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Error on convert

ScottChapman — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:55:24 GMT

One thing I just noticed, is that the VM is only 11G even though the source machine has 86G of used space.

Installing new NIC on host

th3Mikee — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:11:34 GMT

Problem solved.

ESXi 4.0 requires that you do indeed need the driver kit for the Intel Pro1000ET cards. You'll need either the VMware vMA applianace: http://www.vmware.com/downloads/downloadBinary.do?downloadGroup=VMA40&vmware=downloadBinary&file=vMA-4.0.0-161993.zip&pot=1&code=FC11242097597569&hashKey=9b529d5de877fcc7364ca261efebe5bc&tranId=56383727&baseURL=https://download2.vmware.com/software/sdk/vima/

Or the vSphere CLI application: http://www.vmware.com/downloads/downloadBinary.do?downloadGroup=VCLI40&vmware=downloadBinary&file=VMware-vSphere-CLI-4.0.0-161974.exe&pot=1&code=FC11242097392737&hashKey=342d76c1723672a06040c0a44967d983&tranId=56383743&baseURL=https://download2.vmware.com/software/sdk/

to install the software.

Good luck to everyone else!

Need help updating a driver

scottburgan — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:41:41 GMT

I'm not sure if ESXi will work on an Aspire, because it is an Atom based processor which does not support virtualization in the hardware. If you can get it to work, I would be surprised. You may want to try a centrino or centrino 2 based platform first.

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ESXI PSoD when restarting/shutting down host

ScottChapman — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:13:03 GMT

ESXi so no support entitlement.

Odd MAC address confusion...

Anton V Zhbankov — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:54:44 GMT

I suppose, Service Request is already created and some time will be a fix for this.

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Help installing ESXi on ICH9 based MB

ScottChapman — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:43:34 GMT

Incidentally, I am running with my MB in IDE Enhanced mode. When I tried running it in SATA AHIC mode I was getting root mount failed errors at start up.

I have since read how to address this on vm-help.

My question is, now that I have this up and running, is it worth fixing this so I can run IAHIC mode? If so, do I need to be worried about reformatting anything??

Checking datastore filesystem?

eveane — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:43:47 GMT

Hi ScottChapman,

nick.couchman this is correct there is no end user tools to force a vmfs filesystem check.

however mittell is correct saying there is a filesystem check at mont time. thsi check will probe a number of metadata (LVM and VMFS) and will report error at that time and will eitehr mount or not the vmfs. in some casethere is still some error that might be tehre but will not prevent the vmfs to mount. those error will occur at a lter stage when doing filesystem operation like starting a vm, reading a file updating the journal. so you need to track those

However if you do a refresh from the graphical interface on the datastore view, a rescan or a vmkfstools -V from the CLI, the same check will be performed. in this case if the vmfs is should fail to mount but is already mounted and has active I/O it will not be unmounted but report the error in vmkernel.

so the key point is to check your vmkernel logs.

if it report any corruption you should no longer trust the datastore itself as you don;t know and will never know the exact extend of the corruption you are experiencing. this is specialy the case when the vmfs is no longer mounting.

if you realise taht the vmfs is no longer mounting, and you have other esx still running vm from that datastore, then do not stop those vm and start to back up the vm from insed the guest (network based, like converter through rdp). if you need to restart them then restart them from inside the guest, not from vmware.

also contect vm-ware support and provide 1 GB dump from that vmfs (disk device and not the partition) as well 32 mB dump from each extend part of taht datastore.

as mention the check done by vmware is only a check and will not fix.

however vmware can check and may be able to fix the metadata, but this will only help for that part, we cannot check the rest of the disk. so the data recovered should be not trusted (consider the respective vmdk as if they were corruption on a physical disk (use fschk and chkdsk and any application tools whcich can review data integrity.)

hope it help

eveane

Host lockups

ScottChapman — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:28:26 GMT

OK, here is my latest update. I am really stumped.

I have replaced my MB, flashed the BIOS, down-reved the BIOS, did clean installs on a competely different disk, and no luck. Always see the this same message, and my machine is very unstable.

But here comes the interesting part.

I also noticed something in the log, I was getting an alert for the other CPUs (multi-core CPU). I was getting multiple APICID alerts ESR=0x40.

So, I went into my BIOS, disabled APICD, and it works like a champ. Except that I appear to only be using one CPU...

Any more ideas?

Rebuilding ESXi server

ScottChapman — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:15:48 GMT

OK, that's a litle better. I now see my disks as snap-<blah>-<datastore name>

Not sure I follow what's next. Should I just rename them to what I want, and then re-import the VMs to my inventory?

ESXi support for RAID controllers on motherboards?

weinstein5 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:58:40 GMT

I do not believ it is supported with that chip set - check out http://communities.vmware.com/message/1031409#1031409

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Removing snapshot resulted in invalid VM

Lightbulb — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:29:49 GMT

You will need to edit the vmx file (Harder in ESXi, but doable) and replace

scsi0:0.fileName (Replace the 0 with the SCSI controller and Drive number appropriate for the drive with the missing snapshot) = "VM.vmdk" (Where VM is the VM name if it is the second disk this will be VM_1.vmdk etc)

This will allow you to start the VM in crash consistent state.

Rember to backup anything you edit.

Support for multi-port NICs?

ScottChapman — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:44:04 GMT

Spent about an hour with them on the phone, didn't get to any concrete conclusions.

The theory is that the PCI Express slot of that mother moard (intel 915 chipset) isn't supplying enough power. I am skeptical since that slot was driving a graphics card which must draw more.

At anyrate I am convinced it is some incompatibility between the motherboard and the NIC.

I am just going to ignore it for now and plan to replace the old motherboard this summer...

How to get files to and from the host

ScottChapman — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:09:00 GMT

Let me see if scp works, that would be just fine.

Thanks for your suggestion!

Installing new NIC on host

ScottChapman — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:14:45 GMT

Yea it would (but stop calling me shirley).

I could, but I feel I have some "investment" in this current card, and I feel pretty close... (and I am unlikely to be able to return it at this point).

If anyone that has the ability to build current drivers would be willing to make a one line change to the intel ixg driver for me to test? It seems like that would be the good "opensource" approach...

Access to physical drives?

kjb007 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:22:32 GMT

You can add local storage, but not as an RDM. You have to add in the device as a generic SCSI device. See here for some help: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/155874

-KjB

Need guidance on hardware choices for new ESXi server.

kpc — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:34:51 GMT

Is it worth perhaps buying a second hand server, something like a Dell 1850, should only be around £200 - £300?