Hello community,

I have some problems to configurate mail alert by CIM sonsors.... for example, I can't configurate "Alarm Definition" for report problem with power supplies.

I was disconected an a redundant power supplier, and, I can see the "alert" in hardware status tab:

In "Alarm Definition" I can see one "standard definition" for hardware changes, but not was trigger....

Please, any idea why not working for me?

Thanks in advance!

This is very strange:

I just deployed a new vSphere 6.0 VCSA and am using the webclient (currently Firefox on Win 10) to configure the system.  When I create a new object, there are dialog boxes that require me to input data; for example "New Distributed Port Group" prompts me to input the port group name.  The problem is that the web client is not receiving my keystrokes.  The workaround is everytime I run into a dialog box requiring keystrokes (such as inputting an object name, etc.) I have to click the Windows start button (changing focus away from the browser window) then re-click on the input box and begin typing and it works normally.... until the next dialog box is displayed where I have to click away, then return to finish entering data.  I've seen this before on another completely separate system but never chased down the solution.

Anyone else seen this and have a recommendation?

Quick question.

I am upgrading vcenter to 6.5U1 using the ui installer.

Everything proceeds as normal however right before the data migration I receive an alert stating the there "may be" extenstions that may not work after the upgrade. Specifically NSX and Openstack NGC.

I have review all the interoperability matrices and Openstack 3.1 as well as NSX 6.3.1 is compatible with vcenter 6.5U1

I have since cancelled the upgrade pending advice here as the last thing I want is to do is have VIO offline.

Am I ok to proceed or do I need to obtain upgraded extenstions from somewhere ?

Lastly we are moving our full environment to 6.5 over christmas and I will be upgrading each host one by one while using vmotion to move vm around so as to not affect uptime. Is this a perfectly ok method ? Can two differing ESXi hosts with differing versions be in the same cluster ? I will have 12 servers to do so I expect it to take a day as long as I can have the upgraded hosts with the un-upgraded hosts in the Compute and Management Clusters while they wait to be upgraded.

Thanks

I am running MacOS High Sierra on my MacBook Air. If I install VMware Fusion 10, will I be able to use a PC Mouse? I need to be able to use the "Left Click" and "Right Click" functionality in a program I want to run.

will i be able to use a PC mouse on VMware Fusion?

hello,

i have a hp proliant DL385R05 server and i install on it ESXI 6.5,my problem is that in the end of installation i have the message "ESXI 6.5.0 has been successfully installed" and he ask me to reboot,when i reboot the server the following message appears "non-systeme disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready".

NB: a previous ESXI was installed on it, so i haven't change any thing in the bios, i used RAID5,RAID0 and RAID 01 ,also tried to install ESXI 5.5,5.0 and 4.1 but same problem.

thanks for your help.

Hi,

I would like to backup the running VM to external drive. Can anyone share the simple procedure to perform this kind of backup

And, also share the procedure to restore the VM from the external drive if its needed at a later stage.

Thanks in Advance

Hello,

I only have one physical server within 172.18.211.0/24 network, I want to establish a embedded vsphere environments inside the physical server.

1. The physical server has 8 physical network adapters (vmnic1 to vmnic7), the default deployment created a vswitch0 has connected with vmnic0 which is in 172.18.211.0/24 network.

2. I created two ESXi VMs connected with VM Network portgroup of vswitch0 (this is a virtual standard switch), each ESXi VMs has twovirtual network cards like below, and I configured both of ESXi VMs with 172.18.211.X IP address

3. I added these two ESXi host to a Vcenter, and created a virtual distributed switch DSwitch in database. I added two ESXi VM hosts in this DSwitch like below:

4. Because each ESXi VM hosts has two virtual network cards NIC, thus I used one network card NIC of each ESXi VM host as virtual distributed switch DSwitch uplink, like below (uplink 1, uplink 2)

5. I created one CentOS 7 VM in each ESXi VM host, and both of them are connected within DPortgroup, like below:

6. I started up both CentOS 7 VMs and configured both VMs within the same network, for example 192.168.10.0/24

7. Problem: Then it revealed the problem that both CentOS7 VMs can not ping with each other.

8. My Guess: Is this problem cause by building virtual distributed switch on virtual standard switch? therefore two CentOS 7 vm can not ping with each other.

Questions:

1. so why the Two CentOS 7  can not ping each other?

2. Could I use this environment to test NSX and iSCSI, if I create more ESXi VMs on the physical hosts? since I have not tried.

Hope someone could guide me a bit, I am new to vsphere, and trying to learn more about vsphere.

Thank you much in advance.

Hi everyone:

If I change the language of scenes（I use Chinese Simplified ） ,after that when I receive the email.

The lease and cost in email are garbled. So how can I solve it ?   Can only body help me ?

我的esxi6.5主机在11-05和11-26T03:36左右自动重启，两次日志有相同的错误   NFS41: NFS41_VSIGetMaxQueueDepth

请问这个出现这个问题可能的原因是什么，exsi6.5是否也有已经的长时间运行会自动重启的BUG等

My esxi6.5 host is automatically rebooted at 11-05 and 11-26t03:36 or so, and the two logs have the same error

NFS41: NFS41_VSIGetMaxQueueDepth:3538

What is the probable cause of this problem? Is exsi6.5 a BUG that has been automatically restarted for a long time

2017-11-26T01:31:45.454Z cpu26:68209)WARNING: kbdmode_set:440: invalid keyboard mode 4: Not supported

2017-11-26T01:32:13.829Z cpu6:65661)WARNING: ntg3: Ntg3SetWolState:983: vmnic0:WOL currently disabled in NVRAM. Please change WOL setting in NVRAM through NIC mgmt software and reboot.

2017-11-26T01:32:13.832Z cpu6:65661)WARNING: ntg3: Ntg3SetWolState:983: vmnic1:WOL currently disabled in NVRAM. Please change WOL setting in NVRAM through NIC mgmt software and reboot.

2017-11-26T01:32:13.833Z cpu6:65661)WARNING: ntg3: Ntg3SetWolState:983: vmnic2:WOL currently disabled in NVRAM. Please change WOL setting in NVRAM through NIC mgmt software and reboot.

2017-11-26T01:32:13.834Z cpu6:65661)WARNING: ntg3: Ntg3SetWolState:983: vmnic3:WOL currently disabled in NVRAM. Please change WOL setting in NVRAM through NIC mgmt software and reboot.

2017-11-26T03:36:05.853Z cpu9:69957)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41_VSIGetMaxQueueDepth:3538: Invalid arg count! (0): Usage <FS>

2017-11-26T03:36:05.853Z cpu9:69957)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41_VSIGetShares:3396: Invalid arg count! (0): Usage <FS> <worldID>

2017-11-26T03:36:12.299Z cpu39:69987)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41_VSIGetMaxQueueDepth:3538: Invalid arg count! (0): Usage <FS>

2017-11-26T03:36:12.299Z cpu39:69987)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41_VSIGetShares:3396: Invalid arg count! (0): Usage <FS> <worldID>

2017-11-26T03:36:19.787Z cpu15:69957)WARNING: PCI: 179: 0000:00:00.0: Bypassing non-ACS capable device in hierarchy

2017-11-26T03:36:19.996Z cpu15:69957)WARNING: PCI: 179: 0000:00:1c.0: Bypassing non-ACS capable device in hierarchy

2017-11-26T03:36:20.010Z cpu15:69957)WARNING: PCI: 179: 0000:00:1c.7: Bypassing non-ACS capable device in hierarchy

2017-11-26T03:36:20.148Z cpu15:69957)WARNING: PCI: 179: 0000:08:00.0: Bypassing non-ACS capable device in hierarchy

2017-11-26T03:36:22.329Z cpu37:69987)WARNING: PCI: 179: 0000:00:00.0: Bypassing non-ACS capable device in hierarchy

2017-11-26T03:36:22.552Z cpu37:69987)WARNING: PCI: 179: 0000:00:1c.0: Bypassing non-ACS capable device in hierarchy

2017-11-26T03:36:22.567Z cpu37:69987)WARNING: PCI: 179: 0000:00:1c.7: Bypassing non-ACS capable device in hierarchy

2017-11-26T03:36:22.704Z cpu37:69987)WARNING: PCI: 179: 0000:08:00.0: Bypassing non-ACS capable device in hierarchy

2017-11-26T03:38:10.094Z cpu12:66289)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRetryCommand:133: Device "naa.600a098000b66ddf000003e7593a8b11": awaiting fast path state update for failover with I/O blocked. No prior reservation exists on the device.

2017-11-26T03:38:10.670Z cpu20:66161)WARNING: NMP: nmpDeviceAttemptFailover:640: Retry world failover device "naa.600a098000b66ddf000003e7593a8b11" - issuing command 0x439d09b9f6c0

Kia Ora.

Using vSphere 6.5 VCSA & latest vReplication in a small environment. SSO, PSC, vCenter all-in-one appliance build.  Connecting to a nested ESXi + vCenter 6.5 target on a separate routed network to build a SRM test POC in one site.

When i try from VCSA Site A to Target Site VCSA Site B i get a yellow dialogue as attached, "Connect to Target Site issue".

Has anyone run across this?

When i try from VCSA Site B to Site A as the target site. it connects. however trying a reconnect from Site A to Site B does not connect.

I am using the SSO Adminsitration@vsphere.x account credentials both ways. I can login with the account to both sites with the Web Client aok.

Checking the About in the vSphere Replication comes back from both sides as Green ok. The time is consistent across the appliances.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

I have recently had to reinstall Mac OSX 10.13.1 after a drive failure.

When I try to run my newly imported BootCamp partition (Win 10) I get the error

"Cannot connect the virtual device sata0:1 because no corresponding device is available on the host."

Then a message

"Virtual device 'sata0:1' will start disconnected."

Then

"No operating system was found." followed by a boot manager screen

Encountered an issue when there is  an app hosted in 3 RDS hosts configured as 1 farm.

The error was that it is looking for a specific path that is not available on 1 of the 3 hosts.

Checked the 3 servers and found that the app is located on the same path for 3 servers.

But the version of the app on the affected server is lower than on the 2 other servers.

We updated the app version and was able to access the app via HTML.

My question is, what is the best practice or procedure when upgrading the app version per host with no or minimum disruption to the users.

This is critical since, when the error was encountered; even for the path is the same... app will not work since there is version mismatch for the 3 hosts.

Can we implement vCenter HA at the same time configuring other vCenter HA enabled vCenter servers for Linked Mode?

Hi,

    We got the error information 'The server refused connection' When tested VDDK6.5 sample code, as below:

# ./vix-disklib-sample -info -host xxx -user root -password xxx  -thumb 60:ED:55:19:7B:5C:33:58:EC:60:B1:29:B3:49:49:30:2C:D9:2B:9F "[datastore1] win2003/win2003_0.vmdk"

Error: [vixDiskLibSample.cpp:673] 36b9 The server refused connection

     Env as blow:

VDDK library:VMware-vix-disklib-6.5.2-6195444.x86_64

EXSI server: 6.5

thumb string: openssl x509 -sha1 -in /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.crt -noout -fingerprint | cut -d '=' -f 2

     Searching the key for this problem, Thanks so much!

-Haiwei

Hi,

I'm developing a script to import an OVF VM to an ESX 6.5 host.

I'm using ovftool command to run the import.

When I try to pass Virtual Serial Port properties (retreieved from .vmx file when I did manually via vSphere Client GUI),

ovftool returned warning:

$ ovftool \

--name="Test04" \

--acceptAllEulas \

-ds=datastore1 \

-dm=thin \

--net:'Network 1=VM Network' \

--prop:serial0.fileType='network' \

--prop:serial0.fileName='telnet://:7004' \

--prop:serial0.yieldOnMsrRead='TRUE' \

--prop:serial0.present='TRUE' \

./Test04.ovf \

vi://root:PASSWORD@172.18.125.43

Opening OVF source: ./FortiGate-VM64.ovf

Opening VI target: vi://root@172.18.125.43:443/

Deploying to VI: vi://root@172.18.125.43:443/

Transfer Completed                   

Warning:

- OVF property with key: 'serial0.fileName' does not exists.

- OVF property with key: 'serial0.fileType' does not exists.

- OVF property with key: 'serial0.present' does not exists.

- OVF property with key: 'serial0.yieldOnMsrRead' does not exists.

Completed successfully

And Virtual Serial Port is not added after the ovftool import.

After ovftool import,

I have also tried manully edit .vmx file by appending 4 lines at the end:

serial0.fileName = "telnet://:7003"

serial0.fileType = "network"

serial0.present = "TRUE"

serial0.yieldOnMsrRead = "TRUE"

but it still has no effect.

How can I add a "Virtual Serial Port" to an ESX 6.5 VM

without going through vSphere Client GUI or Web GUI?

(Is it possibe to use vim-cmd from ESX host shell?)

Question: For the ixgbe driver, why would the Rx Max change from 4096 to 240 when MTU is changes from 1500 to 9000?  Wouldn't that make the Rx buffer ineffective to handle Jumbo Frames?

We have two clusters with the same hardware specs, built with the same ESXi image, same ixgbe async driver, and the Intel 82599 10 Gbps NIC has the same firmware version installed.  But in one cluster, ethtool indicates the Rx maximum cannot be set above 240, and the other indicates 4096.  I found the reason is the MTU size.  On one host where Rx Max == 4096, MTU == 1500.  Whereas on the other host where Rx Max == 240, MTU == 9000.

** Example host where I get option to set Rx maximum to 4096:

[~] ethtool -g vmnic0

Ring parameters for vmnic0:

Pre-set maximums:

RX:             4096

RX Mini:        0

RX Jumbo:       0

TX:             4096

Current hardware settings:

RX:             240

RX Mini:        0

RX Jumbo:       0

TX:             1024

[~] ethtool -i vmnic0

river: ixgbe

ersion: 4.5.1-iov

irmware-version: 0x800007f4, 17.5.10

us-info: 0000:01:00.0

[~] esxcli network nic list

Name    PCI Device    Driver  Admin Status  Link Status  Speed  Duplex  MAC Address         MTU  Description

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

vmnic0  0000:01:00.0  ixgbe   Up            Up           10000  Full    ec:f4:bb:xx:xx:xx  1500  Intel(R) 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Network Connection

vmnic1  0000:01:00.1  ixgbe   Up            Up           10000  Full    ec:f4:bb:xx:xx:xx  1500  Intel(R) 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Network Connection

[~] vmware -l

VMware ESXi 6.0.0 Update 3

** Example host where I don't seem to have the ability to set Rx maximum above 240:

[~] ethtool -g vmnic0

Ring parameters for vmnic0:

Pre-set maximums:

RX:             240

RX Mini:        0

RX Jumbo:       0

TX:             4096

Current hardware settings:

RX:             240

RX Mini:        0

RX Jumbo:       0

TX:             1024

[~] ethtool -i vmnic0

driver: ixgbe

version: 4.5.1-iov

firmware-version: 0x800007f4, 17.5.10

bus-info: 0000:01:00.0

[~] esxcli network nic list

Name    PCI Device    Driver  Admin Status  Link Status  Speed  Duplex  MAC Address         MTU  Description

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

vmnic0  0000:01:00.0  ixgbe   Up            Up           10000  Full    ec:f4:bb:xx:xx:xx  9000  Intel(R) 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Network Connection

vmnic1  0000:01:00.1  ixgbe   Up            Up           10000  Full    ec:f4:bb:xx:xx:xx  9000  Intel(R) 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Network Connection

[~] vmware -l

VMware ESXi 6.0.0 Update 3

On the host where Rx Max == 240, if I changed the MTU from 9000 --> 1500, the Rx Max changes from 240 --> 4096.  Just an FYI as it took me a while to figure out this behavior.

But I'm unsure then how the Rx ring buffer is useful for Jumbo Frames at 240 bytes?

Hi Community,

I would like to run some old Microsoft software  XP or earlier  on a virtual machine on my laptop Compaq PresarioCQ62. Does anyone have a recommendation or valuable experience, They could give? The PLC software I've got doesn't run on windows 7 or linux ubuntu

drewlep

Коллеги!  не подскажете в чем проблема?

На vcenter не устанавливается Update Manager.

Вроде все норм. ставлю вместе со SQL servwer 2012 express, ввожу параметры сервера, начинается установка и сразу выскакивает окно ошибки

Error 25038.Erreo updating C:\Users\Администратор\AppData\Local\Temp\2\vum\configValues.txt file

нахожу этот файл, вот его содержимое:

vpxd_location

vpxd_port

patch_store

reverse_proxy_http_port

reverse_proxy_https_port

patch_depot_url

patch_depot_proxy_url

patch_depot_proxy_port

patch_depot_proxy_server

patch_depot_proxy_use

soap_port

web_port

db_dsn

db_user

db_type

esx3_url

download_after_install

он доступен для изменения, никем не заблокирован.

нажимаю ок, и все, установка прекращается.

Сервер свежая Win 2012 R2 Standart. на нем кроме vcenter больше ничего не стоит вообще.

в логе установки я вижу такое:

VMware Update Manager-build-4540462: 11/28/17 10:49:09 ---------- Begin Logging ----------

VMware Update Manager-build-4540462: 11/28/17 10:49:09 --- CA exec: VMUpdateIntegrityConfigFile

VMware Update Manager-build-4540462: 11/28/17 10:49:09 Getting Property TEMP_DIR = C:\Users\Администратор\AppData\Local\Temp\2\

VMware Update Manager-build-4540462: 11/28/17 10:49:09 AppendPath::done Path: C:\Users\Администратор\AppData\Local\Temp\2\vum

VMware Update Manager-build-4540462: 11/28/17 10:49:09 AppendPath::done Path: C:\Users\Администратор\AppData\Local\Temp\2\vum\configvalues.txt

VMware Update Manager-build-4540462: 11/28/17 10:49:09 Found "C:\Users\Администратор\AppData\Local\Temp\2\vum\configvalues.txt"

VMware Update Manager-build-4540462: 11/28/17 10:49:09 ERROR: Failed to create ConfigInfoFileManager Object !

VMware Update Manager-build-4540462: 11/28/17 10:49:09 Posting error message 25038

VMware Update Manager-build-4540462: 11/28/17 10:56:04 MsiProcessMessage returned: 1

VMware Update Manager-build-4540462: 11/28/17 10:56:04 ---------- End Logging----------

ERROR: Failed to create ConfigInfoFileManager Object ! --- что установщик хотел сделать вот тут? какой файл создать?

HI,

kindly suggest me a command in which it could check the vm uptime through putty in vmware 6.0

Thanks,

shankar.p