I tried to install the evaluation version of VMware ESXi 5 server and I finished pretty fast. The only thing I could see on the screen was:

Loading /tboot.b00

Loading /b.b00

Loading /useropts.gz

Loading /k.b00

Loading /a.b00

Loading /ata-pata.v00

Loading /ata-pata.v01

Loading /ata-pata.v02

Loading /ata-pata.v03

Loading /ata-pata.v04

Loading /ata-pata.v05

Error loading /ata-pata.v05

Fatal error: 6 (Buffer too small)

Could anyone please help me a bit? I don't know at all, what's going on and how should I continue with the installation.

Thanks.

I have several ESXi 5.1 hosts in a cluster. There is one vm that I can't add to inventory. I have followed several kb articles and even removed the ESXi host from the cluster completely after verifying that it was the ESXi host causing the lock by finding the MAC address. I am unable to view the vmware.log file for this virtual machine. I get an "invalid argument" error when trying to cat the vmware.log or the .vmx file. The lock file is "vmname.vmx.lck". I've rebooted and restarted the management agents several times. I'm just not sure where to proceed from here as I've been reading about how to resolve this for about 3 hours and have yet to find anything that works. The contents of the directory contain the following files if this helps at all:

Suggestions?

Hi,

ESXi 4.1.0,260247, on Intel S5520HC board with onboard dual Intel 82575EB adapters

Have a few VMs running for a month without issues and somehow one of the VMs stopped talking to the default gateway and the ESXi host. The VM however can still ping the other running VMs. After rebooting the VM a few times the problem went away.

A few days later another VM experienced the same thing. This time rebooted the ESXi host and only one of the four VMs came back alive (can ping gateway and our workstations can ping it). The rest of the VMs after a few reboots came back and on a workstation I have ping -t to keep these VMs alive (works somehow). Just one last VM still cannot ping the ESXi host nor the default gateway. Can still ping its VM peers. 

Tried to bring in another VM running from a VMware Server 2 (via converter), also cannot connect to the network outside the host.

Googled for a while and found some posts that talks about arp problems or problem with the host network adapters.  I am afraid to reboot the host again as my VMs may not come back online.

I have an Intel PCI NIC (82559) I can possibly install in the host, but I am afraid to turn off the host and cannot get the VMs up after I start the host again.

Additional info

VM 1 (CentOS) - working - 192.168.20.216

VM 2 (W2008) - working - 192.168.20.212

VM 3 (W2003) - working - 192.168.20.207

VM 4 (CentOS) - not working  - 192.168.20.149

ESXi host - 192.168.20.218

default gateway  - 192.168.20.254

Adapter Details:

Name: vmnic1

Location: PCI 01:00,1

Driver: igb

Networks: 192.168.20.64-192.168.20.127

Please advise,

JC

Hi,

I'm trying to build a new CentOS VM.  I downloaded the iso last night, moved it over to my server this morning and built the VM.  I choose the CD/DVD Drive as an ISO and connect at power on; however, every time I power on the VM it tries to boot from the LAN, but never seems to boot the ISO.  I've tried  multiple times(re-selecting the ISO), no luck.

help?

THanks

I have a VMFS 6 datastore on ESXi 6.5 that is 9.1 TB in size. I had a large VMDK that I was using to store files that was about 9.0 TB and I transferred the files elsewhere and then removed that VM. When browsing the file directory of the datastore it shows two other VMs that I still have in there that are about 35 GB each in size which is good, but the datastore overall says there is only about 30 GB free when it should say there is about 8 TB free.

Is there a manual process that needs to be run that will tell the datastore that files were deleted and there is free space now?

I can't access my server using the vSphere Client at present.  (I am using the free version of ESXi 5).  I enter my IP Address, User Name and Password, then click 'Login'.  A box pops up prompting me to Update the client software, but when I click either, 'Run the installer' or 'Save the installer', I get another the response that 'Update Save Failed' and that 'The required client support files cannot be retrieved from the server "vsphereclient.vmware.com".  The login process will now exit...'

So, without this update I can't log in to my server, yet the update won't download for some reason.  Is there another way I can manually download this update so that I can update log in?  I've attached a screen print of the pop up boxes that appear.  Thanks in advance.

Dan

This is 5.5.0 build 1331820 hanging on "nfsclient loaded successfully". The host is part of a ESX cluster and was running fine until after we had to rebuild vCenter server. All other hosts and everything else in the cluster is working fine. Has anyone seen this issue? I tried letting it sit for 20 minutes, then cold booted again and still the same.

This is on an HP ProLiant.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Maybe this was asked, i reading things for 4 days now, and its very confusing, but i got this situation, some admin sabotaged the virtual machines and backups, he turned of machines and issued Delete from Disk command in vSphere Web Client, and everything gone, its there a way to recover any of this VMs?

Some VMs are thin provisioned, other are thick

All the folders gone, no archive left

Nothing has been written on datastore

using esxi 5.5 and vSphere Web Client 5.5.

The backup got overwritten and useless

Anyone have an idea how to recover this VMs?

This happened to me a few months ago on a fresh install of the vcenter appliance 6.5. It just stopped working a week or two after applying an update. Services would not start and there was no indication as to why. It wasn't a space issue, it wasn't that other issue with a duplicate value in the vpostgres database I read about either. I finally gave up and wiped it out to redeploy from scratch.

Well low and behold, sometime last night vcenter stopped working again. This time it wasn't even a full week after having applied the 6.5.0c patch. Only two services start, none of the others will. My deployment is two appliances, a PSC and the vCenter. The PSC appears fine and the services are showing healthy. The vCenter turned to garbage again.  Here's an output of service-control:

root@mp1vsivcs501 [ ~ ]# service-control --status
Running:
 lwsmd vmafdd
Stopped:
 applmgmt vmcam vmonapi vmware-cm vmware-content-library vmware-eam vmware-imagebuilder vmware-mbcs vmware-netdumper vmware-perfcharts vmware-rbd-watchdog vmware-rhttpproxy vmware-sca vmware-sps vmware-statsmonitor vmware-updatemgr vmware-vapi-endpoint vmware-vcha vmware-vmon vmware-vpostgres vmware-vpxd vmware-vpxd-svcs vmware-vsan-health vmware-vsm vsphere-client vsphere-ui

Trying to start any service produces a similar output:

root@mp1vsivcs501 [ ~ ]# service-control --start vmware-vpxd-svcs
Perform start operation. vmon_profile=None, svc_names=['vmware-vpxd-svcs'], include_coreossvcs=False, include_leafossvcs=False
2017-04-24T19:36:49.136Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'set-environment', 'VMON_PROFILE=NONE']
2017-04-24T19:36:49.140Z   Done running command
2017-04-24T19:36:49.143Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'daemon-reload']
2017-04-24T19:36:49.222Z   Done running command
2017-04-24T19:36:49.222Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'set-property', u'vmware-vmon.service', 'MemoryAccounting=true', 'CPUAccounting=true', 'BlockIOAccounting=true']
2017-04-24T19:36:49.227Z   Done running command
2017-04-24T19:36:49.231Z   RC = 1
Stdout = 
Stderr = Failed to execute operation: Unit file is masked


2017-04-24T19:36:49.231Z   {    "resolution": null,     "detail": [        {            "args": [                "Stderr: Failed to execute operation: Unit file is masked\n"            ],             "id": "install.ciscommon.command.errinvoke",             "localized": "An error occurred while invoking external command : 'Stderr: Failed to execute operation: Unit file is masked\n'",             "translatable": "An error occurred while invoking external command : '%(0)s'"        }    ],     "componentKey": null,     "problemId": null
}
2017-04-24T19:36:49.231Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'unset-environment', 'VMON_PROFILE']
2017-04-24T19:36:49.235Z   Done running command
Error executing start on service vpxd-svcs. Details {    "resolution": null,     "detail": [        {            "args": [                "vmware-vmon"            ],             "id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",             "localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vmon'",             "translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"        }    ],     "componentKey": null,     "problemId": null
}
Service-control failed. Error {    "resolution": null,     "detail": [        {            "args": [                "vmware-vmon"            ],             "id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",             "localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vmon'",             "translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"        }    ],     "componentKey": null,     "problemId": null
}

The first thing that pops out for me is line 11, "Failed to execute operation: Unit file is masked". I get that on every service I attempt to start and I'm not finding anything in VMware's knowledge portal about it. This is extremely frustrating.

**Additional info**

Running a search on just unit file is masked took me to a generic ubuntu thread about systemctl showing masked unit files. Here's the output of the systemctl list-unit-files:

root@mp1vsivcs501 [ ~ ]# systemctl list-unit-files | grep vmware
vmware-bigsister.service               static  
vmware-cm.service                      masked  
vmware-content-library.service         masked  
vmware-eam.service                     masked  
vmware-firewall.service                enabled 
vmware-imagebuilder.service            masked  
vmware-mbcs.service                    masked  
vmware-netdump.service                 masked  
vmware-perfcharts.service              masked  
vmware-rbd-watchdog.service            masked  
vmware-rhttpproxy.service              masked  
vmware-sca.service                     masked  
vmware-sps.service                     masked  
vmware-statsmonitor.service            masked  
vmware-updatemgr.service               masked  
vmware-vapi.service                    masked  
vmware-vcha.service                    masked  
vmware-vmon.service                    masked  
vmware-vmonapi.service                 masked  
vmware-vpostgres.service               masked  
vmware-vpxd-svcs.service               masked  
vmware-vpxd.service                    masked  
vmware-vsan-health.service             masked  
vmware-vsm.service                     masked  
vmware-bigsister.timer                 disabled

Not sure if that's normal or not, but it appears to be what the error message is complaining about?

Message was edited by: jhboricua

I'm attempting to update a fresh install of ESXI using the VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-Update2-13006603-HPE-Gen9plus-670.U2.10.4.1.8-Apr2019.iso

The install goes fine and the machine boots happily. I get a CVE warning upon login so i thought best to update the the latest version.

I went to https://esxi-patches.v-front.de/ESXi-6.7.0.html and tried the instructions to update to ESXi-6.7.0-20190604001-standard

The commands I used were and the error I got are:

esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient

esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20190604001-standard \

> -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml

[InstallationError]

Failed updating the bootloader: Execution of command /usr/lib/vmware/bootloader-installer/install-bootloader failed: non-zero code returned

return code: 1

output: Traceback (most recent call last):

   File "/usr/lib/vmware/bootloader-installer/install-bootloader", line 267, in <module>

     main()

   File "/usr/lib/vmware/bootloader-installer/install-bootloader", line 212, in main

     if isInstaller():

   File "/usr/lib/vmware/bootloader-installer/install-bootloader", line 203, in isInstaller

     rc, bootOptions, _stderr = execCommand("/sbin/bootOption -roC")

   File "/usr/lib/vmware/bootloader-installer/install-bootloader", line 84, in execCommand

     stderr=PIPE, close_fds=True)

   File "/build/mts/release/bora-13006603/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 676, in __init__

   File "/build/mts/release/bora-13006603/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 1228, in _execute_child

OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

       vibs = VMware_bootbank_esx-base_6.7.0-2.60.13981272

Please refer to the log file for more details.

Space seems to be okay?

Filesystem   Size   Used Available Use% Mounted on

VMFS-6     698.5G 508.6G    189.9G  73% /vmfs/volumes/DS2

VMFS-6     465.5G 269.2G    196.3G  58% /vmfs/volumes/DS1

vfat       285.8M 172.9M    112.9M  60% /vmfs/volumes/5d105d83-6d931d2f-0dd7-10604b92a890

vfat       249.7M 190.8M     58.9M  76% /vmfs/volumes/735c9be7-c278593c-d8f9-75ab19dce6fb

vfat       249.7M 194.2M     55.6M  78% /vmfs/volumes/c83202eb-79901868-c6ab-15b749dceac6

First thing i did was enable swap on my system as per the many threads I have read regarding the issue. Unfortunately the issues still persists. I also tried installing just the tools update, but that ISO comes with the latest version.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Good evening,

I’m wondering if someone can help me. I have inherited a Dell PowerEdge T110 II at my workplace which hosts a VM that acts as a file server holding company data. Unfortunately we do not have the root password and no way of getting it from the previously employee.

Dell customised images of VMWARE ESXi 5.1 through to 5.5 are available from the Dell support page for the device. My question is, can I reinstall the ESXi hypervisor without losing the VM or data it holds and will the a reinstall allow me to reset the root password?

If this is possible can someone provide me the steps to take of refer me to the a relevant article? Finally, we actually still have access to the data so would it be better to take a backup and just wipe the server and reinstall everything from scratch? Any advice would be much appreciated, please let me know if you need any more information.

Kind regards

Trevor

Hello,

i try to update one of our HP Gen8 Server to ESXi-6.7.0-20190404001 unfortunately the whole thing does not work due to a dependency problem.

(I know it's not officially supported for Gen8 Servers)

The process was as follows

VMware ESXi, 6.0.0, 8934903 -> Update to "VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 13006603" with the HPE Customized Image - worked without any errors

VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 13006603 -> Update to "VMware ESXi, 6.7.0 13473784"  with the "ESXi-6.7.0-20190404001" Patch - Dependency Error

Install Command was "esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20190404001-standard -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml"

[DependencyError]

VIB EMU_bootbank_scsi-be2iscsi_11.1.145.8-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585 requires ima-version2, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.

esxcli software vib list | grep ima

elx-esx-libelxima-8169922.so 12.0.1188.0-03 ELX VMwareCertified   2019-05-07

ima-be2iscsi 11.1.145.8-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585 EMU VMwareCertified   2019-05-07

ima-qla4xxx 500.2.02.20-1vmw.0.5.021123 QLogic VMwareCertified   2019-05-07

Which package is meant by "ima-version2"?

I tried to install "EMU_bootbank_ima-be2iscsi_12.0.1108.0-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585", unfortunately without success

Thank you for your support

I have a Macbook pro with 16GB RAM and running latest macOS.  I also have VMware Fusion 10 Pro

running on my MAC.  I was informed in LinkedIn that it is possible to install ESXi on a MAC and that it

is free for education purposes.  I took a very intensive course on VMware vSphere 6.5 and would like

to gain some hands-on experience.  Please let me know the step-by-step procedure to install ESXi

on a macbook pro. I am currently looking for job opportunities and some hands-on experience would

be very helpful.

Thank you

Hi All,

I'm fairly new to Virtualization in general (I'm learning!) and have a question.  I have a VMware ESXi 5.0 host server set up with various VMs configured within it.  I also have various data stores configured, typically one VM per data store.  Most of the VMs are Windows, but the one I am having issues with is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 64-bit VM.  I am currently managing/administering the host server remotely, over a pretty slow connection.  Anticipating this, the last time I was on the same network as the host server, I uploaded, into a folder on the same data store as the RHEL VM, about 5GB worth of files that I knew I would need to access in the RHEL VM to install various software.  Now, I am trying to "expose" those very files to the RHEL VM so I can install the software.  How would I do that?

From what I've gathered reading other posts on here, I could create an ISO containing the files and then upload that to the host server for mounting in the CD drive, but my connection is so slow that would take a very long time.  I also gather that I could create a network share on my Windows 7 machine and allow the VM to access files that way - but again, my connection is the problem (not to mention I don't have a GUI installed on RHEL and I'm by no means a Linux expert).

None of the files I need are ISOs, unfortunately, so I can't directly mount them from the data store to the VM's CD drive.  Though I have shell access to the host server, it doesn't recognize the vmware-mount command so I can't access the virtual disk for RHEL to just copy the files into it.  It also doesn't recognize the mkisofs command (which I Googled when trying to figure out if I could create the ISO on the host itself).

So, basically, I'm looking for a way to access files from within a VM that are on the same data store as its virtual disk is.  Whether that can be achieved by copying those files into the virtual disk somehow, or mounting a CD drive or hard drive that exposes those files to the VM, I don't have a preference...  I'm just trying to avoid having to re-upload the files in a different format (or using a different method) since they are already on the host server.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated - thank you.

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.

Hi All,

I have installed latest (as of today) ESX 5.1 on a 32 Gb SSD.

I have along with that a SSD Raid with a windows 7 OS. I just choose the disk from which I want to boot pressing F11 at startup, and it worked fine so far, but vmware ESX is creating a lot of FAT Partitions. I deleted the drive letter from windows disk management (and I didn't made anything else), as I wanted to get rid of the 3 drives that I don't (and shouldn't) want to use.

After I tried to boot on the vmware SSD, it shows me an error:

bank6 not a vmware boot bank

no hypervisor found

And I had to reinstall my system... I didn't had that much stuff yet on it, but still this is painful... I don't know why if I remove the FAT letter drive under windows it screws my VMWare installation...

I did this twice just to be sure.

Any idea why this is happening and what can I do ?

is there a way to repair corrupt flat.vmdk files ?

the files cannot be opened i always get the  the error message "invalid arguments"

Setup

• Closed lab (no internet access)
• One Physical switch
• 4 working ESXi VM Hosts (but only one powered on for this issue)
  2 with ESXi 6.5, 2 with ESXi 6.7.
• One Windows 10 Pro PC - with installed VMWare Workstation 14 running vCenter VM and Content Library NAS (FreeNAS) VM
• 2 other Windows 10 Pro PCs
• All static IP addresses;   No Windows Servers (no active directory), DHCP, etc.
  BIND for DNS service (needed by vCenter)
• All VMWare products are currently evaluation licenses.

Note: newbie VMWare user...

Description:

Wanted to perform a disk test to compare between a physical PC and a VM, so I wrote an application to append the contents of one file (75 GB) to the end of an existing one (5 GB).

I ran the test app on a older and slower (as compared to the one for the ESXi Host) Windows 10 Pro physical PC (SATA IDE) - took 15 mins to complete.

The same test on a Windows 10 Pro VM running in an ESXi 6.7 Host (SATA AHCI) - took 37 minutes.

Basically, it's just this VM Host with the one VM running.

Why would there would be such a big difference in time?

Appreciate any help... Thank you.

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Details of ESXi 6.7 Host:

• SuperMicro X10SRA-F (Intel C612 SATA Controller)
• 128GB memory
• BIOS I/O configured for SATA AHCI
• DataStore consists of 2 1 Seagate 1TB SATA HD (no RAID)
• version of AHCI native driver:  1.2.0-6vmw.670.0.0.8169922

Details of VM:

• 1 CPU
• 8 GB memory
• 512 GB disk
  SCSI Controller (1:0), LSI Logic SAS, Dependant
• Windows 10 Pro

Disk performance stats (esxtop):

Hi All,

We have a requirement to assign Physical NIC to Virtual Machine , Can someone confirm how this can be achieved ?

Thanks in advance !!

Regards,

Varun Khatri

Hello,

I am installing my new VMware 6.7 infrastructure on my storage but I have the choice between NFS or iSCSI.

I know this question has already asked but when I see older discussion on it, it is on different storage.

But me I can choice NFS or iSCSI on the same storage.

Thanks