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
storage devices, marking as local 72
Storage DRS
affinity rules 55
cannot apply recommendations 56
deleting affinity rules 55
disabled 51
disabling 54
faults 55
OVF templates 54
placement 55
recommendations 55
rule violation 55
troubleshooting 51
Storage I/O Control
monitoring 56, 57
troubleshooting 56, 57
swapfile 49
T
testing solutions 10
TFTP server, Auto Deploy 30
timeout error, Auto Deploy 27
Tomcat service, vCenter Server upgrade
failure 37
troubleshooting
certificates 40
extensions 41
plug-ins 41
USB devices 18
vCenter Server 37
vSphere Web Client 37, 38
VVols datastore 73
troubleshooting guidelines 9
troubleshooting licensing 97
troubleshooting overview 9
troubleshooting problem space 10
troubleshooting Fault Tolerance 13
Troubleshooting host licensing 97
Troubleshooting Hosts 23
troubleshooting storage 59
troubleshooting Virtual Volumes
OVF deployment failures 74
VM migration failures 74
Troubleshooting Virtual Machines 13
U
unmount datastore 46
updated information 7
uplink redundancy lost 85
USB devices, error messages 18
USB passthrough
restarting the USB arbitrator 19
troubleshooting 18
troubleshooting device connections 19
V
VAIO filters, troubleshooting 75
vCenter Server
custom reverse proxy 33
no connection with hosts 83, 84
troubleshooting 37
troubleshooting certificates 40
vCenter Server certificates 40
vCenter Server license 98
vCenter Server system does not appear 38
vCenter Server upgrade fails, Tomcat service 37
VDS, cannot remove host 82
VIB download failure 33
Virtual Volumes
troubleshooting 73
VM migration failures 74
virtual datastore, troubleshooting 73
virtual datastores
OVF deployment failures 74
VM migration failures 74
virtual flash, local flash disks unavailable 70
virtual machine
BPDU 89
bridge 89
Denial of Service 89
duplicate MAC addresses 78
low throughput 91
MAC address 78
MAC address conflict 78
MAC address, out of range 80
SR-IOV, lost connectivity 88
UDP 91
VPN 89
Windows 91
virtual machine console does not launch,
vSphere Web Client 39
virtual machine is powered off, SR-IOV 87
Virtual Machine Protection State 47
virtual machines, SR-IOV, troubleshooting 87
virtual machines, orphaned 19
Virtual SAN 26, 45, 47
visibility problems 60, 61
VM Component Protection 49, 50
VM-Host affinity rules 47
VMCP 49
VMFS, checking metadata consistency 68
VMware On-disk Metadata Analyser, See VOMA
VOMA 68
Index
VMware, Inc. 103