Hi~

ESXi 6.5 running on Dell R620 server.

I've found logs in vmkernel.log file.

I think these logs had showed up when txhang problem has occurred.

What is the problem and how to solve this problem?

2020-03-16T19:58:38.525Z cpu17:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 114 bytes at 0x2ffffff8e

2020-03-16T19:58:43.922Z cpu12:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 150 bytes at 0x2ffffff6a

2020-03-16T19:59:09.013Z cpu20:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 60 bytes at 0x2ffffffc4

2020-03-16T19:59:09.447Z cpu3:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 146 bytes at 0x2ffffff6e

2020-03-16T19:59:58.130Z cpu18:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 260 bytes at 0x2fffffefc

2020-03-16T20:00:00.879Z cpu19:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 90 bytes at 0x2ffffffa6

2020-03-16T20:00:03.167Z cpu17:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 35 bytes at 0x2ffffffdd

2020-03-16T20:00:04.375Z cpu13:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 110 bytes at 0x2ffffff92

2020-03-16T20:00:21.334Z cpu21:66054)ScsiDeviceIO: 3001: Cmd(0x439d0043fc40) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x316ca from world 0 to dev "naa.6b8ca3a0ec40a400241879c94781ac79" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x

0.

2020-03-16T20:01:23.204Z cpu20:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 66 bytes at 0x2ffffffbe

2020-03-16T20:01:44.601Z cpu13:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 146 bytes at 0x2ffffff6e

2020-03-16T20:01:53.890Z cpu14:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 448 bytes at 0x2fffffe40

2020-03-16T20:02:08.071Z cpu13:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 86 bytes at 0x2ffffffaa

2020-03-16T20:02:17.164Z cpu23:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 455 bytes at 0x2fffffe39

2020-03-16T20:02:17.745Z cpu14:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 116 bytes at 0x2ffffff8c

2020-03-16T20:02:18.667Z cpu13:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 462 bytes at 0x2fffffe32

2020-03-16T20:02:19.363Z cpu3:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 203 bytes at 0x2ffffff35

2020-03-16T20:02:29.491Z cpu15:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 102 bytes at 0x2ffffff9a

2020-03-16T20:02:41.483Z cpu20:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 92 bytes at 0x2ffffffa4

2020-03-16T20:02:59.320Z cpu12:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 142 bytes at 0x2ffffff72

2020-03-16T20:03:24.256Z cpu14:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 420 bytes at 0x2fffffe5c

2020-03-16T20:03:30.174Z cpu17:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 150 bytes at 0x2ffffff6a

2020-03-16T20:03:30.644Z cpu12:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 204 bytes at 0x2ffffff34

2020-03-16T20:03:31.014Z cpu10:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 172 bytes at 0x2ffffff54

2020-03-16T20:03:34.803Z cpu21:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 79 bytes at 0x2ffffffb1

2020-03-16T20:03:48.982Z cpu20:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 238 bytes at 0x2ffffff12

2020-03-16T20:03:49.618Z cpu1:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 569 bytes at 0x2fffffdc7

2020-03-16T20:04:49.864Z cpu9:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 156 bytes at 0x2ffffff64

2020-03-16T20:05:30.006Z cpu8:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 137 bytes at 0x2ffffff77

2020-03-16T20:05:31.360Z cpu10:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 134 bytes at 0x2ffffff7a

2020-03-16T20:05:39.696Z cpu9:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 232 bytes at 0x2ffffff18

2020-03-16T20:05:58.315Z cpu11:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 550 bytes at 0x2fffffdd7

2020-03-16T20:05:59.082Z cpu0:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 164 bytes at 0x2ffffff5c

2020-03-16T20:05:59.532Z cpu16:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 162 bytes at 0x2ffffff5c

2020-03-16T20:05:59.846Z cpu2:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 80 bytes at 0x2ffffffb0

2020-03-16T20:06:11.837Z cpu1:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 132 bytes at 0x2ffffff7c

2020-03-16T20:06:13.363Z cpu5:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 132 bytes at 0x2ffffff7c

2020-03-16T20:06:14.501Z cpu11:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 443 bytes at 0x2fffffe45

2020-03-16T20:06:20.474Z cpu7:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 1093 bytes at 0x2fffffbbb

2020-03-16T20:06:48.048Z cpu1:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 204 bytes at 0x2ffffff34

2020-03-16T20:06:56.447Z cpu20:66171)DVFilter: 5924: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-03-16T20:07:09.970Z cpu6:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 92 bytes at 0x2ffffffa4

2020-03-16T20:07:20.600Z cpu4:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 162 bytes at 0x2ffffff56

2020-03-16T20:08:00.211Z cpu19:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 100 bytes at 0x2ffffff9c

2020-03-16T20:08:09.617Z cpu2:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 398 bytes at 0x2fffffe72

2020-03-16T20:08:12.100Z cpu16:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 70 bytes at 0x2ffffffba

2020-03-16T20:08:24.328Z cpu16:68090)ntg3:vmnic1:Ntg3HandleTxMappingErr:360:Avoid frag of 286 bytes at 0x2fffffee2

Any help would be appreciated.

Kang

We encounter a problem that the VM vMotion can not work due to "Failed waiting for data. Error 195887105. Failure.". We have try many times, the error is same. We have check the vMotion connectivity by ping, each host can ping successful with the vMotion vmknic's IP. It confused us that we did not know meaning of the error code.

By check the  vmkernel.log, we found in content in tartget host:

cpu50:370526)VMotionRecv: 658: 1479347396653782 D: Estimated network bandwidth 992.014 MB/s during pre-copy

cpu4:370525)VMotionSend: 4953: 1479347396653782 D: Failed to receive state for message type 1: Failure

cpu4:370525)WARNING: VMotionSend: 3979: 1479347396653782 D: failed to asynchronously receive and apply state from the remote host: Failure.

cpu4:370525)WARNING: Migrate: 270: 1479347396653782 D: Failed: Failure (0xbad0001) @0x418002f0a786

cpu4:370525)WARNING: VMotionUtil: 6267: 1479347396653782 D: timed out waiting 0 ms to transmit data.

and in the source host:

cpu8:1145788)WARNING: Heap: 3721: Heap dvfilter (131936/138416992): Maximum allowed growth (138285056) too small for size (190152704)

cpu8:1145788)WARNING: Heap: 4214: Heap_Align(dvfilter, 190150150/190150150 bytes, 8 align) failed.  caller: 0x4180327f9f45

cpu8:1145788)vsip VSIPDVFSaveState:1785: Received vMotion aborted signal...

cpu8:1145788)vsip VSIPDVFSaveState:1785: Received vMotion aborted signal...

cpu8:1145788)vsip VSIPDVFSaveState:1785: Received vMotion aborted signal...

cpu8:1145788)vsip VSIPDVFSaveState:1785: Received vMotion aborted signal...

cpu8:1145788)vsip VSIPDVFSaveState:1785: Received vMotion aborted signal...

cpu8:1145788)vsip VSIPDVFSaveState:1785: Received vMotion aborted signal...

cpu8:1145788)vsip VSIPDVFSaveState:1785: Received vMotion aborted signal...

cpu8:1145788)vsip VSIPDVFSaveState:1785: Received vMotion aborted signal...

cpu8:1145788)vsip VSIPDVFSaveState:1785: Received vMotion aborted signal...

cpu8:1145788)vsip VSIPDVFSaveState:1785: Received vMotion aborted signal...

cpu8:1145788)VMotionRecv: 3306: 1479347396653782 S: Error handling message: Failure

cpu8:1145788)WARNING: Migrate: 270: 1479347396653782 S: Failed: Failure (0xbad0001) @0x418031c14a3e

cpu24:1145785)WARNING: VMotionUtil: 733: 1479347396653782 S: failed to read stream keepalive: Connection closed by remote host, possibly due to timeout

We have used vspehre 6.0.0, anyone know this issue? and how to fix it?

Hi,
I wanted to try ESXi 6.7 U3 with on an unsupported system with AMD components:

System configuration:

• 3700X
• Motherboard: ASUS Pro WS X570-Ace (latest BIOS 1302 installed, AGESA 1004 B)
• 4 x 16 GiB ECC UDIMM DDR4-2400 (Samsung OEM)
• Quadro P2000
• USB Thumb drive with ESXi 6.7 U3 setup
• Empty/Erased SATA SSD intended for ESXi
• Nothing else
• CSM disabled/UEFI boot-only

What didn't help:

• CMOS resetting the BIOS didn’t change a thing (made sure to enable virtualization support afterwards since for some reason the default setting is leaving it disabled)
• Installing ESXi 6.7 U3 on a different system (ASRock Rack X470D4U) to the SATA SSD, updating it to the current version (ESXi-6.7.0-20191204001-standard (Build 15160138)) and then trying to boot it on the X570-Ace also didn’t change anything
• Enabling CSM and switch to Legacy boot-only

Any idea what's causing this issue when booting ESXi?

I know that in general ESXi can work fine with Ryzen 3000 (as tested with my other system with an X470 motherboard that also uses a Ryzen 3000 CPU).

Thanks for any assistance!

Hello all,

I noticed three of my ESXi hosts are trying to connect to old NFS shares that were removed.

They are not defined via GUI or present in esxcli storage nfs list or esxi storage core device detached list

However, I found them defined in /etc/vmware/esxi.conf

I tried manually editing them out and reloading vpxa, hostd and nfsgssd but the machine with NFS shares still shows attempts to connect. I suppose rebooting the hosts will help, but I don't want to do that for obvious reasons.

After resetting my ESxi configuration, I can no longer access both the nodes and the VMs even after I assigned static IP addresses to the hosts. Please how can I fix this?

on a new installation of esxi 6.0.   This has to be some kind of false positive or is there a setting during installation i left enabled and missed?  my other 8 didn't report this back.  Saddly all i have is the vulerability and what IP address.

any thoughts on this one?

and to be clear the IP address is of the host and no i do not have any novel guests

I have (or rather, will have) a Windows 2016 server.  Can I install ESXi as a type 2 hypervisor under Windows 2016?

If so, can I control/manage this instance of ESXi with vCenter Server installed remotely?

Does anyone know if it's OK to use a kickstart install with a vendor supplied ESXi installer ISO?  I've got a bunch of HP servers to load up and was thinking about saving my self some time by just skipping the EULA, password, and the next, next, next prompts.  But I was sure if using a kickstart file would overwrite anything special the custom ISO injects during install.  Anyone know?

Hello,

I have a problem with one server - esx has a public IP ...

How can I define only allowed IP addresses for the GUI, SSH and SNMP?

Thank you Michal.

Greetings!

I am using ESXi 6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 15160138) on an Intel Nuc to host my VMs wit the free ESXi hypervisor license.

The Nuc has an internal M2 SSD. As storage was running low, I've added another external SSD via a JMicron USB2SATA adapter.

Basically I was following this guide: https://www.virten.net/2016/11/usb-devices-as-vmfs-datastore-in-vsphere-esxi-6-5/

So, disabling usbarbitrator, adding SSD as storage device, etc.

Everything works as expected.

However, now I cannot anymore passthrough USB devices into a VM as the arbitrator service is no longer running:

[root@esxi:~] esxcli hardware usb passthrough device list

Bus  Dev  VendorId  ProductId  Enabled  Can Connect to VM                  Name

---  ---  --------  ---------  -------  ---------------------------------  -------------------------------------------------------------------

1    2    76b       3021          true  no (usbarbitrator is not running)  OmniKey AG CardMan 3121

1    3    8087      a2a           true  no (usbarbitrator is not running)  Intel Corp.

1    4    152d      1561         false  no (usbarbitrator is not running)  JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS561U

Specificially I would like to make the OmniKey CardMan available as an USB device in a VM. The JMicron device at the bottom is the adapter that connects my SSD via USB3.0 to the host.

Now, lets start the usbarbitrator again:

[root@esxi:~] /etc/init.d/usbarbitrator start

UsbUtil: Attempting to reserve for VMkernel USB adapter(s):

Errors:

Rescan complete, however some dead paths were not removed because they were in use by the system. Please use the 'storage core device world liommand to see the VMkernel worlds still using these paths.

usbarbitrator started

Hostd must be restarted to enable USB passthrough functionality on any VM. After hostd is restarted, to enable USB passthrough functionality oowered on VM, the VM must be powered off and powered on again.

[root@esxi:~] esxcli hardware usb passthrough device list

Bus  Dev  VendorId  ProductId  Enabled  Can Connect to VM  Name

---  ---  --------  ---------  -------  -----------------  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1    2    76b       3021          true  yes                OmniKey AG CardMan 3121

1    3    8087      a2a           true  yes                Intel Corp.

1    4    152d      1561          true  yes                JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS561U

This looks promising, as I am now apparently able to "mount" the Omnikey into a VM.

However, I can no longer access the UI anymore once the usbarbitrator has been restarted. I presume this is because the SSD/storage device is now kind of blocked.

As soon as I stop the arbitrator service again, the UI is responsive again.

So I assume I need to kind of mask/blacklist the JMicron adapter from the USB arbitrator so he allows the mounting of all the connected USB devices but NOT of the JMicron. The JMicron should not be arbitrated but be available exclusively to the host.

How can I achieve this? Which commands do I need to issue?

As the message on the screen states I also tried to restart the hostd service, however the ESXi was then no longer accessible at all, giving me an error when I opened the webpage:

503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http16LocalServiceSpecE:0x0000001987322480] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _port = 8309)

After a reboot he UI was available again, but the arbitrator was again disabled.

I found these commands but am not sure whether this is the correct way to go: Re: Disable USB support on ESXi OS or BIOS, both?

You could disable the usb-storage module by using

   esxcli system module set -m usb-storage -e false

( followed by

  vmkload_mod -u usb-storage

or a reboot to make the change effective )

This would prevent the usage of any USB storage devices without affecting KVM.

I am not sure whether I can issue this command without doing any harm.

Kindly advise how to proceed.

Thank you!

Hi.

I need PCIe passthrough videocard.

Can I do it ?

Hard:

Hi,

I need to disable TLSv1.0 for PCI on an ESXi server running 6.5. I can do this on my 6.0 servers easily enough using the following commands

esxcli system settings advanced set -o /UserVars/ESXiVPsDisabledProtocols -s "tlsv1"

esxcli system settings advanced set -o /UserVars/ESXiRhttpproxyDisabledProtocols -s "tlsv1"

esxcli system settings advanced set -o /UserVars/VMAuthdDisabledProtocols -s "tlsv1"

When it comes to 6.5 I believe these do not work and from what I can gather you need to use a tool whilst running vCenter. I do not have vCenter running and therefore need to look at a possible solution outside of this.

Can anyone confirm if there is a method to disable this?

Regards

Chris

I had a situation where

• Veeam backup job was running and it creates snapshot on a VM
• Windows disk optimization ran while the snapshot was present
• The snapshot was removed
• The ESXi datastore completely filled up

This is a known combination of events that causes this, VMware Knowledge Base

One way to resolve this is to turn off automatic disk optimization in Windows. Do you do this?

I am curious if this is even possible, from what I have read it should be. I am trying to connect an ESXi 6.7 host to a QNAP device, here is the catch I am not using a switch . I have a ESXi host directly connected to a QNAP using 2 x 10GB GBIC's.

The QNAP is configured with port trunking on two of it's NICs using Balance-ALB. (I use 2 other x ethernet NICs for management of this device).

In ESXi I have one vSwitch, with 2 port groups:

• PG1 has vNIC0 active / vNIC1 unused.
• PG2 has vNIC0 unused / vNIC1 active.

I can ping the IP of the NIC bond on the QNAP from one of the vmk ports but not the other

QNAP shows an iSCSI connection from one of my vmk's IPs. I cannot locate the storage device when I scan the HBA/VMFS though. I am using a static iSCSI target.

I've spent too many hours attempting to set this install up and need some help. This is my first HP proliant server (Proliant DL20 Gen10) and therefore first time using any integrated utilities to setup the system, OS and storage...Here are the two main issues I'm running into and then I'll get into how I have everything setup.

Error via Assisted Install method (shown above)

No drives detected via load ISO from virtual drive (shown above)

Install ISO: VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-Update2-13006603-HPE-Gen9plus-670.U2.10.4.1.8-Apr2019

SPP Status: Can't install, can't load ISO, planning on doing so after ESXI install (spp-2019.03.0-SPP2019030.2019_0206.85)

Physical Drives: KINGSTON SA400S3 120GB (Qty: 2), Samsung SSD 860 1TB (Qty: 2)

Each setup in a RAID 1 using the RAID configuration tool in Intelligent Provisioning (first attempts provisioned through UEFI BIOS and same result, tore down and reprovisioned in IProv)

Raid configuration (shown above)

Firmware appears to be up to date as well...(shown above)

As I mentioned, I've attempted to install via Assisted Install by provisioning through Intelligent Provisioning portal, and also by loading the ISO from virtual drive and booting from it. Both methods yield different errors/issues and I'm really hoping that it's not because I am using non HP drives because their products are overpriced and do not match my eventual design plan. Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks so much.

We let an employee go and he took the root password for ESXI with him. Anyone have an ideas for getting back in? I am not able to access the client with a Windows password and I dont have a password for the web GUI.

Hi guru

I have an esxii new box  6.0.0 , there are no VM on this esxi but when I try to migrate VM to this new esxi, I get the following error

I SSH to the box and ran ....hv support and is supported but enable on  the bios, I have no access to console but how can I go and enable VT from the esxcli command line

Thanks for any help

Hi,

I'm using ESXi free in a home server / home lab environment and have been running happily on version 6.7 but would like to update it to the most recent U3 build. I made a clone of the USB it runs on just fine, and was going to use the "install over the top" method to update it (i.e. boot from the most recent iso and install over the top of one of the cloned ESXi operating sticks, which I'm lead to believe will essentially do an in-place upgrade).

So, I downloaded the most recent ISO available on the website here, build 14320388, but when it boots it comes up with an error about "page allocation error: out of resources". searching these forums has identified that this build has an issue with UEFI boot, but the newer builds fix this. The problem is that the newer builds are not available in ISO format, just links to zip files of binaries (here).

So my question is, how do i update the ISO to the newest build so i can boot from it and update my system? Or is there any other simple easy way to update ESXi free?

Thanks in advance!

Holaa comunidad soy nueva utilizando VMware en realidad conozco muy poco acerca de servidores pero me llama mucho la atención y necesito aprender lo mas que pueda. Bueno tengo un inconveniente  en este momento uno de mis servidores principales se quedo colgado con un mensaje "nfs41client loades successfully" ahi queda por horas y no prosigue con la carga de la consola ni las maquinas virtuales. Quisiera que de verdad me ayudaran de la forma mas detalladamente en como puedo solucionar este inconveniente.

We recently got a server from Dell that had ESXi 6.7 embedded (SD-card) and it's my first time using such a server.

I've always been installing vsphere ESXi manually.

The server uses local storage only and there's no shared storage.

When I was setting it up, I noticed that the datastore wasn't present so I clicked on "new datastore" and when I got to the "select partitioning options", it showed

1. EFI system

2. Basic Data

From the top drop down, if I select "Use full disk" the EFI system would go away.

One would typically use the "use full disk" option right?

And I also noticed that the scratch partition didn't exist either.

Can I select "use full disk" and create a scratch partition manually afterwards?

Thanks