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• Migrate the replication for patching ESXi host device

  Hi guys,.
  

  
  

  I'm trying to Storage vMotion/migrate vSphere replication device to different host for ESXi patches. I get the following message
  
  "This entity is managed by VR management solution. It is not recommended to edit it directly. Instead use the GPMC for the solution if you want to make changes. You want to proceed. "
  
  I use vSpere replication without the SRM device. What is the best approach to upgrade ESXi host where there is replication Appliacce. Should I just stop then move the unit, or is it possible to move it while it is running?

  
  

  Kind regards

  
  

  MQ
  
  

  Hello

  Moving the unit via the technology Vmware is perfectly fine.

  The message/warning you receive is just to warn you that this VM is a critic and you must be careful. The same message if you invoke the power out of this machine.

  Kind regards

  -Martin

• Difference of ESXi hosts between analysis of updates and patches of scene

  Hello

  I have two ESXi hosts with round about 700 applicable patches.

  What is the difference between "stage Patches"und"search for updates"?

  Do I need maintenance mode for the scene fixes?

  Kind regards

  Roland

  

  Hello

  Scan for updates will scan the hosts against the basic lines of patch you have attached to them and to report on the status of this host against the base line, so, essentially, Scan for updates will tell you what patches and updates to your departure are absent from the host if the return "non-compliant" or "compliant" if all patches are already installed.  It can also return 'Unknown' or 'Inconsistent' according to the status of the host and other factors.

  Step will basically copy all files to update and patch that must be installed to the willing host for the conversion, which will be more actually to install patches.  Staging of updates to date does not make service, you don't need to put the host in maintenance mode, while the staging, the host must be in service during the reclamation mode.  You can trigger a reorganization without staging, but the benefit of the staging is, first of all, you will reduce the amount of time that your host is out of action because all patches and updates are already in place in anticipation of final approval, which means that the rehabilitation phase is much faster.

  I hope this helps.

  vM

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• ESXi hosts with VCSA 5.1 patch

  Hello

  I use the 5.1 VCSA in our environment with a mixture of standard and enterprise more 5.1 ESXi hosts.  My question is what are my options to patch (apply the updates of security and minor improvements) as VCUM offers in an environment strictly Windows?

  Thank you

  I know from a normal vSphere Manager installation of update you specify port 80 of the vCenter server. Have you tried this port number?

• Update Server VC and 5.5 ESXi hosts to update 3 b (Build 3248547)

  I'm in vCenter Server 5.5 and 5.5 ESXi hosts.  Both are updated 3A, patched to version 201510001, which is the build 3116895.  I plan the upgrade of update 3 b (Build 3248547) and I'm a little confused on the question of SSLv3.

  I wonder if this point below ESXi55 U3b & VC 55U3b Known Issues applies to my config:

  ESXi does not automatically added to the inventory of the vCenter servers
  If you install an earlier version of vCenter Server and vSphere Update Manager for ESXi 5.5 updated 3B, then after the task of sanitation, ESXi does not automatically added to the VC inventory. Remediation process never gets done and ESXi State of connection in the VC inventory is presented as disconnected. Solution: When you restart ESXi after reorganization process is started, enable SSLv3 on ESXi (which is disabled by default). This will ensure that ESXi is added to the VC inventory automatically in minutes and sanitation as completed.

  If I'm reading things correctly, upgrade to vCenter Server to 3 b first and then upgrade the ESXi hosts, will avoid lost communication problems.  Can anyone confirm?

  It should be good if you update vCenter first.

  The problem is that pre - U3b vCenter 5.5 forces an SSLv3 connection when connecting to an ESXi host on port 443 (not the reverse). It does this, even if the host ESXi and vCenter SSL/TLS libraries actually support TLS 1.0 + since at least vSphere 4.0.

  So when you update one host to 5.5 U3b, the oldest vCenter again will try to force a connection SSLv3 that will fail, since SSLv3 has been disabled to the host. If you're updating vCenter, first of all, it will initiate a good TLS 1.0 + connection to more similar and updated hosts.

  Here is an explanation of the (pre - U3b) vCenter SSLv3 handshake behavior:

  Re: vCenter and host communication SSL v3

• 6.0 ESXi hosts are no longer

  Hello world!

  I have a problem with VMware ESXi 6.0.

  I have a VMware Cluster with 3 6.0 ESXi host. Last night 2 ESXi host has become unresponsive. ESXi hosts concerned, responds to the ping, but unplug vCenter, unable to connect directly to the client host with vSphere and unresponsive on DCUI. The VMs - running concerned guests - became unresponsive (VMware HA cannot restart VMs, because the host has locked the VMs file). Only solution: reset the hosts. After hard reset hosts, HA restart VM on another host and host affected normal work. The problem occurd when high e / s (backup, at the level of the files inside the virtual machine) on HBA.

  In the /var/log/vmkernel.log , I see a lot of messages both "crash":

  WARNING: lpfc: lpfc_sli_issue_abort:9956: 1:3169 Abort failed: Abort INP: data: x 0 xcd0 x 8 x 98

  ScsiPath: 7133: Set retry timeout for demolition of TaskMgmt failed for CmdSN 0x0, State failure, path vmhba5:C0:T0:L0

  The configuration of the hosts:

  Host type: IBM x 3850 X 5

  VMware version: Lenovo ESXi 6.0 custom + VMware ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 2

  CF: 2 * Emulex LightPulse FC SCSI 10.4.236.0 IBM 0494 42 8 GB 2-port PCIe FC HBA for System x Emulex firmware version: 2.02X11 version of the Emulex driver: 10.4.236.0 - 1OEM.600.0.0.2159203

  The host firmware versions are later.

  VMware installed on a USB stick (clean install, not upgraded), LOG dir on the CF data store.

  The storage and the side FC switches have no error/warning message.

  I see the VMware KB 2086025 and 2125904. In this KB article the symptoms are very similar to our situation, but our guests have the most recent version of the Emulex driver (KB articles: version prior to 10.2.340.18, our 10.4.236.0 version)

  I tried the latest Emulex firmware (version: 10.6.126.0, install and reboot host) but the host crash again and the same newspaper as above.

  Today a new problem, when I collect information on diagnosis (registers of export) of the host:

  • first of all welcome: unplug vCenter for seconds 3 times (State of heartbeat), and download of the newspaper failed, when the host disconnect, virtual machines (which run on this host) does not not on LAN
  • second host: connect download start, after the 10-minute purple screen:

  

  I have found no solution.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks for your help!

  Have you seen the question of host unresponse before 6.0 updated. If not, I suspect strongly this is due to "VMware KB: ESXi 6.0 the network connectivity is lost with the NETDEV WATCHDOG timeouts in the vmkernel.log". Try upgrading to the latest version 6.0 that contains the fix for this.

  The purple screen could be a different product bug and I doubt that it does not always happen. Based on the screenshot, it looks like collection Journal (vm-support) was going through some of the nodes of the VSI and failed at this point. So this issue could happen specifically only during some invocation of vm-support. Good to raise a complaint with the help of VMware.

• VMware ESXI host Client is not compatible with the Ipad

  Hi all

  First of all I want to say that I am very happy with the introduction of the ESXI host Client, it's a very good start for not having a vSphere client to be installed.

  One thing I was hoping too is compatible with mobile devices, for example, an IPad. Unfortunately this isn't the case. Not for IOS 8 or 9

  I tried several browsers without a bit of luck.

  There are several problems;

  • The page is not scaling properly
  • The top bar is not visible, you can, for example, sign out
  • The Web page expands when you rotate the page on the iPad horizontally, not having not not able to see the Web page complete.

  I found these problems in Tech Preview, build 2015.08.25.3015331 combined with ESXI 6 with the latest patch

  Kind regards

  Marcel

  Hi Marcel,.

  Thanks for pointing out these problems. We have made a few improvements wrt. support iPad in the last version of the adventure. Could you update and let me know how it goes?

• How to upgrade an ESXi host from the command line

  Sorry for bumping an old thread. I'm new to ESXi. I'm under ESXi 5.5 build 1331820 and I am at a loss how to apply patches.

  Preferably, I would like to apply all the relevant patches through console (SSH). Can someone give me pointers how to do this? Thank you

  Moderator note (a.p.): branched to a new discussion of software patch to version 1331820?

  Welcome to the community,

  on how to patch a ESXi host from the command line, please see for example http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2008939

  Basically download you the latest hotfix package and install it using the command esxcli . That said, please make sure that your hardware is supported by the patch that you want to apply (see http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl). You can also do before installing the patch, is to do a "dry - run" to know what . VIBS are removed and which are installed by the patch. To do this add -dry - run to the esxcli command line.

  In the case where something goes wrong, you can revert to the previous state by pressing SHIFT-R , while the ESXi hosts begins the start-up.

  André

• 5.1 ESXi host is showing that does not

  Hi all

  We are to vCenter 5.5 with Environment 5.1 ESXi hosts. On one of our ESXi hosts, we sometimes get to see 5.1 ESXi, (build 799733) host is not responding and the virtual machines on this subject are displayed as status disconnected at the end of their names.

  When this happens, we are able to ping on the ESXi host and virtual machines are also able to ping / react to what is good, but he continues to be on different hosts at different times, all what I do when this occurs is to try to reconnect on the ESXi host and it connects fine and machines virtual hosting on she will return to the State normal and everything will be normal on this host. I want to understand why this is happening at different times and on different hosts of ESXi and ensure that this should not happen again in the future or find the before root cause is even worse.

  so, could someone please look at this and let me know where to start troubleshooting this to find the root cause.

  Thanks in advance

  Your vCenter and ESXi host is on the same subnet? In any case, I recommend you take a look at this article and apply the patch suggested: VMware KB: hosts ESXi and ESX disconnect randomly VMware vCenter Server

• 15/10/2014 patches ESXi break Citrix Netscaler VPX Appliance

  The part warning, part question...

  My ESXi hosts were v5.5.0 206190 (directly from the 5.5U2 cd - RollupISO2), I applied the following hotfixes:

  ID: ESXi550-201410101-SG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update esx-base

  ID: ESXi550-201410401-BG Impact: critical release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update esx-base

  ID: ESXi550-201410402-BG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update drivers-misc

  ID: ESXi550-201410403-BG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update sata ahci

  ID: ESXi550-201410404-BG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update xhci-xhci

  ID: ESXi550-201410405-BG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update tools-light

  ID: ESXi550-201410406-BG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update net-vmxnet3

  subsequently they were 2143827 v5.5.0

  Once updated my Citrix Netscaler VPX devices 2 (vmware hardware 8, Citrix Netscaler OS v10.5.52.11nc (latest), FreeBSD 64 bit, E1000 Nic) has stopped responding on the network. They work very well when it is on the old version 5.5U2 but starts to drop packets intermittently and then finally deposited the network during the migration to a host that has the patches listed above. I have 2 mode high availability, this happens even if only one is enabled and the other offshore. It goes back to normal when back to host pre patched vmotioned.

  I have tried switching networks, remove and add network, upgrade to 10 hardware cards, removing all together and deploy the latest version of the citrix website, if it fall not all together, he will drop a lot of packages. You can watch the netscaler console display events NŒUD FAIL, NŒUD down and NŒUD up to several times per minute.

  DIFFICULTY (or work around)?

  Hi all

  When you work with VMWare Technical support they foud a solution that works for me almost an hour now.

  Maybe you guys can 'test' this solution too?

  Enter the shell in the NetScaler mode, then:

  (1) find location loader.conf on NetScaler VM #find /-name loader.conf

  For the VM NetScaler downloaded, there are 2 loader.conf:./flash/boot/defaults/loader.conf and. / flash/boot/loader.conf, we only need to change one.

  (2) add "hw.em.txd = 512" in loader.conf, this will change the Tx ring size to 512 (Note: do not set the size of the ring to 256, it will cause the NetScaler VM core dump)

  (3) restart the NetScaler VM

  4) migrate to a host with the latest patches

  Good luck...

  Edit: still works fine, also with userload in production environment

• Patching ESXi 5.1 U1 U2-> custom VIBs

  Hi guys,.

  I have an ESXi host I plan to patch. Patching of hosts in the past never gave me trouble, but this host is different because I'm under additional VIBs thereon (LSI PMI provider for example).

  If I use the following command:

  • software esxcli vib install /vmfs/volumes/datastoreNameHere/fileNameHere.zip d

  My custom VIBs will disappear when the hotfix is applied?

  Thank you!

  The installation of a lot of patches will replace the vibs included in the package, so if there are additional vibs will not be affected. In any case, what you can do to do this is to run the command with the -dry - run option to find out what will be changed. Other use install , you can also run the command esxcli with Update replacing vibs that have been updated.

  André

• Updated 5.1 ESXi host

  Hello

  I have a VMware 5.1.0 host 1157734. There the ESXi image profile - 5.1.0 - 799733.

  Software using the command esxicli vib UPDATE without specifying the vib for the esxi-510-201404001, is the host became fully updated?

  Or do I have to install each updates in order?

  Thanks in advance...

  Dmsousa

  You can patch the current build using only the last patch of the host. Please take a look at KB VMware: installation of patches on an ESXi host from the command-line 5.x for the difference between install and Update, especially if you use additional drivers or the vendor/OEM facility.

  André

• Store prices a 4.0.0 ESXi host procedure

  Hi guys,.

  I have a big problem!

  Hard & VMware

  Material:

  HP Pro Binder DL 380 G5

  RAID 6

  PowerEdge P400 Smart array

  300 GB 10 K 6 SAS HARD DRIVE

  Total storage space 1.2 TB

  VMware:

  ESXi 4.0.0 171294

  local data storage: data store 541,75 GB

  What I need now is to move to Datastorae without delete or reinstall the entire Vmware. What is needed as possible to increase or tie the total storage to vmware otherwise this Esxi 4 is useless.

  I have attached a few screenshots maybe it will help you understand.

  I have read many of the same problems here but no useful solution to increase the storage without reinstallation. Hope someone can help me because I can't back it up with my backuptools only with the datastorebrowser and it would take several days.

  If you need further information, please ask me for an easy fix, I am also prepared to make a cash donation

  concerning

  Zafer

  I solved the problem for me. For all those who receive the same problem do not like me. If you have this version: 4.0.0 171294 ESXi

  FIRST OF ALL, PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP OF THE FILES WITH THE APPLICATIONS.

  NO MATTER HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE!

  1. install Vsphere Host update utility

  2 Update(all firmwares and patches) the host who needs more data space

  3. connect with VSphere and set the VMware host in maintenance mode

  4 Referesh MI diskusage host configuration

  5. hardware > storage > Dtx200 > ADD storage

  6.HDD/LUN

  7. Select storage to add > next > finish

  8 restart the server VM

  9 assign storage to the virtual machine (VM) and have some fun for your virtual machine to start without an errormessage.

  Hope that will help someone not reinstall or update the VMware Server to another version.

  Now I can enjoy my weekend

  Greetings

  Zafer YIHAAAAAAAA

• What is the best way to get a customized version # from an ESXi host?

  Each quarter, we generate a sequence of updates (including patches and security scripts) which are performed manually on our 5.0 ESXi hosts. I don't have an internet connection and so I have to do it this way.  I would like to be able to identify the last quarterly update that has been run on the vCenter servers and/or Client VI.

  Right now, I think adding the quarter, example 1 Q 13 on the DCUI message, then help PowerCLI, vCenter to retrieve the message DCUI, crawled and paste the quarter in the field host Annotations on vCenter.

  Kind of ugly, but I cannot find a cool way to get data like this outside of the host.  I don't want to rely on my user manually set to nothing, for example the field of Annotations on vCenter that is also subject to errors.

  I really want something that can also be seen on the VI Client, too, as the annotations are only on vCenter.

  I have ideas about the best approach to tackle this problem.

  Thank you

  Not sure if this is the best way, but that's what I ended up doing.   It feels like there should be a better way.

  I've updated my quarterly script to add the version number at the bottom of the file, / etc/vmware/welcome, whenever it is run on an ESXi host (e.g. myScript version: v1.0 Date: 04June2013).  This file appears under the banner DCUI.

  Then, I wrote a script powerCLI to roughly the following:

  foreach ($vmHostObj in Get-VMHost-name *) {}

  # Get the full message of DCUI in/etc/vmware/welcome

  $msgObj = echo $vmHostObj | Get-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration-name Annotations.WelcomeMessage

  # Convert a hash of a string table welcome message

  $msgTxt = echo $msgObj.Item ("Annotations.WelcomeMessage")

  # find the clue for the string containing my script information, which is at the end of the welcome message.

  # This is important because the substring below function will extract everything after the index.

  $idx = $msgTxt.IndexOf ("version myScript :")

  If ($idx - gt 0) {}

  $label = $msgTxt.Substring ($idx)

  Set Annotation - remarks on the entity $vmHostObj - CustomAttribute - value $label

  }

  }

  This replaces the Notes field for each host, one day I can go back and make it more user-friendly where it replaces the version leaving the rest of the field notes intact.

• Cannot start the unique virtual machine after you have patched ESXi to 4.1.0 800830

  I patched a standalone ESXi host yesterday, leading a successful ESXi 4.1.0 800830 upgrade.

  The majority of my virtual machines started very well but it fails to start with the following error (as the specified file does not exist (?)). As I've not met it before, and I'm running out of time, anyone would offer nuggets of wisdom while I continue to trawl the web / these forums for a response?

  

  Thank you

  Carl

  Can you browse the data store where is stored the than VM and check what files you see in the directory for this virtual machine? The error claimed that it cannot find a file of virtual disk for this virtual machine.