Monthly Archives: March 2017

After installing open-vm-tools, ESXi reported that VMware Tools were Installed and running on the Debian 8 guest. However any attempt to gracefully power off the guest within ESXi would fail with these errors: [msg.tools.haltFailed] The request to Power off this … Continue reading →

Ran into a second error after swapping out a pass-through device in ESXi. This device was the same make and model as the previous device. Failed – Module ‘DevicePowerOn’ power on failed. * Module ‘DevicePowerOn’ power on failed. * Missing … Continue reading →

Initially the guest had a pass through HBA controller that was working well. That controller was later upgraded in the host. To update the guest with the new controller, the old pass through device was removed and the new pass … Continue reading →