Hi anyone tried setting up RHEL cluster in VMWARE using openfiler?
I am wondering if this would solve the RHEL fencing limitation where by 2 RHEL Guest OS is presented a LUN via ISCSI using another VM with Openfiler configured as ISCSI san.
Thanks for any info
Hi,
I am trying to install Windows Server 2012 R2 onto my vmware 5.5.0 server however I am just getting 'Windows failed to start' Insert CD and repair your computer.
File: \windows\system32\drivers\pdc.sys
status: 0xc0000098
Info the operating system couldn't be loaded because a critical system driver is missing or contains errors.
VMware is installed on a HP DL380 G5
Hi,
I've setup a Ubuntu virtual machine on a vSphere server with
However, when I try to start up the VM I get a "Could not start VMX: msg.vmk.status.VMK_NO_MEMORY" error.
This is the error stack: Heap globalCartel-1 already at its maximum size of 7869288. Cannot expand. Could not start VMX: msg.vmk.status.VMK_NO_MEMORY.
However the server has 32GB of RAM with only 12GB actually in use.
On another ESXI server I've done exactly the same (with the server being identical to the one with the error) and it's working fine.
I'd appreciate any help!
hi all
for testing purpose only I am looking for L2 switch (OVA),
is it available !?
thanks,
Hi guys
I just got two Mellanox cards from eBay to use those as 10GbE adapters.
However there are two things I don't get.
1. One card shows up as expected with two ports / vmnics. OK the namig of one vmnic is a bit off but at least it's working. Also the card shows some regular MAC addresses.
2. The other card pops up with just a single vmnic and a weird MAC (this is probably normal in the IB world?)
esx2 - MT26418
MHGH29-XTC
esx3 - MT25418
MHGH28-XTC
~ # esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------------ ------------- ------- ---- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:001:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:24:e8:74:fb:07 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic1 0000:001:00.1 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:24:e8:74:fb:09 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic1000402 0000:006:00.0 mlx4_en Up 10000 Full 00:02:c9:25:85:8a 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX VPI - 10GigE / IB DDR, PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s]
vmnic2 0000:002:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:24:e8:74:fb:0b 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic3 0000:002:00.1 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:24:e8:74:fb:0d 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic4 0000:006:00.0 mlx4_en Down 0 Half 00:02:c9:25:85:89 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX VPI - 10GigE / IB DDR, PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s]
~ # esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------ ------------- ------- ---- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:001:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 84:2b:2b:07:b7:d4 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic1 0000:001:00.1 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 84:2b:2b:07:b7:d6 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic2 0000:002:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 84:2b:2b:07:b7:d8 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic3 0000:002:00.1 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 84:2b:2b:07:b7:da 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic4 0000:006:00.0 mlx4_en Up 10000 Full 00:00:00:00:00:01 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT26418 [ConnectX VPI - 10GigE / IB DDR, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s]
~ # esxcli software vib list | grep Mellanox
mft 3.8.0.56-0 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-addr 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-cm 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-core 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-mad 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-sa 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-umad 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-mlx4-core 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-mlx4-en 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-mlx4-ib 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-rdma-cm 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
scsi-ib-iser 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
However I would like to find out why one card only shows up with a single port, any ideas? I have seen some similar screenshots floating around but no fix.
Some tips would be really appreciated!
Patrick
when do I need to run the scsi unmap commands on my esxi host? IS this needed to clean up datastores or reclaim space?
Hi All,
I have a RHEL 6.5 server running as guest in ESX 5.5
The server went out of space on .vmdk file
Guest RHEL Server details
Disk 1 : 2 TB
Disk 2 : 2 TB
Disk 3 : 2 TB
Using the above disks the Filesystem(FS) is created of size 5TB
The Filesystem had 3.9TB of free space and it complaint that it went out of space
All the disks assigned to this servers are Thick Provisioned
I checked the Snapshot manager and there we no snapshots also I browsed the datastore and found there are no snapshots file.
I cannot do a Storage vMotion as I do not have additional datastore.
Can you please help me in understanding what could be the issue.
Hi all,
i been to several blogs on how to enable the EVC on the ESX Host, but the web client interface is very frustrating.
Under the ESX Host, Manage -> Settings I'm suppose to see the Configuration option but it's not there. I only can see the Configuration settings under Summary.
Can someone please let me know how to get to it ?
Hello Everyone,
I decided to post an observation i made during a non standard ESXI setup (couldn't find anything about it so i am making a post).
This is not a fault or a question more of a discussion.
The circumstance below are due to the limitation of having only one server in a remote site.
What i noticed and i am pretty sure this is not supported or recommended, is that when you have a virtual machine on an esxi host that presents (as a datastore) a NFS full of ISO to VMWare (the esxi host) the machine hosting the NFS cannot use the ISO.
What i mean by the above is if you try and mount an ISO from the NFS datastore on the virtual machine hosting them it will lock up. Now if you try and mount it on any other Virtual machine it's fine no problem.
The bellow diagram show our setup.
I assume it has something to do with the reconfiguration of the virtual machine when you mount the ISO, maybe a microsecond downtime for it to mount and due to this downtime the ISO presented becomes unavailable and in turn locks up the mount, it's worth noting when i say it locks up the entire virtual machine locks up. Eventually vmware does pop up a message and ask if i should cancel the mount as it noticed that it's causing problems. Maybe someone with better understating than me can explain why this behavior occurs.
Now i know there are other ways of doing this like putting the images directly on the datastore but our situation requires that ISO s are synced on regular bases so we use DFS to sync from main site and NFS(usually located on different server) to present to ESXI servers.
Regards,
Luben
Hello Community,
I'd like to relocate in case of a coredump the files to a windows server.
I've configured the coredump as described in VMware KB: Configuring an ESXi 5.x host to capture a VMkernel coredump from a purple diagnostic screen via the Netwo…
But when I look at the firewall rules there is no netDump service
esxcli network firewall ruleset list --ruleset-id=netDump
Ruleset Not Found: netDump
What do I have to do?
Kind regards
Dennis
Hi all,
I have just finish setting up the vCenter successfully but i'm unable to access it via the client with the error message below.
Error: You do not have permission to login the server: VC Hostname
The accounts I have try are the domain admin, service account for the vCenter and my account. All these account have administrator access to the vCenter server itself.
I also add these accounts using Web Client to Administration -> SSO -> User and Groups -> Groups -> Administrator.
So far I'm only able to access the web client using vsphere administrator. Anywhere else I may miss out ?
hi all
My old quad NIC card is visible to the kernel as
Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 10/100Base-TX (PCI) [A5506B]
This is not directly supported by the kernel but I managed to add the drivers as shown below
How can I manually load the drivers to see what is going on. ESXi is not seeing the card yet, the kernel interface is not there yet
thanks
PF
I manage to upload the drivers and now I can see them like this
# esxcli software vib list
Name Version Vendor Acceptance Level Install Date
----------------------------- ------------------------------------ ------ ------------------ ------------
net-tulip 1.1.15-1 DEC CommunitySupported 2015-01-21
ata-pata-amd 0.3.10-3vmw.550.0.0.1331820 VMware VMwareCertified 2015-01-19
ata-pata-atiixp 0.4.6-4vmw.550.0.0.1331820 VMware VMwareCertified 2015-01-19
ata-pata-cmd64x 0.2.5-3vmw.550.0.0.1331820 VMware VMwareCertified 2015-01-19
ata-pata-hpt3x2n 0.3.4-3vmw.550.0.0.1331820 VMware VMwareCertified 2015-01-19
ata-pata-pdc2027x 1.0-3vmw.550.0.0.1331820 VMware VMwareCertified 2015-01-19
Apparently the driver was not loaded when the server was rebooted
Is there anything that I can do to manually load the driver to see if it sees the NIC ?
PS: don't worry about stability, this is a lab
vSphere5.5 home lab. What is best practice to setup my Luns? I have have 4x146GB serial ssci 10k.
Do I setup ESXi on 1x146GB and create a large LUN with 3x146GB?
studying for VCP5-DCV
My server
HP Proliant G6
2x Intel Xeon CPU E5540 2.53GHz
24GB RAM
Yes - that's what I said - this has gone far enough and its time the user community took a stand to let VMware know how horrible the web client is, it is tantamount to my worst user interface experience in 20 years of IT.
Attention VMware - this is really simple - all the money you wasted developing this could have been spent in other areas. you are forcing GARBAGE on your customer base, and for that you will eventually crash and burn, its only a matter of time. Hasn't the thousands upon thousands of posts about this sunk in yet?? Hello?
Purpose of this post is simple and obvious... please refrain from your A** kissing pitch about cloud this and that... don't need to hear it. and I could care less about managing a complex infrastructure from an android or ipad, its ridiculous to expect someone to squeeze the mountains of information that needs to be at your finger tips quickly to efficiently manage a VMware infrastructure on a tiny screen...
If I wasn't totally pissed off with having to use this client I wouldn't have posted this VENTING..
When we was on ESXi 5.1 last year, everything was fine, it's pretty stable.
Then we upgraded to ESXi 5.5 at the end of the year, now we got looooooot of problem. All are different scope.
It points to driver, VMware tools or something else. It's related to ESXi host, or guest OS. I'm still working with VMware on these problems. (Check my blog you will see two problem of new version)
I'm considering roll back to ESXi 5.1.
This is just a personally comment: Stay in ESXi 5.1 if you are using HP blade system or Cisco UCS.
Someone told me same but I didn't take it seriously. Now I pay for it.
Hello,
My company purchases a license for vmware esxi5 essential plus. As I know there are 3 edition only , standard, enterprise and enterprise plus. I could not find essential plus edition. can anyone guide me how to use that license. I have to download vmware esxi essential plus to use that licenses? If I need to download Essential Plus then, pls provide me the link so that I could download it.
Thanks in advance.
I have purchased VMWARE ESXI 5.0 and VSphere Server 5.0. ESXI is hosted on the server with 32 GB RAM. Using VSphere Client, how many VMs can I host and Run simultaneously on ESXI. I want to create VMs with 32 GB RAM. Does this affect performance ? Physical RAM of the server on which ESXi is hosted is 32 GB.
Hi,
I have a question about how to move a vm from an ESX 4 host to an ESXi 5 host. These hosts have access to the same shared storage but the ESX 4 host is outside the network and the ESXi 5 host is inside the network so vMotion isn't an option. They are in different clusters. I know there must be an easy way to move this vm but for the life of me I can't seem to find it. I would assume that i delete the vm from the external cluster but how do I get the vm into the internal cluster?
Thanks in advance..
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I realize VMware converter v5 and forward will handle the alignment of VMDKs. However, converter is dog slow.
My question is - will a storage vmotion operation whereby the disk format is changed provide this alignment? or perhaps svmotion in general?
thanks in advance.
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