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• ESXi hosts are disconnected from the vCenter (5.5)

  Hi all

  We have a little problem with our vCenter.

  We have two hosts that are connected to the vCenter, unfortunately, they are listed as disconnected.

  It seems that the problem are the SSL certificates on ESXi hosts that are no longer valid.

  If I replace the old certificates with new ones, that I have to restart the ESXi host, am I right?

  If so, that's the problem.

  We do not use any what automatic vMotion and as long as the hosts are not connected to the vCenter I can't manually, move right?

  Is it possible to connect hosts to vCenter without SSL?

  Sorry for my bad English, I'm not a native speaker.

  See you soon,.

  Johannes

  You need to replace the ESXi host SSL certificates.

  See the Docs for the replacement of ESXi Cert below.

  ttp://www.BlueBox-Web.com/2013/04/18/replace-ESXi-certificate/

  Documentation Centre of vSphere 5.5

  I had regenerate the ESXi 5.5 SSL certificates, which I did without any stop to virtual machines.

  Certificate replacement process can change based on the esxi version.

  According to the Doc, vSphere 6.0 Documentation Centre ESXi6 host must be rebooted to replace certificates.

  Anyway, in current state disconnected, you can try to regenerate the self signed SSL certs, restart management agents and try to reconnect host in vCenter.

  Thank you

  Hentzien

• ESXi hosts are divided into DRS cluster

  Hi all

  I'm going as well as I can explain it... In the case that I'm not being very clear, please not hesitate to ask me more questions.  Here is the scenerio:

  (1) I have a Blade IBM H chassis has 7 in there (host ESXi) servers

  (2) I have implemented a DRS cluster with these 7 Hosts

  (3) I have active VMotion and HA

  (4) the question is that 2,3 and 6 blades can only ping between them on the VMotion network and therefore can migrate to eachother

  (5) blades 1,4,5 and 7 only can ping each other and can therefore only VMotion for eachother.

  (6) this problem started to happen over the weekend, one day, and when we came back to work on Monday, we realized that the 3 hosts were not communicating on the network correctly.

  (7) one thing I noticed is when I unplugged all the DRS cluster hosts and then I connected to them again I realized that all guests were able to successfully connect to the Cluster but the hosts 2, 3 and 6 failed on the AP.  When I then reactivated the AP, he worked on these 3 guests.

  (8) due to this problem, I had remove the feature of DRS cluster because the system could not migrate the machines for guests.

  (9) one last thing I noticed was that when I VMotion, the machine I have VMotion loses network connectivity.  I must go to the publishing settings and disable the NETWORK adapter and re-enable the NETWORK card

  I hope someone can help with this problem

  Thank you all,.

  Antonio.

  Basically, the spanning tree Protocol is used to avoid loops in a bridged network. Please take a look at for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning_tree_protocol for details on how it works.

  However, the individual switch ports that serve as uplinks for ESXi must be configured for Spanning-tree portfast.

  André

• Should the RAM for an ESXi host replaced the same ones remaining?

  Hello

  We are running a cluster of servers ESXi 5.1 - 2 of them are Xeon E7440 2.4 GHz (64 GB of RAM) and 1 of them is Xeon X 5460 3.16 GHz (32 GB of RAM).

  Currently, the use of the memory of all three ESXi hosts are about 60%.

  We will replace the Xeon X 5460 server with a new physical server.  We would like to ask for your opinion how much RAM you must order (my manager of door on the cost of the new server).

  Thank you

  Hi again Tony,

  1. No, it is not high at all. You should begin to worry about this, after reaching approximately 85-90%.
  2. My short experience with clusters of memory-unbalanced, adding that more memory would be a lot like the DRS manages memory locations & 'kindness host' in the right direction, but I'm not really sure how that would turn out in the long term. If you decide to present more memory to your server, it would be possible to upgrade the other two guests sooner than later
  3. Yes, ask the seller would be the right thing to do. Please note that you will need to put in place an enhanced vMotion to conform to your next "older" CPU then, because you'll have something other than X 5460. I guess you'll have to "intensify" a generation or two, depending on what you have found.

• VM starts not directly from the CDROM drive ESXi host

  Hello. I was looking for a long time another discussion for people who have had the same problem, I found it but the answers that the candidates are not useful for me. I explain my problem giving you as much information as I can.

  I have created a virtual machine in order to intall inside Windows Server 2K 3. The problem is that I can't make the start of the VM from the CD I put in the ESXi host CDROM drive. I installed ESXi 3.5 U4. For the virtual CD/DVD Drive 1 (only in the virtual machine), I chose "Host device" as the device Type.  The only option, it's for me inside this option is ' / vmfs/devices/genide / vmhba0:0:0.» The message I get in the console view is "Not found operating system"

  Storage adapters I in the ESXi host are: LSI1068E - & gt; vmhba2 where I see my RAID1 disk1. The other device is ICH10 4 port SATA IDE Controller - & gt; vmhba0 where I see the physical CDROM Drive.  I also have another device that is "USB Storage Controller" - & gt; vmhba32 where I also see the CDROM (but when I create the virtual machine does not allow me to choose this controller, vmhba32:0:0). This controller is a "SCSI" where alumni are "Block SCSI".

  I have also checked the box "connect to power on" in the settings of VM window. The CD booteable because unless I restart the ESXi host and I do boot from the CDROM it loads the Windows Setup program. Thus, the CD is OK and the CD-ROM drive is also OK.

  I don't know what to do and what to test. If I choose to boot the client machine, the virtual machine option starts ok. The problem is that I need to transfer all the contents of the CD by the network and right now I am using an ADSL connection.

  The server I have is IBM System x 3650 M2, which is compatible with ESXi 3.5 U4.

  I know I have another option is to boot from and ISO image. Here, I have a few questions. First of all, how to download the ISO to the ESXi host image? Do I have to use the RCLI? Secondly, I want to make sure that only a problem of booting from the CDROM or the problem is maybe the ESXi of CDROM drive is not recognized by ESXi, so I'll never be able to use it.

  Advanced averybody thanks.

  The discussion has been moved to the VI: forum ESXi 3.5.  It seems to be the case, but could check you that ESXi is load the IDE driver for the ICH10 controller?  This mode is the controller of the value in the BIOS?

  Dave Mishchenko

  VMware communities user moderator

• Several ESXi hosts and need to share virtual machines

  I'm relatively new to ESXi (although a lot of vSphere, using iSCSI storage) and we are making a number of servers in remote site (with a proxy and utility VM to manage the file/print/dhcp) using ESXi. I have my VMs built on the first box and need to copy them off the coast to the other, but I have problems with the command ADD Storage... I can't seem to get the right information and I begin to think I'm missing something basic. Then...

  (1) can map you to the VMFS from another host esxi?

  (2) If you can, where do you find the location on the second machine information to set up the data store on the first machine?

  If it's important, we use Dell PE of the 1950s.

  Also, while I'm here...

  The size of a pain is to change the IP address or the name of the ESXi host area?

  Thanks in advance for any help!

  VMFS is not supported on USB drives.

  You can use FastSCP for example, http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esxi-fastscp.html

  And Yes, there are several devices that could share storage attached to the network locally, but I don't see them as a solution when you want to just copy existing virtual machines to another host ESXi.

• How to reach esxi host 5 on storage area network

  I have a Dell PS6000E on my network.  I would like to create a volume on it and use it as a shared storage for a new configuration of esxi5 with 2 hosts.  The PS6000 already contains 2 volumes in use by other servers (physical).  To access the PS6000 via my regular local network hosts.  Is this possible, and is there a documentation on how to put in place?

  Thank you

  Welcome to the community - I guess you access the PS6000E are configured for iSCSI or NAS/NFS, you will be able to access as shared storage long ESXi hosts can reach the unit. Because ESXi hosts will not be able to share the LUNS in use by other servers, you're going to create a new LUN for ESXi hosts. This storage of ESXi - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide.pdf - guide that has information on how to configure your ESXi servers to access the storage.

• Can no longer add ESXi host to vCenter but OK VI Client connects

  I removed an ESXi host in a cluster on vCenter. Now when I try to add the host (whether for the cluster or stand-alone) the add hosts Wizard appears and has the correct information, but when I cliquerai on closing, that nothing happens for a few minutes, then I get the error:

  Unable to reach the specified host... Maybe it's because this host is not available on the network, there is a problem with the network configuration or management on the host services do not react.

  However, I can connect to the host directly with the VI client and which works very well, even though the events tab displays "VFAT: 2583: Possible FAT Corruption." My copy of ESXi is on a flashdrive in a HP Blade.

  I tried to reboot the host, but it makes no difference. Several of the responses to other users of similar problems is recommended to perform "service vmware-vpxa restart" on the host, but this does not apply to ESXi. I also tried to restart the vCenter, but that makes no difference either.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you

  Will be

  Download iso hpvm-recovery on HP site and reinstall ESXi on flash drive.

  UPD: Yes, as Neil said, check your key USB HP if you bought ESXi Embedded. If you have the Green key aluminum, require the replacement of HP. And then, you definitely have to download iso that I mentioned above

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• One of the ESXi host 3 no HW Compatible for ESXi 6 upgrade?

  Hello

  There are 3 DELL servers (2 of them are running R530 and 1 is executed R900).

  When attempting to upgrade these 5.5 ESXi hosts to ESXi 6, we find that the R900 is no longer supported.

  Wonder what is the best way for us to do - keep using ESXi 5.5 or level 2 of them to ESXi 6 and leave remaining on an ESXi 5.5?   We have no intention to replace the R900 in the near future.

  Thank you

  If all three hosts are part of the ESXi Cluster, then you must do all the guests at the same version level. Therefore, keep all the on ESXi 5.5

  But if you use these host as a standalone ESXi host then you can upgrade the host to ESXi 6 two and let R900 on ESXi 5.5

  Thank you

  Hentzien

  Virtual Admin

• -= Decommissioning of a license key on ESXi host in order to import in vCenter Server Essentials 6 =-

  Our company recently bought a license for VMware vCenter Server 6 Essentials for vSphere (VCS6-ESSL-C) with license keys for VMware vSphere Essentials 6 for 1 processor (ha6-ESSL-C).

  I accumulated vCenter Server 6 on a physical device and assigned the new relevant license key, as well as installed Update Manager Server on this machine. This instance seems to be functional and functional.

  Now, I'm trying to import 3 x ESXi hosts in this environment which have the license keys from an environment "vSphere advanced 5. These 3 hosts are administered under an instance of VM of vSphere vCentre, that I want to the Commission under this license and the license on these hosts is no longer valid after a takeover of the company.

  Question:

  (A) Comment can I get correctly to the setting of these hosts so that I can use the new vSphere license key 6 that I received?

  (B) should I upgrade these hosts to v6 ESXi befin environment to use this new license key?

  (C) do I need to disable features on the hosts in order to apply to apply this license key "6 of vSphere Essentials?

  (D) what is the correct order for doing all these things to use this new environment vCentre?

  Thanks in advance for any assistance given.

  Concerning

  Grant

  I havn't done it myself yet, but I think you should be able to achieve your goal, follow these steps:

  -downgrade license keys CPU Essentials to v5 im Portal MyVMware

  -the value of the new vCenter Server Evaluation Mode (actually maybe not necessary)

  -Add the licenses of Essentials v5 license vCenter inventory 6

  -Add hosts to the new vCenter Server ESXi 5.5 and assign licenses Essentials guests

  -re - assign the license previously removed to vCenter Server

  André

• Adding secondary management NIC to ESXi host

  Hello

  We currently have a customer demand to add secondary management NIC to the ESXi servers ourselves and the client can connect to hosts if vCenter becomes unavailable.

  Is someone can confirm if it is feasible or will host blend and become inaccessible? Sorry if this is an obvious answer, it's just that I have never seen configuration with management NIC

  Thanks in advance.

  We currently have a customer demand to add secondary management NIC to the ESXi servers ourselves and the client can connect to hosts if vCenter becomes unavailable.

  Can clarify you what exactly you mean by that? A single management interface are accessible by some many different clients, as long as it is accessible. Are there limits where the client manages the ESXi host from an internal network and you need to access externally via public IP, another for networking?

  In this case your would create a management interface 2nd vmkernel on the external network and to face together the default route of the external gateway routing and insert static routes for the internal network using the internal network gateway. So basically the same thing you would do to any IP multi-hosted system.

• Upgrade standard Essentials ESXi hosts

  I'm considering the purchase of vCenter Standard.  I now have 4 hosts and will be seized from 6-7 long and centralized management would help a lot.  The hosts are 5.5 Essentials ESXi, and my understanding is that I would need Essentials upgrade to the standard.  What is the process here?  Is it simply a matter of installing the license of vSphere Standard on the hosts?  Or I need to install new software?

  No need to reinstall. Just replace the license keys for vCenter Server and hosts.

  André

• Storage vMotion-Direct between ESXi hosts

  Hi all

  It is my first time on the boards, I hope it's the right way to go on this subject.

  I have problems with Storage vMotion, it's not a set up us would use normally, rather than by necessity with the current scenario.

  We have a desktop which has 2 x 5.1 ESXi hosts. They do not have a budget for SAN with the installation of HBA, and it is only a single requirement. I have to migrate virtual machines from one to the other, but with no external storage. I wait with Storage vMotion directly from a local data store to another.

  I activated the software iSCSI on both ESXi hosts

  Created a vSwitch separated with a VMkernal on two physical hosts

  The two VMkernals are on a separate subnet * 172.16.1 and production vSwitch is 192.168.5. *.

  The NIC allocated for the 172.16.1 network. * is both connected to the same physical switch.

  I ping the VMkernal and the vmkping the VMkernal

  Scan for storage again and nothing shows up.

  I used software iSCSI before, for a long time so I'm probably rusty. Dynamic discovery is normally indicated in the SAN to pick up storage, and finds it just local storage on each host itself.

  In this scenario, I told the IP address of the ESX2 VMkernal on 172.16.1 ESX1. * since I have no external storage. I think it is, I'm wrong, but I don't know what else to do to recover local data warehouses.

  Any ideas to try would be very appreciated.

  Thank you

  Sorted by using 5.1 feature Shared-Nothing vMotion

• ESXi host does not connect more after a restart of the service LogInsight

  Hello

  I put several (5.1 U1) ESXi to use the newly installed LogInsight. they sent him their event properly. I had to restart the log service Insight. After the reboot, the hosts stopped sending events. the vcenter continued, however.

  I had to reload the syslog on the hosts to send their event to the perspicacity of newspaper.

  esxcli system syslog reload

  any idea? I guess that's not normal behavior

  Thank you

  Eric

  Hi Eric, this is unfortunately expected behavior. What you are experiencing is a bug in ESXi. More information is available in the Guide to installation/Admin under the troubleshooting log Insight section or at the following article: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2003127.

  ESXi newspapers stop arriving at the Insight Journal

  After you restart the log service Insight, ESXi hosts syslog messages stop arriving at the Insight Journal.

  Problem

  In Insight Journal configuration changes require that you restart the log Insight service. After the restart, syslog RSS of ESXi are no longer available.

  Cause

  Some versions of ESXi stop balls sending if connectivity to the remote syslog listener is stopped, even for a short moment. This problem affects the following versions of ESXi, depending on the communication protocol used.

• Can ESXi 5.1 VM works on ESXi hosts 5?

  Hello

  We have updated one of the ESXi Release 5.1 servers.  Virtual machines running on the host are updated with the latest VMWare tools as well.

  However, we migrate a virtual computer to an ESXi host 5 cluster.  We wonder if there will be no problem of compatibility for runninng a virtual machine with the latest VMWare tools (i.e. that of ESXi 5.1) with 5 ESXi hosts?

  Thank you

  Hello
  Please see this link: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-64D4B1C9-CD5D-4C68-8B50-585F6A87EBA0.html.
  From what it seems, as long as you don't upgrade your hardware to version 9, you should be okay.
  And this seems quite convincing:
  http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.vmtools.install.doc/GUID-6DDF97E3-3B95-4A5A-85A7-7DC3772FBE73.html, where it is said.

  The version of VMware Tools included in vSphere 5.0 is supported on vSphere 4.x and 5.0 virtual machines. In other words, you can also use this new version of VMware Tools in virtual machines on ESX/ESXi hosts 4.x. So I don't think it would be any different for 5.1