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File lock owned by disconnected (down) vmnic

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:50:04 GMT

Hi,

While troubleshooting snapshot consolidation issues (VM powered off, unable to start, consolidation fails due to a file lock) I discovered that MAC address of the vmnic that owns the lock belongs to the adapted that is disconnected (not assigned to any vswitches, port groups, etc.) How can I remove this lock?

The host runs esxi 6.0 and is connected to the vCenter 6.0

Thanks

Esxi6.7：What the suggestion the maximum size of a datastore?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:44:38 GMT

Hi All,

Like the tile,what the suggestion the maximum size of a datastore?

VM Performance Monitoring using SNMP

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:29:14 GMT

I am trying to find if there is a way to monitor the Virtual Machine performance parameters as shown in the image below using SNMP. I understand we can poll the ESXi host as well as the Guest OS like a virtual firewall to get the information. Is there a way to get this information from the Performance section of the Monitor tab under Virutal Machine which you want to monitor ?

Regards

Ashish

Can i remediate the same host update manager is running on?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 06:49:48 GMT

Is it possible to use the Update Manager to update the host it is running on? Or is my only option to use CLI or a USB/ISO ?

Thanks!

Guest OS inplace upgrade

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 05:42:45 GMT

Author : Ivanka Radkova

URL : http:////docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-3B66132C-F3E7-4F86-836F-80A03AC99E2A.html

Topic Name : Change the Configured Guest Operating System

Publication Name : vSphere Virtual Machine Administration

Product/Version : VMware vSphere/6.7

Question :

Why VMware does not support in-place upgrade of the OS where a VMware component/application is installed?

Snapshot storage management questions

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:20:17 GMT

I'm fairly new to ESXI and I'm trying to grasp how snapshots work in this environment.

From what I understand so far, it seems like they work almost like GIT repositories, where a master snapshot is created first, and then a concurrent snapshot is dependent on the master snapshot and the concurrent snapshots (child snapshots) are dependent on each snapshot taken before it making kind of a chain of dependencies. It appears that when ESXI boots a VM, it actually uses the most recent snapshot along with the vdisk and not just the vdisk, meaning the most recent snapshot must be fully intact.

Here is my question. We like to take a snapshot of a certain VM once a week but over time we do not want it to fill up and over encumber our storage capacity. My first thought was to delete any snapshot older than 2 months, but upon doing this I was no longer able to boot into the VM. I did manage to repair it by loading the original vdisk image which was months out of date, and rebuilt everything from there, however; what is the best way to manage snapshots if you seemingly cannot delete the oldest snapshot without affecting the current snapshot?

Thanks.

Esxi6.7: Intel X520 - ixgben Down/Down

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 21:45:01 GMT

Hello,

we have some Cisco servers equipped with Intel X520-DA2 card.

As you can see below the very same server running ESXi 6.5 see the 2x 10GB links active (Up) but as soon as the ESXi get updated to 6.7 the ports get marked as Down.

Interestingly the activity leds still blink and the switch side still see the connection UP/UP.

From google search I found that only selected SFP seems to be officially supported yet we had connectivity UP when running 6.5.

Does anyone faced any similiar issue already (and possibly find a workaround to it?) ?

Thx,

Server model: UCSC-C220-M3L

NIC card: Intel X520-DA2 10 Gbps 2 port NIC

NIC card cable: Cisco SFP-H10GB-CU3M

--- 6.5 ---

[root@esxi165:~] vmware -v

VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-8294253

[root@esxi165:~]

[root@esxi165:~] esxcli network nic list

Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description

------ ------------ ------ ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ----------------------------------------------------------------

vmnic0 0000:01:00.0 igbn Up Up 1000 Full 88:5a:92:88:35:8e 1500 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection

vmnic1 0000:01:00.1 igbn Up Up 1000 Full 88:5a:92:88:35:8f 1500 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection

vmnic2 0000:82:00.0 ixgbe Up Up 10000 Full 90:e2:ba:6d:48:7c 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection

vmnic3 0000:82:00.1 ixgbe Up Up 10000 Full 90:e2:ba:6d:48:7d 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection

[root@esxi165:~]

[root@esxi165:~] esxcli software vib list | grep ixgbe

ixgben 1.4.1-12vmw.650.2.50.8294253 VMW VMwareCertified 2019-10-15

net-ixgbe 3.7.13.7.14iov-20vmw.650.0.0.4564106 VMW VMwareCertified 2019-10-15

[root@esxi165:~]

--- 6.7 (1) ---

[root@esxi165:~] vmware -v

VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-13004448

[root@esxi165:~] esxcli network nic list

Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description

------ ------------ ------ ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ----------------------------------------------------------------

vmnic0 0000:01:00.0 igbn Up Up 1000 Full 88:5a:92:88:35:8e 9000 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection

vmnic1 0000:01:00.1 igbn Up Up 1000 Full 88:5a:92:88:35:8f 1500 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection

vmnic2 0000:82:00.0 ixgben Down Down 0 Half 90:e2:ba:6d:48:7c 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection

vmnic3 0000:82:00.1 ixgben Down Down 0 Half 90:e2:ba:6d:48:7d 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection

[root@esxi165:~]

[root@esxi165:~] esxcli software vib list | grep ixgbe

ixgben 1.4.1-16vmw.670.1.28.10302608 VMW VMwareCertified 2019-10-15

net-ixgbe 3.7.13.7.14iov-20vmw.670.0.0.8169922 VMW VMwareCertified 2019-10-15

[root@esxi165:~]

--- 6.7 (2) ---

[root@esxi165:~] vmware -v

VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-14320388

[root@esxi165:~] esxcli network nic list

Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description

------ ------------ ------ ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ----------------------------------------------------------------

vmnic0 0000:01:00.0 igbn Up Up 1000 Full 88:5a:92:88:35:8e 9000 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection

vmnic1 0000:01:00.1 igbn Up Up 1000 Full 88:5a:92:88:35:8f 1500 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection

vmnic2 0000:82:00.0 ixgben Down Down 0 Half 90:e2:ba:6d:48:7c 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection

vmnic3 0000:82:00.1 ixgben Down Down 0 Half 90:e2:ba:6d:48:7d 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection

[root@esxi165:~]

[root@esxi165:~] esxcli software vib list | grep ixgbe

ixgben 1.7.1.16-1vmw.670.3.73.14320388 VMW VMwareCertified 2019-10-15

net-ixgbe 3.7.13.7.14iov-20vmw.670.0.0.8169922 VMW VMwareCertified 2019-10-15

[root@esxi165:~]

looking for output of "esxcli network vswitch standard portgroup policy failover get" in vm-support bundle

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 21:43:19 GMT

If I run the command esxcli network vswitch standard portgroup policy failover get -p "[portgroup name]" I get exactly what I expect:

Load Balancing: srcport

Network Failure Detection: link

Notify Switches: true

Failback: true

Active Adapters: vmnic0, vmnic1

Standby Adapters:

Unused Adapters:

Override Vswitch Load Balancing: false

Override Vswitch Network Failure Detection: false

Override Vswitch Notify Switches: false

Override Vswitch Failback: false

Override Vswitch Uplinks: false

When I look for that data in a vm-support generated from that host (or any host), I cannot find it. Is that data not collected?

Unable to expnad a datastore

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:49:28 GMT

I started using this server with a 32TB RAID5. I created a 32TB datastore. Later I added two more drives to the array, so it expanded to 54TB. I can't find the way to expand my datastore to 54TB or create another one.

https://scrn.li/Gn8k5Dt3wELhrN

The device browser shows that the RAID array is fully occupied by a partition

https://scrn.li/4lqZFoZ2Aew3A0

What can I do about it short of destroying the existing datastore, which would be a major hassle?

Thank you.

The Art of Creating a Community of Trusted Content

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:59:09 GMT

The Art of Creating a Community of Trusted Content

Imagine an online community where customers, partners, and VMware employees come together to create a community of trusted content that benefits all members and visitors. That would be a tremendous resource. But most efforts to unlock, capture, and document the collective wisdom of an online community fail, because they don’t establish a clear definition of trusted content and they don’t inform members how community content reaches a trusted state.

What we mean by Trusted Content

We define it as content that generally has at least one post reply selected as a Correct Answer, and one or more marks given by other members to highlight how much they liked the post or found it to be helpful.

Community is all about collaboration and all members have role to play. When a member finds a post that appears valuable enough to read, whether it’s a post or post reply, we encourage them to go one step further if they found value in what they read and mark the post. The more marks a post receives overall, the stronger the indication that it’s valuable and can be trusted. A post’s level of trust can also grow as members add marks over time.

What we’re doing to generate Trusted Content

The VMware community team is on a mission to inform and encourage our members to embrace and mirror the steps required to create trusted content in the VMTN community. This is a collaborative process that relies on mutual respect and healthy doses of give-and-take.

Trusted content starts with a correct answer being assigned by the Original Poster (OP). It’s one of the strongest and most trustworthy marks a post can receive, as members want to know if the information resolved the issue. Next, we ask community members to provide feedback by marking posts/post replies—e.g., Like, Helpful, I Have the Same Question.

Through repetition, the process of creating and/or identifying trusted content becomes the norm, rather than the exception. If all members embrace these best practice steps, the quality and effectiveness of community content will quickly increase. A great example is the Salesforce Trailblazer community, where its membership maintains a 98% or higher correct answer rate on community posts.

Marking Posts

Again, trusted content starts with members marking posts. And this means going beyond selecting a Correct Answer as most community platforms provide several ways to mark content to show how a member perceived the value of the post. To help VMTN members understand which mark to select, we offer the following guidelines:

Available Marks: Defined as:

Correct Answer Selected by origin poster to indicate a post reply answered the question or resolved the issue

I Have the Same Question Selected by members to indicate the information contained within a post is important and relevant to multiple members

Like Selected by members to indicate the information contained in a post reply was something they enjoyed

Helpful Selected by members to highlight the information contained in a post reply helped explain or resolved their issue or question

We ask all VMTN members to adopt and repeat these low effort behaviors that give back to the community, close the question and answer loop, and ultimately create trusted content.

Thanks everyone and see you in the community.

The VMware Community Team

igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:30:10 GMT

Hey guys,

We've encountered some issues with the igbn driver (version 1.4.7) on Dell hosts running ESXi 6.7 Update1. This has been raised with the vendors and Dell and VMware have both come back advising that there might a known issue in this driver. One our customers hosts running this driver encountered a PSOD.

Dell infact has reached out to their vendors (Intel) and they have confirmed that this impacting the Intel i350 cards. Both Vmware and Dell have advised to disable the igbn drivers and use the native igbo drivers.

Has anyone else encountered similar issues wit this driver? If yes then has anyone disabled it to use the igbo drivers instead? Is it a stable workaround?

Looking forward to some feedback on those who have switched over to the igb drivers.

Cheers, Onil

Delete Disk SAN from VM accidentaly

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:30:03 GMT

hello ,

I have deleted accidentaly a vm disk .the disk was attached to SAN storage equipement .we dont backup this VM .

is there a way to recover this disk?

ihave Vmware 5.5

Regards

Linking myvmware login to product license.

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:22:22 GMT

We purchased vmware through an integrator. How do I go about linking our product license to this myvmware account? I'm trying to download the vcenter server appliance, and am getting "You either are not entitled or do not have permissions to download this product", though it was included in our license. I suspect it will work when the account is linked. Thanks.

lost connectivity to the device eui.00xxxx

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:16:42 GMT

Hello, i have searching help for this problem in the forums & in the VMware Knowledge Base and i can't found information about it.

Some days ago i have recived this message in my vCenter: "Lost connectivity to the device eui.00exxxxxxx backing the boot filesystem".

I have 2 host & in the other host this message doesn't appear, although the device is shown in both hosts.

Somebody knows how can i solve it?
Thank you.

Conflicting VIB when upgrading to 6.5 -- Safe to remove this?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:16:16 GMT

This is a Dell PowerEdge M630, using ESXi downloads provided by dell for this server and the hardware is compatible with ESXi 6.7

I upgraded from ESXi 5.5 to 6.0 with no issues. 6.0 to 6.5 threw this:

which appears to be regarding the LSI SCSI driver.

While SSH'd into the host:

[root@HOST:~] esxcli software vib list | grep LSI

scsi-megaraid-perc9 6.901.57.00-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 LSI VMwareCertified 2019-10-14

scsi-mpt3sas 04.00.00.00.1vmw-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 LSI VMwareCertified 2019-10-14

Here is an attempt to see what drivers are in use:

[root@HOST:~] esxcfg-scsidevs -a

vmhba38 ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba38 (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba39 ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba39 (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba0 lsi_mr3 link-n/a sas.544a842031c5c000 (0000:02:00.0) LSI / Symbios Logic PERC H730 Mini (blade)

vmhba1 ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba1 (0000:00:11.4) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba2 ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba2 (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba40 ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba40 (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba41 ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba41 (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba42 iscsi_vmk online iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:vm-08-187a21de iSCSI Software Adapter

vmhba32 usb-storage link-n/a usb.vmhba32 () USB

vmhba34 ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba34 (0000:00:11.4) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba35 ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba35 (0000:00:11.4) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba36 ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba36 (0000:00:11.4) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba37 ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba37 (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

I am not seeing any mpt3sas or scsi-mpt3sas referenced. Does this mean it would be safe for me to run a:

[root@HOST:~] esxcli software vib remove -f --vibname scsi-mpt3sas

Without killing my RAID array?

I'd like to think so, but I am not expert on this and don't fully know how to interpret the results of "esxcfg-scsidevs -a" to 100% know for sure if the driver/VIB is used or not.

Thanks.

Vmdk cancellato

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:11:09 GMT

Buongiorno un mio cliente per sbaglio ha cancellato dal data Store della sua macchina ESXi 5.5 il file vmdk Di un disco virtuale, io volevo sapere se esistono dei programmi per recuperare l’intero file, ho trovato un software che uso per il recupero dati ma mi sa vedere l’unità come se fosse un disco collegato e mi fa recuperare il contenuto ma non riesco a recuperare l’interezza del file unico da 110 giga, mentre se riuscissi a recuperare il file intero potrai far ripartire la macchina

Conoscete qualche procedura o qualche software?

What are some ways to reduce the size of a virtual machine on ESXi without reducing the disk size of the host operating system (not shrink)?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:04:36 GMT

What are some ways to reduce the size of a virtual machine on ESXi without reducing the disk size of the host operating system (not shrink)?

There are several hypervisors ESXi 5.1, 5.5, 6.0. There are several virtual machines (VMs) that have snapshots. All of these VMs have THIN disk type. There is little disk space left on the hypervisors. What are some ways to reduce the size of a VMs without reducing the disk size of the host operating system (not shrink)?

1) The first thing that comes to mind is to delete some snapshots and this helps. But I can’t delete some pictures, because they are needed.

2) I conducted an experiment on moving (move to) a virtual machine from one hypervisor to another. With this transfer, snapshots are also transferred. I moved one VM that had one snapshot and I took measurements (it is possible that I did the wrong measurements, not 100% sure).

BEFORE:

/vmfs/volumes/50c7659e-3221b402-f0fa-0025906c0540/Automation # ls -al

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1820 Oct 4 11:59 .

drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1960 Aug 30 14:06 ..

-rw------- 1 root root 4244701184 Oct 4 11:59 Automation-000001-delta.vmdk

-rw------- 1 root root 323 Aug 30 15:21 Automation-000001.vmdk

-rw------- 1 root root 28332 Aug 30 15:21 Automation-Snapshot1.vmsn

-rw------- 1 root root 32212254720 Aug 30 15:20 Automation-flat.vmdk

-rw------- 1 root root 8684 Oct 4 11:59 Automation.nvram

-rw------- 1 root root 503 Aug 30 14:25 Automation.vmdk

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 464 Aug 30 15:21 Automation.vmsd

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2815 Oct 4 11:59 Automation.vmx

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265 Aug 30 14:06 Automation.vmxf

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292954 Aug 30 15:20 vmware-1.log

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155428 Oct 4 11:59 vmware.log

/vmfs/volumes/50c7659e-3221b402-f0fa-0025906c0540/Automation # du

35607568

AFTER:

/vmfs/volumes/5b5756e6-af674044-1b69-ac1f6b0ded4e/Automation # ls -al

total 7547920

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1680 Oct 4 12:31 .

drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 9660 Oct 4 12:26 ..

-rw------- 1 root root 4244701184 Oct 4 12:31 Automation-000001-delta.vmdk

-rw------- 1 root root 323 Oct 4 12:31 Automation-000001.vmdk

-rw------- 1 root root 28332 Oct 4 12:31 Automation-Snapshot1.vmsn

-rw------- 1 root root 32212254720 Oct 4 12:28 Automation-flat.vmdk

-rw------- 1 root root 8684 Oct 4 12:31 Automation.nvram

-rw------- 1 root root 529 Oct 4 12:28 Automation.vmdk

-rw------- 1 root root 464 Oct 4 12:31 Automation.vmsd

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2615 Oct 4 12:31 Automation.vmx

-rw------- 1 root root 292954 Oct 4 12:31 vmware-1.log

-rw------- 1 root root 155274 Oct 4 12:31 vmware.log

/vmfs/volumes/5b5756e6-af674044-1b69-ac1f6b0ded4e/Automation # du

7546896

Judging by «ls», the file sizes did not decrease, but judging by «du», the total size of the virtual machine decreased by 26 GB and the hypervisor before the transfer showed that the STORAGE USAGE was already 34 GB and after that it became about 8 GB. That is, the transfer has reduced the disk space.

But when I moved another virtual machine, about 1TB in size, also with one snapshot. Unfortunately I did not make the same detailed measurements. But judging by the STORAGE USAGE, this virtual machine did not decrease or decreased so slightly that I did not see the difference.

It turns out that the transfer does not always reduce the size occupied on the disk.

Perhaps someone can explain what the catch is.

I also thought of two ways that might possibly help - please tell me if they help in this matter. But so far I have not conducted any experiments, I decided to consult with the community.

3) Export VM to OVA file and than import it back.

4) Backup VM with, eg. ghettoVCB and than restore it back.

What can you advise on this issue? What methods do you use to solve this problem?

System Logs on Host... are Stored on Non-Persistent disks

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 17:36:40 GMT

Got this message after adding a new hosts. Looks at all the Advances System Settings and they are all the same as the rest of the hosts in the cluster. All host say ([] /scratch/log for Syslog.global.logDir. And the ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation is set to /tmp/scratch. So not sure why the error. Anyone have a clue why I am still getting this Warning? Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Perry

Fault Tolerant VM Issue

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 17:27:03 GMT

I currently have 2 vm's that run in FT mode. I need to be able to disable FT from the command line (shell) to make some modification to and then re-enable FT.

Our Cluster is hyper-converged with HA enabled on a vSAN. We have several crontab jobs that run on each ESXi host. Since vCenter balances the cluster, the FT VM's will move from one host to another as needed. We are trying not to add another VM that would only run a cronjob and would have to login to each ESXi host and do the maintenance. The thought is to let the ESXi hosts OS do all the heavy lifting since they should have the tools built into them.

I can't seem to find any commands to do this...any help would be greatly appreciated.

vSphere Update Manager failed to start - Namespace' object has no attribute 'func'

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 17:03:15 GMT

Dear community,

I need a little bit of help for the following issue.

My Update Manager Service is not starting, and I have no idea how can I resolve this.

I give you some insights:

Trying to start from console:

# service-control --start vmware-updatemgr

root@s-vcsa01 [ ~ ]# tail /var/log/vmware/vmware-updatemgr/vum-server/vmware-vum-server-log4cpp.log

[2019-10-08 11:29:42:961 'managedJetty' 140573911529216 INFO] [managedJetty, 449] Jetty: 2019-10-08 11:29:42.961:INFO:oejs.AbstractConnector:Thre ad-0: Stopped ServerConnector@70dbaee1{SSL,[ssl, http/1.1]}{0.0.0.0:9087}

[2019-10-08 11:29:43:194 'managedJetty' 140573909931776 INFO] [managedJetty, 449] Jetty: 2019-10-08 11:29:43.186:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:Thread -0: Stopped o.e.j.w.WebAppContext@1f57539{FileUpload Service,/vum-fileupload,null,UNAVAILABLE}{/vum-fileupload.war}

[2019-10-08 11:29:43:206 'managedJetty' 140573910464256 INFO] [managedJetty, 449] Jetty: 2019-10-08 11:29:43.200:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:Thread -0: Stopped o.e.j.s.h.ContextHandler@527740a2{VUM Static Downloads,/vci/downloads,file:///usr/lib/vmware-updatemgr/bin/docroot/vci/downloads/,UNAV AILABLE}

[2019-10-08 11:29:43:208 'managedJetty' 140574548424448 INFO] [managedJetty, 449] Jetty: 2019-10-08 11:29:43.208:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:Thread -0: Stopped o.e.j.s.h.ContextHandler@6d7b4f4c{VUM Patch Store,/vum/repository,file:///storage/updatemgr/patch-store/,UNAVAILABLE}

[2019-10-08 11:29:43:228 'managedJetty' 140573910730496 INFO] [managedJetty, 449] Jetty: 2019-10-08 11:29:43.219:INFO:oejs.session:Thread-0: node 0 Stopped scavenging

[2019-10-08 11:29:43:467 'managedJetty' 140573910730496 INFO] [managedJetty, 466] Jetty terminated.

[2019-10-08 11:29:43:486 'managedJetty' 140573911795456 INFO] [managedJetty, 491] Jetty exited with status 0.

[2019-10-08 11:29:44:496 'VcIntegrityPlugin' 140574701828160 INFO] [plugin, 296] VcIntegrityPlugin WaitStop

[2019-10-08 11:29:44:496 'VcIntegrity' 140574701828160 INFO] [vcIntegrity, 1005] Reset enter

[2019-10-08 11:29:44:496 'VcIntegrity' 140574701828160 INFO] [vcIntegrity, 1041] Reset leave

2nd try:

root@s-vcsa01 [ ~ ]# service-control --start vmware-updatemgr

Operation not cancellable. Please wait for it to finish...

Performing start operation on service updatemgr...

Error executing start on service updatemgr. Details {

"componentKey": null,

"problemId": null,

"resolution": null,

"detail": [

{

"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",

"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'updatemgr'",

"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'",

"args": [

"updatemgr"

]

}

]

}

Service-control failed. Error: {

"componentKey": null,

"problemId": null,

"resolution": null,

"detail": [

{

"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",

"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'updatemgr'",

"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'",

"args": [

"updatemgr"

]

}

]

}

Logfiles:

root@s-vcsa01 [ ~ ]# tail /var/log/vmware/vmware-updatemgr/updatemgr-utility.log

"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'",

"args": [

"updatemgr"

"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart"

}

]

}

[2019-10-08 21:32:33,012 ERROR] Unable to start VUM service

[2019-10-10 10:13:00,324 ERROR] Exception while executing updatemgr-utility. err: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'func'

From Appliance Bash:

Command> com.vmware.updatemgr-util

Exception while executing updatemgr-utility. err: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'func'

All ideas are really welcome, thanks.

Regards,

Daniel

How to solve "Orphaned" VM?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:28:34 GMT

Hello,

I removed a VM from ESXi host but in "vCenter Server" in showed me "Orphaned". How can I solve it?

Thanks.

ESXi Host Cetrificate about to expire on Wed 10/06/2019

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:08:14 GMT

Hi,

We are having several host that have the alarm 'ESXi Host Certificate Status'.

For these hosts the cretificate is valid to Wed Nov 6 10:45:19 GMT+0100 2019

We are using VMCA mode.

How to resolve this issue?

Regards,

Windows Server 2016 Really slow on ESXI 6.5

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:33:30 GMT

Hi,

I have installed Windows Server 2016 on the latest version of ESXI 6.5.0b but it's almost unusable.

The VM has 2 CPU and 2GB of RAM with VMware Tools 10.1.5 (5055683) and is used for Active Directory for my lab but it's really slow.

For example for open DNS I take almost 10 secs.

On ESXI I get High VM Memory Usage alarm but if I check on task manager on the guest vm ram usage is always around 40% and CPU is around 3 4% max and even if I put 4 gb the problem is still there.

Is this a know problem or there's something that I can do to slove this problem beside downgrade to Windows Server 2012 R2?

My Host ESXI specs are:

Asus X99WS-IPMI

I7-6800K

128GB RAM DDR4

1x SSD 250GB + 4xSSD 500GB on LSI 9260-4i on RAID 0

ESXI Booted from USB Stick

Thanks

Marko

hi.The virtual machine version is not compatible with the version of the host this error dont let me to migrate vm from one host to other.my vcenter license is 1 instances

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:13:00 GMT

hi.The virtual machine version is not compatible with the version of the host this error dont let me to migrate vm from one host to other.my vcenter license is 1 instances

Copying VSphere 6.7 virtual machines to a backup server.

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:08:40 GMT

We recently purchased a VSphere 6.7 server from an integrator to migrate our SCO Unix 5.0.7 to. We then built a backup server, and installed VSphere. We would like to copy our Windows and Unix virtual machines which were created on the first VMWare machine over to the backup machine. Research pointed to the ovftool, but I'm still not clear on the whole procedure. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks.

Moving hosts from a broken vCenter

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:45:27 GMT

Hi,

After a power cut our old vCenter was no longer available, we could not log on to it via web, Windows client or even using the console.

The appliance has been deleted and we have installed a new vCenter 6.7. This is what I am getting when I am trying to add hosts to the new appliance:

"Assignment Validation for License 1

1. The license is present in another vCenter Server system. If you assign the license, the licensing configuration will become non-compliant.

2. Cannot decode the licensed features on the host. Changing its current license might fail or some features might become unavailable."

Unfortunately I have deleted the old system image, so the migration is necessary. Could you please advise what I have to do to:

1. Move the license to the new vCenter system having no access to the old one?

2. How to get rid of the second error "cannot decode the licensed features on the host"?

I have to move over three hosts.

Thank you for taking time to read this.

A question about upgrading ESXi 6.5 to 6.7.

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:54:37 GMT

Hello.

For upgrade ESXi 6.5 to 6.7 I must put the host in the maintenance mode, in this mode, my VMS disconnected? Any method to upgrade ESXi without shutdown the VMs?

Thank you.

VMWare Updates showing in Windows Update

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:50:18 GMT

Hi all, first time ive see this but i am showing VMWare Inc. Updates being pushed through Windows Update Services as below:

Only seems to be on Server 2016 and seems consistant with things ive seen online relating to VMWare Tools.

the installed version of VMWare Toold is 10.1.0.

Cannot find any more information online regarding these updates, any suggestions or advice on where else i can look?

I cannot believe for 1 minute VMWare would push out an update with no release notes/change log.

Network transfer speed issue

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:33:12 GMT

A linux and a virtual windows are on the same network. The former is 10.1.1.1 and the latter is 10.1.1.3.

Problem is that the speed of win->linux copy is fine but the speed of linux->win copy is really slow.

Please see the picture.

Any guess?

transport (VMDB) error-14: pipe connection has been broken

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:52:11 GMT

Hello,

I got this error: "transport (VMDB) error-14: pipe connection has been broken" on some of my virtual machines and the virtual machines were restarted by HA.

Some restart tasks were unsuccessful.

Do you have any same experiences?