I have old blade server and working esxi 5.5 now i will add 2 server ( HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 Intel Xeon-Silver 4114 with evc mode ) to vcenter cluster 5.5 . but i checked the HPE ProLiant BL460c server is not support esxi 5.5 so then the new server will not work on esxi 5.5 . rigth ?
Author : Chris Bedford
Topic Name : About the Upgrade Process of the vCenter Server Appliance and Platform Services Controller Appliance
Publication Name : vSphere Upgrade
Product/Version : VMware vSphere/6.5
Question :
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I recently removed a physical host from a vCenter Server virtual appliance and am not able to add it back to vCenter Server because I get an error about the datastore already existing. I am running a simple vCenter Server environment with two physical hosts and shared storage. I have only been administering vCenter for a few months, so I am relatively new to the technology and processes. I have searched the Internet for a few days now, but have not found any documentation of anyone experiencing the same problem as I (which I find odd considering how simple my configuration and problem), so I wanted to get some help from the VMware community.
I got an error message one day that vCenter Server couldn't connect to one of the two hosts so I removed the host (instead of disconnecting and connecting as I should have done). Now I am not able to connect the host to vCenter server because the shared storage datastore conflicts with the same datastore used by the existing host in vCenter Server. The error message I get is ""Datastore 'datastore_name' conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter that has the same URL (ds:///vmfs/volumes/UUID/), but is backed by different physical storage." I try to unmount the datastore from the host, but get the following error message: "The resource 'Datastore Name: datastore_name VMFS uuid: UUID' is in use." The error stack says, "Call "HostStorageSystem.UnmountVmfsVolume" for object "storageSystem" on ESXi "IP address" failed. Cannot unmount volume 'Datastore Name: datastore_name VMFS uuid: 'UUID' because file system is busy. Correct the problem and retry the operation." I have tried removing all virtual machines from inventory, putting the hosts in maintenance mode, rebooting the physical hosts, but none of my troubleshooting is helping.
I am not sure what steps to take to get this datastore unassociated with the host so that I can add it back into vCenter Server. Any help you can provide me is appreciated.
Hey all - using vRA 7.5 and some software components on basic machine objects... fill out all the properties required on the form but submit button just blinks. No submit and no error to indicate why.
Anyone else having this issue?
We recently upgraded to vCenter Server 6.0.0 Update 2 in an effort to upgrade our environment to 6.x+ from 5.1.0. After the vCenter upgrade completed fairly smoothly, I noticed one of the 2 hosts we have in the cluster had an alert - "vSphere HA agent is unreachable". There is only one VM currently running on this host and I tried to migrate it to the other host so I could reboot the ESXi host to see if it would fix the issue but got a "general system error" and it failed. I also tried the "Reconfigure for HA" option when you right-click the host in the vSphere Client. In trying to further troubleshoot (check logs, etc.), I turned on SSH and the ESXi Shell but I could not SSH to the host... and when I connect via iLO to view the console of the ESXi host, it does not show the normal Black/yellow VMware ESXI standby screen, only a black screen that has at the top of the screen 'ESXi 5.1.0' (in yellow text) and the VMware URL (in blue text) with the copyright info on the next line. After a while and hitting keys to wake it, it prompted me to login, but I'm not sure what I'm logging into or how to proceed further, or if a restart is necessary (or whether or not it can be rebooted via the client).
How can I fix this so I can move forward with upgrading the hosts to match vCenter? The other host seems to be normal and encountered no issues like this.
In version 6.5 update manager I do a scan of my esxi host servers for patches and this is all I see
In the old version 5.5 if you scanned it it would show if it were compliant or not and then the last time you scanned it . Is there more that you have to do to check for updates that i am missing?
I was running the latest version of Workstation 14 and upgraded to 15. Before the update, both starting the Virtual Network Editor via GUI and running vmware-netcfg as root on the command line worked properly. Now nothing happens when starting via GUI, and this is printed on the command line:
root@pc-tb-debian ➜ ~ vmware-netcfg
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::exception_detail::clone_impl<boost::exception_detail::error_info_injector<boost::property_tree::json_parser::json_parser_error> >'
what(): <unspecified file>: ptree contains data that cannot be represented in JSON format
I have already removed /etc/vmware/networking and reinstalled VMware Workstation 15, so basically I am running the default network config.
Any Ideas?
Are there Visio Stencils available to NSX SD-WAN?
These are my versions:
I am using persona management to redirect user profiles and it hangs at initiating and synchornize the profiles in like 30 minutes but when you are finally on the VM in hangs. I saw this on the VDI Event Viewer:
The persona management logs looks great i have no error there. This is a brand new installation i use the same Master VMs that i used on an old plataform with Horizon View 7.0.2 but of course reinstalled the View Agent with the correct version and updated the VMware Tools.
Also i verified the permissions of my persona management folder and they are configure like VMware Best Practices.
What could be the issue?
Thanks!
On attempting to start VMware I get the message "Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory." then followed with "Failed to initialize monitor device."
Looking at the Mac OS X System Prefs > Security & Privacy, I see: System software from developer "VMware, Inc." was blocked from loading. Allow button doesn't work. Tried reinstalling, but still no success. I also set it to "Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere" Message and button will not go away, VMware will not load.
Mac OS X High Sierra / VMware 8.5
Dear ladies and gentlemen,
in March 2017 we bought an ESXi Licence and thought we will have support with it. So we extented the "support" in 2018 for another 3 years. But as we know now, the "Subscription only" plan is only for updates, not for support. Damn ...
That's why I'm opening this thread. We are running 2 ESXi Hosts, both with Raid 5. I know, Raid 5 is not well known for it's speed, but yeah, read the next few lines.
We get a speed of about 20MB/s when copy files from one of our hosts or even at this host between datastores. Running on a ThinkSystem SR650. The ESXi is connected with fibre channel to one of our switches, no problem with other hosts. Like i said, even when I connect with SSH to the ESXi and try to duplicate an VMDK on file level, it's very slow. Can't measure the exact speed, but it's slow, trust me. The other host is faster, downloading a VMDK of it gives us a speed of about 100M/sec.
Is there any way to export something like a debug profile for you guys here on the forums? I think that would be helpful. We are running very critical tasks on this ESXi, so a reboot is not an option at the moment. We need to replicate our VMs to the 2nd Host before we can do this. But maybe there are some steps without reboot which we can try.
Thanks for any advice!
I have standalone ESXi 6.0. now I want to update 6.0 to 6.5 . can you say step by step upgrade. the upgrade will be with hp ILO so i will use this method . vm's works on the esxi local disk
please write steps . thanks
Hello Community Friends!
Hoping someone could assist I just built a VM: Server 2016, on vSphere 6.0 / vCenter and when I tried to install vmware tools I get this error below.
Other searches / resolutions that I found google have similar error but the diff is my says "An unknown error has occurred" How can I verify that the ISO is indeed missing?
After upgrade to Windows 10 Creators Update 1703 on the host, guests can no longer access host's network shares using SMB network protocol through host-only or NAT IPs.
[TLDR - steps to try to reproduce this -> Access local host network shares using IP address of the VMNet interfaces from either host or guest OS]
This was working ok on previous Win10 version 1607.
VMware Workstation version is 12.5.7 build-5813279 (upgraded from 12.5.6 after Win10 went from 1607 to 1703 few days ago)
After some troubleshooting, it appears that host server is not listening for incoming connections on ports 137,138 UDP and TCP 139 using IP addresses of the VMNet1 (host only) and VMNet8 (NAT) networks.
It's only listening on IP address of Ethernet/LAN/Physical interface.
Assuming 192.168.1.10 is host's Ethernet connection and 192.168.5.1 and 192.168.123.1 are host's VMNet1 and VMNet8 IP addresses respectively, trying to show network shares (either from host cmd prompt, or from guest gives the same result):
> net view \\192.168.1.10
shows host shares, while:
> net view \\192.168.5.1
gives error:
System error 53 has occurred.
The network path was not found.
Listing open (LISTEN) ports on the host is only showing binding to Ethernet IP address, and not VMNet* addresses
> netstat -an |findstr ":139"
TCP 192.168.1.10:139 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
Testing on another computer that still has not been upgraded to Creators Update and all is well there, host is listening for and accepting network traffic on Ethernet and on VMNet* IP addresses, and guests can access host's shares.
Things I have tried already:
- windows firewall on host appears to be configured correctly and ping host from guest is working
- checked that all 4 vmware autostart services are running
- restored defaults in Virtual Network Editor
- restarted win10 several times after installing latest workstation version
- disabled and enabled VMware Virtual Ethernet adapters several times
None of this has helped so far.
Has anyone else experienced something similar?
After upgrade to Windows 10 Creators Update 1703 on the host, guests can no longer access host's network shares using SMB network protocol through host-only or NAT IPs.
[TLDR - steps to try to reproduce this -> Access local host network shares using IP address of the VMNet interfaces from either host or guest OS]
This was working ok on previous Win10 version 1607.
VMware Workstation version is 12.5.7 build-5813279 (upgraded from 12.5.6 after Win10 went from 1607 to 1703 few days ago)
After some troubleshooting, it appears that host server is not listening for incoming connections on ports 137,138 UDP and TCP 139 using IP addresses of the VMNet1 (host only) and VMNet8 (NAT) networks.
It's only listening on IP address of Ethernet/LAN/Physical interface.
Assuming 192.168.1.10 is host's Ethernet connection and 192.168.5.1 and 192.168.123.1 are host's VMNet1 and VMNet8 IP addresses respectively, trying to show network shares (either from host cmd prompt, or from guest give same results):
> net view \\192.168.1.10
shows host shares, while:
> net view \\192.168.5.1
gives error:
System error 53 has occurred.
The network path was not found.
Listing open (LISTEN) ports on the host is only showing binding to Ethernet IP address
> netstat -an |findstr ":139"
TCP 192.168.1.10:139 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
Testing on another computer that still has not been upgraded to Creators Update and all is well there, host is listening for and accepting network traffic on Ethernet and on VMNet* IP addresses, and guests can access host's shares.
Things I have tried already:
- checked that all 4 vmware services are running
- restored defaults in Virtual Network Editor
- restarted win10 several times after installing latest workstation version
- disabled and enabled VMware Virtual Ethernet adapters several times
None of this has helped so far.
Has anyone else experienced something similar?
Hi,
I can not find the scheme of esxi logs.
example:
date and time| whats here {example vmx}| whats here {example some number}| message
Some one can take me www address with logs?
Hi,
i get the warning
Disk '2000' is not moving, so any transform requests will not be honored
in the compatibility window when enabling Fault Tolerance on a VM.
DId not see that ever before.
Running on 6.7.0-8169922 HPE image
any remarks/hints are appreciated. Thanks
Hi everyone,
I'm having a hard time trying to recompose either an entire pool or a VM in the View Administrator.
The error I'm encountring is : "Provisioning error occurred for Machine xxxxxx : Refit operation resync failed", then the VM stops and i have to power it again via vSphere.
I tried to follow the VMware KB: Recomposing VMware View pool fails with error: Provisioning error occurred for Machine xxxxxx:Refit opera…, but no luck. My VC_CONFIG_ID is good in my SQL databse, and no change were recently made to my pools.
I've tried to recompose from an old snapshot which used to work : same error.
I've also tried to refresh then recompose, or reboot my View Composer server... same problem.
Please find attached the composer logs for this operation, featuring a FATAL error. I dit not find anything on this error yet...
Thank you in advance for your help.
I am new to VMware HOL. I tried VMC on AWS HOL, which is HOL-1987-01-HBD-MYVMW-HOL.
I was able to successfully perform the Student Check-In, and was redirected to the VMware Cloud Services Portal. However, under the Services tab, it says 'No Services Yet'. Underneath that, it says, 'Contact your organization owner. When services become available, they will appear here'. So I clicked the Request Access for VMware Cloud on AWS and it opened a new tab to https://cloud.vmware.com and just hung there.
There has got to be an easier way to this. I must be missing something obvious or having a basic misconception. Can someone help me get past this fundamental step?
Thanks,
I don't know how to execute powercli commands from php and get result in webpage. give me step by step process.
Hi,
I have just replaced vmware player 12.5.9 with the 15.0.0 because the previous version was incompatible with ubuntu 18.04
Unfortunately I have just found that even this version has problems with ubuntu
The installation has been done correctly, but when I try to open my existing virtual machines the gui is unable to do it
I tried to open a vm from the shell with the command: vmplayer my_vmmachine_name
The result is that vmplayer sends the following errors on the shell then it opens the vm.
When the vm is running I receive the following error saying that the disk is not present
libgail and atk are properly installed.
Attached you find the log file where are present other errors.
In particular it seems that the installer ask for files not present
Any dsuggestion about how to solve this problem?
Thanks
Claudio