Hi,
I am a vmware newbie. I want to set rx ring buffer size on a physical nic in my vmware server. Currently I use the command "ethtool -G vmnic0 rx 4096" to increase the rx ring size; but I have to execute the command anytime the server reboots. Is there any command that allows to set the buffer size persistently?
If not can I set the buffer size from vSphere Client instead from esxi shell? I am using HyperVisor 5.0
Thanks alot!
I'm standing up a new environment with vSphere 5.0.1 and I'm running into an issue with deploying Windows 2008 R2 VMs from a template.
If I deploy a Windows 2008 R2 VM from a template and do any type of guest customization then the VM does not work. When I power on the VM where I used guest customization and attempt to connect to the console I get the error: Unable to connect to the MKS: Error connecting to /bin/vmx process. The VM enters a state where I can not do anything to it. I can't power it off, shut it down, migrate it. After some period of time, maybe like 15 - 20 minutes I am able to power it off.
The template itself has no isses, I can convert it to VM and power it on with no problem and any VMs that I deploy with the tamplate thay do not use guest customization work just fine.
Has anyone else run into this issue? Is this an bug with 5.0.1? I'm not even sure how to troubleshoot, so any hints on where to look would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe
I'm just looking for a sanity check here...
I want to delete an RDM mapping file from a datastore but not affect the LUN. The original issue was that the VM had a physical mode RDM mapped that would not allow vmotion. vCenter reported that the RDM was not available on the other hosts; we verified the LUN was. I ended up removing the RDM from the vm, vmotioning the vm and re-adding the rdm as a new disk (virtual mode this time), effectively creating a new mapping file. Now all functionality works and the machine can vmotion around the cluster.
It has been a week now, and all is well. I'd like to go back and delete the original (faulty) rdm mapping file. I have never done that, so I'd like someone to verify that it won't have any affect on the LUN that it is/was mapped to.
By the way, this is all on vSphere 4.1. Issue was discovered when patching the hypervisors to ESXi 4.1 800380. The vm with the issue was stuck on a ESXi 4.1 433742 host. This was the last one to patch. The vm wouldn't vmotion to other hosts before they were patched, so it probably had nothing to do with patch levels.
Thanks,
Craig
I have ESXi 5.1 with a free license installed on a workstation for lab testing. Everytime I open a console for a vm from the VSphere client, their are 3 event warnings entered into application event log on the computer with VSphere installed. The console does open and seems to work ok. The VSphere client is installed on a Win7 Pro 64 bit machine. Why are these being logged and how do I prevent these error log entries?
The TicketLimitFileAccess error is listed twice when the console is openned.
Event ID 1000 W110: TicketLimitFileAccess: successfully added access-allowed ACE to file's DACL
Event ID 1000 W110: VMAuthdSocketRead(): recv() FAIL:0
Hi all,
I am having some issues with VMware ESXi 5.1.0, 799733
My vm's (all debian linux hosts with vmware tools installed ) seem to get killed from time to time without any obvious ( atleast for me ) reason.
The only information I get in the vSphere client are 2 messages:
"An application (/bin/vmx) running on ESXi host has crashed (1 time(s) so far). A core file might have been created at /vmfs/volumes/5120d35a-9e517a38-7eb9-c8600-0df0865/.../vmx-zdump.000. warning 24/04/2013 9:03:59"
"Error message on ....: We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement. error 24/04/2013 9:03:59"
"VMware ESX unrecoverable error: (vcpu-2) vcpu-0:VMM fault 14: src=MONITOR rip=0xfffffffffc2709bf regs=0xfffffffffc0089a0"
On the VM's themselves I can't find anything odd in the logs.
My server is running on an intel i7-3770 CPU with 32GB of RAM. I have added the last vmware.log in to this post.
any help is appreciated.
Hello,
Just wanted to double check one very simple and common thing.
Currently I have one two-noded vSphere (ESXi 5.0) cluster plus one single host (same ESXi 5.0). All three hosts are connected to the same single shared iSCSI datastore. If I will add one more ESXi host which will have access to this same iSCSI datastore (including permission from the storage system side) this will NOT damage any existing VM files on this datastore? When first rescan operation completes after adding this new host this host just will have regular access to the existing datastore and after that this host can be added to the existing cluster - am I right?
Thanks in advance!
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.
When trying to install vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5.5.0), the system consistently hangs on the yellow screen at Initializing storage stack... Has anyone seen this, or have any idea what may be causing it?
I'm installing it bare metal from a burnt CD using a Shuttle SZ77, i5-3470S GPU, 32GB RAM, a 2TB SATA drive, a 120GB SATA SSD, and a SATA CD/DVD ROM. The disks were working with a Linux installation on it.
Unfortunately, I don't have a serial header to hook up a serial console.
-Paul
hi experts
I have an ESX 5.5 server, with two 8-core CPUs. I have the following license:
VMware vSphere 5 Hypervisor Licensed for 2 physical CPUs (unlimited cores per CPU). This means I would have 16 cores available to my VM
But my sole virtual machine only sees 8 CPU cores instead of the 16 that I am expecting.
EDIT:
a quick test on creating a vm shows that I can create a vm with 16 cores, but i get an error when i tried to power it on.
"Feature vsmp not licensed, requires 16 have 8".
So i guess I have a license issue. what kind of license would get me 16 vsmp?
END EDIT
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
thanks guys
davy
I have two vSphere hosts (e.g., H0 and H1) with multi-port NICs connected to the same managed switch. I want the VMs on both hosts to have the highest network throughput.
1. On the switch, should I create two LAGs (e.g., LAG0 and LAG1); where LAG0's port members are connected to H0 and LAG1's port members are connected to H1?
2. Is it necessary to put LAG0 and LAG1 on the same VLAN for performance?
3. Does vSphere support LACP?
Hi all,
i'm actually creating some virual machines on Vsphere (Version 5.5)
I made 4 VMs as depicted in picture.
Actually Running VMs: VM1(HA) and VM2 (NOT HA)
When i try to start VM4(HA) vmware won't start it, firing this error: Insufficient resources to satisfy configured failover level for vSphere
When i try to start VM3(HA) machine start successfully
All HA VMs are configured on host 1 as master for HA and Host2 for failover.
The only difference between VM3 and VM4 is the Ram: 4Gb for Vm3 and 8Gb for Vm4.
Is it something about resource allocation of ram for HA ?
How can i verify and correct this issue ?
Thanks
I have few questions,
Thanks,
Avadhoot
I have en LSI RAID controller. (9341-4i)
There exist two different drivers the the device-id of this controller:
-lsi-mr3
-scsi-megaraid-sas
ESX default load the "lsi-mr3" driver.
How do I force ESX to use the "scsi-megaraid-sas" driver instead using console?
I guess I can uninstall the "lsi-mr3" driver package and hopefully the "scsi-megaraid-sas" will be used after reboot, but I would like to be able to change driver without uninstalling.
I'm running v6 of the free vmware hypervisor in my home lab. ESXi is running from an 8Gb USB stick. I have 8 drives hanging off an adaptec 71605q, partitioned up into 2 RAID5 and 1 RAID0 arrays.
I installed all the necessary VIBs, and this setup has been running for months. 3 datastores and 3 VMs running just fine.
Then 2 days ago our contractor started flipping breakers to shut off electricity in our kitchen for the remodel. Somehow he shut off the "office" breaker. My bad for not getting around to buying a UPS for my new server. :-(
Now, esxi won't boot. Comes up with the error:
tboot.b00 fatal error: 6 (buffer too small)
How do I fix this?
(I installed a copy of 6.5 free hypervisor on a new USB drive; it booted fine so I installed the adaptec vibs. When logged in via web client I can see my drive arrays, but there are no datastores.)
Hi.
I'm developing a driver and one of the automated tests I need to run tests that the driver behaves correctly when the system hibernates and then comes back up. So far all of the virtualization solutions I've tried either don't support this (VirtualBox, Hyper-V) or don't work quite correctly (Workstation).
Does vSphere support guest hibernation?
Thanks.
Hello,
I have an ESXi Host running a single VM (Windows Server 2012).
I'm trying to consolidate snapshots but it fails. All snapshots have been deleted and they don't appear in the Snapshot Manager.
I checked in the VM's folder in the Datastore and all the snapshot disks are there. Right now the VM is using one of those disks.
The total storage is 1TB and it has 220GB of free space.
Dear Expert,
Which VMware product is for Hot Standby for double servers?
thx!
Liu Wei
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).
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
Hello. I installed the free versión ESXi that can be found in download web. I needed to customize the iso adding a net driver. Now its ok.
But i find ESXi-Customizer-PS and it download the last versión of ESXi from VMWare servers, that is not what i can find in the web. Downloading in this way i can use a newer versión, and i preffer it. Then i download last 6.5 ISO and customize with same net driver. But when i go to upgrade my ESXi, the install program dont find any support to install. No one HD is found. Then i cannot install a new instalation and i cannot upgrade my actual installation.
The first ESXi was installed in a new nVME Samsung 960 EVO 250 GB, but i have a second SSD drive Samsung 850 EVO 500GB. And the last compilation doesn`t find any of them.
I have been told it can be by UEFI system in disks... but i dont know if i have disabled it correctly in disks. My motherboard is a ASUS B150M-A/M.2 and i dont know how to disable it exactly. I found a place to disable all UEFI system, not in each disk, for all disk. But doing this way, the installation continues not finding any disk.
I dont know if i disconected UEFI correctly, and i dont know if this is the problem, and i dont know how to resolve it to be able to upgrade my ESXi.
I can add photos if its necesary.