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Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

30. Nov 18, 2008 12:57 PM in response to: reidg1785
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ief
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Aug 19, 2005
I have upgraded 8 VMware ESX hosts to 3.5 Update 3 and VC 2.5 Update 3. We experience the same problem as reidg1785 explianed. After we set DRS to manual and disable Virtual Machine Monitoring the random reboots of the VM's stops. I have created a support request @ VMware, no solution yet.

www.ivobeerens.nl

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Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

31. Nov 19, 2008 1:54 AM in response to: ief
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ief
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Aug 19, 2005

VMware support told me today that they will relase tommorow patch 10 for Update 3 that fixes some random reboot problems.

www.ivobeerens.nl


Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

32. Nov 19, 2008 4:51 AM in response to: ief
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ufo8mydog
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Jul 27, 2008

I can confirm that we've had the same random reboot issue, the only way to stop it is to disable virtual machine monitoring.

I'll be looking forward to the updated patch, but it does look like VMWare's Q&A team have dropped the ball again on U3.

Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

33. Nov 19, 2008 2:05 PM in response to: sgorham
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deere
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Nov 19, 2008
3.5.0 Rlease 3 working fine for two weeks, suddenly yesterday, purple screen with a skb_over_panic message error, server never back on 14 production VM's had to be manually moved to other 3.0.1 Server, still investingating what the heck is going on....head ache..be careful guys !!!!

Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

34. Nov 19, 2008 2:10 PM in response to: grndmstr
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Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

35. Nov 19, 2008 3:02 PM in response to: ufo8mydog
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RS_1
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Nov 3, 2006

We got the same problem today :(

thanks for the workaround guys.

Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

36. Nov 20, 2008 1:17 PM in response to: Jasemccarty
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flook1985
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Aug 7, 2008

Jase,

Would you be willing to be bit more descriptive about how you go this to work on you optiplex gx620(I'm a novice ...)? I have 3 of these boxes and would really like to get ESX 3.5 update 3 working on 2 them then use the 3rd for an Openfiler iSCSI box. It would be nice to be able to put a couple of vm's on the host's instead of relying completely on iSCSI...

I don't know what "simple.map" is ...What are the exact changes I would need to make to this?

BTW - I have updated the BIOS to A11

Thanks,

Greg

Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

37. Nov 20, 2008 3:56 PM in response to: Dave.Mishchen…
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Nov 19, 2008

Check this link for first major oops... http://www.ivobeerens.nl/?p=180

I agree testing out new updates is wise, Microsoft has taught us that, but isn't it the responsibility of the OS distributor to do that. I mean they have a lot more resources than a "Joe computer tech" at a small organization like me. On this one I was more cautious after Update 2.

Oh I found this link because my "testing" resulted in the scenario described and the solution worked.

Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

38. Nov 20, 2008 6:48 PM in response to: flook1985
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Apr 5, 2005
I am using the A11 bios as well.

Using "unsupported" access to the console in ESXi, I modified "/etc/vmware/simple.map"


Here's a section for the Intel ICH7 controller from ESXi 3.5 U3:


8086:27c0 0000:0000 storage ide
8086:27c1 0000:0000 storage ahci
8086:27c3 0000:0000 storage ahci
8086:27c4 0000:0000 storage ide
8086:27c5 0000:0000 storage ahci
8086:27c6 0000:0000 storage ahci
8086:27df 0000:0000 storage ide


Here's a section for the Intel ICH7 controller from ESXi 3.5 U2:

8086:27c0 0000:0000 storage ata_piix
8086:27c1 0000:0000 storage ahci
8086:27c3 0000:0000 storage ahci
8086:27c4 0000:0000 storage ata_piix
8086:27c5 0000:0000 storage ahci
8086:27c6 0000:0000 storage ahci
8086:27df 0000:0000 storage ide


I modified the values in blue to be the ones in red. Then I rebooted the box.


I could then see the controller properly, but couldn't see my VMFS volume.

I then modifed the LVM.EnableResignature = 1 host setting, and rescanned my storage controllers. (In Configuration/Advanced Settings)

I could then see the VMFS volume, even though it had a different name

Jase McCarty
http://www.jasemccarty.com
Co-Author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center
(ISBN:1420070274) from Auerbach

Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

39. Nov 21, 2008 5:32 AM in response to: ief
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OlivR
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Jun 17, 2008

Any news about this patch? Are SP3 files going to be updated?

It looks to me like it's a pretty serious problem, did anybody at VMWare oficially agreed with this problem? Also I think adding a note on the dowload page would be rather useful... Like saying the know bug for the current SP and provide link to the patches.

Olivier

Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

40. Dec 1, 2008 11:43 AM in response to: sgorham
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AdRem
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Nov 25, 2008
After a few days of playing around with this version, I found that "Health Status" stops working every 24 hours or something on supported Dell PE 2950-III machine.
It's because of "pegasus" service which stops working with any trace in logs...

Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

41. Dec 2, 2008 2:50 AM in response to: Jasemccarty
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mriz
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Nov 27, 2008
I have tried to change the lines in simple.map file but still i cannot find my harddisk under storage. Any idea? I am using Optiplex gx620 with usb esxi U3 and i have modifed the oem.tgz file and after reboot i have checked the file located in /etc/vmware/simple.map that new values are prsented there.

Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

43. Dec 3, 2008 10:53 PM in response to: RS_1
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dane
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Jan 16, 2006
NB !! Sorry, autoanswer got posted

Re: 3.5U3 - any guinea pigs yet?

44. Dec 3, 2008 5:03 AM in response to: RS_1
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OlivR
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Jun 17, 2008
Great, thanks!
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