I've a very strange problem on seven new HP PROLIANT DL385 G7 (latest firmware and upgarde) with ESX 4.1 installed, in a random manner, in different time and unexpectedly system crash and happens PSOD, follow the first line:
- Uncorrected ECC error in L3 Cache LRU on CPU 0 cache index 0x25b PCPU0 in world 4120:idle
I'm afraid that hardware is the concern ...
Thanks
PSOD is attached to this thread
Hey guys, reading some conflicting documentation on this, should I be able to Hot add memory in Windows 2008 R2 Standard on Vsphere 4.0 without a reboot?
I did the hot add in vcenter, but the memory module shows as an error on the Windows server, Error code (10) device cannot start..
Will this require a reboot?
Thanks
Kevin
Hi,
When we do a Hot vMotion, what exactly happens at the background. What files is created, what file is moved from where to where, what file is deleted if any applicable?
Thanks,
jK
Hi All,
I am using LSI SAS storage with ESX 4.0. In my test setup I am able to map luns to ESX but for each and every mapping reboot is needed for mapped lun to come into ESX server. Is reboot of ESX host is necessary to comeup the mapped lun to esx? is there any way to avoid the reboot? I tried rescan more than 10 times for one newly mapped LUN but it didnt come into ESX but it did after ESX reboot.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Thanks,
Vijaya
Hello,
since i upgraded from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4 i have a problem with the LTO tape drive.
The server is a IBM x3650 which does not support VMDirectPath. The tape drive is a IBM Ultrium 4 3580 with an SAS interface.
When i configure this tape inside a VM using the SCSI passthrough, it sometimes works. I Use ARCserve 15 SP1.
I can:
- Erase a tape at every time
- Format a tape at every time
- Backup many data when selecting one folder and append the data to a formatted tape.
But when i configure a Backup Job to save all data i got errors. ARCserve formats the tape, find a broken session and repairs the session once or twice. (On a newly formatted tape.) Sometime he begins to backup the data and sometime he wrote that he can't position the media.
The VMKernel log reports this:
NMP: nmp_CompleteCommandForPath: Command 0x11 (0x41027f370240) to NMP device "naa.xxx" failed on physical path "vmhba1:C0:T0:L0" H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x8 0x0 0x5.
ScsiDeviceIO: 1672: Command 0x11 to device "naa.xxx" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x8 0x0 0x5.
NMP: nmp_CompleteCommandForPath: Command 0x11 (0x41027f3dad40) to NMP device "naa.xxx" failed on physical path "vmhba1:C0:T0:L0" H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x0 0x0 0x1.
ScsiDeviceIO: 1672: Command 0x11 to device "naa.xxx" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x0 0x0 0x1.
NMP: nmp_CompleteCommandForPath: Command 0x4c (0x41027f3e8940) to NMP device "naa.xxx" failed on physical path "vmhba1:C0:T0:L0" H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x49 0x0.
ScsiDeviceIO: 1672: Command 0x4c to device "naa.xxx" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x49 0x0.
Hope someone has an idea.
Best regards
Stefan
Hi,
We have a cluster of 2 servers running ESX 4.1 U1 managed by vCenter. Last week we received a PSOD mentioning #DF Exception 8 IP (please see attached screeenshot). While tracking down the problem, I have gotten as far as KB Article: 1004250 which, under additional information, refers to "Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual".
Now, my question is how do I diagnose it if I have an AMD Opteron processor?
Thanks for your help,
Ojas
Hi
On some of my ESX servers I have som local storage which are typed as "transport - Block adapter". What is this and how do I can it
Is it changed by a linux command on the console?
I remeber something about a command that can block and unblock a HBA/iscsi adapter, but is that used for changing status?
Best regards
Kim Hørsted
Hi,
I have two VMs connected together with virtual serial ports via named pipes. I want to use this for Linux kernel debugging.
I cannot get into KDB on the VM to be debugged from the VM that will be doing the debugging, however, the serial port setup works otherwise, and I can get into KDB if I 'echo g > /proc/sysrq-trigger'.
It seems to be the case that any BREAK requests I try to send are lost.
Can I get either a definitive statement that BREAK requests are not handled by ESX (We are actually using vSphere 4 Enterprise Plus or something), or if they are supported, is there some double-secret handshake I have to use?
Hello
recently i have faces a issue in which vspere esxi server started going to ont connected state in vcenter one by one .
when i checked disk utilization and found that hostdstat was100% filled
might be because of which it was showing as not connected to vcenter. but still i was alble to connect all the vm's running under that host.
the issue was solved after restarting the services.sh and deleteing the hostAgentStats-20.stats file
and things were back to normal
I want to knowhow we can avoide it from writing too much into mv /var/lib/vmware/hostd/stats/hostAgentStats-20.stats, or is there a way i can increase a size of hostdstat partation as by default its 165MB
thanks
I am running ESXi 4.1. I have two hosts. Currently, the management network of my hosts are on the 192.168.5.x subnet and that subnet exists in its own VLAN. My vMotion setup is also included in this subnet and VLAN. What I want to do is to move my vMotion setup to a different subnet and VLAN.
How would I go about doing this? Whenever I change the IP address of the vMotion vSwitch, I lose connectivity to it since I have to change the default gateway as well. When I update the default gateway, the default gateway of the management gateway is updated as well. Do I have to have the management network and the vMotion network on the same subnet?
Hello,
I'm not sure, it the good location for my post..
anyway, I'm begining using webService to interact with my esx 4.1.
This one is under a vCenter.
I'm interacting through php script with soap client.
Here is my code :
<?php
$serverIP = "XXX";
$serverUser = "XXX";
$serverPassword = "XXX";
$client = new SoapClient("https://$serverIP/sdk/vimService.wsdl", array("trace" => 1, "location" => "https://$serverIP/sdk/") );
$soapmsg["_this"] = array( "_" => "ServiceInstance", "type" => "ServiceInstance");
$result = $client->RetrieveServiceContent($soapmsg);
$ServiceContent = $result->returnval;
$soapmsg = NULL;
$soapmsg["_this"] = $ServiceContent->sessionManager;
$soapmsg["userName"] = $serverUser;
$soapmsg["password"] = $serverPassword;
$result = $client->Login($soapmsg);
$UserSession = $result->returnval;
echo "User " . $UserSession->userName . " is connected\n";$soapmsg = NULL;
$soapmsg["_this"] = $ServiceContent->sessionManager;
$result = $client->Logout($soapmsg);
?>
It work well directly on my esx, but when I try to login to the WS of my vCenter, (replacing the credentials) I've got the following error:
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Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing Schema: can't import schema from 'https://192.168.10.12/sdk/reflect-messagetypes.xsd' in /root/VMwarePHPWebServices/vmwareTestAPI.php:10
Stack trace:
#0 /root/VMwarePHPWebServices/vmwareTestAPI.php(10): SoapClient->SoapClient('https://192.168...', Array)
#1 {main}
thrown in /root/VMwarePHPWebServices/vmwareTestAPI.php on line 10
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I looked on the web and other people faced this problems, it seems to be the fault of the WSDL file syntax?
I wondered if this problem is knowed, I am on the good track, do someone have a solution?
Or maybe it's not the same way to contact the vCenter?
Thanks in advance!
Hello,
The vcenter server network is not available, therefore I cannot connect to it, I cannot use the AD logon to access the Esxi Host, the lockdown mode was enabled on the host and DCUI disabled, How do I get to connected to Vcenter Server? I need help!!!
Hi All,
I have an RHEL image with some software installed on one of my VM. When i shutdown and exported for the first time the size was 14.4GB. After some time i restarted and played for some time and exported back, surprisingly it was 9.45GB. I have no idea how this dramatic change has happened. For my perspective the installed software and RHEL are not more than 7GB.
I wonder why it went to 14.4GB and down to 9.45GB.
I just can't leave this unknown, please let me know your valuable feedback on this
The exported ova is working absolutely fine. I haven't changed anything
Details:
Thanks & Regards
Eshwar
Hi
I am receiving the following errors on all our IBM 3850 in our cluster:
Task: Remove snapshot info 03/05/2012 10:06:57 virtaul-machine AD\VMNB
The port 570 link was up in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE info 03/05/2012 10:06:57
dvPort 570 was unblocked in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE. info 03/05/2012 10:06:57
dvPort 570 exited passthrough mode in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE. info 03/05/2012 10:06:57
dvPort 570 exited passthrough mode in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE. info 03/05/2012 10:06:57
The port 570 link was down in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE info 03/05/2012 10:06:57
The port 570 link was up in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE info 03/05/2012 10:06:57
dvPort 570 was unblocked in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE. info 03/05/2012 10:06:57
dvPort 570 exited passthrough mode in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE. info 03/05/2012 10:06:57
dvPort 570 exited passthrough mode in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE. info 03/05/2012 10:06:57
Uplink redundancy restored on DVPorts: "570/67 5c 08 50 ae bd 83 f4-81 37 46 ef 5c dd 5a 05", "570/67 5c 08 50 ae bd 83 f4-81 37 46 ef 5c dd 5a 05", "570/67 5c 08 50 ae bd 83 f4-81 37 46 ef 5c dd 5a 05". Physical NIC vmnic7 is up. info 03/05/2012 10:06:56 esxhost1.ad.com
The port 570 link was up in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE info 03/05/2012 10:06:54
dvPort 570 was unblocked in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE. info 03/05/2012 10:06:54
dvPort 570 exited passthrough mode in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE. info 03/05/2012 10:06:54
dvPort 570 exited passthrough mode in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE. info 03/05/2012 10:06:53
The port 570 link was down in the vNetwork Distributed Switch in Datacenter - CORE info 03/05/2012 10:06:53
Task: Create virtual machine snapshot info 03/05/2012 09:49:25 virtual-machine\VMNB
The errors happen on all our 3850 but not at the same time. It seems to be only affecting the backups as when the error occurs the backup of the vm stops and Netbackup throws up “system call failed(11) error”.
I’ve talked to the network guys and they have sent me the error log for the switch and it is not showing any errors for the time that the link is going down. Also there are no alerts been triggered.
The distributed switch is configured with uplinks nic3 and nic7, connected to the VM Network. The switch that the uplinks are connected to is configured with port channel as it carries different vlan traffic. The teaming is set to route based on IP hash and the network failover is set to link status only.
Any ideas?
Dr
Dear Team,
Suddenly our Datastore losses connectivity with our ESX servers and the running VMs are poweredoff because .vmdk is not accessible to these ESX host.
once the Datastore connectivity restored and I tried to poweron those VMs then i m getting the following error
the issue has been rwesolved i have vmotioed esx1 vms to esx2 and esx2 vms to esx1. in simple english i just want to know what this error means ...........
regards
Mr VMware
Hi
I have had a LUN failure on SAN so datastore became inactive . I did a rescan hba and rescan datastores ... host is constantly thowing this on syslogs
I have manually removed the datastore by following http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1026661
syslog is as follows
| 1 | 19/12/2012 11:33:37.000 | Dec1911:33:3744.128.164.30vmkernel:73:18:39:31.605cpu3:4232)WARNING:vmw_psp_rr:psp_rrSelectPath:Couldnotselectpathfordevice "eui.000b080009002683". |
| 2 | 19/12/2012 11:33:37.000 | Dec1911:33:3744.128.164.30vmkernel:73:18:39:31.605cpu1:4195)WARNING:vmw_psp_rr:psp_rrSelectPathToActivate:Couldnotselectpathfordevice "eui.000b080009002683". |
| 3 | 19/12/2012 11:33:36.000 | Dec1911:33:3644.128.164.30vmkernel:73:18:39:30.604cpu3:4232)WARNING:vmw_psp_rr:psp_rrSelectPath:Couldnotselectpathfordevice "eui.000b080009002683". |
| 4 | 19/12/2012 11:33:36.000 | Dec1911:33:3644.128.164.30vmkernel:73:18:39:30.604cpu0:4194)WARNING:vmw_psp_rr:psp_rrSelectPathToActivate:Couldnotselectpathfordevice "eui.000b080009002683". |
| 5 | 19/12/2012 11:33:35.000 | Dec1911:33:3544.128.164.30vmkernel:73 |
Hi,
Iam unable to to storage vmotion for an Virtual Machine which has around 8 RDM attached to it. I see the error incompatible device backing specified for device '0'. can anyone let know why is the error occurring??
Regards,
Ajay
Hi,
We have a VMware 4.0 U2 environment with 4 ESX hosts. We have 2 clusters with 2 hosts located in each cluster. Each cluster defines a physical building and both buildings are about 4KMs appart. Each building also has its own IBM DS3400 SAN. Until today, we were not able to do a Vmotion between clusters while the VM was running, because the hosts from Cluster A couldn't see the shared storage in Cluster B, and vice versa.
This morning, we plugged a Mono fiber so hosts from Cluster A are now able to see storage from Cluster B, and vice versa. All this works. I am able to do a storage Vmotion (using Change Datastore function) from Cluster A to Cluster B while the VM is running. I am also able to change host and select a host in a different Cluster. I can do both functions one after the other and make sure that the storage where the VM is located is in the same cluster/building that the host is running the VM. I want to avoid a host in Cluster B running a VM located on the shared storage of Cluster A, so if I could find a way to do all in 1 step, that would be best.
The function Change both host and datastore is greyed out. I would like to use that function to select the appropriate host in the other cluster as well as the appropriate datastore at the same time and avoid having to change host and then change datastore.
Of course, Vmotion is running fine and all hosts can see shared storage of all clusters. I don't understand why Change both host and datastore is still greyed out. We have a Nexus 1000v in place, if this makes a difference. All the VLANs are the same within both clusters. A VM will be able to Vmotion in another cluster with network reconfiguration.
Any clues ?
Thank you!
Guillaume.
This is on ESX 4.0.0 Update 1.
When I issue a command such as "vim-cmd /hostsvc/hostsummary | grep inMaintenanceMode" or vimsh –n –e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter” / “vimsh –n –e
/hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit” all returned the same error message “failed to connect: cannot connect to host localhost: connection refused”.
I've checked the checked the resolv.conf & hosts file.
I'm able to ssh to the server as well as use WinSCP without any problems.
I can connect with the VI Client also without a problem.
Any Ideas?
Hi guys
I'm quite new to VMware and am still learning everyday... but have been put into a Live Environment which I now have to support
The problem I have right now is that we had a power failure last Friday, and after that, my Host machines aren't seeing the VM Replica's which sit on my NAS Device.
I am running VMware ESX 4.1.0 with 3 Host machines, and a Server which is running the vSphere Client... all in my Primary Server Room.
In my DR Server Room, on the other end of the building, I have an HP Storageworks NAS Device, on which my VM Replica's reside.
After the last power failure, and after my UPS's ran out of juice, my Host machines are no longer seeing the replicas on the NAS device.
I have restarted my switches, restarted the NAS Device, restarted my vSphere Client Host machine... but i still get the replica(inaccessible) message next to each of my replica's within the vSphere Client.
Has anybody had this issue before? Anyone know how to resolve this without having to restart the actual Host machines themselves?
I am trying to avoid restarting my Host Machines as those VM's need to run 24/7.
However, should that be the only option, then I will schedule downtime and have it done.
Any assistance is highly appreciated guys. Thank you in advance.