HI!

I'm using FreeBSD 10 32 bits with ESXi 5.5, and the virtual machine reboots itself every day with this error in dmesg:

mpt0: request 0xc6c66c60:4363 timed out for ccb 0xc7b39800 (req->ccb 0xc7b39800)

mpt0: attempting to abort req 0xc6c66c60:4363 function 0

mpt0: abort of req 0xc6c66c60:4363 completed

mpt0: attempting to abort req 0xc6c66c60:4363 function 0

mpt0: completing timedout/aborted req 0xc6c66c60:4363

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): WRITE(6). CDB: 0a 00 ff db 01 00

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Retrying command

mpt0: abort of req 0xc6c66c60:0 completed

mpt0: request 0xc6c6b720:4573 timed out for ccb 0xc7b39800 (req->ccb 0xc7b39800)

mpt0: attempting to abort req 0xc6c6b720:4573 function 0

mpt0: completing timedout/aborted req 0xc6c6b720:4573

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): WRITE(6). CDB: 0a 00 ff db 01 00

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Retrying command

mpt0: abort of req 0xc6c6b720:0 completed

mpt0: request 0xc6c6e690:4706 timed out for ccb 0xc7b39800 (req->ccb 0xc7b39800)

mpt0: attempting to abort req 0xc6c6e690:4706 function 0

mpt0: completing timedout/aborted req 0xc6c6e690:4706

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): WRITE(6). CDB: 0a 00 ff db 01 00

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Retrying command

mpt0: abort of req 0xc6c6e690:0 completed

mpt0: request 0xc6c65e5c:4837 timed out for ccb 0xc7b39800 (req->ccb 0xc7b39800)

mpt0: attempting to abort req 0xc6c65e5c:4837 function 0

mpt0: completing timedout/aborted req 0xc6c65e5c:4837

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): WRITE(6). CDB: 0a 00 ff db 01 00

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Retrying command

mpt0: abort of req 0xc6c65e5c:0 completed

mpt0: request 0xc6c68474:4943 timed out for ccb 0xc7b39800 (req->ccb 0xc7b39800)

mpt0: attempting to abort req 0xc6c68474:4943 function 0

mpt0: completing timedout/aborted req 0xc6c68474:4943

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): WRITE(6). CDB: 0a 00 ff db 01 00

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout

(da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted

mpt0: abort of req 0xc6c68474:0 completed

g_vfs_done():da0p2[WRITE(offset=33452544, length=512)]error = 5

panic: cannot reassign paging buffer

cpuid = 1

KDB: stack backtrace:

#0 0xc0af6f12 at kdb_backtrace+0x52

#1 0xc0abce21 at panic+0x121

#2 0xc0b5d179 at reassignbuf+0x239

#3 0xc0b44406 at bdirty+0x36

#4 0xc0b43252 at brelse+0x112

#5 0xc0b46990 at bufdone+0x60

#6 0xc0a22fba at g_vfs_done+0x27a

#7 0xc0b464a3 at biodone+0xf3

#8 0xc0a1f844 at g_io_schedule_up+0x1d4

#9 0xc0a1fddd at g_up_procbody+0x6d

#10 0xc0a8bff3 at fork_exit+0xa3

#11 0xc0f80704 at fork_trampoline+0x8

Uptime: 22h11m18s

The machine is working perfect, until this error appears.

I've been searching with no luck.

Any idea ?

Hello guys,

I'm looking for an USB 3.0 PCIe-Card, which is compatible to Hypervisor 5 Update 1. The server is a HP ProLiant ML350 G6.

I can't find any information about USB-Cards in the compatibility lists

Has anyone an idea, which one I can take or can I take any card?

Hi,

I'm new-ish to the ESXi world but am enthusiastically learning as I go with our test-lab and production environment.  The boss kindly 'donated' a Dell Optiplex 755 (Core2 Duo/4GB RAM) to me for me to play with at home. Our test-lab machine here at the office is an identical (at least I'm 99% certain it is) machine.  We have recently upgraded it to 7GB RAM with spare DIMMs, but it's otherwise the same.  And it works just great.

The machine at home has, on the other hand, been nothing but trouble.  I can install ESXi Hypervisor 4.0, 4.1 and v5 - all complete successfully and seem to go just fine.  I connect the VMWare vSphere Client (with relevant matching version) and start building my environment.  After a random interval of 5-20 minutes, I lose connection to the server in the vSphere client.  I can still ping the management IP and open a port on 902 and SSH to the host.  But vSphere says it can't connect due to too slow a response from the server.

If I reboot the Hypervisor (through the actual console), when it comes up, I'm good to go again.. for a while.  To eliminate all possible external issues, I've stripped the machine back to 2GB OEM RAM, the OEM HDD and OEM NIC - no changes.  I then eliminated my network as a potential by using a back to back network cable to connect a Win 7 and then Win XP machine running vSphere to the Hypervisor - same eventual result - time out on reconnection.

All this would make sense if the Optiplex 755 just wasn't compatible, but the fact I have one on my test bench here at work working just fine irks me.

So, in summary, what I have tried/tested:

• Basic hardware config - no extras or non-factory peripherals.
• Various IDE and SATA drives
• Three versions of ESXi - all the same result
• Eliminated network entirely (known good Cat5 patch cable used)
• Updated BIOS to latest (v.19 from recollection)
• Installed just ESXi v5 and no guests - just powered up, connected the first time and waited to be thrown off - still happens

With fresh installation and no extra bits plugged in, it still fails so there's something inherently askew in the Optiplex 755.  I've checked the BIOS and MEBx settings to ensure nothing is 'sleeping'.  But, even if there was a NIC sleep setting I'd missed, how can I still ping that IP and SSH to the machine when vSphere says no can do?

This whole thing has done my head in and I rarely give up, but right now, I give up! 

Anyone else care to share any thoughts or suggestions?  I'd really like to get this running so I can actually play with the Hypervisor.

Hi, I've installed ESXi 5.0 and found my NIC is not recognized. My motherborard has an on-board Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller.

Does anyone knows if there's a driver for this NIC?.

Regards,

Leonardo.

Hi everyboda,

i have a Problem with my ESXi 5.1 Server.

My Server has 2 Network-Cards.

The First Card is a RTL8168 Card which is running fine.

The Second Card is a RTL8139C, which should be ok according to the Hardware compatibility List.

However the Server is not recognizing the RTL8139 Card - its not shown in the VsphereClient and cannot be used.

The Card was inserted, after the Server has been installed.

Do i have to reinstall or do i have to insert a driver CD or something?

Thank you for your Help.

I'm kind of new to ESXi, FreeNas,and really anything beyond home Windows support. Please forgive me for my level of knowledge, but I'm reading alot and trying to learn. This seems like a fairly large challenage, at least to me at this point. I'm looking for suggestions and different points of view. Also sorry if this is the wrong thread, ther's a lot of components.

Hi guys

I have a customer running vSphere 5 with ESXi 5.0.0 build 914586.

On a datastore I have a template for W2K8R2SP1-Enterprise. When I try to deploy a VM from this template it states:

"unable to access file vmdk since it is locked"

So I tried the following:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=10051

When connected with SSH to one of the ESXi's in the cluster, I ran the following command:

~ # vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/REP-P1-MGMT01/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise.nvram
Lock [type 10c00001 offset 93065216 v 292, hb offset 4145152
gen 263, mode 0, owner 00000000-00000000-0000-000000000000 mtime 31015 nHld 0 nOvf 0]
Addr <4, 211, 10>, gen 12, links 1, type reg, flags 0, uid 0, gid 0, mode 600
len 8684, nb 1 tbz 0, cow 0, newSinceEpoch 0, zla 1, bs 1048576
~ # vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/REP-P1-MGMT01/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise.vmsd
Lock [type 10c00001 offset 93052928 v 34, hb offset 3366912
gen 563, mode 0, owner 00000000-00000000-0000-000000000000 mtime 9694 nHld 0 nOvf 0]
Addr <4, 211, 4>, gen 6, links 1, type reg, flags 0, uid 0, gid 0, mode 644
len 0, nb 0 tbz 0, cow 0, newSinceEpoch 0, zla 4305, bs 8192
~ # vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/REP-P1-MGMT01/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise.vmtx
Lock [type 10c00001 offset 93048832 v 328, hb offset 4145152
gen 263, mode 0, owner 00000000-00000000-0000-000000000000 mtime 30959 nHld 0 nOvf 0]
Addr <4, 211, 2>, gen 4, links 1, type reg, flags 0, uid 0, gid 0, mode 100755
len 2935, nb 1 tbz 0, cow 0, newSinceEpoch 0, zla 2, bs 8192
~ # vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/REP-P1-MGMT01/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise.vmxf
Lock [type 10c00001 offset 93050880 v 29, hb offset 4145152
gen 263, mode 0, owner 00000000-00000000-0000-000000000000 mtime 28440 nHld 0 nOvf 0]
Addr <4, 211, 3>, gen 5, links 1, type reg, flags 0, uid 0, gid 0, mode 644
len 283, nb 1 tbz 0, cow 0, newSinceEpoch 0, zla 2, bs 8192
~ # vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/REP-P1-MGMT01/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise.vmdk
Lock [type 10c00001 offset 63762432 v 269, hb offset 4145152
gen 263, mode 0, owner 00000000-00000000-0000-000000000000 mtime 31103 nHld 0 nOvf 0]
Addr <4, 139, 134>, gen 137, links 1, type reg, flags 0, uid 0, gid 0, mode 600
len 516, nb 0 tbz 0, cow 0, newSinceEpoch 0, zla 4305, bs 8192
~ # vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/REP-P1-MGMT01/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise/Template-WIN2K8R2-Enterprise-flat.vmdk
Lock [type 10c00001 offset 93054976 v 92, hb offset 3530752
gen 19505, mode 1, owner 5134b1e4-be73111c-a642-e4115be82c43 mtime 28781 nHld 0 nOvf 0]
Addr <4, 211, 5>, gen 7, links 1, type reg, flags 0, uid 0, gid 0, mode 600
len 64424509440, nb 61440 tbz 20479, cow 0, newSinceEpoch 0, zla 3, bs 1048576

So after looking at it, I determined that it had to be the host with a NIC with MAC-address e4115be82c43 (which was another MAC-address previously, but I placed the owner of the previous MAC in maintenance mode and rebooted it).

When I look at that MAC-address it is bound to a NIC which is not in use (as far as I can see, it is part of a Emulex NC553i 10Gb 2-port FlexFabric).

What can I further do? I already rebooted 2 ESXi's but still no joy...

Hi guys,

I'm unable to deploy any OVF or OVA packages on my vcenter. I get the error

Failed to deploy OVF package: A general system error occured: Error creating disk Invalid argument

Happens only with a particular cluster. The hosts are running ESXi 5.1.

Any clue why this is happening?

Hi all,

I have installed VMware viclient latest version 5.1.0-1064113 on a Windows 8 Enterprise x64 machine.

Unfortunately it doesn't happened to work Same version installed on Windows 7 Enterprise x64 works like a charm.

When I try to connect to any hypervisor from windows 8 installed client, it complains with the following error:

"The type initializer for 'VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.ClientsXml' threw an exception" and close.

Trying to fix as suggested by Ivo Juránek at http://blog.ivo-juranek.com/2012/02/type-initializer-for.html doesn't help, also

If anybody knows how to fix this issue, will be appreciated

Regards,

Dimitar Kazakov

Actually, I am learning ESXi 5.0 myself. I need guidence to finish all the topics.

where to start.

I am not able to understand virtual networking. Can anybody solve this issue

Regards

Pankaj

I know this is an odd question, but is there anybody out there who purchased and used ESX 1.0? If so, do you still have a copy?

Thanks,

Dan

I've got a vSphere 5.5 Essentials Kit; One of the hosts, a Dell R410, is running vSphere 5.5 and as of yesterday it is unresponsive to any of the management tools. I've tried the following:

Web interface: Down

SSH Port: Connection Timeout

vCenter says disconnected

vSphere Client: An unkown error occured. (The client could not send a complete request to the server. (The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occured on a send.))

Local terminal: I tried to log in (entered my credentials), but then the login panel locked. Unresponsive to keyboard input.

All my virtual machines are still running and i don't see any other way out than to shut down all vm's remotely using ssh/rdp and than hard reset the server, but that's my last option. I know i only have a "subscription only" support, however I'd think VMWare would have interest in this situation.

Any suggestions on how to 'revive' my management interfaces?

I try to install ESXi 5.5.0 on Dell Vostro 1520. But I see the error message the same as described in the following thread.

Vmware vSphere Hypervisor installation network adapter problem

Unfortunately, Dell does not provide a customized ESXi installation image for Dell Vostro 1520.

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2012/05/08/no-network-adapters-were-detected-error-message-…

The following shows one solution is to inject the driver. But Dell website only provides the driver for windows. I'm wondering how to find the drivers that would work with ESXi installation ISO image. Thanks.

Ops changes part 4 – Injecting or installing drivers | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

Hi all,

I've a question regarding the free version of the VMware hypervisor.

Is that possible to do PCI passthrough with the free version ?

I want to allow a backup VM to access a local tape drive.

Thanks in advance

Martin

Hello,

I had ESXi 5.0 and virtual machines created and running fine with USB devices assigned to virtual machines and then installed ESXi 5.5 replacing existing installation and I re-added to each virtual machine the USB controller (via VM right-click Edit Settings->Add button) but when trying to add devices back to the virtual machines it reports "There are no USB devices available on the host". I don't have enabled any "passthrough" in Configuration->Advanced Settings (that's what killed the previous installation of ESX).

Any idea how to add the USB devices again? Tried restarting the server several times. I have Dell PowerEdge R310 and it doesn't mentions anything about USB in BIOS.

Thank you in advance,

David.

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

Hello

I am getting "-sh: /var/log/vmkernel.log: Permission denied" error when i tried to pull the log files through SSH.

I am using Root credentials.

Please help me to sought it out.

Regards,

Bibin C Bharathan

Pretty simple question really just unable to find anything with the search terms I have been using. I have an environment with about 5 different vSwitches and some with various port groups, etc. I am specifically talking about 1 particular vSwitch in this instance. There are 3 VMs that are connected to our machine network (manufacturing environment where the machines are all networks). This vSwitch uses one physical NIC to connect to the larger physical switch network where all the machines are connected to throughout the plant.

I have a diagnostic machine setup that I have Wireshark installed on. Currently, there is only 1 vNIC assigned in this server that is connected to above mentioned vSwitch. I use this as the management port so that I can connect to it. However, I do not want this port to receive the packets.

So the question:

I want to setup another vNIC in this machine that is in it's own separate port group (separate from the management port as listed above). I also want to assign a dedicated physical NIC to map this to so that the only machine using this physical NIC is this sniffer machine. So, can I have 1 VM that uses 2 vNICS that connect to 2 different port groups on the same vSwitch so that I can turn promiscuous mode on only on the port group for the capturing NIC so that the rest of my very crucial machine network servers don't drown in packets on the other port group? Thanks!

Mike

Hi guys,

I am a beginner in this domain. I have a product which is a custom OS, in OVF format. I wanted to deploy it on ESXi server. And I did it using option: file-> deploy ovf template. Everything went fine, but once it has been deployed successfully, I am supposed to be able to access it through web-browser. In the deployement wizard, no where I was asked for IP address assignment(DHCP/static). The VM is assigned with the same IP (192.168.88.88) every time I am deploying the ovf.

Any help would be appreciated. 

Dear All,

I am running Veeam 6.1. I have setup one ESXi 3.5 and connected Veeam to it. I wanted to setup a second ESXi 3.5 machine but I have a problem.

I try to 'Add Server' I put in the correct IP address and go with the standard port: 443 however I get the following error:

Unable to connect to the remote server

no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 192.168.0.41:443

What's going on??