Most of the VSAN ready nodes are using SD card for the ESXi partition.
From a VMware standpoint, would you recommend installing ESXi in an SD card?
Can we instead ask the vendor to include 2 x 300GB disk in Raid 1 config as ESXi partition?
Would VMware still support that since some vendors are saying that VMware will not support the machine since it is considered a non-VSAN ready node if the additional 2 disks are included.
thanks!
Buongiorno
ho un server AMD Opteron 6234, 4 socket, 16 core x soc. a 2.3 Ghz. e gira un esxi 5.1 u3
Cercando info su questa cpu si legge che può arrivare a 2.7 Ghz (modalità turbo).
La domanda è: vmware gestisce questa modalità turbo? il dubbio nasce perchè usando una vm di test e facendogli girare cpu-z con relativo stress test mi indica sempre 2.3 Ghz
grazie
Hi All
i have facing small issur in increasing the c: drive space
Actually the server (VM) contains 1 HDD in that C: and D: drive, now the C drive going to Full,
User wants increase the C: Drive memory,
anybody could you please help me,
I recently removed a physical host from a vCenter Server virtual appliance and am not able to add it back to vCenter Server because I get an error about the datastore already existing. I am running a simple vCenter Server environment with two physical hosts and shared storage. I have only been administering vCenter for a few months, so I am relatively new to the technology and processes. I have searched the Internet for a few days now, but have not found any documentation of anyone experiencing the same problem as I (which I find odd considering how simple my configuration and problem), so I wanted to get some help from the VMware community.
I got an error message one day that vCenter Server couldn't connect to one of the two hosts so I removed the host (instead of disconnecting and connecting as I should have done). Now I am not able to connect the host to vCenter server because the shared storage datastore conflicts with the same datastore used by the existing host in vCenter Server. The error message I get is ""Datastore 'datastore_name' conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter that has the same URL (ds:///vmfs/volumes/UUID/), but is backed by different physical storage." I try to unmount the datastore from the host, but get the following error message: "The resource 'Datastore Name: datastore_name VMFS uuid: UUID' is in use." The error stack says, "Call "HostStorageSystem.UnmountVmfsVolume" for object "storageSystem" on ESXi "IP address" failed. Cannot unmount volume 'Datastore Name: datastore_name VMFS uuid: 'UUID' because file system is busy. Correct the problem and retry the operation." I have tried removing all virtual machines from inventory, putting the hosts in maintenance mode, rebooting the physical hosts, but none of my troubleshooting is helping.
I am not sure what steps to take to get this datastore unassociated with the host so that I can add it back into vCenter Server. Any help you can provide me is appreciated.
Just wanted to let everyone know about the new Integration between the vRA catalog and the Cherwell ITSM solution:
I'm putting together a pen-test/ethical hacking virtual environment and am looking for advice as to the best way to keep that environment as separate as possible from my 'live' LAN given the programs I will be running.
I am planning to use the 192.168.1.x network for my live and 192.168.2.x network for my virtual environment but will need to provide some routing for the 2.x traffic to the router at 1.1 . I am considering setting up an additional virtual server to act as the router between the two networks as described here (http://www.sysprobs.com/guide-vmware-virtual-machine-lan-router-networks) and using the F/W on the virtual server/router to restrict outgoing/incoming traffic to port 80 only - should that do the trick?
Hi All,
we have NIC teaming with Active And stand by Nics. under networking on the right pane where it shows Vnic 0 and Vnic 1, for Vnic0 , it shows Stand by
After fail over , it still shows as stand which creates confusion in the Environment . How to Rename it or remove it
Thanks
I have an existing NFS network that I would like to isolate from a new NFS network and storage system. Can I do this by creating a new NFS vmkernel port on the same host and using NIOC to keep the new network's NFS traffic from taking bandwidth from the existing NFS network?
Hello guys,
is there a way to get an object of my Powershell Host? I want to open Sessions and send commands directly in my script without a workflow.
Something like this:
//modify properties psHost.name = "myPSHost01"; psHost.transportProtocol = "HTTPS"; //invoke methods psHost.openSession(); psHost.invokeScript(script); psHost.closeSession(id);
With some research here i found this but i cannot use the output of this statement.
var psHosts = Server.findAllForType("PowerShell:PowerShellHost",null);
//com.vmware.o11n.plugin.powershell.scripting.PowerShellHost
for(psHost in psHosts) { System.log(psHosts[psHost]);
}
Log:
[2016-11-14 14:17:49.306] [I] DynamicWrapper (Instance) : [PowerShellHost]-[class com.vmware.o11n.plugin.powershell.scripting.PowerShellHost] -- VALUE : com.vmware.o11n.plugin.powershell.scripting.PowerShellHost@3a5c781f
Does anyone of you know how the answer?
Thanks
Running VMware Workstation Pro v12.5
I created a disk for a NEW VM from scratch and brought the VM into operation Running Debian Linux as the guest. At one point the size got up to 21 Gb due to the copying of some zipped files into the guest from the host. After deleting the zip I expected the actual size in my host (Windows 7) to decrease to more closely match the size of the drive in the VM, but it has never come back down.
Here is the output from df -h to show what the size of the drive is in Linux, confirming size of 13 Gb out of 50 Gb drive.
Boxer-SIM:~# cd /
Boxer-SIM:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 48G 13G 35G 27% /
tmpfs 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
But as you can see in my Windows host, more space it being taken up by the Boxer-SIM.vmdk disk. (output is while VM is running, same result as when powered off)
Directory of C:\Users\ddamerji\Documents\_Virtual Machines\Boxer-SIM
11/14/2016 09:45 AM <DIR> .
11/14/2016 09:45 AM <DIR> ..
11/14/2016 09:45 AM 8,388,608,000 564d8740-cb5a-d200-48cc-2b46cb5b3dc6.vmem
11/14/2016 09:45 AM <DIR> 564d8740-cb5a-d200-48cc-2b46cb5b3dc6.vmem.lck
11/14/2016 02:52 AM 8,684 Boxer-SIM.nvram
11/14/2016 09:45 AM 22,131,048,448 Boxer-SIM.vmdk <== shouldnt be this large, I am only using 13Gb for my files
11/14/2016 09:45 AM <DIR> Boxer-SIM.vmdk.lck
11/13/2016 01:15 PM 0 Boxer-SIM.vmsd
11/14/2016 09:45 AM 2,920 Boxer-SIM.vmx
11/14/2016 09:45 AM <DIR> Boxer-SIM.vmx.lck
11/13/2016 01:15 PM 264 Boxer-SIM.vmxf
11/14/2016 09:45 AM 395 vmware.log
7 File(s) 30,519,668,711 bytes
5 Dir(s) 59,235,213,312 bytes free
I know the system has the capacity to provide more space up to the 50Gb limit as I need more space, but on the flip side, can't it also decrement the amount of space used as I delete files? (Linux doesnt have any recycle bin that I am aware of where deleted files are kept, does it?)
Thanks
dd
Hi All,
we have NIC teaming with Active And stand by Nics. under networking on the right pane where it shows Vnic 0 and Vnic 1, for Vnic0 , it shows Stand by
After fail over , it still shows as stand by which creates confusion in the Environment . How to Rename it or remove it
Thanks
I have recently taken over a vCenter instance, where a lot of items are either half-implemented or implemented but not documented. One of items is a vRealize Operations appliance. When I first came upon it in vCenter, it was showing a corrupted disk. I was able to rebuild this, and get the machine to boot, but the Web UI comes up to the login screen and then sits at the message Data Retriever is not initialized yet. Please wait.. and never moves. Doing some research, I came across a couple of KB's:
Unable to connect to vRealize Operations appliance (2000208) | VMware KB
Unfortunately, neither of these resolve the issue. Just curious if anyone has ever run into this issue, or has any suggestions. As I mentioned, documentation is scarce, so I would very much like to avoid having to redeploy completely (even though they have not been collecting any data up to this point anyway).
I can't believe there is any kind of network issue because all of my VM's are working and on the network.
I am running version 6.1.1 and have tried three different ESXi servers. Two are 5.5 and one is 6.0 servers and they all fail. I have also tried this on another PC that fails.
I have also tried different VM's to import. I took one of the VM's and converted it on my PC from one drive to another drive and that works telling me the VM isn't the issue.
I found one article on the web from VMware Converter: "The operation experienced a network error" - discussing the network error issue but said it was something else that he got around.
The other strange thing it does, the progress bar gets to 50% and then speeds up to 98% and then goes back to 6% where it fails.
I have attached the log files from one of the tests.
Thanks
I recently wrote a post about the 'danger' of forgetting to set Edge Reservation Policies ..
In a nutshell - I have a Routed Network Policy which I am unable to delete as for some reason, vRA thinks the range is ALLOCATED.
As a result I also cannot remove the attached External Network Profile.
There doesn't seem to be a way using Cloud Client. Has anyone done this via the Postgres DB ?
When vRA deploys virtual machines, the status is in progress with the following error message:
sendEBSMessage9(workflow=eca9e4c2-9d83-40fe-b655-fb2c43b9a7cf) Error in state VMPSMasterWorkflow32.WaitingToBuild phase PRE event (queue = 5b644434-b26a-4e02-bebe-37952dcecdd5):
Timed out while waiting for Event Broker response
Is there any workaround for this problem?
If I set "True" the Disable extensibility in Global Settings as follows, I can avoid this problem. However I can't select this workaround because I need to use this Extensibility.
Hey all,
I am looking for a script to to help me clean up datastores from left over files. After vmotion sometimes the datastore leaves behind folders with only files with the exts, .hlog .nvram -aux.xml and .vmxf files. I would like to see if it is possible to make a script to help round up and delete these.
Thanks in advance,
Andy
I feel like I've researched this before and never found a solution. I know about the `esxcli vsan cluster leave` command, but that only works if you have access to the host. What if you have a entirely dead machine that you need to force out of a cluster? Is there a process for that?
I have 4 LUNs presented to my host and 1 VM that is mapping them as RDMs. Now I can't store the RDM with the virtual machine the option is greyed out and only wants to select local disk on the ESXi host. The only difference is the other LUNs are 2TB capacity not 2.24TB.
Does anyone have any suggestions in what I might be able to do to map the other LUNs?
Thanks!
After a crash I'm getting the following on one server.
An unexpected error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM vm-10961.
Reason: Failed to lock the file.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/UniqueIdenitfier/ServerName/ServerName_1-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
VMDK files as follows
ServerName.vmdk
ServerName_1.vmdk
ServerName_4.vmdk
ServerName_5.vmdk
ServerName_1-000001.vmdk
ServerName_4-000001.vmdk
ServerName_5-000001.vmdk
The above files are around 50gb each.
Im currently downloading to for a backup and will check the CID. Any other help would be appreciated.
Due to budget constraints we are forced to do a step upgrade of our SAN infrastructure that supports our vSphere 6 environment. We have just purchased a new host that has 4 x 10GB Ethernet cards as well as purchased additional 10GB cards to upgrade another existing host to 4 x 10GB Ethernet. We have also purchased 2 Netgear 10GB X5716T switches to replace our old 1GB switches. We are planning to upgrade our existing HP P2000 MSA with 4 x 1GB to a P2040 version with 2 x 10GB, however that is not going to happen this budget cycle. My question relates to the fact that we will be operating in a mix 1GB and 10GB environment for the time being. After spending a few hours researching this I have not come across an article that describes our scenario and I have some concerns.
Here is what our current environment (after the upgrades) looks like:
6 x HP Hosts (Two hosts with 4 x 10GB NICs & the other four hosts have only 1GB NICs)
2 X Netgear 10GB X5716T switch
1 X HP MSA P2000 Gen3 with dual controllers each containing 4 x 1GB NICs
We have configured two NICs per host in separate vSwitchs that handle the iSCSI traffic. One NIC connecting the host to first switch and the other to the 2nd switch. Our plan is to utilize 2 of the new 10GB NICs in each of the upgraded hosts for iSCSI traffic. Thus we would implement a mixed environment of both 1GB and 10GB connections. I assume all the overhead will be on the switch in dealing with traffic coming from 10GB hosts to 10GB switch then getting choked down to 1GB going to the MSA.
Would this scenario cause any unforeseen issues? Will it work at all?
Thanks in advance for any insight anyone can provide.