- Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error
- “Host cannot communicate with all other nodes in vSAN enabled cluster” error
- vCenter Server 6.0 Update 2 displays on non-vSAN enabled ESXi hosts displays the message: Retrieve a ticket to register the vSAN VASA Provider
- Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products
- The ramdisk ‘vsantraces’ is full
- Cannot view or add vSAN Storage Providers in the vSphere Web Client
- Certification of Dell PERC H730 and FD332-PERC Controllers with vSAN 6.x
- Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers
- “An error occurred while consolidating disks: msg.disklib.NOSPACE” in vSAN
- ESXi host in a vSAN cluster reports a warning alarm: Host vendor provider registration
- vSAN host may encounter a purple diagnostic screen during performance statistics updates
- Creating or editing a virtual machine Storage Policy to correct a missing vSAN VASA provider fails
- VMware vSAN 6.2 on disk upgrade fails due to CBT enabled virtual disks
- vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails
- Unexpected status code: 503? error in vSAN health check plug-in
- vSAN disk components are marked ABSENT after enabling CBT
- vSAN 6.2 hybrid disk group performance degradation
- “Unable to register file system <UUID> for APD timeout notifications: Inappropriate ioctl for device” message in vSAN
- Local Disks goes into Permanent Device Loss (PDL) state with inbox drivers for mpt2sas
- VMware vSAN datastore not listed as a matching datastore when creating a storage-based policy
Category Archives: Top 20
Top 20 NSX articles for May 2018
- Virtual machine in ESXi is unresponsive with a non-paged pool memory leak
- VMs running on ESXi 5.5 with vShield endpoint activated fails during snapshot operations
- Performing vMotion or powering on a virtual machine being protected by vShield Endpoint fails
- When using VMware vShield App Firewall, virtual machines fail to connect to the vSwitch/vDS/network with the error: Failed to connect virtual device Ethernet0
- “The pending transaction requires xxx MB free space” error when installing VIBs
- Installing VMware vShield App fails with the error: Previous installation of host services encountered an error
- ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEventDelayedDispatchCB@com
- Systems running MOVE Agentless 3.0 on ESXi 5.5 suffer performance issues or become unresponsive
- ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 2 host with vShield Endpoint 1.0 installed fails with a purple diagnostic screen mentioning VFileFilterReconnectWork
- Degraded Windows network file copy performance after full ESXi 5 VMware Tools installation
- Windows virtual machines using the vShield Endpoint TDI Manager or NSX Network Introspection Driver (vnetflt.sys) driver fails with a blue diagnostic screen
- Slow VMs after upgrading VMware Tools in NSX and vCloud Networking and Security
- Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products
- Network connectivity issues after upgrade in NSX/VCNS environment
- vShield Manager appliance system disk is full in VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.5.x
- NSX Controller disconnected or isolates intermittently
- Duplicate VTEPs in ESXi hosts after rebooting vCenter Server
- NSX is unavailable from the vSphere Web Client Plug-in
- After upgrading to VMware ESXi 5.5 Patch Release ESXi550-201504002, virtual machines using VMware NSX for vSphere 6.x or Cisco Nexus 1000v are unable to communicate across hosts
- vsfwd connection to the NSX Manager fails
Top 20 vSphere articles for May 2018
- “The transaction log for database ‘VIM_VCDB’ is full” error on a Microsoft SQL DB server
- ESXi 5.5 Update 3b and later hosts are not manageable after an upgrade
- “Host IPMI system event log status” alarm in vCenter Server
- Determining where growth is occurring in the vCenter Server database
- ESXi host disconnects intermittently from vCenter Server
- Troubleshooting the vCenter Server service
- Investigating the health of a vCenter Server database
- Failed to verify the SSL certificate for one or more vCenter Server Systems? error in the vSphere Web Client
- Required VMware vCenter Converter ports
- The vpxd process becomes unresponsive after upgrading to vCenter Server 5.5/6.0
- Storage vMotion migration fails with the error: The method is disabled by ‘SYMC-INCR dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm’
- Troubleshooting checklist for VMware Converter
- vCenter Server 5.5 fails to start after reboot with the error: Unable to create SSO facade: Invalid response code: 404 Not Found
- Upgrading to VMware Tools 5.1 reports the message: Error in the RPC receive loop: RpcIn: Unable to send
- Unable to log in to the root account of vCenter Server Appliance
- ESXi hosts fail to mount VMFS5 volumes that are formatted with ATS-only capabilities
- After making a change or restarting vCenter Single Sign-On server system, vCenter Server 5.1.x fails to start
- could not open/create change tracking files? error when powering on VM
- Failed to verify the SSL certificate” after upgrading to vCenter Server 5.5 U1 or later
- vCenter Server 5.x fails to start with the error: Failed to add LDAP entry
Top 20 vSAN articles for April 2018
- Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error
- Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers
- vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails
- Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products
- “The ramdisk “vsantraces” is full” error reports in vSAN logging
- Replacing SSD disk on a vSAN cluster
- vSAN CLOMD daemon may fail when trying to repair objects with 0 byte components
- On vSAN 6.6 and 6.6.1 cluster, Testing health check fails randomly
- Diskgroups fail to mount due to heap exhaustion
- Certification of Dell PERC H730 and FD332-PERC Controllers with vSAN 6.x
- VMware vSAN 6.2 on disk upgrade fails due to CBT enabled virtual disks
- vCenter Server 6.0 Update 2 displays on non-vSAN enabled ESXi hosts displays the message: Retrieve a ticket to register the vSAN VASA Provider
- vSAN performance diagnostics reports: “vSAN is experiencing congestion in one or more disk group(s)”
- Virtual Machine with more than 64GB memory fails to Storage vMotion to vSAN cluster
- Initializing vSAN during boot takes a longer time
- “Host cannot communicate with all other nodes in vSAN enabled cluster” error
- “Virtual SAN Disk Balance” warning alarm during vSAN health check
- Deployment guidelines for running VMware vSAN and VMware vSphere VMFS datastores on a Dell H730 controller with the lsi_mr3 driver
- Cannot view or add vSAN Storage Providers in the vSphere Web Client
- A hard disk/magnetic disk in a VMware vSAN disk group fails
Top 20 NSX articles for April 2018
- Deploying NSX Controller fails in NSX-v 6.3.3 and 6.3.4
- Guest Introspection memory usage spikes to 90+% or you see the error: “Lost communication with ESX module” in NSX-V 6.2.x and 6.3.x
- ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEventDelayedDispatchCB@com
- Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products
- At times certain controller APIs could fail due to cleanup of API server reference files
- “No NSX Managers available” error in the vSphere Web Client
- “The pending transaction requires xxx MB free space” error when installing VIBs
- NSX Edge file system becomes Read-only
- Upgrading from NSX-v 6.2.0, 6.2.1 and 6.2.2 to NSX-v 6.3.5 and later version fails
- Guest Introspection status reports “Warning: Guest Introspection service not ready”
- “Not Ready” Installation Status in NSX
- Cannot save Microsoft Office files to a shared directory on a virtual machine protected by VMware vShield Endpoint and an agentless anti-virus solution
- Creating Interface or sub interfaces on NSX-V 6.3.2/6.3.3/6.3.4 edges fails
- Logging in to the NSX Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) as admin fails after upgrade
- Virtual machines are stuck at 0% or 35% when powering on
- EAM fails with OutOfMemoryErrors
- vCenter Server access is blocked after creating a Deny All rule in DFW
- Windows VM with NSX Network Introspection driver lose TCP connectivity
- Backing up the NSX Manager to OpenSSH 7.x or later fails
- Heartbeat failure error of non-existing hosts in NSX Manager
Top 20 vSphere articles for April 2018
- vCenter Appliance root Partition 100% full due to Audit.log files not being rotated
- “invalid credentials LDAP Error 49” error when starting Inventory Services in vCenter Server 6.x
- Important information before upgrading to vSphere 6.5
- Unable to log in to the root account of vCenter Server Appliance
- Component Manager services fail at starting Content Library Service
- Best practices for upgrading to vCenter Server 6.5
- How to reset the lost or forgotten root password in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5
- “fsck failed” error when starting vCenter Server Appliance
- ESXi host disconnects intermittently from vCenter Server
- Error “Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer”
- Large Java dump files created in the location /storage/log/vmware/perfcharts
- vmware-dataservice-sca and vsphere-client status change from green to yellow
- “Failed to verify the SSL certificate for one or more vCenter Server Systems” error in the vSphere Web Client
- How to unlock and reset SSO password in vSphere 6.x
- VCSA 6.5 fails to start with error: Failed to start file system check on /dev/disk…
- vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 services fail due to 100% usage of /storage/seat disk
- The vpxd process becomes unresponsive after upgrading to vCenter Server 5.5/6.0
- How to repoint vCenter Server 6.x between External PSC within a site
- How to reset Inventory Service database for vCenter Server
- ERROR certificate-manager ‘lstool get’ failed: 1
Top 20 vSAN articles for March 2018
- Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error
- Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers
- vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails
- Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products
- “The ramdisk “vsantraces” is full” error reports in vSAN logging
- Replacing SSD disk on a vSAN cluster
- vSAN CLOMD daemon may fail when trying to repair objects with 0 byte components
- Diskgroups fail to mount due to heap exhaustion
- On vSAN 6.6 and 6.6.1 cluster, Testing health check fails randomly
- VMware vSAN 6.2 on disk upgrade fails due to CBT enabled virtual disks
- vCenter Server 6.0 Update 2 displays on non-vSAN enabled ESXi hosts displays the message: Retrieve a ticket to register the vSAN VASA Provider
- vSAN performance diagnostics reports: “vSAN is experiencing congestion in one or more disk group(s)”
- Certification of Dell PERC H730 and FD332-PERC Controllers with vSAN 6.x
- Virtual Machine with more than 64GB memory fails to Storage vMotion to vSAN cluster
- Initializing vSAN during boot takes a longer time
- Deployment guidelines for running VMware vSAN and VMware vSphere VMFS datastores on a Dell H730 controller with the lsi_mr3 driver
- Cannot view or add vSAN Storage Providers in the vSphere Web Client
- “Virtual SAN objects available for provisioning” task fails
- “Host cannot communicate with all other nodes in vSAN enabled cluster” error
- “Virtual SAN Disk Balance” warning alarm during vSAN health check
Top 20 NSX articles for March 2018
- Guest Introspection memory usage spikes to 90+% or you see the error: “Lost communication with ESX module” in NSX-V 6.2.x and 6.3.x
- Deploying NSX Controller fails in NSX-v 6.3.3 and 6.3.4
- Troubleshooting vShield Endpoint / NSX Guest Introspection
- ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEventDelayedDispatchCB@com
- Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products
- “No NSX Managers available” error in the vSphere Web Client
- At times certain controller APIs could fail due to cleanup of API server reference files
- NSX Edge file system becomes Read-only
- Upgrading from NSX-v 6.2.0, 6.2.1 and 6.2.2 to NSX-v 6.3.5 and later version fails
- Guest Introspection status reports “Warning: Guest Introspection service not ready”
- “The pending transaction requires xxx MB free space” error when installing VIBs
- Cannot save Microsoft Office files to a shared directory on a virtual machine protected by VMware vShield Endpoint and an agentless anti-virus solution
- vCenter user with admin role cannot add NSX license
- Logging in to the NSX Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) as admin fails after upgrade
- “Not Ready” Installation Status in NSX
- Creating Interface or sub interfaces on NSX-V 6.3.2/6.3.3/6.3.4 edges fails
- Virtual machines are stuck at 0% or 35% when powering on
- vCenter Server access is blocked after creating a Deny All rule in DFW
- EAM fails with OutOfMemoryErrors
- Virtual machine in ESXi is unresponsive with a non-paged pool memory leak
Top 20 vSphere articles for March 2018
- vCenter Appliance root Partition 100% full due to Audit.log files not being rotated
- “invalid credentials LDAP Error 49” error when starting Inventory Services in vCenter Server 6.x
- Important information before upgrading to vSphere 6.5
- Unable to log in to the root account of vCenter Server Appliance
- Component Manager services fail at starting Content Library Service
- Best practices for upgrading to vCenter Server 6.5
- How to reset the lost or forgotten root password in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5
- “fsck failed” error when starting vCenter Server Appliance
- Large Java dump files created in the location /storage/log/vmware/perfcharts
- Error “Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer”
- ESXi host disconnects intermittently from vCenter Server
- vmware-dataservice-sca and vsphere-client status change from green to yellow
- How to unlock and reset SSO password in vSphere 6.x
- “Failed to verify the SSL certificate for one or more vCenter Server Systems” error in the vSphere Web Client
- VCSA 6.5 fails to start with error: Failed to start file system check on /dev/disk…
- How to reset Inventory Service database for vCenter Server
- vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 services fail due to 100% usage of /storage/seat disk
- The vpxd process becomes unresponsive after upgrading to vCenter Server 5.5/6.0
- How to repoint vCenter Server 6.x between External PSC within a site
- Troubleshooting VMware High Availability (HA) issues in VMware vCenter Server 5.x and 6.0
Top 20 NSX articles for February 2018
- Virtual machine in ESXi is unresponsive with a non-paged pool memory leak
- Licensing vShield 1.x/5.0
- VMs running on ESXi 5.5 with vShield endpoint activated fails during snapshot operations
- Performing vMotion or powering on a virtual machine being protected by vShield Endpoint fails
- When using VMware vShield App Firewall, virtual machines fail to connect to the vSwitch/vDS/network with the error: Failed to connect virtual device Ethernet0
- “The pending transaction requires xxx MB free space” error when installing VIBs
- Installing VMware vShield App fails with the error: Previous installation of host services encountered an error
- Systems running MOVE Agentless 3.0 on ESXi 5.5 suffer performance issues or become unresponsive
- ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 2 host with vShield Endpoint 1.0 installed fails with a purple diagnostic screen mentioning VFileFilterReconnectWork
- ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEventDelayedDispatchCB@com
- Degraded Windows network file copy performance after full ESXi 5 VMware Tools installation
- Slow VMs after upgrading VMware Tools in NSX and vCloud Networking and Security
- Windows virtual machines using the vShield Endpoint TDI Manager or NSX Network Introspection Driver (vnetflt.sys) driver fails with a blue diagnostic screen
- vShield Manager appliance system disk is full in VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.5.x
- Network connectivity issues after upgrade in NSX/VCNS environment
- NSX Controller disconnected or isolates intermittently
- Troubleshooting vShield Endpoint / NSX Guest Introspection
- Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products
- Duplicate VTEPs in ESXi hosts after rebooting vCenter Server
- After upgrading to VMware ESXi 5.5 Patch Release ESXi550-201504002, virtual machines using VMware NSX for vSphere 6.x or Cisco Nexus 1000v are unable to communicate across hosts