6.0.1
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Troubleshooting
- Contents
- About vSphere Troubleshooting
- Updated Information
- Troubleshooting Overview
- Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
- Troubleshooting Fault Tolerant Virtual Machines
- Hardware Virtualization Not Enabled
- Compatible Hosts Not Available for Secondary VM
- Secondary VM on Overcommitted Host Degrades Performance of Primary VM
- Increased Network Latency Observed in FT Virtual Machines
- Some Hosts Are Overloaded with FT Virtual Machines
- Losing Access to FT Metadata Datastore
- Turning On vSphere FT for Powered-On VM Fails
- FT Virtual Machines not Placed or Evacuated by vSphere DRS
- Fault Tolerant Virtual Machine Failovers
- Troubleshooting USB Passthrough Devices
- Recover Orphaned Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machine Does Not Power On After Cloning or Deploying from Template
- Troubleshooting Fault Tolerant Virtual Machines
- Troubleshooting Hosts
- Troubleshooting vSphere HA Host States
- vSphere HA Agent Is in the Agent Unreachable State
- vSphere HA Agent is in the Uninitialized State
- vSphere HA Agent is in the Initialization Error State
- vSphere HA Agent is in the Uninitialization Error State
- vSphere HA Agent is in the Host Failed State
- vSphere HA Agent is in the Network Partitioned State
- vSphere HA Agent is in the Network Isolated State
- Configuration of vSphere HA on Hosts Times Out
- Troubleshooting Auto Deploy
- Auto Deploy TFTP Timeout Error at Boot Time
- Auto Deploy Host Boots with Wrong Configuration
- Host Is Not Redirected to Auto Deploy Server
- Package Warning Message When You Assign an Image Profile to Auto Deploy Host
- Auto Deploy Host with a Built-In USB Flash Drive Does Not Send Coredumps to Local Disk
- Auto Deploy Host Reboots After Five Minutes
- Auto Deploy Host Cannot Contact TFTP Server
- Auto Deploy Host Cannot Retrieve ESXi Image from Auto Deploy Server
- Auto Deploy Host Does Not Get a DHCP Assigned Address
- Auto Deploy Host Does Not Network Boot
- Authentication Token Manipulation Error
- Active Directory Rule Set Error Causes Host Profile Compliance Failure
- Unable to Download VIBs When Using vCenter Server Reverse Proxy
- Troubleshooting vSphere HA Host States
- Troubleshooting vCenter Server and the vSphere Web Client
- Troubleshooting Availability
- Troubleshooting Resource Management
- Troubleshooting Storage DRS
- Storage DRS is Disabled on a Virtual Disk
- Datastore Cannot Enter Maintenance Mode
- Storage DRS Cannot Operate on a Datastore
- Moving Multiple Virtual Machines into a Datastore Cluster Fails
- Storage DRS Generates Fault During Virtual Machine Creation
- Storage DRS is Enabled on a Virtual Machine Deployed from an OVF Template
- Storage DRS Rule Violation Fault Is Displayed Multiple Times
- Storage DRS Rules Not Deleted from Datastore Cluster
- Alternative Storage DRS Placement Recommendations Are Not Generated
- Applying Storage DRS Recommendations Fails
- Troubleshooting Storage I/O Control
- Troubleshooting Storage DRS
- Troubleshooting Storage
- Resolving SAN Storage Display Problems
- Resolving SAN Performance Problems
- Virtual Machines with RDMs Need to Ignore SCSI INQUIRY Cache
- Software iSCSI Adapter Is Enabled When Not Needed
- Failure to Mount NFS Datastores
- VMkernel Log Files Contain SCSI Sense Codes
- Troubleshooting Storage Adapters
- Checking Metadata Consistency with VOMA
- Troubleshooting Flash Devices
- Troubleshooting Virtual Volumes
- Troubleshooting VAIO Filters
- Troubleshooting Networking
- Troubleshooting MAC Address Allocation
- The Conversion to the Enhanced LACP Support Fails
- Unable to Remove a Host from a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Hosts on a vSphere Distributed Switch 5.1 and Later Lose Connectivity to vCenter Server
- Hosts on vSphere Distributed Switch 5.0 and Earlier Lose Connectivity to vCenter Server
- Alarm for Loss of Network Redundancy on a Host
- Virtual Machines Lose Connectivity After Changing the Uplink Failover Order of a Distributed Port Group
- Unable to Add a Physical Adapter to a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Troubleshooting SR-IOV Enabled Workloads
- A Virtual Machine that Runs a VPN Client Causes Denial of Service for Virtual Machines on the Host or Across a vSphere HA Cluster
- Low Throughput for UDP Workloads on Windows Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machines on the Same Distributed Port Group and on Different Hosts Cannot Communicate with Each Other
- Attempt to Power On a Migrated vApp Fails Because the Associated Protocol Profile Is Missing
- Networking Configuration Operation Is Rolled Back and a Host Is Disconnected from vCenter Server
- Troubleshooting Licensing
- Index
Index
A
access to the FT metadata datastore, losing 15
Active Directory 33
address already in use, Jetty server 39
advanced settings,
Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding 65
Advanced Runtime Info 45
alarm definitions 39
All Paths Down (APD) 50
authentication 61
Auto Deploy
coredump 29
DHCP address 31
failing to complete boot 29
failure to boot 30
image profile warning 28
network boot problem 32
redirection problem 28
TFTP server 30
timout error 27
troubleshooting 27
wrong image 28
auto-partitioning, prevent flash disk
formatting 71
C
cannot apply Storage DRS recommendations,
troubleshooting 56
cannot enable Storage I/O Control 57
certificates
hosts 40
vCenter Server 40
CHAP authentication 61
common logs 11
compliance failure, host profiles 33
config.vpxd.das.electionWaitTimeSec 27
converting to the enhanced LACP fails 81
custom reverse proxy 33
D
datastore clusters, maintenance mode 52
datastore heartbeating 45
datastores
maintenance mode 52
performance charts troubleshooting 57
Denial of Service
virtual machine, VPN 89
See also DoS
Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding 65
distributed switch
cannot remove host 82
physical network adapter 87
distributed port group, virtual machines cannot
communicate 92
downloading VIBs, using custom vCenter Server
reverse proxy 33
DRS does not place FT VM 16
E
Enhanced vMotion Compatibility 16
ESXi logs 11
EVC 16
extensions, troubleshooting 41
F
failed conversion to the enhanced LACP 81
failover, lost virtual machine connectivity 86
failure of vSphere Fault Tolerance for powered-
on VM 16
Fault Tolerance
logging 17
troubleshooting 13, 14
Feature 98
flash devices, marking 72
flash drives 70
flash disk formatting, prevent during auto-
partitioning 71
flash player, insufficient memory 39
H
Hardware Virtualization (HV) 13, 14
HBAs, queue depth 64
host profiles, compliance failure 33
host certificates 40
Host Failures Cluster Tolerates admission
control policy 43–45
host isolation response 26
hosts, no connection with vCenter Server 83, 84
hosts overloaded with FT VMs 15
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