There's no need to upgrade VMFS. As a side note, an upgrade from VMFS5 to VMFS6 - if you plan to do this at a later time - is no inplace upgrade. You'll have to reformat the datastores.
The vmkernel.log that you've posted contains entries for the 3 disks as being detected as sanpshot LUNs.
Please run
esxcli storage vmfs snapshot list
and if the LUNs show up, you may be able to mount the datastores from the command line by following the steps in https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1011387
André
here's no need to upgrade VMFS. As a side note, an upgrade from VMFS5 to VMFS6 - if you plan to do this at a later time - is no inplace upgrade. You'll have to reformat the datastores.
You got me at the reformat part, so I will put this out of my head for now.
esxcli storage vmfs snapshot list
Here is the output:
[root@ESXi:/vmfs/volumes] esxcli storage vmfs snapshot list
4fc64015-85243e40-f10f-8c89a57ce0bc
Volume Name: datastore1
VMFS UUID: 4fc64015-85243e40-f10f-8c89a57ce0bc
Can mount: true
Reason for un-mountability:
Can resignature: true
Reason for non-resignaturability:
Unresolved Extent Count: 1
50eeddd9-e71fa408-61be-8c89a57ce0bc
Volume Name: datastore2
VMFS UUID: 50eeddd9-e71fa408-61be-8c89a57ce0bc
Can mount: true
Reason for un-mountability:
Can resignature: true
Reason for non-resignaturability:
Unresolved Extent Count: 1
564e1a27-c0cebf32-54f2-6805ca128dcc
Volume Name: WD Red NAS 6 Tb storage media
VMFS UUID: 564e1a27-c0cebf32-54f2-6805ca128dcc
Can mount: true
Reason for un-mountability:
Can resignature: true
Reason for non-resignaturability:
Unresolved Extent Count: 1
and if the LUNs show up, you may be able to mount the datastores from the command line by following the steps in https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1011387
I had a look and tried to figure out what command should I put in there. It worked!!!!
I now have 2 of 3 datastores in my vSphere web app, but the last one did not worked. Perhaps I should use a different syntax?
[root@ESXi:/vmfs/volumes] esxcli storage vmfs snapshot mount -l datastore1
[root@ESXi:/vmfs/volumes] esxcli storage vmfs snapshot mount -l datastore2
[root@ESXi:/vmfs/volumes] esxcli storage vmfs snapshot mount -l WD Red NAS 6 Tb storage media
Error: Invalid option Red
Usage: esxcli storage vmfs snapshot mount [cmd options]
Description:
mount Mount a snapshot/replica of a VMFS volume.
Cmd options:
-n|--no-persist Mount the volume non-peristently; the volume will not be automounted after a restart.
-l|--volume-label=<str>
The VMFS volume label of the snapshot to mount.
-u|--volume-uuid=<str>
The VMFS volume uuid of the snapshot to mount.
Edit: I have added "" and even the last one worked!
Thanks for the help.
I would like to increase the system hard drive data space and not one of my virtual hard drives.
How can I assign more data space to the system through vSphere web client or SSH, please?
I have tried to search online, but the only thing I always found is how to increase the virtual hard drive data size which is not what I need.
Perhaps this is burried somewhere between Managed -> Advanced settings configuration options? If so then what option exactly should I change?
Also it might be possible that the space which is not used by virtual hard drives is subsequently being used by ESXi itself and I do not need to do anything? If yes then this is strange, because I sometimes got an error (via SSH) that it is out of space.
Thanks in advance.
I'm not aware of an option to resize the system partitions.
However, this may be caused by large log files (in this case you may want to check the logs to find out, whether there's something wrong).
What you can do, is to create a Scratch location (i.e. a folder) on one of the datastores, and configure it as shown in https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1033696
André
Hello andvm,
It is almost surely not 1MB-aligned if multiple decimals as this is only going to display a certain number of these in the GUI and in reality probably decimals all the way down.
You can align this by extending the vmdk to the next GB e.g. if it is showing as 1000.123534766345GB then make it 1001GB.
Do note that this may not be the cause of why it won't SvMotion but definitely worth ruling out.
Which vmdk Objects are not 1MB-aligned can be checked via CLI using this script a colleague of mine created:
# ls -lah /vmfs/volumes/vsan*/*/*[!ctk].vmdk | sed 's/ */ /g' | cut -d " " -f 10- | while read line; do size=$(cat "$line" | grep RW | awk '{print $2}'); if [ $(($size % 1048576)) -eq 0 ]; then echo "ALIGNED: $line is $size bytes."; else echo "NOT ALIGNED: $line is $size bytes."; fi; done
Bob
Dear all,
I have ESXi 6.7 and h61ma-e35 (b3) MB. It has 2x ASMedia ASM1061 SATA 6Gb/s and 4x 3Gb/s Intel ports.
I would like to use those 6 Gb/s ports, but ESXi does not detect them. It did not worked on previous versions as well.
I have tried the following:
esxcli software vib install -d http://vibsdepot.v-front.de -n sata-xahci
Even after the restart it does not work and ESXi still does not detect the hard drive that is connected to such ASMedia port while Intel ports work fine.
Any ideas, please?
Thank you.
I want to run Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 Professionell in Windows 98 SE put when i start Flight Simulator 2000 it says Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 is an ilegal operation. Can someone help.
i don't think ovftool exists on 4.1
I could use "converter" I guess, may try that.
Rob
I did not find ASMedia ASM1061 SATA in the VMware compatibility matrix:VMware Compatibility Guide - I/O Device Search
I do not think it's supported.
Dear all,
first of all I do not have any RAID on my home server and I plan to add it later when I will switch to some other solution (matter of years).
One of the non-system hard drives (datastore2) is showing symptomps of a faulty drive. I have also made a few tests and confirmed that (Hirenboot, Linux commands).
I plan to do the following:
a) connect another 10 Tb WD Red NAS hard drive to my ESXi 6.7 server (its already connected to my MSI H61MA-E35 (B3) MB, but ESXi refuses to detect it - that is however another problem I need to solve first)
b) copy the datastore2 content to datastore 3 (the new drive) using the Datastore browser option
c) rename datastore2 to some other name (e.g. goodbye-my-old-hard-drive)
d) rename datastore3 (new hard drive) to datastore2
e) disconnect old failing hard drive
I do not see any vMotion options in my ESXi 6.7 web interface (vSphere) because I do not have any Virtual Center installed.
I therefore believe that I will have to remove the VM from my invetory and re-add it once moved to make ESXi know that it was moved on another hard drive.
Potential important information is that there is another datastorage which is mounted to the same VM as the one on datastore2 and I would like to keep it that way as it contains some data. Does this represent a problem? I think that I will have to re-add it as well once the VM will be removed from the inventory, right?
Thank you.
I belive in the same thing, but given to the fact that there were work arrounds and some people confirmed that these were working I am currious whether there is any other work arround that is still working with ESXi 6.7.
VCF consists of SDDC manager to perform day 2 ops and initial provisioning . VCF also has a list of hardware in HCL when it comes to compute , Network etc. Please refer to VCF compatibility guide to find out more around compatibility .
VVD is a set of validated and tested blueprints on which SDDC is built . VVD 4.3 includes cloud builder for provisioning SDDC however it doesn't include SDDC manager for day 2 operations .
Hello, I am brand new to the VM world and am struggling to install VMPlayer on an Ubuntu OS. I have read up a bit on this and understand that there are compatibility issues between the VMWare Linux and Ubuntu and I need to add and modify some files to make it work. I have downloaded the VMware-Player-12.5.9-7535481.x86_64.bundle and it will install but does not run. It appears to be looking for some specific files and cannot find them. Here are the terminal results...
root@BirdBrain:~# cd /home/ken/Downloads
root@BirdBrain:/home/ken/Downloads# ./VMware-Player-12.5.9-7535481.x86_64.bundleExtracting VMware Installer...done.
(vmware-installer.py:5184): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Mint-Y/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1085: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'
(vmware-installer.py:5184): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
(vmware-installer.py:5184): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
(vmware-installer.py:5184): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
(vmware-installer.py:5184): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
(vmware-installer.py:5184): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
root@BirdBrain:/home/ken/Downloads#
A capture of the VMPlayer install screen is attached... it says everything is O.K.
Any help with this would be appreciated.
Ken
What are you trying to package? Is it one blueprint? Have you tried other things?
To fix the log file issue on vCSA 6.0 refer the below KB articles.
Connect to ESXi host directly and restart vCSA and if it does not work ssh into ESXi host and force power-off VM:
Hello Sebastian,
thanks for replying first of all.
While establishing the vRO with vCD the certificate was imported and the user from AD is added as Organization administrator.
But the error remains the same.
Hello Gayatri,GayathriS
thanks for replying first of all.
i tried the suggestion but the error remains the same.
Regards
Samesh Dhankhar
Hi All,
need suggestions on the port errors while upgrading VCSA 5.5u3 to 6.5u1g. In the stage one deployment process getting an error "Failed to Send http data" logs its showing the deployment target hosts unable to contact via port 443.
Previously migrated windows vCenter to VCSA6.51ug no errors, but VCSA 5.5u3 to 6.51ug having this errors. Any suggestions on help please let me know.
We don't have any restrictions from our network side.
HI Supreet,
Your workaround did'nt help. I got the same error.
At hte end of the installation the files are recreated here -> vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/lib/bin :
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2 avril 11:09 esxcli
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 420858 2 avril 11:09 resxtop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 827 27 mars 10:19 vmware-dcli-lin64.zip.sig <<<<
regards
The mail link below does not work -
Diagnostic information for administrators:
Generating server: BLUPR05MB1970.namprd05.prod.outlook.com
desktop-services@vmware.com
Remote Server returned '< #5.7.1 smtp;550 5.7.1 TRANSPORT.RULES.RejectMessage; the message was rejected by organization policy>'
Can you send or publish one which does?