Storage vmotion esxi 5.5 to 6.0 does not not for some vm

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• PowerEdge 1850: Need to add storage: ISCSI or SATA controller or? : Host does not support configuring passthrough

  I have a (non - VT capable) PowerEdge 1850 which took an ESXi 4.0 U1 (Dell Version) installation like a champ.  I know that I probably won't be able to have 64-bit clients.

  In this box of ESXi (laboratory

  Server) I have:

  • 2 x 73 GB SCSI U320 drives in RAID 0 array.

  • 6 GB OF RAM ECC

  • 2 x 1 GB NIC

  • 2 x PCI - X slots (PCI - X slot 133 MHz and PCI - X connector 100 / 66 MHz)

  I want to add more space "VM/Guest" and not spending too much money.

  What is my best solution?

  1. Find a compatible ESATA 3Gbps controller card (I have a nice 500 GB SATA Drive laying around)? ...

  2. Or should I get out an old box and throw a Gigabit NETWORK card and a SATA inside player and try my hand at Openfiler? I have yet to try it.

  3. ... Or... something else?

  Could someone help me hand choose either a PCI controller card - X ESATA/SATA (is - it possible or am I limited by my attached picture?) or a NETWORK card for my spare box (if it is not an old)?  I understand "_ _passthrough configuration"allows my virtual machine to hardware on the host computer directly, but I'm not clear how this effects my plans you want.

  I read:

  • http://www.VM-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php#storage

  • http://ultimatewhitebox.com/iocontroller

  • http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

  .. .but I am suspicious of money sinking into the material lest my PowerEdge does not support the Configuration PassThrough (does it matter?)  I still have to load a single guest.

  Thanks a lot for your time in advance!

  Get started with what you have. Do not pass anything. Set up the old PC you have as a NFS storage device. Use openfiler or? That will allow you to do some investigation/tests you want to do. Keep your eyes open for a local RAID controller or on an old server with lots of fast scsi storage you can add such as NFS or?

• ESXi 5.1 driver PMI-1157734 does not work properly?

  Hello world

  I'm having a problem with an Intel RS25DB080 card. 5.1 ESXi can see the card properly and mount data warehouses which I created through the raid itself card bios. What I can't get to work is the card remote management.

  I installed the following driver by (which supports my card)

  https://Downloadcenter.Intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?lang=eng & DwnldID = 22062

  The problem is, I still can't scan and find the device through the web console of raid. I can see the computer (which is located on the console) is sending SYN packets, however there is no answer.

  I checked that the CIM server is running on the host computer, and that the firewall allows connections of 'all ip addresses' as well.

  Any ideas?

  I'm the network team. The port, it sends SYN packets is not open on the host computer. It's the bit that does not make sense.

  The servers are on the same subnet. There is no firewall or a device that blocks connections between devices.

  I solved the problem by following the steps listed in this link:

  • http://www.tinkertry.com/ESXi-5-1-can-run-LSI-MegaRAID-in-a-VM/

  It seems that Intel are useless and have updated not their drivers (while LSI have).

  Tip for everyone: do not buy the Intel cards, they do not intend to support them properly

• Install Esxi 4.1 Dell configuration manager does not find esxi

  When the dell Configurator requires the CD of Esxi, I put downloaded 4.1 Esxi installable cd and it does not recognize.

  Any idea?

  I guess the only thing that can fail is the installation of all the necessary modules.  This, however, can normally be solved after installation.

  If you have found this helpful at all prices please points using the correct or useful!  Thank you!

• 6 ESXi on Mac mini 2012 Yosemite does not start

  Hello

  im a Mac mini running with ESXi 6 2012. I create a virtual machine to run Yosemite. On my Mac, VMware Fusion 7.1.1 it executed. When I download on my ESXi server, it fails to start and stay on point. When I use the verbose boot, he tell me missing bluetooth.

  Can anyone help?

  Greetings

  Hi demiyo and welcome to the VMware communities!

  There is a known issue with the 'Upload on server' function in Fusion 7 when used with virtual machines in Mac OS X, which causes the loss of one of the necessary configuration options for Mac OS X virtual machines run.  The symptom is that the virtual machine appears to hang when starting, never getting to the login screen.

  To work around the problem:

  • Power off the virtual machine.
  • Open a session shell ESXi (if it is not already selected, use the ESXi console Troubleshooting Options section to allow the ESXi Shell or SSH).
  • Change directory to the virtual machine (/ vmfs/volumes/datastore1 /...).
  • Edit the virtual machine configuration file to add the following line:

  SMC. Present = 'TRUE '.

  • Quit the editor and the power on the virtual machine.  It should now boot successfully.

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• Installed ESXi on USB/Flash but swap does not seem to have been placed on the virtual disk

  Hello

  I've read several times that when you install ESXi 5.1 on flash media he creates a work space available on a virtual disk of 4 GB in/tmp/scratch so that the USB itself is not used for temporary data to extend the life of the USB.  However, this doesn't seem to be from my experience and I was wondering if someone can help me to confirm that my disc scratch is actually on a virtual disk or whatever on the USB.  I should mention as well as installing ESXi has identified correctly as 'flash' disc type and the disc as a "Generic USB drive»

  After installation, I noticed two things:

  1 log-in user activity logs are able to survive a reboot (I don't think they should the ramdisk is dissolved after a reboot)

  2. There is no directory with the path/tmp/scratch

  Unfortunately I can not directly determine where the partition scratch is (be it on USB or RAM) because I did not have a file ' / etc/fstab "watching (even if I under ESXi 5.0 disk a hard base install?) and it doesn't seem to be a 'mount' command I can use to look at the existing mounts either.

  Can anyone tell me what can I do to verify that the directory used for temporary files is actually a virtual disk and not on the USB drive itself?  Hours of research are presented only the forum messages and documentation clearly indicating that the file will use "/ tmp/scratch", but that just isn't the case.

  Thanks in advance for all your help.

  As you can see from the output

  ~ snip ~

  drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1260 28 Dec 23:08 50de22a5-f4afafa0-f7b5-001517197ad8
  root drwxr-xr-x 1 root 8 1 January 1970 50df4c30-82b86e61-8522-001517197ad8
  lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 1 Jan 22:21 640GB_WD_Black_AALS-1 -> 50de22a5-f4afafa0-f7b5-001517197ad8

  ~ snip ~

  the UUID is a store existing data "640GB_WD_Black_AALS-1".

  This proves that with an existing data store, a folder ".locker" (which is a ScratchLocation) is automatically created.

  André

• Download from Workstation to ESXi 5.1 9.0 host does not have...

  Hello

  I try to download a virual lamia (WinXP) a VMware Workstation 9.0 from a host ESCi 5.1. But I have only this massage: "Upload failed: a specified parameter was not correct." A parameter that is not correct?

  I have create a new virtual machine with Windows XP, this machine I can download the ESXi host without problems.

  The two rounds of vm without problem in the VMware Workstaion.

  Have one of the ideas?

  Best regards

  Maik

  Check

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2036689

  and

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2012122

  This should be your solution. Had same problem downloading VMWare ESXi 5.1 9.0 - I just disabled the VMWare Tools update (Options-> VMWare Tools-> update manually) and after that, the error message disappeared. Download now...

  See you soon.

• Install ESXi 4.1. the local disk does not start

  I installed ESXi 4.1 successfully. on a local disk, a HP Server 8 Gen. However, the startup fails; I see the initial ESX charger on the screen, then I get this error message

  Kernel: b.z bootUUID =...
  Loading B.z
  No specified favorite video mode.
  Module: k.z
  Loading k.z
  Module: s.z
  Loading s.z
  PANIC: Error reading from file: s.z - 3.
  boot:

  I tried to reinstall, but I get the same message

  anyone experienced this? any help would be appreciated.

  What installation image that you use (VMware or HP)? For models of Gen 8 Server, HP provides an install image updated (ESXi 4.1 Update 2) to https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPVM06

  André

• ESXi-> Cisco 3850-> router upstream routing does not

  Please see the attached diagram.

  I currently have the installation of "router on the stick" and I move to lass on Cisco 3850 battery. Initially, I moved VLAN100.  I can ping to each of the directly connected devices (i.e. the router 3850 and 2911). I can't do a ping to a virtual machine on vlan 100 router and vice versa. Here's what works what doesn't work.

  Work in both sense

  VM (172.16.100.51) <->GW on IVR (172.16.100.254)

  VM (172.16.100.51) <->an another IVR (172.16.230.254)

  VM (172.16.100.51) <->Int L3 on 3850 (10.2.2.2)

  L3 on 3850 (10.2.2.2) int <->int L3 on 2911 (10.2.2.1)

  SVI on 3850 (172.16.100.254) <->int L3 on 2911 (10.2.2.1)

  Does not not in both directions:

  VM (172.16.100.51) <->L3 interface on 2911 (10.2.2.1)

  VM (172.16.100.51) <->else NOT routed on 3850

  I have following routes on 2911 and 3850.

  3850:
  IP route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.2.2.1

  2911:

  IP route 172.16.100.0 255.255.255.0 10.2.2.2

  IP route 172.16.230.0 255.255.255.0 10.2.2.2

  If in theory everything that comes from 172.16.100.51 no 3850 premises must be sent to 10.2.2.1 since it is the default route on 3850.

  I suspect that this is a problem with the license. I have IP Base feature set stack license 3850. I have checked using the license to show and display the version controls.

  According to this FAQ Cisco, http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-3850-..., routing should work because I do not have more than 16 static routes and I'm only using base L3 routing features.

  I am at a loss here. What is going on? Can someone please confirm?

  I bought WS-C3850-24 t-S,

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/TD/docs/switches/LAN/catalyst3850/software/...

  thinking that I would be able to use Lass and keep all traffic to get into the routers as switches upstream of our most ancient were only L2.

  It looks like an upgrade for all IP Services features is possible.

  https://cisco3850.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/licensing-for-cisco-catalyst-....

  That I have to upgrade the image so or can I just pass the license using the built-in commands described here.

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/TD/docs/switches/LAN/catalyst3850/software/...

  I hope that I don't have to reboot switches because this configuration is currently using this stack as the core and distribution.

  Any help is appreciated.

  Thank you

  Turning and the "IP routing" did?

• Now improved ESXi 3.5 to 4, RDM does not work

  The upgrade seemed to work very well and all my virtual machines outside those who use RDM work very well. Those with RDM gave an error that it could not find the map file, so I deleted and recreated. However, when I try to create it, I get this error:

  Reconfigure machine virtual xxxxxxxx file exceeds the maximum size supported bydatastore 'datastor-re1.  xxxxxxxx / xxxxxxxx_6.vm - dk

  That would make no sense since it's a RDM...

  It's my development environment, but I need to get him back online as soon as possible, any ideas?

  Glen

  RE: It's exactly 2 TB and it worked in 3.5 so it should work in 4.0 if the size is even greater in 4.0

  What I was saying in my previous post, is that the maximum size 4.0 is 2 TB less than 512 bytes.  The maximum size is the smallest is NOT greater in 4.0 and 3.5.  That's the problem.

• Storage vMotion fails with the error below

  I'm trying to run a virtual machine's storage vMotion. It fails with the error below.

  This method is disabled by 'moref = 17705'

  #1 method - manually remove the entry from the VCDB.

  • Stop the Service of VC.
  • Connect to the SQL Instance.
  • Run the SQL for VCDB.
  • Select * from VPX_VM WHERE name LIKE '% VM_Name % '.
  • Note the ID of VM in column 1.
  • Validate the stale entry.

  Select * from VPX_DISABLED_METHODS WHERE ENTITY_MO_ID_VAL = "vm - ID".

  • Remove obsolete entries.

  delete from VPX_DISABLED_METHODS WHERE ENTITY_MO_ID_VAL = "vm - ID"

  • Start the VC service.
  • Try Storage vMotion.

  Method #2-si this does not work, save the *.vmx file once again which will fix the problem.

  Note: To do this, you will be required to server unavailability.

  • Power off the virtual computer.
  • VM unregistered inventory.
  • Navigate to the path of the data store and VMX re-register.
  • Start the virtual computer.
  • Try Storage vMotion.

• Storage vMotion with advanced vsphere license

  I have the vSphere advanced license that doesn't include a Storage vMotion.

  This does mean that I won't be able to do manually storage vmotion with this license, or is what is not included in the new vSphere GUI?

  You will not be able to make Storage VMotion.

  But many people say Storage VMotion, even when cold migration is performed. Thus, you will not be able to move VMS on another store data seamlessly, without power off VM.

  ---

  VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• Storage vmotion of storage facilities to storage San in ESXi 5.0

  Hello

  I have the host couple ESXi 5.0 with license free of all is vmdk are located in storage facilities. Moving all the vm for local to the SAN storage data store, but the local data store attached failed to attend several ESX host as storage shared, is there a way that allow me to use the method of storage vmotion to migrate all the vmdk to centralize SAN without interruption?

  I have a vcenter to manage whole army but only for normal administrative task. How can I set the local data store storage shared storage and able to present multiple hosts?

  Hello

  Do you have the vSphere licenses?
  If so, you can add the vCenter ESXi hosts, present SAN storage for ESXi hosts and perform Storage vMotion (migrate the data store) local storage to SAN storage.

  You will need because the function of storage vMotion (migrate) is a feature of vCenter vCenter, this option is not available in standalone ESXi.

  See the documentation here - migration of Virtual Machines with svmotion: vSphere Documentation Center

  If you can accept interruptions of service, you can use the migration cold: vSphere Documentation Center

  Thank you

  Bayu

• Storage vMotion-Direct between ESXi hosts

  Hi all

  It is my first time on the boards, I hope it's the right way to go on this subject.

  I have problems with Storage vMotion, it's not a set up us would use normally, rather than by necessity with the current scenario.

  We have a desktop which has 2 x 5.1 ESXi hosts. They do not have a budget for SAN with the installation of HBA, and it is only a single requirement. I have to migrate virtual machines from one to the other, but with no external storage. I wait with Storage vMotion directly from a local data store to another.

  I activated the software iSCSI on both ESXi hosts

  Created a vSwitch separated with a VMkernal on two physical hosts

  The two VMkernals are on a separate subnet * 172.16.1 and production vSwitch is 192.168.5. *.

  The NIC allocated for the 172.16.1 network. * is both connected to the same physical switch.

  I ping the VMkernal and the vmkping the VMkernal

  Scan for storage again and nothing shows up.

  I used software iSCSI before, for a long time so I'm probably rusty. Dynamic discovery is normally indicated in the SAN to pick up storage, and finds it just local storage on each host itself.

  In this scenario, I told the IP address of the ESX2 VMkernal on 172.16.1 ESX1. * since I have no external storage. I think it is, I'm wrong, but I don't know what else to do to recover local data warehouses.

  Any ideas to try would be very appreciated.

  Thank you

  Sorted by using 5.1 feature Shared-Nothing vMotion

• Storage vMotion possible with ESXi Std Edt or not?

  Hi all

  We have two implementations of VMware with ESXi Standard edition licenses installed on the two site. A site has vCenter Server Foundation edition while the other has vCenter Server Standard Edition.

  The problem is that the site with vCenter Std and vSphere 5 Std doenst allow storage vMotion (see image below)

  

  While, on the other hand, site 5 Stnd vSphere with vCenter Foundation allows storage Vmotion (see image below)

  

  How is it so that vSphere Stndard this edtion of different characteristics in different places?

  I had recorded the call and found the solution... VSphere 5.0 and 5.1 gives really different set of features with the same Std license vSphere.   Take a look at the link for options available with vSphere 5.0 and 51 below.

  1 compare vSphere 5.0 editions

  Compare the editions of vSphere VMware for Cloud Computing, server and data center virtualization

  VSphere editions 2 - compare 5.1

  Compare VMware vSphere editions: managed Virtualization & amp; Cloud Computing

  For a test, I used the same Standard edition server with 5.1 key to it has worked well with Storage vMotion Option available :-)