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    2.2.2 dead slow disk operations on esxi 5.5U2 (HP proliant DL 380e Gen8)

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      Supermule Banned
      last edited by

      Is Vm Tools loaded and running??

      Run "kldstat" from the CLI and report.

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        luisneves
        last edited by

        Hi,
        I dont know why but kldstat never loads the vmtools modules

        /root: kldstat
        Id Refs Address            Size    Name
        1    1 0xffffffff80200000 22d0f80  kernel

        I have the most recent form the packages menu

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          Supermule Banned
          last edited by

          Yes and that could be your problem.

          uninstall the tools sine they dont work and disable your serial port and reboot.

          Report back.

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            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
            last edited by

            The tools packages has been broken of late

            For comparisons here is those tests on my esxi box.. Nothing fancy just single disk

            [2.2.2-RELEASE][root@pfSense.local.lan]/root: diskinfo -c /dev/da0
            /dev/da0
                    512            # sectorsize
                    8589934592      # mediasize in bytes (8.0G)
                    16777216        # mediasize in sectors
                    0              # stripesize
                    0              # stripeoffset
                    1044            # Cylinders according to firmware.
                    255            # Heads according to firmware.
                    63              # Sectors according to firmware.
                                    # Disk ident.

            I/O command overhead:
                    time to read 10MB block      0.104814 sec      =    0.005 msec/sector
                    time to read 20480 sectors  10.542941 sec      =    0.515 msec/sector
                    calculated command overhead                    =    0.510 msec/sector

            [2.2.2-RELEASE][root@pfSense.local.lan]/root: diskinfo -t /dev/da0
            /dev/da0
                    512            # sectorsize
                    8589934592      # mediasize in bytes (8.0G)
                    16777216        # mediasize in sectors
                    0              # stripesize
                    0              # stripeoffset
                    1044            # Cylinders according to firmware.
                    255            # Heads according to firmware.
                    63              # Sectors according to firmware.
                                    # Disk ident.

            Seek times:
                    Full stroke:      250 iter in  0.258565 sec =    1.034 msec
                    Half stroke:      250 iter in  0.134784 sec =    0.539 msec
                    Quarter stroke:  500 iter in  0.164177 sec =    0.328 msec
                    Short forward:    400 iter in  0.162630 sec =    0.407 msec
                    Short backward:  400 iter in  0.144883 sec =    0.362 msec
                    Seq outer:      2048 iter in  1.035187 sec =    0.505 msec
                    Seq inner:      2048 iter in  0.710852 sec =    0.347 msec
            Transfer rates:
                    outside:      102400 kbytes in  1.325136 sec =    77275 kbytes/sec
                    middle:        102400 kbytes in  0.681892 sec =  150170 kbytes/sec
                    inside:        102400 kbytes in  0.464460 sec =  220471 kbytes/sec

            [2.2.2-RELEASE][root@pfSense.local.lan]/root: kldstat
            Id Refs Address            Size    Name
            1  10 0xffffffff80200000 22d0f80  kernel
            2    1 0xffffffff824d1000 8160    vmblock.ko
            3    1 0xffffffff824da000 13680    vmhgfs.ko
            4    1 0xffffffff824ee000 5630    vmxnet.ko
            5    1 0xffffffff82611000 22f7    vmmemctl.ko
            [2.2.2-RELEASE][root@pfSense.local.lan]/root:

            Mine is on esxi 6 on a HP N40L

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              luisneves
              last edited by

              I will do that right now.
              Brian what is that "serial port" you are asking for removal?

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                luisneves
                last edited by

                same problem….. :( now without vmtools
                johnpoz nice values... I wish the same.

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                  luisneves
                  last edited by

                  johnpoz you used the packages menu to install the vmtools? My get installed ok but the modules never get loaded. ESXI detects a thirdparty vmtools installed

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                    luisneves
                    last edited by

                    shoul I try this?
                    install OpenVM Tools from FreeBSD ports via pfsense console itself:

                    pkg install open-vm-tools-nox11

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                      Supermule Banned
                      last edited by

                      In a VM a serial console could be attached to the VM

                      Pls. remove if you have it attached and reboot.

                      @luisneves:

                      I will do that right now.
                      Brian what is that "serial port" you are asking for removal?

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                        Supermule Banned
                        last edited by

                        I think John reported that it was still _9 installing despite claiming *_11

                        @luisneves:

                        shoul I try this?
                        install OpenVM Tools from FreeBSD ports via pfsense console itself:

                        pkg install open-vm-tools-nox11

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                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                          last edited by

                          Yeah its still installing _9 even though it should _12 from the latest package.

                          I would not install the ports from bsd, it installs a HUGE amount of other packages.  But on my clean 2.2.2 64 bit test pfsense vm the package installed fine - before it was hanging and never finishing.  And scripts seem to work, I was able to shutdown guest and pfsense did a clean shutdown, etc.

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                            luisneves
                            last edited by

                            already tried vmtools via "nox" and via ESXI install CD and the results are always the same.

                            The firewall is working ok minus this disk problem…. I think I will install an 2.2.0 version and see what values I will get on disk access. If its ok I no longer will upgrade pfsense until something or someone finds this and fixes... :(

                            But first will try a clean 2.2.2 install, maibe I am luck with that

                            Thank you everybody

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