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ESXi 5.5 PCI Passthru using Atheros PCIe Wifi Cards - AR92xx AR5Bxx etc. requires pciPassthru0.msiEnabled=false

March 6, 2014, 9:45 pm
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Just an FYI for anyone trying to use one of the Atheros wireless PCIe cards as a PCI pass through device under ESXi, you must set pciPassthru0.msiEnabled=false in the configuration file, or it won't work.  Unfortunately, it doesn't fail completely without this setting, as in the VM won't boot or something, but rather the VM comes up and the cards are able to receive data, but it looks like they can't transmit.  Therefore the cards will scan and show APs just fine, but they can never connect.  This behavior is consistent across both Windows and Linux VMs.

 

I spent the better part of a day trying to figure out what was going on, so hopefully this post will help someone down the road, as there wasn't anything in any of the search engines that described this issue.

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remote file and command access command line

April 3, 2014, 2:20 pm
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This is a basic question. Can anyone tell me how or if it's possible to get access to multiple file systems from one interface or run commands? For example, I need to replace the ntp.conf file on several servers and then run a restart command for the NTP service--I need to change it to use version 3, which can't be done from the GUI. I can use WinSCP to replace the file and then use putty to run the command. But, then I have to log on to each of these ESXi 5.1U1 machines separately. I'd like to do something like what I can do with PowerCLI commands where I can run a script to do all of this at once from one place rather than opening separate windows for every operation and doing everything manually.

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ESXi 5.5, upgrade to hardware version 10 or not?

April 3, 2014, 3:24 pm
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We had 8 ESXi 5.1 hosts, 3 for server virtualization and 5 for View. Today we upgrade all of them to ESXi 5.5

The big question is do we upgrade our VMs to hardware version 10. I have read that with hardware version 10, the only way to edit the VM is to use the web client. We have the web client working but I have not used it much and feel more comfortable in the traditional Windows client. I am hoping that VMWare reconsiders and keeps developing the Windows client. Not sure what people do with stand alone hosts without vCenter since the web client is not even available. We do run vCenter

 

Thoughts?

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ESXi 5.5 Update 1 HP servers fail to upgrade

April 3, 2014, 9:04 am
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ESXi 5.5 update 1 fails using cd from the HP ESXi 5.5 U1 1623387.    Failure occurs at 24% after booting off the CD, picking the datastore to UPGRADE, agreeing and acknowledging the upgrade.  The bar goes to 24%, and then I get the following error, which I've found KB article documenting, although not exact directory:

 

[Errno 39]  Directory is not empty:  '/vmfs/volumes/XXXXXlotsOfNumbersXXX/state.2804514.

 

Found several KB's very similar, but the directory is not exactly like mine.  What's troubling is this has happened on 3 out of 4 HP servers I've run the upgade on.   The end result is I've had to choose "Install" rather than upgrade, which is a pain and takes much longer.

 

For each server that it has failed to run, I power off the server, follow steps as outlined in VMware KB: Upgrading a VMware ESXi host fails with the error: Cannot run upgrade script on host

Once I complete those steps, changing the directory as necessary to get to the one indicated in my error, I reboot off the CD, but when it comes to the part where the install program shows which partition will be upgraded, NOW it doesn't see the ESXi installed there.  Pressing F1 for details on it shows the partition, the right size, same identifiers, but now where it says ESXI :  NO.   So I choose to continue and the next screen where you choose to Upgrade - preserve VMFS, or Install - preserve VMFS, or Install - overwrite VMFS,  it only shows the two INSTALL options, there's NO option to upgrade.

 

So what is the purpose of getting past this error about Errno 39 if the only option after the first boot from this CD is re-install ?  I would much rather upgrade and keep all my networking and iscsi info intact.

 

And if you should happen to complete the upgrade, and your ESXi host connects to an HP 2000 storage array, you will have to disable "HardwareAcceleration"  before you will ever connect to your storage / datastores again.  On ALL hosts in the cluster.

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Setting Custom Attributes or Tags using ESXCLI or MOB

April 3, 2014, 6:07 pm
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Anyone know how I can set a custom attribute or tag using the ESXCLI or MOB.  I am looking to add this to my kickstart script which joins the host to vcenter.  After it joins I want it to update a tag or custom attribute to annotate the chassis name and slot number.

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ESXi 5.5 - VMs can't talk with each other

April 3, 2014, 5:12 pm
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I have a single ESXi 5.5 host in one of our overseas offices. The VMs on it cannot ping or otherwise reach out to each other (RDP, etc.). However, other hosts can communicate with the VMs, and the VMs have full communications back out - can ping their DGs, any other addresses, etc.

 

The host is a Dell 510 with two NICs configured on the vSwitch, which is set up to the HP 2510G-48 as a trunk. The VLAN is tagged, and set up on the only vSwitch with routing based on IP Hash.

 

I've tried disabling one of the NICs on the switch to see if that made a difference, and also turning off the firewalls on the VMs (All of the VMs are running Win2008R2 - a DC, and Exchange server and a PRTG monitoring machine), also with no luck.

 

There's only a single VM port group and a single management port group.

 

The VMs can ping the ESXi host.

 

Is there any other information I can provide to help diagnose this issue?

 

Thanks,

 

Kurt

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Impact if we restart Management Agent

April 1, 2014, 5:20 am
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Dear team,

 

Before restarting below service what things needs to be taken care of

 

if restart hostd  service what will be the impact

if I restart vpxa service what will be the impact

if I restart all management agent service then what will the impact

 

regards

Mr Vmware

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ESXi 5.5 host automatically goes into maintenance mode when rebooted and I am unable to manually enter host configuration

April 3, 2014, 6:35 pm
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Hello,

 

I am having an issue with my ESXi 5.5 host. I am running the following:

 

Host: DELL Power Edge R620

RAM: 48 GB

CPU: Dual Intel Xeon E5-2660 2.20GHz

Initial ESXi Version: ESXi v5.1 U1 (upgraded to 5.5 to get around RAM constrictions on the free licensing)

 

This issue is, ever since the upgrade to ESXi 5.5 every time I reboot the host it will reboot with maintenance mode enabled. This is a big problem for me as the VMs on the host are removed (as it is a stand alone host so it doesn't migrate the VMs to another host). Has anyone experienced this before?

 

The second issue is since the upgrade to ESXi 5.5 i am unable to enter the hosts settings manually (pressing F2 on the host to enter the IP address and VLANs and so on). Nothing happens, I have tried multiple key boards, different USB ports, made sure the USB ports are enabled (they do work as I can enter the BIOS).

 

I am not sure if I am over looking something very simple, but any help would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you require any more information.

 

Kind Regards,

 

-Jake

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VM performance report

April 3, 2014, 9:52 pm
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VM performance report

 

how to generate the VM performance reports

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ESXi 5.5 PCI Passthrough Wrong BAR Mapping when Smaller than 4KB

February 27, 2014, 2:18 pm
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I tried to use a PCI card using PLX9056 chip in a VM, assigning it to that VM (passthrough).

 

PCI card is detected in the VM, however the driver does not install. It seems that ESXi maps PCI memory areas that are smaller than 4KB to wrong address in the VM.

 

The BAR registers of the PCI card (read from within a VM) indicate that configuration memory block of PLX9056 (512 byte size) is mapped to address 0xFF4FEC00. However there is no data at that address present (0xFF only) inside of the VM. Examining other addresses, I could see that the data that according to BAR register is at address 0xFF4FEC00 can be found at the address 0xFF4FE000 inside of the VM.

 

Sounds like ESXi is mapping all PCI memory resources to page boundaries (4KB) which is no problem for those that are 4KB or larger. However for those that are smaller, this results in incorrect mapping except in the case where BIOS has mapped the small memory area to a 4KB boundary.

 

This might be the reason, some PCI(e) cards cannot be used in ESXi in passthrough mode. Depending on the driver, a blue screen or an error might be seen inside the VM.

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Clone vm does get the new MAC but new mac is not updated in 70-persistent-net.rules

April 4, 2014, 3:15 am
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Clone vm does get the new MAC but new mac is not updated in 70-persistent-net.rules, this is casing issue for some of the services.

Kindly do let me know from where we can get the new mac address which is created the vmware while creating the clone.

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ESXi 5.5 Dell M620 M8428-K

April 4, 2014, 1:42 am
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Hi All,

 

I have an issue with ESXi 5.5 - when I join all my NICs to the one switch I lose connection.

 

Here is my setup:

 

Dell M620 blades in a M1000e chassis. We have 10GB Qlogic CNA adapters - dual channel QMD8262-K that are partitioned into 4 adapters on each channel, connecting to 2 x Dell M8428-K (rebadged brocade 8000) chassis switches.

 

When using ESXi 5.1 everything works perfectly.

 

I have had a case open with VMware since November and so far they have been able to identify that the ARP requests are going out vmnic0 but the ARP reply packets are coming back through vmnic2 and are dropped by Team_ReverseFilterPerList(). This is why vmk0 stops sending traffic.

 

Just wondering if anyone has a similar setup and has it working with ESXi 5.5? we have 7 of these enclosures and none work with ESXi 5.5.

 

Thanks,

Geoff.

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Cannot connect to vCenter Server 5.0 using the vSphere Client - unknown error.

April 4, 2014, 2:58 am
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I am trying to connect to vCenter using vSphere clients (from different computers including the server itself) and keep getting this:

vSphere Client could not connect to "vCenter_Server_IP_Address".
An unknown connection error occurred. (The request failed because of a connection failure. (Unable to connect to the remote server))

 

I am able to connect to hosts directly, but of course, can't do anything in there since the vCenter is 'in da house'.

There was no problems with it, no big changes and nothing done directly on the vCenter server (which is W2008r2x64) so, my confusion deepens. ESXi 5.1

Any ideas what could have happened and how to fix this?

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Reproducable PSOD on 5.1U1 and 5.5 with Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 and E1000E NIC

October 8, 2013, 5:01 pm
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Hello everybody,

 

I figured the last two weeks a strange, reproducable issue with following constellation:

 

Hardware (tested with both Servers)

HP ProLiant ML110G7, SmartArray P410, 1GB FBWC, RAID5, 32GB HP ECC RAM

HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8, SmartArray P222, 512MB FBWC, RAID1, 16GB HP ECC SmartMemory RAM

 

Hypervisor (tested vice-versa on both Servers)

ESXi 5.1U1 HP Custom Image VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-Update1-1065491-HP-5.50.26.iso

ESXi 5.5 HP Custom Image VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-1331820-HP-5.70.38-Sep2013.iso

 

When I install a Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 R2 (NOT Windows 8.0 or Server 2012 w/o R2) with the suggested NIC E1000E, and I have a little bit "heavy" Network-Traffic from/to Windows 2012 or Windows 2012R2 Servers, an PSOD occurs with "pf exception 14 in world 107417".

Unfortunally, I didn't made a dump or Print-Screen of the issue, but I can write you what I've done (or make a little bit of load and then wait until it crashes again...)

 

Example 1

Network-Installation of "Windows 8.1 Pro" or "Windows Server 2012 R2" from an Windows Deployment Service wich resides on Server 2012.

WDS Server is VM on same ESXi Host like the new VM. WDS boots, made Domain-Login for selecting the Images, started Copying --> PSOD.

Reproducable only with 8.1 or 2012 R2 with E1000E NIC

 

Example 2

Network-Installation of "Windows 8.1 Pro" or "Windows Server 2012 R2" from an Windows Deployment Service, resides on Server 2012.

WDS Server is VM on different ESXi Host like the new VM. WDS boots, made Domain-Login for the Images, Started Copying --> ALL OK.

Then installed on Host 2 (2 x Server 2012 R2 and 1 x Windows 8.1 Pro) everything for a Domain (AD, DNS, WDS, WSUS) and when I first want to download the Windows-Update from the new Windows 8.1 Machine --> PSOD again.

 

Example 3

Network-Installation of "Windows 8.1 Pro" or "Windows Server 2012 R2" from an Windows Deployment Service, resides on Server 2012 (VM).

WDS Server is VM on ESXi Host, WDS Installation on Physical PC, not VM.

WDS boots, made Domain-Login for the Images, Started Copying --> ALL OK, no PSD at all.

 

After discussing this issue with a collegue he said that he has similar Problems with bigger DL380 and Server 2012 R2 (wich were unavaiable a couple of pings) and he told me that he loaded VMXNET3 Driver.

I've done this too and until now, no new PSOD was here.

 

But the silly thing is that VMXNET3 is unable to install via WDS, so therefore I have to install my Test-Machines the "old" way with mounting ISOs.

 

My question to you - had anybody else this issue or am I maybe the only one?

 

TIA - Josip.

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ESXi 5.5, Passthrough Video Card, Haswell Build

October 28, 2013, 7:38 am
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I am currently having difficulties with ESXi 5.5, in passing a video card on to a Windows 7 install.

 

Components of Note:

Motherboard - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157409

Processor - Xeon e3-1245v3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116909

RAM - 4x8GB for 32Gb total

Intel 520 180GB SSD for Datastore

ATI Radeon 6450 Graphics Card

 

 

I have installed Windows 7 64 bit, passed on a USB controller, where I have a working mouse/keyboard setup. Installed all windows updates, then rebooted and enabled the Radeon 6450 passthrough. It seems to pass through okay, I install drivers, but the system does not recognize any monitor plugged in to the graphics card. It appears to continue to only use the virtualized display adapter.

 

Also, I can not get the system to boot with any more than 2 gigs of RAM when the video card is passed through.

 

I have also tried passing through the integrated video chip on the Haswell processor/board, but I get the same results.

 

If I install VMware tools with the video card passed through, I get a BSOD.

 

Any ideas? Below is a pic of my passthrough options from this hardware combo.

 

http://i.imgur.com/NQ1zVc5.png

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FCOE

April 4, 2014, 10:33 am
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Feel like FCoE is a bit of a black hole when it comes to specifics.  I am having trouble finding definitive answers on configuring MTU and IP addresses for FCoE port groups.  Looking for help.  I am creating a single vswitch for FCoE.  I am putting one FCoE enabled nic in a dedicated port group and my second FCoE enabled nic in a second port group on the same vswitch.  Within each port group there is only one active nic with its unique vlan.  When I enter the requested IP address does it matter what IP I use during the port group configuration wizard?  I was originally told the IP I chose did not matter, that it was just a place holder for the wizard and was not even used.  Does anyone have a comment on that point?  Additionally I believe FCoE uses mini jumbo frames at 2112 bytes.  Does that mean I should set my port group MTU to 2112 or can I leave it at 1500?  Thoughts?  The reason this is coming up is every few weeks/months randomly one of my ESXi FCoE hosts will go to a disconnected state, while the vms will stay up and the management IP address is pingable.  Only fix is to reboot the host, at which point everything returns to normal.  Endless calls to VMware, Cisco and Dell have not returned any answers.  Tired of coming in at night and weekends (the only time issue seems to happen) to fix the issue.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Erik

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The guest OS has reported an error during quiescing. The error code was: 5 The error message was: 'VssSyncStart' operation failed: IDispatch error #8449 (0x80042301)

April 4, 2014, 10:43 am
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Hello,

 

I received this error when trying to make a clone of one of our Windows 2008 R2 VM's. After the failure I rebooted the VM, it came up OK, but when you try to log on through the console or through a RDP session the server locks up hard. If I don't log in the server runs Ok. Has anybody seen this type of issue before?

 

Thanks,

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Provisioned storage vs Used storage

April 4, 2014, 7:04 am
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Hello

 

I have one vm with provisioned storage of 500gb with used storage of 300gb

under the hardware setting  and under the OS I have  c:\30 d:\270.

 

How are I change what is Provisioned for this VM?

 

thanks

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No management network / lost network after upgrade to 5.5

October 1, 2013, 6:34 pm
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Recently upgraded my vcenter to version 5.5 which went without any hickups also update VUM to 5.5.

Uploaded the new vSphere 5.5 image in VUM and after scanning, run ran that upgrade on a test server.

Test server was running v. 5.0. It comes back up but has lost all network connectivity. It has lost the management network - options which show up as greyed out in the System Configuration page (see screenshot).

 

greyed-out.PNG

Looking at the host log, I can see errors like: RefreshVmKernelNic: Unable to getVmKernelNIcs: Sysinfo error on operation returned status: not found.

 

Both the host file and the config file show the "old" network info (e..g correct IP addresses and hostname)

 

esxcfg-vswitch -l shows no results

esxcfg-nics -l shows all nics and the link is up.

 

Server is an IBM Blade H22 and the NICs are Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709s (which are on the HAL for 5.5)

 

Also had a look in the vkernel log and that reports:

etherswitch: esvsigetparamportcfg:424: Management network: not found

 

any ideas?

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How to identify the HDD type / Serialnr

April 4, 2014, 4:03 am
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Hi Community,

I would like to know if it is possible to identify which HDD I do access concretely:

 

In an esxi 5.5 scenario, I have 2 or 3 identical HDDs which cannot be distinguished by the Capacity (absolutely identical) and the identifier which is anounced by Configuration -> Storage. There I can see only identifiers like naa.5002455784d568d3, but where can I see the manufacturer, the model and - if available - the serial number of that device?

 

I would like to know which physical hdd concretely is assigned to my storage.  OK, I could shut down the esxi system and remove all hdds except one and find out the ID but can I identify the HDD also directly in the vsphere client?

 

Thanks for any hint!

Greetings

Tom

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