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Upgrading from vi3.5 to vSphere, Best Practise for vCenter Heartbeat

Nautilus — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:04:42 GMT

Hi,

vcenter is a virtual Mashine with vcenter 4U2. Now i want upgrade the hosts from 3.5 to vsphere.

What is the best way to upgrade the vcenter VM ? Because i have to upgrade the vmware tools, upgarde virtual Hardware, some reboots.....

I will upgrade the hosts on Site1 this Week and the Hosts on the Site 2 nect week.
2 Sites (routed Network), 3 Hosts on each Site. All Hosts are 3.5

thanks for any help

frequent 1 minute freeze

crescendas — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:50:53 GMT

Anyone experiencing the whole ESX server (including all the VMs running on it) suddenly stop responsing for about a minute for no reason and back to normal quite frequently? Any possible cause and solution?

The VMs freeze up at 11:26am and 11:57am, matching the performance chart of zero activitiy.(See attached chart.jpg)

Thanks,

Boon Hong.

Upgrade Virtual Center 2.5 to Update5

scl5451 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:58:42 GMT

I did some googling but can't find some step by step upgrade guide.

I was recently asked to update our Virtual Center 2.5 to U5.

Any reference how to do this?

Thank you.

Upgrade to Workstation 7.0.1 will not complete the install

Xiantis — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:52:50 GMT

After trying to use the upgrade option within workstation to upgrade from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1,(and downloading the full version with tools)

Running the install with administrator privalages, it now start the installation process and runs for about 2-3 second before saying please reboot now or later.

I rebbot the workstation and after signing back in as the same user it then goes through the setup process and does the same thing over and over again.

Host was working fine on 7.0.0, the host is running windows 7 Home Premium x64 with 4GB RAM.

Even now I cannot install prior version either, as it is doing the samething.

Any help would be appeciated.

Virtual Mac in the Cloud - Disccloud?

fletch00 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:07:28 GMT

Hi, apologies if this is not the best forum -but

Has anyone had experience deploying Snow Leopard to VMWare ESX 4 (vSphere 4 U1) using Disccloud or the like?

I've requested a trial but not received a response yet...

Thanks

VCP

Upgrade ESXi 4.0.0 to ESXi 4.0.0 Update 1

ALix360 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:11:33 GMT

Greetings!

We try to apply ESXi 4.0.0 Update 1 using vSphere Hos update utility. Update file saved on local machine (ESXi-4.0.0-1.9.208167-upgrade-release.zip). Then I chose host and push upgrade button, enter update file location, validating seems ok. On the step "Host compatibility chek" we got error message on Russian "Входная строка имела недопустимый формат" in English it sounds like "Input string has wrong format". Then Host compatibility chek can't complete for a couple of days. Log file in attachment.

Client OS - Windows 2008 Web Standard Russian.

ESXi hardware -hp Proliant ML350 G6.

ESXi 4.0.0 build 208167.

Bare minimum hardware configuration to install either ESX or ESXi

Appala — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:08:08 GMT

I have been planning to buy a computer to install either ESX or ESXi. What is the bare minimum configuration that computer needs to have (Like Processor, RAM, Hard Disk space etc) to run two hosts on it with 5 to 10 VMs? Can someone help me on this?

Thanks

no hard drives found

akazad — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:28:48 GMT

hello

I'm facing problem when i want to install mikrotik on IBM system x3400.
it shows no HDD found.
It's RAID 5 configured.
would u pls tell me how can I solve the problem.

Azad.

Editing the hard drive contents in Windows 7

hexxx — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:41:38 GMT

I have a virtual machine with Windows XP SP2. I often change the contents of its hard drive manually, i.e. map the drive and then uncheck read-only mode. Using Vmware on Vista I have no problems with editing the files, but in Seven there are only problems:
1) The applications, running from the administrator account just don't see the mapped drive.
2) If I run vmware from the administrator account it can't map the drive. No error is shown.
3) I can't modify the files or copy them to the mapped drive, just like I don't have the permissions. But if I try to modify the permissions for the files or folders, I get the error the it's not available.

All these problems are actual for 7.0.0 and 7.0.1 versions.

Seems like I have to disable UAC to make it all work?

Require script to list files with sizes on all datastores in a cluster

NuggetGTR — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:56:08 GMT

HI ALL,

Please be gentle, im not new to Vmware but new to powershell/powercli and need your help.
is this something power cli can do or is there tools available that will do this for me?

I need to generate a list of all vm files in all datastores available to a cluster and their sizes to go along with it.
I am mainly interested in the .log files and the vmdk files but I don’t mind if it lists all.
I don’t mind how its laid out im not after something fancy just a list type of output something like

/<datastorename>/<vm folder>
<file> <size>
<file> <size>
/<datastorename>/<vm folder>

I have done some searching but there is nothing that I have found that will do this.

My environment is currently esx 3.0.2 with vcenter servers. (currently in the process of upgrading to 4)

Thanks heaps for any help

503 service unavialable

VNetworker — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:37:47 GMT

I have installed ESX but after I reloaded it I tried to connect to it using VSC it gives this error message service 503 unavialable
I am using windows 7 ultimate edtion.

Can any one please tell me how to fix this ???

Update manager 4.0 not able to scan host.

Ravi1987 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:44:43 GMT

hi i have recently upgrade my vcenter to 4.0 from 2.5 update3. update was successfull. but when i try to scan the host for patching it gives me an error

"Cannot find the patch metadata. You may try redownloading patches,
or ensuring the network connectivity and DNS beween VMware vCenter
Update Manager and host are setup correctly. Check host agent, vpxa
and esxupdate logs for details.

Thanks.

no hard disk drives found at the time of mikrotik installation.

akazad — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:37:17 GMT

hello

I'm facing problem when i want to install mikrotik router OS on IBM system x3400.
It shows no hard disk drives found.
It's RAID 5 configured.
would u pls tell me how can I solve the problem.

Azad.

CPU %100 Issue

lk5246 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:14:53 GMT

i have hp dl380 g3 its using %100 cpu in the vi client as well as in the w2k3 os can someone help me figure this out? can someone please give me patch

Thanks

vmxnet3 drivers for linux

psingh1 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:49:54 GMT

I've installed vmware-tools with the vmxnet driver on montavista linux, but still not able to get the VMXNET3 NIC up. The interface is not responding to ifconfig. The vmxnet driver is not loading using insmod.

Is the driver for vmxnet3 not included in the vmware-tools ?

Which approach is better to increase VMFS datastore ?

TonyJK — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:53 GMT

Hi,

Currently, there is a FC VMFS volume with size of around 500GB (Block size 2MB). There are additional free space (another LUN available).

We would like to know which approach is better ?
a) In VI Client, press Increase "VMFS Datastore" and add the unused LUN to it ? Does it mean that it will create an extent ? From memory, VMWare does not recommend this method before vSphere.
b) Create a bigger LUN in the SAN and converted it to a VMFS Volume. Then migrate the VMs on the original VMFS Volume to it via vStorage ?

Your advice is sought.

Thanks

Just a test

CarolineSolSet — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:28:14 GMT

This is just a test.

Host update issues with ESX4i build 175625

g3uiss — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:54:50 GMT

I have issues with the HUU build 208111 on an ESX4i 175625. THe Host Update Utility tells me that this host cannot be patched or upgraded. I understood the HUU was backward compatible. Please see screen shot. If I roll back to the previous build HUU it apears fine (But needs the W7 work around)

Tony

Creating optional partitions on ESX 4

auscop — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:34:36 GMT

The VMware vSphere upgrade and installation documention mentions that you can add optional partitions for example /home and /opt during or after installation/upgrade. I can't seem to find the "How-To" for AFTER the installation. We unfortunately took the default disk config of just / /var/log /boot and swap. Now in an attempt to meet the VMware hardening guide I now want to create a /home and /opt on the VMFS datastore created by the vSphere upgrade. The datastore is approx 70G and the VMFS disk created by the upgrade is only about 9G, it looks like this virtual disk can't be modified because it created two primary partitions and then an extended with / using the entire extended partition. I created an additional VMFS disk within the 70G datastore but could not find a way of getting ESX to discover the new partition so it could be partitioned and formated.

Can anyone point me in the direction of the documentation or point me in the direction on how to fix this.

Thanks in advance

auscop

64 bit OS

chadpeppers — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:49:56 GMT

I am looking to purchase a desktop PC that I will use to run vmware server with windows 2008 server. I tried to on my laptop and it is not allowing it because of the processor. Is there a list of processors that will allow a 64 bit virtualization?

Windows 7 Blue screens

rahulsharma — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:47:22 GMT

Hi All

Please help. I am trying to install VMWARE Workstation 7 on windows 7 home edition machine. It is 64bit i7 processor with 8 gigs of RAM.
Vmware workstation gets installed properly but the moment I restart the machine it blue screens. stop error points to latest driver installed may be corrupt and points to NDIS.sys. can anyone help me?
Thanks
Rahul

Can't connect to ESXi 4 using VSphere client - can connect to all virtual machines

mooncaptain66 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:26:16 GMT

I've had this running for several months the build number is 208167. This just started happening so I rebooted the server still have the same problem - all the VM's started up OK and I can connect to them using remote desktop (they are all W2K3 boxes execept for one Linux JumpBox).

Putty and WinSCP give a connection refused error. VSphere client says there is a connection failure. Nothing looks out of place when I connect to the console.

Does anyone have an idea how to recover from this problem?

service console commands not show with non root user

NSITPS — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:26:35 GMT

Hi
If I create a user with shell access none of the SC commands are available, even if I SU to root. As soon as I grant shell access to root the command are available once again.
I have tried adding the user account to the root user group but still have the same issue.
Am I missing something?
Thanks

Failed to add vmkernel nic: A specified parameter was not correct. vSphere CLI + ESXi 4

michigun — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:21:35 GMT

Hi. I try to add vmknic with Jumbo Frames to my distributed virtual switch.

I read the guide vSphere Command-Line Interface Installation and Reference Guide:
"vicfg-vmknic <conn_options> -a --ip <IP address> -n <net mask> "VMkernel NIC Name"
Adds a VMkernel NIC to the system."

but when I try to run command like it:
esxcfg-vmknic <connection options> -a -i DHCP "vmk5"
I see error message:
Failed to add vmkernel nic: A specified parameter was not correct.
Vim.Host.VirtualNic.Specification.Ip

What's wrong?
I tried all combinations of parameters with the same result.

Finding a VCP 4 What's New Class

BrennanB — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:23:37 GMT

Hi guys,

I missed the date for the free upgrade wxam so I am looking to take the What's New class for financial reasons. But in checking out the catalog I only see the What's New Class in 4 cities and the only Online offering for What's New is listed as a HP class that you have to use Vmware Credits to purchase.

Am I missing something?

VCP-410 Certificate Query

chatterspoint — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:23:02 GMT

Hi,

I have completed my VCP-410 exam in INDIA on 18th Dec 09 but have not receieved my welcome kit and certificate.

I have mailed to certification@vmware.com but not got a reply till now.

Any idea is there an toll free number to get help on this ?

Can I create distributed vNetwork distributed switch with vSphere Enterprise Edition ?

TonyJK — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:54:11 GMT

From the following URL, I am puzzled whether we can create vNetwork distrbuted switch with our existing Enterprise Edition.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

If the answer is YES, could any fellow elaborate on "Enabler for 3rd party switch support" ? Currently, we are using switches from DELL.

Thanks

InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty

NewtoVCentre — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:34:25 GMT

Hi,

I am a newbie to vSphere Web Services SDK.

I am trying to execute the SimpleClient.java program from the sample programs given along with the SDK.

I have set all the required variables (JAVAHOME, AXISHOME, WBEMHOME, VMKEYSTORE). I had also executed the code on friday and it worked.

After which I had turned off my machine.

Today morning when I started working on the same code to try to execute it, its giving me an exception as below:

" Caught Exception : Exception : org.apache.axis.AxisFault Message : ; nested exception is:
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty"

The way I am executing my code is as below:

$ ./run.sh com.vmware.samples.general.SimpleClient --url https://<IP>:8443/sdk --username <username> --password <password>

I am absolutely stuck up in this and am not able to understand the reason for tis exception.

Please help me with this.

thanks a lot in advance.

Very sluggish mouse response in AutoCAD--Fusion 3

ColdPressed — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:07:16 GMT

I have just installed a clean version of Fusion 3 and created a VM with Windows 7. After installing AutoCAD 2010, I am having a big problem with the performance of the mouse. The issue is that there is a significant delay in response between the mouse and the pointer on screen as I move it around inside the drawing space. As soon as the pointer moves into the menu ribbon above the drawing space, it moves normally. It also moves normally in all other circumstances within the VM.

I have read some posts describing erratic movements of the mouse, but this is not happening. Any thoughts on how to fix this would be much appreciated. As it is, it is unmanageable.

Thanks!

MBP OS X 10.6
2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB RAM

Fusion 3.0.1
WIndows 7

jumbo frames on VM nic

pearlyshells — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:17:10 GMT

We want to implement Jumbo Frames for our vMotion netowrk. This network shared 2 physical Nics with the Service Console and is separated from the VM network. Is the only way to change the NIC configuration to allow Jumbo Frames via CLI? If so, how do I do that? I don't see a way in VirtualCenter. We have VC2.5 and ESX3.5 and our VMs run Windows 2003 32 and 64 bit as well as Windows 2008 but most are not setup for vmxnet so will need to change it.

VMware Server 2 and RHEL 5.4

STRSOFTWARE — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:30:52 GMT

Just installed VMware server 2 on fresh install of Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 (with all updates) and everything installed ok (I accepted all the defaults), firewall is turned off but I cannot access the web login screen. https://localhost:8333 or http://localhost:8222 will not bring up anything.

Is there something I need to change after the install to get this working?

Thanks

Best practise what to virtualise / what to keep physical

MickJ — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:00:23 GMT

What is the prefered way / best practise for setting up a VM (3.5) environment. What I would like to now is:

If possible virtualise all servers on the a set of ESX hosts or keep e.g. 1 domain controller as a physical box
Install VC and/or license server on a physical box

Where has all of my disk space gone - vmware fusion wont run as no disk space

rb157 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:47:33 GMT

I recently installed VMWare fusion to access my bootcamp win 7 partition. I gave myself 140GB partition and installed win7 and a couple of applications. This little lot takes up about 35GB.

However I have just been told to shut down as my disk space is critically low. I have now trie to reboot and get the following error:
The file system upon which '/Users/....../VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/%2Fdev%2Fdisk0/Boot Camp partition.vmwarevm' resides is critically low on free space.

If I look at the partition within osx it shows a size of 141.57GB, 106.59 available and 34.98 used. So why does VmWare think different?

How can I get working again under VMWare and is this a known issue or is it something that I will have to live with?

Fusion 3.0 vmdk mount option not visibile in Finder

wla001 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:59:58 GMT

I upgraded to OSX 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) and Fusion 3.0.1 because I wanted to use the vmdk mounter to see into the disk of a corrupt machine.

The VMDK mounter does not appear when you right click on the file in Finder. You just see the Open with VMware Fusion option.

I just did this on a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.5 and used the VMDK mounter on this file with no difficulty.

I noticed that the Fusion 3.0 installation messages mentioned MacFuse during the install on the MacBook Pro, but I did not see the messages during the Snow Leopard install. I separately downloaded and installed MacFuse to no avail.

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

problem with vm's

ybnet — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:48:25 GMT

Hello,

My setup was stable before, then i upgraded to from vmware server 2.0.1 to 2.0.2.

Now vmware webinterface is unstable, and it will not work with remote console.

The vm's suddenly shutdown and i have to manual start it again.

im using Centos 5.4.

Does anyone have any idea how can get it stable again, and will work fine again?

cannot upgrade tools after upgrading to 7.0.1 build-227600 workstation

Veklar — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:58:32 GMT

Running Fedora 10 64 bit as host, Guest is windows 7 64 bit

when I try to update tools I get the following error.

Install of VMware Tools for Windows 2000 or later failed. Please report this to VMware or your system administrator as appropriate.

I have removed the vmware tools from the guest and tried to install but keep getting the same error.

any ideas?

Migration Assistant: Whose (Admin) User Name and Password?

bobwiker — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:24:31 GMT

My company-owned PC has two user accounts on it. One is an administrator-level account used by IT whenever they have to do stuff (once, twice a year). I do not know the username or the password for that account. The other account is mine, and it does NOT have administrator-level privileges.

When running VMware Fusion Migration Assistant the dialog states "Enter the Administrator user name and password for your PC." (See attached screenshot.)

My question is: Should I try to get the username and password for IT's admin-level account and use that with Migration Assistant, or should I try to get IT to temporarily give my account admin-level privileges in order to run Migration Assistant? Would both of those options work? I want to know exactly what I need before approaching the mighty Wizards of Oz (think flames and noise and fear and all) and asking for such privileges.

How to change ip address in windows host?

rumplesticks — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:31:32 GMT

Hi:
I am setting up a Oracle-32 Bit Linux VM (Guest OS) and Windows 7 (Host OS).
I am unable to ping from windows into Linux or vice versa.

My modem has an ip address of 192.168..... whereas my router has ip address of 10.10.10.1.

Windows 7 Host

ip address 10.10.10.110

VMWare Linux Guest

ip address 192.168.59.1

I have tried to change the ip address by using "Virtual Network Editor"--> NAT tab and selecting vmnet0 from the drop down box. Selected "Yes" for the popup window "Do you wish to enable DHCP on this VMnet?". Clicked on Edit to input an ip Address within the same subnet as my router - set it to 10.10.10.2, clicked OK to close this window and returned to main window. However, the OK button is disabled. So I tried to vmnet8 and vmnet1. I can only a message that "Click Apply". But there is no apply button.
Any idea what I am doing wrong? I have download the latest vmware server.
Appreciate any help,
Thanks

disk alignment and LVM volumes

dnetz — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:22:04 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to create a CentOS installation that will have its disks aligned according to best practices by Netapp (TR-3747) and I can't work out how to do this for LVM volumes as well. Aligning the boot partition and regular ext3 partitions seems easy using fdisk before starting the install, but the partitioning during the install insists on creating the LVM volume from unused space on the drive instead of the aligned second partition. Now I know that the Netapp tools for aligning already existing disks (mbralign) does not support LVM, does this mean that LVM itself won't allow itself to be aligned this way?

I should add that my knowledge about linux, and especially LVM is limited.

Thanks in advance,
Daniel

VMWare Fusion Version 3.0.0 (204229) & Windows XP Guest Desktop Freezes

SeanOSteen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:53:47 GMT

I've seen this thread on the boards, but not yet for this specific version of VMWare Fusion. Sarting today, I'm having some stability issues with:

Host:

Macbook Pro 2.33GHz 3GB RAM

Snow Leopard 10.6.1

VMWare Fusion 3.0.0 (204229)

Guest:

Windows XP SP3 (32bit)

1 Processor, 1GB RAM

Within 60 seconds of a fresh guest OS boot, the desktop in XP freezes. It does not refresh until I open the task manager and end the VMWareUser.exe process. The process itself does not appear to be consuming more resources than normal, but it is definitely unresponsive when I try to end the process. After I've ended the VMWareUse.exe process, XP operates normally, but I've lost some of the nice features like copy/paste & drag and drop.

Based on similar posts I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling VMWare tools on the guest, but the same behavior exists. I'm wondering if there are any others experiencing this problem and if you have any suggestions on how to resolve it.

Kindest Regards,

Sean O'Steen

NIC Down after reinstall of ESX 3.5 U4

Ajay Nabh — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:38:48 GMT

Hi All

I recently reinstalled a ESX host running on BL460c G1 server and one of the NIC is showing as down. I downloaded 3.5 Update 4 ISO from VMware to install. All servers in the farm have same hardware and ESX version and update level and there is no issue with other servers.

I did not physically touch this blade which means cable cannot be loose. I found the kb article and not sure if this is still applicable
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007180

I ran esxcfg-nics -l and same NIC has Down status. After I turned on Beacon Probing, I am getting TX packets but no RX. HP OnBoard Administrator is not complaining either.

Any pointer will be helpful

Thanks in advance
Aj

vDS Performance vs standard switch

rbmadison — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:25:21 GMT

What are the performance impacts of a vDS versus a standard host based switch. For example in a standard host switch I set the number of ports to 56 which is the default. If I increase the number of ports I can connect more NICs to the vswitch but at a loss in performance because the ESX server is now polling more ports. How does this work in the vDS world? If I create a vDS with 2 portgroups at 128 ports on each how does that translate to ESX ports being monitored and performance?

Thanks,
Rick

Is bootcamp needed??

TrevP — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:10:55 GMT

I will be installing Window Vista Ultimate on my mac, do I need to install in bootcamp and is there any advantages or disadvantages in using bootcamp with fusion

SQL Logical Consistency Errors

dustynz — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:21:45 GMT

Looks like the old issue has re appeared.
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1038138#1038138

I am getting this issue when trying to import a Organisation into CRM 4.
My setup is
Windows 7 x64
Dell Precision M4400
Dual Core Extreme Processor @ 3.06Gig
8 Gig DDR2 Ram
SATA 250 gig @ 7200rpm
SSD 128gig Kingston
Vmware Workstation 7.0.1 build 227600

I am running 3 VM's
Vmware #1 = Windows 2003 R2 Sp2 - DNS, Active Directory
Vmware #2 = Windows 2003 R2 Sp2 - SQL Server 2005 SP2
Vmware #1 = Windows 2003 R2 Sp2 - MS DCRM 4

Performing a organization import using Deployment Manager. 20 gig database.
I have tried SCSI on SSD, IDE on SSD, IDE on SATA
IDE on SATA is proving to be stable at this stage. Import will take around 24-48 hours .

What is the status of this issue?

CRM/SQL Error

14:37:05| Error| Import Organization (Name=#####, Id=62ec5871-5511-df11-aab3-000c298f8e25) failed with Exception:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: An inconsistency was detected during an internal operation in database 'tempdb'(ID:2) on page (1:114329). Please contact technical support. Reference number 4.
SQL Server detected a logical consistency-based I/O error: incorrect checksum (expected: 0x2ec101ea; actual: 0x2ee1198a). It occurred during a read of page (1:284467) in database ID 9 at offset 0x0000008ae66000 in file 'D:\SQLData\#####,.mdf'. Additional messages in the SQL Server error log or system event log may provide more detail. This is a severe error condition that threatens database integrity and must be corrected immediately. Complete a full database consistency check (DBCC CHECKDB). This error can be caused by many factors; for more information, see SQL Server Books Online.
During undoing of a logged operation in database #####', an error occurred at log record ID (169538:53114:438). Typically, the specific failure is logged previously as an error in the Windows Event Log service. Restore the database or file from a backup, or repair the database.
The log for database '#####_MSCRM' is not available. Check the event log for related error messages. Resolve any errors and restart the database.
During undoing of a logged operation in database '#####_MSCRM', an error occurred at log record ID (169708:2056:598). Typically, the specific failure is logged previously as an error in the Windows Event Log service. Restore the database or file from a backup, or repair the database.
The log for database '#####_MSCRM' is not available. Check the event log for related error messages. Resolve any errors and restart the database.
During undoing of a logged operation in database '#####_MSCRM', an error occurred at log record ID (169538:2060:2). Typically, the specific failure is logged previously as an error in the Windows Event Log service. Restore the database or file from a backup, or repair the database.
A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded.
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(DbAsyncResult result, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
at Microsoft.Crm.CrmDbConnection.InternalExecuteNonQuery(IDbCommand command)
at Microsoft.Crm.CrmDbConnection.ExecuteNonQuery(IDbCommand command, Boolean impersonate)
at Microsoft.Crm.CrmDbConnection.ExecuteNonQuery(IDbCommand command)
at Microsoft.Crm.Tools.Admin.DBImportHelper.UpdateOrganizationReferences(IDbCommand command, Guid newOrganizationId, String newFriendlyName)
at Microsoft.Crm.Tools.Admin.ImportOrganizationInstaller.Import(Guid organizationId, String organizationUniqueName, String organizationFriendlyName, String sqlServerName, String databaseName, Uri reportServerUrl, String privilegedUserGroupName, String sqlAccessGroupName, String userGroupName, String reportingGroupName, String privilegedReportingGroupName, ICollection`1 users, MultipleTenancy multipleTenancy)
14:37:05|Warning| Attempting to cancel a long running process: ProgressWizard. This might leave the data in an invalid state and the application might not function correctly.
14:37:20| Error| Import Organization (Name=#####, Id=62ec5871-5511-df11-aab3-000c298f8e25) failed.
The changes made during Import Organization could not be rolled back. Please manually delete the Organization database from the '#####' SQL Server if it was not successfully deleted.

Boot hibernated bootcamp partition?

Jaimi — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:01:38 GMT

Is it possible to boot a bootcamp partition that has been hibernated?
I'd try it, but I don't want to mess things up.

cannt unregister a Capacity-IQ from a vCenter

Itzikr — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:02:11 GMT

Hi
i had a Capacity-IQ registered against a vCenter 2.5, however i deleted the appliance without unregistering it first.
i also upgraded my vCenter to version 4 with a new IP and since then i get a plug-in error.
i tried to register a new Capacity-IQ4 against this new vcenter but im getting an error that it's already registered.
i tried to force a removal / registration but that didnt work.

any suggestion ?

Thanks

Itzik

vDR (1.2) , Network shares and deduplication

NaviTek101 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:33:55 GMT

HI,

I want to backup my VM (using vDR ) to a windows network share and I want to find out if deduplication works on a network share ? and if it does work how is it accomplished ?

Thanks, Matt

Extend Array logical drive 1,5TB to 3TB problem

mikooflo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:57:21 GMT

Hello everybody,

I have made a big mistake on my server. maybe someone can help me....
I have an ESX V4 installed as:

Logical drive 1= storage1 (host) 20GB
Logical drive 2= storage2 1400GB
Logical drive 3= storage3 1400GB

The problem is I need more space in my raid5 configuration so I had 2 drives (1TB each) and extend my logical drive 3 to 3,2TB
I know ESX doesn't support more than 2TB but the partition size on the logical drive is still 1400GB
I thought my vmfs on logical drive 3 will be mounted but not
I tried modify logical drive directly in command by changing the size but the array cannot do this
unfortunatly I installed a Windows 7 on my storage 1 and I can saw the 3,2TB drive and the 1,4TB partition but I don't know can i mount this partition and copy my vmdk in an external drive. I just need to recover my vmdk, after I will delete my logical drive
If someone has an idea this will be very cool !

No COS NIC have been added by the user

killerloop — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:30:15 GMT

Hi all,

I'm trying to deploy ESX 4 with HP RDP 3.83 (=Altiris Deployment Suite) but when the server (HP BL460c g6) restarts and start the install, I have this message. I launch manually a scripted install to compare and my message appears when I have to choose the network card and to put the ip adrress. So I put modify the os configuration file to choose eth0 and put manually the IP adress but it also doesn't work.

I also add IPAPPEND1 in the pxefile but it also doesn't work

Can you help me ?

Sébastien

Is vCenter Foundation compatible with vLad Manager

prodikey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:17:59 GMT

Hi
Just would like to confirm that is vCenter Foundation compatible with vLad Manager ?
Or I need at least vCenter STD
Please advise

regards,
Prodikey

VMDirectPath unavailable in ESXi 4.0 despite VT-d eanbled

UloPe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:56:54 GMT

Hi,

I use ESXi 4.0 free edition on a Supermicro X7SBi [1] board with a Xeon X3360 CPU.
Intel VT and VT-d are enabled in the BIOS (see screenshots).

Despite this vSphere Client shows "This host does not support passthrough" (or similar, my version is German) and "Configure passthrough" is disabled.

What is the problem here? Do I need to do something so that ESXi "picks up" the configuration from the BIOS?

Thanks
Ulrich

[1] http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3210/X7SBi.cfm

ESX上でマルチコアCPUとしてゲストOSを構成できるか

hanamura — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:35:12 GMT

こんにちは。お世話になっております。

ESX 3.5を使っています。

あるソフトウェアのライセンスが、仮想環境の場合、ゲストOSに割り当てたCPUの数だけライセンスが必要で、
コストを削減するため、ESX上のゲストOSに1CPUマルチコア(デュアルあるいはクアッド)構成で仮想マシンを作りたいのですが、
そういった設定は可能でしょうか？

VMware Fusionでは、Windows XP Homeのために、シングルプロセッサ・マルチコアの環境を作れるようなのですが、
ESXでも同じようなことができるのでしょうか？

あるいは、仮想プロセッサを2や4にしても、コアの割り当てと解釈することにして、論理CPUは１つだと考えてもよいものなんでしょうか。
仮想プロセッサの割り当てを2にすると、ゲストＯＳでは、プロセッサが２つ見えます。
これはCPUとしてなのか、コアとして２つなのかわからないです。

VMware v7 Linux ~ vmmon error.

jkra28 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:03:34 GMT

I have VMware v7 installed on OpenSuse v11.2. The installation went well and the program runs. However when I tried to create a virtual machine running Windows XP Coporate SP2 I get a error saying:

"Could Not Open /dev/vmmon: No Such File Or Directory. Please Make Sure That Kernel Module vmmon is loaded"

I had a search around and discovered that one solution is the run vmware-config.pl again but when I went to the location the only file I had even remotely resembelling this was vmware-modconfig, which when run does nothing.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks

James

ESXi 4 doesn't want to talk to just one box

RootWyrm — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:37:47 GMT

This one has me completely stumped, and I am at wit's end. I resolved (sort of) my issue with the system losing the NICs completely, and now I've run into an incredibly odd and strange issue.

ESXi 4 refuses to talk TCP/UDP with one system on my network, which is of course, the one I use for managing it. Here's where things get odd; the system cannot ping, ssh, or manage the ESXi 4 system. HOWEVER, the ESXi 4 system will happily ping the affected box with no problems.

Every other system on the network works fine for ping, ssh, the works. Absolutely no problems whatsoever, but none of them are management capable, so I'm stuck.

Any ideas? Like I said; I am completely stumped. Why is ESXi 4 refusing to talk to just the ONE system?

Encrypted virtual machine under VMWare Fusion?

newman314 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:11:57 GMT

It looks like there is an option on VMWare Workstation to encrypt a virtual machine. Does this functionality not exist on VMWare Fusion?

I have a VM that I plan to run on a regular basis between VMWare Workstation and Fusion. I would like to have the VM encrypted if possible but have questions if this will remove my ability to run this particular VM under Fusion. If the answer is no, does anyone know if encryption functionality is planned for Fusion? Thanks.

Receiving error "Cannot mount volume 1"

Kymas — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:01:59 GMT

I am trying to test VCB 1.5 with ESXi 4.0 Update 1 and Backup Exec. I am trying to do a full backup of one VM using the -t fullvm option. I can successfully run vcbmounter manually but when I try to use the scripts for Backup Exec provided by VMware I receive the following error:

Opened disk: ha-nfc://ESXi-iSCSI dc-01/dc-01.vmdk@vms-02.test.isolated.net:902
!52 a5 6d f7 31 b9 57 3a-40 d9 08 89 a5 43 36 4e
Proceeding to analyze volumes
Done mounting
Deleted directory C:mnt\dc-01\digits
Deleted directory C:mnt\dc-01\letters
~~2010-02-08 11:15:45.046 'vcbMounter' 1804 error~~ Error: Cannot mount volume 1.
~~2010-02-08 11:15:45.046 'vcbMounter' 1804 error~~ An error occurred, cleaning up

I am a bit confused because the log indicates mounting completed but then errors out mounting volume 1 ... it almost seems like it is trying to mount the vmdk file it is supposed to be backing up.

I tried Googleing for a solution but the only suggestion I found was to restart the proxy server, which I have done serveral times with no affect.

If anyone has any suggestions, they will be greatly appriciated.

Thanks,

Mark

View Connection Server Problems - Error raising port

dawho9 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:49:12 GMT

So here we go. Have a fully functional View 3.1 install w/ composer. Build an edge server (non domain member) and have ports 80 and 443 open to the edge server from the internet NAT'ed to the edge server IP address. The edge server is not in a DMZ but actually on the same subnet as the connection server, so there is no firewall between the connection server and security server. There is also no firewall between the security server/connection server and the win XP workstations. To verify I can remote desktop to the xp workstations from both the security server and the connection server.

On the edge server I have set an edge server in the connection server and saved the security file (config.properties renamed to locked.properties) into the \conf directory. I have restarted services on the edge server. During the install of the security server I was prompted to choose a location of my connection server and I put in viewmgr1.test.com which is the name of the view server that works. On the CS server, I have NOT put an external URL on the View Server as my understanding is that I do not have to put one in there.

I can login to the view client with no issues through the security server. When I attempt to launch my VM I get an error that says "The desktop is currently not available". On the CS I get the following error:

Failed to launch desktop: CN=Apps,OU=Applications,DC=vdi,DC=vmware,DC=int for user: user2: Error raising port: Session has not connected yet.

On the security server I get the following error in the event viewer:

Problem sending JMS message, message not sent: Javax.jms.JMSException and then a bunch of junk after that. The funny thing is, if I login to the XP workstation that view is attempting to connect to, I can see my connection hit the workstation as it disconnects me from the workstation and tells me it's locked by my user.

Thoughts?

Richard

how interact with vmware esx/esxi 3x server directly

shivmware4 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:10:26 GMT

hi,
i want to interact directly (without through virtual center)witch esx/esxi 3x server for theose actions, for example, create new vm, power vm off, power vm on , take a snaplot for vm, view vm cup, memory, disck space consume rate, allocate memory or cpu dynamicly. i reference to the vix api v1.7 release and cim . but both not provide create new vm and memory or cpu dynamicly, i don`t know whether the romote commond interface can porformance it, i `m not familiar with it ,

any one give suggestions? thanks

CPU load high when accessing host disks from guest

Freddan101 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:57:34 GMT

I've been trying out VMware server for a while using different guest OS. On all of them I've seen the same thing - a lot of CPU is used when accessing the host's disks from the guest. The System process is using the most. I've tried with both Windows 2003 and 2008 as host OS with the same result. I'm using the standard bridged network setup.

I would be grateful for anything I could try to get the CPU load down as this problem makes the setup quite unuseful.

Is there new steps to installing VMWare Server 2.0 on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate Retail?

drummelhart — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:08:30 GMT

Is there a reason why VMWare Server 2.0 is stalling on trying to intsall Apache Tomcat Server? Or are we all waiting for the new build to come out?

Server 2 install hangs at Installing Apache Tomcat Server

relevelence — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:32:12 GMT

Hi,

I have been trying to install VMServer 2.0.2 on Server 2008 Standard R2. The install hangs at installing Apache Tomcat Server.

Any Help would be greatful.

Thanks in advance

Cannot access any windows shares on network

mrloofer — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:04:28 GMT

Hi all

Kinda pulling my hair out over this. I've searched the forums and tried every solution out there but no matter what I try I cannot access any shares on my virtual machine, or any shares from my virtual machine across my home network. Here's my set up and what I've tried:

Running XP VM in Windows 2003 environment.

VM is running in bridged mode.

Subnet mask is the same across all machines.

I can ping all machines from the VM and to the VM.

I can see the home netowork (myhome) from the VM but when I expand it nothing happens.

Firewall disabled on all machines and no anti virus software running.

Tried renaming the home network on all machines and also tried renaming back.

Tried installing IPX/SPX/Netbios protocol and enabling it in WINS.

Tried running network set up again.

And still cannot see any shares.

Any help much appreciated!

How to get the mapping from VMDK file to the physical disk

sike — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:17 GMT

Hi,

I'm new in this area. Maybe someone already posted the similar question. We want to get a mapping between the VMDK files and the physical disk.

I can open the vmx file and get the content. But it only gives me the logical location, such as /vmfs/volumes/storage1/TestVM1/TestVM1.vmdk. But how do I know which physical hard disk this vmdk file is located? For example, /dev/sda or /dev/sdb.

Thanks.

sike

Virtualizing Premiere Pro CS4

RobCar — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:46:40 GMT

Has anyone tried virtualizing Premiere Pro CS4 from Adobe?

I captured the install and verified the native install worked, however when starting the virtual version I get an error "Adobe Premiere Pro was unable to communicate with the process 'ImporterProcessServer.' Restarting your computer may fix the problem". Other CS4 apps wrapped up just fine.

I'm new to the VMware communities and somewhat new to thinapp (only been working with it a couple months). Are there any tools for seeing what system calls, files, registry calls, etc a virtual application is trying to make? Maybe something that tells me if an app is trying to go outside the virtual bubble. Forgive me for lack of terminology...

Thanks so much for any help!

-Rob

how much video ram?

tdubb123 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:14:44 GMT

what setting should i be using for the vms for video? autodetect or manually set the res?

I have a monitor that support highest of 1680x1050 at 32 but when i set the vm to this and connect via fullscreen, I get a big black border. it does not take up the screen

Multiple storage location and multiple backup jobs on vDR?

fgl — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:20:20 GMT

Hello,

I have a few questions and excuse me if this has been asked before but I couldn't find anything on it. I currently have 1 backup job and 1 storage location for the destination. Now if I add a 2nd destination location to the same job will vDR continue to use the 1st destination location until it fills up and then start using the 2nd destination? or will vDR just randomly use whichever destination it likes at the time? Now to take it a step further what if I create a 2nd backup job and point it to the same destination as the my 1st backup job will there be any kind of confusion on the 2 backup jobs and is vDR smart enough to dedup across multiple backup jobs and multiple destination within the same backup job?

Thanks in advance.

MSI failed on latest VMware player

TCEng — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:18:10 GMT

I am using Vista 64 Ultimate. When I use "run" and add the /z switch, as follows

*VMware-player-3.0.0-203739.exe /z "action"="install", *I continue to get MSI failed error. Any suggestions.

It says "The MSI C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware_1259165632\vmwareplayer.msi" failed.

Thanks in advance.

Vmview XP machine quits

tdubb123 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:26:07 GMT

I am using pcoip to an xp machine and while working on it, it all of a sudden kicks me out and quits. When I try to pcoip to it again, it will not respond.
this has happened a few times already

Next Meeting

bmullins — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:12:20 GMT

Does anyone know when the next user gorup meeting will be?

Thanks,
Brian

USB Devices turn off on host when activated on VM

Maximilious — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:35:23 GMT

Host machine: Windows 7 Professional x64

Client VM: Backtrack 4 x86? (Not sure if Backtrack 4 works on x64 or x86 architecture, but I believe its x86)

I'm trying to connect to my wireless network via USB device on the VM. Whenever I turn the USB device on for the VM, they become disabled on the host machine. The network connections are bridged, but the wireless usb device can not be used through the VM when it becomes disabled.

USB Device is a Linksys WUSB54GC v3.

Does this problem sound familiar to anyone else when dealing with USB devices?

Keyboard issues in Windows workstation host

simdoc — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:53:57 GMT

Does anyone have problems with keyboard related issues in the VMWare Workstation host? I personally have problems with standard Windows shortcut keys not working in Windows common controls (^C/^V/tab/hotkeys) on my Windows 7 desktop running Workstation 7.0.0. My colleague has problems on his Vista desktop with the regular "C" and tab in the host.

Thanks.

Starting up a VM with java

verminator — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:49:53 GMT

I've been trying to write Java code to startup and login to a Windows Server 2003 VM. However, it doesnt quite seem to work. I'm using the VIX DLL, and using JNA calls to directly invoke the C API methods.

Here is my sample code:

jobHandle = instance.VixHost_Connect(VIX_API_VERSION, VIX_SERVICEPROVIDER_VMWARE_WORKSTATION,
"127.0.0.1" , 0, null, null, 0, VIX_INVALID_HANDLE, null, null);
long result = instance.VixJob_Wait(jobHandle, VIX_PROPERTY_JOB_RESULT_HANDLE, new int[1], VIX_PROPERTY_NONE);
if (result != VIX_OK) {
System.out.println("Error in connecting " + result);
}
instance.Vix_ReleaseHandle(jobHandle);

// Open VM
jobHandle = instance.VixVM_Open(hostHandle[0], vmxPath, null, null);
result = instance.VixJob_Wait(jobHandle, VIX_PROPERTY_JOB_RESULT_HANDLE, new int[1], VIX_PROPERTY_NONE);
if (result != VIX_OK) {
System.out.println("Error in opening VM: " + result);
}
instance.Vix_ReleaseHandle(jobHandle);

// Power On VM
jobHandle = instance.VixVM_PowerOn(vmHandle[0], VIX_VMPOWEROP_LAUNCH_GUI, VIX_INVALID_HANDLE, null, null);
result = instance.VixJob_Wait(jobHandle, VIX_PROPERTY_NONE, new int[1], VIX_PROPERTY_NONE);
if (result != VIX_OK) {
System.out.println("Error in powering VM on: " + result);
}
instance.Vix_ReleaseHandle(jobHandle);

jobHandle = instance.VixVM_LoginInGuest(loginHandle[0], "Administrator", "Password", vmxPath, null, null);
result = instance.VixJob_Wait(jobHandle, VIX_PROPERTY_NONE, new int[1], VIX_PROPERTY_NONE);
if (result != VIX_OK) {
System.out.println("Error in logging in: " + result);
}
instance.Vix_ReleaseHandle(jobHandle);

Any java developers out there who might be able to help me figure out why this isnt working right ?
I'm using the VIX sample code as reference. ( *http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/vix18_reference/lang/c/functions/VixVM_LoginInGuest.html under Examples*)

The line marked in BOLD in code, is returning result as 3, instead of VIX_OK (i.e. 0) as expected. VM doesnt even open.
Help would be appreciated.

HELP - SAN Choices: NetApp vs EMC vs EqualLogic

beverlyJean — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:48:09 GMT

We are a small shop with storage needs! We are moving to virtualize 40 servers using Vsphere and need to choose the storage piece. We've narrowed down to three final make and models:

1. NetApp - FAS2050

2. EMC - Clarrion CX4-120

3. EqualLogic - PS5000XV

Pricing is similar w/all 3 vendors and not a concern. However, Ease of Use and DR\replication abilities are our main concern. Any advice\suggestions\experiences good and bad (especially from anyone running any of these models) are welcomed in helping us make our final decision.

-appreciated.....bj

USB HDD not showing in VMWare ESXi

thymox — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:49:19 GMT

Hi all,

Running VMWare ESXi (VMkernel 3.5.0 #1 SMP Release build-153875) on the bare metal. The machine has 1TB in a RAID 5 (so around 750GB usable storage) and 2x1TB USB HDDs (for backing up onto).

The VMWare ESXi system has had ssh enabled.

When attached, the USB HDDs are shown in /var/log/messages appropriately and fdisk shows them - one example:

Disk /dev/disks/vmhba32:0:0:0: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/disks/vmhba32:0:0:1 1 121601 976760001 83 Linux

However, it doesn't show up in the vmhba32 (USB Storage Controller) entry under "Storage Adapters" on the Configuration page on the VMWare Infrastructure Client tool.

So, a couple of questions - does anyone know if it is possible to get USB devices passed to a guest OS (I'm running Windows SBS2008 and Debian Lenny as guests) or how to get USB HDDs recognised so I can use them either for extra storage in a guest or to script a backup of the ESXi server?

Cheers.
Grant.

Trouble starting VMWare 3.0.1 -- Getting Windows error message

Zico10 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:03:16 GMT

Hi,

I am running VMWare 3.0.1 having recently upgraded from version 1.0 on a MacBook Air. At start-up, getting the error message below and unable to get started. Appreciate any direction/assistance you can offer.

thank you for your time.

This is the message I am getting:

Operation on file "/Users/kaniaru/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows XP Home Edition.vmwarevm/Windows XP Home Edition-000002.vmdk" failed.If the file resides on a remote file system, please make sure your network connection and the server where this disk resides are functioning properly. If the file resides on removable media, reattach the media.
Choose Retry to attempt the operation again.
Choose Abort to terminate this session.
Choose Continue to forward the error to the guest operating system.

VMware Fusion: Windows XP Won't Start Anymore

aknit44 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:56:51 GMT

Folks, a friend of mine started getting this error once during VMware Fusion 2.0.

He upgraded to VMware Fusion 3.0 and that resolved it, but now it's back.

Basically, he can't get my WIndows XP going.

This is what is logged:

"Feb 08 12:10:05.333: vmx| VMXAIOMGR: system : err=1282 errCode=5 freeSpace=353481183232"

The these 3 errors are displayed at startup:

"Operation on the <path>/Windows XP Professional-s001.vmdk failed"

"VMware Fusion cannot sync with disk before abort. <path>/Windows XP Professional-s001.vmdk my be inconsistent"

"Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"

All help appreciated.

Cheers,

Mark.

Purple Screen of Death

VMwareman85 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:34:42 GMT

I wanted to see if someone had any recommendations on this PSOD I have, I checked the second line for error codes and did not see anything. I know its normally a hardware issue, but I wanted to see if I'm missing anything else.

Thanks!

Can't Connect via PCoIP

KGoch — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:18:29 GMT

Today I deployed several new pools in View all with PCoIP as default protocol. However when I try to connect to any of the Pools I get an error message saying:

"The display protocol for this desktop is currently busy processing a request. Please contact your system administrator."

I bounced the View Manager Server, and then tried one of the pools again. This time it went through like normal, brought up a black window like it was connected, View Client just closed itself down. And now whenever I go back to select a pool I get the above error messge.

Connecting through RDP instead of PCoIP works just fine.

What's interesting is that the pool that existsed before today (which PCoIP was working just fine on) also gives the same error as above.

Any ideas on this?

datastore and network view showing as datastore-upgrade and network-upgrade after vcenter upgrade

Ravi1987 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:52:31 GMT

hi i did vcenter upgrade from 2.5 to 4.0. upgrade done without any error.

when i browse by VIEW then datastore and network view showing as datastore-upgrade and network-upgrade after upgrade.

please tell is this alarming .

Jumbo Frames

pearlyshells — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:52:09 GMT

We have ESX3.5 update5 servers and VC2.5. Our servers are either Dell PowerEdge2950s or R900s. We use a Fibre Channel SAN on the backend. We want to implement Jumbo Frames on our vmknic of our vMotion network. Is that possible and what should I be looking for?

Problem in ISA server 2004 in Vmware workstation

Passenger67 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:36:14 GMT

Assalam alikum

i am in a desperate need of this solution because
my boss
ordered me to do as soon as possible He has no such kind of budget to
install a new separate ISA
server 2004 for clients, therefore he ordered me to make a Virtual ISA
server
2004 in the machine which is given to me. The machine is quite expensive
Core 2
Quad with 2 GB RAM

i have windows xp 64 bit on it and i need to install a virtual ISA server 2004 in my physical machine which is Core2 Quad for my clients in order to take them through the firewall and restrict them to limited resources
i have created one Virtual machine of windows server 2003 and installed ISA server on it with the help of Vmware workstation software and it works fine.
In the same physical machine, I created another virtual machine which is windows xp 32 bit to check whether the client can access the ISA server and can be restricted or not and the clients work 100 percent as expected i can apply policies on it and it is following ISA server's restrictions
even it is communicating with my physical client which is on the other room. Now the problem is when i made a client on a physical machine and it has successfully installed the firewall client and detected the ISA server 2004 but it is not giving any internet connectivity.

the conclusion is
I cannot access the internet on my physical machine how ever i am connected successfully to my ISA server 2004 Virtual machine

Message was edited by: Passenger67

Certificate Error Occurred For The Update Server (Can't Download/Install VMWare Tools)

chrison — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:33:43 GMT

Folks here have been so helpful thus far! Here's another problem I've run across...

When I click on the "VM" option in VMware Player 3.0, the "Install VMware Tools..." option is greyed out. When I click on the "Help --> Show Downloads" option, I see this message:

Not connected to the update server. See details for more information.
Details:

Update Server: http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds
Proxy Server: (none)
Connection Status: Disconnected - A certificate error occurred for the update server. Check your Internet settings or contact your system administrator.

Here's my setup:

Host Computer: Dell Inspiron 1318 Laptop
Host O/S: Fedora 12 Linux 64-bit (kernel 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64)
Host Networking: WiFi (eth1) using DHCP
VMware Player Version: 3.0.0 build-203739
VMware Player Configuration: See attached Windows7.vmx.txt file
VMware Player Log: See attached vmplayer-ui.log file
Host Network & Firewall Settings: See attached network.txt file for output from ifconfig -a and iptables -L commands

I'm hoping someone else has run across this problem before and can provide a fix. In particular, what internet settings do I need to check (or modify) to get this thing working?

Thanks, in advance, for any and all assistance provided.

Regards,

Chris

VMware Server 2.0.1 and latest RHEL5 kernel (both host & guest) = RANDOM REBOOTS !

BReaKdaiCE — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:31:57 GMT

VMware Server 2.0.1 and latest RHEL5 kernel (both host & guest) = RANDOM REBOOTS !

I have VMware Server 2.0.1 running on CentOS 5.3 (x64 kernel-2.6.18-128.2.1.el5).
Lately I started experiencing random reboots of host and had to investigate it a bit.
At first I suspected hardware problems and specificly RAM corruption. 24h memtest86+ and no errors.
I had my guests migrated to another VMware-server 2.0.1 running on FC11 (2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64).
No more host reboots but the guests (CentOS 5.3 x86 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5) still keep random rebooting.
Had a look at the guest logs and found this:

Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Caught signal 6 -- tid 5362
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: eip 0x369b0332f5 esp 0x7fa1e0b01d88 ebp 0x2
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: eax 0x0 ebx 0x369b132efe ecx 0xffffffffffffffff edx 0x6 esi 0x14f2 edi 0x14ed
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| r8 0x2c55020 r9 0x3 r10 0x8 r11 0x3206 r12 0xa57c9a000 r13 0x10000 r14 0x284f4d0 r15 0x7fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01D88 : 0x9b034b20 0x00000036 0x00000000 0x00000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01D98 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DA8 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DB8 : 0x00003000 0x00000000 0x9b369e80 0x00000036
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DC8 : 0x00010000 0x00000000 0x9b369e80 0x00000036
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DD8 : 0x00010010 0x00000000 0xe0b01f20 0x00007fa1
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DE8 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x9b369ee8 0x00000036
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DF8 : 0x9b077f32 0x00000036 0x00000000 0x00000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace:
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[0] 00007fa1e0b01830 rip=000000000041521c rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000415500 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00007fa1e0b01940 r14=0000000000000025 r15=0000000000000006
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[1] 00007fa1e0b01850 rip=0000000000468cf5 rbx=0000000000000080 rbp=0000000000000006 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00007fa1e0b01940 r14=0000000000000025 r15=0000000000000006
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[2] 00007fa1e0b01940 rip=000000369bc0ee90 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[3] 00007fa1e0b01d88 rip=000000369b0332f5 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[4] 00007fa1e0b01d90 rip=000000369b034b20 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[5] 00007fa1e0b01ec0 rip=000000369b075a50 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[6] 00007fa1e0b01f00 rip=000000000047eb93 rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000002c55020 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[7] 00007fa1e0b01f70 rip=000000000054cc9b rbx=000000000274ebd0 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000001 r13=000000000000000c r14=0000000000000000 r15=ffffffffffffffff
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[8] 00007fa1e0b01f90 rip=00000000004f165d rbx=000000000274ed80 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000001 r13=000000000000000c r14=0000000000000000 r15=ffffffffffffffff
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[9] 00007fa1e0b01fe0 rip=00000000004f186c rbx=000000000274ed80 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00000000027f4244 r14=0000000000edfca0 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace10 00007fa1e0b02010 rip=000000000048542a rbx=0000000000ee0c08 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6b50 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace11 00007fa1e0b02110 rip=000000369bc0686a rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6ad0 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace12 00007fa1e0b02220 rip=000000369b0de25d rbx=00007fa1e0b02910 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6ad0 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[0] 00007fa1e0b01830 rip=000000000041521c in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[1] 00007fa1e0b01850 rip=0000000000468cf5 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[2] 00007fa1e0b01940 rip=000000369bc0ee90 in function (null) in object /lib64/libpthread.so.0 loaded at 000000369bc00000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[3] 00007fa1e0b01d88 rip=000000369b0332f5 in function gsignal in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[4] 00007fa1e0b01d90 rip=000000369b034b20 in function abort in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[5] 00007fa1e0b01ec0 rip=000000369b075a50 in function (null) in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[6] 00007fa1e0b01f00 rip=000000000047eb93 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[7] 00007fa1e0b01f70 rip=000000000054cc9b in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[8] 00007fa1e0b01f90 rip=00000000004f165d in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[9] 00007fa1e0b01fe0 rip=00000000004f186c in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace10 00007fa1e0b02010 rip=000000000048542a in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace11 00007fa1e0b02110 rip=000000369bc0686a in function (null) in object /lib64/libpthread.so.0 loaded at 000000369bc00000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace12 00007fa1e0b02220 rip=000000369b0de25d in function clone in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| Unexpected signal: 6.
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| Panic: can't get userlevel lock.
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| Core dump limit is 0 KB.
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Child process 13550 failed to dump core (status 0x6).
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace:
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[0] 00007fa1e0b01350 rip=000000000041521c rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000415500 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00007fa1e0b01940 r14=0000000000000025 r15=0000000000000006
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[1] 00007fa1e0b01370 rip=00000000004db650 rbx=00007fa1e0b01880 rbp=0000000000000006 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00007fa1e0b01940 r14=0000000000000025 r15=0000000000000006
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[2] 00007fa1e0b01850 rip=0000000000468ea8 rbx=00007fa1e0b01880 rbp=0000000000000006 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00007fa1e0b01940 r14=0000000000000025 r15=0000000000000006
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[3] 00007fa1e0b01940 rip=000000369bc0ee90 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[4] 00007fa1e0b01d88 rip=000000369b0332f5 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[5] 00007fa1e0b01d90 rip=000000369b034b20 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[6] 00007fa1e0b01ec0 rip=000000369b075a50 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[7] 00007fa1e0b01f00 rip=000000000047eb93 rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000002c55020 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[8] 00007fa1e0b01f70 rip=000000000054cc9b rbx=000000000274ebd0 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000001 r13=000000000000000c r14=0000000000000000 r15=ffffffffffffffff
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[9] 00007fa1e0b01f90 rip=00000000004f165d rbx=000000000274ed80 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000001 r13=000000000000000c r14=0000000000000000 r15=ffffffffffffffff
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace10 00007fa1e0b01fe0 rip=00000000004f186c rbx=000000000274ed80 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00000000027f4244 r14=0000000000edfca0 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace11 00007fa1e0b02010 rip=000000000048542a rbx=0000000000ee0c08 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6b50 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace12 00007fa1e0b02110 rip=000000369bc0686a rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6ad0 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace13 00007fa1e0b02220 rip=000000369b0de25d rbx=00007fa1e0b02910 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6ad0 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[0] 00007fa1e0b01350 rip=000000000041521c in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[1] 00007fa1e0b01370 rip=00000000004db650 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[2] 00007fa1e0b01850 rip=0000000000468ea8 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[3] 00007fa1e0b01940 rip=000000369bc0ee90 in function (null) in object /lib64/libpthread.so.0 loaded at 000000369bc00000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[4] 00007fa1e0b01d88 rip=000000369b0332f5 in function gsignal in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[5] 00007fa1e0b01d90 rip=000000369b034b20 in function abort in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[6] 00007fa1e0b01ec0 rip=000000369b075a50 in function (null) in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[7] 00007fa1e0b01f00 rip=000000000047eb93 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[8] 00007fa1e0b01f70 rip=000000000054cc9b in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[9] 00007fa1e0b01f90 rip=00000000004f165d in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace10 00007fa1e0b01fe0 rip=00000000004f186c in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace11 00007fa1e0b02010 rip=000000000048542a in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace12 00007fa1e0b02110 rip=000000369bc0686a in function (null) in object /lib64/libpthread.so.0 loaded at 000000369bc00000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace13 00007fa1e0b02220 rip=000000369b0de25d in function clone in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Msg_Post: Error
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| http://msg.log.error.unrecoverable VMware Server unrecoverable error: (Worker#1)
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Unexpected signal: 6.
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| http://msg.panic.haveLog A log file is available in "/storage/VirtualMachines/srv01.ctg.ee/vmware.log". http://msg.panic.requestSupport.withLog Please request support and include the contents of the log file. http://msg.panic.requestSupport.vmSupport.windowsOrLinux
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly.
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| http://msg.panic.response We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
Aug 01 11:08:40.221: vmx| VTHREAD watched thread 37 "Worker#1" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.222: vcpu-0| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.320: Worker#13| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.320: Worker#8| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.320: Worker#16| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.321: Worker#3| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.321: Worker#0| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.321: Worker#9| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.321: Worker#2| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#7| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#12| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#15| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#10| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#5| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#14| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.323: Worker#4| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.323: Worker#11| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.324: Worker#6| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.554: mks| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died

I've looked around and that seems to be quite a common problem here and there?

Test plans stops with "Array with key 'BB0050569F23260000-null' not found" error

asmolenko — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:06:56 GMT

Dear Gurus, I hope someone can help me with my issue.
My SRM 4.0 lab:

two vCenter v.4 servers + SRM 4.0 + EMC_Celerra_Replicator_SRA
two VSA Celerra with working replication
two ESXi 4 servers connected to the vCenter servers

When I'm trying to execute a Test recovery plan, I've got the error "Array with key 'BB0050569F23260000-null' not found".
I assume that is someting with recovery VSA, but can't move further, since I am beginner in storaging.
I have attached screenshot from "Configure Storage Arrays" diag box, maybe it will help.
Thanks in advance!

Problem Using Cisco VPN From Within A Virtual Machine On A Vista Host

psychosmurf — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:05:04 GMT

Hi,

I'm having a weird issue that i'm hoping one of you experts can help me with. I've recently upgraded to Windows Vista x64 and am on Service Pack 1. VMWare seems to work great except for the fact that I can't use my companie's VPN from within their virtual machine to access our corporate network. Here are the facts:

Host OS is Vista x64 Service Pack 1
Guest OS is Server 2003 Service Pack 2
VPN is Cisco VPN Client v4.8.00.0440
Virtual Machine is using Bridged Networking
VMWare Workstation is v6.0.4.93057
VPN connection works perfectly under Windows XP
The Cisco client is returning: DEL_REASON_PEER_NOT_RESPONDING
Internet connectivity inside the virtual machine funcitons fine.
The companies VPN concentrator also has WebVPN installed and I can access that without issue through the guest.

I know that Vista has had some trouble with the Cisco VPN client where the client was returning the same error that is detailed in item seven above. However, since I'm running the client inside the virtual machine and since the virtual machine is supposed to behave independently of the host, I don't see how the two can be related. That being said, this has to an interactivity problem between Vista and VMWare Workstation given that the same vritual machine running on the same version of VMWare on Windows XP works without issue.

Anyone have any ideas on this one and more importantly, how do I correct it? I can't access my corporate network which is where all my work is so this is fairly important.

Many thanks for your time.

PS: I've already been through the forums and found one other issue that looked very similar to this but that was caused by a missing password. That is not the case here.

Physical Win98 hd to VM .vmdk

jowin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:09:40 GMT

Hello all, I am pretty new to VMware fusion.

Case is: I have an old Win 98 machine, on which I have a program i need to run, to which I do not have the installation CDs. For that reason I need to make a .vmdk from the physical HD of the machine, which I would like to run in Fusion on my Imac.

The old Win 98 box has two HD, an I have now used Ghost 6.0 to make a .GHO-image of the C-drive, and put the file-set (4 2GB files) on the D-drive. My plan now is to try to convert the .GHO-image in to a .vmdk-file.

Is there a cook-bock recipie on how to do that?

I have searched the forum, but did not find any explicit way to do it.

Do I have to use another imaging tool to "Ghost" the C-drive? Would it help to disconnect the C-drive HD from the Win 98 box, and mount it as an USB-drive in the Imac?

Any suggestion on how to solve this matter is very welcom.

BRG

/Johan

Time Frame Sampling Interval

NV1 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:44:17 GMT

Hi Folks

Does anyone know of a way to set the Analysis Select Time Frame sample (By: field) to 1 min for time frames longer than an hour (see attached screenshot). We would like to have 1 minute granularity for periods of up to 4 hours.

I have read through the doco and can't find any way to do this. If anyone knows how to do this it would be much appreciated.

SSMOVE or Add Extent?

mike.caddy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:05:48 GMT

We have outgrown our current Datastore,

I've read on many sites that generally Adding Extents is not recomended, if you have space you ought to make a new larger lun and copy/Storage VMotion the files across to the new one? I'm guessing that Lab Manager Registered Linked clones wouldn't work after such a simplistic transfer?

I don't see much advice on SSMove is it stable?

View Composer 4 Build 21930 - Database cannot be found during install

dflint — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:02:28 GMT

Latest releases of vSphere and View. DSN's test fine connecting to a SQL 2005 ruuning in Server 2008.
vCenter DB OK. Update Manager DB OK - on same SQL server. Unable to connect to finish View Composer install.
**"The database cannot be found.or a connection cannot be established. Check the DSN name to ensure that it is correctly entered."**
It is.

iSight installation for XP

rlwash99 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:08:22 GMT

I followed the instructions to add the drivers in order for the Mac's iSight camera to work. The camera is working, however, every time I bring up the XP virtual machine, it continues to detect new hardware found and wants me to install the drivers. Is this normal? Are the instructions on how to install the drivers correct? They said to use the installation .exe found under the bootcamp drivers, which I ran.

What Processors should we be buying.

mike.caddy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:17:35 GMT

We have 10 DELL R805's all with Quad Core Opteron 2352 Processors (2.1Ghz 2MB)

We are about to buy another 8 hosts, (these however will be M605 Blades). The first plan was to stick the same procs in them as our previous order. However I'm wondering if it is time to put some faster chips in these to give us better performance on our single vCore VM's.

What other procs should I be looking at that will be vMotion compatible with my current kit?

TIA

Mike

Removing a Dead ESX Host from Virtual Center

mike.caddy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:46:55 GMT

I have an Expired (as in dead!) host in my virtual center system, I want to remove it, however, when I try to remove I get an error

"Unable to contact the specified host ....."

Processer Compatibility for VMotion

mike.caddy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:20:16 GMT

We have a Cluster of Opteron 2352 Hosts, acording to Wikipedia (+so it must be true+) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Opteron_microprocessors these proc's have a B3 Stepping mode. What other stepping modes are compatible with my current processor.

We have identifed and issue that on High CPU Load Single Threaded workloads we maxing out due to the Core size being only 2100Mhz.

Within the B3 Stepping mode I think we can upgrade to a 2500Mhz CPU however we are hoping to move towards 3100Mhz. Can I Use Opteron 2393 SE Procs which (+once again, acroding to Wikipedia+) have a C2 Stepping Mode?