Hello,
After a power failure, ESX won't boot and stuck on nfs41client loaded successfully.
It's ESXi 6 Build 5050593 on a USB.
I tried to upgrade ESX to 6.7 U3 to no avail: Vibs on the host are conflicting with vib in metadata.
Please help!
Thank you,
Hamid
We had similar issue.
It does not stuck, it is so slow.
Do you have any RDM LUN presented to server?
If yes, you should change one flag perennially-reserved to true.
For now, you can disconnect all RDM LUNs from server, reboot and it should boot fast.
After that check KB: VMware Knowledge Base
If you don't use RDMs....I don't know
No LUNs and it is not slow. it stuck at that point.
Thanks anyways.
You can use the ALT+F12 key to check the live vmkernel log. If that shows a storage issue then you need to wait until the boot process times out to load the storage
thanks,
MS
Its more likely a storage connectivity issues.
As Murali said press Alt+F12 and check the in memory logs to find out the cause for it to get stuck.
Keep us posted.
Had this same issue and the Alt-F12 to see logs explained why. The host in question was part of a previous cluster and had NFS mounts to ~20 volumes. On startup it was trying each one sequentially and after 60-90minutes it moved past the nfs41client message and finished booting.
Try upgrade first 6.5 then 6.7
ran into the same thing, answer here: Removing an orphaned NFS share
Hi
Some time on disks have partition, you must clean all logical disk with some tools , like diskpart form windows installer with this commands :
select disk X
clean
> Some time on disks have partition, you must clean all logical disk with some tools , like diskpart form windows installer with this commands :
So you recommend to wipe the esxi-installation disk just because the nfsclient is the last module that loaded successfully.
I consider that as borderline sabotage !!!!
Do not follow this advice.
0 points for helpful advice
-10 points for missguiding users.
😡😡😡
Ulli
You can try other ways my friend
Please stop giving advice that will destroy other folks installations.
Thats no fun - if you have nothing to contribute or are unsure - please just dont post !!!
Seriously - you have been warned
Ulli