My computer is Intel NUC5PPYH, the processor is a 14nm Pentium n3700.

Hardware: Intel® NUC Kit NUC5PPYH Specifications

According to the official website of the information, VT-x/VT-d are supported.

but i install ESXi, stop on "Relocating modules and starting up the kernel"

I tried many methods:

1, Change different ESXi versions 5.1,5.5,6.0.

2,Upgrade BIOS, set the BIOS boot mode, set the video card memory size.

3, Press Shift + O before installation and enter ignoreHeadless = TRUE.

4, Usb disk ISO, PXE boot ISO.

The above methods fail

I have a datastore on an esxi 5.5 box that looks to be corrupt.

Last week I had 1 drive in the raid go bad, and have not been able to backup or migrate it since.

It houses 2 windows 2012 servers that are up and functioning.

I have ran a check disk on one of the servers and it reported no errors.

I can download every file associated with the vm but the vmdk.

I use veeam for backups and this is the error they are seeing:

in c++: Disk read operation has failed. Disk path: [[host_local] server/server.vmdk]

What else can I do / look at?

Thanks

Tom

hello

Im trying to install ESXi 6.5U1 with HPE custimizations

on HP Proliant ML110 G7 but ESXi installer see my hard drives

as separate devices, not as raid1+0 which I configured

already tried with

ESXi 6.0 HP

ESXi 6.0 not branded

all have the same result

my RAID controler is HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID

thanks in advance for any help

jan

Hello,

when trying to access the VMWare ESXI 6.7 Login Page (https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/login.html) from my PC I am redirected to this Page (MergePoint Embedded Management Software):

If I open the connection on another pcs, it does work.

I tried, both IP and hostname, I tried FF, Chrome and IE but none of them work on my pc - any ideas?

Thanks,

Sascha

Hi all,

I need to deploy ova template in my vcenter infra ( version 6.5)

I faced certificate related issues, and then i tried directly on the host.Am using custom cert.

I face the same error, when i try with my domain account as well as root account.

"You have insufficient Privilege on all network connected to the selected host/cluster, you can go back and select another host and cluster".

Any idea how to fix this...

Thanks,

In one of my ESXi where I use SSD, disk space shown by df -h command seems to be wrong. It shows disk space as full but I am not able to find out how about 300GB of disk space is being used? Please find below o/p of command executed by me:

df -h

Filesystem   Size   Used Available Use% Mounted on

VMFS-5     931.2G 931.2G      0.0B 100% /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD

du -shca /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD/*

87.0G /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD/file_1

81.9G /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD/file_2

82.0G /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD/file_3

82.6G /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD/file_4

87.2G /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD/file_5

82.7G /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD/file_6

81.7G /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD/file_7

81.5G /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD/file_8

389.0M /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD/logging

1.0M /vmfs/volumes/1TB_SSD/server.log

667.0G total

If you go through the above o/p about 250 GBs of data seems to be lost.

Has anyone else faced a similar thing?

I am trying to create windows vm for esxi. I have created three files with the following extensions (vmdk, mf & ovf). My question is how to convert all three files into a single ova using the latest ovftool?

Moderator note: Discussion moved from Community Warrior Program to ESXi

We are using EMC VNX.  ESXi cluster storage "owner" colum is stating POWERPATH  in vCenter > host > configure >storage adopters ."

during one recent outage on one port  - esx lost is storage and load did not transfered to the second port and as a result our host become unresponsive.

so when i see now on PSP it is most resent used selected which i know is not good when i see the EMC VMX storage guide.

My question : is not powerpath automatically select the appropriate path ?

OR

do we need to select the RR path manually even vcenter is showing powerpath as an owner?

Any way to check powerpath is working ?

I have RH5885H V3 Huawei server and I will install 6.7u1. I didn't find firmware for this server on the Huawei website. maybe I'm looking at the wrong places . can you share true firmware file name / website link for this server. VMWare says true firmware version American Megatrends Inc. BLISV682 (Boot Mode: Legacy BIOS) .  didnt find on the web site

RH5885H V3 Rack Server

Intel Xeon E7-8800/4800/2800-v2 Series

Whenever I rescan iscsi hba, I keep getting this message in the events tab

Login to iSCSI target

iqn...... on vmhba40@vmk2 failed. The iscsi initiator could not establish a network connection to the target.

any idea why? The lun is online and accessible though

Hi,

I was extending a disk for my server and the process got stuck so I had to kill the job.

Now I have an incorrect size.

vSphere says my disk is 2.2 TB

Yet on my datastore I see the following.

My XENSFS01_2.vmdk says

# Disk DescriptorFile

version=3

encoding="UTF-8"

CID=4f906878

parentCID=ffffffff

createType="vmfs"

# Extent description

RW 4724464024 VMFS "XENSFS01_2-flat.vmdk"

# Change Tracking File

changeTrackPath="XENSFS01_2-ctk.vmdk"

# The Disk Data Base

#DDB

ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"

ddb.deletable = "true"

ddb.geometry.cylinders = "294084"

ddb.geometry.heads = "255"

ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"

ddb.longContentID = "cb8c518222fa2193f37cc86f4f906878"

ddb.toolsInstallType = "1"

ddb.toolsVersion = "10338"

ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 98 b8 b3 ec 07-82 65 c0 eb b2 14 ee bb"

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"

How can I fix this issue?

I have a virtual disk that lost the descriptor files and I've tried going through the process of recreating them but I just cant figure it out...

It is in a seperate datastore than the VM. I can use the

/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2 # vmkfstools -v 10 -e AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001.vmdk

DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000010-delta.vmdk" : open successful (14) size = 18959282176, hd = 5664418. Type 8

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000010-delta.vmdk" (0xe)

DISKLIB-LINK  : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001.vmdk' (0xe): vmfsSparse, 1048576000 sectors / 500 GB.

DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-flat.vmdk" : open successful (14) size = 536870912000, hd = 5664419. Type 3

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-flat.vmdk" (0xe)

DISKLIB-LINK  : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1.vmdk' (0xe): vmfs, 1048576000 sectors / 500 GB.

DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain: numLinks = 2, numSubChains = 1

DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(0) fid = 5664419, extentType = 2

DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(1) fid = 5664418, extentType = 0

DISKLIB-LIB   : Opened "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001.vmdk" (flags 0xe, type vmfs).

Disk chain is consistent.

DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000010-delta.vmdk" : closed.

DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-flat.vmdk" : closed.

AIOMGR-S : stat o=2 r=6 w=0 i=0 br=98304 bw=0

AIOMGR-U : stat o=3 r=1 w=0 i=5 br=2048 bw=0

OBJLIB-LIB: ObjLib cleanup done.

But if I go up the chain one more delta....

/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2 # vmkfstools -v 10 -e AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002.vmdk

DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002-delta.vmdk" : open successful (14) size = 185577472, hd = 6271401. Type 8

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002-delta.vmdk" (0xe)

DISKLIB-LINK  : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002.vmdk' (0xe): vmfsSparse, 1048576000 sectors / 500 GB.

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: descriptor above max size: 1158656000

DISKLIB-LINK  : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001-delta.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).

DISKLIB-CHAIN :"/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002.vmdk": Failed to open parent "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001-delta.vmdk": The file specified is not a virtual disk.

DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001-delta.vmdk" : failed to open (The parent of this virtual disk could not be opened).

DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002-delta.vmdk" : closed.

DISKLIB-LIB   : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002.vmdk' with flags 0xe The parent of this virtual disk could not be opened (23).

DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002-delta.vmdk" : open successful (12) size = 185577472, hd = 6304169. Type 8

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002-delta.vmdk" (0xc)

DISKLIB-LINK  : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002.vmdk' (0xc): vmfsSparse, 1048576000 sectors / 500 GB.

DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain: numLinks = 1, numSubChains = 1

DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(0) fid = 6304169, extentType = 0

DISKLIB-LIB   : Opened "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002.vmdk" (flags 0xc, type vmfsSparse).

Disk link /vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002.vmdk successfully opened.

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: descriptor above max size: 1158656000

DISKLIB-LINK  : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001-delta.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).

DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001-delta.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).

DISKLIB-LIB   : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001-delta.vmdk' with flags 0xc The file specified is not a virtual disk (15).

Failed to open disk link /vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001-delta.vmdk :The file specified is not a virtual disk (15)Disk chain is not consistent : The parent of this virtual disk could not be opened (23)

DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2/AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002-delta.vmdk" : closed.

AIOMGR-S : stat o=4 r=22 w=0 i=0 br=174208 bw=0

AIOMGR-U : stat o=3 r=2 w=0 i=4 br=4096 bw=0

OBJLIB-LIB: ObjLib cleanup done.

Here are the vmdk descriptor files I had to recreate. There are 10 total. This the first 2:

/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2 # cat AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001.vmdk

# Disk DescriptorFile

version=1

encoding="UTF-8"

CID=010000d1

parentCID=ab35c349

isNativeSnapshot="no"

createType="vmfsSparse"

parentFileNameHint="AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1.vmdk"

# Extent description

RW 1048576000 VMFSSPARSE "AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000010-delta.vmdk"

# The Disk Data Base

#DDB

ddb.longContentID = "806f6d739509977d43cbe1196ef7c8f5"

/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2 # cat AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002.vmdk

# Disk DescriptorFile

version=1

encoding="UTF-8"

CID=10000d2

parentCID=01000d1

isNativeSnapshot="no"

createType="vmfsSparse"

parentFileNameHint="AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000001-delta.vmdk"

# Extent description

RW 1048576000 VMFSSPARSE "AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-000002-delta.vmdk"

# The Disk Data Base

#DDB

ddb.longContentID = "806f6d739509977d43cbe1196ef7c8f5"

And here is my vfms descriptor:

/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2 # cat AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1.vmdk

# Disk DescriptorFile

version=1

encoding="UTF-8"

CID=ab35c349

parentCID=ffffffff

isNativeSnapshot="no"

createType="vmfs"

# Extent description

RW 1048576000 VMFS "AGEC-SERVER2008R2_1-flat.vmdk"

# The Disk Data Base

#DDB

ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"

ddb.geometry.cylinders = "65270"

ddb.geometry.heads = "255"

ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"

ddb.longContentID = "3a43f90f4a0828135c6c5ddbab35c349"

ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 96 17 79 b7 12-1d 50 c0 aa e8 f3 e2 a8"

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "8"

/vmfs/volumes/53612937-dc2dee84-51cc-f8bc123d168c/AGEC-SERVER2008R2-Disk2 #

Any help would be appreciated!

Hi All,

Using an Intel i7 4770 which has the Intel onboard HD 4600 graphics. I've passed this through to the Win10 VM and as a result I now have QuickSync/Hardware acceleration working for a CCTV tool I'm using.

What is not working is the HDMI onboard of the motherboard and part of the HD4600 - if I cable this to an external display, I get no output at all.

Any thoughts as to what I can check?

Im using latest Intel drivers, Win10 updates and ESX

Thank you

My Project goal is to build Home Server/Desktop with ESXi, where I could run my Windows, Ubuntu Linux and NAS VMs.

Build Specs

Intel i5-6500, Gigabyte H170 Mini-Itx motherboard, 16GB DDR4 2133 Memory

There is only 1 PCIe slot which is used by additional SATA card.(so cannot use additional VGA card)

I have installed ESXi 6.0 U2 and tried creating Windows 8.1 x 64 bit VM and Windows 10 VM.

VMkernel DEEP 6.0.0 #1 SMP Release build-3620759 Mar  3 2016 18:41:52x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 ESXi

So far I have successful at PCI passthrough of onboard SATA controller and Wireless Controller. Which tells me Vt-d is working without issues.

Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H AHCI Controller

This needed addition of this line in /etc/vmware/passthrough.map

# INTEL Sunrise Point-H AHCI Controller

8086  a102  d3d0     false

But somehow when i assign onboard VGA(Intel HD 530) for passthrough; VMs get stuck after booting.

Everytime VMs hang right after

2016-04-05T22:36:50.967Z| vcpu-0| I120: pciBridge4:7: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 0004)

2016-04-05T22:36:50.967Z| vcpu-0| I120: pciBridge4:6: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 0004)

2016-04-05T22:36:50.967Z| vcpu-0| I120: pciBridge4:5: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 0004)

2016-04-05T22:36:50.967Z| vcpu-0| I120: pciBridge4:4: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 0004)

2016-04-05T22:36:50.967Z| vcpu-0| I120: pciBridge4:3: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 0004)

2016-04-05T22:36:50.967Z| vcpu-0| I120: pciBridge4:2: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 0004)

2016-04-05T22:36:50.967Z| vcpu-0| I120: pciBridge4:1: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 0004)

2016-04-05T22:36:50.967Z| vcpu-0| I120: PCIBridge4: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 0004)

2016-04-05T22:36:50.967Z| vcpu-0| I120: pciBridge7:7: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 0004)

There is no errors shown, so I don't have much to go on here.

I have tried different combinations of below parameters but still nothing.

pciHole.start="2200"

pciPassthru1.opromEnabled=TRUE

pciPassthru1.msiEnabled = "FALSE"

smc.present = "TRUE"

I have even tried disabling Intel HD530 in Safe Mode and reboot. Enable it later from device manager, while i am in Remote Desktop. But VM just gets stuck right there and my Remote Desktop shows black screen. [Ping still responds]

Also tried disabling and uninstalling VMWare SVGA 3D,

It seems like ESXi is not letting full control of Intel HD530 graphics.

I know Integrated gfx passthrough is not recommended by Vmware; But ideally I would also like to use the same machine Graphics output, so that I don't have to access my VMs remotely when needed. (I could get rid of my old machines)

This setup works fine with XenServer and I am able to see my VM display from Host machine HDMI output.

[But again XenServer cannot do a USB or Bluray Drive passthrough]

I am attaching vmware logs here and my vmx file. Could anyone please see if you can find any error or settings that I could work with to fix the issue.

Note: VM works fine without graphics passthrough or in Safe mode.

Let me know if anything else is needed.

Appreciate your time.

Regards

Deep

On a standalone VMware host running ESXi 6.5 I'm unable to get the host cache and VM swapfiles to change datastore.

It was running ESXi 6.0 (and I used to administer it with the legacy vSphere Client, might be relevant?) and it had a 128GB SSD0 as only SSD datastore.

Until the host was running ESXi 6.0 SSD0 was configured for both host cache and swapfile location (two different settings in the legacy client).

Then it was updateded to ESXi 6.5 using the coventional way for standalone hosts, with this command in ssh while in maintenance mode:

    esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.5.0-20181004001-standard

After the update (and a few months) SSD0 became too small for the number of running VMs and I added 480Gb SSD1 too.

I went to the web client since there's no more legacy vSphere client in 6.5 and I've set the only available swap/cache option (in Host > Manage > System > Swap) to SSD1.

I've shutdown all running VMs and made an host reboot. Even after such operation, SSD0 has sys swap and VM's swapfiles, and SSD1 is still empty.

HW details:

Dell T130 latest (Dec. '18) UEFI 2.5.0, Xeon E3-1240v5, 64GB ECC, PERC H730 1GB NVcache + BBU, SSD0 is Sandisk's Plus-128, SSD1 is Sandisk's Ultra-480. Both drives are correctly seen as SSD storage by both PERC's bios and the VMware Hypervisor.

SW details: Running image: free license 6.5.0 Update 2 (Build 10884925). At the time of update, the server was running ESXi-6.0.0-20180904001-standard

I've found you can configure and set the swap datastore with

esxcli sched swap system get

The `get` command shows the correct result. The `set` command followed by a `reboot` changes anything. Swap files for both VM and hostcache still reside in SSD0.

    [root@xXx:~] esxcli sched swap system get       Datastore Active: false       Datastore Enabled: true       Datastore Name: SSD1       Datastore Order: 1       Hostcache Active: true       Hostcache Enabled: true       Hostcache Order: 0       Hostlocalswap Active: false       Hostlocalswap Enabled: true       Hostlocalswap Order: 2    [root@xXx:~] find /vmfs/volumes/SSD*/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -name *swp    /vmfs/volumes/SSD0/sysSwap-hc-57487483-06f8-5d5a-47cb-a0369f9b821a.swp    /vmfs/volumes/SSD0/vmx-aaa-209631360-1.vswp    /vmfs/volumes/SSD0/aaa-0c7eb880.vswp    /vmfs/volumes/SSD0/vmx-bbb-4128220575-1.vswp    /vmfs/volumes/SSD0/bbb-f60fa59f.vswp    /vmfs/volumes/SSD0/vmx-ccc-2862447631-1.vswp    /vmfs/volumes/SSD0/ccc-aa9d7c0f.vswp    [root@xXx:~] ls -la /vmfs/volumes/SSD1/    total 1480832    drwxr-xr-t    1 root     root         73728 Dec  3 11:51 .    drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           512 Dec  5 10:47 ..    -r--------    1 root     root       8216576 Dec  1 14:05 .fbb.sf    -r--------    1 root     root     134807552 Dec  1 14:05 .fdc.sf    -r--------    1 root     root     268632064 Dec  1 14:05 .jbc.sf    -r--------    1 root     root      16908288 Dec  1 14:05 .pb2.sf    -r--------    1 root     root         65536 Dec  1 14:05 .pbc.sf    -r--------    1 root     root     1074331648 Dec  1 14:05 .sbc.sf    drwx------    1 root     root         69632 Dec  1 14:05 .sdd.sf    -r--------    1 root     root       7340032 Dec  1 14:05 .vh.sf    drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         73728 Oct  4 13:02 dddd    [root@xXx:~]

The setting in the web panel looks good across reboots, shows SSD1 as the setting was correctly saved but it's not applied!

How to further diagnose and fix this behavior?

fixed formatting, improved readability

After about 49 days of uptime, the system process of my ESXi 6.7 U1 host (free version) is consuming a lot of CPU time:

By expanding GID 1 in esxtop, I find that a process called "OCFlush" is responsible for the high load.

Searching the web for OCFlush yields a post on reddit where people suppose this might be some kind of overflow, since 2^32 ms ≈ 49 days and 17 hours.

Is that a known bug? What is the purpose of OCFlush?

I downloaded the Windows 10 1809 and Server 2019 ISOs the day they became available so I can start working on my templates.

I built the templates with EFI, paravirtual for the C drive and vmxnet3 adapter. I've been using this combo for other versions of windows 10/8/7and windows server 2008r2/2012r2/1016 without issue.

So far Windows 2019 (with desktop experience) seems to be ok at least for a basic vm and guest customization. Haven't tried anything else yet.

Windows 10 1809 on the other hand is very, very slow to reboot after the initial install or even just rebooting after making some changes post install. After installing the OS it took 10-15 minutes for the initial windows setup stuff (user, security settings, etc) to appear . I tried a VM set to BIOS and it seemed faster but was still quite slow. Server 2019 and other versions of windows 10 have no issue.

The hosts are esxi 6.5 and 6.7.

I haven't had a chance to try every combo of BIOS/EFI/vmxnet3/e1000e/paravirtual/lsi sas to see if one is the cause of the issue but was wondering if anyone else had noticed any issues or if it was just me?

Thanks

Hi,

Any one help me what is the different between clone, template, snapshort. ?

for eg. in snapshort i was taken a snapshort and i changed vmx file conf and i revert back to previous state in this stage what will happen wheather the vmx conf changed to the old conf or will be in a current state.

Regards,

Karthick V

Hello,

Seems like I have an old NFS mount on one of the ESXi hosts that are trying to access a NFS share that does not exist.

I do not want this share anymore. But I cannot find the share/mount in Vcenter and vSphere or when using the command "esxcli storage nfs list" when running this command it's empty.

But my vmkernel.log are filled with

2016-12-15T12:01:53.004Z cpu12:151307)WARNING: NFS: 221: Got error 13 from mount call

2016-12-15T12:02:23.007Z cpu15:221163)WARNING: NFS: 221: Got error 13 from mount call

Also getting the logs on the NAS that says the mountpoint doesn't exist. Which is OK because it doesn't.

Dec 15 13:09:23 <NAS-Name> mountd[22578]: mount request from <ESXi host IP> for non existent path <mountpoint>

Dec 15 13:09:23 <NAS-Name> mountd[22578]: mount request denied from <ESXi host IP> for <mountpoint>

What can I do to find this NFS mount? And remove it. So it stops trying to access the share every 30 seconds.

All help appreciated. If there is a thread and I have not found it. Please link me that because I have not found any.

Thanks,

Phil

Hello.

I've been using ESXi 6.5.0 for about a year and a half and recently I've installed the same license on a new server, but running ESXi 6.7.0, which is working perfectly.

When I check the licensing information in any of these servers I get:

"Expiration date: never

Features: Up to 8-way virtual SMP"

2 Questions:

Can I still use the same license if I get a new server? We are a very small university department on a /dev/null budget - buying a license is out of the question.

Those 8-way virtual SMP mean that each ESXi installation can virtualize 8 CPUs, or let's say, if I have 2 installations, some data is sent vmware and it only allows 4 virtual CPS on each server?

Thanks and regards.

Dave