Hi all,

I just got a brand new Intel NUC7.

When installing the device, the procedures always hangs (or: seems to hang) at "initializing storage stack".

I have done some searching but I didn't find any strategy on how to handle this.

For starters, I was also trying to get a more verbose output during installation (like what exactly is stuck at that message, see above) etc., but also I didn't find any boot time option for the installer to get a more detailled output.

Configuration is:

- 32GB RAM

- Samsung 960 Pro 512 M.2

- Seagate 2TB HDD

Any help welcome, since without ESXi on that system I would need to send it back again ;(

Cheers!

I'm running a student version of ESXi 6.5 u1 that is essentially the enterprise plus version, but limited to only 1 vhost and no license for vCenter.

I'm having issues with a virtual appliance that has 4 virtual NIC's installed. The vHost is connected to my physical switch with a trunk port that allows all configured VLAN's to traverse the trunk. In the virtual appliance, two NIC's are connected to the same VLAN and the last 2 are connected to different VLAN's for a total of 3 VLANS. When I look a the vswitch view and each VLAN, I see 2 connections in each of the 3 VLAN's and they are the same MAC address of the first two NIC's in the appliance, the last two do not show up at all.  If I delete 2 NIC's, the two remaining show in each assigned VLAN as expected. If I add 1 NIC for a total of 3, I get the same behavior. This is not just showing incorrectly, the virtual appliance is also not working as expected in each VLAN.  Thought this might just be the appliance having issues so tried an Ubuntu server VM that I created that already had 2 NIC's. When I added the third NIC, it exhibited the same issues.

Troubleshooting:

I have rebooted the appliance and the vhost several times, deleted and re-added the NIC's in various stages to isolate when the issue shows up, tried to upgrade to ESXi 6.7, but my vhost is not compatible with 6.7, reinstalled 6.5 with no difference in behavior and attempted to downgrade. Since a downgrade requires a complete reinstall, I've decided to ask here for options. Any suggestions that require a vCenter server is not an option since my license does not include that. That also means that I am not able to use the software update services unless there's a way to install an update manually (or it doesn't require vCenter Server), but then I'd also have to be able to download the update package(s).

This appears to be a bug in 6.5, but am hoping it's not and there's a fix for it. Any suggestions?

Hi,  I've encrypt  C drive with bitlocker after installing horizon client , earlier it's work fine , but after encryption this issue occurred , try  uninstall & reinstall it , 1st time it's works , when it try to next time it's not launching ,

Boa noite. Peço inicialmente mil desculpas pois sei que já tem algo do tipo aqui no fórum. Minha pergunta deve ser frequente. Gostaria de saber o seguinte. Tinha até mês passado 5 máquinas virtuais pegando recursos de um datastore de 1.14 TB. Elas trabalharam bem até o momento em que 1 das máquinas começou a receber uma carga de backups e atualizações diárias. Todas as máquinas estão como Thin Provisioned. Eu sou leigo no assunto, entendo bem pouco mas pelo que me explicaram. Cada máquina chegou a uma determinada quantidade de espaço alocado desse DataStore por exemplo.
Maquina 1 = 300 Gb de consumo
Maquina 2 = 300 GB de Consumo
Maquina 3 = *80 GB de consumo
Maquina 4 = 80 Gb de consumo
Maquina 5 = 300 GB de Consumo

Depois que isso acontece eu comecei a fazer uma limpa em todas as máquinas tirando 100 Gb da máquina 1 + 100 GB maquina 2 + 30 GB maquina 3 + 10 Gb da maquina 4 + 80 GB da maquina 5.
Obvio que conclui que isso não fez o espaço liberado voltar para o DataStore, mas pelo que eu li primeira pergunta:

1 = Eu fiz a limpa na maquina 1, ela caiu para 200 GB de consumo. O espaço atribuído a ela é de 300GB, logo eu posso movimentar nela + 100 GB antes dela começar a solicitar recursos novamente do DataStore assim como as demais máquinas?

2 = Esse espaço que liberei entre as máquinas, como faço para voltar para o Datastore?

3 = Tenho um DataStore1 com 100 GB livre e outro dataStore2 com 100MB. Como eu faço para transferir 10 GB do DatasTore1 para o DataStore2? Da para fazer isso para dar um folego para meu DataStore2 até eu comprar outro disco?

Author : Chris Bedford

URL : http:////docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vcenter.upgrade.doc/GUID-168482DD-CFCB-46F6-B622-6E7572E377CE.html

Topic Name : Stage 2 - Transfer the Data and Set up the Newly Deployed vCenter Server Appliance With an Embedded Platform Services Controller

Publication Name : vCenter Server Upgrade

Product/Version : VMware vSphere/6.7

Question :

Problem: The default partition '/' has only 3.5 GB of available space.  Enter a new export directory on the source machine below.  Question How to extend storage for export or refer to external storage?

We have some new ESXi 6.0 Dell servers for the past month and a half.  Suddenly one of them PSOD around 1:12 Am last night towards the end of Veeam backups running.  It had an uptime of 33 days.  Thankfully HA / DRS powered on the VM's on other hosts, so downtime was minimal.

Today it seemed ok and chalking it up to maybe a heavy load during backup, we moved some light loads onto this host.  It's been running for maybe an hour or two and now it PSOD again, and those light loads powered on other hosts.

Both instances it shows PF Exception 14.

At 1:12 AM it was PF Exception 14 in world 33433:vmnic0=pollW IP

Around 10:30 AM it's PF Exception 14 in world 45512:vmm0:adfs1   (adfs1 is the name of one of the VM's that was running on this).

Any ideas?  Any secret flags to ignore these kind of conditions and force the kernel to keep "chugging along"?

I'm trying to delete our older vCenter 5.5 VM (orphaned) via the web client but it's not letting me. We're using 6.5 now so 5.5 is not needed anymore and I can use the disk space. If I right click onto it it gives me different options that the rest of the VM's. The only option I see to delete is if I right click onto it, choose "All vCenter Orchestrator plugin actions" and select "Shut down and delete virtual machine". my problem is when I select that, it bring me to a gray window and nothing happens. How can I permanently delete that VM??

Here is what is get when I choose shutdown and delete VM from under "All vCenter Orchestrator plugin actions"

I wanted to move an NTFS-formatted 4TB SATA drive from a Lubuntu machine to my Windows Server 2008 VM (running on an ESXI 6.5 host - Dell Optiplex 3010). I installed the drive in the server, then mapped it as as RDM. The Windows VM can see the drive, but can't read the content (it was about 80% full of files) - I get "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". Any ideas??

Hello Communities,

Please bear with me on this one. I'm working on my first Horizon deployment. I have an existing VCSA that I recently upgraded from 6.0 to 6.5. In order to configure Horizon, I need some level of AD integration. I work in a large organization and I have some control over part of the AD domain tree that contains objects particular to my organizational unit. Prior to starting with Horizon I had configured one Identity Source being Active Directory as an LDAP Server with its base being OU=People,DC=myorg,DC=com because that's where the accounts for my vCenter users (a team of around 7 people) are found. I do not have control over this part of the AD domain tree. It works fine:

Identity source: MYORG AD LDAP ; OU=People,DC=myorg,DC=com ; myorg.com ; MYORG

I've added the AD users I want directly in to the Administrators group in vCenter using myorg.com\username so we can login using vSphere with our AD credentials and manage the system.

Now I need to create AD users specifically for Horizon, but I only have control over the part of the domain tree for my department, so I figure I'll need to add a second Identity Source. I'm not sure if the same AD can be added twice, but I couldn't find anywhere in the documentation that said it can't, so I gave it a try via the embedded PSC console:

Original Identity source: MYORG AD LDAP ; OU=People,DC=myorg,DC=com ; myorg.com ; MYORG

Second Identity source: 2000 MYORG AD LDAP ; OU=Local Accounts,OU=2000,OU=Business Units,DC=myorg,DC=com ; it.myorg.com ; IT

I found that my original Identity Source added to VCSA 6.0 using ldaps is still working, but the second Identity Source using ldaps to the same server with the same certificate won't work, perhaps due to this VMware Knowledge Base issue so I gave up and made it ldap, not ideal but moving on...

Now here's where I'm stuck. Back in vCenter I'm trying to Add Permission for my AD local account it.myorg.com\2000ua-vcenterserver, in the dialog window Select Users/Groups both myorg.com and it.myorg.com appear in the drop down list, I can find and Addit.myorg.com\2000ua-vcenterserver to the list of users and Check names returns Correct usernames it.myorg.com\2000ua-vcenterserver but when I say OK to close the Add Permission window I get: Provider method implementation threw unexpected exception: %s

If instead of trying to Add Permission, I try to add my new local account to a vCenter Group, it behaves the same, I can find it and Check names but when I OK to close the window I get: No principal with the specified name exists

Final piece of strangeness—just as a test, I tried to add a group from my second identity store with OU=Security Groups,OU=2000,OU=Business Units,DC=myorg,DC=com (the group is called 2000GG-DELETEME) to the vCenter Administrators group (maybe not the best group to use as a test but I thought it would fail). And it worked, sort of, only it's added the group with the original identity source domain. So if I look at Group Members for vCenter Group Administrators I have 2000GG-DELETEME from Domainmyorg.com but it actually exists in it.myorg.com. And of course, now I can't delete it. No error message, it just refreshes the group membership pane with 2000GG-DELETEME still there. Presumably it can't delete the group because it can't find it in the wrong domain.

Here are my questions:

1. Can I get rid of 2000GG-DELETEME somehow e.g. via the shell or directly from the VCSA database without restoring a backup?

2. Is having multiple identity sources from the same AD LDAP a supported configuration? Expected to work? Did I do something wrong?

3. If it's not supported, is the best way forward to add my Administrators users to vSphere.local and then delete myorg.com and use it.myorg.com as the sole AD Identity Source?

Hope that makes sense. I'm pretty stuck and I want to move on with Horizon but I need to the AD integration working, I'd really appreciate any advice from the Identity Sources experts!

Thanks,

Lucas

Hi all,

I have 3 ESXi 5.5 hosts controlled by vCenter 5.5 server.

I want to setup a vCenter Appliance 6.5 VM and move the hosts onto it one by one and upgrade them. That was the plan.

But when I try to create VM from the ISO, the VM will not just boot from it.

I have tried:

Downloading the iso twice.

Downloading different versions 6.5, 6.7

Booting from other OS iso; the VM boots from every other iso

Creating VM version 8 and 10

Creating VM via fat client and web client

No matter what I do, the VM will not simply boot from the vCenter 6.5 iso attached to it.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Hi all,

I have 3 ESXi hosts with one SAN, managed by a vCenter server. I have a DVSwitch configured with 3 uplinks.

This vCenter server has SSO and is integrated with a Windows Active Directory server which no longer exists. So right now, I am using this vCenter with local admin account to manage the hosts.

I am planning to build a new vCenter server appliance but I have a few questions:

1. Where are these DVSwitch, iSCSI SAN, management pools configurations saved? In the hosts or in the vCenter?
2. When I disjoin the hosts from the current vCenter and join them to the new vCenter server, will I lose all the config?

Thanks

Hi all,

I have 3 hosts running ESXi 5.5. I manage these hosts from a vCenter server.

I have created a cluster out of these hosts and enabled HA on the cluster. There are no error messages or no warnings. The vSphere HA summary page of the cluster shows:

In addition to this, I have management network redundancy on each host via VDSwitch. There is portgroup called mgmt, which is for management network, this portgroup is connected to 3 NIC uplinks (Fibre A, Fibre B and Copper) for redundancy. Another portgroup I have is vMotion. Both mgmt and vMotion portgroups have correct vLans:

Now I have found two problems:

1. When I disabled the port connected to vmnic5Uplink from the the Cisco switch, the host goes down; meaning there is no management network redundancy although I am using all 3 available NICs for management traffic. Nowhere in vSphere does it mention there is a problem with management redundancy or any warnings regarding that. Only when I disabled ports connected to any of the 3 uplinks, the host goes entirely down (Not responding).

2. When the host goes down, HA does not work. HA tries to migrate VMs residing in the affected host but HA migration fails. Before the host becomes "not responding" stage, there is this error:

After about 10 seconds of this error message, it says

I cannot figure out why this is happening. Anyone has any ideas from looking at the above?

Thanks

There is a very strange thing happening here.

1. my network setup; Fibre A and B NICs from the host are connected to the fabric switch which has trunk to core switch.
2. Copper port is connected to copper switch which has separate trunk to core switch. 
3. I run continuous ping from a physical PC which has access to management network.
4. when I shut the port from the switch going to Fibre A NIC on the host, management network fails over to Fibre B.
5. I lost 5 pings and it comes back up.
6. I re-enable link to Fibre A.
7. when I shut the port from the switch going to Fibre B NIC on the host, management network fails over to Fibre B.
8. I lost 5 pings and it comes back up.
9. when I shut ports from the switch going to both Fibre A and B, management network does not fail over to copper.
10. 100% ping lost from both PC ... AND Copper switch.
11. When I re-enable Fibre A or B or both, then I can ping from PC  AND Copper switch can ping the management IP again.
12. I don't understand why the state of Fibre A and Fibre B could have such effect on the Copper port.

Here is how my teaming and failover is set up for Mgmt portgroup in the DVSwitch:

I have a long running task as part of a play function in my custom application script.

But it appears progresscheck.exe terminates the test run after a predefined timeout assuming the script is hung.

Is there a way to set the timeout for progresscheck. I need to account for the long running task as part of the script tun

Hello,

I wanted to know if anyone has used vRealize to show VM's that havent been logged into for a number of days? We currently have a pretty manual process to determine if a VM is aging (last logged into over 90 days ago) and are looking for an automated process to do this. Has anyone done this?

ESXi 5.1

1x2TB physical disk

2x3TB physical disks

I have created a physical RDM mappings for each disk...

In Vsphere Configuration - Storage - Devices view, the 3 devices are listed, if I click on an entry the details are all correct - Parttiton format shows as GPT and a legacy MBR partition is shown in the partition list.

I fire up a server 2012 VM and attach the 3 disks to it - in Storage pools the 2TB disk shows fine, the 3TB disks show a capacity of 512b and 16.0EB of unaloccated space (EB is not a typo!)

now if I look at the disks in Vsphere again, the partition format for the 3TB disks shows as 'unknown' and there are no partitions shown.

checking the disks with gdisk shows that the gpt table has been corrupted.

I have zapped and recreated the partiton tables with gdisk, and checked with gparted that they work. I have also tried the same with partition magic on a windows machine, but same outcome, as soon as the virtual windows machine tries to access them, they corrupt.

If I delete and recreate a blank GPT table and mount the disks on a real win 2012 machine everything works fine, its only breaking when used with the RDM.

I reused the RDM file that I had working fine before, i have also made a new ESXi server amd recreated the RDM files, but still the same outcome.

I did have this working before, so I know that it should all work.

This issue seems to be happening ever since I upgraded to VMware® Workstation 14 Pro (14.1.1 build-7528167). The host OS is Win10 Enterprise running on a HP desktop Intel i3 3.3GHz with 16GB of RAM, and lots of storage (non SSD). The guest OS (which randomly freezes) is also Win 10 Enterprise, and I have defined 2GB of memory, 2 processors and 100GB of storage to the guest OS. The guest OS is pretty standard, with the exception of having Symantec Endpoint Protection v14 installed. During troubleshooting, I have even disabled (not uninstalled) the SEP program. The symptom of the problem seems to remain. Whether I am using a browser (Edge, Firefox or Chrome), using MS Outlook, Quicken or other simple apps. The UI becomes non-responsive. I am still able to move the mouse. The system does not respond to either CNTRL + ALT + DELETE or CNTRL + ALT + INS for multiple minutes. I am open to any recommendation for troubleshooting and more than willing to provide diag files. Nothing odd when I check out task manager (on host of guest OS).

HELP !!

Hello,

I have a customer requirement where they have few VMs deployed and based on the current utilisation of these VM's CPU the requirement is to spin up new ones. For the sake of this condition consider the VMs as any Linux flavour. Can this be done through vCenter?

Thanks,

Subeh

Hello,

I have a customer requirement where they have few VMs deployed and based on the current utilisation of these VM's CPU the requirement is to spin up new ones. For the sake of this condition consider the VMs as any Linux flavour. Can this be done through vRO?

Thanks,

Subeh