Esxi 6.0 Configuration issues

[RajeshKumar8994]

Hi All

Am facing an issue after i have upgraded ESXI 5.5 to 6.0 (9313334).

Am Getting an error, Please give any suggestions.

[IRIX201110141]

Well, why not reading KB 55363?

Your Host, like all other intel based servers are affected by Spectre Foreshadow-NG security flaw. VMware try to mitigate but it comes with a downside and the admin needs to made a decision.  VMware vSphere comes with a different CPU scheduler which you now can enable. After enabling it and a reboot only one VM will be executed  on a CPU/HT core.  On hosts with already high cpu load this can lead into a performance impact. On hosts with low utilization it may can tolerate.  But VMware cant knew that.. so its your job.

You can suppress the warning and live with the security flaw.

About the new scheduler please take a look to VMware Knowledge Base

About your 7-8 dell poweredge you may consider FW updates to cover all the previous spectre and meltdown issues.

Dell Server BIOS R710 Version 6.6.0 | Dell Deutschland

Hint: The current dell smart cds are not working for the r710. Try to use the LCC and update directly trough the internet.

Regards,

Joerg

[vijayrana968]

Please refer to this forum, answered by a.p.​

This host is potentially vulnerable to issues descibed in CVE-2018-3646

Refer to VMware Knowledge Base for HTAware Mitigation Tool execution and analysis.

[RajeshKumar8994]

Hi

This is ESXI 6.O, Which is recently upgraded from 5.5. Could you please clearly advice how to solve this.

This Host is having only 3 vms. What will be the impact if am not mitigate this?

What is the patch for this ? Please give reply on this.

Regards

[rajen450m]

Hi Rajesh,

You have to update with the patch 6.0u3h to mitigate this... please refer to the below kb

VMware Knowledge Base

Regards,

[RajeshKumar8994]

Hi

Actually i have upgraded to 6.0 9313334, which is latest to u3.

Regards

Rajesh Kumar M

[vijayrana968]

Please check my first reply, go through the KB mentioned.

[RajeshKumar8994]

Hi Vijayrana

Your answer was 6.7 and that also will applicable for this 6.0.

Regards

[vijayrana968]

Yes Rajesh.

[RajeshKumar8994]

Hi

Could you please share me the Esxi 6.0 u3h path only to download from vmware website.

Because i have tried but am able to find Vcenter 6.0 u3h iso only.

Regards

[GayathriS]

Please find the download link here :

Download VMware vSphere

Please mark this as correct if this answers and helps you .

regards

Gayathri

[vijayrana968]

There's no ESXi 6.0 U3H as of now. The last update was U3F and there is patch 7 latest after that. Please refer to VMware Knowledge Base

Download ESXi patches from https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search

[RajeshKumar8994]

4. Re: Esxi 6.0 Configuration issues

rajen450m Oct 9, 2018 1:30 AM (in response to Rajesh Kumar)

Hi Rajesh,

You have to update with the patch 6.0u3h to mitigate this... please refer to the below kb

VMware Knowledge Base

Regards,

Raj M

The above you have said is for Vcenter 6.0 u3h correct ? Not for Esxi Hosts?

i have got two profile when i was upgrading the esxi server, so i have chosen first one that is standard. so we

Regards

[vijayrana968 · Accepted solution]

See, When you say U3H, this is for vCenter Server 6.0 U3h. You won't able to find ESXi because for esxi there is bug fix patch release, U3H update is for vCenter mitigating this vulnerability.

ESXi 6.0 Patch Release ESXi600-201808001

VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Update 3h Release Notes