serial: 807: Serial port com1 will be disabled.

0:00:00:00.000 cpu0:1)WARNING: Serial: 806: Serial port com2 failed during initialization.

0:00:00:00.000 cpu0:1)WARNING: Serial: 807: Serial port com2 will be disabled.

0:00:00:04.435 cpu0:32768)WARNING: Cpu: 2145: Cache latency measurement may be inaccurate min= 196 max= 792 avg= 276

0:00:00:04.507 cpu0:32768)WARNING: VMKAcpi: 780: No IPMI PNP id found

0:00:00:04.530 cpu0:32768)WARNING: PCI: 764: ARI-capable device 0000:02:00.0 under non-ARI-capable bridge 0000:00:1c.0

2014-04-05T15:04:56.671Z cpu2:33202)WARNING: PCI: 157: 0000:02:00.0: Bypassing non-ACS capable device in hierarchy

I've seen messages indicating the CPU has no performed a heartbeat in 8 seconds, but I don't know what that means though

Much appreciated

We installed Intel I350-T4 Server Adapter which supports SR IOV and by doing "esxcfg-module igb -s max_vfs=7,7,7,7", we get:

Unable to set module parameters the following params are invalid: max_vfs

Please, don't tell me it's unsupported, as this is a quality, expensive Server adapter with quad ports...

Please reply as soon as possible!

Best Regards,

Luka

Hi...

VMWare vSphere 5 Essentials is installed on a Dell PowerEdge R620 with 2 CPU sockets with 2 hard drives with RAID1. System drive is on this RAID1 volume.

The system is running slow with the following errors, and can only find the shared SAN storage, not local. The errors are:

Bootbank cannot be found at path "/bootbank. A "Scan all" operation comes with the following error: "The request failed because the remote server '<IP address>' took too long to respond. (The command has timed out as the remote server is taking too long to respond.)

Error Stack: Call "HostStorageSystem.RetrieveDiskPartitionInfo" for object "Storage SYstem" on ESXi

Intermittent warning - Device naa.xxxxxx performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average value of 6617 microseconds to 147751 microseconds.

SSH session result - again doesn't show local disks

~ # df -h

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

VMFS-5 5.0T 4.6T 323.9G 94% /vmfs/volumes/VMWare

vfat 4.0G 26.8M 4.0G 1% /vmfs/volumes/53108da6-59975820-2d17-c81f66b84552

Any suggestions how to resolve this issue? Thanks in advance!

Jay

Hi,

I'm looking to buy a ESXi 6 server for lab purposes.

I've read that there might be some performance and compability issues using the Smart Array B120i raid controller, any experiences?

I'm plan to use 4x1TB sata-drives in RAID10(maby one hot-spare aswell), and running the ESXi-os on SD-card.

I plan to run about 5 virtual Windows-servers.

Thanks

Hi guys.

Trying to install: "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update01-3029758.x86_64.iso" on SuperMicro Server.

Server type: Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SLM+-F

It has:

Server has two 2TB sata disks. RAID 1 is enabled, but durring the ESXI installation the wizard shows two 2TB disks instead of one disk 2TB (in RAID1).

How to solve this, please help

I am getting this error:

Unable to write data to the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. I am trying to upload a OVF to my host.

I have my ESXi host connected to a switch with VLANS. How do I fix this?

I'm getting this error message on my laptop with vSphere Client 6.0 when I'm trying to connect ESXi Server 6.0 -> Please see below the logfile.

On other computers there are no problems with connecting the ESXi 6.0 server!

What could be the reason that I get this issue? Any ideas?

[        :startup :W: 1] 2016-09-12 16:21:30.042  Log for vSphere Client Launcher, pid=5636, version=6.0.0, build=build-2502222, option=release

[        :Error   :W: 1] 2016-09-12 16:21:30.073  System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.

   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32Error(Int32 errorCode, String str)

   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.SetValue(String name, Object value, RegistryValueKind valueKind)

   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.SetValue(String name, Object value)

   at VpxClient.Program.RegisterClientMimeExtension()

[        :QuickInf:W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:22:07.856  Set the dll search path to C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\6.0

[        :QuickInf:W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:22:08.293  Load Shared DLLs: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\6.0

[        :startup :W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:22:08.683  Log for vSphere Client, pid=5636, version=6.0.0, build=build-2502222, option=release, user=admin, url = https://192.168.188.10/sdk

[viclient:SoapTran:W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:22:09.447  Invoke 1 Start RetrieveContent on ServiceInstance:ServiceInstance [192.168.188.10]. [operationID:40A62C41-00000001][Caller: VmomiSupport.VcServiceImpl.InitializeTransport]

[viclient:SrvMsg  :W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:22:10.742  RMI Request Vmomi.ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent - 1

[viclient:Critical:P:13] 2016-09-12 16:22:51.879  Connection State[192.168.188.10]: Connected

[viclient:SoapTran:W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:22:51.879  Invoke 1 Finish RetrieveContent on ServiceInstance:ServiceInstance [192.168.188.10] - Serial:1.277, Server:041.129 [ERROR]

VirtualInfrastructure.Exceptions.RequestTimedOut: The request failed because the remote server '192.168.188.10' took too long to respond. (The command has timed out as the remote server is taking too long to respond.)

System.Net.WebException: The command has timed out as the remote server is taking too long to respond.

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

   at VirtualInfrastructure.ManagedObject.InvokeMethod(MethodName, Object[])

   at Vmomi.ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent()

   at VmomiSupport.VcServiceImpl.InitializeTransport(ConnectionSpec)

   at VpxClient.UI.InitializeVimClient(Dictionary`2, String[])

   at VpxClient.UI.StartUpIfNotMultiVcSecure(Dictionary`2, SecureString, String[], LoginEventHandler, String, List`1)

...

   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object, BindingFlags, Binder, Object[], CultureInfo)

   at VpxClient.Login.VIClientObj.LateCall(String, Object[])

   at VpxClient.Login.VIClientObj.StartUpOrGetMultiVcInfo(Dictionary`2, SecureString, String[], List`1)

   at VpxClient.Login.ClientAppObject.Startup(Dictionary`2, PasswordString, RunMode)

[viclient:Error   :W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:22:51.895  RMI Error Vmomi.ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent - 1

<Error type="VirtualInfrastructure.Exceptions.RequestTimedOut">

  <Message>The request failed because the remote server '192.168.188.10' took too long to respond. (The command has timed out as the remote server is taking too long to respond.)</Message>

  <InnerException type="System.Net.WebException">

    <Message>The command has timed out as the remote server is taking too long to respond.</Message>

    <Status>Timeout</Status>

  </InnerException>

  <Title>Connection Error</Title>

  <InvocationInfo type="VirtualInfrastructure.MethodInvocationInfoImpl">

    <StackTrace type="System.Diagnostics.StackTrace">

      <FrameCount>12</FrameCount>

    </StackTrace>

    <MethodName>Vmomi.ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent</MethodName>

    <Target type="ManagedObject">ServiceInstance:ServiceInstance [192.168.188.10]</Target>

  </InvocationInfo>

  <WebExceptionStatus>Timeout</WebExceptionStatus>

  <SocketError>Success</SocketError>

</Error>

[        :ShowExcp:W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:22:51.895  Connection Error: The request failed because the remote server '192.168.188.10' took too long to respond. (The command has timed out as the remote server is taking too long to respond.)

VirtualInfrastructure.Exceptions.RequestTimedOut: The request failed because the remote server '192.168.188.10' took too long to respond. (The command has timed out as the remote server is taking too long to respond.)

   at VirtualInfrastructure.Soap.SoapServiceWrapper.DoInvokeSync(ManagedObject mo, MethodName methodName, Object[] parameters, Int32 timeoutSecs)

   at VirtualInfrastructure.Soap.SoapTransport.VirtualInfrastructure.Transport.InvokeMethod(ManagedObject mo, MethodName methodName, Object[] pars)

   at VirtualInfrastructure.ManagedObject.InvokeMethod(MethodName methodName, Object[] pars)

   at Vmomi.ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent()

   at VmomiSupport.VcServiceImpl.InitializeTransport(ConnectionSpec cnxSpec)

   at VpxClient.UI.InitializeVimClient(Dictionary`2 specMap, String[] arguments)

   at VpxClient.UI.StartUpIfNotMultiVcSecure(Dictionary`2 specMap, SecureString password, String[] arguments, LoginEventHandler handler, String dllPath, List`1 listOfVcUrls)

System.Net.WebException: The command has timed out as the remote server is taking too long to respond.

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

[        :QuickInf:W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:23:01.770  VIC #0 End.

[        :QuickInf:W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:23:01.770  CientAppObject.CleanUp...

[        :Critical:W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:23:01.770  ShutdownClient

[viclient:Critical:W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:23:01.770  Connection State[192.168.188.10]: Disconnected

[viclient:SoapMsg :W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:23:01.770  Attempting graceful shutdown of service ...

[viclient:SoapMsg :W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:23:01.770  Pending Invocation Count: 0

[viclient:SoapMsg :W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:23:01.770  Graceful shutdown of service: Success

[        :QuickInf:W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:23:01.785  CientAppObject.CleanUpDone...

[        :QuickInf:W: 8] 2016-09-12 16:23:01.785  Scheduling delayed unload for AppDomain VIC #0

While powering on the serve it getting the error.

Error:Power On virtual machine VM Device 'Bootstrap' is not available.

Hi everyone,

So I recently installed ESXi Hypervisor 6.5 on a Dell EMC Server PowerEdge T440.

We then procured an nVidia Quadro P4000. Upon scouring the forums and the internet, I do not see anywhere that this GPU can be used in a shared-VM set up. The VIB drivers page for ESXi 6.5 say they are only applicable to GRID GPUs.

I was however able to set it in dedicated GPU mode by using PCI-passthrough. But this is the least favored situation. It would be best if I were able to share the GPU across multiple VMs. Is that not possible?

Folks,

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction here. We've been running VMware Server 2.x for a few years and decided to upgrade to vSphere5.1. We rented a rackmount HP server and built out several of our development and staging servers to properly evaluate issues and set performance expectations. We've since migrated our servers to a new platform with 3 hosts, SAN storage, GbE switches,etc. Several of our development server VMs are now running slower on the new host servers than they did on the rental host server with vSphere5.1 Evaluation license. One VM in particular is configured as follows:

vmx-09, 1 vCPU, 2GB vRAM, vHD1-75G, vHD2-75G, vHD3-20G, vHD4-20G (all thin provisioned), SCSI Controller - LSI Logic SAS, 1 vNIC (E1000), default video card, Guest OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 running SQL Server Mgmt Studio 2008

OLD host server(rental - running vSphere5.1 Evaluation license:

1 x HP Proliant DL380 G6, 2xIntel Xeon X5650 6c 2.665Ghz, 64GB RAM, 10x300GB 15k SAS internal drives - 5 RAID1 volumes - 5x279GB datastores, 2 active 1GbE NICs on separate subnets

NEW host server (permanent server running vSphere Essentials Plus license):

3 x Dell PowerEdge R420, 2xIntel Xeon E5-2440 6c 2.4Ghz, 96GB RAM, Compellent SC8000-based multi-Tiered iSCSI SAN (15k RAID10 & RAID5, 7.2k RAID10 & RAID5), 6 active 1GbE NICs on GbE switches

This VM (like the several others showing same behavior) performed on rental server with no noticeable lag or slow downs except under heavy development load. Now on new server environment VMs show lag during login, general browser functions, opening apps, etc. Delay has gone from 1 second to open app to 6-8 seconds to open same app. Development load went from 2-3 minutes to 11-15 minutes. vSphere performance tab shows no high mem, cpu, network or disk usage. Guest OS shows no high usage on these resources either yet lag in all aspects of guest OS usage continues.

Suggestions on where to check and what information to collect are all welcomed.

Thanks.

After getting some malware on my home PC, I am considering wiping it out and installing vSphere Hypervisor (and then buying a 32-bit copy of Windows Vista, because my CPU is 64-bit but won't support 64 bit guest OSes).  My CPU is an "Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8200".  Does anyone have reason think vSphere hypervisor won't run on it?  I don't see it in the list of supported chips, but I did see a couple of references to it in these forums.

The Intel page for the chips says "Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)" is not included, which worries me a bit, but I don't know enough to know whether that is critical or not.  I am successfully running VMPlayer (with Ubuntu 9).

Thanks,

       --Paul

Good day,

I am trying to collect performance data using esxtop. I am using the batch mode to save the statistics in a csv file, and simultaneously compress the output file, using the next command:

esxtop -b -d 60 -n 30240| gzip -9c > esxtop.csv.gz

the idea is to collect data every 60 seconds for 21 days (21 days x 24 hours x 60 iterations per hour = 30240 iterations). However, the ssh session was closed during the second day and the process was interrupted.

Is there any way to run the process in background so that when the ssh session disconnects it does not affect the esxtop data collection? I tried with & at the end of the line, but it did not work.

Thanks in advance