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vmotion fail at 9%

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:30:56 GMT

The vmotion failed because the esx hosts were not able to connect ouver the vmotion network ,please check you vmotion nwetwork settings and physical network configuration.

usb passthrough esxi 5

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:51:48 GMT

We want to transfer a large amount of data from usb. I was looking to stick hard disk to esxi host and add usb device in VM hardware..

The steps I would be doing

1- Add USB Controller to VM

2- Insert USB Drive to Physical host *( ESXi 5)

I was just wondering that usb passthrought would automatically be enabled and I do not have to configure passthrought in vcenter , Am i missing anything . ???

Also my usb drive is not in supported usb devices.. Does anybody knows if it creates problem while attaching a non supported usb drive..

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1021345

Any help for be highly appreciated

Regards

Sam

Increased IO latency on ESXi host causing it to disconnect from vCenter

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:56:41 GMT

I am using SRM 5.0 with vSphere Replication. I am currently in the process of doing the initial copy of my protected VMs to the Recovery site. During this, I have had several occurences of ESXi hosts losing connection to the cVenter server. The only way to connect them back is to pause any replications and restart the management network on the host.

What I want to know is what is the best method to segregate the SRM traffic from normal traffic? Can I just sent up a separate switch and assign the SRM servers and vCenter server to that switch?

SQLFire Installation in Mainframe Environment

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:09:26 GMT

Dear All,

I am just curious to know if it is possible to Install SQLFire in Mainframe Environment. If someone had done a similar thing at your mainframe shop then please share me your experience or any technical notes which would help me in running SQLFire under mainframe environment.

Jake

Убрать записи о несуществующих дисках

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:47:27 GMT

Добрый день!

Есть СХД поделеная на несколько ЛУНов

Изначально для хостов ESXi5 отдал все ЛУНы

Пойже стала вырисовываться ясная картина и пришло понимание что для ESXi столько не нужно и лишнее можно отобрать

Я на СХД просто отмапил эти ЛУНы и хосты перестали их видеть. В vCenter видно вот что (см. картинку)

Встает вопрос

А как можно убрать записи о мертных дисках?

ESXi 5.0 doesnt recognize all ethernet ports

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:47:18 GMT

when I installed ESXi 5.0 on sun server I can not assign individual IP to each ethernet ports (4 standard sun server). Is I am missing something?

No desktops showing in view manager

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:51:03 GMT

I'm currently trying to evaluate view 5.

Have set up the view connection server and connected my already existing vcenter server.

Then created a windows 7 client machine and installed view agent.

However, the client dosen't show up in view manager.

I have not installed any composer components since my i'm running the vcenter server appliance from vmware.

Can this be my issue?

Best regards.

Crash: Spin Count exceeded (domain0) - possible deadlock with PCPU 2

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:30:14 GMT

Hi All. This is my first message on the community forum. I have ran into the PSOD today runing ESXi 5.0.0 - build 702118 x86_64.

I have tried ESXi 4.1.0 build 348481 x86_64 before and run into ?similar? and ran into deadlock: "Spin Count exceeded (coalesceLock) - possible deadlock with PCPU 1

I have a core and collected the information form vSphere accourding to the KB provided by vmware. I am running evaluation version and doing this not for business. I have found that in order to submit a crash or any technicl support ticket I need to have a contract. I was planing to let evaluation expire and get back to the limited version of the vmware that offered for free. Crash I do not like and would like to submit it.

Did I get it right that I will not be able to submit one unless I have a support contract? Sounds weird, because from vmware stand point it is almost a "free testing".

Could that be a hardware issue after all? Looks like I am getting different PCPU number failing every time. Yes, I am running a whitelisted hardware. Looking for advice.

Thank you all!

Moving the thinapp Repository

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:53:19 GMT

Hi all,

I have a quick question in regards to relocating the cifs share used for thin app.

A customer of mine has a need to move the thinapp repository from one San to another.

This repository contains both full install and streaming thin apps.

Do I need to arrange an outage to remove the current repository and add the new one.

I have copied everything across, however I'm being overly paranoid as the preference is to complete this work during the day.

Thanks

Rick

ESXi Error hd0,1 read error

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:22:12 GMT

Hi guys,

I'm running a Ubuntu 10.04 on ESXi. Yesterday it was working perfectly, but this morning when starting the VM I get the following error message immediately :

error: hd0,1 read error.

grub rescue> _

I really have no idea of how to solve the problem and didn't find similar problems on the web. Does any of you have an idea about what happen??

Thanks in advance

vmware convertor ports

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:20:54 GMT

I am looking to do a P2V migration using vmware converter version 5. I have installed convertor on the physical machine ( the one which would be converted to virtual machine).

I wanted to ask what ports are required for this covnersion. what ports I need to open from this server to vcenter server for successsful migration.

Any help would be highly appreciatable

Regards

Sam

vCenter = version 5

vSphere = version 5

vSphere 5+HA - autostart

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:56:11 GMT

В кластере HA надо две машины (по машине на каждый хост) "вывести" из HA. В принципе, у них хранилище не разделяемое, так что, в принципе, это и так достигнуто, хоть и некрасиво. Дополнительно в свйоствах кластера HA для этих машин поставил VM Restart priority - Disabled.

Другая задача в другом - надо чтобы эти машины всё-таки автоматически запускались при старте хоста. В 4-й сфере была доступна вкладка Virtual machine startup/shutdown, а в 5-й написано, что в HA-кластере эта вкладка не активна...

Вопрос - как достигнуть автостарта для виртуальных машин, если они де-юре в HA-кластере, а де-факто - нет.

Increasing the cloning performance

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:57:52 GMT

There have been many complaints about transfer rate degradation in Converter 5.0.

Converter uses NFC (a proprietary VMware protocol) for cloning to managed destination. Security has been enhanced in Converter 5.0 by encrypting the data transfer. Unfortunately this has caused a more severe performance degradation than expected.
Switching off SSL encryption is a way to work around this issue. Here is how it is done:

Open the converter-worker.xml configuration file. It is located in "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone" folder for Windows Vista or newer or in "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone" for older Windows versions.
Set the key Config/nfc/useSsl to false and save the configuration file.
Restart "VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Worker" service.

I.e. it should look like:

    ...
    <nfc>
       <readTimeoutMs>120000</readTimeoutMs>
       <useSsl>false</useSsl>
    ...

Ideal backup and recovery solution for vCloud

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:07:21 GMT

Hello Everyone!

From your perspective: what would you expect from an ideal solution for vCloud backup and recovery? I’m curious to understand details like how high availability is currently ensured, what are admin/users roles, what data need protection, who should be able to recover. etc.

Ideally we could get on a phone for half an hour or so to talk about your use cases, environment and needs. I’m in product management (with a goal of designing the right product), not sales/marketing – so don’t worry – it won’t be a sales call.

Need step by step process for migrating virtual machines to new VMware ESX hypervisor

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:55:54 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for step by step method for migrating VMs to new ESX Host both Cold Migration and Hot Migration.

Scenario- I have two datacenters running standalone ESX hosts (with VM's) in Europe. I need to build new ESX Host in New Dataceter at Singapore.

Need prerequisite,methods available to migrate VMWARE virtual machies to new ESX host (in New Datacenter) with minimum downtime.

It will be great if you can list down the steps or redirect me to documentation which I can use to create detailed steps like Target host Compatibility, Registration on VMs and so on.

Please advice

Regards

Avi

vSphere 5 iSCSI failover...

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:47:18 GMT

Ситуация - виртуальный свитч, в него приходят две сетевых карты, одна сетевая active, вторая Standby. Или обе active, не суть важно.

В этот же виртуальный свитч "воткнут" VMKernel для iSCSI. И это работает если только в его свойствах одну сетевую карту ставить active, а вторую not used. А мне бы хотелось, чтобы и iSCSI был с failover... Этого никак нельзя достичь?

give users access to the web console

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:16:21 GMT

Right now there is only one user account that can login to the web console and that is the admin user account.

Is there a way to add additional users account for web console access ? I know that I can give users access to vcops through vcenter client, but we only give that to wmare admin - normal users don't have that access.

I would like to give upper managment ( and possibly make a sale pitch for the product ) access through the web console so that they can check on the health of our infrastructure and not give them vcenter client access.

SSL verification failure

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:32:33 GMT

Здравствуйте!

Кто сталкивался с такой ошибкой при попытке открыть консоль управления виртуальной машиной?

ssl verification failure for "айпишник" due to a host thumbprint mismatch.

Есть Vsphere Client и ESXi при попытке подключиться к виртуальной машине, всплывает такая вот ошибка.

Ставлю клиент на другую машину, все работает нормально.

Переустановка программы не помогла.

VDAP - v-storage backups - HP Data Protector

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:26:06 GMT

Hi all,

I've been asked to look into the possibility of backuping up our 200+ VMs using v-Storage API for Data Protector (HP Data Protector 6.2).

I've read a number of whitepapers, but still can't seem to find the answers to the following: -

Licencing - Is is on a per-host basis as oppose to per-guest?

Backup Process - I see that the process is based on shapshots, does anyone know if these are written into Data Protector on the fly or are these stored onto shared storage before transferring to Data Protector?

Storage - we have very limited SAN storage to accomodate snapshots, so does the process create the snapshot, transfer it, then remove the snapshot sequencially per VM? I'm trying to get an idea of how many snapshots i might potentially have to store on a daily basis (will i have 200+ snapshots?). Also, does anyone know how big the snapshots typically are?

Does anyone currently have a similar running scenario? If so, any ideas how long it can typically take to backup around 200 VMs via VDAP?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Jason

VMware Syslog vs. Splunk/Kiwi.

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:27:01 GMT

Hi,

We'll be building a new vSphere 5 environment soon and as part of that we'll be building a syslog server for the environment. I was just wondering what the best options would be?

Has anyone had much to do with VMware Syslog integrated with vCenter? Pros/Cons? How good would it be rated for capturing the different logs from our ESXi hosts when compared with freeware products such as Splunk or Kiwi?

Cheers,

Hanré

Problem with OpenManage 6.5 on ESXi Host

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:01:35 GMT

Hi,

We just migrate all ESX Hosts to ESXi 5. We have also downloaded and get OpenManage installed on one of them (According to this document http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/65_02/ESXi_ts/esxi5_ts.pdf).

When we attempt to connect to the host via https://ESXHostname:1311/ we get the error message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".

We have done some research and checked some services and it seems that all of them are running properly:

~ # /etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog status

sfcbd is running.

~ # /usr/lib/ext/dell/srvadmin/bin/dataeng status

dsm_sa_datamgrd (pid 3469 ) is running

dsm_sa_eventmgrd (pid 3735 ) is running

dsm_sa_snmpd (pid 3746 ) is running

~ # esxcli software vib list | grep OpenManage

OpenManage 6.5-0000 Dell VMwareAccepted 2012-05-15

~ #

Your advice is sought.

Thanks

Simple test environoment

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:48:13 GMT

Need to create a simple test environment with simple directions for testing and DR. I currently have VCenter 4.1 and vSphere ESX 4.1/348481. Also have Veeam 5.0. I have created a test vswitch that is not connected to any physical adapters. I have the following requirements:

Want to deploy 2 vm's server 2008 r2 from a veeam instant recovery
Have sufficent storage and resources
Want to access these 2 vm's
Do not want them to interfere with the production network.
Do I need to have a vlan on my physical switch and attach that to the test vlan?
What would I use as a gateway? How could they be accessed?

Thank you in advance for reading this request.

Adobe CS6 and no Fusion GPU support

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:48:48 GMT

More Creative Suite products and much more of Photoshop in particular rely on GPU acceleration.. From simply zooming and painting to the 3D features. But does Fusion provide GPU specs (like shader model 3) that they need? Schools and universities can't use Fusion to teach our Windows users without this. Pretty please!

ESXi5.0 - x4150 - Sun Server - E5410 Xeon

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:53:05 GMT

Hi does x4150 supports ESXi 5.0

VMware Workstation Virtual Machine

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:50:46 GMT

Hi got Vmware Workstation VMs and wish to convert them to run under ESXi 5.0 environment. Can anyone tell me how to approach.

Vmware Kernel Module Updater unable to start services

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:49:10 GMT

i ran the Vmware Kernel Module Update in linux mint 13 cinnamon 64 bit rc and i go through all the steps and it is unable to start back the services link is to log file the error reported me to see for details http://pastebin.com/wHRWHbF8

How to be PCI 2.0 Compliants - tools?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:27:08 GMT

All,

I've been looking at multiple solutions and vendors and sounds like expensive to get PCI 2.0 compliant on virtualization, so I would like to get your opinions on those involved/designed/ their PCI 2.0 environment for virtualization.

1. What kind of tools did you implemented to fully compliant?

2. What are the tools that can be alternate (replace for cheaper price and does the trick)

3. What is your issues during implementation so we can avoid if possible.

The products we've been reviewing:

1. VMware vShield Suites - firewall

2. VMware vCM - configuration management

3. HyTrust - RBAC

4. Tripwire - multiple modules/usage

These are very expensive to implement especially vShield/vCM licensing, so I want to know if we hav any good alternatives that validate PCI 2.0 compliance?

1. Can we use Lumension Patchlink & Tripwire in combination?

2. Can we use pfsense, vyatta or other virtual firewall appliances to replace vShield?

What is the best way going forward, if anyone has real experience with PCI 2.0 please provide feedback as well as other members here can learn and shed some lights from your experience.

Once again, thanks for reading and looking for good feedback.

ESXi 5.0 free - hard disk monitor

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:45:49 GMT

We've got an ESXi 5 host with 6 guest VM's on an ML350 G6. One of the VM's is an Ubuntu server running Nagios. I have installed the check_esx_hardware plugin but I am unsure whether it's actually monitoring hard drive failure. I also notice that in vSphere client - config tab - health status there is no storage heading listing the ports and hard drives. If it's not listed there does that mean that the cotroller/hard drives aren't able to be monitored (by 3rd party apps)?

TIA!

Auto-pause a VM

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:13:53 GMT

Is there anyway to pause a Virtual Machine if it's not used automatically? I don't mean suspend, but just pause?

ESXi-5 - Invalid Boot Drive

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:05:13 GMT

Hello,

I was able to install the latest ESXi5 onto a system. The install went fine, found the drive, created the partitions and so forth. At the end of the install it states to remove the cd and reboot, which went fine.

Upon reboot, it always states Invalid Boot Drive and there is only a DVD-RW drive (no media) and a 320gig WD Sata drive. This is on a newer Intel socket 775 board (Older style socket, the MB was created less than a year ago, from Intel).

Any ideas? The BIOS drive setting was set to Legacy as well as Enchanced, neither choce seemed to make a difference.

How can I make a copy/clone of an existing virtual machine?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:03:29 GMT

I have VM Fusion 2.0.2 running on my MacBook. I have several virtual machines running, and i would like to copy one of them and use it as a starting point of a new virtual machine. I know how to take a check point, but what i want to do is create a seperate independant isolated new machine from an existing machine. is this possible?

I have VM workstation 6 running on a PC and i know i can do it there by cloning the virtual machine, i just want to do something similar.

Fails with a Kernel bug on FC16

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:54:25 GMT

I tried running the preview on FC16 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Apr 21 12:43:20 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any fix for this?

...

[ 1789.892523] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 5989 (vmnet-netifup)
[ 1789.892540] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[ 1789.906121] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 5995 (vmnet-dhcpd)
[ 1789.906142] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[ 1794.850214] bridge-em1: disabling the bridge
[ 1794.856928] bridge-em1: down
[ 1794.856932] bridge-em1: detached
[ 1797.639690] [6480]: VMCI: Module vmci: unloaded
[ 1797.653309] /dev/vmmon[6487]: Module vmmon: unloaded
[ 1798.173685] /dev/vmmon[6558]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
[ 1798.173696] /dev/vmmon[6558]: Module vmmon: initialized
[ 1798.195745] [6566]: VMCI: shared components initialized.
[ 1798.195842] [6566]: VMCI: host components initialized.
[ 1798.196049] [6566]: VMCI: Module registered (name=vmci,major=10,minor=59).
[ 1798.196054] [6566]: VMCI: Using host personality
[ 1798.196059] [6566]: VMCI: Module (name=vmci) is initialized
[ 1798.310210] SELinux: initialized (dev fuse, type fuse), uses genfs_contexts
[ 1798.395341] netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
[ 1798.395351] netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
[ 1798.395434] netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
[ 1798.395592] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 6670 (vmnet-bridge)
[ 1798.395604] /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
[ 1798.395649] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
[ 1798.395680] bridge-em1: up
[ 1798.395687] bridge-em1: attached
[ 1798.395735] netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
[ 1799.423592] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 6677 (vmnet-netifup)
[ 1799.423607] /dev/vmnet: hub 1 does not exist, allocating memory.
[ 1799.423644] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
[ 1799.448302] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 6681 (vmnet-dhcpd)
[ 1799.448322] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
[ 1799.455683] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 6690 (vmnet-natd)
[ 1799.455696] /dev/vmnet: hub 8 does not exist, allocating memory.
[ 1799.455737] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[ 1799.455882] netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
[ 1799.455888] netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
[ 1799.455960] netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
[ 1799.456214] netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
[ 1799.458213] userif-3: sent link down event.
[ 1799.458220] userif-3: sent link up event.
[ 1799.461680] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 6691 (vmnet-netifup)
[ 1799.461697] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[ 1799.472686] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 6697 (vmnet-dhcpd)
[ 1799.472698] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[ 1809.946148] vmnet1: no IPv6 routers present
[ 1810.450117] vmnet8: no IPv6 routers present
[ 2331.484299] /dev/vmmon[7389]: PTSC: initialized at 3093343000 Hz using TSC, TSCs are synchronized.
[ 2331.920263] /dev/vmmon[7389]: Monitor IPI vector: 0
[ 2332.197811] SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
[ 2332.568835] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2332.568847] kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:402!
[ 2332.568855] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 2332.568862] CPU 5
[ 2332.568865] Modules linked in: vmnet(O) parport_pc vsock(O) vmci(O) vmmon(O) ppdev lp parport tcp_lp fuse ebtable_nat ebtables xt_CHECKSUM lockd bridge stp llc be2iscsi iscsi_boot_sysfs bnx2i cnic uio cxgb4i cxgb4 cxgb3i libcxgbi cxgb3 mdio ib_iser rdma_cm ib_cm iw_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables xt_state nf_conntrack snd_hda_codec_realtek microcode snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device k10temp snd_pcm fam15h_power r8169 edac_core edac_mce_amd mii snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc sp5100_tco i2c_piix4 vhost_net macvtap macvlan tun virtio_net kvm_amd kvm uinput sunrpc ata_generic pata_acpi pata_atiixp nouveau ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_core mxm_wmi video wmi [last unloaded: vmnet]
[ 2332.569001]
[ 2332.569001] Pid: 7389, comm: vmware-vmx-debu Tainted: G O 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 #1 To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./970 Extreme3
[ 2332.569001] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa054ed60>] [<ffffffffa054ed60>] get_page.part.0+0x4/0x2a4 [vmmon]
[ 2332.569001] RSP: 0018:ffff880383085d38 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 2332.569001] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffea000e0c1e00 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 2332.569001] RDX: ffffea000e0c1e40 RSI: ffffea000e0c1e00 RDI: ffff880383079000
[ 2332.569001] RBP: ffff880383085d38 R08: 000000000043f000 R09: 0000000000266a71
[ 2332.569001] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffff8803c23679a0 R12: ffff8803dac6e738
[ 2332.569001] R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000001
[ 2332.569001] FS: 00007f3938667700(0000) GS:ffff88043ed40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 2332.569001] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 2332.569001] CR2: 0000000000b06360 CR3: 0000000383047000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
[ 2332.569001] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 2332.569001] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 2332.569001] Process vmware-vmx-debu (pid: 7389, threadinfo ffff880383084000, task ffff8803dafb4590)
[ 2332.569001] Stack:
[ 2332.569001] ffff880383085dc8 ffffffffa0545c28 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
[ 2332.569001] ffff8803c2292420 ffff8803dac6e710 0000000000000003 0000000000000004
[ 2332.569001] 0000000400000003 ffff8803dac6e700 00000002000200d2 0000000000000000
[ 2332.569001] Call Trace:
[ 2332.569001] [<ffffffffa0545c28>] LinuxDriverMmap+0x2a8/0x2d0 [vmmon]
[ 2332.569001] [<ffffffff8114cfb9>] mmap_region+0x369/0x510
[ 2332.569001] [<ffffffff8114d4a8>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x348/0x360
[ 2332.569001] [<ffffffff8114d586>] sys_mmap_pgoff+0xc6/0x230
[ 2332.569001] [<ffffffff810d3a66>] ? __audit_syscall_exit+0x3d6/0x410
[ 2332.569001] [<ffffffff810189e2>] sys_mmap+0x22/0x30
[ 2332.569001] [<ffffffff815fc1e9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 2332.569001] Code: c7 c7 05 ff 54 a0 e8 d0 63 ff ff 31 c0 e9 71 fc ff ff c7 83 78 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 66 b8 00 e0 e9 1b fc ff ff 00 00 55 48 89 e5 <0f> 0b bf f2 ff ff ff e9 6c a4 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 2332.569001] RIP [<ffffffffa054ed60>] get_page.part.0+0x4/0x2a4 [vmmon]
[ 2332.569001] RSP <ffff880383085d38>
[ 2332.585630] ---[ end trace 7a3e9a6468665300 ]---

RDM и vMotion

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:23:39 GMT

Добрый день, коллеги!

Вопрос такой: пытаюсь мигрировать виртуальную машину между хостами с прицепленым RDM диском, визард ругается что диск не доступен (см.скрин).

Диск презентован обоим хостам, оба хоста его видят.

Я делал его видимым на одинаковых лунах для каждого хоста, даже пути поменял на всякий случай на одинаковые, все-равно ругается.

Рядом есть другая виртуалка с прицепленными RDM диcками которая такую же ошибку не выдает.

В чем может быть косяк ?

Clarification on Vsphere/ESXi install on laptop

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:49:20 GMT

Hello,

I have looked on the forums and communities and cannot seem to understand the correct way of doing something.

I want to, for the moment, use a laptop to get some training on Vsphere/ESXi Server, VCenter while I save up for test Lab hardware.

I really would like Steps 1,2,3,etc... from someone if possible.

I currently have a Lenovo T400s with Vista 64 bit OS.

I am confused about what order I do all this in.

I prefer to run everything off of USB Thumb Drives or all Virtual Machines. I do not want to use my Physical Harddrive on the laptop and change or wipe the partitions,etc...

Sorry for the confusion on my part but I promise to answer other noobs stupid questions when I get father along!

/Wayne

Guest upgrade of VMware Tools

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:34:09 GMT

We are looking at upgrading our ESXi 4.1 environment to 5.0, and was wondering whether anyone had experience this issue with the VMware tools upgrade?

When we upgraded to 4.1, and we upgraded the VMware tools on some of the guests, we ended up with networking problems due to "ghost" NIC's in Windows, and had to delete them from the command line before everything was OK again.

Has anybody run into that problem with upgrading to 5.0? Like this: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1423308

Shutdown ESXi when UPS on vCenter is low battery

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:51:57 GMT

Hi,

I have two ESXi 5.0 plugged into a Smart UPS 3000. Servers are in a cluster and HA has been configured

vCenter is installed on its own hardware and connected to the same Smart UPS 3000 with a USB cable..

What is the best way to properly shutdown all my guests and host when my UPS battery is low ?

Thank you !

How to disable long mode in Lenovo W520?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:48:04 GMT

I am using Lenovo W520 + windows 7 professional (64 bit). When I run VMWare player 4.0, it told me to disable long mode. I do not know where to disable.

vmware.log is attached.

Thanks a lot for help.

Storage Overcommitment Question?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:32:42 GMT

I wanted to confirm if VMWare can overcommit Storage?

I know you can with thin provision, but that only grows and does not shrink when you delete files in the guest. Is thin provisioning the only way to overcommit with VMWare?

My guests will always have files added and removed, and as thin provisioning only grows and does NOT shrink this is not an ideal solution for me.

I understand with OpenVZ virtualization I can oversell my disk and it would count and go by the actual usage... regardless if I added or removed as many files/data I wanted in the guests.

So I guess my question is, is the only way to overcommit storage with VMWare to use thin provisioning? If so this is kinda a short-term solution since my VM guests will always have files/data added/removed and thin provision cannot shrink.

Looks like I'll have to move back to OpenVZ...

Additional NIC's is not getting detected on guest OS

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:20:35 GMT

We are tring to add a second NIC on the Guest OS (Windows 2008 R2), When i add the Second NIC (Type : E1000) it goes to the unknow deices in device managed with Yellow exclamation mark (First Nic is also selected as E1000)

Tried also adding VMXNET3 adapter and it happes the same. VMware Tools has been updated and also re-installed VMware Tools again.

When i try to remove all adapters and re-add it again first one goes fine but the additional adapters which are added has the same problem.

Advanced Network Settings & Best Practices

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:32:36 GMT

Ever since my company began its strong push towards virtualization I have struggled with many networking issues pertaining to virtualization. Some of the specific issues I still continually witness are:

- Consistent receive discards on my ESXi hosts vmnics

- Consistent transmit discards on my Cisco Nexus 1000v veth interfaces for the VMs

- ASP.NET errors indicating that connections sometimes timeout. One for example:

"[COMException - Incorrect function. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070001)]

[HttpException - An error occurred while communicating with the remote host. The error code is 0x80070001.]"

- Sometimes the NICs will spontaneously remove their default gateway or other configured information.

I have read many online guides and tutorials from Cisco and VMware and have had several support cases open regarding these issues but have never resolved any of them. I have also tweaked many of the settings on my own in hopes of alleviating the issue but it feels a lot like guessing with the information that's out there for what values should be changed under the advanced network settings of the host. I've also rebuilt hosts from scratch several times just to be sure I didnt mess anything up with all of my tweaking.

My hope for this thread is to get other peoples opinions on the best configuration of ESXi host and OS NIC adapter configurations to reduce packet loss as much as possible in a high speed 10G environment. I also would like to share my specific setup and see if anyone has any recommendations for tweaks I could make to optimize traffic forwarding behavior.

In my primary VMWare envionrment I have twelve ESXi hosts spread across two Cisco B series blade chassis connected to Fabric Interconnects. For the sake of this discussion lets just focus on our main production cluster which is where I am mostly concerned. This is composed of six B230 blades each with two 10-core processors, 128GB of RAM, and an M81KR "Palo" Cisco NIC. Currently I am running approximately thirty VMs aross these six hosts. 95% of these are Windows Server 2008 R2 and the other some sort of Linux virtual appliances.

During my troubleshooting I have tried changing the settings for LRO for vmxnet3 (net.Vmxnet3HwLRO and others) as well as many of these offloading settings on the adapter configuration in Windows. I have not been able to come to any conclusive result as to which is the optimal setting. Some of Cisco's documents for their voice applications indicate that LRO on the host should be disabled, but other documents I have read indicate that disabling LRO will cause CPU spikes to happen. VMWare's networking document indicates that lack of CPU cycles can be a cause for the vmnic receive discards I've been seeing so obviously I'd like to keep CPU spikes down if possible, but not if it leads to erratic traffic forwarding behavior like Cisco says.

So I am kind of at a loss at how to proceed here and am turning to the community for help.

Does anyone have any recommendations for how to configure all of the settings under Net for ESXi host configuration? Anyone have a similar setup to mine and have a configuration that is working for them? ANyone seen similar dropped packets before with a root cause as to the reason? Are regularly occruing dropped packets just normal with VMWare and something I have to learn to live with? What about these ASP.net errors which were never present in the physiacl world?

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks!

iSCSI target not showing in devices

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:17:32 GMT

Hi all! Very new user here..

I started to get some storage errors when bringing up new VMs, so it's time to add on. I have some Nexsan Sataboys around my lab and have easily hooked them up in the past. I created a vswitch just for iSCSI:

I then went to storage adapters and enabled software initiator, set the network to vswitch3 (vmk1), dynamically discovered my storage and then the target name showed up in the static. I then rescanned and nothing is showing up under connected devices.

So I have been looking around in the CLI and here is some further info (not sure how helpful but hey, I learned how to do it):

# esxcli iscsi networkportal list
vmhba33
   Adapter: vmhba33
   Vmknic: vmk1
   MAC Address: 00:21:9b:9f:7d:75
   MAC Address Valid: true
   IPv4: 172.18.160.53
   IPv4 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
   IPv6:
   MTU: 1500
   Vlan Supported: true
   Vlan ID: 0
   Reserved Ports: 63488~65536
   TOE: false
   TSO: true
   TCP Checksum: false
   Link Up: true
   Current Speed: 1000
   Rx Packets: 24764
   Tx Packets: 647
   NIC Driver: bnx2
   NIC Driver Version: 2.0.15g.v50.11-5vmw
   NIC Firmware Version: 5.0.12 bc 5.0.11 NCSI 2.0.5
   Compliant Status: compliant
   NonCompliant Message:
   NonCompliant Remedy:
   Vswitch: vSwitch3
   PortGroup: iSCSI
   VswitchUuid:
   PortGroupKey:
   PortKey:
   Duplex:
   Path Status: unused

# esxcli iscsi session connection list
vmhba33,iqn.1999-02.com.nexsan:p0:sataboy2:019153ca,00023d000001,0
   Adapter: vmhba33
   Target: iqn.1999-02.com.nexsan:p0:sataboy2:019153ca
   ISID: 00023d000001
   CID: 0
   DataDigest: NONE
   HeaderDigest: NONE
   IFMarker: false
   IFMarkerInterval: 0
   MaxRecvDataSegmentLength: 131072
   MaxTransmitDataSegmentLength: 65536
   OFMarker: false
   OFMarkerInterval: 0
   ConnectionAddress: 172.18.160.xx
   RemoteAddress: 172.18.160.xx
   LocalAddress: 172.18.160.xx
   SessionCreateTime: 05/15/12 13:48:09
   ConnectionCreateTime: 05/15/12 13:48:09
   ConnectionStartTime: 05/15/12 13:48:09
   State: logged_in

Can anyone provide further information on what I may be missing here?

ESXi主机上的虚拟机开机进入系统就断电

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:39:19 GMT

有个问题：我在Windows Server2008系统上使用VMware Workstation创建了ESXi主机，然后通过另外机器上的vClient操作
ESXi主机创建一个虚拟机vm01，安装了windows server2003系统，开始时进入系统没有问题，后面出现故障，进入win server 2003虚拟机就断电，不清楚是什么情况，有人遇到过这种问题吗？（猜测可能是内存的问题，我分配了4个G内存，但是监控时，发现活动内存会超出，不知道是为什么，刚开机就这样）

另外一个问题：如果我要在ESXi主机上重新分配内存，保存后重启ESXi主机，但是虚拟机没办法打开电源，是什么原因？

如果你能帮助我或给我一些思路，万分感激。

VMware Tools

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:11:02 GMT

Olá pessoal,

Tenho notado que alguns servidores que clonei, não estão com vmware tools, mesmo que eu marque para instalar durante o clone.

E também, depois de migrado, quando seleciono para instalar o vmware tools ele não consegue instalar.

Alguém já viu isso acontecer? Dá pra baixar o instalador e tentar forçar a instalação?

Valeu!

Sena.

Cannot install an OS on host

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:58:59 GMT

Totally new install of vSphere 5.0 on new Dell server. vSphere server and client installed on appropriate machines. Datacenter made and virtual machine made, but cannot install OS on it. Installing Win2008 Srv 2.

I have tried Install from the client and host CDs, install from memory stick and install from ISO on client. I've turned off PXE and moved CD to top of boot list. I've hit f12 and specifically selected boot to CD. I always get "operating system not found".

I can't find anywhere that tells me how to copy an ISO to the host drive and I don't know shell (was told I didn't need to).

Everything I've found on google is a dead end.

Any help would be great!

Greg

Get VM's creation date

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:40:34 GMT

It's possible to get the exact creation time of a VM?

I'm seeing here in the tasks and events but ain't found. Maybe some PowerCli cmdlet exclusive for reports?

ThinApp IE8 and Silverlight Issues

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:36:58 GMT

I have been attempting to package IE8 with Silverlight and have been running into alot of issues getting it to integrate with a local Office applications.

I've sucessfully packaged the plugin adn the web pages that use silverlight work as expected. I've also created two seperate ThinApp packages, one for just IE8 the other just Silverlight and use App Link to join them. The plugin works within the browser as expected, BUT.

My Issue is when I attempt to click on a MAILTO link. I get the "default mail client is not properly installed." error message.

I get simliar issues when I attempt to access any Office documents in SharePoint.

The odd thing is if I do not include Silverlight in the IE8 package or I remove the Silverlight ThinApp package from my App Link directory those links work correctly.

Any insight into this odd issue?

I have attempted to use the child exception process for Outlook.exe, Winword.exe and excel.exe in the packages and I still have the issue.

ChildProcessEnvironmentExceptions=acrobat.exe;acrord32.exe;WINWORD.EXE;EXCEL.EXE;POWERPNT.EXE;OUTLOOK.EXE;MOC.EXE
ChildProcessEnvironmentDefault=Virtual

I also included teh Silverlight processes too btu still have the issues.

Anyone have any ideas???

How can my script be modified to run faster?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:11:46 GMT

I need to collect statistics from 1000's of VM's but my current script takes forever to run. I don't think my script is very efficient (being a novice). Does anyone have any suggestions how to improve it?

(see attached)

PS, how do I post the script intact into the message field?

Many thanks,

multiple hbas and powerpath software

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:30:23 GMT

without the powerpath software I see I have 4 paths

2 standby and 2 active

but 1 active only has (I/O

with powerpath will that give me 4 paths active?

can I get more active paths by adding in extra hba?

Creation of Windows XP Virtual Machine Fails

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:44:09 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to setup a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro of my Windows XP laptop.

I downloaded and installed the conversion software from VMWare, installed it on my XP laptop and ran it.

It fails at 98% completion ... at the point it starts to convert the newly created virtual machine (from what I have read).

I have included the diagnostic logs ... can anybody tell me what to do or point me in the right direction to get this conversion process to complete correctly?

Thanks,

Chris Newton

Windows 2008 NT Kernel & System using 100% of CPU in ESXi 4.1

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:39:48 GMT

Please help, the NT Kernel & System using 100% of CPU, no USB device, just run Malwarebytes, return nothing. I also tried disabled anti-virus, still 100%. PID is 4 system, services = N/A. Thanks in advance.

issue with number of available desktops

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:54:04 GMT

For pool settings i have min number of desktop to 3. Max number is set @ 40 and number of spared desktop is set to 5. Problem is i have 16 computers connected to 16 PCiop client. in general i have 16 remote sessions with 16 number of desktops connected. In inventory i see only 16 virtual machines. If i add it drops the connections from another vm client. I see 0 available VM's. we are using VMview 5.0

i am attaching the screen shot for more info... any idea why i dont see 40 desktops..

thank you..

iSCSI it works but...

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:38:41 GMT

We set it up with our new LAB and was amazed at how easy it was. Question though. We created the (or added) the software initiator and such.

How does it know which connection to use? It didn't ask us. It could have used one of the other we had set up but it didn't.

Thanks!

vCenter Heartbeat is not starting after the reboot.

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:15:25 GMT

Hi All,

vCenter Heartbeat is not starting after the reboot, then I will have to start it manually. Some times I'm getting the attacged error.

Can any one please help me on this...thanks

Jithin

ESX unable to find root partition

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:33:23 GMT

Hello,

after a disk change of our RAID-5 array ESX 4.0 refuses to start. The error occurs in the script 69.mount-root:

The root partition specified (UUID=...) was not found on COS VMDK that specified (/vmfs/volumes/.../esxconsole-.../esxconsole.vmdk).

Trying to change the UUID in the kernel boot line didn't help.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance and best regards,

Martin Schetat

enable snapshots for vm with physical ide disk

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:21:11 GMT

I'm trying to figure out how to reenable snapshoting for a VM that I added a physical IDE disk to. I understand that snapshots don't work with physical disks and I don't want it the physical disk snapshoted. If I turn off and disable the phyiscal disk, I can snapshot but I can't if the VM is on with the physical disk attached. From what I've read, it looks like I should just be able to set the drive as persistent, however, I don't see the advanced button when setting up the disk as is referenced here

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/disks_add_ws.html

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_add_raw.html

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/ws80-using.pdf

I can set he mode to persistent with a new virtual disk, just not a physical disk.

I've also tried adding

ide0:0.redo = ""

ide0:0.mode = "independent-persistent"

to the vmx as referenced here

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/295179

with out luck.

I'm using Workstation 8.0.3 on Windows 7. This drive is not assigned in Windows 7 and is the only IDE drive in the box. Is this actually still possible or am I misunderstanding something?

API equivalent to "ovftool --prop key=value"?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:02:15 GMT

HI, given a VM template and .ovfEnv file, I clone the template and would like to customize the .ovfEnv file programmatically for that clone.

I believe it can be done using the 'ovftool --prop key=value' cmd line. Pls correct me if this is incorrect.

Now how do I achieve the same result via some vmware web service API?

I found the managed object ovfManager but it doesn't look like it would allow me to modify the .ovfEnv.

Does an API exist to modify a clone's .ovfEnv file?

Thanks!

VCops Multi Site Availability

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:12:53 GMT

We are currently in the deployment plannning stage of a VCops Implementation and are trying to work out how to provide multi site availability. Obviously within the site we will use the usual suspects (HA, Vmotion, DRS) to ensure VCops has minimal downtime. However our infrastructure is comprised of two DC's (with high bandwidth stretched vlans and replicated storage between them) the vast majority of other apps within the infrastructure are being protected by SRM but I have heard rumour that this is not supported/will not work for VCops. So I was wondering what other people had done or would do in this kind of scenario. We don't need to have 100% uptime for Vcops but we do need to NOT rely on a single DC and we do need to regularly (Every 2-3 months) transition operations from one DC to the other and will at times need to test our DR plans by turning off one of the DC's completely.

All pointers and help very much appreciated.

Brett

VCops 5 VApp Backup and Restore

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:16:40 GMT

I'm trying to deploy and test a backup stategy for the VCOPs 5 Vapp.

I'm struggling to find any VMWare documentation on how to do this and what is "supported" I have found some documentation telling me how to backup and restore the "installable" but not the VApp. So....

1. Does anybody have any pointers to documentation regarding this.

2. Does anybody know if I can simply use the same "VM Image" based backup solution (In our case Symantec Netbackup) for this VApp or is this going to give me Non Quiesced DB issues when I attempt a restore?

Any help in this area greatly appreciated.

Brett

Cannot use a Logitech QuickCam Express webcam in XP Guest...

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:40:12 GMT

Hi again people

Well... while I'm trying to see why the scanner is going slow on my XP guest (checking if I can configure the parallel port to get the real speed for scan) I'm facing another problem yet.

Basically, I'm trying to connect a Logitech QuickCam Express webcam in the XP guest (It doesn't work anymore in Windows 7 ) but whenever I connect the webcam in the host, I cannot use it, Windows says its probably being used by another app or process, but is not I tested the camera in a real XP install in my dual boot config, and the camera is installed and can be run properly...

How Can I fix this problem? I tried reinstalling the device from the guest and from host, but nothing works...

I really would like to solve all my issues with VMware, because this means I can finally drop my dual boot config in favor of having Windows 7 only with the VM enabled.

Here my system specs and configurations:

Host:

Dual Boot Microsoft Windows XP SP3 / Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Home Premium

AMD Athlon 64 X2 +5200 2.7 Ghz

4 GB RAM DD2 667 Mhz

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4350 512 MB (8.741 version drivers)

160 GB Maxtor Diamond Max 10 SATA II 7200 RPM Divided in 3 partitions:

--> C: Windows XP Install

--> D: Windows 7 Install (it sees its own system partition as C:)

--> E: Data and files

Normal CRT Monitor (Compaq MV540... yes, pretty old)

PCChips A13G+ MoBo, Using Integrated Nvidia Networking Controller, Parallel port and 4 x USB 2.0

VMware Player v4.0.3 with VMware Tools v8.8.2 latest build (downloaded before they were removed from repository...)

Guest:

Microsoft Windows XP SP3

512 MB RAM

40 GB HDD (not splitted in multiple HDD files)

USB Enabled

Parallel Port Enabled

Bridged Networking

Using 2 Shared folders one is read-only

The rest of settings are at defaults...

I tested other devices in USB for guest, like my old lexmark printer, and works perfectly... just the camera is not running at all, saying that is used by other app... it is detected and installed properly by the guest, but is unusable.

Thanks in advance for your help guys

See ya!!!

New to Hyperic (and Linux!) - problem running setup.sh

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:02:22 GMT

I've built a 64-bit VM from our corporate template (Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4), had a co-worker install mySQL, got the database and config file setup, installed JRE 1.6, downloaded the opensource Hyperic install files, and I thought I was ready to run setup.sh. For some reason, it has a permissions problem, on line 107 of /installer/bin/hq-setup.sh script.

Any ideas?

New-HardDisk not working for me

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:33:37 GMT

I have to remove and add existing disks to vms automatically. The removal is working but for some reason I can't get New-HardDisk to work. Here's how I call it and the result:

> $drVm

Name                 PowerState Num CPUs Memory (MB)
----                 ---------- -------- -----------
Test-VM         PoweredOff 1        2048

> $drPath

[ds_name] VM-Name/VM-Name.vmdk

> New-HardDisk -VM $drVM -DiskPath $drPath

New-HardDisk : 5/15/2012 11:10:33 AM    New-HardDisk        No matching datastore found.
At line:1 char:13
+ New-HardDisk <<<< -VM $drVm -DiskPath $drPath
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (:) [New-HardDisk], VimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VirtualDeviceServiceImpl_NewVirtualHardDisk_DatastoreNotFound,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDev
   ice.NewHardDisk

> Get-Datastore -Name 'ds_name'

Name                               FreeSpaceMB      CapacityMB
----                               -----------      ----------
ds_name                        16335           16384

The values and types look correct but it doesn't work. At one point I had this working but then stopped. I had recently upgraded to v5 PowerCLI so I backed that out but it still fails.

I'm passing the vm as a vm type and the disk path as a string per the docs.

Any help would be appreciated. Especially if I'm doing something dumb. This is such a simple function.

Help reducing disc size?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:01:35 GMT

Hi...this may cause some eyes to roll...I installed Fusion v.2 about two years ago and have been running Windows XP on it with no trouble. However, I had basically no idea what I was doing when I installed Fusion (as you'll see). I'm using a 2008 Macbook Pro and running OS 10.5.8. The Macbook has approximately 200 GB of hard drive space and, not knowing what I was doing, I allocated 100 GB for Fusion. Recently, I've been reading some forum posts and realized this is probably way too much space to have allocated...I've been reading the posts because I'm running out of HD space on the Mac (down to about 4 or 5 GB). Is there any way for me to reduce the amount of disk space I've allocated? And...will that help to free more space on my Mac's drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

running hostinfo.pl with vcenter with large number of hosts fails

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:22:59 GMT

While trying to run hostinfo.pl (vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/apps/host/hostinfo.pl) with a vcenter that has ~350 esxi hosts - fails. The only message shows up as "killed".

With vcetner with around 150 hosts, the script runs fine.

Suspecting that something like memory object size for perl scripts need be changed. Can any one help here ?

$ ./hostinfo.pl --server vCENTER-with-350-ESXiHosts --username *** --password ****
Killed
$

Screen size of virtual machine on Mac

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:55:33 GMT

Hi...I'm running Fusion 3 on Mac OS 10.5.8. After installing Fusion 3 (upgraded from v.2), I can't make the size of the Windows XP machine fit the dimensions of either my Macbook Pro screen or my larger HP display any more. I used (in Fusion 2) to be able to just drag the screen by the corner to fill the size of the display but the Windows screen now stops about 1/2 inch from reaching the edges. This can be lived with, but I'd like to get my old screen size back if anyone has a suggestion. Many thanks for any help. (P.S...I prefer using Single Window view to either Unity or Full Screen.)

Help with install error

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:50:44 GMT

Hi, I did have this running on a win98machine but when trying to install it on a W2K machine I get this error:" c:\Docume~1\admini~1\Locals~1\Temp\vMware_1337118240\index.htm? Make sure the internet path is correct. ?? Thanks in advance.

(vmplayer 4.0)

8.03 / Crashes when clicking on "Settings" of any VM

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:21:36 GMT

Hi,

i'm using Workstation 8 on Windows 7 for quite some time now, until now without any problems.

Since 8.02 (i think), suddenly i cant access the VM settings of any VM anymore. As soon as i click on the "Settings"-Button for ANY of my VMs, the settings-dialog appears and VMWare-Workstation crashes immediately.

My VMs still all run fine, though but i cant change any setting.

A complete deinstall and clean install of the latest version didnt help.

Can someone help me?

Thanks!

Robert

vCenter License Management

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:26:47 GMT

Hello,

I currently have a vCenter server 5.0.0 with six hosts and we're getting another host soon that we plan to use to replace an existing one (just a hardware upgrade) and I'm thinking around the same time I'd like to upgrade vCenter to 5.0.0 U1, but this update won't run because MSSQL is throwing some kind of error. I would really like to just rebuild the vCenter server fresh and move the hosts over to it one at a time, and my question is about how vSphere handles the licensing. The way we bought our licenses, we have three hosts on one key, two hosts on another, and one host on another key. So if I move one host from the three host license, the new vCenter would pick up that license key right there. How would the old vCenter handle that? Would the other hosts quit working as if they had no license because they aren't managed by the new vCenter?

Hope someone can explain how this works for me.

Thanks,

Andrew

When is an Operating System "not" an Operating System?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:27:15 GMT

Since I'm new to the vSphere 5, perhaps someone can enlighten me. The answers will pretty much determine whether or not my IT dept makes the decision to move towards generic PC virtualization w/VMWare or stick with the various "NIX platform's form of virtualization techniques, IE Solaris Zones, AIX Micro Partitioning, etc.

Q1: Is the ESXi-v5 Hypervisor considered an OS? Or is it a bare-metal application that presents/manages a given VM to a guest OS.

Q2: Once booted, is the env that I log into (as root) via TSM, SSH, etc persistent or non-persistent, IE: if I make changes to files such as owner/group/mode, will they persist from reboot to reboot or just simply disappear/reset on the next boot cycle?

From what I've read, it appears that some file changes (internal to the file such as text/configuration changes) will persist, even though it appears that the ESXi-v5 server is running 100% from memory. For example syslog.conf? But if I change the mode, owner etc will that also persist. At this point whether or not it breaks something to do so is not as important as the topic of persistence (at least that's what my management is concerned about).

Anybody? A response (not just a read) would really be appreciated.

Thx.

View client for OSX PCoIP extremely laggy

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:45:01 GMT

I have a win7 vm on esxi 5.0 and view 5.0.0. BTL is turned off. It runs perfect / no lag via PCOIP on Windows using the view client, as well as on my Galaxy Tab. 3d is turned on with 128mb vram.

However, when I attempt to use the latest OSX client on my mid-2010 IMAC 21.5" running 10.7, the desktop is extremely laggy, to the point where it is unusable. I also have an XP VM and when connected via the OSX client, its performance is also abysmal.

Any ideas??

Errors appearing in syslogs

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:17:40 GMT

We have ESX1 4.1 and a mixture of EMC Clarions, VNX arrays and HITACHI USPV

We are getting a lot of the following entries in the syslog entries for many of our locations and the bleades on them

May 1 00:04:11 esxfarm010-benc005bl10 vmkernel: 188:13:23:21.028 cpu6:4102)NMP: nmp_CompleteCommandForPath: Command 0xf1 (0x4102bfa52840) to NMP device "naa.6006016053302800f010c82f462bdf11" failed on physical path "vmhba1:C0:T6:L145" H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0xe 0x1d 0x0.

followed closely by

May 1 00:04:11 esxfarm010-benc005bl10 vmkernel: 188:13:23:21.028 cpu6:4102)ScsiDeviceIO: 1672: Command 0xfe to device "naa.6006016053302800f010c82f462bdf11" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x7 Possible sense data: 0x0 0x0 0x0.

We have checked the status of the physical paths and all seem fine.

I am wondering if anyone else has seen this error and can advise if it is an issue/bug and what might be done to resolve it.

DRS Anti-affinity rules

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:53:05 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I want to create VM-VM anti-affinity rules for 4 VMs. We are using vSphere 4.0 U2 on our environment.

What would be the number of rules that need to created on the DRS Cluster?

Is it 6 rules? or is it different now.

4 VMs = 6 Rules ( VM1/VM2, VM1/VM3, VM1/VM4, VM2/VM3, VM2/VM4, VM3/VM4 )

Extract Workload Stats

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:34:03 GMT

Is there a way to easily extract the workload stats from all the guests, i.e., in the Mailserver for example we would like a report of the actual metric data. We are running some experiments and would like to see how the detailed metrics. I looked at the tilescore.pl file where it actually gets teh data, but short of modifying it is there an easier way?

Moussa

Direct I/O VT-d on CPU - is it needed for a Lab Server to get certified?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:04:19 GMT

Hello,

Is Direct I/O VT-d on CPU required on lab server or suggested and why?

Been looking at servers and trying to narrow down a inexpensive option but with all the real-life features.

Thank You!

Wayne

DRS settings

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:57:24 GMT

Hi all

****************************************************************************************************

Environment:

1x Cluster

8x hosts ESX4.1U1 upgrading to U2

64Gb upgrading to 128Gb RAM

DRS: Fully automated

Threshold: Middle setting (apply priority 1, priority 2 and priority 3 recommendations)

DRS invoke frequency: default 300seconds

****************************************************************************************************

I have started to update hosts to U2 and install additional RAM. Once I bring the host back from maintenance mode, I immediately check the DRS summary tab. Fair enough the CHLSD < THLSD and therefore no DRS takes place, but I was wondering why, when you bring the host back from maitenance mode with twice the amount of memory, vcentre does not shift some VMs to this upgraded host with double physical memory installed.

Is it a matter of changing the DRS slider setting to a more aggressive level???

Comments are appreciated. rb51

Dns troubles...

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:58:28 GMT

Hi all,

Got problems on a new setup. I have an esxi5 host with four vm's on it, one of which is a 2003sbs domain controller p2v'd, one is a 2008r2 rds host and the others are xp pro running menial tasks.

I have no forward looking DNs lookup from the vm's or rds clients. The domain controller runs dns and was working happily before. I can ping outside dn's and it works but cannot use names. However, my xp workstations which are controlled by the dc have full access to the net.

I have run tracert and on my xp box it runs fast and brings back ip addresses and some resolved names, however on the failing vm's it reports the timings quickly but then stalls when bringing back the ip or name, it only ever brings an ip back, no dn's. The timing results are similar, just no names.

I did notice that In ESXi client under host/configuration/dns I had mistakenly entered the gateway where the dns entry should be, I changed this but made no difference, sold I need to restart or something if this is the cause? As I say, domain workstations are all ok, just vm's are failing.

Im struggling on this one as its my first vm setup and also not used to dns troubles.

Thanks

Dave

Disable Lion Full Screen Mode

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:04:16 GMT

Is it possible to disable Fusion's use of OSX's full screen mode, and go back to the way it was in SL, or am I SoL? (har har)

I absolutly hate full screen mode. That goes double for fusion's use of it. It definitely makes my life more difficult.

Thanks!

Firewall ports for PCoIP

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:10:11 GMT

I am running a vmware view environment here and we have a pool with a few remote workstations that are used by the system admins when they are working remotely or responding to incidents on call. For security purposes, we have our servers segmented by VLAN and protected heavily via firewall (i.e. all traffic from outside the server VLAN is explicitly blocked). Because of this, I seem to be encountering a problem with getting the vmware view client to connect to the remote workstations (inside the server VLAN) via PCoIP. I am sure this is a firewall issue, because I can connect fine via RDP (the ports for this are open in the firewall) and I temporarily put in a rule to allow all traffic to the IPs of the remote workstations, which allowed me to connect via PCoIP, but immediately after disabling this rule I could once again not connect via PCoIP. The solution of course seems to be to open the PCoIP ports to the remote workstation, but after scouring the internets yesterday I couldn't seem to get a complete list of the ports I need to open. I looked at the kb article here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1027217 and tried just opening those specific ports, but I still could not connect. Does anyone have a comprehensive list of ports to open? I would rather not have to create a rule to open all ports to these machines. Thanks in advance

WARNING: Unable to populate snapshot size due to unsiffucient

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:04:07 GMT

I moved my scripts to a new server and am getting this error from one of the vCenters (but not on the original server)...

function vCell01SnapshotSize {

$VIServer = "rtpvcell70"

connect-viserver -server $VIServer -user $User -password $Password

$filenamesnaps = 'C:\MyDocs\work\Virtualization\VMWare\VMware_Healthcheck\Notes_Fields\TCOMDB_Data\vcell01_consolidated_snapshotsize.csv'

$DiskInfoDef = @"

public struct DiskInfo {

public string VMname;

public string TotalSnapMB;

$vms = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property "LayoutEx", "Snapshot", "Config.Hardware.Device", "Name"

$maxSnapshot = ($vms | %{$_.LayoutEx.Snapshot.Count} | Measure-Object -Maximum).Maximum

1..$maxSnapshot | %{

$DiskInfoDef += ("`n`tpublic string Snap" + $_ + "MB;")

}

$DiskInfoDef += "`n}"

Add-Type -Language CsharpVersion3 -TypeDefinition $DiskInfoDef

$snapHash = @{}

filter Get-SnapHash{

$snapHash[$_.Snapshot.Value] = $_.Name

if($_.ChildSnapshotList){

$_.ChildSnapShotList | Get-SnapHash

}

$vms | %{

$vm = $_

if($vm.Snapshot){

$vm.Snapshot.RootSnapshotList | Get-SnapHash

}

$_.Config.Hardware.Device | where {$_.DeviceInfo.Label -like "Hard disk *"} | %{

$hd = $_

$vm.LayoutEx.Disk | where {$_.Key -eq $hd.Key} | %{

$diskFiles = $_.Chain | %{$_.FileKey} | %{$_}

}

$diskInfo = New-Object DiskInfo

$diskInfo.VMname = $vm.Name

$snapNr = 1

if($vm.Snapshot){

$totalSnapMB = 0

$vm.LayoutEx.Snapshot | %{

$_.Disk | where {$_.Key -eq $hd.Key} | %{

$prevFiles = $_.Chain | %{$_.FileKey} | %{$_}

}

$vm.LayoutEx.Disk | where {$_.Key -eq $hd.Key} | %{

foreach($chain in $_.Chain){

if($prevFiles -notcontains $chain.FileKey[0] -and $prevFiles -notcontains $chain.FileKey[1]){

break

}

$snapFiles = $chain.FileKey | %{$_}

$snapSize = ""

if($snapFiles){

$snapAllocated = 0

$vm.LayoutEx.File | where {$snapFiles -contains $_.Key} | %{

$snapAllocated += $_.Size

}

$snapSize = ("{0:N1}" -f ($snapAllocated / 1MB))

}

$diskInfo.("Snap" + $snapNr + "MB") = $snapSize

$totalSnapMB += ($snapAllocated / 1MB)

$snapNr++

}

$totalSnapMB = ($totalSnapMB/1024)

$diskInfo.TotalSnapMB = ("{0:N1}" -f $totalSnapMB)

}

$diskInfo

}

} | Export-Csv $filenamesnaps -UseCulture -NoTypeInformation

Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$False

}

function vCell01SnapshotQty {

$VIServer = "rtpvcell70"

connect-viserver -server $VIServer -user $User -password $Password

$filenamesnapqty = 'C:\MyDocs\work\Virtualization\VMWare\VMware_Healthcheck\Notes_Fields\TCOMDB_Data\vcell01_consolidated_snapshotqty.csv'

Get-VM | select Name,

@{N="#Snapshots";E={($_ | Get-Snapshot).Count}} |`

Export-Csv $filenamesnapqty -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$False

}

vMotion for database applications

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:50:48 GMT

Is there anyone who can tell me that vMotion is recommended for database applications or not? and why or why not?

Wireless Hosted Network

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:53:28 GMT

Hi,

the Microsoft Wireless Hosted Network works fine without Vmware Workstation 8 but with Vmware running clients cannot connect to the virtual AP. Is this a known conflict? Does some workaround exist or is some patch planned?

Thanks

Roland

Projet VmWare - partie réseau

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:18:07 GMT

Bonjour,

Actuellement en charge d'un projet VMWare, j'aimerais poser quelques questions avant de me lancer.

Pour commencer, combien de vm peut on mettre dans un vswitch qui est en teaming sur 2 cartes réseau ?

Comment le teaming est géré avec le HA en cas de panne ?

Merci d'avance.

syslog errors after upgrade to 5i

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:31:53 GMT

Hello,

I have 4x ibm x3650m2 running esx 4.1u2 (not esxi) + netapp filer as remote storage. vCenter already upgraded tp 5.0u1. I upgraded first of my hosts to esxi 5.0u1, trying to learn from this before upgrading the other hosts too. But there are some errors in syslog which I do not observe in the old esx 4.1 environment.

1. some failures on the local server drive (mirror of two scsi disks), cca every 5 minutes:

<181>2012-05-15T20:13:29.932Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz vmkernel: cpu1:2049)ScsiDeviceIO: 2322: Cmd(0x4124006f1000) 0x12, CmdSN 0x4af9 from world 0 to dev "naa.600508e000000000b20c65deec451409" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.

2. http service error, regularily every 5 minutes:

<166>2012-05-15T20:14:21.147Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: [FFD6AAC0 info 'Vmomi'] Activation [N5Vmomi10ActivationE:0x34bcf138] : Invoke done [waitForUpdates] on [vmodl.query.PropertyCollector:ha-property-collector]

<166>2012-05-15T20:14:21.147Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: [FFD6AAC0 info 'Vmomi'] Throw vmodl.fault.RequestCanceled

<166>2012-05-15T20:14:21.147Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: [FFD6AAC0 info 'Vmomi'] Result:

<166>2012-05-15T20:14:21.147Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: --> (vmodl.fault.RequestCanceled) {

<166>2012-05-15T20:14:21.147Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: --> dynamicType = <unset>,

<166>2012-05-15T20:14:21.147Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: --> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

<166>2012-05-15T20:14:21.147Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: --> msg = "",

<166>2012-05-15T20:14:21.147Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: --> }

<166>2012-05-15T20:14:21.148Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: [3520EB90 error 'SoapAdapter.HTTPService'] HTTP Transaction failed on stream TCP(local=127.0.0.1:0, peer=127.0.0.1:57993) with error N7Vmacore15SystemExceptionE(Connection reset by peer)

3. no idea what it could be:

<166>2012-05-15T20:24:47.871Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Vpxa: [34FDAB90 info 'Default' opID=HB-host-9@216-d885556c-54] [VpxLRO] -- BEGIN session[52698378-bfc7-eaa9-5c9d-b6c4d486251f]52cfdd80-c0e6-5018-ac15-046666a9cf8c -- -- vpxapi.VpxaService.retrieveChanges -- 52698378-bfc7-eaa9-5c9d-b6c4d486251f

<166>2012-05-15T20:24:47.935Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: [34E81B90 error 'Default' opID=HB-host-9@216-d885556c-54] Unable to parse MaxRam value:

<166>2012-05-15T20:24:47.936Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: [34E81B90 error 'Default' opID=HB-host-9@216-d885556c-54] Unable to parse MaxRamPerCpu value:

<166>2012-05-15T20:24:47.936Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Hostd: [34E81B90 error 'Default' opID=HB-host-9@216-d885556c-54] Unable to parse MinRamPerCpu value:

<166>2012-05-15T20:24:47.938Z esx1-mng.natur.cuni.cz Vpxa: [34FDAB90 info 'Default' opID=HB-host-9@216-d885556c-54] [VpxLRO] -- FINISH session[52698378-bfc7-eaa9-5c9d-b6c4d486251f]52cfdd80-c0e6-5018-ac15-046666a9cf8c -- -- vpxapi.VpxaService.retrieveChanges -- 52698378-bfc7-eaa9-5c9d-b6c4d486251f

From the subjective point of view, the server is working, virtual machines run on it with no visible problem, vmotion is working, no errors or warnings in vcenter GUI client regarding this host.

Is it safe to continue with the upgrades or is it something serious ?

Thanks,

David

Доступ через VPN к гостевой системе

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:18:49 GMT

Добрый день!

Возникла такая проблема:

Есть сервер на Win2003 x64, на котором средствами RRAs поднят впн сервер. На этом же сервере крутится на VmWare 8 сервер на Win 2003 x32, который сообщается с локальной сетью через автобриджинг.

При подключении к VPN отлично пингуются любые машины в сети кроме гостевой ОС.

При подключении непосредственно через локалку гостевая ОС отлично пингуется.

Т.е. диспозиция такая:

192.168.254.100 (Сервер ВПН, головная машина для ВМ, 2003 x64) -> 192.168.254.8 (автобриджинг, гость 2003 x86) -- пингуется

192.168.253.10 (клиент ВПН) -- > 192.168.253.1 (Сервер ВПН, головная машина для ВМ, 2003 x64) -- пингуется

192.168.253.10 (клиент ВПН) -- > 192.168.254.254 (некая машина в сети) -- пингуется

192.168.254.254 (нека машина в сети) -- 192.168.254.8 (автобриджинг, гость, 2003 x86) -- пингуется

192.168.254.8 (автобриджинг, гость, 2003 x86) -- 192.168.254.254 (нека машина в сети) -- пингуется

192.168.253.10 (клиент ВПН) -- > 192.168.254.8 (автобриджинг, гость, 2003 x86) -- НЕ пингуется

В чем может быть проблема? Я что-то уже ума не могу приложить...

Any security implications on not including security updates on ThinApp'ed Office 2010?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:07:38 GMT

Hi,

I have a question regarding ThinApp'ed Office 2010. We have a virtualized Office 2010 package that is running on our VDI environment. Over time, Microsoft will release new security patches for Office components, some of them being absolutely criticial. I tried using sbmerge process (by making the cmd.exe entry point when running build.bat) to include the security patches (manually downloaded them) but the patch install itself just keeps failing - or at least it reports that it has failed.

So my question is: what would be the risk of not including new security patches on your ThinApp'ed Office package? Minimal since your app is sandboxed? Or should it be treated like a natively installed app. For now, it looks like I'll have to re-start the Office capture every time I need to install the security patch for Windows/Office, and that seems rather unwieldly, if not too tedious.

One strategy I employed was to snapshot it after installing the patches during setup capture and shut down the ThinApp workstation VM. That way, I can install new security patches by rolling back to the snapshot. Once the new security patches are applied, I can run the post-scan. The only drawback is that all the tuning applied to the Office package has to be re-applied. Also, if Windows patch needs to be installed, I'll have to roll back to the clean state, install the windows patches, and then re-do all the setup capture again. I hoped that sbmerge process would work, but it doesn't seem to be that easy.

Thanks in advance.

Staying logged in through java apis

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:06:16 GMT

Hi,

I have created a list of various java functions which I will use as wrappers around various common tasks in our cloud. We will run these tasks from both command line, and later from the web so if we can use this one implementation in java that would be great. The java functions login before they run using command line arguments as username / password / organization, and finally exit so we repeat this multiple times to achieve various combinations of actions.

The problem is, the login part of the java code seems to take at least 3-4 seconds so can we get around this somehow by doing something similar to what can be done with php, ie get some sort of authentication / session / id after one login, and reuse that multiple times?

Otherwise I guess the question is what can be done to improve login times as our vCloud server / db arn't overly stressed. Changing from FQHN to IP Address in the login call doesn't seem to help. If we can get login down to less than 1 second, we won't have to worry about keeping a session / authentication id etc.

Regards,

Mark

Office 2003 Thinapp - source XP, destination XP / 7x64

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:38:09 GMT

Hi all,

I'm trying to build one Office 2003 thinapp that will work across our organization.

Source computer is Windows XP. Thinapp 4.7. Tried following all steps including comments here: http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2008/10/how-to-thinap-2.html

Tried isolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSIServer... Value=ImagePath ... REG_EXPAND_SZ~"%SystemSystem%\msiexec.exe" /V#2300

Tried with Wow64=1 and Wow64=0.

Tried with Merged and WriteCopy

Tried copying PRO11.msi to Office11 Folder per App-V instructions

Tried

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer... DisableRollback - DWORD - Value=1, MaxPatchCacheSize - DWORD - Value = 0 per App-V instructions

I run this without issue on Windows XP.

On Windows 7, I open the application, a box pops up that looks like it is running an installer, and the entire program disappears nearly instantly (I don't have time to read the installer). The program appears in task manager until I manually kill it. Event log shows a single warning from MsiInstaller source 'Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x80070002'. No other events correlate with running the application.

Any tips before calling VMware? I see no reason for separate Office 2003 packages, given that Office 2003 can run on Windows 7 x64 natively.

Your insight would be greatly appreciated!

I passed my VCP-510 exam, but just barely...

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:26:34 GMT

I'm disappointed with my score...

My brother quoted the perrenial question: "Do you know what they call the person who graduates last from medical school? 'Doctor.'"

But damn, I put so much work into my tiny ESXI/NFS/VCenter lab...And too many questions on the VCP-510 exam were about FCoE and big disk arrays that I don't have access to.

Lab:

Two brand-new Asus Intel i3 Hypervisor boxen for a cluster with 4x4=16GB each. (~$900USD)

4 additional gigabit nics (~? Cheating...Gigabit nics are lying around.)

8-port managed gigabit switch. (~$200USD)

One old Intel Dual Core E6600 boxen with a maxed-out 8GB for Windows 2008 R2 and VCenter (~$200USD for the memory upgrade...And VCenter can be installed on the same Domain Controller hardware with a hack.)

One ancient Dell Pentium III running FreeNAS as a shared NAS for VMware Storage vMotion...But...Oh man...The process was SLOW.

Restrict access to view desktops by IP

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:28:41 GMT

Does someone know, or know how to restrict the access to some desktops pools by the ip address of the client? We need to achive this because our users will need to reach some differents desktops pool dependly of their location within the campus (we are a College). But we dosen't want a user to reach the pool of a certain lab, when he is not in the lab...Here each lab have his own subnet..

Regards.

HP SIM WBEM polling working, but event notification not

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:37:28 GMT

We have a number of ESXi hosts in the field that are all configured, as far as we can tell, identically.

We have successfully added them to HP SIM using WBEM, and WBEM correctly showes their hardware status.

If an alert-worthy event happens, however, some of the ESXi hosts will NOT send a WBEM alert. The status in HP SIM changes, but no event is received or recorded,

The hosts that are not sending the alert events are consistent in their failure

The hosts that are sending alerts are consistent in their success.

Other devices at the failing hosts' site which are configured for SNMP are sending traps without issue.

We've already tried:

unsubscribing/subscribing

deleting the host from HP SIM and re-adding it

restarting the host

reinstalling the HP bundle on the host

reloading the router config

restarting router

We've put a packet sniffer on the network of both a successful host and a failing host and there is not one packet being generated between the failing unit and the default gateway. (all hosts are remote from the SIM location, but routers are identically configured, traceroutes look good, no other network issues observed)

Anyone have any idea or experienced anything similar?

Thinapp 4.6 - Scanner is busy

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:25:36 GMT

Hi,

We have a weird problem.

When we use a Cannon DR-2510C scanner (32bit driver) on a windows 7 32 bit client from a virtual application everything works fine.

On a windows 7 64 bit client we receive the error 'scanner is busy operation cannot be completed - 4437'.

The scanner can be used on a windows 7 64 bit client from a local application.

The scanner doesn't have a 64bit driver.

Any ideas on how to make this work?

Greetings,

Lindsay

ThinApp Project 2010 + Native Excel 2010

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:26:37 GMT

Hi,

To be able to use Project 2010 visual reports, it requires Excel.

But the ThinApp can't find it when it's installed nativelly. And unfortunatelly, Applink to Excel ThinApp triggers the licensing error.

Is there a workaround?

Thanks.

shared virtual machine very slow on workstation 8.0.1

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:26:24 GMT

does anyone experience the slow response when remotely working on the shared virtual machines? At the same time, the shared virtual machines response normally when working from the host machine.

thanks.

Windows 2008 R2 VM not restarting correctly after manual Failover

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:10:49 GMT

I'm having an issue where my W2K8 R2 VMs are not shutting down / starting up correct after a failover.

I have 2 Servers in my Cluster (2 x HP DL380 G7) running on ESXi 5.0.

The Management Server is a HP DL180 G6 running VCenter 5.0.

I have both VMotion & HA configured.

All the VMs are running from my FC Disk Array (HP P2000) and both my ESXs have access to the LUNs configured on my Disk Array.

So we are testing the HA Failover..

What we do is, we have an x amount of VMs running on ESX1 and an x amount of VMs running on ESX2.

We manually turn off power on ESX2 to see if the VMs running on ESX2 migrate correctly to ESX1.

The VMs DO migrate to ESX1 after turning off ESX2.

But when they are migrated and restarted on ESX1, that VMs will tell you something on the lines of: "Windows was not shutdown correctly. Do you want to start in safe mode / normal mode / command prompt etc."

Any one has an idea of what might be the cause of this? I have never encountered this before.

I checked with a colleague of mine, and he has not seen this before either.

All the VMs in question have VMWare tools installed on them.

And the settings for VM Monitoring are set for both "VM" and "Application Monitoring".

Thanks in advance....

windows 7 64bit as the host , centos 64 bit as guest cant get static ip with brige config

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:02:09 GMT

i have installed centOs 64 bit on my vmware player every thing is working fine and the CentOS is working but when i do

if config -a i dont get any static ip number that i could connect to with putty ( ssh server is up i checked )

i configured to brige as all articals say but still i dont get static ip :

i attached picture of the output

Best course of action to fix a vm with 57 snapshots

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:01:57 GMT

We use a backup program called Acronis vmProtect and apparently it went haywire with one of our virtual machines. It creates snapshot and attaches a disk to itself (its a virtual appliance) and runs a backup to acronis tib file. Well for whatever reason it was not disconnecting the snapshot disks and then the snapshots would not consolidate automatically like they do for other virtual machines. Anyway this ended up happening for a few weeks and now once I go in to check the vmware filesystem I noticed over 56 snapshots (I guess 57 if you count today).

According to vmware support, they only support 32 snapshots. They recommend cloning or doing a V2V conversion of the machine. Here is the thing.. this is a production server with heavy I/O during the week. Whatever we do needs to be able to get done in a weekend. Its almost a terabyte in size. Its SQL server and document image/ storage platform that cannot be taken down during normal hours (M-Sat)

What do you think would be the most efficient, fastest way to go? I have the vmware vcenter converter standalone or there is the option of right clicking on it in vcenter and doing a clone.

Whatever the result is, I need it to be quick, easy and be able to power on the new VM with no data loss, and no ridiculous number of snapshots that cannot be merged.

vCenter ESX 4.1 Update 2

VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone Client 4.3.0 build-292238

Datastores

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:32:29 GMT

Добрый день!

Проблема у меня в следующем:

есть 10 хостов ESX4.1 build 502676, vCenter Server 4.1 build 491557, на хранилке сделано 7 LUN`ов. 1LUN=1 Datastore

При перезагрузке любового хоста, все Datastore пропадают, приходится их монтировать руками из консоли.

Возможно, кто то сталкивался с такой проблемой?

recommendations for a syslog server

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:02:25 GMT

Hey

I'm looking for recommendations about a syslog server for my environment...

There are something like 400-500 ESXi's.

I read about some options..but I don't feel I have enough information to decide what is the best for us.

I'm looking for something that is free.

There are:

*vMA

*vMA + free Splunk (500MB/day)

*rsyslog

*syslog-ng

I missed something?..

What syslog server do you use?and which is recommended for such a big environment?

Thx!!:)

Revert to snapshot - A general error occurred invalid argument

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:06:04 GMT

Hi all,

I have a ubuntu guest on a vmware 4.1 virtual host which unexpectedly stopped booting over the weekend. I was able to revert to a snapshot (snapshot 00001) but really want to get back to the next snapshot, 00002. However, when I go to snapshot manager and attempt to go to my second snapshot, I am getting the following:

Revert snapshot

(HOSTNAME)

A general system error occurred: Invalid argument root

(Root had been disabled on this machine, being a ubuntu server, not sure how that plays into it)

If anyone could help me to troubleshoot what could be keeping me from getting to this snapshot, it would be great, we have a lot of hard work in there that we'd like to recover.

Thanks!

Matt

Multiple NICs issue

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:45:09 GMT

I installed workstation 8 (trial) on win 7. I have some VMs on it & today I faced an issue related to bridged network. now my config is like this:
Base Machine: 2 NICs (Wired & wireless)
IPs: 192.168.10.11 (wired) / 10.12 (wireless).

workstation - 3 NIC config
VMnet0: wired nic
VMNet1: wireless nic
VMnet2: NAT

VM: Oracle Linux, NICs - eth0 (VMnet0) & eth2 (VMnet1)
IPs: 192.168.10.14 (eth0) / 10.15 (eth2)

Hope u understood my scenario. now problem is if i am using 1-1 nics on both host & VM, everything is fine. but the moment i activate another NIC on base O/s & if same nic (VMnet1) is also started in VM, i'll loose the connectivity with base O/s (tried ping b/w base O/s & VM).

I don't know whats the problem (is it something to do with looping)???

please help

VMware Certification Announces Upgrade Path from VCDX4 to VCDX5

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:32:38 GMT

Following the release of the VCAP5-DCD Beta exam results, the VMware Certification Team is pleased to announce the upgrade path from VCDX4 to VCDX5.

Current VCDX4 holders in good standing will be able to upgrade their certification to VCDX5 by successfully passing the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5- Datacenter Design (VDCD510) exam. The VCAP5-DCD exam release date will be announced in May. Release of the VCAP5-DCD final exam blueprint will occur at that time.

All VCDX4-holders wishing to upgrade will be required to achieve VCP5. There will be a three-month window following the VCAP5-DCD exam release during which the VCP5 certification requirement will be satisfied upon successful completion of the VCAP5-DCD exam. After the three-month window expires, all VCDX4-holders will be required to satisfy published training and examination requirements for VCP5 prior to completing their upgrade via the VCAP5-DCD exam.

VCDX4-holders in good standing who have completed the VCAP5-DCD Beta Exam and achieved a passing score have satisfied the requirements for VCDX5 and are thus certified.

Workstation 8 - Stretch old game resolution to fill the Console View.

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:35:56 GMT

I have Workstation 8.0.3 and a Windows XP Pro SP3 VM with VMWare Tools installed.

I set the resolution of this VM to 800x600 (32 bit).

My purpose is to play an old game in windowed mode, as if my monitor was an old 800x600 or 1024x768 (my new monitor is 1440x900).

The old game is Dune 2000, that has a native resolution of 640x400.

When I launch the game in the Console View, it appears 640x400 with black borders around.

I don't want play the game in real Full Screen mode (the graphics would be too extended), but only stretch its resolution to fill the 800x600 Console View. So the question is:

Is it possible to stretch the resolution of an old game to fill the Console View?

Thanks for any help!