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Failed to create journal file provider: failer to write header to /var/log/vmware/journal

June 13, 2016, 5:53 am
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Hi All,

Not sure if any one came across such error message, I am doing storage migration for my VM in cluster. I saw the error message

 

"A general system error occurred : failed to create journal file provider : failer to write header to /var/log/VMware/journal/1465822009.7:error writing file. there is no space lef on the device"

 

Am not sure what is the error about.. I checked the local datastore where my esxi is installed it had enough space.

 

Does anyone came across such error.. if yes that is the steps performed to resolve the issue.

 

 

 

Thanks in advance.

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Failed to connect virtual device ethernet0.

June 21, 2014, 3:20 pm
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I cannot connect my VM to the network/ When I select device status : Connected.

 

It fails and gives an error

 

Failed to connect virtual device ethernet0

 

 

The nic is e1000

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impact of restarting esx management service

June 3, 2013, 8:19 am
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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

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ESXi 6.5 - USB HID Devices into Guest VM

June 3, 2017, 3:15 pm
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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!

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BLUESCREEN 'BAD_POOL_CALLER' in Windows 2003 Guest on ESXi 5.5u2 : possibly caused by 'vsepflt.sys'

March 25, 2015, 3:38 am
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Hello !

 

Since some time, I think since the beginning of this year, I have problems with my Windows 2003 Guest on a ESXI 5.5u2 host with current patches (ESXi550-201501001, and now, ESXi550-201502001) applied:

 

After some days of running, the guest "throws" a "BAD_POOL_CALLER" bluescreen, Windows kernel Debugger shows the following:

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BugCheck C2, {7, 121a, 2130002, 87c46bd8}

Probably caused by : vsepflt.sys ( vsepflt+ec80 )

Followup: MachineOwner

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BAD_POOL_CALLER (c2)
The current thread is making a bad pool request.  Typically this is at a bad IRQL level or double freeing the same allocation, etc.
Arguments:
Arg1: 00000007, Attempt to free pool which was already freed
Arg2: 0000121a, (reserved)
Arg3: 02130002, Memory contents of the pool block
Arg4: 87c46bd8, Address of the block of pool being deallocated

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-> Are there any known problems with this filter driver "vsepflt.sys" since the first update of this year ?

 

I found knowledge base articles about a memory leak, KB2077302 (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2077302) and other failures, KB2081616 (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2081616), but both issues should be resolved with update 02, and the failure in my guest has other symptoms ("double freeing the same allocation" vs. "memory leak", etc.).

 

I will try to disable this filter driver now as described here, KB2034490 (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2034490), and hope it prevent further bluescreens.

 

Other ideas ?

 

Thanks.

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ESXi 5.1U1 upgrade failure - OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty

May 5, 2013, 7:29 pm
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Hello all-

 

just attempted to update my ESXi server from 5.1 799733 to 5.1U1 1065491.  During the upgrade the process hangs at 24% completion with the error message as above:

OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/vmfs/volumes/3934f7e6-f070467f-afd0-f0ef312248d9/state.7173326'


I have retried a second time with the same result.  Is there any workaround?  Or can I perform a clean install and just import the VMs from the datastores without any problems?

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ESXI 6.5 VM Recovery - solved

May 25, 2018, 11:26 am
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Hi Guys,

 

Hope to get some needed guidance.

 

I've read several KBA's and posts from here but still I cant get my VM to open...

 

The files that I have are:

 

drwxr-xr-x1 rootroot   1.4K May 25 20:18 .
drwxr-xr-t1 rootroot   1.5K May 25 19:52 ..
-rw-r--r--1 rootroot  11.2G May 22 14:06 SAFEGUARD-000001-delta.vmdk
-rw-r--r--1 rootroot  40.0G May 22 14:04 SAFEGUARD-flat.vmdk
-rw-r--r--1 rootroot    447 May 22 14:58 SAFEGUARD.vmdk
-rw-r--r--1 rootroot      0 May 22 13:53 SAFEGUARD.vmsd
-rw-r--r--1 rootroot   1.7K May 22 14:54 SAFEGUARD.vmx
-rw-r--r--1 rootroot  47.3K May 22 14:04 vmware-1.log
-rw-r--r--1 rootroot  47.5K May 22 14:04 vmware-2.log
-rw-r--r--1 rootroot  47.4K May 22 14:04 vmware.log

 

 

Error show on power on:

 

Failed to start the virtual machine.

Module 'Disk' power on failed.

Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/5a0edc98-5d83df4e-1c3d-a0369fe81e02/SAFEGUARD/SAFEGUARD.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

The file specified is not a virtual disk

File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed

File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed

 

In attachment is the vmware.log file.

 

 

Ive tried:

 

VMware Knowledge Base

 

VMware Knowledge Base

 

VMware Knowledge Base

 

 

But with no luck unfortunately...

 

Can somebody kindly point me to the right direction?

 

 

 

Thanks in advance!

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ESXi 6.5 USB Devices attached to VMs Issues?

November 24, 2016, 11:17 pm
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Has anyone else experienced any issues with ESXi 6.5 and host USB 3 devices attached to VMs?

 

I'm seeing messages like this from an Arch Linux VM that has a number of USB 3 hard disks attached to it:

 

 

Nov 25 02:07:40 archnfs kernel: usb 1-4.1: reset high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd

 

 

There are quite a number of other error messages associated with it to, and I'm betting that data is being lost.  I'm running a big test copy right now, and when it finishes I'm going to verify the md5sum versus the source to find out for sure. 

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VM .vswp files

October 2, 2013, 12:59 am
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Hello All, Good Day to you!

 

In my customer environment, we have a 100GB LUN specified solely for swapping. However it is now full, with only 322 MB remaining - and right now it doesn't allow any host vMotion saying that there isn't enough free space. When I browse the relevant data store I can see a lot of .vswp files ans some .swp files ( I am attching the data store ). As far as I know  a VM seperates out for itself a capacity equal to it's guest memory size on the swap space. What would be the best way to figure out which .vswp files are not required, and which are ? I can easily expand this LUN on the VNX, but would that be god administering - anyways on the LUN properties, I can see that it is only using 4+% - How does that figure with what is told me in the VMware front ( I would be asking this in an EMC forum seperately ) ?

 

Basically is there any adminstration guide with regards to virtual memory usage in VMware ?  Or should I simply expand the LUN and add the expanded capacity on the VMware side ? What is the difference between vmx-XXXX.vswp, XXXX.vswp and sysswp-xyz.swp , where XXXX presents VMname ?

 

Regards,

 

Naleendra

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Remove snapshot stuck at 99%

May 30, 2012, 10:48 pm
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Hi all,

 

i try to remove snapshot, but it stuck at 99% since 13 hours.

i can't start my vm because all option are grey...

 

do you know mean to stop removal job ? or start muy vm ?

 

it's important vm and i must start it soon

 

snopshot size is 500gb

 

tks advance

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ESXi 5 esxcli installation of VIBs fails

September 2, 2011, 3:07 pm
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Well to tell you the thruth it doesnt even start.....

 

I`m trying to install 1000v VIB via CLI directly on the host via SSH.

 

Here is what I get

 

[CODE]

esxcli software vib install /tmp/VEM500-201108271.zip

Error: Unknown command or namespace software vib install /tmp/VEM500-201108271.zip

[/CODE]

 

Even to list installed VIBs.

[CODE]

esxcli software vib list
Error: Unknown command or namespace software vib list

[/CODE]

 

What am I doing wrong ? This is a new ESXi 5 install (upgrade from 4.1)

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vSwitch issue not forwarding VLANS VMWare ESXi 5.0 Vsphere 5.0

October 23, 2013, 7:48 am
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With little VMware experiance I got assigned the task of trying to see why one of our VLANs is not working on one of our ESXi 5.0 servers. I will try to be as descriptive as possible.

 

The issue just started after working fine for months, when this first started to startup and running config had not been updated for several weeks on the router and switch.

 

Our server has 4 physical NICS 0 1 2 3

0 and 1 are teamed together on VLAN1 and are also used for the management network

NIC 2 is used for VLAN 111 (network our wireless users connect to so they cant interact with VLAN1)

NIC 3 is connected to VLAN 66 (a network for video and deployment services)

 

These 4 physical NICs are connected to three different vswitches as follows (I am not the one who set these up so don't ask why they are like they are)

vSwitch0 has vmnic0 and vmnic1

vSwitch1 has vmnic3

vSwitch2 has vmnic2

 

All these ports are connected physically to a Dell PowerConnect 5548 switch

vmnic0 to:

interface gigabitethernet1/0/24

description "VM Server 1"

switchport mode general

switchport general allowed vlan add 111 tagged

switchport general allowed vlan add 1 untagged

switchport general forbidden vlan add 5,66,98

 

vmnic1 to:

interface gigabitethernet1/0/17

description "VM Server 2"

switchport mode general

switchport general allowed vlan add 111 tagged

switchport general allowed vlan add 1 untagged

switchport general forbidden vlan add 5,66,98

 

vmnic2 to:

interface gigabitethernet1/0/6

description "VM Server 3"

switchport general allowed vlan add 111 tagged

switchport general allowed vlan add 1 untagged

switchport general forbidden vlan add 5,66,98

switchport access vlan 111 (Have tried many different configurations on this port including Trunk with 1 untagged and 111 tagged as VLAN 1 and 111 come through from the router on the same port. Also just a basic switchport mode access vlan 111)

 

vmnic3 to:

interface gigabitethernet1/0/43

description "VM Server 4"

switchport access vlan 66

 

If I plug a laptop into int gi 1/0/6 I get an IP address from DHCP and can get online. When i go into vSwitch2 properties and go to VMKernel and try to set it to obtain an IP address automatically I get a 169.254*.* address. If I statically set the address to one I know is available there still is no connection. I will add more information later if needed, I have a meeting to get to in regards to another project. Anyone that can help, thank you ahead of time. If you have specific information needed, I will respond ASAP.

 

On the configuration page under network adapters vmnic2 does not have any observed IP ranges and I am not sure how to edit the nic to maybe add the addresses

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VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

December 23, 2010, 12:10 pm
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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?

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USB eToken - ESXi 6.5 - not working

March 27, 2017, 8:45 am
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Hi guys,

 

On a DELL PowerEdge R710 I have a free ESXi 6.5 installed and a Windows 2012 hosted. I want to add a Digital Signature eToken and when I add the USB in Virtual Machines settings I receive this message:

 

Failed to reconfigure virtual machine Win2012. Cannot connect 'vid:0529 pid:0620 path:0/1/0' to this virtual machine. The device was not found. - dismiss

 

Can you help me understand what am I doing wrong? I saw there is a short list of "approved" USB vendors/models but this seems ridiculously small. (https://vmware.agentaccess.it.com/solution/SOL-1516 )

 

I went through https://vmware.agentaccess.it.com/solution/SOL-1538 but no luck.

 

There must be another way to add pass these Smart Card Security eTokens to USB Host for the virtualized machines.

 

Thanks,

Adrian

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vCenter event XXX.com.netapp.nvpf.vsc.discoverHost.label not found XXX

August 12, 2018, 7:54 pm
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hello

 

These messages appear every day.

 

vCenter event

 

some ESXi

 

XXX.com.netapp.nvpf.vsc.discoverHost.label not found XXX

 

I am not using NetApp storage

 

I am using pure storage

 

Why do I get the message?

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Is it normal for the vmkdump folder to contain a dumpfile?

March 22, 2017, 8:10 am
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Hi everyone,

 

It might be a stupid question, but I was wondering about the following:

 

I was trying to clean up one of our datastores, and came across a Folder called "vmkdump" containing a single file  named something like "xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx.dumpfile". I found out those a dumps of the ESXi Server used when the machine crashes. Now my question is, are those files created when the machine crashes, or is this file created while the Server is running and data is collected until the Server crashes?

 

I guess in the end what I'm really asking is, can I get rid of that dumpfile, because we don't Need it anymore, or is at least one active dumpfile needed for the Server to function properly?

 

Thanks in advance,

Fabian Fritsch

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Windows Server 2008 r2 in place upgrade to server 2012 r2

September 17, 2015, 12:11 pm
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Hello Gurus - I have a test environment vmware host that i have a few windows server 2008 R2 on. I did a in place upgrade on one from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 Datacenter that worked fine. Now i have a microsoft web server 2008 r2 that I am doing the same thing as well. This time i go thru the upgrade steps then it reboots to the 2012 Windows icon with the dots spinning below it. It does that for about a minute or two then I get the "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you." message. Then it reboots to the same screen and does the same thing again. I looked online but there is so many different answers to this and i hate to have to rebuild a 2012 web server and migrate everything over. I have reverted the upgrade back to a vm snapshot i took before the upgrade. My vmware tools is up to date and i have checked on the microsoft technet but it seems to that it could be on the vm side. Im not sure because i was able to do a in place upgrade on one machine fine until i got to this one. Any help or direction i should take on this? Thanks!!

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How to determine ESXI host UUID

July 2, 2015, 6:30 am
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Hi,

How to determine ESXI host UUID, either by vClient or CLI?

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Failed to power on virtual machine. Unable to enumerate all disks

April 30, 2018, 5:58 am
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This weekend the hard drive that ESXI 6.5 was loaded on it, died. I was unable to recover the configuration. So I got a usb stick and loaded esxi 6.7 on it. Added all of my vm's from the storage raid config, then I was able to boot all except the most important one "of course", I'm getting the error, "Failed to power on virtual machine Tech Connect. Unable to enumerate all disks. Ive tried googling and i have found nothing related to my error. Attached is a screen shot of the complete error message.

Screen Shot 2018-04-30 at 8.50.02 AM.png

Thank you.

 

Message was edited by: Austin Klenk

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HELP!! Can't remove datastore - "in use"

October 27, 2014, 10:48 am
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I've tried every suggestion out there, and still can't remove one datastore in my vCenter.

 

(I've not been able to reboot the hosts, or even put them in maintnenace - that's not an option at the moment).

 

2 -

 

I've done the following:

- migrated all VM's.

- checked all vmx files for references to the datastore

   - found 2 VM's not in inventory or powered on, which referenced the datastore - changed those

- deleted the .dvsData folder from the datastore

- Not used for HA (the 2 hosts are not in a cluster)

- made sure I/O Control is disabled on all hosts

    - even followed this: VMware Front Experience: How to disable Storage I/O Control for an unavailable datastore

- no snapshots exist on any of the vm's that *were* on this datastore

   - also checked for orphaned *-00000x.vmdk on migrated vm's - none exist

- unmounted the datastore

    - this works from one host, but not the other.

    - unmounting from host1 gives the red "X" on "no virtual machines exist (all others are green)

    - unmounting from host2 unmounts the datastore on host2 but it still shows as mounted on host1

- deleting the datastore (whether mounted or not) fails with the "resource in use" error

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