ESXi 5.1u1 + 3ware 9650SE on Haswell

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• 3ware 9650SE - unsupported ESXi 6?

  What information I can understand, the RAID "3ware 9650SE" card is not supported in ESXi 6.

  Does anyone know if this is correct?

  Anyone know if it will be supported or if this map is obsolete for ESXi 6?

  Thanks in advance

  / Harutunian

  According to the VMware HCL, 3ware 9650SE has not been supported into something more recent than ESXi 5.1 U3

• ESXi 4 3ware 9650se adapter missing after restart

  I'm under esxi 4 with a 3ware 9650se adapter. It was great to work for a few months, but today I couldn't connect to the server by using the vsphere client but could ping on the server so I restarted it. After the reboot the 3ware adapter and the volumes are missing. Is it possible to check the State in esxi do I need to reinstall the drivers?

  If you go to the/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod of driving record / you see the pilot 3ware that there are listed?  If not I would reapply the bundle offline as described here - https://www.3ware.com/3warekb/article.aspx?id=15548.  If it is there, check the logs for any errors related to the driver.

  Dave

  VMware communities user moderator

  Now available - vSphere Quick Start Guide

  You have a system or a PCI with VMDirectPath?  Submit your specifications to Officieux VMDirectPath HCL.

• GCCA 3ware 9650SE RAID several paths

  I have a card to SATA RAID 3ware 9650SE on my box of esxi. I've implemented since my previous esxi 3.5 installation several paintings, one being 4x1TB led to a RAID 5. I activated the function autocarving in the configuration of 3ware split of this table in a 2 TB LUNS, the rest going to a logic unit number separate. Using the oem.tgz created by 3ware, it worked flawlessly.

  I've since upgraded to esxi4 using the new vmware certified drivers for the 3ware card. Everything seems to work fine until I noticed that was missing the second LUN mentioned above. After a bit of Googling, I tracked down the culprit.

  VMkernel: 0:02:46:07.508 cpu7:39633) WARNING: VMW_SATP_LOCAL: satp_local_claim: VMW_SATP_LOCAL does not support several paths per device.  Refusing to claim the vmhba1:C0:T1:L1 path.

  My question is simply can get around this? The 3ware card will work with any of the other types of native storage? If so, what should I do?

  good news!

  the device id t10. AMCC___V0258752290BCA003458 should be unique, maybe 3ware can tell how to configure each lun unique id?

  Binoche, VMware VCP, Cisco CCNA

• Adding space with bigger hard drives with 3WARE 9650SE RAID

  My original installation of Windows 7 is on a RAID 10 set up using 4 640 GB drives on a 3Ware 9650SE RAID card.  I replaced the drives one at a time with 1 TB drives, leaving reconstruction table each time before adding another.   Now that all 4 are in place, I would have a little less than 2 TB of space, but it does not appear.  Win7 is installed on a 200 GB partition, with the rest of the disk space showing that GB 972 yet (that I use for file storage).   Any thoughts on how to extend this option to use all the available space under the name more storage RAID 2?  I does not appear under management of the reader and does not help the 3DM 2 with resizing tool.  This has worked well for the RAID migration when on the SATAs motherboard, but it's another controller.   I would prefer not to have to reload Windows to use the extra space.

  Hello

  The question you posted would be better suited in the TechNet Forums. I would recommend posting your query in the link below.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itproinstall/threads

  Hope this information helps.

• HELP: Module does not not in ESXi 5.1U1 build-1157734 / Cisco C240 M3 / NVIDIA K2 GRID 304.76

  I started a business of pension on it with VMware, but I thought I could put in place here to document the process of solving it more publicly.

  Cisco C240 M3 Server (System BIOS 1.5.3b fw version)

  Card NVIDIA K2 GRID (shipped with the server)

  VMware ESXi 5.1U1 build 1157734

  I installed the last VIB for 2 m from NVIDIA (304.76) GRID, and it installs without problem:

  ~ List of the vib # esxcli software | grep NVIDIA

  NVIDIA-NVIDIA 304, 76 - 1OEM.510.0.0.802205 of VMware_ESXi_5.1_Host_Driver VMwareAccepted 2013-09-27

  but then I try to verify installation:

  ~ # nvidia-smi

  NVIDIA: could not open the file of the device/dev/nvidiactl (no such file or directory).

  NVIDIA-SMI has failed because he could not communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that this latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

  Try to load the kernel module and get this:

  ~ esxcli system #.
  module - NVidia module loading

  Could not load the module/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/nvidia: failure

  ~ tail #-10
  /var/log/VMkernel.log

  (2013 09-27 T 02: 13:15.618Z cpu7:21007) bunch of module: initial heap size: 8388608, max heap size: 68476928

  (2013 09-27 T 02: 13:15.618Z cpu7:21007) vmklnx_module_mempool_init: Mempool max 68476928 used for the module: 75

  (2013 09-27 T 02: 13:15.618Z cpu7:21007) vmk_MemPoolCreate passed for 2048 pages

  (2013 09-27 T 02: 13:15.618Z cpu7:21007) bunch of module: using memType 2

  (2013 09-27 T 02: 13:15.618Z cpu7:21007) vmklnx_nvidia bunch of module: creation succeeded. ID = 0 x 410043000000

  NVRM: No found NVIDIA graphics card!

  (2013 09-27 T 02: 13:15.618Z cpu7:21007) nvidia could not load.

  (2013 09-27 T 02: 13:15.618Z cpu7:21007) WARNING: Elf: 2767: Kernel based the nvidia module load failed: failed < Mod_LoadDone is not >

  So I'm stuck.

  I get this error when you try to turn on a Windows 7 guest who has the added PCI device.

  

  It is configured on the host computer, but things are not quite right...

  

  anyone else facing the pleasure like this?

  -wes

  Of course, I have it works very well, but with a Quadro2k and a Quadro4k.

  Take a look in this whitepaper for instructions, be aware that it is not fully supported yet and you might have to tinker a bit to make it work.

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMware-horizon-view-graphics-acceleration-deployment.PDF

• ESXi 5.1u1, Mo 2xsata3 ports, you want to add SSD cache but what port?

  Hi all

  This is my first post and I'm not speaking English, so I'll try to explain my question in the best conditions.

  We run esxi 5.1u1 on a small server with office components:

  -i5 - 3570 k [could get i5-3570 non - K]

  -z77 motherboard (msi g43) [could get Q77 Board from gigabyte]

  -16 GB of ram ddr3 1600 mhz non - ecc

  -2xHDD western digital RED 2 to each, no raid

  -backup to NAS

  and on 10vm between linux and windows guests (usually only 6 are in normal production [AD, FS, PBX), to manage a network of 4 desktops.

  We ask to add a SSD 120gbSATA3 caching, using build-in functionality of ESXI 5.1u1, but we have a problem on the choice of the correct configuration of the disk since we only 2 port sata3.

  1. Hard drives are sata3 and actually connected to the sata3 ports 2 (Controller intel);
  2. We've got to other 4-port sata2 on a different construction to the controller;
  3. We can afford a raid at the moment card;
  4. should we put on the benefit from the speed of cache sata2 ssd, or the only way is sata3?

  Thanks in advance.

  You can put on sata2 SSDS (interface is backward compatible), but you will suffer serious non-performance. With sata3 you get 600 MB/s transfer speed, with sata2 just 300 MB/s (taking into account encoding 8B / 10B). And consumers of today SSD sequential transfer rate is approaching even this maximum limit of sata3 interface (i.e. Samsung 840Pro: 520 / 540 MB/s). If you put on sata2 SSDS, you will seriously degrade its performance, perhaps to half of its capacity. If you want to use for caching SSDS, I wouldn't put the SSD on sata2 interface.

  I would of put HDD sata2 rather (and use for SSD sata3 ports). With the exception of the disk cache, without disk hard common has over 300 MB/s transfer speed. He could suffer from degradation in performance a little too much when using cache, but is not as much as the SSD...

• Preparation for the integrated USB ESXi 4.1u1 key

  Hey guys,.

  I just want to check that the method I use to create my key USB ESXi is healthy.  I think that the official production method to use the ESXi Installable on a CD and then install VMware ESXi on USB media, and this is considered to be "shipped".  Instead, I chose to use the SD method and write straight on the USB.

  I extracted: "imagedd" of Imagedd.bz2 in the HP provided ESXi 4.1u1 ISO April release.  The ISO was titled: "4.1_U1_Apr_2011_ESXi_HD_USB_SDImgeInstlr_Z7550_00096.iso" this iso includes all CIM providers for monitoring of hardware, drivers and others.  Also, I did an md5sum against imagedd and checked that it is exactly the same as that provided by HP.

  Under Linux, I plugged in my USB drive which has been recognized as a certified HP: / dev/sdb

  Then as root, I typed: dd if = imagedd of = / dev/sdb bs = 500 M (I forget if it's 500 MB or 500 M, just a note)

  I then tested the stick on a separate portable 64 which has virtualization features.  Everything looks good, ESXi 4.1.0 started very well.

  Any thoughts against my method before I pull the trigger here?  I'm sure I need to configure the zero (newspapers and others) for hard/VMFS disks at any given time.  Thank you.

  -Va

  http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2011/03/ops-changes-part-5-scratch-partition.html created on disk during installation.

• Install ESXi 4.1u1 USB to USB

  I have a N36L HP Proliant Microserver, on which I want to install ESXi 4.1u1. The material has no optical drive, but it has an internal USB that can host a flash drive. I want to install on a 1 GB stick plugged into it. It is two a question on how to do this, but also what I've discovered so far.

  (1) my first attempt was to create a portable USB HD bootable with ISO. It is documented in various places, the easiest of which is to use UNetbootin. Although apparently, it worked in previous versions of ESXi, apparently this does not work in 4.0 + since the installer insists on finding an image on an optical disc instead of the bootable media.

  (2) the workaround for this is to use a kickstart file to call 'usb install', which has the secondary effect of automation of the installation too. However calling "autopart' with the name of the flash drive fails also in my case because scripted installs need to 5 GB of space on the target disk. My stick is 1 GB.

  My remaining options are:

  (1) use another VM (possibly?) with an optical drive to install on a USB thumb key and then plug it into the server. Would this work? Is there only one image for all types of hardware, or installing regular CDROM EXSi when thing custom installed on a specific material does something?

  (2) use a "image writer" (winimage/dd) to write the installation image to ISO directly on the USB. To do this, I have the same questions as above. The images fit everything?

  3) temporarily renounce this strategy and use a cdrom or install it on a hard drive instead.

  Any help would be appreciated!

  Option 1) would do. A base image would work different across of the box. You will find another server or using vmware workstation to create your bootable USB on esxi.  You can follow the tutorial here simply replace these virtual CD ISO of vmware workstation. http://www.techhead.co.UK/installing-VMWare-ESXi-4-0-on-a-USB-memory-stick-the-official-way

• 4.0, ESXi and 3Ware 9650SE Raid 10 array - now what?

  Hello-

  I installed ESXi 4.0 on a new server with the above mentioned RAID 10 array and that you have installed vSphere Client on a separate computer. Under storage cards, I see the following:

  ICH10 2 port SATA IDE Controller

  vmhba1 block SCSI

  vmhba34 block SCSI

  ICH10 4 port SATA IDE Controller

  vmhba0 block SCSI

  vmhba33 block SCSI

  iSCSI Software adapter

  iSCI adapter software iSCSI

  Mobo is a supermicro X8DAH + controller 3Ware is a 9650SE SATA 8LPML (8 ports) with 4 disks preconfigure RAID 10

  How can I get ESXi to see table so I can start installing VM?

  wjstarck wrote:

  Also, leading me to http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle15548.aspx

  Yes, this link seems to have enough detailed instructions on how to install the specific driver under ESX and ESXi.

  When I run Setup ESXi 4.0 DVD, there no option anywhere to load additional drivers?

  According to the article, your RAID device can only serve as secondary storage under ESXi.    If this is the case, I would be first to install ESXi to a small local SATA or USB.  After the initial installation, you can then follow the instructions in the article linked to download/install the driver for your RAID controller.  Then you can use your RAID array to store your guests on.

• Windows Server 2012 slow on ESXi 5.1U1

  Dear jury,

  recently, I installed four Windows Server 2012-VMs on my ESXi. It's a HP DL380G7 (Controller-P410i HP Xeon E5645, 144 GB of RAM, with 8 HP - SAS 500 GB in RAID6).

  All four virtual machines have a very poor performance, SMB video speed, slow slow.

  I have a server 2008R2-Windows on the same host, which are very good. If I copy a file (for example an ISO) of my client to the server, I have about 80 MB/s. If I do the same in one of my 2012 server, I get about 20 MB/s or less. Sometimes the process cancels (destination network not found)... Still the same thing if I copy between virtual machines. When the copy of CPU consumption amounts to 70%, sometimes at 100%, the server is not usable this time.

  What I've done and tested:

  * 2012 Server installed by the standard ISO (MS Action Pack-download)

  * fact update ESXi 5.1 to 5.1U1 and updated on all virtual machines VMWare tools

  * change to VMXNET3 E1000E network card

  * disabled SMB signing

  * changed SVGA drivers for MS-display Standard driver (3D acceleration is grayed out in the VM options!)

  * Settings IP of all virtual machines are ok (DHCP)

  All the 2008R2 works well, all 2012 are very slow...

  What can I check or what I got wrong?

  TIA and greetings from the Germany

  Matthias.

  It's weird,

  As I did the day 1 for my ESXi5.1 update I upated the VMWare tools on all virtual machines as well. Every server 2008R2 did a restart and they are always very good. 2012 servers did not reboot after update the VMWare Tools. Today, I did a restart of all my servers from 2012 and voila, 3 out of 4 are very good. Running quite smooth with 80 to 100 Mbps SMB-Performance! GREAT!

  Just a virtual machine is too slow I started... But this one I will get in shape too, I think that...

  Display 3D even drivers are fine now.

  Best regards

  Matthias.

• Upgrade to ESXi 4.1U1 to 5.0 - lots of questions

  Hello

  I have a standalone ESXi system 4.1U1 (Build 433742) (free license) which works really well.

  Material: DEL PE2900 server with RAID DELL PERC5i controller and two RAID 1 arrays defined.

  Discs: 4x256GB = > 2 x RAID1 with two drives = > 2 logical drives each 256 GB

  -Two tables contain an ESX/ESXi installation

  - First RAID arrray has an ESX 3.5 installation that is old and I no longer use it since ages (starting from the second matrix Raid in BIOS)

  - Second RAID array has an installation of ESX 4.1U1 (Build 433742) . The one I use.

  The two Raid arrays contain an about 250 GB VMFS datastore

  Now, I want to move my box to ESXi (free) 5.0 using the CD-ROM. According to several of the videos from Youtube, it's as easy as making coffee.

  But I had some problems during the upgrade that brought me to cancel and ask first of all you guys. I am very familiar with ESXi/vSphere, but I

  I just want to ask some friends admin of course :-)

  1. problem: drivers incompatible:

  I started the upgrade and was confronted with an error message regarding the 3rd third-party drivers that will be removed and could adversely affect system

  stability if deleted wrongly.

  The drivers are:

  OEM-VMware-ESX-Drives-net-vxge

  OEM-VMware-ESX-Drives-SCSI-3W-9xxx

  Some googling showed that "vxge" seems to be a network of 10GB Netirion card and '3w-9xxx' is a 3Way SCSI card. None of them belongs to

  my hardware configuration, so I guess I can safely ignore this and say installation force.

  Is this correct so far?

  2 problem

  Setup identifies my two matrices RAID (logical disks) and asks me to choose an update. They have exactly the same same name :-(

  Based on (F1) Details shows me the first disc containing my old installation of ESX 3.5 and the VMFS data store and the second of my current installation of the 4.1U1 and the other data store. So far so good. I would choose the second disc that contains updated 4.1U1 and press ENTER. <>.

  Now comes the big question:

  All the videos and guides for upgrade on the internet show a screenshot that list possible upgrade scenarios:

  [x] upgrade ESXi, preserve the VMFS datastore

  But my box shows (and I found a video on youtube) the following as first option:

  [x] force migrate ESXi, preserve the VMFS datastore

  What is the difference and can I safely go the update? Just to remember, I chose the drive containing the installation of 4.1U1 not the

  container ESX 3.5.

  Who would have something to do with the old installation of ESX 3.5 m on the RAID array other even though I chose the disk containing the curretn 4.1U1 install?

  I really appreciate it someone could help me

  Kind regards

  Oliver

  The installation program does not level you VMFS 5 3 VMFS datastore.  You will need to separately after the upgrade completed.

  The message you see is related to your first questions about different package names.  Given that the installer does not know how update this package, it is just to tell you that he's going to migrate everything on and you may be missing some features.

• vDR 2.0 on ESXi 4.1u1 - could not create the snapshot (cannot disable Storage VMotion)

  Two vCenter servers - updated to 5.0 and the other left to 4.1 for now. All ESXi hosts are always 4.1u1. Updated vDR devices since the notes say 2.0 is compatible with 4.0u3, 4.1u1 and 5.0, but now none of my backups work. No matter what vCenter the plugin works through, each virtual machine backup process immediately fails with the error "failed to create the capture instant for VMname, error-3961 (cannot disable Storage VMotion). I can still take snapshots manually via vSphere Client, so I don't know why vDR fail to take a. Ideas?

  Add a few lines to datarecovery.ini on VDR:

  [Options]

  EnableSVMotionCompatibility = 0

  and reboot device here. Page 44 of VDR Admin Guide.

• ESXi 4.1u1 - Wie kann ich mehr als 4 GB RAM Encoder?

  Hallo zusammen,

  The host mit 32GB RAM,

  2 VMS mit I 4 GB RAM vmdk und mit 100 GB, von der 85 GB frei sind.

  Wenn ich nur something uber 4 GB RAM go, lasst sich die VM nicht mehr starten mit der message:

  Unzureichender Festplattenspeicher im Datenspeicher [...]

  Einschalten der VM fehlgeschlagen

  Die virtual Maschine konnte nicht turned werden: no space is available on the device

  As I said, in der C:-sind noch frei 85GB vmdk.

  Wenn ich eine neue VM too equal mit 16 GB RAM einrichte, kann ich sie auch starten.

  Wenn ich die forhandene in eine neue config einbinde, kommt wieder die Fehlermeldung vmdk.

  WER hat eine idea?

  Besten Dank, Jens

  Der "DEM Datenspeicher" bezieht sich nicht auf das Gastsystem, auf den VMFS Datastore. Beim Start der Maschine wird eine Auslgerungsdatei standardmassig virtuallen mit der Grosse of the für die konfigurierten VM but overwriting.

  André

• Is the host ESXi 5.1 supports Intel "Haswell" generation?

  We are running a cluster of 3 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).

  We want to add a new host running processors Intel E5-2600v3 to this cluster.

  However, it seems that both 5.1 and 5.1 ESXi ESXi does not support generation processors 'Haswell.  Is this right?

  http://www.virten.NET/2013/04/Intel-CPU-eVC-matrix/

  Thank you

  5.1 update 2 and update 3 ESXi patches from, he supported. Please look in page VMware HCL VMware Compatibility Guide: cpu