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ESXi 6 & Long Boot Times

July 10, 2015, 3:23 pm
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3 Node Cluster Consisting of:

OS: ESXi 6.0.0 2615704 booting from (SD Card)

HW: Dell R820 / 512GB / Xeon E5-4620 4x8

Storage 2x: ISP2432-based 4Gb FC PCI Express HBA

NIC 2x: Broadcom QLogic 57810 10Gb Dual Port

25 LUNs over FC provisioned from a VNX 5600

1 x 2 Node Win 2012 & SQL 2014 WSFC & MSCS - 3 "Phyiscal" RDMs which are mapped on 1 LUN to 2 VMs.

 

Disclaimer - Since upgrading all hosts to 2615704 the ESXi hosts were not updated/patched/restarted

 

  • We have a 3 node cluster identical with the above hardware and software config.
  • For one reason or another I decided to restart one of the nodes (and with this occasion what better time to perform updates?!).
  • 1 node was patched to the latest updates via Update Manager (2809209)
  • During the remediation process I noticed that it was taking far longer than normal to boot - up to 1 hour
  • iDRAC opened it was stuck at a few stages, one of them being nfs41client
  • ALT+F12 displayed the following results (similar to VMware KB:    FCoE storage connections fail when LUNs are presented to the host on different VLANs):
    • T.363Z cpu2:4616)<6>host2: fip: fcoe_ctlr_vlan_request() is done
    • T.365Z cpu0:4606)<6>host2: fip: host2: FIP VLAN ID unavail. Retry VLAN discovery.
    • T.365Z cpu0:4606)<6>host2: fip: fcoe_ctlr_vlan_request() is done
    • T.366Z cpu2:4622)<6>host2: fip: host2: FIP VLAN ID unavail. Retry VLAN discovery.
  • Thinking that it was a new driver issue off I go and apply this fix - Zenfolio | Michael Davis | Broadcom BCM57810 FCoE and ESXi
  • No luck - booting time still takes a long, long time
  • Decide to rebuild the host it as was getting silly in the hours spent troubleshooting
  • Disconnected my FC cables from the storage HBA, re-install ESXi from VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0-2494585.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00.iso and boot it up - instantly noticing that startup time was back to normal
  • Proceed to reconnect storage HBA, do some network config and restart - now starting up takes as long as before
  • While waiting for the system to startup I come across this VMware KB:    ESXi/ESX hosts with visibility to RDM LUNs being used by MSCS nodes with RDMs may take a long time to sta… 
  • I proceed to set my LUN which contains the RDM mappings for my 2 MSCS nodes
    • esxcli storage core device setconfig -d naa.xxxx --perennially-reserved=true
    • Verify that it is set with esxcli storage core device list -d naa.xxxx and proceed to reboot
  • Reboot still takes a long time...

 

So I am not sure

  • if --perennially-reserved=true still applies for ESXi 6.0?
    • of course to really confirm if the other 2 nodes in the VMware cluster are experiencing this issue (related to RDMs) I would have to restart at least one of them
  • if it's a driver related thing?
  • if I have missed something else?
  • if I am barking at the wrong tree?

 

I look forward to any comments, questions, ideas, suggestions, etc!

 

 

Thanks

Corin

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Can a vMotion port and a management port have different gateways? I only see a default GW that I can edit and when I change it for vMotion it changes the management port.

September 11, 2017, 5:25 am
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I am trying to set up a vMotion port group that is on a different subnet than the management group.  I am only allowed a single gateway that is shared between them.  Is  there any way to have them on different subnet groups?


Thank you,

Gene

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vRA 7.2 Deployment description change

May 25, 2017, 6:32 am
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Hi!

 

Does anybody know how to change/edit "Deployment" description after provisioning? End-user can easy change/add VMs description after deployment (using "Reconfigure" task), but I don't see any options to edit Deployment description... I haven't been lucky with vRO/REST API, looks like no methods/functions exists to update already deployed object VCACCAFE:CatalogResource (I'll be happy to be wrong on it). Could not believe that so obvious function is missing in vRA.

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Issue with adding physical adapter to virtual switch

September 4, 2017, 9:42 am
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Hi,

 

I seem to be having this issue: Re: Cannot add network adapter to ESXi 6.5 VM? . I was trying to reset the interface so I removed the physical adapter from the vSwitch. When I go back to the vswitch and I try to add a uplink I get " There are no free physical adapters to attach to this virtual switch.". Is there any way to do a reset or something else so VmWare can see all available NIC's?

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Unable to assign default gateway IP address to NIC in transit network

September 7, 2017, 7:18 am
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One of our vCloud Director 8.10 tenants has sub-tenants and wants to have each sub-tenant behind an edge gateway. We have designed the network infrastructure from the following picture.

 

vCloud Director network problem.png

The Internet Firewall edge gateway has its uplink connected to the internet. The downlink connection of the Internet Firewall should be the default gateway of the transit network. The transit network is an external network because we do not want the sub-tenants to be able to connect virtual machines to the transit network. In the settings of the transit network, the default gateway is 10.1.1.254 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0. The IP pool is 10.1.1.1-10.1.1.253.  I cannot add the IP address 10.1.1.254 to the IP pool because it is the IP address of the default gateway. When connecting the Internet Firewall to the transit network, I am unable to assign the 10.1.1.254 IP address to the downlink connection of the Internet Firewall because the IP address has to be in the IP pool.

 

Does anybody know how to solve this problem or make a redesign of the network that will work with vCloud Director?

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VMware sharing is being disabled after restart

September 29, 2015, 1:02 am
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I am using the VMware Pro 12. I created a VM that I shared and configured to start automatically.

 

Now I have the following problem:

Whenever the host is restarted for any reason, the shared VM doesn't start because I got a message that the VMware Workstation Server is disabled and that I need to activate it in Edit ----> Preferences.

Is there a way to always keep it enabled like the previous versions?

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remapping "ungrab mouse and keyboard" from Command - Control to something else?

November 29, 2008, 10:39 pm
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Hi,

I have windows applications installed which use Ctrl-Cmd for its shortcuts (that is, Ctrl - Windows). Each time I use those shortcuts within the virtual machine, Fusion quits its Full Scree mode. I tried Fusion -> Preferences -> Fusion Shortcuts but I see this shortcut is greyed and it seems not possible to change it in this preference window (double click or right click also didn't work for that purpose). So how can I remap the "Ungrab Mouse and Keyboard" Fusion Shortcut from "Command - Control" to something else? Or, if that is not possible, then turn this shortcut off? Thanks.

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VMworld Europe - vBrownBag TechTalk Schedule

August 3, 2017, 5:50 pm
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Tune in to the VMworld vBrownBag TechTalks in person  - register or take advantage of the standing room at these sessions!

 

If you are not attending VMworld - virtually attend! All sessions will be LIVESTREAMED on the VMTN Hompage throughout VMworld U.S. and Europe.

 

Tuesday September 12thWednesday September 13thThursday September 14th
08:30BlockedBlockedTBD
08:45BlockedBlockedVMTN6741E: Elsa Mayer - Power Blogging with VMware
09:00BlockedBlockedVMTN6739E: Kenneth Moore - Machine Learning (AI) for Workload Analytics and Placement within a Cloud Environment
09:15BlockedBlockedVMTN6730E: Merlin Glynn - KUBO Kubernetes Powered by BOSH
09:30BlockedBlockedContinued
09:45BlockedBlockedVMTN6728E: Andrew McDaniel - An Easer and Better Way to Buy and Support VDI
10:00BlockedBlockedContinued
10:15BlockedBlockedVMTN6675E: Mikkel Naesager - How to Convince your Boss New Hardware is a Good Idea
10:30BlockedBlockedVMTN6706E: Melissa Soliz-Mihalopoulos - Dell EMC Services - your VIP, all-access pass to VMware Support and Deployment
10:45BlockedBlockedContinued
11:00VMTN6705E: Michael Letschin - vExpert Daily
VMTN6705E: Michael Letschin - vExpert DailyVMTN6672E: David Stemerdink - Best Practices for Deploying ScaleIO in a VMware Enviroment
11:15ContinuedContinuedContinued
11:30VMTN6600E: Kyle Jenner - Horizon and NSX - Better TogetherVMTN6617E: Wade Holmes - Tackling Security Concerns with Micro-SegmentationVMTN6682E: Iwan Rahabok, Sunny Dua - Operationalize your World
11:45ContinuedVMTN6665E: Romain Decker - NSX, API, Automation and UnicornsContinued
12:00VMTN6716E: Cody Hosterman - Virtual Volumes Unlock your DataVMTN6713E: Clinton Wyckoff - The Ultimate Guide to Beating Ransomware and Staying AvailableVMTN6727E: Wouter Kursten - Building a Horizon vCheck
12:15VMTN6738E: Mike Beevor - Why QoS is the Necessary Control Mechanism in HCIContinuedVMTN6737E: Yves Fauser - Kubernetes Networking Using NSX
12:30VMTN6626E: Girish Manmadkar - Fundamentals of VMware Cloud FoundationVMTN6627E: Girish Manmadkar - Understand VMware Cloud Foundation ArchitectureVMTN6696E: Steve Flanders - Log Insight and VMware Identity Manager
12:45VMTN6641E: John Arrasjid - The What, Why, and How of Hybrid Multi-CloudVMTN6659E: Carla Young - Building a Profitable NSX PracticeVMTN6698E: Maraline de Azevedo Bedran - IT Analyst
13:00VMTN6625E: Andrew Miller - The Golden Hammer - Hacking your Brain to Learn (IT Stuff) FasterVMTN6631E: David Mitchell - Here is how to Easily Start your Path to a Modern Software Defined Data CenterVMTN6697E: Jose Luis Gomez Ferrer de Couto - Automating and Integrating Cisco ACI with VMware vRA using Ansible
13:15VMTN6710E: Rebecca Fitzhugh - Unleashing the Power of APIs - vRA + RubrikVMTN6686E: Get Started Making vSphere API Calls the Easy Way, with Postman!Continued
13:30VMTN6629E: Michael White - Successful Restores, and Backups of VCSA and PSCVMTN6630E: Michael White - Never in the Clear - Encryption for VMs and Backup JobsTBD
13:45ContinuedVMTN6658E: Vadim Vladimirskiy - Stop the Madness - Getting Hosted Desktops RightContinued
14:00VMTN6709E: Filip Verloy - See Rubrik in Action!VMTN6685E: Kyle Ruddy - Introduction to the PowerCLI Community RepositoryHold
14:15

VMTN6740E: Mike Beevor - Intelligence & Choice - Moving to an Autonomous Cloud

VMTN6717E: Kyle Grossmiller - Build High Performance Multi-Site EUC with Pure Storage and VMware HorizonHold
14:30VMTN6635E: Marc Huppert - Architecting VMware vSAN for Performance the VCDX WayVMTN6638E: Peter Schraml - From Zero to Hero with the "right" on boarding strategy to Horizon Cloud!VMTN6729E: Andrew McDaniel - The Work Behind the Curtain - An Engineering Story
14:45ContinuedContinuedContinued
15:00VMTN6642E: Kyle Davies - GDPR: Batten the Hatches, its coming!VMTN6643E: Kyle Davies - Virtual Workspace Adoption AdviceTBD
15:15ContinuedVMTN6655E: Gaurav Baghla - SSL Certificates for DummiesTBD
15:30VMTN6644E: David Hill - Building a Successful Cloud SolutionContinuedBlocked
15:45ContinuedVMTN6666E: Michael Letschin - Software-Defined Home Lab - One Box Does it AllBlocked
16:00VMTN6662E: Vikas Shitole - VMware Log Tuner (VLT)VMTN6661E: Vikas Shitole - DRS Cluster Rules Manager: New Configuration Management ApproachBlocked
16:15VMTN6713E: Joerg Lew - Version Control in vRealize OrchestratorTBDBlocked
16:30VMTN6672E: David Stemerdink - Best Practices for Deploying ScaleIO in a VMware EnvironmentVMTN6673E: Marco van Baggum, Matthew Bunce - VMware Validated Designs - SDDC, Three Countries, 90 DaysBlocked
16:45ContinuedContinuedBlocked
17:00VMTN6674E: Mikkel Naesager - On-Premise vs Cloud, what's true and what's falseVMTN6679E: Lino Telera - VMUG.it news from VMworld 2017Blocked
17:15ContinuedContinuedBlocked
17:30VMTN6677E: John Arrasjid - Building a Cloud for Systems of RecordVMTN6680E: David Klee - vNUMA and YouBlocked
17:45TBDContinuedBlocked
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VMware Remote Console Mouse speed and accuracy

September 11, 2017, 9:56 am
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I have ESXi 6.5 (5969303), and I am using VMware Remote Console 10.0.1 build-5898794

 

I have built a Server 2012 R2 VM and the pre-VMware Tools Mouse performance is SO BAD as to render this console unusable! In reality, I was able to install the tools by tabbing through all the screens (time-consuming, frustrating and nearly impossible as W2K12 is not really deigned around pre-mouse KVM systems).

 

The basic issue is latency and speed. The smallest possible amount I can move my actual (physical) mouse causes the pointer to fly all the way across the screen. Highlighting a single icon or button is not almost, but fully impossible!

 

Is there a way to slow down the mouse using a Virtual Machine option in the *.vmx of the VM?

 

THX

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Log spew

February 9, 2016, 2:11 am
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We have updated driver & firmware for the Broadcom 10Gb NICS

 

Since then we have seen the following log spew on the host:

 

2016-01-14T10:11:25.323Z cpu12:33130)<3>[bnx2x_alloc_rx_sge:734(vmnic0)]Can't alloc sge

2016-01-14T10:11:26.186Z cpu12:33130)<3>[bnx2x_alloc_rx_sge:734(vmnic0)]Can't alloc sge

2016-01-14T10:11:27.189Z cpu12:33130)<3>[bnx2x_alloc_rx_sge:734(vmnic0)]Can't alloc sge

2016-01-14T10:11:27.989Z cpu12:33599)<3>[bnx2x_alloc_rx_sge:734(vmnic0)]Can't alloc sge

 

Anyone experience similar or know if this is a concern?

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Where to view active user sessions in vCenter 6.5 webclient?

September 11, 2017, 5:57 am
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I know this sounds kind of simple, but I can not locate in vCenter 6.5 where you can view the active user sessions in order to remove them or send a message of the day?  Where in the client is this located?

 

Thank you.

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Is VCSA available with VMWare vSphere Essentials Kit ?

August 27, 2017, 9:28 pm
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Hi,

 

As stated in this Blog Post, "vCenter Server for Windows" will be discontinued, and replaced by "vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)".

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/08/farewell-vcenter-server-windows.html

 

We currently own the "VMWare vSphere Essentials Kit", and have initially installed "vCenter Server for Windows".

We are wondering if and how our licence allow us to install "vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)".

 

Thank you very much for your help

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vrops 6.6 update 1

August 9, 2017, 12:48 am
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Be sure to read the release notes. I almost missed the below. All tho i create my own i know a lot of people dont

 

Upgrading to vRealize Operations Manager 6.6.1 will reset out-of-the-box content as part of the software upgrade process even if the Reset Default Content button is unchecked during the upgrade. This implies that the user modifications made to default content such as alert definitions, symptom definitions, recommendations, policies, views, dashboards, widgets, and reports will be overwritten. You need to clone or backup the content before you upgrade to vRealize Operations Manager 6.6.1.

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Twice User credentials are prompted in Horizon 7

September 11, 2017, 10:45 am
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I am using horizon 7 in our environment, and facing an issue....whenever i click on connection server, i am prompted for username and password for authentication at connection server (This is normal behavior) but when i click on desktop pool then again i prompted for username and password for authentication at connection server again(Not normal behavior). Can anyone help me understand this behavior of horizon in my environment?

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Report with Trend Views on multiple VMs

July 11, 2017, 1:58 am
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Hello,

 

i'm struggling with following problem:

 

I want to create a report with a few trend views (like CPU Usage of the last 24 Hours) on an group of VMs.

There are a configurated views with all the parameters i need and i put them in a custom report.

 

But i can run that report only on a VM Object and not on a folder or ressource pool.

 

is there a possibility to create a report with the trend cpu views of more than one vm? Can i create a group of VMs an run the report against that group?

 

Thanks in advance

Moritz

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data storage disappeared/disconnected unmouted from on host

September 11, 2017, 10:05 am
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Dear Expert,

 

please help me!

I use HPE_StoreVirtual_VSA_2014 to build one volume named LUNA

on VMware center. two physical servers, two hosts,. Host 01 have two data storage: one is data1 and one is LUNA

                                                                                    Host 02 have two data storage: one is data2 and one is LUNA

 

check it working well.

I power off both hosts, and after two weeks and power on again.

I found host 02 only have one data storage data 2 there. storage adapter shows on line. when I added new data to host 02. system said name LUNA already there.

 

I have two question, 01. why power on both host, Could VMs not automatically power on? VMware version is newest 6.5. so I check and can not find power on setup.

                                 02. how to re-mount LUNA to host 02? I have two there VMs in the LUNA, now these three VMs show inaccessible.

 

brgds

Liu Wei

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automatically put server in right ou

September 11, 2017, 11:33 am
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is there a way to use the customization template to automatically put a server in the correct ou on joining windows domain rather than default computers container?

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COM Surrogate (dllhost.exe) spending significant CPU scanning flexhook64.dll

September 6, 2017, 11:58 am
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I've been doing a deep dive into Office 365 Activation in non-persistent VDI issues and while looking at processes I've noticed a COM Surrogate process consistently taking up ~33% CPU.  The process will finish, close and then re-open looking at the same file, repeat, repeat, repeat.  This happens on each machine in the pool, needless to say this is a major drain on CPU resources for the hosts.  Any thoughts?

 

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cluster recovery

September 11, 2017, 11:17 am
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Hello team,

 

Could you please help me to get the steps to recover data store  from a all host down scenario.

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Upgrading an App Stack that is Computer attached process

September 11, 2017, 11:36 am
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Hi,

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere but I cannot locate the information I am looking for.

 

I wish to know what happens to a pool of machines when an application is updated when attached to a Computer object as opposed to a user object.

 

Scenario, if a pool of vm's comprising of 400 machines with 100 spare prepared machines. Has an update to a App Stack. Will the spare machine Automatically refresh with the updated software and any new connections go to the new vm's? Or would a manual reboot of the vm's be required to attach the updated app?

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