I'm trying to get ESXi 5.5 installed on a RAID 1 set of Western Digital 2.5" Red Drives on an SAS2008 controller. The problem I'm running into is that some part of the stack doesn't seem to realize that these drives are advanced format drives and the various partitions the installer creates aren't properly aligned.
Any suggestions on how to force the installer to properly partition the drive?
I installed ESXi 5.5 on my test box and discovered to my surprise that, unlike in prior releases, ESXi did not automatically reformat all attached disks into datastores. Next, when I tried to create a datastore manually, I got a "Call "HostStorageSystem.ComputeDiskPartitionInfo" for object "storageSystem" on ESXi failed" error, which has me wondering - is this a new feature/change in behavior, or is it simply a bug in 5.5?
This is confusing me. I am setting up a distributed switch, and I have all my portgroups set up, one each that corresponds to the standard portgroup (i.e, 1 standard portgroup for VLAN 15, and 1 distributed portgroup for VLAN 15, etc).
So I have a win 2008 R2 VM, with 1 NIC, and I shut it down, and changed it's networking from the standard portgroup to the equivalent distributed portgroup (i.e., the distributed portgroup for that VLAN). I've done this like a dozen times already, for other VMs, and it's all worked fine. This time, however, this adds the distributed portgroup, but also leaves the standard portgroup.
And I don't know why. With 1 NIC, the VM settings are showing the NIC with a Network Connection to the distributed portgroup, as it should. Yet the Resources pane in the vSphere client is showing *both* standard and distributed portgroup. All NICs that are in the vDs are in LACP mode (we connect to a Cisco 6513 using 10G fiber NICs). The vDs has 1 NIC from each host, and the corresponding standard switch on each host has the other NIC, so I can migrate the VMs between the two with no loss of connectivity.
I have connectivity, I can ping the VM. Looking at the vDs, I see the VM in the distributed portgroup. I also see it in the standard portgroup (that standard switch has no adapters, so it can't actually be doing anything, not sending/receiving). So all the packets must be coming from the distributed portgroup (as it should).
Any clues as to where to look next? I have checked the VM, there's only 1 NIC in Windows, no hidden devices NIC. So why does it want 2 portgroups? And how do I tell it not to do that?
All ESXi hosts are ESXI 5.1 U1.
Thanks
On a Windows 7 VM running in ESXI5.5, I edit the settings for the Video Card and set Number of Displays to 2 (80MB video memory). I can select up to 4.
I Log into the Windows 7 VM and the Display Adapter is using the VMware SVGA 3D driver. I have VMware tools installed
When I go into the screen resolution properties and Detect a second display, it does not detect it. Can I have dual monitors with Vshpere 5.5 Essentials (ESXI 5.5)?
I've read some posts that say to remove the VMware SVGA 3D driver and replace it with a driver located in c:\program files\common files\VMware..... but I don't see one.
The Windows 7 VM does not detect multiple displays when I
I need to test some software so I cloned a VM server using Converter Standalone. Everything seemed to go without a hitch but, all of the disks on the cloned VM are full. They are the same size as on the original VM, and there is a lot of space left on the original VM.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Mike
We have recently installed ESXi 5.5 and the vCenter Linux Appliance. The ESXi server is set up the way the documentation says, with multiple networks assign for different tasks, service console, vMotion, storage, etc. I "THINK" everything is set up correctly, but I can not get my vCenter Appliance to see the ESXi server. The network that the ESXi host is on, is not listed as an available option when I add a NIC to the vCenter Appliance.
On previous versions of ESX, the network that the ESX host was available when I needed to add a NIC to the vCenter server. Is there something that I am missing? Does this sound like an issue anyone else has had? Or am I just missing a simple step?
MJ
I am trying to determine why network throughput is so slow going to all the Linux Virtual Machines running on an ESXi host, but fast to the ESXi host itself. For instance, if I scp a large file to a VM, it is taking about 10x longer than it does to scp the file directly to the ESXi host. (And it is definately a network issue, not disk I/O.)
Where would you all begin to debug a problem like this?
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
an issue we've just encountered:
netbackup finished a VM backup and initiated snapshot removal. however VM experienced a large storage change during that time, so delta has grown so fast and large that the datastore has run out of space, and netbackup never finished removing the snapshot, and the below error was observed:
Remove snapshot
The operation cannot be allowed at the current time because the virtual machine has a question pending: 'msg.hbacommon.o-utofspace:There is no more space for
virtual disk <name snipped>1.vmdk. You might be able to continue this session by freeing disk space on the relevant volume, and clicking Retry. Click Cancel to
terminate this session. '.<session name snipped> 12/5/2013 7:23:48 AM 12/5/2013 7:23:48 AM
12/5/2013 7:23:48 AM
It took two manual tasks: "answering virtual machine question" and 'removing all snapshots' before VM was successfully started back up.
Apart from making sure we have more free space on the datastores, I was wondering if enabling Storage DRS could have alleviated this issue? That is if SDRS is fast enough to detect this quick datastore fill-up, and if it is even able to initiate storage migration during for a VM's snapshot creation or removal?
Thanks.
It surprised me to deliberatelly access a host with the C# client and not receive the customary "This host is under vCenter control" warning.
Is it gone ? Bug or feature ?
-Carlos
Hello,
I am posting this to help somebody else to set up an ESXi Server with following hardware:
- Intel i7-4770
- Asus Z87-PRO
- Adaptec-6805E
To use on board I217-V Network Card and This particular RAID card, customized ISO will have to be created.
When installing, add "formatwithmbr" to the end of the command. Also, disable UEFI.
I will attach drivers to this post. Please feel free to drop me a message if you have any questions.
Cheers.
I've recently heard an argument to the effect that it doesn't matter if you overallocate guest memory. Basically saying that as long as it isn't reserved, it won't actually use it so it should have minimal effect on the environment as a whole. I didn't have an immediate response so am trying to form one now. I see how one might come to that conclusion but, it doesn't sit right with me. I've always attempted to right-size VMs as a best practice and only increase resources when there is a justifiable, demonstrated need. I have to believe there is a more significant downside than I'm able to articulate.
I just don't want to overstate my position for right sizing memory so, I'm looking for real world bullet points against over allocating guest memory to present for argument (or pro-overallocating opinion if someone feels that way).
Hi all, I have an issue with snapshots... Every time I take a snapshot then try to boot the vm I get this error:
Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module DiskEarly power on failed.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/5295d5ad-599e7c81-73da-d4ae52cdfcc1/VMDK-STORE/FOP2-2-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
The system cannot find the file specified
VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/5295d5ad-599e7c81-73da-d4ae52cdfcc1/VMDK-STORE/FOP2-2-000001.vmdk". Verify the path is valid and try again.
I have to delete the snapshot and start over. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong???
The base vmdk were previously vdi files from a virtual box setup if that matters at all. That is the only thing different that I can see I'm doing!
Hi
I need to use a hp p2000 SAN storage which is connected to a HP Dl580 G7 server(with Fiber Channel) as a data archive.
the hp p2000 is not recognized in ESX
the scenario is to mount this storage in open-suse which is installed on the ESX as a machine.
the fiber channel lights on the server card are blinking with the red and orange light even when I plug out the fiber cable.
the storage version is (TS240P004).
I don not know anything about this VAAI which I see on the web.
kindly please guide me through this .
I have a Host with the following specs:
Intel S5520SC Motherboard
Dual NIC
Xeon E5645 2.4Ghz 6 Core CPU (1 Processor Socket, 6 Processor Cores per Socket, 12 Logical Processors, Hyperthreading Enabled)
16GB of RAM
4 15k Hard Drives Configure as Raid 5 with a capacity of 1.8TB on an LSI 9260-4i Controller
I have 2 Windows Server 2008 R2 VM's Hosted with the following settings:
VM1 Terminal Server
8GB of RAM, 6 CPU's, 250GB HD, Nic2
VM2 Database Server
8GB of RAM, 6 CPU's, 1TB HD, Nic2
My problem is when more than 6 people log in to my terminal server, the CPU on the host spikes to 100% and it freezes the Database Server (VM2) which causes all the LAN connections to freeze, If i kill the active RDP Sessions on VM1, the host cpu drops back to normal (5%) and everyone locally can access the DB Server normally again. Does anyone have any recommendations on what could be causing this? Do I not have my cpu's set properly? Thanks
Hi,
I am using an Supermicro X8SIL (without -F), a Xeon L3426, 16GiB ECC reg., ESXi 5.5!
This board does not support IPMI, and I think there is no way to install an add-on card.
The system is booting fast til the ipmi_si_drv is loading - after 10min. wait time - the system is booting fine and works without any problems.
In the vsphere client the IPMI status is green! That's funny?
Is there any chance to minimize the wait time of the IPMI driver while booting?
Is there a modified ISO?
Is it possible to disable the IPMI driver - I does not need this feature.
Best regards,
Matthias
I am running an ESX 5.1 host with 4 physical NICs. The NICs are labeled vmnic0, vmnic1, vmnic2, and vmnic3. the nics have been setup as follows
vmnic0 is assigned to vSwitch0 and is the Management Network and the "AUTO_Network" for the Virtual Machine Port Group.
vmnic1 is not used.
vmnic2 is assigned to vSwitch2 and is the "Primary" Virtual Machine Port Group
vmnic3 is assigned to vSwitch3 and is the "Secondary" Virtual Machine Port Group
I have 2 Windows 2000 servers and 2 WXP Pro vm's. If there is only one NIC in each vm, I can ping between all of the vm's. As soon as I add a secondary NIC to server A, it fails to be able to ping any of the other vm's. The other vm's can still ping each other as well as server A. I have tested this on each of the the vm's. Which ever one has the 2nd NIC fails to be able to communicate with the other vm's. Everything work fine as long as only one nic is active. It doesn't matter if it's on the Primary or Secondary network.
The IP's that I would like to use are as follows:
VM Primary Secondary
ServerA 100.1116.126.104 100.1116.126.105
ServerA 100.1116.126.106 100.1116.126.107
WXP_A 100.1116.126.108 100.1116.126.109
WXP_B 100.1116.126.110 100.1116.126.111
What could I be doing wrong?
Hello,
Can anyone please tell me what is the impact of running an old version of vmWare Tools?
Thank you.
Now i cant get it up and running again.
i ran the command : esxcfg-nics -l
~ # esxcfg-nics -l
Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
vmnic0 0000:02:00.00 elxnet Up 0Mbps Half 98:4b:e1:76:78:70 1500 Emulex Corporation HP NC553i Dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb Converged Network Adapter
vmnic1 0000:02:00.01 elxnet Up 1000Mbps Full 98:4b:e1:76:78:74 1500 Emulex Corporation HP NC553i Dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb Converged Network Adapter
~ #
i ran the command : esxcfg-nics -s 1000 -d full vmnic0
and i still get the same status about 0Mbps and Half duplex.
Any solution ?
Hi,
In the my vSphere Client v5.0.0, in 'Configuration' tab -> 'Logical Processors' is showed 24 'Logical Processors':
But in 'Summary' tab -> 'CPU usage:' is showed 12 CPU:
Is it correct? In the 'CPU usage' is showed the number of the "physical" processors only?
My license:
I'm learning to use VUM, started with 2 ESXi 5.5 hosts but am now also installing an ESXi 5.1 host to have the ability to try out ESXi upgrades, and patching.
Can I use an ESXi 5.5 Host Profile to configure the ESXi 5.1 host, or is this only possible the other way around, or are they not compatible at all and do I have to configure the new host from scratch?
TIA,
JH