2.4.2 suddenly started to completely HANG on 2 ESXi6 hosts
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It was running fine for years. Never had a lockup/freeze like these. Yesterday it was 4 times.
No pinging and the Console was completely frozen without any error/warning messages showing. Had to hard-poweroff the vm and start it again.
Both ESXI hosts are running dozens of other VMs without any problems.Version 2.4.2-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
built on Tue Dec 12 13:45:26 CST 2017
FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p6The system is on the latest version.
Version information updated at Fri Mar 2 15:13:53 BRT 2018
CPU Type Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2667 v2 @ 3.30GHz
6 CPUs: 6 package(s)
AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (active)
Hardware crypto AES-CBC,AES-XTS,AES-GCM,AES-ICM
4GB of RAMTwo VMXNET3 ethernet interfaces, some vlans.. VM version 11
squid+squidguard+pfblocker+radius+captive portal.. no traffic shapping, no HA
some tunables:
net.inet.tcp.recvspace 65228
net.inet.tcp.sendspace 65228
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf 8388608
kern.ipc.somaxconn 128
net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen 8000
vfs.read_max 2048
net.route.netisr_maxqlen 4096
net.inet.ip.redirect 1
kern.ipc.nmbclusters 262144any ideas?
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is this normal?
[Mar 02 15:13:48.112] [ message] [vmsvc] Log caching is enabled with maxCacheEntries=4096.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.133] [ message] [vmsvc] Core dump limit set to -1
[Mar 02 15:13:48.161] [ message] [vmsvc] Log caching is enabled with maxCacheEntries=4096.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.162] [ message] [vmsvc] Core dump limit set to -1
[Mar 02 15:13:48.162] [ message] [vmtoolsd] Tools Version: 10.1.10.63510 (build-6082533)
[Mar 02 15:13:48.207] [ message] [vmsvc] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'hgfsServer', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.207] [ message] [vmtoolsd] Plugin 'hgfsServer' initialized.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.207] [ message] [vmsvc] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'vix', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.207] [ message] [vmtoolsd] Plugin 'vix' initialized.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.207] [ message] [vmsvc] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'deployPkg', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.207] [ message] [vmtoolsd] Plugin 'deployPkg' initialized.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.207] [ message] [vmsvc] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'guestInfo', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.208] [ message] [vmtoolsd] Plugin 'guestInfo' initialized.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.208] [ message] [vmsvc] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'powerops', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.208] [ message] [vmtoolsd] Plugin 'powerops' initialized.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.208] [ message] [vmsvc] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'timeSync', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.208] [ message] [vmtoolsd] Plugin 'timeSync' initialized.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.208] [ message] [vmsvc] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'vmbackup', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.208] [ message] [vmtoolsd] Plugin 'vmbackup' initialized.
[Mar 02 15:13:48.212] [ message] [vix] VixTools_ProcessVixCommand: command 62
[Mar 02 15:14:18.212] [ warning] [guestinfo] GuestInfoSendNicInfoXdr: update failed: request "SetGuestInfo 10 ", reply "Invalid guest information type.". -
I've never seen those messages before. Been running pfSense on ESXI since 4.1. Currently on 6.5.
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Maybe try to update ESXI
VMware Compatibility Guide
FreeBSD 11.x ESXI 6.5https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software&details=1&operatingSystems=232&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc&testConfig=16
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I am having the same alerts with ESX 7.0 Update 3 and PFSense+ 23.05.1-RELEASE (amd64) OR pfsense 2.7.0-RELEASE (amd64)
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.676Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35121913856] Guest OS details: architecture='X86' bitness='64' distroName='FreeBSD' familyName='FreeBSD' kernelVersion='14.0-CURRENT'
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.676Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35121913856] Log caching is enabled with maxCacheEntries=4096.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.676Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35121913856] Core dump limit set to -1
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.727Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35109347328] VMware Tools Version: 12.2.0.41219 (build-21223074)
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.727Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35109347328] Guest OS details: architecture='X86' bitness='64' distroName='FreeBSD' familyName='FreeBSD' kernelVersion='14.0-CURRENT'
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.727Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35109347328] Log caching is enabled with maxCacheEntries=4096.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.727Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35109347328] Core dump limit set to -1
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35109347328] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'hgfsServer', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmtoolsd] [35109347328] Plugin 'hgfsServer' initialized.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35109347328] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'vix', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmtoolsd] [35109347328] Plugin 'vix' initialized.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35109347328] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'guestInfo', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmtoolsd] [35109347328] Plugin 'guestInfo' initialized.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35109347328] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'powerops', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmtoolsd] [35109347328] Plugin 'powerops' initialized.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35109347328] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'timeSync', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmtoolsd] [35109347328] Plugin 'timeSync' initialized.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmsvc] [35109347328] Cannot load message catalog for domain 'vmbackup', language 'C', catalog dir '/usr/local/share/open-vm-tools'.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.733Z] [ message] [vmtoolsd] [35109347328] Plugin 'vmbackup' initialized.
[2023-10-25T00:02:00.739Z] [ message] [vix] [35109347328] VixTools_ProcessVixCommand: command 62 -
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@mascar you really should of started your old thread vs on some thread from 6 years ago..
Not sure how much help your going to get - does esxi even have support for freebsd 14, I only see 13..
When esxi doesn't list official support - some other guest OS might work just fine, or you could run into all sorts of odd ball issues..
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Hi John, Thank you for your reply.
As I use pfsense on the ESXi for a long time without issues I forgot it is only recommended for testing on virtualized platforms.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/virtualization/index.html#:~:text=pfSense%C2%AE%20software%20supports%20a,Type%2D1%20hypervisors%20for%20production.at the same time they mention freebsd 14 on esxi 7, that is the version I am running:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/virtualize-esxi.htmlSome links for references:
https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/vcl/result.php?search=FreeBSD&searchCategory=Guest+OS
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/versions.htmlAnyway if anybody get to know how to resolve the current issue please kindly help to reply.
Kind Regards,