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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Mmm, I would not want to see that on a production device. I did have an m.2 SATA drive in a test box that through errors similar to that continually and never actually failed. But I would not have relied on that.

      Steve

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        dannybeckett
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        Hi guys,

        I am getting the same error. Brand new install of ESXi 7.0 U3b, brand new install of pfSense CE 2.5.2.

        However I am using the SCSI Controller named "LSI Logic SAS" rather than the Parallel one, as this was the default one selected by ESXi when I chose a FreeBSD 12 64-bit based VM.

        Any relevant info greatly appreciated.

        Many thanks
        Danny

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Actually the identical error? There are numerous CAM errors you might see there.

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            dannybeckett @stephenw10
            last edited by dannybeckett

            @stephenw10 Looks like it to me, here's mine:

            I've literally only just installed ESXi and pfSense. This error was present during install of pfSense too, and on every boot of pfSense.

            I'm guessing the last line is in relation to me installing the Open-VM package. I can't reboot yet to test though, deploying something. I'll update when I've rebooted whether it helped.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Seems similar to: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/zfs-unmap-and-vmware-esxi-troubles.77648/

              Something in VMFS6?

              Steve

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                ethanthekiwi
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                For me this issue was caused by thin provisioning on the virtual hard drive. I followed VMware's instructions to "inflate" the disk to thick provisioning and I stopped getting these errors.

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                  the_driver_123
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                  Hi guys, this happend today in my 23.09.01 vm in Esx7.0u3. disk is thick zero. what happend?

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Exactly the same error?

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                      the_driver_123 @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10 yes

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        New VM or one you just upgraded?

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                          the_driver_123 @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10 this is a VM updated two weeks ago to the last version, has been made two years ago

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Hmm, so it ran fine for 2 weeks and then threw that error?

                            Anything different happen that might have triggered it?

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                            • jimpJ
                              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                              Any time I've seen errors like that in a VM and the VM disk was on a NAS, it's been because the hypervisor lost contact with the NAS temporarily and that disk operation failed.

                              It could be a temporary network glitch, or it could be that the NAS was updating/restarting something at that moment as well.

                              I frequently can get away with rebooting my NFS server for updates and the VMs running off there don't notice as long as I'm not actively working on them. But it's all a matter of timing/luck.

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                                planetinse
                                last edited by planetinse

                                I have the same - ben like this since 2.4 (now on 23.09.1) does not seem to affect anything
                                The pfSense is the only powered on VM on the HOST. (latest ESXI 7) host has local two SSD disks mapped 1:1 to two ESXI data storages and uses pfsense own software raid1 to mirror over those two.

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  Hmm, that's connected via an mpt(4) device. How is the raid configured in pfSense?

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                                    planetinse @stephenw10
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                                    @stephenw10 just simple mirror using two disks, is there any command i can use to give exact what you looking for?

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                      last edited by

                                      Just surprising that it appears as connected via a virtual drive controller. You should see that in the boot log where drives are detected.

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                                        planetinse @stephenw10
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                                        @stephenw10 its on ESXI so its very virtual

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          Right but I don't expect it to be via any drive controller like that unless it was added specifically.

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                                            planetinse @stephenw10
                                            last edited by planetinse

                                            @stephenw10 from esxi side its just standard LSI Logic Parallell (just the default) .- ill check boot when I can boot.

                                            can it be related its started its life as a 2.4 and has been upgraded thru 2.6 and then to current 23.09.1 ?

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