In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour I will show you HOW TO: Fix Synchronous Exception at 0x00000000XXXXXXX on VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0 ARM) on a Raspberry Pi 4.
It has been well documented that the Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI Firmware Image can cause this fault which renders the UEFI boot image corrupt. See here https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/issues/97
The UEFI firmware imaged used in the lab in this video is v1.37, it is debated as too whether this has been fixed in later releases v1.37, some suggest rolling back to v1.33 !
For the sake of continuity I’ve included previous EE Videos and Articles I’ve created here
In this video I’m going to show you HOW TO: Update the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 ARM Edition (ESXi 7.0 ARM edition) from v1.12 Build 7.0.0-1.12.21447677to v1.15 Build 22949429 on a Raspberry Pi 4, the method used is based on this article and video
The Sychronous Excepetion at 0x0000000037101434 in the UEFI BOOT Firmware v1.34 is still an issue today, which has not been fixed. These are messages received on Twitter from the Engineers which have worked on ESXi ARM. v1.35 is the latest UEFI firmware available from here
Andrei Warkentin (@WhatAintInside)
“yeah this is a long-standing SD card corruption bug ????… never quite identified, maybe some command needs ti be done on the way out to flush internal card buffers before the loss of power?”
Cyprien Laplace (@cypou)
I think you only need to replace the “RPI_EFI.fd” file from the boot partition. I forgot this bug existed, as all my Pis download the UEFI files using tftp.
(thus no corruption possible, but no change can be saved either)
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Create a new Distributed and VMKernel Portgroups on a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch for the vSphere Cluster for use with vCenter Server HA.
I created a video here, which shows you how to create a vDS for VMware vSphere.
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Use the vCenter Server 7.0.3 vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) to backup the database and configuration of your vCenter Server.
It is important once you have created a vDS to ensure you keep regular backups, if the need arises you need to restore vCenter Server.
I created a video here, which shows you how to create a vDS for VMware vSphere.
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Create a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) for use with VMware vSphere vSAN for the VMware vSphere vSAN Cluster.
VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides a centralized interface from which you can configure, monitor and administer virtual machine access switching for the entire data center. The VDS provides:
Simplified virtual machine network configuration
Enhanced network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities
Support for advanced VMware vSphere networking features
As my 10GBe switch in this VMware vSphere Lab has LACP functionality I have decided to demonstrate how we configure the vDS for a LACP LAG. Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is one elements of an IEEE specification (802.3ad) that provides guidance on the practice of link aggregation for data connections, it’s used on trunks or port channels, to bond two ethernet ports together. It is only supported using a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) , it is not supported on a VMware vSphere Standard Switch (VSS).
This video covers the following
Creation of the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS).
Creation of Portgroups with vLANs for Management, vMotion and vSAN.
Creation of the LACP LAG.
Adding vDS to hosts in the vSphere Cluster.
Migration of existing VMKernel portgroups from VSS to VDS.
Testing the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS).
If you are creating a design for VMware vSphere vSAN for a Production environment, please ensure you read the VMware Cloud Foundation Design Guide 01 JUN 2023 – this should be regarded as The Bible!
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you how to change the LBA sector size of storage media to make it compatible with VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 7.0 and ESXi 8.0.
Only an LBA sector size of 512 bytes is compatible with VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 7.0 and ESXi 8.0.
In this video we use an Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series 375GB, 2.5in PCIe x4, 3D XPoint™, but this procedure can be use to change the LBA format of any storage media, SSD, HDD, NVMe
In this video I will show you HOW TO: Deploy and Use the Synology Storage Console for VMware to Add iSCSI LUNs and NFS exports to VMware vSphere Cluster ESXi Hosts, and compare and contrast to the “manual” setup in the previous videos
The Synology Storage Console for VMware vSphere is a free software appliance to use in conjunction with the Synology NAS product, which is designed to ease the deployment of NFS and iSCSI LUNs to VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) hosts.
Please note I did struggle with the deployment of the appliance, for the first 20 minutes of the video! Please feel free to skip or watch the issues! Even Experts have IT issues!
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