Re: Upgrade Esxi 6.7 U1 to Esxi 6.7 U2 Failed due to No space left on device
I was getting exactly the same problem and in the end I gave up trying to update from a scripted download instead I grabbed the update bundle zip file from...
View ArticleESXi 6.7 Qfle3 driver and firmware
Hey Guys, We have upgrade from esxi 6.5 to 6.7u1 and experienced a PSOD a few days later on one host. VMware support suggested to update the qfle3 driver to 1.0.86.0 and the adapter firmware to 7.15.x...
View ArticleRe: Do we need the SLP Service on Port 427
Well SaidAnd here I am probably doing the same thing you are is researching the VMSA they released yesterday. [Security-announce] VMSA-2019-0022 VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS updates address OpenSLP...
View ArticleESXi network firmware STORM vs MFW
Just logged into a newly built 6.7 host to verify the firmware versions after running HPE SPP to update all the device firmware... why server management keep getting more complicated when it should be...
View ArticleESXi 6.7 U2 Receive Length errors
While monitoring one of our hosts we noticed network interface errors. Checked cabling but no problems found. Checked NIC stats and the errors are 'receive length errors' only. Tried updating the BIOS...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.7 U2 Receive Length errors
What type of storage are you using? Are you using nfs or iscsi? If so whats the mtu of the storage ips you use for the target ip or the nfs exports.
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Re: ESXi 6.7 U2 Receive Length errors
HI sjesse, thanks for your reply. Local disk storage only, it's a single machine with a couple of VMs, no networked storage. Regards.
View ArticleVMDK / API Snapshot woes
Where do I begin. I feel like I am always a newbie with VMware, despite working in it for a few years. We are running a VSAN environment on 6.5, performing backups with Veeam. About 2 weeks ago, some...
View ArticleRe: VMDK / API Snapshot woes
Since the VM has been running on the base disks for 5 hours, you will definitely end up with corrupted data. How much depends on the changes made to the base disks, and the age/size of the...
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Thank you for the reply Andre. Unfortunately we do not have a secondary datastore aside from the VSAN datastore. I have not yet attempted to boot from the snapshot files (due to the corruption risk),...
View ArticleRe: VMDK / API Snapshot woes
I'm not an Exchange expert, so I'm currently not aware of available tools to extract data from the Exchange DB, but at this point I'd at least create a backup/clone of the VM (including the snapshots)...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.7 Qfle3 driver and firmware
You need to go on DELL website and check firmware for network card for your server. Probably here:Support for PowerEdge R730 | Drivers & Downloads | Dell UK
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6.7 Qfle3 driver and firmware
install the openmanage enterprise appliance (ovf-format) : https://www.dell.com/support/home/de/de/debsdt1/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=5pdn6&oscode=xi67&productcode=poweredge-r730Dell EMC...
View ArticleRe: dead I/O on igb-nic (ESXi 6.7)
Have the same problem here when under load, for example 2-3 hours into backups over nic's.Two different servers, tried both the inbox and 5.2.5 versions of the driver.If the system is stable I can...
View ArticleRe: VMDK / API Snapshot woes
Thanks again for your replies. I think your proposed path forward would have a decent chance at some data recovery if we had better interactivity of features with our backup structure and our...
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Re: [msg.hbacommon.corruptredo] The redo log of 000001.vmdk is corrupted. If...
Hello Mohmaly, This appears to be an issue with the snapshot that is present on the VM. Redo log corruptions indicate corruptions on the snapshot and we will have no other option but to revert back to...
View ArticleRe: ESXi installations with one key
I'd been confused about why when I was selecting 8vCPUs on the awesome free hypervisor licence, but was only getting 2 threads in the VM. Not the same as this thread but this is what many searches took...
View ArticleRe: ESXi installations with one key
farsa windows desktop OS is limited of supporting up to 2 Sockes. Thats the reason why you only get 2 Threads within inside the GuestOS when assigning multiple vSockets based vCPUs instead of one and 8...
View ArticleRe: dead I/O on igb-nic (ESXi 6.7)
your vmnic3 is "only" 3 seconds down - anyway to long and should not happen.but did you ignore the apd events before the nic went down ? seems that you lost storage connect to your nfs
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