Hass.io on VMWare ESXi 6.7 - Step By Step

sender · July 30, 2020, 9:58am

Is below what you mean?

Does my up-to-date hass comply with:?

Verify that the client computers have USB controller hardware and modules that support USB 3.1, 2.0, and 1.1 devices present.
To use the xHCI controller on a Linux guest, verify that the Linux kernel version is 2.6.35 or later.

And… If I have currently 3 devices passed through by “device path id” (the long names with characters) will I get a lot of hassle if I remove the 3 individual usb device passthrough’s and add the usb controller passthrough? Will the names be easily identifiable?

pergola.fabio · July 30, 2020, 10:31am

What hardware server do you have?

About names, no idea, but you can easily change afterwards… Probably detected on another id port

Robert_Cipriani · August 3, 2020, 12:32am

You can use PCI passthrough to pass an entire USB controller through to a guest. You’ll need to enable it first then probably reboot before you can attach to a VM. Make sure it’s the right one.

tyler_almeida · September 18, 2020, 3:30am

I’m running on esxi 6.0, was running fine for months but won’t boot after a power outage.

I’ve been looking into this a bit… is this a problem with my esxi? I haven’t changed any settings recently on the vm settings.

Bart_Bakels · September 22, 2020, 8:40pm

Is somebody able to change the controller type from ide to something else, i also have boot issues on a hard poweroutage im going to try the clone and reassign option and report back.

Robert_Cipriani · September 23, 2020, 12:38am

See my comments above, I was able to change it to VMWare Paravirtual.

Bart_Bakels · September 23, 2020, 8:04am

yes same here, but the disk itself can then be set to sata? instead of ide?

Bart_Bakels · September 23, 2020, 8:53am

hmm i did the cloning on esxi 7.0 and reconnected the cloned disk, and its booting as scsi

madrian · September 25, 2020, 9:12pm

For some reason Esxi&Hass.io official .vmdk is much slower than my old Ubuntu&HA in Docker. Bot has 4GB of memory.

First tab: Ubuntu&HA
Second tab: Hassio .vmdk

top is showing 0% cpu use and there is a lot of free memory.

Theoretically it should be faster, because it has slimmer host OS, in practice it is much slower and I don’t understand why.

RetroButton · October 5, 2020, 6:36am

Has anyone done a recovery of a “online” backed up VM?
Today i tried to restore a backup i did last week, and it could not be recovered.
Had absolutely no problem with offline backups.

silvrr · October 12, 2020, 2:19pm

Thanks for creating this guide. I used Esxi previously and decided to move back. This guide helped me remember the small things.

monaco · October 17, 2020, 1:42pm

Can image from first post be used also for ESXi 7 ?

Charry2014 · April 12, 2021, 10:25am

Hello - thanks for a great guide. I have been able to set this up on my ESXi 6.5.0 server and it seemed to run fine - I was able to complete the basic setup and integrate Ring, Sonos etc. and get that warm comfortable feeling of success.

But then disaster - I installed the File Editor add-on and not only did saving a file edit corrupt the disk of the VM but it crashed the ESXi host too. The box needed power-cycling to come back up and then the disk image needed repairing with

vmkfstools -x repair /vmfs/volumes/<datastorepath>/<vm name>/<vm name main base disk>.vmdk

Then I noticed a whole load of disk IO and DMA errors on the VM console - running “ha check” produces a whole load of them:

Any idea wth is going on there? It looks like a bad configuration somewhere in the VM disk setup, but where? I will upgrade the host to ESXi 7.0 and see if that is better.

agisten · June 4, 2021, 3:18pm

Thanks for the guide. VM seems to be working fine from my ESXi local storage, but not from vSan.
I guess the vmdk is still using some legacy workstation type. If I get a chance I’d try to V2V it to native vSphere format. It’s a shame that there isn’t a proper OVA template for VMWare vsphere.

dvbit · July 9, 2021, 10:21pm

My esxi ha va is crashing after some hours since last upgrade 2017.1 is anybody having the same?
Trying to understand if it is related to the release

silvrr · July 10, 2021, 3:48am

Ive got two VMs running 2017.X with no issues.

gliena · August 17, 2021, 9:28pm

I have been using HA for a while in ESXI but each time i have an issue with the host my VM crashes and I need to do vmkfstools -x repair. What could the reason be? ONe time i had to rebuild it complety which is kind of a pain.

What can I check or could to for this not to come backk?

asdfjkl · August 23, 2021, 7:25am

Anyone got it to work on ESXI 5.5? After the initial setup of the vm it works, but after a restart i get this error

I have tried the setup multiple times, even on different hosts, but still get the same error.

The only place where my setup deviates from the guide is in step 6 where i selected “Debian GNU/Linux 6 (64-bit)” because that was the highest version of Debian i could choose. I have allso tried “Other Linux” for the guest os.

mve · November 23, 2021, 7:40pm

I’ve got HA running on a Intel NUC with esxi 6.7u3 for about a year now incl Zigbee and ZWave USB device. I would like to build a new VM from scratch but was wondering if it is possible to restore a backup from my current HA VM. What about the add-in etc. Will these install automatically or do I have to install them by hand before restore?

pergola.fabio · November 23, 2021, 8:07pm

Why not make a snapshot ? And restore the VM snapshot?