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Re: Unable to Increase DataStore size even though there is space on SAN Volume ESX 6.5 5969303

jacksonp2008 — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 22:28:35 GMT

Thanks, but I've done all the standard things like rescan etc.

Wondering if anyone else has hit a problem like this with 6.5?

Unable to Increase DataStore size even though there is space on SAN Volume ESX 6.5 5969303

jacksonp2008 — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 02:31:35 GMT

Increase volume size on Dell Compelent SAN to say 18TB.

ESX Server(s) see the increase after rescan.

As does vCenter.

However, when you try to increase the datastore that is mapped to this it either says there are no devices with free space:

Or on the local ESX machine it shows up, but only once after an increase and errors with this:

Dell looked at this on both the SAN side and the Dell Server side. they think it's some kind of bug in the VMware (VMFS6) drivers.

Any ideas appreciated.

Super Simple Issue, but nothing works.... edit /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root

jacksonp2008 — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 02:23:31 GMT

all I want to do is add an entry to the root crontab.

I have even chmod 777 /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root

and won't fly.

I AM root. ESX 6.5

esxcli --version
Script 'esxcli' version: 6.5.0

Will not let me write to the file not matter the file settings.

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 324 Jul 7 2017 root

Ideas?

Re: Failed to expand VMFS Datastore - cannot change host configuration

jacksonp2008 — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 01:30:12 GMT

Thank-you Andre, this worked perfectly!!

Re: Failed to expand VMFS Datastore - cannot change host configuration

jacksonp2008 — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:44:19 GMT

Here is what I see from the webUI

Re: Failed to expand VMFS Datastore - cannot change host configuration

jacksonp2008 — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:05:20 GMT

Not sure what you are asking. the host client is embedded, so everything is 6.5; ESX,vCenter

Re: Failed to expand VMFS Datastore - cannot change host configuration

jacksonp2008 — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 23:35:00 GMT

Everything is 6.5, using webUI

Failed to expand VMFS Datastore - cannot change host configuration

jacksonp2008 — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 22:28:23 GMT

Running a nested esx environment:

Initial (nested) ESX disk was 100G, I increased to 150G on the outer vCenter and looks good.

In the nested vCenter:

still shows 100G

Connect to the ESX directly, from webUI -> increase datastore capacity->expand an existing VMFS datastore extent

(it shows 150G for capacity)

Selected the vmfs partition and the after picture looks perfect.

and when I run it, I get the error: Failed to expand VMFS Datastore - cannot change host configuration

Any ideas?

esx/vsphere firewall blocking off-net VNC connections?

jacksonp2008 — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 03:39:47 GMT

VNC client on 10.80.100.x/24 connects to ESX built in VNC server on 10.80.100.x port 5901 -- works great

Now place the VNC Client on another subnet 10.80.160.x and it fails. Network is not blocking, I can ssh, ping etc. between the client and esx just fine.

Not sure how to navigate the vmware firewall... is there something in the vmware firewall that would allow connections from the subnet where the ESX server resides (local subnet) but not from another network?

Thanks!!

Increase disk size of nested ESXi server

jacksonp2008 — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:30:40 GMT

Nested ESXI server on vSPhere 6.5, Hard Disk is greyed out and I need to increase the size.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

ansible "vmware_guest" module not able to set customvalues like remotedisplay.vnc.port

jacksonp2008 — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 23:03:17 GMT

We are using ansible with the vmware_guest module, attempting to set customvalues with vSphere 6.5

##### ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.4.0.0

config file = /Users/spollock/ansible/fs-vmw-control/ansible.cfg

configured module search path = [u'/Users/spollock/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']

ansible python module location = /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible

executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible

python version = 2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 19:19:21) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.5)]

##### SUMMARY

customvalues are not added, vSphere responds with : " A specified parameter was not correct: key"

##### SAMPLE PLAYBOOK

- name: Set a custom value

vmware_guest:

validate_certs: no

hostname: "{{ vcenterhostname }}"

username: "{{ vcusername }}"

password: "{{ vcpassword }}"

datacenter: "{{ vcdatacenter }}"

cluster: "{{ vccluster }}"

resource_pool: "k{{ vctargetkit }}"

uuid: 422bf5cb-b3b2-69ab-4053-21bcf7390d23

name: 1201-pollockkit

customvalues:

- key: remotedisplay.vnc.port

value: "7601"

#state: poweredoff

delegate_to: localhost

##### ERROR MESSAGE

"msg": "Failed to set custom value for key='remotedisplay.vnc.port' and value='7601'. Error was: (vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument) {\n dynamicType = <unset>,\n dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [],\n msg = 'A specified parameter was not correct: key',\n faultCause = <unset>,\n faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [],\n invalidProperty = u'key'\n}"

localaccounts.user.add command is missing, can't create local account on vcsa

jacksonp2008 — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 18:47:49 GMT

Your documentation points to this command: Create a Local User Account in the vCenter Server Appliance

localaccounts.user.add

Which doesn't exist on this machines.

```

root@vcsa [ / ]# localaccounts.user.add

bash: localaccounts.user.add: command not found

```

I am on vCenter 6.5.0, build: 5973321

Jumbo Frames on vCenter 6.5

jacksonp2008 — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 04:06:24 GMT

I have an iSCSI SAN behind a Dell switch configured with Jumbo Frame support.

On the VMware side, I can set the MTU to 9K on the vSwitch and the vmkernel adapters. Do I need to set both or is the vswitch sufficient?

Tried to change the vmkernel adapter in addition to the vswitch on a running machine and it seemed to cause an issue.

Thanks!

Re: ESX VNC Server with cut/paste

jacksonp2008 — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:42:13 GMT

No ideas?

ESX VNC Server with cut/paste

jacksonp2008 — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 18:24:21 GMT

We are using the native VNC connection to guests on on the ESX. The VNC server seems to be restricting certain functionality like cut/paste, which works fine on other VNC servers (like REAL).

Do you know if there are any configuration parameters that can be adjusted to control the VNC server and allow for cut/paste?

Thanks!

Re: Can vCenter SSO be added after the installation

jacksonp2008 — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:37:53 GMT

Thank-you Ashish

I'm running "VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5.0.10000" and it appears the 'rsautil' command is not in here.

root@vcsa [ /usr/lib/vmware-sso ]# ls

bin commonlib firewall vmware-sts

Doc says:

For Linux: /usr/lib/vmware-sso/utils

Can vCenter SSO be added after the installation

jacksonp2008 — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 04:00:50 GMT

vcsa 6.5, SSO domain was deleted with the webUI so only local logins are functioning.

Would like to find a command line utility to add the SSO domain back in rather than re-installing the entire thing.

Many thanks

This Client Integration Plugin...

jacksonp2008 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 23:42:10 GMT

I am using vCenter 6.0.0

Click "Deploy OVF Template" -->Download the Plugin

I downloaded and installed the plugin on MAC (10.11.6) , & no matter which browser: Chrome or FF always comes back to this screen (endless loop)

Did the same on Windows 7

Did the same on Windows 10

It just doesn't work at all as far as I can tell.

Is there an alternate way to deploy on OVF? It's already sitting on local ESX Datastore. (it's actually the VMware NSX distribution)

Of course ESX will not let you install from URL since vCenter is running things, tried that.

Thanks in advance.

Re: VCSA 6.5.0 Install fails

jacksonp2008 — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:03:05 GMT

basically that was it, you put me on the right track. It had changed the hostname during reboot for some unknown reason. I was able to edit manually and restart the services.

Many thanks for your assitance!

Re: VCSA 6.5.0 Install fails

jacksonp2008 — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 22:14:15 GMT

Yes, I believe so. I got it to run by placing it on a network that had internet connectivity. Then I changed the IP address/gw back to the private network and it will not run again.

Mgmt works fine on port 5480 on private, however

Error from webui (443) is:

503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x0000561bc8debad0] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe)

From the cli (Shell) I issued

service-control —stop —all

service-control —start —all

And the start fails with:

Service-control failed. Error Failed to start vmon services.vmon-cli RC=2, stderr=Faile dto start sca, , cm services. Error crashed while starting