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Not able to update ESXI hosts

finsfree — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:13:02 GMT

I'm not able to update ESXI hosts because under the "Updates" tab it says, "No views". I have tried many browsers and putting them in incognito mode as well.

vCenter Appliance 7 backup fails?

finsfree — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:11:27 GMT

Before I do an update of the vCenter appliance 7.0.3.00100 to 7.0.3.00300, I want to backup it up...obviously... After setting up an FTP site on a Windows Server 2019, I start the backup but it keeps failing at around the 15min mark. It does connect and create a folder on the Windows Server 2019 FTP server, but ends up failing in the end.

When it fails it says that I can view the logs at this URL (link below), but after trying to login with a local user admin account it says, "Invalid local user".

https://<domain>/appliance/support-bundle

Where can I view these logs. Can I use SSH to view the logs with vi?

Re: ESXI not able to update to 7.0.3.00100

finsfree — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:08:01 GMT

Never mind I did find the i40enu vib file. I went ahead and removed it and rebooted.

Next, I tried updating to 7.0.3 with the zip file via SSH command line and I received an error message (see image).

What is going on here?

Re: ESXI not able to update to 7.0.3.00100

finsfree — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:23:48 GMT

After using the command to list all vib's (esxcli software vib list), I only found these that started with "i40en" (see image).

ESXI not able to update to 7.0.3.00100

finsfree — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:54:20 GMT

I was successful in updating the vCenter Appliance from 7.0.2 to 7.0.3.00100, however I'm running into an issue updating the hosts. I have three ESXI hosts running version 7.0.2 on Dell PowerEdge R740.

When I start the "Remediation" process to have each host get updated automatically one at a time, the first host it tries to update goes through the process of migrating all of it's VM's off and then nothing happens and eventually gets all the VM's migrated back and that's it. That's all that happens and nothing gets updated. There are NO error messages I just get a yellow triangle mark next to the host.

Is there a "bug" in updating hosts to 7.0.3.00100? I can't be the only one having this issue...

Thanks,

Cannot update ESXI Hosts to 7.0.3.00100

finsfree — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:26:06 GMT

Is there a "bug" in updating hosts to 7.0.3.00100? I can't be the only one having this issue...

Thanks,

Re: Upgrading Windows Server 2016 to 2019 in vCenter 6.7

finsfree — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 19:17:05 GMT

I think people are getting confused by the questions.

I have 3 hosts running ESXI 6.7 (Type 1 hypervisor) on 3 Dell poweredge R740. I also installed the VCSA.

I don't need to upgrade vCenter. Forget about vCenter. I'm talking about the VM's itself. I have about 30 VM's.

What is the best way to upgrade the VM's OS from Server 2016 to Server 2019? I guess this is more of a Microsoft question.

I want to upgrade a Windows server 2016 virtual machine to a Windows server 2019 virtual machine. Should I do an in-place upgrade or create a whole new VM?

Upgrading Windows Server 2016 to 2019 in vCenter 6.7

finsfree — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:56:33 GMT

In the future I'll need to upgrade all my server 2016 to server 2019. What would be the best way to go about doing this? Either I would do an in-place upgrade or backup the data create a new VM w/ server 2019 and then add the data back to it?

How are are the "pros" achieving this?

I have a vSphere 6,7 environment (hosts. vcenter)

Thanks,

VM Hardware update error?

finsfree — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:46:25 GMT

I'm trying to update the VM Hardware in vCenter, but I keep receiving an error message that states "Errors during the scan operation for virtual hardware upgrade". Why am I receiving this error message?

vCenter Email Alerts not working anymore?

finsfree — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:22:01 GMT

I'm running vCenter 6.7 w/ three host also running ESXI 6.7.

I had certain alerts send me email notifications (like if a host lost power) and for whatever reason it just stopped working. For testing proposes, I'm testing an alert when a VM powers off to send me and email notification. After powering ff the VM, it has yet to send me a successful email. I'm not sure if some updates has stopped this from happening or what. Is anyone else having this issue?

I've seemed to have lost that ability to have vCenter email notifications. Like I said, it was working in the past.

I do get other mail alerts from other apps like Veeam everyday, so I know the Office 365 email address or the SMTP server isn't the issue.

What am I missing in vCenter?

Re: Datastore showing full?

finsfree — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:20:12 GMT

Option 1 and 3 don't really make any sense to me but here is the results of the ls command. As you can see there is NO snapshots.

[root@crbhost02:/vmfs/volumes/5d19d2ab-e3b97f48-6df2-34800d110436/ClerkFS] ls -lhr

total 2060201088

-rw------- 1 root root 86.0M Jul 22 09:59 vmx-ClerkFS-2438309173-1.vswp

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 225.5K Jul 22 14:48 vmware.log

-rw------- 1 root root 436.9K Jul 22 09:59 vmware-3.log

-rw------- 1 root root 256.8K Jul 22 09:59 vmware-2.log

-rw------- 1 root root 506.1K Jul 22 09:59 vmware-1.log

-rw------- 1 root root 356.3K Jul 22 10:32 vmware-0.log

-rw------- 1 root root 501 Jul 22 10:49 ClerkFS_1.vmdk

-rw------- 1 root root 2.0T Jul 22 14:57 ClerkFS_1-flat.vmdk

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.9K Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS.vmx~

-rw------- 1 root root 47 Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS.vmxf

-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 09:59 ClerkFS.vmx.lck

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.9K Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS.vmx

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 09:59 ClerkFS.vmsd

-rw------- 1 root root 551 Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS.vmdk

-rw------- 1 root root 264.5K Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS.nvram

-rw------- 1 root root 250.0G Jul 22 14:59 ClerkFS-flat.vmdk

-rw------- 1 root root 13 Jul 22 09:59 ClerkFS-aux.xml

-rw------- 1 root root 16.0G Jul 22 09:59 ClerkFS-9155a535.vswp

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 968 Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS-1dd4d12d.hlog

[root@crbhost02:/vmfs/volumes/5d19d2ab-e3b97f48-6df2-34800d110436/ClerkFS]

Datastore showing full?

finsfree — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:38:20 GMT

I have a VM that is using 50GB of data on a 2TB datastore, however the datastore shows full at 2TB.

Things that I have checked:

The VM is thin provisioned (both drives)
I did a storage migration and back to original datastore
There are NO snapshots
Compatibility version ESXI 6.7 (lastest)
VM version 15 (latest)
VMware tools are up to date (latest)

Why am I showing that I'm using 2TB of data when I am only using about 50GB?

Re: Cannot delete files in datastore?

finsfree — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:58:20 GMT

This particular VM is no longer needed. There are some corrupt files associated with this VM and we just want to delete it off the datastore.

Plan and simple we just want remove this VM's files off the datastore.

The error message is "Cannot delete file [datastore name] VM name"

Cannot delete files in datastore?

finsfree — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 01:04:00 GMT

We have 5 EXSI host 6.0 and a vCenter server 6.5.

I'm trying to delete a folder that has the vm's files in it off the datastore. I receive an error message stating that the file are not accessible.

I am logged in with the local admin account.

Could it be that there is a locked file somewhere?

Re: WebClient not working?

finsfree — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:47:43 GMT

Thanks for the reply but that didn't work.

Is there a way that a VMware Administrator can block another VMware Administrator from launching a web console for a VM?

WebClient not working?

finsfree — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:15:06 GMT

When I try to "Launch Web Console" to open a VM it doesn't work. I can login to the vCenter just fine, but I can't use the web client to remote into a VM.

I tried this on ie, chrome, edge and firefox. So far the only one that has been consistent was Chrome.

In chrome I have enabled flash. I am also an administrator in vcenter.

Why can I not Launch a web console to remote into a VM. It just spins and says "Loading....." until a message appears stating, "This site can't be reached".

Re: Logging onto vCenter 6.5 with Powercli?

finsfree — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 02:18:16 GMT

Yes, after using the domain name it worked. This is the first time I've used Powercli.

Thanks for the help guys.

Logging onto vCenter 6.5 with Powercli?

finsfree — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 02:57:24 GMT

How can I login to vCenter using Powercli? I can login to my hosts just fine, but I receive an error message when I try to login to vCenter.

FYI, tap "ctrl" and "+" to zoom in on this screenshot

Re: Share storage between 2 esxi host?

finsfree — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:33:52 GMT

Yes it worked like a charm.

The vMotion worked fine.

FYI, my iscsi target server is CentOS 7 using targetcli. Works great to a test lab.

Thanks,

Share storage between 2 esxi host?

finsfree — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:53:52 GMT

I have a vsphere 6.5 test environment.

Everything is up and running and working fine, however I need to share the iscsi storage from 1 esxi host to another (esxi.abc.local to esxi2.abc.local). Would I just create a "ISCSI Software Adapter" on the 2nd esxi host (esxi2.abc.local) just like I did the first host (esxi.abc.local) and connect to the target iscsi server?

Again, I have iscsi storage attached to esxi.abc.local. I need the same storage shared to esxi2.abc.local.

I want to do this through vcenter 6.5.

Thanks,