For some reason the compliance check is now succeeding. It looks like a reboot fixed it.
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Re: Failures Against Host Profile - Unexpected error checking compliance: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'config'
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Re: windows 10 1809 slow
I think I found the problem: snapshots! I was building my new templates and had snapshots so I could undo a mistake without having to start over. For some reason Windows 10 1809 really doesn't like snapshots. As long as there's no snaps everytihng is fine. If I take a snap and reboot, the time it takes is noticebly longer.
ESXi 6.5 U1 seems to be the worst.
ESXi 6.7 seems better by comparison
ESXi 6.0 seems like it might not be affected (but this is on another environment)
I did a test by installing without having a snap and it was fast.
Rebooted right after and it was fast
Shutdown and took a snapshot (the only one) then powered on and noticeably slower.
Maybe there's an advanced setting I can play with but again, this problem didn't happen on Server 2019. ANy ideas?
My users take a bunch of snapshots as part of their tests so yes, this is going to be an issue for me
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Can't get the percent used of /bootbank with command df -h
The command df -h returns the below results...
VmFileSystem: SlowRefresh() failed: Cannot open volume: /vmfs/volumes/5575c5de-6ba7f495-302f-40a8f03b8228. Cannot open volume: /vmfs/volumes/5575c5de-6ba7f495-302f-40a8f03b8228Error when running esxcli, return status was: 1
Errors:
Error getting data for filesystem on '/vmfs/volumes/5575c5de-6ba7f495-302f-40a8f03b8228': Cannot open volume: /vmfs/volumes/5575c5de-6ba7f495-302f-40a8f03b8228, skipping.
The command: esxcli storage core device partition list
This returns some data but no usage numbers.
This an HP Gen9 running ESXi 6.0.0 7967664
I'm trying to get the amount used or percent used or percent free/available.....etc
The command df -h works perfectly fine on an HP DL360 Gen10 with the same ESXi version..........weird
Thanks
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Re: Can't get the percent used of /bootbank with command df -h
Looks like some datastore has been removed improperly or renamed incorrectly .
regards
Gayathri
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Re: About NVIDIA GPU and ESXi 6.5
nobody? :-(
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Re: vmtools current but not running
Hello there, supermanDan and others,
I was having the same problem on a W7 x64 VM in vSphere 6.0.
The VMware Tools were reported as being "Running (Not Current)", but within the OS the installed software list showed no sign of VMware Tools being installed at all.
The problem could be solved by simply re-running the installer (without the need to rename or uninstall) interactively while I was logged on on the machine. After a reboot everyting was fine, VMware Tools are now reported as "Running (Current)" within the vSphere Client (C#) and the Web Client and the behaviour is back to normal.
BR
NC
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Re: ESXi/ESX host disconnects from vCenter Server after power up VM: "An error occured while communicating with remote host"
ESXi configuration file config.xml had some syntax error.
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Re: Can't get the percent used of /bootbank with command df -h
Please take ssh to the ESXi host
Run the commands
cd /
ls -lah
Verify if the bootbank and altbootbank pointing to /tmp or an /vmfs/volumes/UUID - showing in red color
Thanks,
MS
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How do I manually add driver for USB attached network interface
Hello,
I have an ESXi v6.7 deployment on a Dell Optiplex 7040 hardware with one onboard NIC. I want to enable a 2nd NIC and have obtained a USB attached Ethernet adapter to that end. The device comes with a CD containing the needed driver files (with .c and .h extensions) with a makefile provided for compilation:
asix.c
asix.h
axusbnet.c
axusbnet.h
Makefile
readme
I am though, not certain on the system where to execute this so as to install the drivers and thereby the USB connected NIC. The instructions advise:
============================================================================
ASIX AX88178 USB 2.0 Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter
ASIX AX88772 USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Network Adapter
ASIX AX88772A USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Network Adapter
ASIX AX88760 USB 2.0 MTT HUB and USB 2.0 to Fast Ethernet Combo Controller
ASIX AX88772B USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Network Adapter
ASIX AX88772C USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Network Adapter
Driver Compilation & Configuration on the Linux
============================================================================
This driver has been verified on Linux kernel 2.6.14 and later.
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Prerequisites
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Prepare to build the driver, you need the Linux kernel sources installed on the
build machine, and make sure that the version of the running kernel must match
the installed kernel sources. If you don't have the kernel sources, you can get
it from www.kernel.org or contact to your Linux distributor. If you don't know
how to do, please refer to KERNEL-HOWTO.
Note: Please make sure the kernel is built with one of the "Support for
Host-side, EHCI, OHCI, or UHCI" option support.
===========================
Conditional Compilation Flag
===========================
[AX_FORCE_BUFF_ALIGN]
Description:
There are alignment issues of USB buffer in some USB host controllers.
Turn on this flag if the implementation of your USB host controller
cannot handle non-double word aligned buffer.
When turn on this flag, driver will fixup egress packet aligned on double
word boundary before deliver to USB host controller.
Setting:
1 -> Enable TX buffers forced on double word alignment.
0 -> Disable TX buffers forced on double word alignment.
Default:
0
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Getting Start
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1. Extract the compressed driver source file to your template directory by the
following command:
[root@localhost template]# tar -xf DRIVER_SOURCE_PACKAGE.tar.bz2
2. Now, the driver source files should be extracted under the current directory.
Executing the following command to compile the driver:
[root@localhost template]# make
3. If the compilation is well, the asix.ko will be created under the current
directory.
4. If you want to use modprobe command to mount the driver, executing the
following command to install the driver into your Linux:
[root@localhost template]# make install
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Usage
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1. If you want to load the driver manually, go to the driver directory and
execute the following commands:
[root@localhost template]# insmod asix.ko
2. If you had installed the driver during driver compilation, then you can use
the following command to load the driver automatically.
[root@localhost anywhere]# modprobe asix
If you want to unload the driver, just executing the following command:
[root@localhost anywhere]# rmmod asix
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Special define
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There is a RX_SKB_COPY preprocessor define in asix.h can solve rx_throttle problem
in some version of 3.4 Linux kernel. Removing the comment before the define can enable
this feature.
Thanks in advance for assistance in this regard.
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Re: Trying to upgrade Dell server - need to remove VIB
Hi, did you find any solutions for your problem?
i got the same problem, but when i try to delete the vib it says - cannot delete vib online.
I got an dell image, the host is in maint mode
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Inital network setup on standalone ESXi
Right now, we have a fresh install of ESXi 6.5 on a standalone server. It has a configured IP on our management network, connected by one NIC to the vSwitch. There are the default 2 port groups for management and VM Network. We want to spin up a VM but that VM is on another VLAN subnet and may have interfaces on possibly other VLAN subnets as well. What is the best approach to this? Do I establish a trunk to an external switch using another NIC, then connect that to a new vSwitch? The same vSwitch? How do I configure the VLAN? It's been a while since establishing new network connectivity, especially on a new and standalone host. Any help for best or common practice would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Re: Inital network setup on standalone ESXi
If the Management Network, and the VM networks (subnets) are on the same physical switch(es), then I'd suggest you create tagged ports on the physical switch, and set the appropriate VLAN ID on each port group. This way you can have all uplink connected on a single vSwitch, which provides redundancy in case of a single link failure. Since you will loose connectivity to the host once you reconfigure the current switch port from tagged to untagged, you may need to enter the VLAN ID for the Management Network directly on the ESXi host's console.
André
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Re: Inital network setup on standalone ESXi
So I should set up an 802.1q trunk on the pSwitch (which carries vlans 100, 200, 300) , then assign corresponding VLAN IDs for each port group. Is this a good example?:
physSwitch1 port 1: switchport mode trunk / dot1q
vmnic0: vSwitch0:
Port Group 1: Management Network/VMkernel Ports: Assign to Vlan 100
Port Group 2: VM Network 1: Assign to Vlan 200
Port Group 3: VM Network 2: Assign to Vlan 300
GuestVM1 settings: Port Group 2: (adapter/Interface 1) 192.168.10.10
GuestVM1 settings: Port Group 3: (adapter/Interface 2) 192.168.100.10
Is this correct?
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PSOD on ESXI 6.0.0 [Releasebuild-3620759 x86_64] with Mem Allocation error
Hi,
Looking for help and guidance on a PSOD event that occurred on one of our ESXi host devices.
We're running VMware ESXi 6.0.0-3620759 on UCSC-C220-M4S (Intel Xeon CPU E5-2680 v3).
The host has three VMS running on it, mainly Cisco applications (ISE, etc).
Using 32 vCPU currently.
I tried to do some research on possible bugs or related threads with similar descriptions, but this is the only one that I could find with similar backtrace logs (the thread was left unanswered):
PSOD on ESXI 6.0.0 [Releasebuild-3620659 x86_64] with Mem Allocation error.
I'm not an expert at virtualization technologies, but I'm hoping to see if anybody has any ideas on this problem (sorry if resolution is bad, the other thread if it helps):
Thanks,
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Re: PSOD on ESXI 6.0.0 [Releasebuild-3620759 x86_64] with Mem Allocation error
You are in terrible need of patches as this is a very old build of 6.0. Install the latest updates/patches that you're able as this is probably addressed in one of them.
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Re: PSOD on ESXI 6.0.0 [Releasebuild-3620759 x86_64] with Mem Allocation error
Thanks for the advice.
Is there a release that you can point me towards that is regarded as more stable and secure for the specs that we're using?
Regarding the PSOD event, is there any details that you can provide that can clue us in on what is happening to the device or what has caused the event?
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Re: PSOD on ESXI 6.0.0 [Releasebuild-3620759 x86_64] with Mem Allocation error
You should plan to go to the latest U3 update on 6.0 if you can, unless you have specific reasons you cannot. These PSODs are often due to outdated patches (that fix such defects), but Emulex adapters have also been to blame. You can search the KB for instances of this error "no heartbeat" to see what I mean, but regardless, that host *really* needs to get patched badly.
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Re: PSOD on ESXI 6.0.0 [Releasebuild-3620759 x86_64] with Mem Allocation error
Great, thanks for the quick follow-up response and advice.
I will take a look into the documentation for 6.0U3 and see if I can have this reviewed for implementation if possible.
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Re: A normal poweroff cause 'Unexpected Power Lose Count' of SSD increse
Anyone can help? Or if I should change the BIOS configs?@pwilk
@kishorenelvagalu
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Used space is much bigger than real used space
Hi All,
I have a VM, which is used about 400GB but in the datastore, it shows the VM used 1.98 TB of datastore. Now I want to run consolidation for this VM but there is not enough space to run. I have tried to delete all snapshots but there is no luck because, there's nothing in Snapshot Manager, just only "You are here". Via console of ESXi, it is shown as below:
How can I solve this issue?
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