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• Mapping of LUNS ESX - id scsi is not consistent across the cluster - problem or not?

  Hello

  as a parenthesis in an associated storage workshop, the instructor said that on some site of the client, there was silence damaged metadata vmfs happening and the reason for it was locking issues that concerned the fact that the SAN LUNS Hat different scsi id on different Cluster nodes.

  I asked for references for this, but I got information on the verification of metadata etc.

  now, the reason why I'm asking here is, I found that some in our environment vmfs data warehouses do not have compatible scsi-id numbering on the Cluster. I thought it was just mostly a cosmetic problem...

  Two questions:

  1 are warehouses of VMFS data really at risk with this? Any reference to a KB or some experience on site? We have never had a problem with the warehouses of data so far.

  2. about the setting of this (we do it anyway), which is the recommended best practices to do?  Shouldn't a data store with a different ID Scsi remapping result in the data store that is detected as a snapshot?  Think we need to do some additional precautionary measures to avoid what is happening

  Thank you!

  regads

  Roland

  Take a look at this article for possible problems: VMware KB: can not see some or all VMware vCenter Server or VirtualCenter storage devices

  A requirement is to have uniform or a coherent presentation of the LUNS across managed VMware ESX servers. More specifically, must match the LUN ID for each respective LUN between all of the VMware ESX servers.

• Try to install ESX 4.0 on Dell Optiplex 380 - NETWORK adapter driver issue machine

  Try to install ESX at home on a Dell Optiplex 380, with Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @2.93 GHz processor, 4 GB of RAM. Installation keep saying NETWORK adapter detection failed. do not get the NIC for ESX drivers. NIC details as follows: network: Broadcom 57XX Gigabit Integrated Controller, 5721 1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI-E, BCM95722 PCI-E NIC Driver - Version: A05 - name OEM: Broadcom.

  I had a similar problem, I tried to install ESX on a Dell Inspiron, but the on-board NETWORK interface was not picked up.

  I looked around and I bought the following NIC after reading the reviews and it has worked very well for me since then.

  EXPI9301CTBLK Intel 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps PCI-Express adapter 1 x RJ45 network

• Installing esx 4.0 on USB - someone at - he had problems?

  Hello

  I'm planning an installation on a blade and was hoping that rather than installing esx 4 on hard to install on an internal USB drives. This means that I can use the space in the blade for extra memory. I know that it will work with ESXi, but I'd really rather full use blown esx 4 because I am more used to the way it works.

  Somebody has experiences / questions / comments / limitations with this?

  Thanks in advance,

  The reason why ESXi works, is that it is designed to make minimal wrote on the USB drive. ESX is not and will do a lot of paperwork. You can have success, but I wouldn't count not that it is safe for a long time. ESXi can install on a 1 GB USB key. You probably need at least 10 GB for ESX. A small SSD? HP Blades begin to come with them. Not hot swap is interesting.

• Problem machine network virtual ESX 3.5 x 64

  I have

  created a VM of Hardy Ubuntu 64 bit for a svn server to replace an old one

  that is a failure. I have it configured and running on VMware

  Workstation 6.5 with a static IP address. When I downloaded to Virtual Center as

  an ESX 3.5 64-bit VM using VMware Converter 3.03on my C7000 blade system, it completed without error, but I could connect is no longer

  to it.

  I went with the Virtual Console of the Infrastructer and can access the server. When I run

  It shows only L0 ifconfig. Eth0 is not there. But when I look

  / etc/Networks/interfaces it is there with the correct information. I have

  have restarted the network and restarted even drank the same thing.

  I am pretty new to Linux, but have a pretty good idea of the basics but

  That stopped me. Any ideas on why eth0 does not go up? I have

  about 60 other virtual machines running on the blades, a mix of MS and different

  Linux, flavors and did not run in the whole of this problem before.

  I'll try and find the thread that explains this, but I use this script to reset the network setting and restart the virtual machine.

  Edit: this thread deals with questions: http://communities.vmware.com/message/768291#768291

  Basically, I think that the conversion process changes the mac address and puts the networking on eth1 to eth0. There are a few corrections to it and the one I use is just to restore the networking with the script.

  My environment can be different from the way that you set up your virtual machines as my virtual machines are not set static IP they are set to DHCP - they acquire a static IP address of a router.

  If it's not quite what you are looking for there are other things in the thread I posted that might also help you...

  Whenever I use a converter on a computer or ESXi virtual on my Ubuntu VM, I get the same things happen...

• Local virtual machines VMFS (upgrade process)

  Hi all

  I would like to upgrade an an esx 3.5 esx 4 (both in local drives). The VMFS data with machines store virtual esx 3.5 (4 material) should be kept. And the question is, will the upgrade process (by using the upgrade utility-vsphere host client) crush the local VMFS?

  Thanks in advance.

  No, it uses the same version of VMFS. Your guests are kept. When the server is upgraded, you must update VMWare, and virtual hardware tools.

  Check this document: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_upgrade_guide.pdf

  AWo

  VCP 3 & 4

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• DECOMPRESS and UPDATE COMMANDS NOT WORK on ESX 3i, 3.5.0 build 207095... WHY?

  I used this document only for the part of the INSTALLATION of the UPDATE, I have 5 update installed, and which relates to the UPDATE 2.

  VMware KB: ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200806812-BG: Critical Fix for August 12, question of the license expiration time

  Now, the document certainly has step by step instructions on installation, questioning etc. But my problem is... NOT ALL WORK ORDERS FOR ME!

  That's why I'm here because all the instructions I've read does not work with my flavor of ESX 3.5.0 207095... WHY? It left me speechless.

  For example, here are a few commands the doc asked me to do and they failed: (note that I had to unzip the folder on my windows machine and download it in / tmp with vSphere Client 5.5)

  / tmp # ls

  ESX350-201302402-BG ESX350 - 201302402 - BG.zip vmhsdaemon-0

  / tmp # unzip ESX350-201302402 - BG.zip

  -Ash: unzip: not found - THIS COMMAND WAS NOT FOUND?

  / tmp # cd ESX350-201302402-BG

  esxupdate info # / tmp/ESX350-201302402-BG

  Command invalid info - THIS COMMAND WAS INVALID?

  / tmp/ESX350-201302402-BG # esxupdate update - NOTHING HAPPENED HERE?

  / tmp/ESX350-201302402-BG # ls - lh

  -rw - 1 root root 321,3 k 13 Dec 15:24 VMware-esx-scripts - 3.5.0 - 988599.i386.rpm

  -rw - 1 root root 1.6 k 13 Dec 15:24 contents.xml

  -rw - 1 root root 701 13 Dec 15:24 contents.xml.sig

  -rw - 1 root root 13 Dec 15:24 descriptor.xml 1.4 k

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 13 Dec 15:24 headers

  / tmp/ESX350-201302402-BG #.

  NOTE: All these commands have been executed sequentially and I just copied and paste my SSH Client (PuTTy.exe)

  Is there a Toolbox that I need to install so that these orders or what really I'm missing here? The host is in Maintenance Mode and the machine 1 virtual which is on it's off!

  *****************************************************************************

  Here are the switches for esxupdate, but I still can't work:

  using esxupdate # / tmp/ESX350-201302402-BG

  Use:

  esxupdate [-c FILE] [-HA] [OPTIONS] d < depotURL > [b < IDPack > [< packageID2 >... b]] scan

  esxupdate [-c FILE] [-HA] [OPTIONS] d < depotURL > b < IDPack > updated

  esxupdate [-c FILE] [-HA] [OPTIONS] install < pkgPath >

  esxupdate [-c FILE] [-HA] query [OPTIONS]

  Options:

  -c. options FILE of FILE loading

  -a,-HA enable the agent host API

  d, - deposit-url URL A http:, ftp:, or file: URL to a folder containing packages

  b ID Install / scan against package ID.

  f,--force force the installation of a package

  PEI, - http-proxy HOST: PORT Proxy to use for HTTP transfer

  -l, - location of record for the host host-locker DIR

  -s,-file data for the FILE Package package-db

  -i, - inst-helper FILE path to install the script for assistance

  o, - output log file log to a FILE

  N, - nosigcheck does not check the signatures of the deposit files

  O, - working offline in offline mode

  WHAT IS MY CORRECT SYNTAX to: 'Scan', 'Info' and 'install '?

  Looks like you are using esx 3i, now also called esxi. This update is for normal ESX 3.5.

  Lars

• Reboot the ESX host as possible while on VM snapshots exist?

  Can you safely do a reboot of a host ESX VM there was on this host which are off (of course), but have a snapshot exists at this time?

  Because we restart some ESX host but you also have to install some Windows updates on the virtual machine on these hosts. Normally, we take a snapshot of the WM, install updates, restart, check if everything is working fine, and then remove the snapshot. But after a reboot the ESX host we also check if the VM have started and are working very well. In this case, it would cost me 2 restart and check for WM

  When I could do the snapshots, installation of updates, power off the virtual machine, reboot the ESX host, turn on the virtual machine, all check and then delete the snapshots, it saves me time. Only thing I don't know and can't find is so it record to make a snapshot is by restarting the EX host and if the snapshot can be deleted after reboot normally.

  Welcome to the community,

  don't worry, a restart of the host is quite VMs, regardless of whether they are active or not snapshots.

  André

• Unable Ping Host ESX - very weird question...

  Hello

  I have a question not yet no willingness so far. Please please help me if you have this issue before or a similar question.

  The question like this... 1 vm problem not pings from the ESX host. After reboot the VM, ESX able to ping back.

  Measures taken

  1 migrate this Virtual Machine to another host - done problem but always present

  2 check the connection as ping then found before restarting the virtual machine: -.

  On my side

  ============

  2.1 - ping our surveillance to ESX - OK

  2.2 - PIng ESX for VM - inaccessible Getting - not sure it's not main problem (previously ask our customer to reboot the virtual machine)

  On the client side

  =================

  Before restarting the virtual machine

  -------------------------

  1 Ping ESX, surveillance and other VM - ok

  After restart VM

  -----------------------

  1 Ping ESX, surveillance and other VM - ok

  Now on the ESX host. This virtual machine in ESX 1 before that. So I decide to migrate this virtual ESX 2 machine but problem still not solved. Another VM in ESX2 do not have this problem at all.

  Next action

  =========

  1. ask our customer to disable WGTA - not done by the customer (as our requirement can not remote for VM)

  We using vSphere 4.1 and the best part, this issue does not happen every day or week. Sometimes occur each week one - (which I think that maybe our fixed calendar client) and sometimes occur each week 2. Sometimes the best part happens 2 times a week.

  Thank you

  Finally after our user turn off the LGTO_Sync the problem solved. We have more of this problem of "bizarre".

  Thanks for this help.

• Question ESXi 5.5 with turn a virtual computer: "an error was received from the ESX host turning on VM" '22 (Invalid argument)"'DiskEarly on a power Module failed.'

  Here's what happens when you try to turn it on one of my virtual machines (see also accessories):

  Error stack:

  An error was received from the ESX host turning on VM vzilla-ws2012r2e.

  Unable to start the virtual machine.

  Cannot open disk ' / vmfs/volumes/51286ca4-ef967828-664d-001b2129ad71/vzilla-ws2012r2e/vzilla-ws2012r2e_3.vmdk ' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  22 (invalid argument)

  Power DiskEarly module has failed.

  Cannot open disk ' / vmfs/volumes/51286ca4-ef967828-664d-001b2129ad71/vzilla-ws2012r2e/vzilla-ws2012r2e_4.vmdk ' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  22 (invalid argument)

  This circumstance may be linked to a sata cable issue, with the possibility of temporary loss of connectivity, which could result in data loss/corruption, I realize.  It is a laboratory box.  Especially say that the 2 VMDK he complains (trying to light) is both on the grounds of a single physical disk. Data, read and written to the speaker, since the problem are very good (which indicates the wiring problem was resolved, and the VMFS5 file system seems to be in good health).

  No photos.  No related clones.  Just a 2012 Windows Server based VM, with several drive letters in, with those underlying files VMDK residing on different stores of data VMFS5.  Implemented end (these drives aren't really so huge), but far from running out of physical space for the data either. Everything is working great for months, until today, trying to it turns on again.

  You are looking for:

  "Failure error disk beginning module lit" results in this article:

  error disk on start module failed

  which indicates the .lck files may be present.  It does not exist.

  Then upwards, of a variety of other items:

  Re: Unable to start the virtual machine: invalid argument on *-flat.vmdk

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1004232

  https://communities.VMware.com/message/search.jspa?peopleEnabled=true & userid = & ContainerType = & Container = & q = module + DiskEar...

  error disk on start module failed

  but alas, none of them seem to relate directly, or exactly.  My vmware.log file is attached below, as well as some screenshots of to show the structure of the unity of this virtual machine.  Hoping that this post proves fruitful, if anyone has had a similar situation.  The data at stake here are (mostly) redundant, but I would rather understand my way of it, in the case where it happens to me again, or can help others.  Many preferred rather than give up, reformat the VMFS and start again.

  Thank you!

  Good news, the best result I could hope. No data is lost. No corruption of the VMFS or NTFS don't drive in the virtual machine. Nice!  Saved me a few terabytes of data restoration and learned a little more on file system of troubleshooting along the way.

  It took a technician of VMware Service excellent, attentive, methodical remote 2 hours in a WebEx previously to resolve problems with these 2 files vmdk manually, because he found that there is a lock on them. I opened a request of Service (SR) # with VMware by following the instructions here:

  VMware KB: Cannot access certain files on a VMFS datastore

  To resolve this problem, apply for support from VMware Support and note this ID (1012036) Knowledge Base article in the description of the problem. For more information on the filing of a request for support, see How to submit a support request.

  I'll cover this saga and the exact process for collecting and downloading of newspapers, through to my TinkerTry.com, including the ride video.  I even captured much of the technical work that has been done. That said, it is true that little of the magic that was made to resurrect the metadata will remain a mystery, given that this piece is VMware.

  I'm ok with a bit of black box, considering how I'm happy that I got all my data, and time savings that the quick recovery represented.

  By clicking on the button "answer".

• ESX 3.01 upgrade to ESXi 5.1

  Hello all-

  I just wanted to throw it out there to get an idea on how to accomplish what we are trying to do.  We are running ESX 3.01 in our environment.  We currently anticipate on the upgrade to ESXi 5.1 and as part of this upgrade, we will be the purchase of new equipment.

  
  My question is – once I get the new hardware in place and installed, when I turned off my existing ESX 3.x vm and copy them into my new hardware - what will take to make this work?  I know that virtual hardware version should be upgraded (somehow?) and also the vmware tools must be upgraded - for each of the machines.  Other than that, tips, pointers or info you can share would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  SB

  If your existing virtual machines are hardware version 4 virtual machine, you can just their copy/import/restore/etc in the new vSphere environment 5. You are not required to do anything else to these virtual machines with virtual machine hardware version or the version of VMware Tools. From there, you may test to make sure that everything works as expected with these virtual machines.

  When you are ready to update the VMware Tools and hardware of the virtual machine, and then turn off the virtual machine snapshot of the virtual machine, update of the VMware Tools and reboot, stop the virtual machine, update the virtual hardware, test and then delete the snapshots - or you can use Manager Update to greatly simplify this manual process.

  There is not a lot of traps with the refurbishment that you speak, because the old environment will continue to be available and virtual machines can be powered on there if necessary.

• No error network adapters installing ESX 4.1 at the current Summit ESX

  I'm trying to install the server ESX 4.1 in one of my virtual machines created in the current ESX 4.1 box.  The installation failed because no network adapters have been detected.  Anyone know how to put in place or find a network adapter inside a virtual machine running on an ESX Server?

  That explains it. ESXi does not support these virtual network adapters. Configure the virtual machine with the E1000 NICs and it should work.

  André

• ESX 4 command line upgrade to ESX 4.1

  I'm upgrading to ESX 4.0 server.  It has only local storage and there are Virtual Machines on the local data store.  If I use the pre-upgrade beam and upgrad by using the command line upgrade removes the virtual machines on it re formatting of VMFS volume?

  Unless you encounter unexpected problems the VMFS datastore should be preserved (otherwise it wouldn't be an upgrade). However, it is recommended to have a current backup before the upgrade in case of disaster.

  Please make sure that you take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1022140 and the Upgrade Guide (you can find the link in the KB article) before you run the upgrade. Also, make sure that you meet the prerequisites, for example host supported and firmware, enough disk space hardware on / Boot and / root...

  André

• Close VMware ESX 3.5 &amp; 4.0 hosts... What about the DRS?

  Hi experts,

  Here I begin this discussion to know the following:

  Facts:

  Farm with guests VMware ESX in u5 versions 3.5 and 4.0 U2

  DRS configured as entirely not automated, no rules.

  Issues related to the:

  What happens with DRS to deploy new virtual machines with Virtual Hardware 7?

  They will receive only on ESX 4.0u2 hosts?

  Could cause instability on the other virtual machines?

  I raise this because I have no experience in mixed environments, and I expect the DRS feature so smart that moves and power on virtual machines on hosts that are able to manage virtual machines with virtual hardware that is compatible with, I'm so innocent?

  Virtual machines with Virtual Hardware 4 can be moved throughout of these clusters 3.5 or 4.0, but what happens with VM with the newest virtual hardware?

  If they had moved in any case on a host ESX 3.5, what will be the behavior of this virtual machine?

  Last, but not least important, what do guys suggest to bypass this until I have all migrated hosts?
  (Migration of all hosts will take more than a month, support and SLA issues, so I need a workaround solution)

  Thanks in advance for your time and answers this!
  Kind regards
  RaMorn

  Hello

  1. what happens with the DRS to deploy new virtual machines with Virtual Hardware 7?

  2. they will receive only on ESX 4.0u2 hosts?

  3 could cause instability on the other virtual machines?

  1 VM' with HW v7 will be migrated only between vSphere 4.X nodes in a cluster

  2 VM with HW v7 will be only on vSphere 4.x nodes

  3 nope

  1. I raise this because I have no experience in mixed environments, and I expect the DRS feature so smart that moves and power on virtual machines on hosts that are able to manage virtual machines with virtual hardware that is compatible with, I'm so innocent?

  2. the virtual machines with Virtual Hardware 4 can be moved throughout these clusters 3.5 or 4.0, but what happens with VM with the newest virtual hardware?

  3. If they got anyway moved on a host ESX 3.5, what will be the behavior of this virtual machine?

  4. last, but not least important, what do guys suggest to bypass this until I have all migrated hosts?
  (Migration of all hosts will take more than a month, support and SLA issues, so I need a workaround solution)

  1. Yes, the DRS will be

  2. see comments of mu above

  3. nothing will change on the behavior of the virtual machine, only VMware tool will be updated

  4. all depends on how your is configured, how is use, VM how you would deploy during the month?

  See you soon

  Artur

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• Advice on ESX 4.1 vs ESXi 4.1

  We have two boxes of vSphere, we execute ESX 4.1.0 348481 & another running ESXi 4.1.0 260247.

  With gradually VMware ESX and the path of ESXi, I wondered if we should move the box ESX to ESXi.

  If it is a good idea, is the simple process to boot from CD ESXi and have an installation replaces the existing installation of ESX,

  or would it be a clean install, which requires to move virtual machines on ESX box to another server temporarily and your choice

  When the upgrade is complete?

  Thank you

  Alex

  Yes, 4.1 was the last exit for ESX classic. That said, support for classic that ESX will be there for some time.  So I think that having already an ESXi host in your environment and you feel sufficiently comfortable with it, then I say go to ESXi.

  In my opinion, I would evacuate all guests and do a full rebuild.  This will also give you the opportunity to update firmware, if necessary.