Adding secondary management NIC to ESXi host

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  I'm running worm vFoglight 6.7. recently, I added 2 new 5.1 ESXi host and 2 data stores into my vsphere cluster. These new fabrics do not appear in vfoglight under dash VMware environment. I tried to update the server vCenter added by re activating the latter. Without success. Could someone help me how to get it to update.

  Give a washer, they can probably find what is happening and turn it on.  It is very rare that I've ever seen an upgrade fails or not be able to recover the worst of him.

• Cisco UCS 5108 add NIC to ESXi host

  Hello

  I'm quite new in the world of the UCS, so I slowly read up on it. We currently have a laboratory with a 5108 that host two of our esxi5 servers. When I say lab, I mean a configuration that is not in production yet, and if I can use it to learn right now. I just now each server I create gives me only 2 network cards to work with, so I would like to add. I have attemtpted to add a new network adapter for the service model and apply it, but I get the following error.

  "There are not enough global resources. Not enough available vNIC.

  I don't know what I'm doing wrong or if 2 is my limit.

  Thank you

  Welcome to Dennis,

  The quantity of NICs you can create depending on the model of the adapter.

  E.g.

  See the diagram below for the virtual interfaces supported by the adapter model

  

  When you use the VIC M81 maximum interfaces that you create also depends on the number of links between IOM (chassis) and interconnections of fabric).  56 is assuming that you have 4 links of each fabric of interconnection of each IOM.

  In addition, blades of large width (B250, B440) can support two adapters mezz, so you can adjust the vnic/vhba max.

  Kind regards

  Robert

• vCenter 5.0 manage 5.5 ESXi hosts?

  Can anyone confirm whether or not a server vCenter 5.0 can manage hosts running ver 5.5?

  Thank you

  Answer is NO:

  vCenter server is backward compatible. vCenter server 5.5 can handle hosts that are 5.0 but vCenter server 5.0 can not handle hosts that are 5.5.

  Thank you
  Avinash

• Trying to create a shared via iSCSI storage. Storage shows is not the second ESXI host

  I created an iSCSI lun and gone through the process of adding it to my first ESXI host. It displays well in storage adapters-> Details and I can also add as a data store.

  When I try and the same thing on my second ESXI, the iSCSI host does not appear under storage adapters-> Details (although properties are correct within the parameters of the iSCSI software card) and I can not add it as a data store.

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  I'm doing something wrong?

  Thank you

  What iSCSI solution do you use? Are there limits set on the number of connections?

• Add a 5.1 ESXI host to vcenter server 5.0

  Hi all

  I just installed an esxi5.1 host and tried to add in vcenter server 5.0 without success.

  The error is:

  A general error occurred: Timed waits vpxa to start

  Is it possible to do? If not, is documented somewhere? I searched a lot and found nothing relevant.

  The installation was made using an iso file, the new facility, in a shared, storage warehouse that has been formatted.

  I don't want vcenter server 5.1 as the impact of my infrastructure is high.

  Thanks for the help!

  VMware product interoperability matrix got the update and you would need 5.1 vCenter to manage 5.1 ESXi hosts

• 4.1 - > 4.1 U1: vCenter update first and ESXi hosts later?

  Hello

  About the update 4.1 4.1 U1, y at - it order to follow?

  1 vSphere client

  2 vCenter & update manager

  3 ESXi hosts

  Thank you.

  It is always advisable to update vCenter Server before upgrading anything else.

  1 vCenter Server

  2. Update Manager

  3. the Client vSphere + new Update Manager Plugin

  4. the host ESX (i)

  André

• Disconnected ESXi host cannot reconnect to VCenter

  ESXi 4.0.0 Releasebuild-261974

  VCenter 4.0.0 build 162856

  VSphere 4.0.0 build 162856

  I have a host on the 16 who became disconnected from VCenter recently. I spent some time online means to join new host in VCenter, but each has failed so far. I'm not avoiding perform a reboot of the host due to production VMS are residing thereon. Also, I can't access the Web page for the host, which works very well for the other guests, we have running: https://

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  I did the following things in the hope of resolving, who all have failed:

  1 restart the Management Agents on ESXi host from the windows of the customization of the system.

  2. test the management successfully and rebooted network management network

  3A tried to reconnect to the host via VSphere

  4 registered and the Mode of Support Tech executed the following command: /sbin/services.sh restart when I run this command, I notice that the vmware-aam service does not start.

  Error messages:

  1. (in an attempt restore the link) cannot communicate with the specified host. The host may not be available on the network, may have a network configuration problem, or that the management on this host services may not respond.

  2 (of the newspaper of the Management Agent) panic HttpNfcSvc another process is listning IDE oucederomsurlesecondport 12001; Please ensure that another instantiation of pass run; Cannot initialize the service of httpnfc.

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  4. (of the newspaper of the VirtualCenter Agent) 0x1499bb90 error 'App' SSLStreamImp::BIORead (0x2e408bb0) has expired; SSL connection failed with error BIO

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  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Let me know if you need to work as well with more information.

  Thank you!

  BOE

  It is an ugly one. At least a restart if not re-install. To minimize downtime, you can close out of virtual machines to the inventory and put them on another host/cluster.

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• Sizing of prescriptions for IOPS ESXi hosts / s

  Hello!

  I was managing a few ESXi hosts in multiple data centers and we begin to look at options to consolidate the virtual machines on a shared storage to take advantage of vMotion and HA.

  Reading communities and various Springs around the ' net, I learned that a good indication of the Ops ARE / s by the ESXi can be calculated from the graph of disk performance using read and write requests, then dividing the values by periods of graph (20 years in my case).

  Now the question arises: should I add up all the values of the OPS are / s each ESXi host that will be connected (and using) the SAN or is there another way to calculate that?

  I am calculating the IOPS / s, still using the values of each graph MAX.

  Hello and welcome to the forums.

  > Now the question arises: should I add up all the values of the OPS are / s each ESXi host that will be connected (and using) the SAN or is there another way to calculate that?

  There is some great information on the site about Of Scott Drummonds .

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• Renaming of ESXi hosts to vCloud 5.5 Hosting Manager

  Hello world

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  Our names for the Server naming convention has changed and it is now mandatory to rename all VMware ESXi hosts.

  All the information/help will be very appreciated!

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  United Nations prepare a crowd of vCD, move it cluster at the data center level, then it reboot.  After that, do all your work in renaming (certs, hostname, IP address management, etc.).  Adding this back in is the reverse... put it in the cluster and prepare it to vCD.

• Do I need an IP NIC of each Esxi host address?  VMs needs access to the storage network?

  Hi all

  The issue go, I have a host machine with 3 nic cards - > 1 for production network, 1 for the management network and 1 for the network backup.

  The guest PC VM inside will be connected to the 3 network,

  But for the host himself, will be used for management and backup only.

  T1) is the bears from production on the need for level ESXI host having an IP address as well?

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  Right of Q2) now my host use internal storage. If I'm to migrate to a SAN storage, I have 1 more network for storage.

  I understand that the configuration of virtual machines and their data are assigned and stored in the data store that is made visible at the level of the host.

  They must for the virtual machines access the data store, join the storage network as well? or they are access to the storage through the host

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  Kind regards

  Noob

  T1) is the bears from production on the need for level ESXI host having an IP address as well?

  A NIC itself does not require an IP address. Which IP addresses are required for VMkernel port groups (for example, networking, vMotion, storage access,...) as well as virtual machines.

  Right of Q2) now my host use internal storage. If I'm to migrate to a SAN storage...

  No, a virtual machine (i.e. the guest operating system) does not require access to the system of storage, only the ESXi host.

  André

• What ESXI host NIC will use when the membership of the AD?

  What ESXI host NIC will use when the membership of the AD?

  I have a domain on ESXI host controller and I want ESXI to join the AD? I need to create a vmkernel for the goal?

  Hi Welcome to the communities,

  It will use the management network, which uses vmk0 as a default, no need to create a new vmkernel.

  Then look up what vmnic is connected to vmk0 in your installation.

  Concerning

  Tim

• Update Manager fails during upgrade from 5.0 to 5.5 ESXi host.

  Nice day

  I am trying to upgrade to 5.0 and 5.5 ESXi host using Update Manager. However, when I scan my host I get incompatible error. When I click Details I get the error "unsupported configuration.

  Update Manger newspapers show that SANE_ESX_CONF is not in the host logs see below:

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS", the planned test of "PRECHECK_INITIALIZE", "version esx.conf" found "version esx.conf".

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: 'SUCCESS', 'SUPPORTED_ESX_VERSION', wait 4 5' found '5'

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS, test 'SPACE_AVAIL_ISO', expected '347872773', '347872773'.

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS, test 'MEMORY_SIZE', expected '4261412864', '34357448704'.

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS, test 'HARDWARE_VIRTUALIZATION', expected '3', 3'.

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS, test 'CPU_CORES', expected '2', 4'.

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS, test ' 64BIT_LONGMODESTATUS', wait 1', found 1' «»

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: ' SUCCESS, 'NXBIT_ENABLED', '1' expected, found test 1'.

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:220 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: 'ERROR', 'SANE_ESX_CONF', expected 'True' to test, found 'False. '

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:220 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: 'SUCCESS', the test plan "UNSUPPORTED_DEVICES", ", found"

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:221 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: 'ERROR', 'PACKAGE_COMPLIANCE', test

  I tried to reboot the host but still no luck. the search file is the esx.conf file. When I ssh host I find the file here.

  Any help/thoughts is appreciated.

  Thank you!

  -Ali

  Give UUID uppercase. This is not the result we are looking for. It should give the UUID or raise an error.

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• ESXI hosts 5-2 and the best way to configure vSwitch and Nic redundancy

  Hi all

  Could someone help me find the best way to configure the vNetwork on 2 5 ESXI host for redundancy.  Once I managed to correctly configure the 2 hosts I will seek to use the same installation process for 6 guests.  3 sites with 2 hosts on each site managed all of vCentre Server

  I have 2 DL380 G7 servers 5 ESXI installed on a class 10, 8 GB SD card, I'm looking to install VSA on the 2 hosts on each server with 4 TB of internal storage (8 * 600 GB 10 k SAS).  Each server has a gigabit integrated 4-port NIC and I installed a 2nd NIC gigabit PCIe 4 ports, I also x 2 16 switches of port with Layer 3 routing.  I use vSphere 5 Standard acceleration Kit I am looking to use vCentre server for managing, vMotion for maintenance, HA for the failover and VM 10/15 (vCentre Server Std, DB SQL to vCentre Server, Exchange 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, IIS Intranet, Helpdesk, 1 DC, 2 Domain Controller, AV Server, WSUS, SCCM Server, and Terminal Server server).

  What would be the best way to install and configure the network for performance and redundancy and am I missing something?

  My thoughts are, Teaming: -.

  vCenter - vswitch0 - port1 on NIC1 and port1 on NIC 2 - port1 on NIC1 to physical switch 1 - port1 on NIC2 to physical switch 2

  vMotion - vswitch1 - port2 on NIC1 and port2on NIC 2 - port2 on NIC1 to physical switch 1 - port2 on NIC2 to physical switch 2

  HA - vswitch3 - port3 on NIC1 and port3on NIC 2 - port3 on NIC1 physics 1 - port3 on NIC2 to physical switch 2 switch

  VM - vswitch4 - port4 on NIC1 and port4on NIC 2 - port4 on NIC1 to physical switch 1 - port4 on NIC2 to physical switch 2

  or do I need an additional NIC on each server to hit the VM 12-6 VM for 2 ports on 2 NETWORK interface card, or maybe something else I missed?

  Thank you

  In your case, to keep it simple and what I can say here is what would be my recommendation:

  3 standard vSwitches

  vSwitch0:

  • Management - vmnic0, vmnic2

  vSwitch1:

  • vMotion - vmnic1, vmnic3

  vSwitch2:

  • VM network - vmnic4, vmnic5, vmnic6, vmnic7

  The only reason why that I didn't split the VM in other network adapters shipped is because the difference in the types of the DL380 adapter shipped and the PCIe quad.

• 6 ESXi hosts can't be added to Vcenter 5.5 App

  6 ESXi hosts can't be added to Vcenter 5.5 App

  When I add the hosts drop off after 5 min or more.

  When you install or upgrade to ESXi hosts to 6.0 you cannot add them to vCenter Server Windows or device.

  It's real reason in the upgrade path, you must first upgrade the vCenter before ESXi hosts. See the sequence below:

  https://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2057795

  Thank you.

  If you found it useful and you solved the problem just mark as answer.