vijayrana968, the USB device is a USB 3.0 external hard drive which is connected to a USB 3.0 port built-in the motherboard. The external USB 3.0 hard drive shows up as: Bus 004 Device 002: ID 067b:2773 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2773 SATAII bridge controller.The controller where this USB drive is attached is shown as 0000:00:14.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller. This is what I would like to set to passthrough mode.

I have two other USB 3.0 hard drives attached to a PCI card. The PCI card is already set to passthrough and all works fine there. This is detected by ESXi as:0000:01:00.0 Serial bus controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042A USB 3.0 Host Controller.The two USB drives attached to the PCI card are working normally and they appear in the guest OS.

The objective now is to add a third external USB drive to the guest OS, and that USB drive is connected to the USB 3.0 port built-in to the motherboard as explained in the first paragraph.

Thanks,

MV

bluefirestorm, I will give this a try some time tomorrow and will post an update here. Thanks for all your help.

Thanks for the posting. We are working on the issue right now.

There's workaround you may have a try: exit full screen and then enter full screen mode again, the guest desktop can show normally.

I just found out that no snapshot loads with my edited .vmsd file. But as soon as I remove the lines belonging to my restored snapshot, all other snapshots load. Can you please tell me what's wrong with my .vmsd?

Attached is the more correct version (please ignore the vmsd file from the first post). But it still gives the same error if I leave any lines belonging to that snapshot.

After research on internet, I know that we will can not do anything on ESXi host when we don't have license. We will loose all VMs.

Hello, I have a question for Vmotion a virtual machine failed.

The vmvare.log reported: Failed to resume on the destination: Failure.  Exiting...

The vmkernel.log :

2017-07-20T07:19:24.315Z cpu12:4091250)Migrate: vm 4091262: 3382: Setting FSR info: Dest ts = 1500506207908405, src ip = <127.0.0.1> dest ip = <127.0.0.1> Dest wid = 0 using UNSHARED swap

2017-07-20T07:19:24.317Z cpu12:4091250)WARNING: Migrate: 3451: 1500506207908405 D: Unable to set NUMA affinity mask for world 4091262

2017-07-20T07:19:24.317Z cpu12:4091250)Hbr: 3394: Migration start received (worldID=4091262) (migrateType=2) (event=0) (isSource=0) (sharedConfig=0)

2017-07-20T07:19:24.395Z cpu4:4090868)Migrate: vm 4090869: 3382: Setting FSR info: Source ts = 1500506207908405, src ip = <127.0.0.1> dest ip = <127.0.0.1> Dest wid = 4091262 using UNSHARED swap

2017-07-20T07:19:24.395Z cpu4:4090868)Hbr: 3394: Migration start received (worldID=4090869) (migrateType=2) (event=0) (isSource=1) (sharedConfig=0)

2017-07-20T07:19:24.823Z cpu14:4091265)Swap: vm 4091262: 1419: Successfully initialized normal swapfile.

2017-07-20T07:19:24.823Z cpu14:4091265)FSR: 1500: 1500506207908405 S: Swap copy helper world starting swap copy.

2017-07-20T07:19:24.823Z cpu14:4091265)SVM: 5041: SkipZero 0, dstFsBlockSize 0, preallocateBlocks 0, vmfsOptimizations 1, useBitmapCopy 0, skipPlugGrain 0

2017-07-20T07:19:24.823Z cpu14:4091265)SVM: 5139: SVM_MakeDev.5139: Creating device 1d2ca53-1aecc89-svmmirror: Success

2017-07-20T07:19:24.823Z cpu14:4091265)SVM: 5188: Created device 1d2ca53-1aecc89-svmmirror, primary 1d2ca53, secondary 1aecc89

2017-07-20T07:19:24.826Z cpu2:4091266)SVM: 2858: scsi255:255 Completed copy in 3 ms. vmmLeaderID = 4090869.

2017-07-20T07:19:24.826Z cpu2:4091266)FSR: 1186: 1500506207908405 S: Swap copy complete successfully.

2017-07-20T07:19:24.826Z cpu14:4091265)FSR: 1534: 1500506207908405 S: Swap copy complete.

2017-07-20T07:19:26.765Z cpu15:33056)ScsiDeviceIO: 2646: Cmd(0x439d808c6d00) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x582c57 from world 0 to dev "naa.690b11c00f2a300020bc0d721364929d" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.

2017-07-20T07:19:27.097Z cpu5:4090869)NetPort: 1780: disabled port 0x20102e5

2017-07-20T07:19:27.097Z cpu5:4090874)VSCSI: 6699: handle 69883(vscsi0:0):Destroying Device for world 4090869 (pendCom 0)

2017-07-20T07:19:27.100Z cpu6:4090871)SVM: 5041: SkipZero 0, dstFsBlockSize 0, preallocateBlocks 0, vmfsOptimizations 1, useBitmapCopy 0, skipPlugGrain 0

2017-07-20T07:19:27.100Z cpu6:4090871)SVM: 5139: SVM_MakeDev.5139: Creating device 1deca69-29ccc8d-svmmirror: Success

2017-07-20T07:19:27.100Z cpu6:4090871)SVM: 5188: Created device 1deca69-29ccc8d-svmmirror, primary 1deca69, secondary 29ccc8d

2017-07-20T07:19:27.101Z cpu5:4090869)NetPort: 1573: enabled port 0x20102e5 with mac 00:50:56:8c:57:9a

2017-07-20T07:19:27.107Z cpu5:4090874)SVM: 5041: SkipZero 1, dstFsBlockSize 1048576, preallocateBlocks 1, vmfsOptimizations 1, useBitmapCopy 0, skipPlugGrain 0

2017-07-20T07:19:27.107Z cpu5:4090874)SVM: 5139: SVM_MakeDev.5139: Creating device 208ca6c-1ffcc8a-svmmirror: Success

2017-07-20T07:19:27.107Z cpu5:4090874)SVM: 5188: Created device 208ca6c-1ffcc8a-svmmirror, primary 208ca6c, secondary 1ffcc8a

2017-07-20T07:19:27.108Z cpu5:4090874)VSCSI: 4011: handle 69885(vscsi0:0):Creating Virtual Device for world 4090869 (FSS handle 38652525) numBlocks=83886080 (bs=512)

2017-07-20T07:19:27.108Z cpu5:4090874)VSCSI: 273: handle 69885(vscsi0:0):Input values: res=0 limit=-1 bw=-1 Shares=-1

2017-07-20T07:19:27.206Z cpu9:4091271)SVM: 2858: scsi0:0 Completed copy in 89 ms. vmmLeaderID = 4090869.

2017-07-20T07:19:27.290Z cpu12:2674309)ScsiDeviceIO: 2646: Cmd(0x439d809540c0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x582c8a from world 0 to dev "naa.690b11c00f2a300020bc0d721364929d" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.

2017-07-20T07:19:27.291Z cpu12:2674309)ScsiDeviceIO: 2646: Cmd(0x439d809540c0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x582c8f from world 0 to dev "naa.690b11c00f2a300020bc0d721364929d" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.

2017-07-20T07:19:27.298Z cpu1:4091272)SVM: 2851: file# 0: Completed copy in 80 ms. vmmLeaderID = 4090869.

2017-07-20T07:19:27.305Z cpu1:4090869)NetPort: 1780: disabled port 0x20102e5

2017-07-20T07:19:27.305Z cpu1:4090874)VSCSI: 6699: handle 69885(vscsi0:0):Destroying Device for world 4090869 (pendCom 0)

2017-07-20T07:19:27.306Z cpu1:4090874)SVM: 2428: SVM Mirrored mode IO stats for device: 208ca6c-1ffcc8a-svmmirror

2017-07-20T07:19:27.306Z cpu1:4090874)SVM: 2432: Total # IOs mirrored: 0, Total # IOs sent only to source: 0, Total # IO deferred by lock: 0

2017-07-20T07:19:27.306Z cpu1:4090874)SVM: 2436: Deferred IO stats - Max: 0, Total: 0, Avg: 1 (msec)

2017-07-20T07:19:27.306Z cpu1:4090874)SVM: 2450: Destroyed device 208ca6c-1ffcc8a-svmmirror

2017-07-20T07:19:27.308Z cpu1:4090874)SVM: 2428: SVM Mirrored mode IO stats for device: 1deca69-29ccc8d-svmmirror

2017-07-20T07:19:27.308Z cpu1:4090874)SVM: 2432: Total # IOs mirrored: 0, Total # IOs sent only to source: 0, Total # IO deferred by lock: 0

2017-07-20T07:19:27.308Z cpu1:4090874)SVM: 2436: Deferred IO stats - Max: 0, Total: 0, Avg: 1 (msec)

2017-07-20T07:19:27.308Z cpu1:4090874)SVM: 2450: Destroyed device 1deca69-29ccc8d-svmmirror

2017-07-20T07:19:27.529Z cpu0:4091250)Swap: vm 4091262: 1289: Swapfile already initialized. No work to do.

2017-07-20T07:19:27.574Z cpu3:4091250)VSCSI: 4011: handle 69886(vscsi0:0):Creating Virtual Device for world 4091262 (FSS handle 44092557) numBlocks=83886080 (bs=512)

2017-07-20T07:19:27.574Z cpu3:4091250)VSCSI: 273: handle 69886(vscsi0:0):Input values: res=0 limit=-2 bw=-1 Shares=1000

2017-07-20T07:19:27.642Z cpu4:3265078)ScsiDeviceIO: 2646: Cmd(0x439d84839ec0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x582d21 from world 0 to dev "naa.690b11c00f2a300020bc0d721364929d" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.

2017-07-20T07:19:27.643Z cpu9:4091262)VMMVMKCall: 235: Received INIT from world 4091262

2017-07-20T07:19:27.643Z cpu4:3265078)ScsiDeviceIO: 2646: Cmd(0x439d84839ec0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x582d26 from world 0 to dev "naa.690b11c00f2a300020bc0d721364929d" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.

2017-07-20T07:19:27.650Z cpu1:34778)LVM: 10060: Device naa.600b342b1d453c8db63dd6856d0000db:1 detected to be a snapshot:

2017-07-20T07:19:27.650Z cpu1:34778)LVM: 10067:   queried disk ID: <type 2, len 22, lun 11, devType 0, scsi 0, h(id) 8686437659640839581>

2017-07-20T07:19:27.650Z cpu1:34778)LVM: 10074:   on-disk disk ID: <type 2, len 22, lun 0, devType 0, scsi 0, h(id) 9512531387408291070>

2017-07-20T07:19:27.653Z cpu1:34778)LVM: 10060: Device naa.600b3429a5bbbbfdfbb1d10c6d0000db:1 detected to be a snapshot:

2017-07-20T07:19:27.653Z cpu1:34778)LVM: 10067:   queried disk ID: <type 2, len 22, lun 12, devType 0, scsi 0, h(id) 3064839419528190981>

2017-07-20T07:19:27.653Z cpu1:34778)LVM: 10074:   on-disk disk ID: <type 2, len 22, lun 0, devType 0, scsi 0, h(id) 9512531387408291070>

2017-07-20T07:19:27.655Z cpu9:4091265)SVM: 2463: Error destroying device 1d2ca53-1aecc89-svmmirror (Busy)

2017-07-20T07:19:27.655Z cpu9:4091265)WARNING: FSR: 1269: 1500506207908405 S: Failed to destroy mirror node for swap file: Busy

2017-07-20T07:19:27.655Z cpu9:4091265)WARNING: FSR: 1589: 1500506207908405 S: Swap copy helper failed, exiting.

2017-07-20T07:19:27.655Z cpu9:4091265)WARNING: Migrate: 270: 1500506207908405 S: Failed: Busy (0xbad0004) @0x418036c1231e

2017-07-20T07:19:27.656Z cpu0:4091262)WARNING: FSR: 4726: 1500506207908405 D: Failed to tranfer the swap file from source VM to destination VM.

2017-07-20T07:19:27.656Z cpu0:4091262)WARNING: Migrate: 270: 1500506207908405 D: Failed: Failure (0xbad0001) @0x418037cc01d6

2017-07-20T07:19:27.666Z cpu4:4090868)WARNING: Migrate: 5451: 1500506207908405 S: Migration considered a failure by the VMX.  It is most likely a timeout, but check the VMX log for the true error.

2017-07-20T07:19:27.680Z cpu1:4091275)WARNING: Migrate: 5451: 1500506207908405 D: Migration considered a failure by the VMX.  It is most likely a timeout, but check the VMX log for the true error.

And then, I could shutdown this vm, but it couldn't be poweron again. The vmkernel.log reported that:

2017-07-20T09:25:52.430Z cpu2:4172955)FSS: 6146: Failed to open file 'zmx_hot-3-d0fd9b24.vswp'; Requested flags 0x8, world: 4172955 [vmx], (Existing flags 0x8, world: 4090868 [unknown]): Busy

2017-07-20T09:25:52.430Z cpu2:4172955)WARNING: SwapFileOps: vm 4172956: 286: Failed to open swap file '/vmfs/volumes/5965f31b-a9168818-fc27-90b11c095e3c/zmx_hot-3_3/zmx_hot-3-d0fd9b24.vswp': Busy

2017-07-20T09:25:52.430Z cpu2:4172955)WARNING: Swap: 3547: Failed to initialize swap file '/vmfs/volumes/5965f31b-a9168818-fc27-90b11c095e3c/zmx_hot-3_3/zmx_hot-3-d0fd9b24.vswp' : Busy

Hi

In comparison to C # Client, I am sending missing features in the ESXi 6.5 Web Client, version 1.21 ...

I can not:

* Rename a network interface and VMKernels

* Rename a vSwitch

* Create a Resource Pool or Folder to organize the VMs

* Change the default swap file location of VMs (for the host, not the individual VMs)

Among other things I have been testing ... I would know if this will be implemented in the future or if it is some error in my interface ....

I was able to do all this using the C # Client.

But, for example, the Resource Pool does not appear in the Web client, only in the C #....

What am I doing wrong?

Environment:

VSphere 6.5.0 (Build 5310538)

HPE Customized Image ESXi 6.5.0 version 650.10.1.0.47 released on July 2017

Updated web client for version 1.21

I do not have vCenter.

I need to do this on a standalone host.

Hello Everyone, I'm trying to add a new RDM disk over my VM but I can't see the LUN when I reach the step to select what LUN I want to use to do it. The DataStore is a 2 TB VMFS5 Type, initially the space of that DataStore was passed to the VM in 4 parts of 500 GB, each one is a VMDK or Virtual Disk, but I have taken one of these and removed it from the VM successfully, so the DataStore has 500 GB available again and now I want to add this space as RDM but I can't see the LUN, but If I try to add again this space as a VMDK, I don't have problems.

Can I use a DataStore to configure VMDKs and RDMs for the same VM?.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Regards. WM

Hi,

I import module vmware.powercli, then issue a Connect-VIServer -server MyVMVIServer.acme.com and after I enter my creds, im connected on port 443.

I can issue a Get-VM myvmbox -Server MyVMVIServer.acme.com -Location somedatacenter and I get info about myvmbox, however is there a way to just give me all the VMs and their properties under a VIServer such as MYVMVIServer the way I can do with Powershell using a filter like 'Get-AdDomainController -Filter *' which will give me everything.

This is a new install of VMWare with NSX which im not really familiar with, so wondering how I can get all VMs returned.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I am planning to migrate [V2V] VM's from vsphere 4.x to 6.5, I would like to know the process/best practices/ expected behavior, if any one did it in past.

Thank you,

Vkmr.

Hi,

Is there any strong reasons why we should not configure DRS for the cluster which is serving for VDI machines?

Thank you,

Vkmr.

Check if VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.1 manual integrity check fails with the error: An integrity check could not be performe… and KB 2067701 helps.

Oh man I was really hoping for DirectX 12 support. As a radiologist my software requires it. It's really the only thing holding me back in the PC world.

Hi Phil,

That's good new info, thanks! I have DirectFlex enabled in my test setup, but I don't have any Office applications installed.

In your setup, does the problem occur only after launching other applications (like Office), or can you reproduce it by just launching IE after having removed the user's profile?

Ive actually walked through 2 of those,  orchestrator is not a factor in this instance.

Hi

I have the same problem

workstation 12.5.2/3/4/5/6

OpenSuse Leap 42.2

My log file looks similar to the others

Try to connect to ESX Server 5.5.x

vCenter 5.5.x , 6.0, 6.5

Thomas Michael

Hi,

I setup a WinPE image as per Manual and iti s working fine except one thing:

We are using SSL connection between mirage server and clients.

The root certificate is in WinPE image. When new machine with mirage client installed from WinPE trying to connect to server it gets the error:

"X509Chain: System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Chanin

SslPolicyErrors: RemoteCertificateChainErrors"

And this:

"Exception caught during socket creation: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure"

All the other machines that already in domain pass this validation with no issues.

Lost in here.

Please help.

Hi UEMdev,

It happens before the application is launched. It can be reproduced by installing office, enabling directflex and upon login launched the IE and go to the website. Hope this helps, I'm still testing and found that it happens to other applications that has directflex enabled. I'll keep you posted.

Running V5.5 Build 3000347 - embedded db

i had successfully migrated vcenter server from one host to another.  The vcenter was running on an external datastore.  Before i could move it off of that datastore, connectivity was lost to that datastore, forcing the filesystem to r/o from linux perspective.  after connectivity was restored, i reloaded vcenter, but vpxd failed to come up.  There were a few errors in the log that i was able to resolve, but still vpxd wouldn't come up even with a clean error log.  So decided to backup the database and create a fresh install from which i could restore.  During the backup, ran into this error:

pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  missing chunk number"

This led me to a particular table: vpx.vpx_vm which had a corrupted row.  I removed that row and was able to backup the database.  After which i though maybe vpxd would come up, but then ran into this error in vpxd.log:

2017-07-20T14:46:14.835Z [7FA7D2269740 verbose 'vpxdvpxdMoDatastore'] [DatastoreMo] DatastoreName: datastore1 (1), HostName: host-2375_connAccessibleHosts: 0, hInfo->_isConnected: false, changed: false, hInfo->_mountInfo->IsAccessible(): true, moHost->IsConnectedInt(): true, wasCountedAccessible: false, shouldBeCountedAccessible: true

2017-07-20T14:46:14.835Z [7FA7D2269740 trivia 'QueryServiceProvider'] Creation notification dropped for vim.host.DatastoreBrowser:datastoreBrowser-datastore-2377

2017-07-20T14:46:14.835Z [7FA7D2269740 verbose 'vpxdvpxdMoDatastore'] [DatastoreMo] DatastoreName: Backup-Datastore, HostName: host-2375_connAccessibleHosts: 0, hInfo->_isConnected: false, changed: false, hInfo->_mountInfo->IsAccessible(): true, moHost->IsConnectedInt(): true, wasCountedAccessible: false, shouldBeCountedAccessible: true

2017-07-20T14:46:14.835Z [7FA7D2269740 trivia 'QueryServiceProvider'] Creation notification dropped for vim.host.DatastoreBrowser:datastoreBrowser-datastore-625

2017-07-20T14:46:14.835Z [7FA7D2269740 verbose 'vpxdvpxdMoDatastore'] [DatastoreMo] DatastoreName: rtp-esx-2-1-datastore, HostName: host-624_connAccessibleHosts: 0, hInfo->_isConnected: false, changed: false, hInfo->_mountInfo->IsAccessible(): true, moHost->IsConnectedInt(): true, wasCountedAccessible: false, shouldBeCountedAccessible: true

2017-07-20T14:46:14.836Z [7FA7D2269740 trivia 'Default'] [Vdb::NotifyRelease] 1 out of 10 connections are in use

2017-07-20T14:46:14.836Z [7FA7D2269740 error 'vpxdvpxdDatastore'] [VpxdDatastore] Failed to load DATASTORE table from database: vmodl.fault.ManagedObjectNotFound

2017-07-20T14:46:14.836Z [7FA7D2269740 trivia 'VpxProfiler'] Ctr: VpxdDatastore::Load = 102 ms

2017-07-20T14:46:14.836Z [7FA7D2269740 trivia 'VpxProfiler'] Ctr: TotalTime = 1717 ms

2017-07-20T14:46:14.836Z [7FA7D2269740 error 'vpxdvpxdMain'] [VpxdMain] Failed to initialize: vmodl.fault.ManagedObjectNotFound

2017-07-20T14:46:14.836Z [7FA7D2269740 error 'Default'] Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down...

2017-07-20T14:46:14.836Z [7FA7D2269740 info 'vpxdvpxdSupportManager'] Wrote uptime information

Is there any hope in recovering this vcenter?

Haha... no worries... Thank you for your help Martijn

I'll be back soon with questions around integrating physical and virtual worlds when using NSX! Watch this space!