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• New ESX5 host - questions see SAN storage data and much more

  Just installed a new vSphere host 5 and added to a cluster with 2 x 3.5 host (in my vCenter Server 5)

  3 questions.

  1. I can't see LUN (on SAN datastore). Have zoned out my new HBA etc and still no joy. Tried the host that it recharges and rescan option etc. Any ideas?

  2 - my 3.5 hosts I was able to specify different default gateways for my Console and VMKernel Service (both on the same vswitch). I have the Service Console configured vmkernel. 10.16.5.x and 172.16.5.x (I know there is no Service Console in vSphere 5\ESXi) but on my ESX5 host I can't specify different gateways for VMKernel and network management. I'm afraid that vmotion etc will not work between 3.5 hosts and host 5, because although the VMkernels have addresses in the same range, they have not the same gateway. I have to add a local route on the host ESX 5? Or am I wrong configured somewhere?

  3 minor irritation. My local drive in my new server is showing that the data store. Can it be hidden or changed to not be visible in the data store? I want to only display my SAN data stores.

  Thank you very much

  Steve

  (1) sounds like a SAN configuration problem - you should be able to see the LUN masking and zoning is correct in the FC switch and storage array.

  (2) you could specify wear two ways because the vmkernel and the Service Console were different and supposed to be on different networks - you no longer have a gateway single vmkernel - traffic will work as long as they are on the same subnet - a gateway is used only when you exit the subnet

  (3) I do not think it is possible to hide the local data store - but I could be wrong

• ESX host cannot see the data store

  Hello team, I have vcenter management 5 2 host esxi5. now added an esxi4 in the cluster and added iniitators for file systems. I can see the paths under this host of esx4 showing the LUN of the registrants. but I'm not able to see the data to store. When I tried to edit a newly created virtual machine to find the iso from the data store, it shows only the local hard disk of the host, which is a UCS blade. exsi5 hosts the two ok to see all data stores. can someone tell which part is wrong? Thank you!

  Looks like there is no problem with the presentation of the logic unit number since you can see the path to the LUN from the host.

  Is - these created data VMFS storages are 50 ESXi? If so, the VMFS version 5 (VMFS 5) which is not supported in ESXi 4.1.

  In this case, its expected that the host ESXi 4.1 will not show VMFS5 data warehouses.

• Host cannot see Local disk for VSANs

  Hello

  We are building our first host VSANs and fell at the first hurdle. Our host config is:

  IBM x 3650 m4 7915
  ServerRaid M5110e
  1 x 200GB SSD SATA
  1 x 600 GB 10 k SAS SSD
  IBM Vmware Hypervisor USB with 5.5 u1 image installed.

  The problem is that the esx host cannot see the 2 disks that are mounted. Lists under storage controller MegaRAID SAS merger adapters (not sure where he gets the name of merger of). When I click on the controller for 2 drives do not appear under devices or paths. If I go in to the RAID controller to start upward and configure drives individually to be RAID 0 then ESX sees the two discs, but unconsciously, cannot identify the Type of the SSD drive. I think that there is a work around that, but I know that's not ideal, and according to the vSAN HCL of the Raid Controller above supports passthrough. Get the pull-out hold to work turns out to be difficult, but I hope that it is just something simple, I missed. Someone at - it an idea where I should start looking?

  Thanks in advance.

  Thanks for the tip CHogan, it worked, but after reading the disadvantages of this method in your book "Essential Virtual SAN" I persisted for the pass-through to work on the raid controller.

  After some further research it turns out that I had to physically remove the RAID 1 GB Flash cache on the motherboard. In removing what it affects the RAID controller. He calls it. mode of TMI which allows for amp JBOD.

  Thanks to all for your responses.

• Disconnected ESX host cannot add to the CR

  It started with me being unable to power on a virtual machine that I created because of "Insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for HA" which is great because that's how to configure HA.  I tried to reconfigure the AP to the host by double-clicking on the host and select this option.  Once I did that it failed about 30% with "an error has occurred while setting up the HA Agent on the host" and the networking page disappeared from the configuration tab similar to what a lot of people reported during the upgrade, I think an earlier version.  This is not the case, I did not update anything.  Then I restarted service service mgmt-vmware restart and the ESX host disconnected from the VC altogether.  I can't use the VI client to connect to the host in question, but I am connected via the service console. All VM and the host not to requests ping and everything works. I've disabled HA and DRS and tried to add new ESX host that has not worked.

  Any help is appreciated.  Thank you.

  I found this article that has the same symptoms as you.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1004451

  Check if your esx.conf file is corrupted. Follow the directions in the KB article to restore or recreate.

  Arnim - van Lieshout

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• Install new ESX hosts.  Cannot Ping.

  Hi all

  I'm building a test lab which so far consists of:

  ESX1: 20.1.1.10 255.255.255.0

  vCenter: 20.1.1.100 255.255.255.0

  Openfiler iscsi: 20.1.1.40 255.255.255.0

  I had all these configured devices and can ping throughout (with a little help from you friendly people, of course). I just tried to install my second esx host and I have a few problems to get to communicate with the rest. During installation I assigned an IP address of 20.1.1.80 255.255.255.0 so its on the same network. Rattling of the evil machine returns "destination host unreachable". Ping to it from any other device returns the same. esxcfg-NICS - l is the network card. Route - n shows exactly the same output as my other work esx host.

  This workshop is entirely on its own network. All devices are networked through a simple switch 16-port Dell 2216 with any VLAN or whatever it is.

  I tried all sorts of troubleshooting a layer on my switch ports, including the passage of the cables, and finally pulling up the entire hard drive and put it in a same laptop to rule out a bad network card. I also went into the bios and adapted settings my host to work to avoid any possible problem of allocation of resources.

  One strange thing I noticed. When I run esxcfg-nics command on my network card work esx host is displayed. When I pull on the cable and run the command, it displays down. Plug it in again, almost immediately goes back to the top. However, when I try the same process on this machine of boredom, the NIC appears whether or not the cable is connected some sort of funny business going on here. What Miss me?

  EDIT: I could have taken the lead on this one.  I see now that speed is 0MBPS and is half-duplex.  I gave the esxcfg-NICS-s-100 d full vmnic0 command but esxcfg-NICS-l does not reflect them.  I'll try a reboot, but I think this is probably my problem.

  Faulty network card causes a problem of driver especially problem run miit-tool to check the duplex speed and also his ping locally? stop the firewall during the tests of time and running tcpdump on interface to control icmp traffic.

  ifconfig - a vswif0 control is in place and the correct ip address?

  Thank you

  Pitoux

  -Path to the virtual world.

• Mobile vcenter server in existing farm to new esx host

  Scenario of

  2 ESX host running version 3.

  1 ESX host running version 4

  New vm on vcenter server machine within the current cluster

  Existing vcenter server is a physical machine.

  How can I move my existing to my new host ESX cluster virtual vcenter server.

  In your original description I though you said "Existing vcenter server is physical machine" - so you say your vCenter server is already virtualized? If they are all machines - the esx3 2 and 4 1 under this environment vCenter esx execution? They share a common network for vMotion? Are you running vCenter 4?  If all this is true, you should be able to vMotion between ESX hosts - if they are not part of a commune vCenter environment but share common storage that Yes, you can simply turn off the virtual machine remove it form the inventory of existing cluster and then using the browser of data store to find the vmx file and add it to the inventory of the new server =

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• ESX host cannot ping the default gateway.

  Hi Experts,

  I have connected ESX hosts to switch cisco as well by the ILO and other ports.

  Cisco switch configuration;

  int gig 1/0/21 and 1/0/13 gig and gig 1/0/14 are configured as access ports because they are carriers/tagging vLan as a 306.

  Cisco switch, I can ping the ip address of the ILO, but I can't ping the IP address management and vice versa.

  IP Managment

  10.197.204.10

  255.255.255.0

  10.197.204.1

  VLAN 306

  Attached the screenshot shown in the diagram.

  your help will be appreciated.

  Concerning

  Don't know what it is, but there must be something simple that you miss

  Let's go through each step of configuration for both ESXi network connections (ILO work already, so we do not touch).

  Check the configuration of switch port physical interface GigabitEthernet1/0/13 and 1/0/14.

  switchport access vlan 306

  switchport mode access

  spanning tree portfast

  Only connect the cable network for vmnic0 to host and make sure what vmnic0 presents itself as 'connected' in the DCUI

  

  Make sure the VLAN ID is empty.

  

  Make sure you then the IP settings are correct (IE without typos,...) and restart the management network from the main menu.

  André

• New virtual machine cannot see host DVD rom

  I installed VMware ESX 3i 3.5.0 Build 123629 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2900 and began the process of adding new virtual machines. The Issus is that when I start the virtual machine and intsaller attempted the BONE of the guest virtual computer does not see the DVD, even if it is the setup of the virtual machine. When I go in the settings of the virtual machine and try to set up DVD to use the host device, I get the message that no device is available. Help...

  

  SATA has always been a little flakey when it comes to ESX.  You should maybe update your BIOS or make some small changes in the BIOS for him to see the player.  A quick fix would be to create an ISO of the DVD that you want to use and upload it to your data store to use until you get the problem solved.

  • Kyle

• After Update 2, Esxi 5.0 host cannot see storage

  I have a HP DL380 g-8 server that was running ESXi 5.0. He had 6 virtual machines running on it for 8 months with no problems. Today I applied the update 2 for ESXi 5.0 and it says the update successfully applied. After the reboot, the server could not detect any storage. When connecting with VSphere client it says "the ESXi host has no persistent storage." Virtual machines are listed as "unknown, 1 unknown unknown 2," etc.

  All storage is local. There are four disks are attached to a P420 controller card. When I click on "Storage adapters" in vsphere client, he mentions the card controller as "Patsburg 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller '. I tried a new analysis and it did not work.

  I think here, but I have an out of date firmware. I just found this page HP for the P420 with a VIB released a few weeks ago update:

  http://h20000.www2.HP.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en & cc = us & prodTypeId = 18964 & prodSeriesId = 5193414 & swItem = MTX-96dc068234d34bceba2e2e1139 & prodNameId = 5193409 & swEnvOID = 4115 & swLang = 8 & taskId = 135 & mode = 4 & idx = 1

  This link describes how to install the firmware, but this particular ESXi host is far away and I can't seem to him physically. I can connect using SSH. So my question is (having never used SCP or updated firmware on ESXi): is it possible to completely remotely via SSH, and if so, how?

  If there are any other suggestions, I'm open to them. No matter what to get storage online.

  Thank you!

  You should be able to run this command in an SSH session.  As long as SSH is enabled, you should be able to SCP the file above.  WinSCP is a client of SCP Inuit free, for Windows, that should work just fine.

• New OS displays cannot see the virtual disk drive

  I am creating a new of Windows XP virtual machine on a standalone ESX Server using local storage.  After crossing the start of initial installation and learn how to "To install windows press" the next screen says

  «the installation program found no hard disk units installed in your computer»

  I read in a few places this may be due to the poor selection of bus or logic LSI logic when creating the virtual machine, but I tried them both and they both have the same error.

  Is it possible that the problem is the installation media that I use?  Other Installtion disks seem to find storage that I installed a 2003 server.

  Yep for XP, you must:

  VM-> change settings-> disk-> existing Floppy image in the data store-> Browse-> vmimages-> disk-> vmiscsi *.flp

  vcbMC - 1.0.6 Beta

  Lite vcbMC - 1.0.7

  http://www.no-x.org

• ESXi 4 host cannot see IBM FC N3600 storage

  I configured the N3600 as described in the pdf of vmware SAN guide.

  The LUNS and initiator are implemented as VMware.

  I have a Dual Port 4Gbe Qlogic HBA on the HP DL380 server.

  ESXi has two vmhba.

  vmhba1: 50:01:43:80:04:c4:cc:25 50:01:43:80:04:c4:cc:24

  vmhba2:50:01:43:80:04:C4:cc:27 50:01:43:80:04:c4:cc:26

  I have setup an initiator group in the N3600 with OS type = VMWare and the two following initiators in it.

  50:01:43:80:04:C4:CC:24

  50:01:43:80:04:C4:CC:26

  For some reason any when I rescan the vmhba1 and vmhba2 I get nothing. No devices no path

  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

  You say "no devices no path.

  To me that looks like a SAN issue. Please check on your FC switch zoning.

  André

• retired former host ESX 3.5 and you want to use the license for the new ESX 3.5host

  We put one of our ESX host out of service and will be replaced by a new ESX host.  I would like to use the license from the old host to the new host.  How do I do that?

  BY stopping the old host you have returned the licenses to the pool available and ready to be used by the new host.

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• Adding a new ESX 3.5 to a cluster server

  I currently have an ESX Server connected to my san ISCI. I would add another ESX Server to the cluster. What is a procedure to follow to add the new ESX Server to the cluster, allowing him to see the virtual machines that are already on the other ESX Server?

  See this link for a simple cluster how

  http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/VMware-ESX-articles/VMotion-DRS-high-availability/configure-VMware-high-availability-VMHA.html

  If the target ISCSI (SAN you) has been configured to allow access of the new ESX host in the cluster, once the Vmkernel port / initiator of ICSI has been configured on the new host, it should be able to see the VMFS data store (you need to perform a new analysis your storage adapters). It should be able to see the store of data before it is attached to the new cluster.

• ESX host will not use VMotion

  Hi all

  I have a question maybe someone can help.

  I installed two new ESX hosts in their own cluster, managed by a single data center environment.

  After the installation and updates, adding them to the Cluster environment and adding new licenses to the license server VC.

  I have one of the two ESX host who won't use VMotion. Everything is allowed as should be. But in the section of the Add On to the Configuration of the license, I see the following:

  VMware DRS Licensed for 2 cpu

  VirtualCenter for ESX Server Licensed agent for 2 cpu

  VMotion will not used

  VMware Consolidated Backup for 2 cpu license

  VMware HA under license for 2 cpu

  Additional details:

  Both servers in the cluster are identical hardware profiles: Intel 3.2Gig Xeon, 2 cavities 4 hearts, no HT.

  32Gig of RAM, (Proliant DL380 G5)

  The two servers connected to the SAN via Fibre Chanel Switch, redundant.

  Concert NIC ((VMNic 0 (Console 1), VMNic 1 (Standby adapter), VMNic 2 (Console 2) (the Virtual Machine Network), (VMkernel), (ports of vSwitch 56 none VLAN not defined) VMNic 3 (Standby adapter)).)

  No errors in the Logs of license, the Console message, etc. Everything seems in good health with no update needed.

  Both servers see the unique data store, created on the same SAN which it connects through the switch channel.

  VMFS 3.31.  Unique data store with several extensions (8 in total, the creation of a size of 15 to storage).

  Any ideas?

  All my other hosts using VMotion, but it does not work and there is no difference in configuration, I know.

  Thank you

  • FPTHREE

  Some of the most common problems that cause problems VMotion - have you enabled for VMotion vmkernel port? VMkernel ports on the same segments of entwork?

  Can you provide the ip addresses for your vmkernel enabled for vmotion -

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