Hello Community,

I am facing with a Snapshot Problem with one Single Server 2012R2 VM with Exchange 2013.

Environment:

Dell R430, ESXi 6.0 U3 5572656.

The Error Message is the following and the Snapshot failes:

Create virtual machine snapshot VM-Exchange

An error occurred while saving the snapshot:

msg.snapshot.error-QUIESCINGERROR.

I hoped the latest update fixed this as the release notes says:

VMware Tools 10.1.10 Release Notes

Quiesced snapshots of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machines with VMware Tools 10.1.0 fails with an error.

This issue is resolved in this release.

But again last night, the Problem still exist.

To be more complicated, the Problem is rather intermitted.  3-4 Backups with snapshot works, the error occurs.

I just testet 3 Snapshot after upgrade to 10.1.10 an "no error" , ? Problem solved? ... not yet.

So now i am back with VmTools 9.10.5.

Im gettting this Problem with every Tools Version 10.x .  After 5-7 Days (Nightime Backup Windows)  the Problem occurs,

And before my Test of Version 10.1.10 yesterday the Backup runs for about 4 Weeks with Version 9.10.5 without any snapshot error.

So for me it is rather clear the Problem has to do with Version 10.x and some changes.

Is there someome with a hint?  :-)

Dear Experts,

I have a question for adding more memory to a VM while it is running. We have a VM with guest OS of Win 2008 R2 x64. When creating this VM we gave 4GB Mem. to it, but now the requirement is more and we want to add more 4GB so total 8GB.

I need to know is there a way possible to increase the memory while machine is ON? I checked this, right click on VM and say edit settings> there memory choice is grayed out, to me it seems it is not possible. Need to know from experts if that is possible.

Kind Regards,

In this new VMWare 5.1 host server, I have created 2 VMs -- one for Win 2008-R2 and one for 2003-R2. Neither of VM guest OS can be installed. The VMs cannot see the DVD drive. I have modified/verified Boot options, so that CD-ROM has priority over hard disk. Normally, I would see the message - "Press any key to boot from CD-ROM" but on this host, that option has not shown up for any VMs. The delay is 2000 ms.

ISO images are located in datastore and DVD-drive is set to Connect on power on.

The server is HP ProLiant DL360 G6, and in BIOS, "Local Bus IDE adapter" is set to Both. Thanks for any help.

Where is the installation?

I downloaded the Vmware Vcenter VIM setup 6.0 DVD and do not see the install on the disk?

I do see the VSphere desktop client install but no 'web client'.

Do I need to upgrade VCenter server to 6.0 and download the web client from it?

is VCenter server 6.0 backward compatible?  Can I manage an ESXi 5.1 host with VCenter server 6?

Or should I upgrade ESXi to 6.0 before the VCenter server?

Thanks

Hello Everyone,

I'll start by saying I've spent the last few days consistently trying to find a solution to my problem.  If the answer is obviously out there, I'm sorry, cause I missed it.

My host has ESXi 6.5 installed on it.  I want one of the VMs to function as my (physical) desktop computer.  I have successfully passed through my GTX 1060 (PCIE GPU), so when I boot the VM up, it beautifully displays on my physical monitor.  The drivers successfully installed too.

My challenge now is to get a physical keyboard and mouse dedicated to the Windows VM, rather than the console.  My Windows VM has a USB controller.  With that said, here is my thought process:

- When I add a "USB Device", HID (mouse and keyboard) devices are not shown.  My SanDisk Cruzer USB drive immediately shows up, but neither my Microsoft media keyboard, or my 2 other usb periphrials (1 mouse 1 keyboard) show up to pass through.  However, when I SSH into my ESXi server, and I run the command "lsusb", all the devices (including keyboards) show up. So this tells me my host is recognizing it, but intentionally not allowing it to be passed through.

I read online that this is intentional, so you accidentally don't lock yourself out of your console.  I am perfectly happy with my console not responding to my keyboard.  I found a few flags online, to put in the VMX file of the VM, but these did not work.  I tried rebooting my host.

I thought of passing through the entire USB interface.  The Web Admin only shows that I have 1 USB Controller (Intel).  It is not capable of pass through (greyed out).  I think this is because the console has confiscated it, do the usb driver can run.  So there is nothing I can simply pass through.

I tried reverting to the legacy USB drivers (disable the new VMKUSB driver) , by using SSH, and entering, "esxcli system module set -m=vmkusb -e=FALSE".  When I enter this command, and reboot my host, the only usb device I see is "intel bluetooth", which is obviously confusing for me.

I don't have another PCIE slot to put in a USB hub, so I think my only option at this point is to figure out a way for HID devices to be allowed as USB devices by ESXi.  It's comically ridiculous that it's this hard to simply plug a usb device into a VM.

I have only been using the Web Admin.  I tried installing the VMware client for windows, but it is not supported by my version of ESXi (6.5)

Thank you for reading my question.  I really appreciate your time and help!

Hello all,

I'm an ESXi beginner trying to get my graphics cards to passthrough my VM. In ESXi under Host>Manage> under the "hardware tab">PCI Devices, it states the device is not capable for passthrough. At first, I suspected that the hardware wasn't passthrough capable. The first card I tried was a Asus RX550 4G. Called Asus, they could not tell me whether or not it would work.  I then tried a XFX- AMD Radeon HD 7970, this shows the same, Not Capable. I cannot add a PCI Device, this is greyed out. I have scoured the Bios settings for the board and ensured all settings for VT-D are enabled.

Hoping to find help on the next steps or direction here, currently at a loss.

My specs are:

ASUS P9X79-E WS

Intel Xeon Processor E5-2695 v2

CORSAIR Vengeance 32GB (4 x 8GB)

Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB SSD

I truly appreciate any help on this, thanks!

Chris

Hello everyone

I got the following message every hour:

"Remote access for ESXi local user account 'root'  has been locked for 120 seconds..."

I found a lot of information how to figure this out:

Security.AccountLockFailures. Maximum number of failed login attempts before a user’s account is locked. Zero disables account locking.

Security.AccountUnlockTime. Number of seconds that a user is locked out.

But I didn't get out where to find the source IP who is trying to access our ESXi hosts. Isn't it in /var/log/auth.log ?

Thank you for your input.

Hi,

I just face a event log as below:

Warning message from localhost.localdomain:

The guest OS has reported an error during

quiescing. The error code was: 5 The error

message was: 'VssSyncStart' operation failed:

IDispatch error #8449 (0x80042301)

warning

it caused the Acronis Backup software fail to backup

In Communities information, it seem relate to disk space and i/o speed.

For disk space, we should have enough disk space for OS.

Also i trust it is not heavy duty when backup, i/o should be enough

In knowledge base 1018194, resolution is reboot the virtual machine.

is it reboot the acronis appliance or our production os?

Any method to prevent the same?

Existing our version is EXSi 5.1 built 799733.

Thank you

Rgds,

Sun

Hello everyone!

I have been trying to install ESXi 5.1u1 & 5.1u2 & 5.5u1 on the following configuration to no success so far:

Asrock Q1900-ITX mobo (Intel J1900 Baytrail SoC, BIOS 1.20 with VT-x support)

8GB RAM Kingston

120GB OCZ Vector 150 (tried to connect on both SATA2.0 and SATA3.0)

Intel CT1000 NIC

Bootable 4GB FAT32 USB stick with an extracted installation (using Unetbootin) (tried to connect on both USB2.0 and USB3.0)

ESXi 5.1uX results in/stops at a black window/screen after the "Relocating modules and starting the kernel" message.

ESXi 5.5u1 starts loading the modules and stops/freezes right after the "Relocating modules and starting the kernel" message.

I have tried in the bios:

- Boot USB legacy

- Boot USB UEFI

- Disabled PXE (both NICs)

- Video memory to a minimum (64MB)

- Disabled onboard audio & NIC

- I have tried (unofficial?) inserting drivers into the installation ISO (NIC/microcode/xahci) from v-front.de.

I know that most/all of my hardware is not on the HCL, which doesn't mean it can't work, of course (like my old system).

All to no luck so far. However I successfully installed Proxmox hypervisor on this system. Others successfully installed NAS4Free (FreeBSD) or Ubuntu/Debian.

But I want ESXi 5.x for my home server, like I have on my old Intel D525 with a max of 4GB and OCZ Vertex 2 SSD (ESXi 5.1u2).

Maybe someone has some tips or advice to install ESXi 5.x on my new system?

First of all, I want to thank everyone here for all the help and resources, without all your help I wouldn't have been able to make the switch to ESXi.

Now, some background before I dwell into my current issue. I'm the sysadmin for a medium sized company, our infrastructure uses two ESXi hosts (no vCenter, just two standalone hosts) with about half a dozen VMs on each (domain controllers, print server, UniFi controller, ESET Remote Adminitrator, SQL server, etc.). Both hosts are exactly alike (HPE ProLiant ML110 gen9's, 48 GB of RAM on each, a RAID1 for the main datastore plus an SSD for the swap datastore).

I backup all the VMs about once a week using Veeam Backup & Replication Free Edition, VeeamZipping them into packages on external storage. This has worked without any problems so far.

I don't usually take snapshots of the VMs except when making important changes, such as prior to installing a new SQL instance. When I do take snapshots though, I make sure to delete them and consolidate the disks after I confirm that everything is working. I don't want to store any cruft, I want clean and lean VMs.

Yesterday I upgrade both hosts to ESXi 6.5U1 (from 6.5). Everything went OK, no error messages whatsoever. There was one oversight though: I forgot to delete some snapshots from one VM prior to the update.

All the VMs work, except for one  in which I cannot remove any snapshots. Windows boots just fine and everything works, but I receive errors while trying to delete all the snapshots and when trying to consolidate the disks. I read about something regarding the CDROM drive that could impact the process if they're connected to an ISO image. It was, but the problem persisted even after removing the mount.

I tried to create a new snapshot to see If it'd worked. It did; but I cannot delete it. I VeeamZipped the VM to see if I could, and I was able to back it up. Veeam did ended the job with a warning saying that it wasn't able to delete the temporary snapshot it created for the job, which I then confirmed in the Snapshot Manager in the ESXi UI.

The message I received when trying to delete all snapshots is the following:

Failed - A general system error occurred: vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault

And the one I get when trying to consolidate:

Failed - Unable to access file since it is locked

An error occurred while consolidating disks: One of the disks in this virtual machine is already in use by a virtual machine or by a snapshot.

Things I tried so far:

1. Tried removing the snapshots with the VM on and off. No luck.
2. Rebooting the ESXi host with the troubled VM. No luck.
3. Restarting my workstation, which runs VeeamZip, to see if it had anything to do with it. No luck.

I read several articles online regarding this problem and quite frankly I'm a bit overwhelmed. I don't know where to start, everyone seems to be having this problem in different scenarios and setups, none of which apply to mine.

Here are some screenshots if it's of any help:

The VM in question:

The error popup:

And the description:

The current snapshots:

Contents of the datastore:

I will appreciate all the help I can get. Thank you

Hi!

I have seen this problem several times in the last days: When trying to connect my local DVD drive through vSphere Client with a VM, the CD/DVD button shows "connecting..." but never actually finalizes the process. I think yesterday I was able to solve this problem only by powering off the VM, removing the device from the configuration and adding a new one. Now even if I remove the device, power on the VM (i.e. the CD/DVD button is greyed out because there is no device), power off the VM and add a new drive, then power it on again, the drive is still shown as "connecting..."

Is this a known problem? And how do I get out of this situation?

I saw a similar thread, but no answer that has helped.

ESXi6 build 2494585 / vCenter 6 build 3634793 Windows version

Web Client is borked due to DNS issue, and I'm trying to fix the AD/DNS server which is a VM on this ESXi under this vCenter.  When I open the console from the vSphere Client (non Web Client), I get the upper left part of the VM screen (see attached image), which makes it really hard to use the VM.  The slider bars don't actually do anything.  Tried resizing window, checking/unchecking autofit.  Fit Window / Guest seem greyed out.

Happens on all the VMs I've tried, whether vSphere Client logged in to VC or ESXi.

Tried increasing video memory for the VM.  Installed VMware Tools on one VM that didn't have it.  (That's really fun when you can only see about 1/9th of the screen!)
I suspect video driver or something on my laptop, and gonna ask other on my team what they see, but wanted to hear if the mindshare here has seen similar.

Thanks!

Peter

Hi,
My configured scratch location for some reason doesn't work after upgrading to ESXi 6.5.

I set up parameter ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation to a persistent storage. The folder exists and worked before the upgrade.

After each reboot ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation is always set to /scratch while ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation is /vmfs/volumes/volume01/scratches/host01

I'm not sure if this is related but to upgrade ESXi I had to provide boot parameter preferVmklinux=TRUE as my USB drive wasn't visible and later I run these commands:

esxcli system settings kernel set -s preferVmklinux -v FALSE

esxcli system module set --enabled=false –m vmkusb

Thanks for your help in advance,

Lukasz

I'm running ESXi 4.1.  When I open a console from vSphere client, I cannot use a resolution higher than 1280 x 800.  Once I go to 1280 x 924, I cannot click on the task bar.  I want to use a resolution of 1280 x 1024.

I have the video card memory set at 128MB.  

Are there any other settings that I can try?

On my ESXi 5.5 U3 servers, I'm seeing regular messages in /var/log/vmkernel about failed valid sense data:

2017-02-23T14:08:16.307Z cpu2:34366)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2458: Cmd 0x85 (0x412e86932dc0, 34608) to dev "naa.6c81f660d81ddf001a52e77d094d4447" on path "vmhba0:C2:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0. Act:NONE

2017-02-23T14:08:16.307Z cpu2:34366)ScsiDeviceIO: 2369: Cmd(0x412e86932dc0) 0x4d, CmdSN 0x105a from world 34608 to dev "naa.6c81f660d81ddf001a52e77d094d4447" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.

2017-02-23T14:08:16.307Z cpu2:34366)ScsiDeviceIO: 2369: Cmd(0x412e86932dc0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x105b from world 34608 to dev "naa.6c81f660d81ddf001a52e77d094d4447" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.

I thought this was due to the change in SCSI heartbeats (As per KB 2113956 ) I've applied the workaround:

# esxcli system settings advanced set -i 0 -o /VMFS3/UseATSForHBOnVMFS5

But I'm still seeing the errors. The disc is an onboard RAID card virtual drive:

# esxcli storage nmp device list

naa.6c81f660d81ddf001a52e77d094d4447

   Device Display Name: Local DELL Disk (naa.6c81f660d81ddf001a52e77d094d4447)

   Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_LOCAL

   Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_LOCAL does not support device configuration.

   Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_FIXED

   Path Selection Policy Device Config: {preferred=vmhba0:C2:T0:L0;current=vmhba0:C2:T0:L0}

   Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

   Working Paths: vmhba0:C2:T0:L0

   Is Local SAS Device: false

   Is USB: false

   Is Boot USB Device: false

The hardware is a PowerEdge R720xd server with a PERC H710P Mini controller.

Brand new R330

PERC H730

5 X Disk SAS 931GB RAID 5 (Datastore1)

32GB USB Internal (ESXi)

32GB RAM

Very Typical small business setup.

Fresh ESXi 6.5.0 installed yesterday to internal USB drive, setup portal, login to portal locally using Edge, Chome, FF, IE, tried them all, edge works best. Added vm's, added new Datastore1-full partition, created new ISO folder in Datastore1, upload button, browse, choose Windows Server 2012R2 STD.ISO,  the upload gets to about 78% then hangs forever. Cannot ever finish any ISO, tried other ISO, and they all hang after a certain point.

Any ideas?

Tried different folders, sub folders, they all do the same thing. Smaller files work fine, I think it only happens when the files are larger than 4GB.

I added a screenshot, showing that vsphere is still "running" in the background at 79%, but the window opened thinks the upload finished and is only 4GB. This ISO is 5.6GB.

Hi experts,

I am getting strange behavior for ESXI6.5 (installed as test at my home clone server). Like i have installed 2 SSD, one is Intel M.2 and another is transcend SATA III SSD. from both SSD i have created datastore. But i am getting different speed on the 2 SSD like on intel i am getting full speed but on transcend i am getting only 16mbps speed. tried to search google, but didnt got any solution. my ESXI is installed on intel M.2 SSD.

Pls find the speed diff (2.02 vs 22.77 MB/s) t10.ATA is transcend and NVMe is Intel M.2

Pls suggest what to do.

My server config:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6800K

RAM: 128GB

Motherboard : GA-X99-Ultra Gaming

No RAID

I am using VMware ESXi and I am trying to setup a guest that is Windows 7 that will have an ATI Radeon video card passed through to it.  I actually had this working on a previous system but I had to reinstall.  Now when I do this the guest fails to start and I get the following:

Error message from localhost.XXXXXXXXXXX:
PCIPassthru 004:00.0: Guest tried to (null)map
32 device pages (with base address of 0xb5d20)
to a range occupied by main memory. This is
outside of the PCI Hole. Add pciHole.start =
"2909" to the configuration file and then power
on the VM.
error
12/23/2010 1:04:36 PM
media
User

When I do as it asks, the guest now starts but gets an immediate BSOD concerning memory management.  Any ideas on why this is occuring and why it worked at one point but now it fails?

Dear team,

in my environment i have esx 3.5.0 (64607),4.0,4.1 hosts, just want to know is there any impact if i restart management service on production esx hosts 3.5.0, 4.0,4.1

be fore restarting this service do i need to take check anything, is there any pre-requisite ?????

regards

Mr VMware

Hello everyone

I got the following message every hour:

"Remote access for ESXi local user account 'root'  has been locked for 120 seconds..."

I found a lot of information how to figure this out:

Security.AccountLockFailures. Maximum number of failed login attempts before a user’s account is locked. Zero disables account locking.

Security.AccountUnlockTime. Number of seconds that a user is locked out.

But I didn't get out where to find the source IP who is trying to access our ESXi hosts. Isn't it in /var/log/auth.log ?

Thank you for your input.