Hi
I Would Install vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 on a Supermicro Server but i can not found any Harddisk.
Maybe a Driver Probem, but i have not found any Solution that work.. We work with OSX.
Many thanks for your Input!
Regards Romeo
Supermicro MBD-X11SSW-F
Intel XEON E3-1230V5
Adaptec RAID 6805E
Hello vmware community !
We have 3 vCenter (with 3 essential license) and I'm trying to send notification via vCenter using gmail account (with TLS autentication).
I changed in Advance setting, the smtp port from 25 to 587, But I still see the traffic on my firewall through port 25....
I tryied to restart the vCenter, but the traffic still on port 25.... What I have to do to make the port changes take effect? please community, can any one help me? thanks in advance!
I'm ussing the last version on ESXi and vCenter (v.6.5.0.5500)
this is the general setting:
And this is the advance settings:
And this is the traffic on my firewall:
many thanks of all !!
Hi,
I've been running ESXi Hypervisior for sometime now in a home lab. I've recently reinstalled onto larger storage (same physical machine), imported my OVF's from the previous storage. But when I try and start them I get "Failed to power on virtual machine xxx. License key has expired".
When I log into myvmare I can't seem to locate how to get the free license back - any ideas?
Dear All,
I have a case where we need to convert a physical server to virtual machine. The host destination is an vmware ESXi 6.7 environment (managed by VCSA 6.7)
The Server OS is a Debian 9.
I have tryed with the Standalone vCenter Converter with almost all possible versions, all result where unsuccefull.
My question: It is possible to do it by another way? Specifically, can I setup (add an existing disk) using the VM with the .RAW file format?
I hope you can enlighten me with your knowledge.
Regards.-
We have VMware OEM licenses (purchased from HP).
We bought new servers from other vendor so the question is: Can VMware OEM Licenses that are purchased through a hardware vendor (HP) be moved to other servers (not HP) owned by the same customer?
It is not a technical question but legal.
I found a document:
VMware OEM Licensing Benefits.pdf - Google Drive
According to the document we can move licenses but the document little old (january 2009).
Anybody? Up to date (offical) info?
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!
When I go to install ESXi 5.1 on the server it the installation software doesn't recognize the 1TB hard drive that I have installed. I've updated the BIOS, but that didn't get me any closer to solving the problem. It also doesn't recognize the NIC either. I ran into an issue awhile ago when installing ESXi 3.5 and it couldn't recognize the IDE DVDrom drive and I had to alter the installation software. Does anybody know how to fix this?
Hi Community, I have this strange problem (or feature, for which I did not find any explanation):
The first "server" (virtual computer) I tested with ESXi had 2GB RAM, and after booting I have seen "2 GiB Memory".
Later I installed ESXi on some real workstation, with 16GB RAM, and ESXi reported "16 GiB Memory".
Now I'm testing ESXi on server with 32GB RAM, and after booting ESXi says "31.7 GiB Memory".
Why ESXi lost ~300MB of RAM?
If I had seen the same with all ESXi-installation (300MB less than real RAM capacity), I'd think it is reserved for hypervisor itself and therefore substracted from total value. But why only in scenario with 32GB RAM? BIOS reports full 32GB and I see the same value during POST (power-on self test). I booted linux (live-cd), it reports full 32GB too. HW (cpu, mobo, ram) is on compatibility list, so it should be fully supported...
I have an Esxi server free edition. I have made a virtual machine (windows 2012 server R2). Everything was all right up the moment i have take a snapshot. Because it takes me a lot of disk usage, i have delete the snapshot, and the result is this.................
Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module DiskEarly power on failed.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/52c57215-9e5d4922-97c6-c81f66d739b7/Windows Server 2012 Standard/Windows Server 2012 Standard_2.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
The system cannot find the file specified
VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/52c57215-9e5d4922-97c6-c81f66d739b7/Windows Server 2012 Standard/Windows Server 2012 Standard_2.vmdk". Verify the path is valid and try again.
Please a help SOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've got this problem:
We use servers, which are virtualized with ESXi Hypervisor. And the Windows OS uses the STOR.E BASICS 500GB to backup their data.
Now a hard disk of this type is broken down, the hard disk is about 1 year old.
So I want to exchange the hard disk with one of the same type, only newer, but now ESXi doesn't realize it.
In a Windows OS the drive works fine, but ESXi I've got no chance! I've tried 3 disks, but it doesn't appear in the vSphere Client as USB device.
All other disks work fine, it doesn't matter if it is USB 3.0 or 2.0.
Tomorrow I'll get a WD external USB hdd to test, but maybe someone knows the issue.
Any experiences?
Hello, just wanted to confirm my understanding of how the Microsoft licensing works.
Just to keep things simple. Lets say I have a Blade chassis with 8 Blades,so 8 Physical servers with 2 physical processors in each blade.
One Vcenter server that is virtual
About 50 Vm's
If I had one HA cluster with all 50 Vm's spread out throughout the 8 Blades then I would need 25 (Windows Licenses) * 8 (physical Servers) = 200 Windows Server Licenses or 8 Datacenter server licenses. This I believe i have right. You get two VM's per license thats why im cutting in half
But what if I split it it up into 2 HA Clusters? Spreading out roughly 25 VM's between the two clusters with 4 Blades in each cluster.
Then the math would work out to be
13 (Windows Licenses) * 4 (physical Servers) = 52 Windows Server licenses per cluster, so 104 licenses total.
Big Difference if it works out that i can split the clusters like so.
Now if there was an actual Microsoft Audit, do they look at it and see 8 Physical servers and require the 200 licenses or do they look at it from a cluster standpoint?
Hopefully that made sense
Hello.
I'm trying to install VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.0 so I can study it by myself, unfortunately I get this error while trying to install it.
My motherboard is a MSI Z97I AC. I couldn't find any topic that could lead me to some sort of solution. And messing around in the bios didn't helped either
I'm looking for a solution, although I can't be sure there is actually one.
Thanks in Advance.
Hi,
Does exist something like free ESXi?
I need some hypervisor for my home lab (to replace KVM) but I wouldn't like to end up with trial license expiration in 45 days or so.
Would the following be suitable?
https://my.vmware.com/en/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi6
Regards,
Jan
I just upgrade ESXi 6.5 to 6.7，unfortunately I can not power on any of the VM.
I try to create a new VM. The same thing happened.
Thanks for your help!
We have some input errors on vmnic. Can somebody explain what is it (type of error, reason)? THX.
[root@server:~] esxcli network nic stats get -n vmnic0
NIC statistics for vmnic0
Packets received: 107322202
Packets sent: 488867
Bytes received: 10168504351
Bytes sent: 84602982
Receive packets dropped: 0
Transmit packets dropped: 0
Multicast packets received: 7564403
Broadcast packets received: 0
Multicast packets sent: 0
Broadcast packets sent: 0
Total receive errors: 104669
Receive length errors: 0
Receive over errors: 0
Receive CRC errors: 0
Receive frame errors: 0
Receive FIFO errors: 0
Receive missed errors: 0
Total transmit errors: 0
Transmit aborted errors: 0
Transmit carrier errors: 0
Transmit FIFO errors: 0
Transmit heartbeat errors: 0
Transmit window errors: 0
[root@server:~] esxcli network nic get -n vmnic0
Advertised Auto Negotiation: true
Advertised Link Modes: 1000BaseKR2/Full, 10000BaseKR2/Full, 20000BaseKR2/Full, Auto
Auto Negotiation: false
Cable Type:
Current Message Level: 4631
Driver Info:
Bus Info: 0000:06:00:0
Driver: elxnet
Firmware Version: 12.0.1216.0
Version: 12.0.1115.0
Link Detected: true
Link Status: Up
Name: vmnic0
PHYAddress: 0
Pause Autonegotiate: true
Pause RX: false
Pause TX: false
Supported Ports:
Supports Auto Negotiation: true
Supports Pause: true
Supports Wakeon: true
Transceiver: external
Virtual Address: 00:50:56:5c:72:4d
Wakeon: MagicPacket(tm)
I'm provisionig Windows 7 x64 VM (guest) in the ESXi 5.0 and 5.5 (host) environment. Now I want to virtualize via VMWare Player in this Win 7 VM (guest) further 64 Bit Windows/Linux systems. I'm getting the information "This host does not support Intel VT-x mode" . VMWare Compatibility Check says: "This host ist NOT capable of running a 64-bit guest operating system under this VM product". What can I do in order to enable the 64 Bit mode for the virtualization under this VM?
The BIOS feature "Intel(R) Virtualization Technology"on the ESX Server (host) is enabled,
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
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
Is there a fix for Windows 8 client running the vSphere Client and when you launch the VM, you get the message "The VMRC console has disconnected...attempting to reconnect" ?
I am now using Wndows 8 as my primary computer OS, and I am attempting to connect to ESXi Server VMs
Sigh... for support reasons of a software vendor I have to maintain a 5.5u2 cluster.
Trying to stage for class / POC environment (hyperconvergence so has to work on hardware level), so I have to handle hardware
Goal:
1) Use kickstart structure answer files to load the nodes
2) Create a boot menu from vSphere 5.5u2 (oem customized versions) to allow user to boot USB image over IPMI, select node they are on, and it feeds it the correct ks.cfg file
I followed various guides / notes:
| vSphere Boot Menu Guides |
|---|
Template attached but details for fields and assumptions below.
Create menu for the list of nodes to each customization answer file Documentation: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/07/automating-esxi-5x-kickstart-tips.html |
But either it is a translation issue of my understanding of their notes, or issue with 5.5u2 or ???
###
Step 1: Create bootable USB vSphere OS key on 2GB key
I named key label "esx5U2_auto_install"
I followed instructions and used tool rufus
I connected and used OEM vSphere cutomization ISO for vSphere 5.5u2
Step 2: Create answer file response files
Example is node 1-4 cluster.
on USB create directory "KS" and in that create files "NODE1.cfg" -"NODE4.cfg"
Example file for node1
| node1 ks.cfg |
|---|
# Accept vSphere license ULA vmaccepteula
# Set root password rootpw password
# Clear drive partition on first device in device list clearpart --firstdisk --overwritevmfs
# Set installation target to be first drive it finds in device list install --firstdisk --overwritevmfs
# Set static IP for vmnic0 per Spectrum Accelerate table network --bootproto=static --device=vmnic0 --ip=172.20.11.197 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=172.20.11.1 --hostname=node1 -- nameserver=172.20.12.100,172.20.13.100 vlanid=11
# Reboot host reboot
# Post Installation goodies # Enable SSH and Tech Suport modes vim-cmd hostsvc/enable_esx_shell vim-cmd hostsvc/start_esx_shell vim-cmd hostsvc/enable_ssh vim-cmd hostsvc/start_ssh esxcli network firewall ruleset set --ruleset-id sshClient --enabled yes |
Step 3: Create menu for nodes
Edit file "isolinux.cfg" for above host menu options. Save this file in root of USB key.
Design is to boot over USB attached drive through the IMM (or local attached USB)
DEFAULT menu.c32 MENU TITLE 5.5u2 Boot Menu NOHALT 1 PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 80 # LABEL hddboot LOCALBOOT 0x80 MENU LABEL ^Boot from local disk # LABEL IBM Spectrum Accelerate Node 1 Install KERNEL mboot.c32 APPEND -c boot.cfg ks=usb:/KS/NODE1.cfg +++ MENU LABEL ^1 Node1 Install # LABEL IBM Spectrum Accelerate Node 2 Install KERNEL mboot.c32 APPEND -c boot.cfg ks=usb:/KS/NODE2.CFG +++ MENU LABEL ^2 Node2 Install # LABEL IBM Spectrum Accelerate Node 3 Install KERNEL mboot.c32 APPEND -c boot.cfg ks=usb:/KS/NODE3.CFG +++ MENU LABEL ^3 Node3 Install # |
#############
But... When I boot it just runs normal script to install vSphere from basic answer file
What I think I am missing is what do I need to do to the boot.cfg file to get it to call the menu (DEFAULT menu.c32)
As usual, all help is appreciated.
PS: I also tried to just effect the base load for just test of answer file (aka without fancy menu) by modification of "boot.cfg" as noted below...and it booted normal installer and ignored answers
| boot.cfg - node 1 direct ks.cfg call |
|---|
bootstate=0 title=Loading ESXi installer kernel=/tboot.b00 kernelopt=ks=/KS/NODE1.cfg modules=/b.b00 --- /jumpstrt.gz --- /useropts.gz --- /k.b00 --- /chardevs.b00 --- /a.b00 --- /user.b00 --- /sb.v00 --- /s.v00 --- /brcm.v00 --- /misc_cni.v00 --- /net_bnx2.v00 --- /net_bnx2.v01 --- /net_cnic.v00 --- /net_tg3.v00 --- /scsi_bnx.v00 --- /scsi_bnx.v01 --- /brcdprov.v00 --- /net_bna.v00 --- /scsi_bfa.v00 --- /elxnet.v00 --- /emulex_c.v00 --- /ima_be2i.v00 --- /lpfc.v00 --- /scsi_be2.v00 --- /ianet_ci.v00 --- /net_igb.v00 --- /net_ixgb.v00 --- /lsiprovi.v00 --- /scsi_meg.v00 --- /scsi_mpt.v00 --- /scsi_mpt.v01 --- /concrete.v00 --- /filetran.v00 --- /fupb.v00 --- /fwupdate.v00 --- /hwckvm.v00 --- /ilfu.v00 --- /immpasst.v00 --- /pciinfo.v00 --- /soibms.v00 --- /mlnxprov.v00 --- /net_mlx4.v00 --- /net_mlx4.v01 --- /ima_qla4.v00 --- /net_qlcn.v00 --- /net_qlge.v00 --- /qlnative.v00 --- /qlogic_c.v00 --- /scsi_qla.v00 --- /ata_pata.v00 --- /ata_pata.v01 --- /ata_pata.v02 --- /ata_pata.v03 --- /ata_pata.v04 --- /ata_pata.v05 --- /ata_pata.v06 --- /ata_pata.v07 --- /block_cc.v00 --- /ehci_ehc.v00 --- /weaselin.t00 --- /esx_dvfi.v00 --- /xlibs.v00 --- /ipmi_ipm.v00 --- /ipmi_ipm.v01 --- /ipmi_ipm.v02 --- /misc_dri.v00 --- /mtip32xx.v00 --- /net_be2n.v00 --- /net_e100.v00 --- /net_e100.v01 --- /net_enic.v00 --- /net_forc.v00 --- /net_nx_n.v00 --- /net_vmxn.v00 --- /ohci_usb.v00 --- /rste.v00 --- /sata_ahc.v00 --- /sata_ata.v00 --- /sata_sat.v00 --- /sata_sat.v01 --- /sata_sat.v02 --- /sata_sat.v03 --- /sata_sat.v04 --- /scsi_aac.v00 --- /scsi_adp.v00 --- /scsi_aic.v00 --- /scsi_fni.v00 --- /scsi_hps.v00 --- /scsi_ips.v00 --- /scsi_lpf.v00 --- /scsi_meg.v01 --- /scsi_meg.v02 --- /scsi_mpt.v02 --- /scsi_mpt.v03 --- /scsi_qla.v01 --- /uhci_usb.v00 --- /tools.t00 --- /lnvcusto.v00 --- /xorg.v00 --- /imgdb.tgz --- /imgpayld.tgz build= updated=0 |