Quick update with a 4.0.2 fix that is available from VMware Global Support Services in addition to the workaround provided.
Please see the related VMware Knowledge Base article 78651 for more details.
Thank you!
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Re: AppVolume 4.0 Provisioning Problem
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Re: No Internet connection after upgrading Fusion to 11.5.3
I have exactly the same problem.
Upgraded to VMware Fusion from 11.5.1 to 11.5.3. Running Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6. Network worked flawlessly in the previous version.
Default network settings: bridged / auto detect.
After VMware Fusion 11.5.3 starts, network does work for a few minutes and then stops.
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Entering Maintenance Mode: Pre-check evacuation status unavailable
I've got a VSAN cluster consisting of six v6.0 esxi hosts. (I know...end of support; even though our support contract expires in June of 2021. Anyhoo...)
When I begin to put any of the hosts into Maintenance Mode, I get the message "
Normally I get info on how much data needs to be moved to fulfill the evacuation mode.
Thoughts?
Recent changes (last 3 days):
ESXi hosts are all at version 6.0.0, 5050593
I updated the v6.0 VCSA and both External PSCs to v6.7U3g
I then converged the VCSA so it's now running an Internal PSC
I haven't decommissioned the now old PSCs yet; will do that next week.
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Re: Powershell Core vs Powershell 7
Not sure what problems your scripts are encountering under PowerShell v7.
But feel free to share some of the errors you are seeing.
On the VSC, the PowerShell offers something that is called ISE Mode.
Have a look at How to replicate the ISE experience in Visual Studio Code
Perhaps that will help to make your experience less stressful.
Btw, PowerShell Core was a name Microsoft chose for PowerShell v6.
But with the recent arrival of PowerShell v7, that Core part has been dropped.
So, for now, we have PowerShell v5.1 (Windows only) and PowerShell v6 (or Core) and PowerShell v7.
The latter two can run cross-platform.
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How can a previous version of VMware Fusion (11.5.1) be downloaded? 11.5.3 disabled the network
The title says it all. Thanks for any advice.
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Re: Migrate ESXi’s to another vCenter
No problem is there to set up the new vCenter server and add the hosts from zero-step! but consider it's a good way if you don't have any connection from other solutions like Monitoring or Backup (as Joerg mentioned) to the virtualization environment. So if you destroy the old infrastructure, you need to reset/repair the old connections (import new information) again from that 3rd party application.
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Re: Migrate ESXi’s to another vCenter
Have you given the xVmotion Fling any thought? If you have sufficient resources in your 6.7 environment, that would eliminate the need to cause any service disruption.
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Re: ESXi 6.5 VM Wont power up after RAID disk replacement
You have already delete the *.vmx~ and the *.vswp?
and please use vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 17
Regards,
Joerg
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Re: ESXi 6.5 VM Wont power up after RAID disk replacement
I was able to delete the .vswp but when I try to delete the .vmx~, I get a:
[root@vmware01:/vmfs/volumes/59d53e71-8aef69f2-ac91-0cc47a28ed6c/SERVER01] rm -f ./SERVER01.vmx~
rm: can't remove './SERVER01.vmx~': No such file or directory
I can cat and vi into the file so it's there. Is there a trick to deleting this .vmx~ ?
I also tried deleting it via WinSCP and got the same file not found error.
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Re: ESXi 6.5 VM Wont power up after RAID disk replacement
Can you rename the file?
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Re: ESXi 6.5 VM Wont power up after RAID disk replacement
Yes, I was able to rename it SERVER.vmx~.bak (from SERVER01.vmx~)
Running the power.on command failed.
vmware.log did update. Attached.
Thanks again ^_^
~Tpsudo
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Firewall flows do not show in VRNI
Hi. We are just wrapping our heads around VRNI. We noticed that we are not seeing any flow data in the firewall rules. We did successfully attack VCSA and NSX Manager and all our VDS. We do not have logging turned on on the firewall rules though. Do we need that? Thanks,,,
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Re: ESXi 6.5 VM Wont power up after RAID disk replacement
2020-05-01T22:41:21.315Z| vmx| I125: AIOGNRC: Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/59d53e71-8aef69f2-ac91-0cc47a28ed6c/SERVER01/SERVER01_0-flat.vmdk' : Could not find the file (60003) (0x2011).
2020-05-01T22:41:21.315Z| vmx| I125: OBJLIB-FILEBE : FileBEOpen: can't open '/vmfs/volumes/59d53e71-8aef69f2-ac91-0cc47a28ed6c/SERVER01/SERVER01_0-flat.vmdk' : Could not find the file (393218).
2020-05-01T22:41:21.315Z| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/59d53e71-8aef69f2-ac91-0cc47a28ed6c/SERVER01/SERVER01_0-flat.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified): ObjLib_Open failed. Type 3
2020-05-01T22:41:21.315Z| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-LINK : "/vmfs/volumes/59d53e71-8aef69f2-ac91-0cc47a28ed6c/SERVER01/SERVER01_0.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).
2020-05-01T22:41:21.315Z| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/59d53e71-8aef69f2-ac91-0cc47a28ed6c/SERVER01/SERVER01_0.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).
2020-05-01T22:41:21.315Z| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/59d53e71-8aef69f2-ac91-0cc47a28ed6c/SERVER01/SERVER01_0.vmdk' with flags 0xe The system cannot find the file specified (25).
2020-05-01T22:41:21.315Z| vmx| I125: DISK: Cannot open disk '/vmfs/volumes/59d53e71-8aef69f2-ac91-0cc47a28ed6c/SERVER01/SERVER01_0.vmdk' : The system cannot find the file specified.
Please provide
ls -alh
again and a
vmkfstools -e SERVER01_0-000002.vmdk
and a
cat SERVER01_0-000002.vmdk
cat SERVER01_0.vmdk
again.
Maybe the VMFS is broken because of the undeletable *.vmx~ and other files are also effected.
I would just clone the vmdks and add them to a new and fresh created VM
1. Create a SERVER01_restore VM in the GUI and place it on datastore1. Dont add disks yet!
2. run vmkfstools -i SERVER01_0-000002.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/SERVER01_restore/SERVER01_restore.vmdk -d thin
This will create a copy and merge the snapshot and base disk into a new base disk
3. Add existing disk to the SERVER01_restore and choose the same virtual SCSI controller... the LSI_SAS
Its late here.... 1:00am
Gn8!
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Re: ESXi 6.5 VM Wont power up after RAID disk replacement
I'll give it a try. I really appreciate all your (and everyones) help.
Cheers!!!
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Unable to remove DVSwitch and PortGroups
Hello Community,
Hope someone out there and shed some light on why cant I delete the DVSwitch and the DPortgroups after removing the Host from inventory during Maintenance Mode. This is because I'm removing both Host from Vcenter.
One thing to add is I have two Host connected to vCenter6.7 and on one Host I forgot to put into Maintenance Mode and that's the one where I can't remove them.
In return I put into Maintenance and restarted vCenter again with the same result. I done this a few times.
Thanks in advance everyone.
Dan
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Re: It is possible to undo revert snapshot
Sure - but let me warn you - this is not trivial.
First of all analyse the vmware.logs : you must be able to answer the following question:
What is the name of the delta/sesparse vmdk that was active before the "revert to snapshot" function was lauched.
For an example lets say the file in use was "name-000003-delta.vmdk"
Next figure out which delta/sesparse was set active after the "revert to snapshot" function was lauched.
If the new file uses the same name as before then your chances are very poor.
If the new file uses a different name then you can go on.
Next figure out the size of "name-000003-delta.vmdk" immediatly before the "revert to snapshot" function was lauched.
If you find no data - try your best guess.
Now - comes the tricky part: run an intensive search for deleted / lost objects.
How to do that is far outside the area that I can explain in a post ...
Anyway - such a scan can come up blank or it can come up with a list of objects.
Such an object can have one fragment or thousands or millions.
Go through the list and check the size of the objects.
If you find anything that comes close in size to the lost delta - check the first fragment of the object if it starts with the expected magic signature.
So if you are lucky you find an object that may be a valid delta or sesparse vmdk and it has the expected size.
Then create a dd script and extract that file, copy it to ESXi and try if you attach it to a copy of the VM.
Sorry - this is just a rough overview - in an "easy" case I typically need 2-3 hours to figure out if there is anything that I can recover at all.
This is supposed to be impossible / or hopeless - so you will not find a lot of useful information in the documentation.
In this case I gave up hope when I realised that there was no deleted / lost object that was anywhere near to the expected size.
To figure that out I connected remotely and used a Linux VM running on the target ESXi.
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Re: VMware ESXi 7.0.0 build-15843807: -flat.vmdk files are read locked when a snapshot is taken
> I am looking into releasing the locks by editing the heartbeat-section. But that will be a workaround which is not suitable for regular backup jobs.
No hope on that road : no chance to manipulate the locks while the VM is running. Tried it but both the device and the .vh.sf are readonly for commands like dd.
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Re: Unable to remove DVSwitch and PortGroups
First make sure no vms are connected to dvswitch port group which you want to delete. Secondly, Hosts must be remove from Dvswitch as follow below procedure.
Procedure
- In the vSphere Web Client, navigate to the distributed switch.
- From the Actions menu, select Add and Manage Hosts.
- Select Remove hosts and click Next.
- Select the hosts you want to remove and click Next.
- Click Finish.
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Re: Entering Maintenance Mode: Pre-check evacuation status unavailable
This vmware blog may help you.vSAN Operations: Maintenance Mode - No Data Evacuation - Caution When PFTT=0 - Virtual Blocks
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Re: Migrate VMkernel Adapters to a vSphere Distributed Switch
Didn't have the port group created on DS. I was able to migrate once the PG got created. For this migration I gave a PG on the DS a different name, for the future migrations can the PG in DS have the same name as the PG in the standard switch ?
Thanks
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