Thanks in advance for reading.

I am running VMware ESXi 5.5.0 build-2068190 / VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Update 2 and vCenter 6.5 running. I have the latest VMware tools installed on my Windows 2016 Server v10.1.5-5055683 using VMXNET3 adapter. I'm running into an odd issue with my Windows Server 2016 template only. After I deploy the template and assign the IP I need - it will lose it's network connection after about 20 minutes. It's odd because the Network and Sharing center states I have a connection to the internet.  If I ping the VM my request times out and I cannot ping anything outbound from the VM.

It get's even weirder.  If I change the network that the adapter is set to from Network A to Network B and then back to Network A - it resolves the issue and it never happens again.

Has anyone seen similar issues? Could it be because I'm on ESXi 5.5 using Server 2016 and there's some bug?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thank you

In follow Up - how simple and quick would it be to take a backup/snapshot made on failed hardware - and restore it to other hardware.

I am building a Windows 2012 R2 Essentials server and considering what benefit vSphere / EXSi would be.   I don't plan on loading multiple servers as this point.   However, having a second machine available to quickly transfer / relocate to could be possible.

Thank you for your time and input.

Jim H

Hi,

On Lenovo System X servers (was IBM) it's always been that with ESXI 5.5 and 6.0 you had to change two uEFI settings to successfully install and boot ESXI.

PCI 64-Bit Resource Allocation from the default of Enabled to Disabled

MM Config Base from the default of 2GB to 3GB

This was for Intel servers with E5 processors v2, v3, and v4 generations which equates to the M4 and M5 models from IBM\Lenovo.

I'm sitting here with some new x3650 M5 servers with v4 processors.  I just installed ESXI 6.5 on 3 of them.  It installed and booted after install just fine with default settings.   PCI 64-bit Resource Allocation is still the default of disabled and MM Config Base is set to the default of 2GB on these.

Any idea how these settings effect ESXi 6.5 or performance/stability?  Should I leave them as default or change them to the recommended 5.5/6.0 settings?

Thoughts?!   Also, I'm curious about HP and Dell people out there!  When you get a new set of servers and need to install ESXi or some other hypervisor on them, how do you choose or set your uEFI values?   Do you just accept defaults? 

Hi,

      I created 8TB vmfs 6 datastore in ESXi 6.5. Deploy VMs which used  ~7.3 TB space. Set the auto reclaim priority as 'high'. Then deleted all of the VMS. Will see the reclaim is starting from esxtop. But at last, there left ~1.7 TB data on the LUN. Checked status on the esxtop, the auto reclaim is not stopped. Why 1.7 TB left？

We are running an esxi 6.0 host as an ntp server and it is working fine but it does not reply to requests where the source port is not 123.

client-ip:123 -> esxi-host-ip:123 request

esxi-host-ip:123 -> client-ip:123 response

client-ip:55239 -> esxi-host-ip:123 request

<no outgoing reply>

How can we enable replies to requests where the source port is not 123?

Is this an ntp.conf issue, or a firewall issue, or both?

In vSphere Host > Configuration > Software > Security Profile > Firewall > Properties  I can see a firewall rule that allows UDP:123 outgoing connections for NTP client. But that sounds fine to me, and it does not seem to be editable.

esxi 6.0 with ssh and ntpd enabled, otherwise very simple.

Note this was working under esxi 4.0

Thanks in advance

Hi,

have here 2 MacPro 5,1 64GB with a couple of VMs (40) and 3 OSX per box. Running under vSphere 5.5.

Once in 14 days or so, one of the OSX Servers crashes with com.vmware.kext.vmmemctl, even our main OSX Server (20GB memory defined).

Any way to get rid of this panics?

Thanks

Henri

Anonymous UUID:       55A80451-0D8A-4863-2AD3-52B5B62F0E0C

Wed Mar  5 15:44:33 2014

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8019adbe2e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f9b18ccec, type 14=page fault, registers:

CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0xffffff884608eff8, CR3: 0x000000001b80b000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660

RAX: 0x00000000ffffffff, RBX: 0xffffff804608f000, RCX: 0x0000000000000001, RDX: 0x00000000ffffffff

RSP: 0xffffff8262c43f20, RBP: 0xffffff8262c43f70, RSI: 0x0000000000000000, RDI: 0x00014dfdfbe2a210

R8:  0xffffff7f9b18e82c, R9:  0x0000000000000000, R10: 0xffffff8262c43de0, R11: 0xffffff801a089ce8

R12: 0x0000000000000000, R13: 0x0000000000000088, R14: 0xffffff7f9b18e780, R15: 0xffffff80489a4280

RFL: 0x0000000000010296, RIP: 0xffffff7f9b18ccec, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000010

Fault CR2: 0xffffff884608eff8, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x0 VMM

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff8262c43bb0 : 0xffffff8019a22fa9

0xffffff8262c43c30 : 0xffffff8019adbe2e

0xffffff8262c43e00 : 0xffffff8019af3326

0xffffff8262c43e20 : 0xffffff7f9b18ccec

0xffffff8262c43f70 : 0xffffff7f9b18aba3

0xffffff8262c43fb0 : 0xffffff8019ad6ff7

      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

         com.vmware.kext.vmmemctl(128.5.44)[A693AF63-4487-3000-8CDB-65C657A1FA98]@0xffffff7f9b189000->0xffffff7f9b18efff

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Boot args: -v serverperfmode=1

Mac OS version:

13C64

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Thu Jan 16 19:40:37 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.90.20~2/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: 9FEA8EDC-B629-3ED2-A1A3-6521A1885953

Kernel slide:     0x0000000019800000

Kernel text base: 0xffffff8019a00000

System model name: VMware7,1 (440BX Desktop Reference Platform)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 367229244648624

last loaded kext at 365414220194800: com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMCEReporter 104 (addr 0xffffff7f9b266000, size 49152)

last unloaded kext at 365476413625819: com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMCEReporter 104 (addr 0xffffff7f9b266000, size 32768)

loaded kexts:

com.kaspersky.kext.mark.1.0.5 1.0.5

com.kaspersky.kext.kimul.44 44

com.vmware.kext.vmhgfs 0128.05.44

com.vmware.kext.vmmemctl 0128.05.44

com.kaspersky.nke 1.6.2a12

com.kaspersky.kext.klif 3.0.2a39

com.attotech.driver.ATTOiSCSI 3.3.0

com.vmware.kext.VMwareGfx 0128.05.44

com.apple.filesystems.cd9660 1.4.4

com.apple.filesystems.afpfs 11.1

com.apple.nke.asp-tcp 8.0.1

com.apple.filesystems.smbfs 2.0.1

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.2.3f10

com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0

com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1

com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleHWAccess 1

com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.13

com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.1.12

com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.Apple16X50ACPI 3.1

com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404

com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.6.6

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 666.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 660.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet 3.1.3b1

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 656.4.1

com.apple.driver.AppleLSIFusionMPT 3.6.5

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1

com.apple.BootCache 35

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 2.0

com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.8

com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 2.0

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 2.1

com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.7

com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 153

com.apple.security.quarantine 3

com.apple.security.SecureRemotePassword 1.0

com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 91

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.2.3f10

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.11d1

com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1

com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.4.1

com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.8

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 5.7.0d10

com.apple.driver.Apple16X50Serial 3.1

com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.7

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 650.4.0

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 660.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 656.4.1

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 3.6.6

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.6.6

com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.7

com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.7.1

com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7.1

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 660.4.2

com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport 3.5.0

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 675.4.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIParallelFamily 3.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.6.6

com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.2

com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.2

com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 2.0

com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 2.0

com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 2.0.0

com.apple.security.sandbox 278.11

com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1

com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7

com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 2

com.apple.driver.DiskImages 371.1

com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.9

com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily 23

com.apple.driver.AppleFDEKeyStore 28.30

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 2.0

com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.9

com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4

com.apple.kec.corecrypto 1.0

com.apple.kec.pthread 1

Unable to gather system configuration information.Model: VMware7,1, BootROM VMW71.00V.0.B64.1307300729, 8 processors, 2.28 GHz, 20 GB, SMC 1.16f8

Graphics: Display, PCI, 64 MB

Memory Module: RAM slot #0/RAM slot #0, 16 GB, DRAM, 0 MHz, VMware Virtual RAM, VMW-16384MB

Memory Module: RAM slot #1/RAM slot #1, 4 GB, DRAM, 0 MHz, VMware Virtual RAM, VMW-4096MB

Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0

Network Service: Ethernet 2, Ethernet, en1

Parallel ATA Device: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, 779,6 MB

Parallel ATA Device: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, 14,5 MB

SCSI Device: SCSI Target Device @ 0

SCSI Device: SCSI Target Device @ 2

SCSI Device: SCSI Target Device @ 3

USB Device: VMware Virtual USB Hub

USB Device: VMware Virtual USB Keyboard

USB Device: VMware Virtual USB Mouse

Thunderbolt Bus:

Hi geeks,

Greetings,

I have a doubt in upgrading my ESXI server.

I using free ESXI 6.0 with 6 Active VM’s.

Now am planning to upgrade my ESXI server from version 6.0 to 6.5.

So it is possible to upgrade the free ESXI server from 6.0 to 6.5

Please let me know

Thanks in Advance

Devaraj Sankar.

System Administrator.

Hello,

I've a vSphere cluster running with 7x IBM HS22V blades / 2x Intel Xeon X3650 / 256 GB memory in every host.

Running at vSphere 5.5 23202651, with around 150 VM's.

Since a few months we are implementing Windows Server 2012 R2, and since a few weeks we've a new Citrix environment running at 2012 R2 to.

Currently the performance of the Windows Server 2012 machines is really really bad.

The respond slow and it doesn't feel right, the older VM's (W2K8 R2) are running great.

I've searched the internet, and I found that a lot of people had/have problems running 2012 on vSphere.

But I didn't found any solutions or things I could try to solve our problems.

Hopefully you guys have some tips for me, because I'm stuck...

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

DXK

Hello all,

Are any of you setting a limit on IOPS for a VM/VMDKs?
We are using it, but we are having an issue, or several issues, and getting pretty much nowhere with support. Tested it on ESXi 6.5 and several different builds of 6.0.
Below is the test results I sent to support a couple of months ago. Could any of you replicate the tests in your environment and tell me the results? Or if you have any other suggestions.

I have tested the Storage IO Filter driver in ESXi 6.5 and it works for IOPS, but I need to set it for bandwidth(KB/s) and the IO Filter driver is not able to do that. We want to set the limit on VMDKs to be able to apply bandwidth limits, but I'm running the support case using IOPS because it suffers the same issues and is a bit easier to understand since the bandwidth limit is not visible through the GUI.

This test has been done using a VM having 3 VMDKs, all on same datastore, each VMDK has an IOPS limit of 100.
Having all VMDKs on the same datastore should pool the number of IOPS according to https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1038241
VM is HW11, running on ESXi 6.5 build 4564106. (Use HW11 because HW13 does something weird)
Setting limit to 100 IOPS for each VMDK:

Iometer is being used to generate load with 32 Outstanding I/Os, access specifications are set to 512B, 100% read, 0% random.
Performance graph from vSphere client is being used instead of esxtop so we can see the IO for each individual VMDK.

Issue 1: When CBT is disabled, limits are set, snapshot does not affect results
Each VMDK is limited to 100, the IOPS are not getting pooled.

Load on two last disks. VM should have gotten 300 in total, bug is visible.

Load on all three disks. All disks are in use therefore it is reaching its limit of 300 and hiding the bug

Issue 2: When CBT is enabled, limits are set, no snapshot has been taken after setting limits
Each VMDK in use is getting 300 IOPS. 300 IOPS should have been the limit for the VM in total when pooled, not each individual VMDK.

Load on two last disks. VM should have gotten 300 in total, bug is visible.

Load on all three disks. All disks are getting 300 IOPS each, bug is visible.

Issue 3: When CBT is enabled, limits are set, snapshot has been taken after setting limits
Last VMDK is having its individual limit enforced as if not being a part of the pool. The other two VMDKs are getting the total of the pool each.

Load on two last disks. 400 IOPS in total is higher than the limit, but skewed between second and last disk.

  Load on all three disks. The first and second VMDK are each getting about 300 IOPS. Total IOPS is now higher than it should, but skewed for the last disk.

Load on last VMDK. 100 IOPS is well below the pool limit of 300 for this VM.

Hello community

I'm testing this ESXi 6.5.0 and I'm facing a situation with two guest VM linux  after a while I'm getting this error,

any recommendation or comment about it?

Hi,

I really hope someone can help, my ESX.  My problems seem to have started after I tried to remove a snapshot from a VM that was on a disk that was full.

At the moment the VM won't start because it can't find one of the vmdk files.

2017-06-30T09:24:03.918Z| Worker#0| I120: DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 '/vmfs/volumes/553b9919-0ab03632-726d-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv-000002.vmdk' persistent R[]

2017-06-30T09:24:03.918Z| vmx| I120: Unable to find file /vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk

2017-06-30T09:24:03.918Z| vmx| I120: Unable to find file /vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk

2017-06-30T09:24:03.918Z| vmx| A115: ConfigDB: Setting scsi0:1.redo = ""

2017-06-30T09:24:03.918Z| vmx| I120: DISK: OPEN scsi0:1 '/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk' persistent R[]

2017-06-30T09:24:03.918Z| vmx| I120: Unable to find file /vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk

2017-06-30T09:24:03.918Z| vmx| I120: OBJLIB-FILEBE : FileBEOpen: can't open '/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk' : Could not find the file (393218).

2017-06-30T09:24:03.918Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-DSCPTR: DescriptorOpenInt: failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk': Could not find the file (60002)

2017-06-30T09:24:03.918Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-LINK  : "/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified). 

2017-06-30T09:24:03.918Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).

2017-06-30T09:24:03.918Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk' with flags 0xa The system cannot find the file specified (25).

In the folder there are the following files

drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            700 Jun 29 00:17 .

drwxr-xr-t    1 root     root           2800 Jun 28 23:14 ..

-rw-------    1 root     root   129755947008 Jun 30 09:14 Homeserv_1-000002-delta.vmdk

-rw-------    1 root     root   500107837440 Dec 10  2015 Homeserv_1-flat.vmdk

-rw-------    1 root     root            626 Jun  9  2015 Homeserv_1.vmdk

Looking in the VM's   vmx file the drives are defined as:

scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"

scsi0:0.fileName = "Homeserv-000002.vmdk"

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:1.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"

scsi0:1.fileName = "/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk"

scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"

Looking at the primary drive it looks like it needs the vmdk file to be able to link the flat and delta files together... but there i'm complete stumped.

Can you help ?

Many Thanks ... Andy

For reference this is the log from the failed Snapshot removal. Let me know if you need more information, logs etc.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.267Z| vmx| I120: VigorTransportProcessClientPayload: opID=0114D5C2-00000A88-9a86 seq=959863: Receiving Snapshot.Delete request.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.301Z| vmx| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigExtFinder: Unable to find file: '/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk'

2017-06-29T08:12:04.301Z| vmx| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotDeleteWork '/vmfs/volumes/553b9919-0ab03632-726d-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv.vmx' : 5

2017-06-29T08:12:04.302Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/553b9919-0ab03632-726d-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv-000002-delta.vmdk" : open successful (21) size = 38604480512, hd = 0. Type 8

2017-06-29T08:12:04.302Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/553b9919-0ab03632-726d-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv-000002-delta.vmdk" : closed.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.302Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/553b9919-0ab03632-726d-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv-flat.vmdk" : open successful (21) size = 53690236928, hd = 0. Type 3

2017-06-29T08:12:04.302Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/553b9919-0ab03632-726d-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv-flat.vmdk" : closed.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.302Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-flat.vmdk" : open successful (21) size = 500107837440, hd = 0. Type 3

2017-06-29T08:12:04.302Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-flat.vmdk" : closed.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.303Z| vmx| A115: ConfigDB: Setting displayName = "Homeserv"

2017-06-29T08:12:04.333Z| vmx| A115: ConfigDB: Setting displayName = "Homeserv"

2017-06-29T08:12:04.349Z| vmx| I120: VigorTransport_ServerSendResponse opID=0114D5C2-00000A88-9a86 seq=959863: Completed Snapshot request.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.367Z| vmx| I120: VigorTransportProcessClientPayload: opID=0114D5C2-00000A88-9a86 seq=959864: Receiving Snapshot.Consolidate request.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.375Z| vmx| I120: SnapshotVMX_Consolidate: Starting online snapshot consolidate operation.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.375Z| vmx| I120: Vix: [38049 mainDispatch.c:4292]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=3, newAppState=1880, success=1 additionalError=0

2017-06-29T08:12:04.375Z| vmx| I120: Turning on snapshot info cache. VM=Homeserv.vmx.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.381Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/553b9919-0ab03632-726d-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv-000002-delta.vmdk" : open successful (65557) size = 38604480512, hd = 0. Type 8

2017-06-29T08:12:04.382Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/553b9919-0ab03632-726d-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv-000002-delta.vmdk" : closed.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.382Z| vmx| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigExtFinder: Unable to find file: '/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk'

2017-06-29T08:12:04.382Z| vmx| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpandDisks: SnapshotConfigInfoExpandDisksInt Error 7

2017-06-29T08:12:04.382Z| vmx| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpand SnapshotConfigInfoExpandDisks: Error 7

2017-06-29T08:12:04.382Z| vmx| I120: ConsolidateStart: Could not initialize configInfo caching: A required file was not found.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.388Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/553b9919-0ab03632-726d-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv-000002-delta.vmdk" : open successful (65557) size = 38604480512, hd = 0. Type 8

2017-06-29T08:12:04.388Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/553b9919-0ab03632-726d-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv-000002-delta.vmdk" : closed.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.388Z| vmx| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigExtFinder: Unable to find file: '/vmfs/volumes/553ba167-f1387487-4010-6c0b8404f313/Homeserv/Homeserv_1-000002.vmdk'

2017-06-29T08:12:04.388Z| vmx| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpandDisks: SnapshotConfigInfoExpandDisksInt Error 7

2017-06-29T08:12:04.388Z| vmx| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpand SnapshotConfigInfoExpandDisks: Error 7

2017-06-29T08:12:04.388Z| vmx| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConsolidateWorkItemArrayGet failed: A required file was not found (7)

2017-06-29T08:12:04.388Z| vmx| I120: ConsolidateStart: Failed to get consolidate work items: 'A required file was not found' (7)

2017-06-29T08:12:04.394Z| vmx| I120: VigorTransport_ServerSendResponse opID=0114D5C2-00000A88-9a86 seq=959864: Completed Snapshot request.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.394Z| vmx| I120: Turning off snapshot info cache.

2017-06-29T08:12:04.394Z| vmx| I120: ConsolidateEnd: Snapshot consolidate complete: A required file was not found (7).

2017-06-29T08:12:04.394Z| vmx| I120: Vix: [38049 mainDispatch.c:4292]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=3, newAppState=1881, success=1 additionalError=0

2017-06-29T08:12:04.487Z| vcpu-0| I120: TOOLS call to unity.show.taskbar failed.

I have installed the recently released Lenovo System X Custom Image for ESXi 6.5a on three separate physical servers and one nested ESXi image. When I enable the iSCSI software adapter and reboot, I see the following warning on each host

System logs on host ... are stored on non-persistent storage

The ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation advanced system setting is pointing to the 4 GB vfat partition that was created at installation time, but ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation is pointing to /scratch which I believe is in a ramdisk.

I reviewed the log files in /scratch/log and found the following entry in syslog.log

2017-03-13T14:47:27Z jumpstart[66440]: using /vmfs/volumes/58c2ed55-f98c6822-a783-e41f1344b0f4 as /scratch

However, less than 1 second later, I find errors in other log files about non-persistent storage

syslog.log:2017-03-13T14:47:30Z jumpstart[65896]: executing start plugin: scratch-storage

vmkernel.log:2017-03-13T14:47:30.246Z cpu10:65942)Activating Jumpstart plugin scratch-storage.

vmkernel.log:2017-03-13T14:47:30.447Z cpu3:66558)ALERT: Logs are stored on non-persistent storage.  Consult product documentation to configure a syslog server or a scratch partition.

vmkernel.log:2017-03-13T14:47:30.470Z cpu10:65942)Jumpstart plugin scratch-storage activated.

vmksummary.log:2017-03-13T14:47:30.447Z cpu3:66558)ALERT: Logs are stored on non-persistent storage.  Consult product documentation to configure a syslog server or a scratch partition.

vmkwarning.log:2017-03-13T14:47:30.447Z cpu3:66558)ALERT: Logs are stored on non-persistent storage.  Consult product documentation to configure a syslog server or a scratch partition.

vobd.log:2017-03-13T14:47:28.638Z: [GenericCorrelator] 43572261us: [vob.user.scratch.partition.unconfigured] No scratch partition has been configured. Recommended scratch partition size is 4095 MiB.

vobd.log:2017-03-13T14:47:28.638Z: [UserLevelCorrelator] 43572261us: [vob.user.scratch.partition.unconfigured] No scratch partition has been configured. Recommended scratch partition size is 4095 MiB.

vobd.log:2017-03-13T14:47:28.638Z: [UserLevelCorrelator] 43572494us: [esx.problem.scratch.partition.unconfigured] No scratch partition has been configured. Recommended scratch partition size is 4095 MiB.

I assume there is something wrong with the Lenovo vibs, but I don't know which one is causing the problem. VMware's 6.5a build works just fine.

Any suggestions?

I have a stand alone esxi  without any internet connect and I want to load vmware software.  Is there anyway this can be done?

Hello,

Maybe I'm missing something here but we are running 3 ESXI hosts without vCenter.  The Hosts are all running the free version of ESXI 6.5.  We are able to log into the web client just fine with the local root user as well as domain users with the username@domain.com syntax.  The issue is that the checkbox to 'Use Windows session credentials' isn't even there.  I've seen it grayed out or not work right but to be missing altogether??

Any guidance would be great.

Thanks,

Ernst.

Hi,
My configured scratch location for some reason doesn't work after upgrading to ESXi 6.5.

I set up parameter ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation to a persistent storage. The folder exists and worked before the upgrade.

After each reboot ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation is always set to /scratch while ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation is /vmfs/volumes/volume01/scratches/host01

I'm not sure if this is related but to upgrade ESXi I had to provide boot parameter preferVmklinux=TRUE as my USB drive wasn't visible and later I run these commands:

esxcli system settings kernel set -s preferVmklinux -v FALSE

esxcli system module set --enabled=false –m vmkusb

Thanks for your help in advance,

Lukasz

Hi All,

I configured iSCSI Software adapter in ESXi 6.5,  but got the following pic.

Could you help me？

Thanks.

Hello everybody.

My config is as follows:

- ESX1 (192.168.1.150)

- ESX2 (192.168.1.160)

- vCenter (192.168.1.50)

- Domain Controller (192.168.1.10)

All of them joined by vmnet2 (Workstation Host-Only).

Let's focus on ESX1.

- I have created vSwitch0 with vmnic0. This switch has 2 Port Groups: VMKernel (Management Network) and Virtual Machine.

- I have created vSwitch1 with vmnic1. This switch has 1 Port Group named by me ("Production").

I create a guest VM with WinXP and assign the "Production" network. Once logged in, I issue ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew, giving me the IP 192.168.1.135 and no GW.

My questions are:

1. ¿Who is assigning it that IP? ¿Why .135?

2. ¿Why can I ping successfully to ESX1 and ESX2 but not to vCenter? In fact, XP should be isolated from ESX2 and vCenter.

3. In vSphere console, "Management Network" is the only that has "IP Settings" tab (apart from "General", "Security", "Traffic Shaping",...). ¿Why is this so?

I attach a brief layout of my setup.

Please help.

Thank you!

After a weird system hang I restarted the ESXI host and ended up not able to boot up of the VM's. The VM had a snapshot and it seems the -delta file of the snapshot got corrupted, or final block was not written to it.

All CID's are OK from what I can tell.

I get below error in vmkernel.log when trying to boot up the VM:

2017-07-01T15:44:47.025Z cpu2:161448 opID=6db8d44c)World: 15446: VC opID 4560189D-000000A5-f3d2 maps to vmkernel opID 6db8d44c

2017-07-01T15:44:47.025Z cpu2:161448 opID=6db8d44c)Config: 679: "SIOControlFlag2" = 1, Old Value: 0, (Status: 0x0)

2017-07-01T15:44:48.223Z cpu6:221918)World: vm 221919: 1646: Starting world vmm0:afrparv-web01_1 of type 8

2017-07-01T15:44:48.223Z cpu6:221918)Sched: vm 221919: 6485: Adding world 'vmm0:afrparv-web01_1', group 'host/user', cpu: shares=-3 min=0 minLimit=-1 max=-1, mem: shares=-3 min=0 minLimit=-1 max=-1

2017-07-01T15:44:48.223Z cpu6:221918)Sched: vm 221919: 6500: renamed group 1394888 to vm.221918

2017-07-01T15:44:48.224Z cpu6:221918)Sched: vm 221919: 6517: group 1394888 is located under group 4

2017-07-01T15:44:48.246Z cpu6:221918)MemSched: vm 221918: 8113: extended swap to 43458 pgs

2017-07-01T15:44:48.358Z cpu2:221918)WARNING: MemSched: 6236: Psharing is disabled but ballooning is not.

2017-07-01T15:44:48.462Z cpu0:221918)World: vm 221921: 1646: Starting world vmm1:afrparv-web01_1 of type 8

2017-07-01T15:44:48.643Z cpu6:221918)WARNING: VmfsSparse: 6385: Bad leaf entry: leafEntry->sectorOffset[2312] + sparseInfo->granularity (bytes = 370060288) >= length (154148864)

2017-07-01T15:44:48.643Z cpu6:221918)WARNING: VmfsSparse: 6385: Bad leaf entry: leafEntry->sectorOffset[2313] + sparseInfo->granularity (bytes = 370060800) >= length (154148864)

2017-07-01T15:44:48.643Z cpu6:221918)WARNING: VmfsSparse: 6385: Bad leaf entry: leafEntry->sectorOffset[2314] + sparseInfo->granularity (bytes = 370061312) >= length (154148864)

2017-07-01T15:44:48.643Z cpu6:221918)WARNING: VmfsSparse: 6385: Bad leaf entry: leafEntry->sectorOffset[2315] + sparseInfo->granularity (bytes = 370061824) >= length (154148864)

2017-07-01T15:44:48.645Z cpu6:221918)WARNING: VmfsSparse: 6353: Bad root entry: (page 0, slot 6) (bytes=185909760) >= length (154148864)

2017-07-01T15:44:48.645Z cpu6:221918)Cow: 2033: Sync IO issued on cow disk 'afrparv-web01-000001-delta.vmdk' failed with short IO 0 bytes actual 16384

2017-07-01T15:44:48.645Z cpu6:221918)VmfsSparse: 2076: Sparse COW open (fd 804319, isSparse: 0, sparseInfo 0x439dc14cca40) finished with status: I/O error

2017-07-01T15:44:48.645Z cpu6:221918)Cow: 698: Failed to open file afrparv-web01-000001-delta.vmdk, level 1 of 3 (extent 'vmfssparse' fhID804319) with I/O error

2017-07-01T15:44:48.645Z cpu6:221918)WARNING: DD: 679: Opening the cow hierarchy for 3b17500e-afrparv-web01-000005-delta.vmdk failed with I/O error

2017-07-01T15:44:49.566Z cpu5:161434)Config: 679: "SIOControlFlag2" = 0, Old Value: 1, (Status: 0x0)

Trying to clone the vmdk file:

[root@AFRPARS-ESXI01:/vmfs/volumes/553e3c22-c98645b0-66b8-0cc47a0e98f8/backups01] vmkfstools -i afrparv-web01-000001.vmdk  fixed.vmdk

Failed to open 'afrparv-web01-000001.vmdk': Input/output error (327689).

I've attached all logs and vmdk files.

continuum or any other superduper expert, please help!

Hi

I'm trying to update some hosts in the Environment but it always fails with the following Error

"Host cannot download files from VMware vSphere Update Manager patch store.  Check the network connectivity and firewall setup, and check esxupdate logs for details."

the files check on the host (/var/log/esxupdate.log)

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: pycurl.error: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR:

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR:

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Downloader.py", line 199, in _getfromurl

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1182, in urlgrab

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR:   File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1036, in _run_callback

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1030, in _do_raise

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1178, in urlgrab

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1091, in _retry

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1070, in _retry

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1163, in retryfunc

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1265, in __init__

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1602, in _do_open

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1740, in _do_grab

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1736, in _do_grab

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1521, in _do_perform

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: urlgrabber.grabber.URLGrabError: [Errno 12] Timeout on b'http://172.16.18.230:9084/vum/repository/hostupdate/vmw/vmw-ESXi-6.5.0-metadata.zip': (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR:

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR:

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 83, in DownloadMetadatas

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Downloader.py", line 289, in Get

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Downloader.py", line 202, in _getfromurl

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: vmware.esximage.Downloader.DownloaderError: ('http://172.16.18.230:9084/vum/repository/hostupdate/vmw/vmw-ESXi-6.5.0-metadata.zip', '/tmp/tmp_n9n1rvj', "[Errno 12] Timeout on b'http://172.16.18.230:9084/vum/repository/hostupdate/vmw/vmw-ESXi-6.5.0-metadata.zip': (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')")

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR:

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR:

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR:   File "/usr/sbin/esxupdate", line 239, in main

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR:     cmd.Run()

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR:   File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/vmware/esx5update/Cmdline.py", line 105, in Run

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR:   File "/build/mts/release/bora-5310538/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 85, in DownloadMetadatas

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: ERROR: vmware.esximage.Errors.MetadataDownloadError: ('http://172.16.18.230:9084/vum/repository/hostupdate/vmw/vmw-ESXi-6.5.0-metadata.zip', None, '(\'http://172.16.18.230:9084/vum/repository/hostupdate/vmw/vmw-ESXi-6.5.0-metadata.zip\', \'/tmp/tmp_n9n1rvj\', "[Errno 12] Timeout on b\'http://172.16.18.230:9084/vum/repository/hostupdate/vmw/vmw-ESXi-6.5.0-metadata.zip\': (28, \'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds\')")')

2017-07-01T07:21:27Z esxupdate: 70599: esxupdate: DEBUG: <<<

the Check of the VUM Logs (/var/log/vmware/vum...)

[2017-06-29 08:55:07:958 'HostUpdateDepotManager' 140630490326784 ERROR]  [scanHost20, 371] result for host: nlnym01bb2ex002.nl-nym01.nexperia.com (entity: host-76) shows error :

<error errorClass="MetadataDownloadError">

  <errorCode>4</errorCode>

  <errorDesc>Failed to download metadata.</errorDesc>

</error>

[2017-06-29 08:55:07:975 'VciScanTask.ScanTask{252}' 140630490326784 INFO]  [vciTaskBase, 1362] VciTask { id: ScanTask{252}, type: com.vmware.vcIntegrity.ScanTask }: Setting VC task state to: error

[2017-06-29 12:24:10:135 'HostUpgradeScanner' 139749982955264 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 675] Precheck script test result: 'SUCCESS', test 'PRECHECK_INITIALIZE', expected 'version esx.conf', found 'version esx.conf' and errortype is 19

[2017-06-29 12:24:10:135 'HostUpgradeScanner' 139749982955264 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 675] Precheck script test result: 'SUCCESS', test 'SPACE_AVAIL_ISO', expected '372830954', found '372830954' and errortype is 4

[2017-06-29 12:24:10:135 'HostUpgradeScanner' 139749982955264 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 675] Precheck script test result: 'SUCCESS', test 'MEMORY_SIZE', expected '4294967296', found '206026579968' and errortype is 6

[2017-06-29 12:24:10:135 'HostUpgradeScanner' 139749982955264 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 675] Precheck script test result: 'SUCCESS', test 'CPU_SUPPORT', expected 'True', found 'False' and errortype is 31

[2017-06-29 12:24:10:135 'HostUpgradeScanner' 139749982955264 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 675] Precheck script test result: 'SUCCESS', test 'HARDWARE_VIRTUALIZATION', expected '3', found '3' and errortype is 23

[2017-06-29 12:24:10:135 'HostUpgradeScanner' 139749982955264 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 675] Precheck script test result: 'SUCCESS', test 'CPU_CORES', expected '2', found '24' and errortype is 22

[2017-06-29 12:24:10:135 'HostUpgradeScanner' 139749982955264 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 675] Precheck script test result: 'SUCCESS', test '64BIT_LONGMODESTATUS', expected '1', found '1' and errortype is 25

[2017-06-29 12:24:10:135 'HostUpgradeScanner' 139749982955264 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 675] Precheck script test result: 'SUCCESS', test 'NXBIT_ENABLED', expected '1', found '1' and errortype is 27

[2017-06-29 12:24:10:135 'HostUpgradeScanner' 139749982955264 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 675] Precheck script test result: 'SUCCESS', test 'SANE_ESX_CONF', expected 'True', found 'True' and erro type is 7

[2017-06-29 12:24:10:135 'HostUpgradeScanner' 139749982955264 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 675] Precheck script test result: 'SUCCESS', test 'UNSUPPORTED_DEVICES', expected '', found '' and errortype is 9

  [2017-06-29 12:24:10:136 'HostUpgradeScanner' 139749982955264 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 675] Precheck script test result: 'SUCCESS', test 'PACKAGE_COMPLIANCE', expected  ...

...

<error errorClass="MetadataDownloadError">

  <errorCode>4</errorCode>

  <errorDesc>Failed to download metadata.</errorDesc>

</error>

the Managed ESXi is not located at same Site it is a WAN-Link connection in between but the needed Port are configured.

any idea why the host is not able to download the files!!!?

Hi.

I have an ESXi 5.5 installation running here at home on an HP Proliant.

I take periodic clones of my twelve VMs.   I would like to get them off of the host and onto my Desktop Mac, to be backed up on my 'Time Machine' schedule.  But I have tried scp from the host and FTP into the host.  To no avail.  The firewall is off, I believe:

esxcli network firewall set --enabled false

I get timeout when I try to FTP into the host, and for some reason, my host can't even see my Mac when I try to scp the backups across (despite the latter being in DNS).

Does anyone know of a solution?

Ideally, I'd like to run nightly backups, and get them off of the server automatically.  Can this be done?

All tips appreciated.