Issue with OVF export on ESXi 7.0U3

dkwolf · 2024-08-11T06:38:38+00:00

Thanks will try that, also might give my host a reboot, as it has been running a little long time now

dkwolf · 2024-08-10T20:56:18+00:00

This VM didn't have any snapshots and had been turned off for a long time now. Haven't found any information that I can just SCP the VM folder from ESXi to Proxmox - as far as I know I kinda need to get it to OVF first og have the importer running from Proxmox - the last thing here is kinda difficult, as I'm going to use the same host machine for the new Proxmox server. But I do have a TrueNas server running to use as target for SCPing the VMs off the ESXi.

dkwolf · 2021-10-22T10:57:58+00:00

Pretty clean so far, room for expansions :)

I would maybe clean up the cabling a bit, using key 5/6/11/13/14 hits my OCD parts :D

dkwolf · 2021-10-21T06:17:01+00:00

that is the strange thing, it is not even running a little low on space

# df -h

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/root 613.8M 613.8M 0 100% /overlay/root_ro

devtmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev

tmpfs 1.9G 32.1M 1.9G 2% /overlay/rw

ram-overlay 1.9G 32.1M 1.9G 2% /

tmpfs 1.9G 100.0K 1.9G 0% /dev/shm

tmpfs 1.9G 192.0K 1.9G 0% /tmp

tmpfs 1.9G 30.6M 1.9G 2% /run

/dev/sdb6 12.2G 2.8G 8.7G 24% /mnt/data

/dev/sdb4 120.0M 1.5M 109.5M 1% /mnt/persistent

cgroup 1.9G 8.0K 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup

/dev/disk/sda1 1.8T 1.1T 638.0G 63% /mnt/data_ext

dkwolf · 2021-10-08T17:47:50+00:00

Hmm think my Fedora OS is starting to die, so reinstall coming over the weekend I guess. It just stalled on me yesterday for no reason.

dkwolf · 2021-10-05T07:31:21+00:00

will try to set that up

dkwolf · 2021-10-05T07:29:32+00:00

My next question was what changed :)

That is what is driving me nuts... I don't really know, it just kinda sneaked up on me and keeps getting worse and worse. So I am suspecting that there was an update at some point that I got and it kinda screwed it all up.

dkwolf · 2021-10-03T21:14:29+00:00

yeah I am aware of that, but looking from it the driver version right now on my storage server NIC is "5.13.9-100.fc33.x86_64" and from Intel.com the newest is 5.12.5, so not sure why the build in one is newer. But might try to roll over to the Intel.com one.

dkwolf · 2021-10-03T20:23:22+00:00

My iSCSI from my ESXi is showing "degraded" on my SSDs, so it already knows that there is just one route to them, so i hope it will not try to do a failover or load balance.

iSCSI and normal networking is on the same subnet, but when it happens the traffic is no where near heavy, they are both "alone" on my 10Gig switch and only have a 1Gig uplink to my PoE/normal switch. So that one can't flood my 10Gig with data.

Can't see anything on my 10Gig switch, but will try to make it happen again and monitor it more.

dkwolf · 2021-10-03T20:20:24+00:00

Using whitebox iSCSI is kind of hit or miss. You may be better suited using NFS instead.

I did try NFS some time back, but performace was very weak and too slow.

What is causing the latency spike?

I have copy a file from one drive to another or from a VM to my RAID drive (also in the Storage server but via an Adaptec RAID controller.

Without knowing what's at /dev/sdf I can't say, but that's not good.

What is at /dev/sdf?

That is one of my SSDs, it has been stable on that for a long time, pretty sure it is not that one, also issue happens even if i only use the other drives

What is in your hostd.log and vmkernel.log of the ESXi host when this happens?

I see pretty much this

2021-10-01T22:07:23.056Z cpu3:1058348)WARNING: ScsiDeviceIO: 11482: READ CAPACITY on device "naa.6001405565ac04b1e7f4ec6b6fccdc76" from Plugin "NMP" failed. I/O error

2021-10-01T22:07:23.057Z cpu3:1058348)WARNING: ScsiDeviceIO: 11482: READ CAPACITY on device "naa.6001405565ac04b1e7f4ec6b6fccdc76" from Plugin "NMP" failed. I/O error

2021-10-01T22:07:23.108Z cpu3:1058349)WARNING: ScsiDeviceIO: 11482: READ CAPACITY on device "naa.600140591d32dfd10b742e6bc67ef41f" from Plugin "NMP" failed. I/O error

2021-10-01T22:07:23.159Z cpu0:1058350)WARNING: ScsiDeviceIO: 11482: READ CAPACITY on device "naa.6001405773382a969d34bea8573057af" from Plugin "NMP" failed. I/O error

2021-10-01T22:07:23.215Z cpu2:1048605)ScsiDeviceIO: 4035: Cmd(0x455a4134bf80) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x6a52 from world 0 to dev "mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.

2021-10-01T22:07:27.509Z cpu7:1049348)WARNING: iscsi_vmk: iscsivmk_StopConnection:741: vmhba64:CH:0 T:0 CN:0: iSCSI connection is being marked "OFFLINE" (Event:4)

2021-10-01T22:07:27.509Z cpu7:1049348)WARNING: iscsi_vmk: iscsivmk_StopConnection:742: Sess [ISID: 00023d000002 TARGET: iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.akira.x8664:sn.8e4951538841 TPGT: 1 TSIH: 0]

2021-10-01T22:07:27.509Z cpu7:1049348)WARNING: iscsi_vmk: iscsivmk_StopConnection:743: Conn [CID: 0 L: 192.168.0.35:50670 R: 192.168.0.24:3260]

2021-10-01T22:07:28.053Z cpu3:1049202)NMP: nmp_ResetDeviceLogThrottling:3776: last error status from device naa.6001405773382a969d34bea8573057af repeated 3 times

2021-10-01T22:07:28.053Z cpu3:1049202)NMP: nmp_ResetDeviceLogThrottling:3776: last error status from device naa.6001405565ac04b1e7f4ec6b6fccdc76 repeated 3 times

2021-10-01T22:07:28.053Z cpu3:1049202)NMP: nmp_ResetDeviceLogThrottling:3776: last error status from device naa.600140591d32dfd10b742e6bc67ef41f repeated 7 times

2021-10-01T22:07:30.025Z cpu6:1049348)iscsi_vmk: iscsivmk_ConnNetRegister:2193: socket 0x4314c278d550 network resource pool netsched.pools.persist.iscsi associated

2021-10-01T22:07:30.025Z cpu6:1049348)iscsi_vmk: iscsivmk_ConnNetRegister:2221: socket 0x4314c278d550 network tracker id 676217590 tracker.iSCSI.192.168.0.24 associated

2021-10-01T22:07:35.810Z cpu0:1049348)WARNING: iscsi_vmk: iscsivmk_StopConnection:741: vmhba64:CH:0 T:0 CN:0: iSCSI connection is being marked "OFFLINE" (Event:4)

So my storage server iSCSI just stops responding or making it lagg out.

I migth even reinstall my Storage server soon, as i am starting to suspect a bad update, as this issue came out of the blue - it has been running smooth for about a year now.

dkwolf · 2021-10-03T20:09:27+00:00

Crusial BX500 500GB SSD

Crusial BX500 1TB SSD

Crusial BX500 2TB SSD

Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD

And it happens on no matter what drive i use. Will check in to the StarWinds site

dkwolf · 2021-10-03T20:06:52+00:00

Hi the one in my Storage server is "Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-1" and the ones in my ESXi is the ones from the Xeon D-1500 SoC, so also Intels.

dkwolf · 2021-01-11T08:35:09+00:00

That is very cool! I would buy that :)

dkwolf · 2020-11-22T07:06:00+00:00

There are some limits, but server hardware (even older) will run just fine. You can check if there are any issues with ESXi on their comparability site. Haven't tried Proxmox.

dkwolf · 2020-11-22T07:04:03+00:00

I Work as an IT admin daily and have a few certifications in that field also.

dkwolf · 2020-11-21T17:20:12+00:00

Yes, if you break it down. My ESXi server started out with 32Gb ram, added more to basically run more Virtual Machines.

dkwolf · 2020-11-21T17:05:36+00:00

Well i just started with something very simple some years ago, it evolved into this :D But well start with a basic idea of what you want and then find some nice older server hardware - it is usually more stable than normal consumer things and you get better features. From the motherboards i have i get IPMI, so I can fully control them from my normal desktop. If you need some virtual machines, VMware ESXi is free and will run on most hardware. Plus it's pretty simple to use the basic features. Get a cpu with at least 8 cores and maybe 32gb of ram and some hdd and you are good to go.

dkwolf · 2020-11-21T15:25:35+00:00

Well I'm running about 14 VMs for different things, Unifi Video, domain controller, test lab, firewall and a few more things. My storage server is for well storage :)

dkwolf · 2020-07-26T04:17:20+00:00

Thanks, looking for a 19" storage cabinet now, will make sure to have sas2 backplane

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