VMware ESXi

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Dell EqualLogic Downloads for Multipathing Extension Module for VMware vSphere v1.5

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During PowerFlex‑orchestrated ESXi patch upgrades, certain ESXi nodes experience root account lockouts and upgrade failures because the thin‑deployer pod caches a root password that is out‑of‑sync with the os_admin_password stored in the PowerFlex PostgreSQL database.

This article provides information about RVTools 4.8.1. It gives guidance on the downloadable .msi, Checksum, and Release Notes.

Dell Unity: DataStore Full :: VMware ESXI Datastore usage does not match Unity Pool usage (User Correctable)

This article discusses what the OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware vCenter (OMEVV) is, what the latest release is, and consolidated resources for quick reference.

Backups from vProxy are only trying to run on HotAdd even setting them exclusively to NBD and reporting the error message: "Error backup NSR Vmware Proxy is not available for datastore (XXXX) using mode "hotadd" in center "vcenter.domain.com""

This article explains Dell guidelines on company administrator assignment.

This article explains how to assign an Initial Company Administrator.

This article explains how to promote Company Administrators.

This article explains how to identify the virtual machine (VM) that is using your .vmdk file and preventing it from being deleted.

Registering VMs successfully completed but registering a template failed after restoring a VMware datastore from a copy completed. Restring a template from a copy failed.

Unable to create volume with 4 KB sector size for ESXi hosts in PowerStore Manager.

PowerStore normalizes all host iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN) initiators to lowercase upon login (as per rfc3722 standard). For a Virtual Volume (vVol), the datastore mounted on ESXi becomes inaccessible if the initiator IQN has an upper case.

Adding autoregistered ESXi hosts to a General or ESXi host group type fails, resulting in the error: "Failed: One or more hosts does not match the host group type (Error Code: 0x900a810)."

This KB explains how to perform the WSFC conversion at a high-level. It also covers converting an Oracle RAC environment from RDMs to shared VMDKs on NVMe/TCP, even though Oracle RAC does not require SCSI3‑PR. Oracle RAC can run on an SDC‑based VMFS datastore, but because PowerFlex does not support Clustered VMDK on SDC‑based VMFS, SCSI3‑PR‑dependent applications cannot use that configuration. Oracle RAC explanations are also high-level.

On a zone activation, all HBAs zoned to a VPLEX front-end port are logged out and lose a path.

The article explains what to consider for ESXi boot LUNs on PowerStore arrays.

Duplicate LUNs presented to server causing PPVE error messages

When the customer runs a VMware base service plan they see the error "Failed to login to the Virtual Center Server GIZMO.emc.com. Invalid credentials. Please check entered values and try again". The Service plan completes successfully

Log collection requirement to troubleshoot Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE) system issues.

The NetWorker VMware Protection (NVP) integration is configured with the vProxy appliance. For information regarding vProxy compatibility with NetWorker, Data Domain Operating System (DDOS), vCenter, and ESXi versions, please refer to the Online Compatibility Guide.

This article explains the relationship between SCSI reservation conflicts and Shared ESXi Datastores.

This article confirms the recommended Native Multi-Pathing (NMP) datastore Round-Robin performance settings on Dell storage arrays. This is applicable to non-PowerPath/VE managed datastore or AMP iSCSI datastore.

Broadcom has announced the deprecation of vVols in VCF/VVF 9.0, with removal planned for 9.1. Customers using vVols with Dell Unity should avoid upgrading to VCF/VVF 9.0, as support will be limited to critical fixes only. Customers can migrate from vVols to Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) using Storage vMotion or XCOPY (starting in VCF 9.0).

A newly attached Dell EMC VMAX storage array cannot be claimed by the VMware ESXi host; device paths appear dead and vmkernel logs show warnings such as VMW_SATP_INV and “Could not select path for device ‘Unregistered Device’”.

Multiple datastores are currently in an inactive state and Virtual Machines are affected. The Symptoms the user observed are NFS Shares and CIFS Shares are inaccessible. When an LACP bond is used on a pair or more of QLogic based onboard CNA and Maelstrom SLIC ports traffic can become stuck requiring an ethernet device reset or SP reboot to resolve

This best practice guidance is aimed at Dell XC Series Appliances and XC Core Systems configured to boot VMware ESXi from either a SATADOM or a Boot Optimized Server Storage (BOSS) controller card.

VMware ESXi #PF Exception 14