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andrea.consadori
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vmware disk timeout
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December 02, 2015, 10:49:45 am »
Hi all,
today dhcp server stop working and on vmware console i found
the virtual disk has been configured as ide
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phoenix
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December 02, 2015, 10:56:50 am »
Is this running as a VM on ESXi? If it is, which version? Did you configure the disk as IDE when you created the VM? If you did, why did you do that when the default is normally for ESXi to create a SCSI HD? Are you saying that the fact that it's configured as an IDE HD is causing your problem with DHCP? Have you looked in the logs to see if there's any errors from DHCP? It's my preference to run my DHCP & DNS servers on other VMs, not the firewall.
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andrea.consadori
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December 03, 2015, 02:29:12 pm »
Hi, it's a lab envirorment
i use ide disk because scsi disk are not seen during the installation
vmware esxi 5.5update3
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weust
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December 03, 2015, 02:49:16 pm »
That's odd? Maybe not a solution for you, but I know ESXi 6.0 does support SCSI disks just fine.
Used that for a short while last year.
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andrea.consadori
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December 03, 2015, 03:50:30 pm »
esxi 5.5 support both ide and scsi but opensense during installation see only ide disk.
but the problem is the ide disk?
why all this error messages?
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franco
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January 10, 2016, 10:23:21 pm »
It looks like a problem in the virtualisation layer, fiddling with the guest's IDE settings (more conservative) might help. All in all those messages are not good and can produce all sorts of undefined behaviour.
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djGrrr
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January 13, 2016, 06:27:38 pm »
This issue happens with a vmware SCSI disk as well, not just IDE, sometimes when i reboot opnsense for a kernel/base update, when it is booting the disk times out and can't mount root
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franco
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January 13, 2016, 06:38:19 pm »
How is this fixed, by restarting the VM?
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djGrrr
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January 13, 2016, 06:54:14 pm »
Since the vm does not finish booting in my case, the only option is to power off and start up the vm again, i'm not sure if a reset will fix it.
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franco
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January 14, 2016, 11:31:00 am »
That's what I meant, good.
Is there a newer VMware version you can migrate to? Haven't seen this in a while in VMware.
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kaiserlich
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January 14, 2016, 11:51:36 am »
didnt test esxi5.5 with OPNsense. No issues with esxi6 - iscsi hdd (vm version11)
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djGrrr
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January 14, 2016, 03:43:29 pm »
I should have mentioned, I am on ESXi 6.0, and experiencing this issue.
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franco
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January 14, 2016, 08:44:12 pm »
Thanks for this update. I researched a bit more and found:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/cam-status-ata-status-error.16833/
Someone suggest that IDE mode will work better, since you're showing ada(4) issues, may it be set to SATA instead? (it's definitely not SCSI, might also be worth the try, but beware of the /etc/fstab modifications you'll have to do)
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