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• ESXi host cache

  Hello, is there any storage I/O updated cache buffering done by ESXi host itself?

  If it says anywhere in the documentation?

  --

  Tom

  No, the hypervisor does no caching. Of http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008542

  VMware ESX recognizes a write or read to a guest operating system only after this writing or reading is recognized by the controller of material for ESX. Applications that run inside virtual machines on ESX enjoy guarantees of consistency of crash than applications running on physical machines or physical disk controllers.

  André

• ESXi host double IO comments

  Hello world

  I'm new to this forum, so... Hello!

  anyway to the point, I've been benchmarking of storage under ESXi and noticed something strange:

  I have an ESXi 4.1 (HP supplied) running on the HP ProLiant ML350 G5 server. It has a virtual machine clients running Windows XP Pro 32-bit.

  I used DiskBench to create a single file of 4 GB. DiskBench reported around 95MBps write speed.

  I looked on the table of the performance of the virtual machine of comments (see photo) and the diagram shows the consistent result.

  Ute when I looked on the table of the performance of the ESXi * home *, it shows the same 'shape' of the graph, but with all the numbers * doubled *. (see second attachment)

  Is this a bug in the charts? Or that this indicates that I did something bad and ESXi host must make twice the amount of IO for the guest virtual machine?

  Here are some details about my setup:

  Server: HP ProLiant ML350 G5, 3 GB of RAM

  RAID controller: Smart Array P400 with BBWC

  Table: RAID 5 with 5 x 72 GB 10 k SAS

  Comments: Win XP Pro SP3

  Any input would be really useful. Thank you!

  The writing in the host view speed is doubled to the first scripture passage, because the host of zero, space before allocated disk of the virtual machine can access, probably for security reasons.  If the test file is deleted, then the test is repeated, because space has already been allocated and zero would be the host view and the guest must then correspond to the.

  HTH

• Patrol reads on ESXi host

  I have a R710 and a R420 two 5.5 ESXi running. I also have a R310 running Windows 2012 R2 for execution of vCenter.

  The R420 has a PERC H710 with a RAID 5 array. Since the iDRAC 7 web interface, I see the controller runs each week patrol reads.

  The R710 has a PERC H700 controller with an array of RAID 6. There only iDRAC 6, so I can't say if patrol readings are performed in the iDRAC web interface. If it is a Windows Server, I install Dell OpenManage and check from there.

  Question No. 1: What is the best way, on an ESXi host, to see if the patrol reads are implemented, and how I can put them up?

  Question 2: Are the patrol reads enough to ensure the integrity of data / avoid bit rot? Or is there another consistency check should I do?

  Hello

  QCCS

  Question No. 1: What is the best way, on an ESXi host, to see if the patrol reads are implemented, and how I can put them up?

  OMSA can be used to see what is currently configured and modify the configuration. Under the main section of storage in the left pane, you will see the broad duties of controller. One of the drop downs must change the patrol read behavior. You can also display the current setting on this screen.

  QCCS

  Question 2: Are the patrol reads enough to ensure the integrity of data / avoid bit rot? Or is there another consistency check should I do?

  Patrol read is a sector check. It tests the physical sectors and mark bad sectors so that they are not used. If he spots a bad sector, it will rewrite data to a good sector. By default, the controller runs patrol bed every 7 days.

  A consistency check is a data integrity control. He checks the data on the table for it. If an inconsistency is found it will correct the inconsistency with redundant data. Consistency checks are not automated. It is recommended that you run them once a month. You should expect a reduction of 30% of the performance when a consistency check is performed.

  In short, patrol reads are physical controls and consistency checks are logical checks. This document is old, but it is still relevant explain the patrol reads as follows:

  http://www.Dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050212-Habas.PDF

  Thank you

• Mac OS x won't start on mac pro esxi host

  We have the latest mac pro machine functioning as a construction of host 5.5.0 esxi 2718055.  We have setup the virtual Mac machine of the as a waiter in a magic triangle to our Mac OSX windows domain configuration.  Everything was up and running for some time now not really used because we delayed the purchase of our projected deployment Mac until this year.  I logged on today, and he says he has several updates and necessary to restart, so we issued the command reboot. Now the machine won't start upward.  It starts the boot process you see the Apple logo and progress bar starts moving on a 1/4 of the way and then it just turned off. I tried several of the commands below in the link, but nothing works, it just turns off. I tried to use my mac with vm ware fusion and the connection to the host and always change. I have triple checked that I am in the comments window active when you press these commands, but the problem is it only stays on during approximately 5 seconds then stops. I have removed from the inventory of esxi and re added, as well as restarted the ESXi host as well.  The virtual machine is sitting on the local storage of the esxi server.

  https://support.Apple.com/en-AU/HT201255

  Has anyone else had a problem similar to this?  I'm getting to this section and the progress bar starts to go, but then stops and turns off virtual machine.  How can I enter in address this further.

  

  Okay, so I went through the list and now I got using the command option r. tried before but maybe I press the keys long enough.  I was using my mac book pro and pro fusion to do all this. Couldn't make it work when you use the client heavy vsphere on my windows machine. Repair disk permissions is grayed out. I ran check disk permissions and got a ton of errors, ran check disk and he stopped saying repair the disk. Ran repair disk and he stopped to say that he cannot repair the disk, backup as many files as possible, reformat the drive and restore your backup files.

  Is there another way to try to fix this sucker, or is he at this point a POS and build a new one?

  

  

• 8.3 OMSA @ ESXi 6.0 U2 @ R515-> cannot log into the website OMSA to ESXi HOST.--

  Hello guys.

  I've updated my ESXi of U3 5.0 to 6.0 U2 and I lost my OMSA. I can not connect from the web page.

  For the update of the host, I used this ISO file:
  . VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update02-3620759.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00.iso

  After that, I installed OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-WINX64-8.3.0-1908_A00. EXE to a VM W2012S to this host. I can open the web site to connect, but when I try to connect to my ESXi HOST, I received this message: failed to connect... connection error.

  When I saw that I began to check a few things, I ran: 'list of vib software esxcli' and I saw:
  Name Version Date seller installation acceptance level
  ----------------------------- ----------------------------------- ------ ---------------- ------------
  ...
  OpenManage 8.3.0.ESXi600-0000 Dell PartnerSupported 2016-07-29
  Reference Dell-configuration-vib 6.0 - 2A 00 Dell PartnerSupported 2016-07-29
  iSM 2.3.0.ESXi600 - 0000 Dell PartnerSupported 2016-07-29
  ...

  Another very strange for me, is that I can't see any reading of the sensors to Interface web server: HOST /... / or Vsphere Client.
  But I can read a large number of web page Idrac and ESXi SSH data using ' esxcli ipmi sdr list material.
  Node-sensor Description-reading raw reading of raw Timestamp/comment base calculated entity Instance
  ----------- --------------------------------- --------------- ---------------- ----------- ----------- ------------------- ---
  0.1 1 Temp 3.1 processor 38 degrees C 166 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.2 2 Temp 3.2 processor 34 degrees C 162 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.5 power 1 10.1 Temp 40 degrees C 168 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.6 power 2 Temp 10.2 37 degrees C 165 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.7 power Supply 2 Temp ambient 10.2 26 degrees C 154 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.8 power Supply 2 Temp ambient 10.2 28 degrees C 156 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.12 system Board 1 BIO Temp 7.1 44 degrees C 172 2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  0.14 front Panel Board 1 Temp ambient 12.1 16 degrees C 144 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.13 system Board 1 Temp Planar 7.1 28 degrees C 156 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.10 memory Module 1 Temp 8.1 24 degrees C 152 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.11 memory Module 2 Temp 8.2 36 degrees C 164 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.48 to edge 1 FAN MOD 1A RPM 7.1 2760 RPM 23 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System to 0.49 to edge 1 FAN 1 b MOD RPM 7.1 0 RPM 0-2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.50 to edge 1 FAN 2 a MOD RPM 7.1 2760 RPM 23 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.51 to edge 1 FAN 2 b MOD RPM 7.1 0 RPM 0-2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.52 to edge 1 FAN MOD 3A RPM 7.1 2760 RPM 23 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.53 to edge 1 FAN 3 b MOD RPM 7.1 0 RPM 0-2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.54 to edge 1 FAN MOD 4A RPM 7.1 2760 RPM 23 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.55 to edge 1 FAN MOD 4 b RPM 7.1 0 RPM 0-2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.56 to edge 1 FAN MOD 5A RPM 7.1 2760 RPM 23 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.57 to edge 1 FAN MOD 5 b RPM 7.1 0 RPM 0-2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  Power supply 0.148 1 1 current 10.1 0.6 amps 15 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  Power 0,149 2 current 10.2 2 0.48 amps 12 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.150 1 power supply 1 10.1 206 Volts 103 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.151 power 2 2 10.2 206 Volts 103 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0,152 onboard System 7.1 220 Watts 22 2016-08 - 01 T 14-1 level: 18:32

  The details of the server are:
  BIOS 2.3.0
  IDRAC 2.85 (Build 04)
  Lifecycle controller 1.7.5.4

  Any kind of help to connect to the host ESXi OMSA is welcome!

  This is the correct service.

• Recently added that in environment VMware ESXi hosts do not appear

  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.

• Connect 2 ESXi hosts to array SAS MD3220

  I have two R620s who go to the server as a host for the VM for several web servers (in a Windows NETWORK load balancing) and two other R620s which will be considered as physical database servers (in a Failover Cluster) and have to apply to a single Bay MD3220 SAS. The DB cluster will host the databases shared on a virtual disk and a data store shared on another virtual drive on the Bay. ESXi hosts will store their vmx/vmdk files elsewhere on the Board.

  I'm still waiting for delivery of the second DB server, but in the meantime, I installed the first and he speaks with success to the table - I run MDSM on that server and the server is successfully connected to DB and filestore volumes. guess I'm having a little problem with the second server.

  I installed ESXi on both VM hosts. I guess the next step is to save in MDSM, but MDSM is not automatically host port identifiers as assigned. Does?

  My next guess would be to identify manually port host identifiers, but how can I determine what are their respective IDs? I couldn't see anything obvious in the BIOS.

  I have currently two independent hosts to VM with ESXi installed v5.1 - I have not created a VM vCenter again because the host does not have access to the storage Bay (!), so I can pair together for HA hosts, etc. As a broader question, given what I want to achieve, how should I be going to this topic?

  Indeed, you will need to register the VMware hosts in MDSM yourself. There is no agent to have a VMware host register automatically on the SAN (at the regular difference in Windows and linux).

  You may be able to find the WWN of the HBA SAS in the SAS controller bios.

  The only other way I know not to register the correct WWN with the server is intrusive, but not so hard:

  -Stop your Windows (cluster SQL) servers

  -Stop the VMware servers

  -power of the MD3220 downwards

  -power up the MD3220

  -power up to one of the servers Windows (one that has MDSM on it)

  -power up the VMware Server 1

  In MDSM, you can now save this first VMware Server.

  Turn on the other 2 servers and register the 2nd VMware Server.

  I found that only shutting down 1 VMware server is not erase the memory of the MD whose WWNS are connected and there is no way to find which ports you enter the WWN in question.

• OME 1.3: update R910 5.5 ESXi host through iDrac fails

  OME 1.3 fees deployed on a Server R2 Windows Server 2012. OME server is in the same subnet as the iDRAC.

  OMSA agent for ESXi 5.5 deployed, but not relevant since the updates of the system OME uses iDRAC for ESXi hosts.

  The R910 was discovered and inventoried by WS - MAN on iDRAC and OMSA bot successfully.

  Trying to make an update of the system. I find the server in noncompliant systems, select it, select all 4 applicable updates.

  I apply and provide the login of the iDRAC.

  The task fails with errors below:

  -J' tried with the online catalogue Dell as well as a local Manager of Repositry

  -J' noticed that the 4 updates all point to pacaages in. EXE format. Since the deployment through iDRAC they shouldn't be. BIN files?

  Results:
  Download the packages.
  The call of method InstallFromUri to download packages to the iDRAC

  Error occurred: A security error occurred
  Username and password are not valid or

  The component that is being updated is not valid. Re-run the inventory in order to determine the correct component, and then try again

  Error occurred: A security error occurred
  Username and password are not valid or

  The component that is being updated is not valid. Re-run the inventory in order to determine the correct component, and then try again

  Error occurred: A security error occurred
  Username and password are not valid or

  The component that is being updated is not valid. Re-run the inventory in order to determine the correct component, and then try again

  Error occurred: A security error occurred
  Username and password are not valid or

  The component that is being updated is not valid. Re-run the inventory in order to determine the correct component, and then try again
  Check the following: entered credentials are valid, iDRAC is accessible from the host OME and iDRAC is in good condition. IDRAC was unable to download all the packages.
  The task of software update failed.

  Hi Roger,

  Two questions:

  • What is the version of your R910 iDRAC6?
  • If you run the following command, then what is the result you get?

  WinRM e cimv2/root/dcim/DCIM_LifecycleJob - u: - p: - r: https: / //wsman:443 - SkipCNCheck - SkipCACheck - SkipRevocationCheck - auth: base - encoding: utf-8

  • Is it possible to restart your server? If so, can you check if CSIOR is enabled on the server and are you able to see running system services?

  You can get information about CSIOR on this link:

  http://en.community.Dell.com/TechCenter/systems-management/f/4494/p/19515744/20413397.aspx#20413397

• How to remove ESXi host of Distributed Switch

  3 Cluster DRS - 1 x physical, 2 nested nodes in a LAB environment

  I need to downgrade a 6.0 U2 ESXi host and replace it (from ESXi nested in Physics). I am trying to remove the host from a distributed switch, but it seems that I can't do that until I remove it from the Distributed Switch. I can't remove the VMkernel group management ports that prevents me to remove the host from the Distributed Switch. Any suggestions? I guess that I need that migrate to a Standard switch first?

  I am connected to the ESXi host through vSphere Client, migrated the group management to a Standard switch ports, then I was able to clear the host of the distributed switch. I could then remove the host from the Cluster.

• 6u2 ESXi host nested on VMware Workstation for Linux referee v12

  Hello all, I have

  I have a lab environment virtual running in VMware Workstation for Linux v12, and my ESXi hosts do not work correctly on one of the virtual networks. All my troubleshooting suggests a problem with nested ESXi hosts that may be a bug, but I want to assure you that I did everything properly first. That's why I post here with the hope that if I made a mistake that maybe someone else can point out he me.

  Physical system

  8 core Intel Xeon 2.1 GHz CPU

  128 GB of RAM

  OS - kernel Linux 64 - bit w/3.19.0-32-generic Linux Mint 17.3 (fully updated from this announcement)

  VMware Workstation 12 Pro - 12.1.1. Build-3770994 (fully updated from this announcement)

  Nested ESXi host VM

  ESXi v6.0.0 (Build 3825889, completely updated from this announcement)

  4 cards 'physical' (only 3 used for now)

  -all use the e1000 NIC hardware virtual, but also tried vmxnet3 NIC with no difference

  -vSwitch0 use vmnic0 & 1 vmnet16 of virtual network in a pair of active / standby

  -vSwitch1 uses vmnic2 on network virtual vmnet18

  -vmk0 used for management on vSwitch0 and vmk1 for iSCSI on vSwitch1

  -"Promiscuous" mode and forged passes enabled on all Port vSwitch groups (activating or turning off these features makes no difference)

  Test performed until now

  I checked that all the IP addresses and network masks used are correct.

  With the help of vmkping I ping other nodes on the network vmnet16 with success.

  With the help of vmkping I tried to ping the other nodes in the network vmnet18, but that has failed.

  I have depolyed other non - ESXi VMs on the vmnet18 network, and they are able to ping each other, but are unable to ping or ping by the ESXI host.

  I tried various material virtual NIC as mentioned before, but without changes in the results.

  I tried to use only local network instead of the vmnet18 guest network segments with no change in results.

  When I find out the status of the network adapters on the ESXi host through vCenter or host incorporated client vmnic0 & 1 time display network information, but vmnic2 shows no networks. Yet, I know that there is a network with different VM communicate on it. Moreover, I was able to get all of this work on a Windows system running 10 Workstation (this is the laptop that my employer gives me with).

  Having built nested ESXi labs on different platforms as well as physical environments in the past, I'm very confused as to why I can't get this special configuration to work. At this point my gut tells me that this is probably a bug any with the nested themselves ESXi hosts. Since I can get all this work on vmnet16 including the management of ESXi hosts and the VCSA that I use, I am sure that my vSwitch configuration is correct (other than the IP address space and vmnic configurations is bascially the same). Because I can get other virtual machines to communicate over the network vmnet18 I don't see how can be a VMware Workstation for the issue physical Linux host. Is there something obvious I'm missing here? I read on the ESXi hosts nested under VMware Workstation after having known problems and bugs with networking. If anyone else has experienced this?

  Thanks for any help others can provide!

  Kind regards

  Patrick

  Well, the problem is now resolved. The problem was what covelli was trying to explain, but I couldn't because the physical host network adapters being mentioned.

  The problem on the Linux host, but it was a problem of permissions with the virtual Ethernet adapters. The following article has the fix:
  With the help of Ethernet virtual cards in Promiscuous Mode on a Linux host (287) | VMware KB

  Even if I launched the workstation under the root user I have yet met this problem and which still makes no sense to me, but change the permissions solve the problem. I was not getting an error message on my Linux Mint and Ubuntu system, but when I tried on a second box of Linux Mint that I just got the error has been generated, and the error message was the above link it contains.

  So, here's what I learned:

  (1) the question has nothing to with a VMware Workstation definition that you can configure.

  (2) the question has nothing to do with a physical network card.
  (3) the question has nothing to do with any vmnic on the nested ESXi host.

  (4) apparently virtual Ethernet adapters are not the correct permissions when created.

  All you have to do to fix this is:

  (1) open a terminal.

  (2) run the command ' sudo chmod a + rw/dev/vmnet * "(don't forget to run this each time that you create a new virtual network).

  You can also create a group, as shown in the link above and simply give this group the correct permissions. Personally, I think it's easier to just give everyone the rw permission.

  I appreciate the help that others have offered. I did not understand what was asked for in previous answers because of the terms that have been used.

• 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

• Share of CPU between ESXi hosts in a cluster?

  Is it possible to configure a cluster with a pool of CPU resources such as all CPUS of all ESXi hosts in the cluster are in the pool and if a virtual machine starts using more CPU that's current host has it can draw another ESXi host CPU to deal with?

  A virtual machine can use CPU only from the host where the virtual machine works... There is no way to allocate CPU of multiple hosts to a single virtual machine.

• Mobile 5.1 ESXi host in vCenter unpublished 6 - license?

  Hi all -

  If I take an ESXi host 5.1, previously managed (under license) via a given vCenter (also v5.1) and its key in the inventory management, then I disconnect/remove this host from the vCenter 5.1 and connect it to a completely new vCenter, what happens to the host of license?

  It disappear and become a 60-day eval, or his license key moves WITH the host in the new vCenter?  (The new vCenter in this scenario would have absolutely zero license keys from host ESXi that apply to guests of ESXi 5.1 existing installs below)

  I was wondering what 'happens' in this scenario I have the document our so-called steps for migration.  Yes, I know that this could / should all be tested "in the lab" but don't get started me on that.  Thanks for any comments on what I can expect.

  My best guess is that the host will LOSE its license now, it becomes a 'standalone' ESXi host when disconnected and removed from the old vCenter (via the "Delete" command).  I want to just make sure that it is also fully functional, if she has run VMs on it at the time or not (although Yes, I'll put it in maintenance mode before removing the old VirtualCenter and join a new).

  And Yes, of course I have old games of the existing environment 5.1 ESXi license keys.  I'm just trying to set expectations as to what is happening in licenses-wise once I move the host from the old to the new vCenter.  I have all pretty well understood technical pieces, including AVS and DVS network considerations.  Thank you.

  See this thread to another: Re: moving hosts to new vCenter and retaining current licences of host

• How to restart annex 5.1 ESXi host?

  Hello

  Any method of restart ESXi host 5.1 on the calendar? Thank you.

  Kind regards

  YMIM

  You can schedule the reboot of the ESXi host using PowerCLI.

  Install the PowerShell and PowerCLI module on any Windows System.

  PowerCLI start programs

  or, you can run the commands below on PowerCLI prompt to test.

  Then save it the script to run as the specific annex filename.ps1 and Windows Task Scheduler.

  SE connect-VIServer vlab-esxi2 - root username - password "password".

  $vms = get - vm | where {$_.} PowerState - eq "Receptor"}

  foreach ($vm in $vms) {Shutdown-VMGuest - VM $vm - confirm: $false}

  sleep 60

  Restart-VMHost-Force - confirm: $false

  See this post to know how to program a PowerCLI script.

  http://www.virtu-al.NET/2009/07/10/running-a-PowerCLI-scheduled-task/