VM Start Problem After Update 6.0 to 6.7

[huseyin06]

Hello everyone.

I have using Esxi 6.0 for 2 years. I want update 6.0 to 6.7. I have downloaded update pack(VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-Update1-10302608-HPE-Gen9plus-670.U1.10.3.5.12-Oct2018.iso) and updated without any problem...

After that i do not use the Vmware vsphere client(Don't connect) and important for me any vms do not start. I have 4 vms but anyone do not start. When i try to start it says to me;

Power On VM

Key

haTask-116-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-2667639357

Description

Power On this virtual machine

Virtual machine

ezMaster

State

Failed - Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to peer process.

Errors

Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to peer process.

Please help me.

[ThompsG]

Hi huseyin06,

Could you run vdf -h from the ESXi shell and post the output here?

Also if you could retrieve the hostd.log file from /var/log/vmware and attach to the post that would be helpful.

Kind regards.

[dbalcaraz]

Seems that only these VMs have a problem...

I see an HA task.

Could you try to reconfigure HA on the hosts where the VMs reside?

Also, I would encourage you to re-register those VMs.

[huseyin06]

I am looking for shell in web gui. Sorry i am new started to use(i used vpshere client)

i sending 3 hostd.log file (i found 3 files with winSCP)

i can't find attachment here sorry.

http://dosya.co/f7p59hlox3ec/hostd.log.html

http://dosya.co/vssb8sbh2erj/hostd2.log.html

http://dosya.co/6ws1eh17ee78/hostd3.log.html

[huseyin06]

[root@localhost:~] vdf -h

Tardisk                  Space      Used

vmx.v00                   102M      102M

vim.v00                   110M      110M

sb.v00                    186M      186M

s.v00                      59M       59M

bnxtnet.v00               648K      646K

bnxtroce.v00              360K      358K

net_tg3.v00               300K      298K

elx_esx_.v00                6M        6M

brcmfcoe.v00                2M        2M

elxiscsi.v00              520K      518K

elxnet.v00                648K      646K

ima_be2i.v00                2M        2M

lpfc.v00                    2M        2M

scsi_be2.v00              800K      796K

amsd.v00                   11M       11M

bootcfg.v00               128K      124K

conrep.v00                  8M        8M

cru.v00                    44K       40K

fc_enabl.v00               30M       30M

hponcfg.v00               468K      466K

ilo.v00                    40K       36K

oem_buil.v00               12K        8K

smx_prov.v00               56M       56M

ssacli.v00                 20M       20M

testeven.v00               88K       87K

hpnmi.v00                  20K       17K

scsi_hpd.v00                3M        3M

scsi_hps.v00              244K      240K

scsi_hpv.v00                2M        2M

i40en.v00                 584K      581K

ixgben.v00                524K      521K

intelcim.v00              252K      249K

net_i40e.v00              404K      402K

net_igb.v00               324K      320K

net_ixgb.v00              524K      523K

nmst.v00                   68K       66K

smartpqi.v00              272K      270K

nhpsa.v00                 572K      569K

qcnic.v00                 288K      287K

qedentv.v00                 3M        3M

qedrntv.v00                 2M        2M

qfle3.v00                   2M        2M

qfle3f.v00                  1M        1M

qfle3i.v00                352K      351K

misc_cni.v00               24K       21K

net_bnx2.v00              316K      313K

net_bnx2.v01                2M        2M

net_cnic.v00              148K      147K

net_nx_n.v00                1M        1M

net_qlcn.v00                1M        1M

qlnative.v00                2M        2M

scsi_bfa.v00                2M        2M

scsi_bnx.v00              348K      347K

scsi_bnx.v01              268K      265K

scsi_qla.v00              552K      548K

ata_liba.v00              296K      294K

ata_pata.v00               48K       44K

ata_pata.v01               36K       35K

ata_pata.v02               40K       36K

ata_pata.v03               40K       37K

ata_pata.v04               44K       41K

ata_pata.v05               40K       38K

ata_pata.v06               36K       35K

ata_pata.v07               40K       39K

block_cc.v00               88K       84K

char_ran.v00               52K       51K

ehci_ehc.v00               96K       95K

hid_hid.v00                64K       60K

iavmd.v00                 180K      176K

igbn.v00                  328K      325K

ima_qla4.v00                1M        1M

ipmi_ipm.v00               44K       40K

ipmi_ipm.v01               84K       82K

ipmi_ipm.v02              104K      102K

iser.v00                  236K      234K

lpnic.v00                 644K      641K

lsi_mr3.v00               348K      344K

lsi_msgp.v00              512K      508K

lsi_msgp.v01              532K      531K

lsi_msgp.v02              508K      507K

misc_dri.v00                1M        1M

mtip32xx.v00              256K      254K

ne1000.v00                640K      639K

nenic.v00                 268K      267K

net_cdc_.v00               28K       25K

net_e100.v00              312K      311K

net_e100.v01              356K      353K

net_enic.v00              176K      175K

net_fcoe.v00               80K       79K

net_forc.v00              128K      125K

net_libf.v00               76K       75K

net_mlx4.v00              356K      355K

net_mlx4.v01              240K      236K

net_usbn.v00               56K       53K

net_vmxn.v00              112K      108K

nfnic.v00                 500K      496K

nmlx4_co.v00              728K      724K

nmlx4_en.v00              756K      752K

nmlx4_rd.v00              296K      294K

nmlx5_co.v00                1M        1M

nmlx5_rd.v00              256K      255K

ntg3.v00                  116K      115K

nvme.v00                  288K      284K

nvmxnet3.v00              172K      171K

nvmxnet3.v01              172K      170K

ohci_usb.v00               64K       63K

pvscsi.v00                120K      118K

qflge.v00                 504K      500K

sata_ahc.v00               88K       87K

sata_ata.v00               60K       56K

sata_sat.v00               68K       66K

sata_sat.v01               48K       46K

sata_sat.v02               52K       48K

sata_sat.v03               40K       39K

sata_sat.v04               36K       34K

scsi_aac.v00              180K      178K

scsi_adp.v00              452K      450K

scsi_aic.v00              296K      292K

scsi_fni.v00              244K      242K

scsi_ips.v00              108K      106K

scsi_isc.v00               44K       42K

scsi_lib.v00              212K      211K

scsi_meg.v00              100K       99K

scsi_meg.v01              176K      173K

scsi_meg.v02               96K       93K

scsi_mpt.v00              460K      459K

scsi_mpt.v01              504K      501K

scsi_mpt.v02              432K      429K

shim_isc.v00               16K       15K

shim_isc.v01               16K       15K

shim_lib.v00               44K       43K

shim_lib.v01               44K       43K

shim_lib.v02               24K       20K

shim_lib.v03               24K       20K

shim_lib.v04               12K        9K

shim_lib.v05               12K        9K

shim_vmk.v00              220K      217K

shim_vmk.v01              232K      228K

shim_vmk.v02              236K      232K

uhci_usb.v00               64K       63K

usb_stor.v00              164K      162K

usbcore_.v00              320K      318K

vmkata.v00                204K      201K

vmkfcoe.v00               936K      935K

vmkplexe.v00               48K       46K

vmkusb.v00                984K      980K

vmw_ahci.v00              280K      276K

xhci_xhc.v00              236K      235K

btldr.t00                 956K      952K

esx_dvfi.v00              496K      492K

esx_ui.v00                 14M       14M

esxupdt.v00               580K      576K

weaselin.t00                4M        4M

lsu_hp_h.v00              152K      149K

lsu_inte.v00               44K       41K

lsu_lsi_.v00              240K      237K

lsu_lsi_.v01              480K      477K

lsu_lsi_.v02              264K      260K

lsu_lsi_.v03              560K      557K

lsu_smar.v00               96K       93K

native_m.v00              820K      817K

rste.v00                  828K      825K

vmware_e.v00              188K      186K

vsan.v00                   41M       41M

vsanheal.v00                7M        7M

vsanmgmt.v00               23M       23M

xorg.v00                    3M        3M

imgdb.tgz                   2M        2M

state.tgz                  28K       26K

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Ramdisk                   Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on

root                       32M        2M       29M   8% --

etc                        28M      264K       27M   0% --

opt                        32M       72K       31M   0% --

var                        48M      392K       47M   0% --

tmp                       256M      132K      255M   0% --

iofilters                  32M        0B       32M   0% --

shm                      1024M        0B     1024M   0% --

hostdstats                206M        1M      204M   0% --

unlocker                  100M       84M       15M  84% --

[root@localhost:~]

[huseyin06]

Hello. What is the HA ?

[ThompsG]

Hi,

Can you see (or do you know) if you are running unlocker? Try ls -l /bin/vmx to see if there is anything here.

Kind regards.

[huseyin06]

[root@localhost:~] ls -l /bin/vmx

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            13 Mar  8 13:25 /bin/vmx -> /unlocker/vmx

[root@localhost:~]

i don't know what is the unlocker.

[daphnissov]

You see this piece?

/bin/vmx -> /unlocker/vmx

That means you've installed the unlocker "hack" designed to illegally circumvent protections put in place to prevent unauthorized running of MacOS on non-Apple hardware. As a result, we cannot help you with any of your issues here.

[ThompsG]

Hi there,

It is used to run MacOS. You are going to need to uninstall it so find the installer by running:

find . -name esxi-uninstall.sh

Then run the uninstaller to remove it. Your other VMs should now start.

[huseyin06]

i can not install any unlocker software. i don't use apple operating systems. How i remove this? Maybe older system engineer have installed it.

[daphnissov]

ThompsG​

Please don't advise people or post links to software that is designed to violate EULAs and copyright restrictions. The unlocker software is designed to do both of these things and we cannot be implicit in helping people violate the terms of use.

[ThompsG · Accepted solution]

Hence the reason I removed the link.

[huseyin06]

Please any operator will be delete the post? I will try to clean install on our Esxi host. Maybe there is some problems on our host. Thank you for all

[daphnissov]

You can attempt to delete the unlocker software and see if that fixes it. If not, I'd advise you to back up any VMs and rebuild that ESXi host from a clean image and then from there to never install foreign packages.

[Himadri]

Reconfigure HA & check