Hi all,
We were able to download VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-Update3-5224934-HPE-600.10.1.0.73-Jul2017.iso, but we cannot find the previous iso VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-Update3-5050593-HPE-600.9.7.0.17-Feb2017. Could you provide a link for this last one?
Thanks a lot,
Jaime
I was getting this "alarm.HostConnectionStateAlarm changed status from Green to Red " and I remember in ESXi 5.X you would edit that value in /etc/vmware/rhttpproxy/config.xml
however in all the ESXi 6.0 hosts I looked at, none of them have a "handshakeTimeoutMs" definition like they did before.
(Ref: KB 1020210)
Does anyone know where that's defined now in 6.X ?
TIA!
Dear all,
I'm currently running an ESXi 6.0 Update2 on a USB stick, with a Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard (internal USB connector, also tried external connector). Last night I tried to update this server to ESXi 6.5, without success. The ESXi 6.5 installer sees all hard disks connected, but not the USB stick I'd like to upgrade. I tried a refresh (F5), without any success.
Anyone else having this problem? I've loaded the ESXi 6.5 installer via netbook/PXE (IPMI remote console/cd-rom doesn't work anymore due to Java issues).
Thanks for your help!
Regards,
Chris
Good afternoon,
I have 2 Host ESXI 6.5 managed by vCenter 6.5, when I access one of the Host in local mode through the browser it costs a bit to load the main page, and it is because in the recent tasks the following message appears several times:
Download VMXConfig None VC Internal 01/08/2018 16:42:47 08/01/2018 16:42:47 Completed correctly. 01/08/2018 04:42:47
I do not know why I'm loading that task because it confuses me, I would appreciate information on why this happens.
Thank you very much
I installed (or attempted to install) a Dell Custom image in ZIP format from here:
VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 3 Driver Details | Dell US
Using the command:
esxcli software profile update -p Dell-ESXi-5.5U3-5230635-A09 -d /vmfs/volumes/564963e0-8ddcddbb-4175-1418772655ff/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.5.0.update03-5230635.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A09.zip
I didn't see any errors, and it says installed many VIBs, including e.g.
Dell_bootbank_dell-configuration-vib_5.5-3A09
VMware_bootbank_esx-base_5.5.0-3.101.5230635
However, after rebooting the host, the build esx-base and dell-configuration-vib are still the same versions as from before I did the install:
# esxcli software vib list | grep -iE "(esx-base|dell-config)"
dell-configuration-vib 5.5-3A01 Dell PartnerSupported 2015-11-13
esx-base 5.5.0-3.100.4722766 VMware VMwareCertified 2017-01-20
I suspect I'm doing something wrong? Please let me know if I need to provide more information.
I'm on an ESXi 6.5 host using VMFS-6.
I expanded a LUN and tried to increase space on the VMFS datastore to use the new free space. It looks like the underlying partition was re-sized but the VMFS datastore might not have been?
vmkfstools -v 10 -P /vmfs/volumes/mydatastore/
VMFS-6.81 (Raw Major Version: 24) file system spanning 1 partitions.
File system label (if any): mydatastore
Mode: public
Capacity 17592186044416 (16777216 file blocks * 1048576), 7663127625728 (7308128 blocks) avail, max supported file size 70368744177664
Volume Creation Time: Thu Feb 16 00:00:30 2017
Files (max/free): 16384/16088
Ptr Blocks (max/free): 0/0
Sub Blocks (max/free): 24576/23349
Secondary Ptr Blocks (max/free): 256/255
File Blocks (overcommit/used/overcommit %): 0/9469088/0
Ptr Blocks (overcommit/used/overcommit %): 0/0/0
Sub Blocks (overcommit/used/overcommit %): 0/1227/0
Large File Blocks (total/used/file block clusters): 32768/13167/10267
Volume Metadata size: 2324496384
UUID: 58a4eb9e-865cece7-7d5a-246e96397700
Logical device: 58a4eb9e-8442b1ad-1874-246e96397700
Partitions spanned (on "lvm"):
naa.61866da0893cb3002014ac3163f4852b:1
Is Native Snapshot Capable: NO
OBJLIB-LIB: ObjLib cleanup done.
WORKER: asyncOps=0 maxActiveOps=0 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=0
This translated to a size of exactly 16TB. Now using partedUtil to see the underlying partition
partedUtil getptbl /dev/disks/naa.61866da0893cb3002014ac3163f4852b
gpt
2528380 255 63 40618426368
1 128 40618424320 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0
partedUtil reports that the partition it's occupying is a full 18.9TB by calculating (last sector - first sector) * 512bytes per sector
I'm not sure what happened during the attempt to increase the datastore size but now the vsphere-client reports that there's no additional empty space to grow the datastore.
Do I need to manually grow the datastore using vmkfstools?
I want to upgrade our single ESXi host to the newest version of ESXi possible but I’ve only done this with newer Dell servers that have the customized images for the specific model. They made it very easy but in this case I cannot do that as this is an older server (Dell PE2900) so there is no ESXi customized image on their site.
Thanks in advance!
Here is the current version:
one of my esxi host has been reporte to send out massive verbose logs. i check under advance settings and everything is verbose from factory default. any idea how to stop loggin completely?
Hi,
Hopefully this is the right place to ask this question.
So I have a server at home with a ESXi 6.5 install that had been working fine. I have setup and managed VM's and been able to connect to the them without issue. However this has changed. I had to shutdown the server as I needed to relocate it. However now when I started it up I cannot connect to the web client and I get the browser error 10.0.0.200 refused to connect. I have an address reservation on my router for the esxi server which I can see from the server that it has picked up that address (10.0.0.200) and I can ping the server. I can also ping the network from the server using the trouble shooting options. I have also restarted the server, restarted the management network, enabled ssh and restarted services via the command line. I have also done all this on the server directly too using esxcli.
I used nmap to scan the server and can confirm that ports 80 and 443 are not open however other expected ports are, so there is obviously a problem with the web service somewhere but I can't pinpoint it. I have restarted and ensured hostd is running however no joy.
Any help with this would be great as I can't find another problem or solution to this anywhere.
Thanks in advance.
We have been experiencing some VM's losing network connectivity sporadically. The VM's stay online for a while then suddenly it acts like it is no longer on the network. Everything appears to be correct. The vNICs are connected and you can get to the console. I can't ping it from outside the host and the VM can't ping it's Def Gateway.
Hardware is 4 HP Gen 8 LFF with Quad port NIC's HP NC364T running ESXi 5 U1 with vCenter Server clustered.
Anyone experience this?
If I vmotion it to another host it comes back online. That's been our temporary solution.
Thanks
Hello,
I want to have a virtual machine in ESXi 5.5 that allows us to render works made with Sketchup. The latest version of this software requires openGL 3.0, but my virtual machine reports that it only supports OpenGL 2.1 (3d acceleration is activated)
I've tried updating the vmwaretools to the latest version that supports OpenGL 3.0. But nothing has changed.
My question if this would be resolved by updating to ESXi 6.5. Or maybe it's a problem with the graphics card installed on the ESXi server? If it is this. What card could you install to get this feature?
Thank you
Hello,
I need some feedback regarding a problem we had on production. The reason apresented is not the best for me.
Cenario:
Cluster VMWare with 16 ESXhost
8 host on site A 8 hosts site B
Both Sites are active
Problem:
SAN Switch on Site B did force reboot
Description:
When SAN switch came back live again the hosts on Site B could not see 2 Datastores and on Site A those Datastores became unavailable.
Did reboot on all ESX hosts on site B same problem, (we noticed that there has one of this hosts that had locks)
Does not the reboot releases the lock lun?
VMware Support identified that Storage LUN ID of those LUN's where different on both sites, they where crossed. (for me this was the problem)
Conclusion:
Storage provider says that the problem was the host lock and that a reboot does not free the locking
Can you please give me your feedback regarding this cenario
I have my ESXi 6.5 server up for about 3 months without issue. Starting a few days ago an error occurs on login. If I choose "reload" I'm returned to logon splash seems to be in a loop. If I use the browser refresh ( found this out by accident) instead of the reload button it makes to the navigation page. Do I need to rebuild my server?
i have a strange issue where i cannot ping my esxi host 's mgmt ip address from any of the VMs that are running on that host. the host as well cannot ping any of these VMs.
any help or suggestions would be appreciated as i have been pulling my hair out for days on this one .
also to note i have 3 hots in HA cluster and the other 2 hosts do not have this issue.
Hello everyone,
I manage a dozen VMware ESXi 6.0 servers i a clustered environment consisting of 4 clusters.
My question is: Will they affect ESXi only, or will they affect the guest operating systems as well?
My service provider (SoftLayer) will most likely do an upgrade this week to address the issue at ESXi level.
Do I need to update the guest OS as well? Most of them are CentOS7 and our repositories are already updated.
From from host ip 192.168.1.103.
On vmmachine
I am using Network Connection: Bridged (Automatic)
Windows Network Diagnostics
Detected
The remote computer isn’t responding to connections on port 8000, possibly due to firewall or security policy settings, or because it might be temporarily unavailable. Windows couldn’t find any problems with the firewall on your computer.
Hi All,
What is the key features of vsphere 5.5 vs 6.0 vs 6.5.Can i get any comparison of these three versions?
Regards,
I have a ESXI v6 u3 installed on a DL380 G9. I have done Raid from the HP provisioning itself. After installing the ESXI and presenting the disks to it. The disks show me as degraded:
naa.600508b1001ce2641dcf3c827c33d0df
Display Name: HP Serial Attached SCSI Disk (naa.600508b1001ce2641dcf3c827c33d 0df)
Has Settable Display Name: true
Size: 1144609
Device Type: Direct-Access
Multipath Plugin: NMP
Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600508b1001ce2641dcf3c827c33d0df
Vendor: HP
Model: LOGICAL VOLUME
Revision: 5.04
SCSI Level: 5
Is Pseudo: false
Status: degraded
Is RDM Capable: true
Is Local: false
Is Removable: false
Is SSD: false
Is VVOL PE: false
Is Offline: false
Is Perennially Reserved: false
Queue Full Sample Size: 0
Queue Full Threshold: 0
Thin Provisioning Status: unknown
Attached Filters:
VAAI Status: unknown
Other UIDs: vml.0200010000600508b1001ce2641dcf3c827c33d0df4c4f47494341
Is Shared Clusterwide: true
Is Local SAS Device: false
Is SAS: true
Is USB: false
Is Boot USB Device: false
Is Boot Device: true
Device Max Queue Depth: 1024
No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 32
Drive Type: logical
RAID Level: RAID1
Number of Physical Drives: 2
Protection Enabled: false
PI Activated: false
PI Type: 0
PI Protection Mask: NO PROTECTION
Supported Guard Types: NO GUARD SUPPORT
DIX Enabled: false
DIX Guard Type: NO GUARD SUPPORT
Emulated DIX/DIF Enabled: false
May I know the reason for this and how to fix it.
Hi Experts and Anyone,
May I ask your help on how to fix this issue. Upon having 10 host only 1 of my host receives this error message. Which results into a non-compliant status. I hope anyone could help me how to fix it. Thanks.
Dear sirs,
I'm testing esxi 6.5 on one of the hosts, now i've hit weird issue.
One Rdm disk is connected to Windows VM (tried both virtual and physical compat. modes) which is direct connection to LUN "test" from my SAN datastore (Fujitsu Eternus DX100s4)
And I have some data there on disk. (20TB, ReFS filesystem, GPT type partition)
Now, I disconnected RDM disk from VM and removed rdm disk files from datastore (actually just a descriptors as far as i understand). Then i'm mapped that test LUN to Windows 2016 physical server via SAN (mutlipath drivers are enabled on that Windows server).
But it's shows that disk as RAW filesystem, despite that it also shows, that it's initialized and GPT type. But the actual partition is RAW type.
So, I connected it back, adding that disk back to same old VM - it's working - data is there!
So, I've made second test LUN on my SAN storage, that time i initialized it on physical Windows server, copied some data to it and then put it offline.
Then connected it also as RDM to the same old VM - boom! Also partition is RAW and not usable.
What am i doing wrong?