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Errors configuring DPM

HQN — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:19:13 GMT

I'm having this problem which hopefully some of you have encountered and can help. I'm trying to set up DPM on a Unisys 7600R server. Following the steps outlined the vSphere documentation I access the Power Management section in the Configuration tab in the vSphere Client which directly connects to the vCenter. When presented with theEdit IPMI/iLO Settings window I enter the information for the username, password, BMC IP address, and BMC MAC address. I then click on the OK, and about 5-10 seconds I would receive an error message like this "One or more IPMI/iLO parameters are incorrect. Check that the username, password, MAC address, and IP address are valid for host xxxx, and that the BMC is correctly configured."

In my environment I have the setup on the company's public LAN and from a number of machines I could ping the BMC. I've also used the IPMITool running on a separate Linux machine and could access the Unisys 7600R server's BMC and perform power management tasks (like startup & shutdown) using the same information that I provide to the vSphere Client. So atleast I know that the connection is good and the BMC side is working. I have also tried things like setting up another BMC, or changing the format of the MAC address or moving the host to a different cluster or just by itself in the data center.

I've seached VMware communities and didn't find anything remotely similar to my problem.

I'm just out of ideas now and any help that you can provide is greatly appreciated.

regards,
HQN

PS. A screenshot is attached.

Ubuntu 9.10 + VMWare Fusion 3.0.0 -- BROKEN AUDIO -- VMWare? Are you there?

ivocal — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:05:09 GMT

There are several posts on both VMWare and Ubuntu forums about broken audio with Karmic and VMWare Fusion (2 and 3)

For the record, audio works great when Karmic is installed on my Dell laptop. Audio is broken when installed on VMWare Fusion.

Some people have suggested that removing pulseaudio is a solution to this problem. I have tried this and it does work "somewhat", but I reject it as a solution.

Here are the issues with removing pulseaudio:

You lose the System -> Preferences -> Sound controls and with it the ability to select among multiple audio devices. I need the ability to connect multiple audio devices and select among them on the fly.
If you suspend/resume then your audio is right back where it was before you removed pulseaudio, so clearly removing pulseaudio did not "fix" the problem.

Why should I have to cripple the OS audio support just so I can use it with VMWare?
Where is the update that VMWare should have pushed out already to solve this problem?
Why is VMWare silient on this problem? Where is your acknowledement of the issue and expected fix date?

Remember, Ubuntu works fine on standard hardware, but not on VMWare virtualized hardware. I would say that this makes it a VMWare problem, since you advertise that you support Ubuntu Linux. Therefore, a series of linux OS tweaks just to get partial audio support cannot be considered a "solution".

Wake up VMWare...

some questions from blueprint VCP310

Ajay Nabh — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:56:15 GMT

Hi All

I need your help as I cannot seem to find decent information on 10Gig and Infiniband? also I am confused with this situation if a VM has 2 CPU assigned, will they always be assigned to 2 diffrent Physical CPU or CPU cores? also what is diffrence between Physical CPU and Logical CPU

thanks a lot for your help

Aj

How do we backup or protect Vcenter server nd ESX

DSRSAS — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:55:00 GMT

What is the best way to protect the Vcenter server and the database.

If we enable a FT but i feel it wont be a supported configuration as we will have to use one processor only...Than how do be backup it in order to have fastest recovery in disater situation.

Is there any way to have a backup of ESX servers and Vcenter for the recovery pourpose.

Is it possible to create a VM on a network share?

johnhickley — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:50:49 GMT

I have a SuSE 11 file server running samba to share files and directories to my XP x64 PC. I have installed VMware Player on my XP box and have gone through the steps to create a VM on my SuSE server. The vmx and vmdk files create successfully but when I try to start the VM I get the message: "Failed to open virtual machine: You do not have access rights to this file.". Yet VirtualBox (also installed on my XP box) has no such problem. Indeed, I created the Player VM in the same shared directory I use for my VirtualBox VM to eliminate permissions problems on the linux side. Is this a limitation of Player?

Regards,

John

Unused portion of Memory & CPU

Eire09 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:10:49 GMT

Hi Guys,
Is the following correct:

If a virtual machine does not use all of its CPU Reservation the unused portion will be available for other virtual machines. (FALSE)

If a virtual machine does not use all of its Memory Reservation the unused portion will be available for other virtual machines. (TRUE)

Just passed VCP-310....Next up VCP4

Eire09 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:10:21 GMT

Hi,
I just passed the VCP-310 exam....Yipee...

Can anyone give me some pointers on VCP4? I'm looking to sit this exam in the next 3 weeks. I hear you get two shots at it for the price of one!! Is this true? Not that I plan on failing it on the 1st attempt but it's a nice safety net

Help with few steps in Post configuration of esx4i server

kalex — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:09:55 GMT

Hello,

I'm currently in the process of finishing up my post config powershell script but i do have 2 questions/issues that i'm trying to resolve.

First one is:

Is it possible to restart the host in the middle of a configuration script and have the script wait until host is restarted? I would like to set up all my networking, restart the host to make sure everything saves correctly. then finish the rest of my script.

My second quesiton/issue is how do I run vCLI commands from powerCLI? We have HP Blades so after esx4i setup we need to install HP CIM stuff. this is fairly easy to do and we handle it via vihostupdate.pl script in vCLI. my quesiton is how can I run it and call vihostupdate.pl from powershell script?

thanks

alex

How do I use the iso images in \datastores\vmimages\tools-images?

jsb10221 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:32:10 GMT

I am building a lab for the ESX3.5/VC2.5. I need to build some VM's and so far cannot get the .iso images booting that come with the install. I have "connect at power on" enabled and I am pointing the cd/dvd drive to the iso in VM properties. What am I missing?

Can I build an iso image from my separate pc's that I have? I have a Windows 7 laptop and an XP desktop. The XP desktop is running my VC Server and VI Client. Also have a couple ESX hosts - Dell 2650 and 1650.

Data recovery, impressioni

mp_roma — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:26:28 GMT

Ciao,

tolto il piccolo problemino legato alla login, l'installazione e la configurazione di questo nuovo prodotto è risultata semplice e intuitiva.

Data la mia poca conoscenza del mondo backup e avendo utilizzato fino ad ora il semplicissimo vranger pro (backup su lan in quanto non mi sono mai impegnato a fondo per capire come funzionava il plugin vcb) sono abbastanza soddisfatto.

L'unica cosa che mi lascia un po' perplesso è la velocità del backup. Essendo un lan free (sia la macchina backuppata che la macchina vDR sono sullo stesso storage condiviso anche se sono gestite da hosts diversi) e visto appunto che le macchine sono connesse in fibra a 2GB mi aspettavo una velocità superiore(magari è corretta, ma vi ho detto che sono ignorante ).

Questo il report di un backup (errore snapshot che non so ancora se ha influito sul backup..domani dopo il restore vi saprò dire)

17/11/2009 20:17:18: Normal backup using Ubuntu
17/11/2009 20:17:32: Copying vUbuntu
17/11/2009 20:18:09: Performing full back up of disk "SAN_Storage1 Ubuntu_Server/Ubuntu_Server-000002-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
17/11/2009 20:34:07: Performing full back up of disk "SAN_Storage1 Ubuntu_Server/Ubuntu_Server_1-000002-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
17/11/2009 20:36:03: Performing full back up of disk "SAN_Storage1 Ubuntu_Server/vUbuntu_2-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
17/11/2009 20:39:05: Performing full back up of disk "SAN_Storage1 Ubuntu_Server/vUbuntu_3-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
17/11/2009 20:43:47: Trouble reading files, error -3942 ( delete snapshot failed)
17/11/2009 20:43:48: 1 task errors
17/11/2009 20:43:48: Completed: 11 files, 18,6 GB
17/11/2009 20:43:48: Performance: 7385 MB/minute
17/11/2009 20:43:48: Duration: 00:26:30 (00:00:50 idle/loading/preparing)

26 minuti non sono tanti per 18,6GB?

Ciao

Marco

vSphere e View

Daniel9999 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:13:52 GMT

Ci sono novità sulla possibilità di usare View con vSphere?

Daniel9999

vcenter su 2003 in vmws

manuelpal — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:11:19 GMT

salve!!!

per studio del prodotto Vcenter ho provato ad installarlo su una macchina virtuale sotto wmworkstation 6.

Ma non va...

ho provato a lanciare il client di gestione sia in locale che da remoto facendolo puntare tramite ip alla macchina virtuale win 2003 senza risultato alcuno...

la configurazione della macchina virtuale e single nic, 8gb hd, 2 gb ram, 2 cpu

Convert an expandable drive to a fixed one on an ESXi server

lexlf — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:00:39 GMT

hi guys,

I have to convert three virtual drives on an ESXi (4.0) server from expandable to fixed. Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? I've read about the vmware-vdiskmanager, but it looks like it can't access an ESXi server. Which way would be the best?

Thanks for your support!!

ESXI Installed on USB Drive

lk5246 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:45:33 GMT

Hi i was wondering if installing esxi os on usb drive to boot is ok and not risk taking. i want to do this becuase i want the wrest of the hard drive for storage.

Thanks

Lekshmen Kannan

VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

francis.carden — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:17:56 GMT

I LOVED FUSION 2.0 - I ranted about it to 100's of people. Best thing since sliced bread is what I used to say.

Now I upgraded to Fusion 3 and it's TERRIBLE. Performance is a joke. I use this in my daily work and if I'm lucky it still works. I can't rely on it now for my demonstrations. Shame. Shame. Shame.

Being a user of Fusion 2 since it was released, I can say I rated the s/w as a 9 or 10 for enterprise use. Now I rate it as a 3.

I will be doing a Video this weekend of how bad it is and will post it online. Since no one from VMware seems to bother to read these forums or comment. I suggest they see what people said about united Airlines when THEY didn't listen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

Blueprint for VCP 4

Eire09 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:16:24 GMT

Hi,
Is there a Blueprint for studying for the VCP4 exam?

If so, could someone point me in the right direction for study material.

Cheers guys.

VMWare Server 1 - I deleted the snapshot, now getting error

ShawnG101 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:39:44 GMT

Sorry about posting this VMware Server 1 post here.

I made a huge mistake and I am hoping I would recover the data out of this.
There was space problem due the snapshot and I accidentally hit Shift+Delete (which normally I rarely do) on the snapshot folder.
I realize that there is incremental data in the snapshot folder.
Now, when I start the guest VM, I get the error "Cannot open the disk <.........vmdk> or one of the snapshot disk depends on it.Reason" Failed to lock the file.

The host as well as the guest are Windows Servers. Windows 2003.

Please help if there is a way out of this.

Disable USB Passthrough has no effect

HeSitates — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:52:39 GMT

Hi,

I've been playing with the USB passthrough setting, but now i've trouble resetting it. How often i unmark the checkboxes, doesn't matter, after the reboot they're back.

My configuration:

HP ML330 with 2 E5504 / 18GB memory booting from USB ....

While booting the messages "dvfilter loaded successfully" and "vmfs3 loaded successfully" stay on the screen for several minutes.

Can somebody give me a hint?

regards Henk

View all desktops in a pool

vmsf — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:46:05 GMT

Hi,

We have a test environment where virtual desktops are being used for regression testing. The users need the ability to login to multiple desktops simultaneously and run the scripts. But currently the portal only displays the pool and once the users clicks it connects the user to only one desktop. The users have to use VNC to connect to rest of the machines. Is it possible to configure a View Pool so that when a user logs into the portal, instead of being presented only with a list of pools, the user can also view all the desktops in a pool.

Thanks.
-vmsf

vSphere 4u1 - any issues?

Anton V Zhbankov — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:59:33 GMT

Please post any issues with 4u1 here

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ESXi SSL Certificate breaks vCenter agent install

DSeaman — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:02:10 GMT

We have an internal Microsoft 2008 CA and created a SSL certificate for our ESXi 4.0 host, using the OpenSSL instructions. We got the SSL certificates uploaded to the ESXi host, and the web interface on the ESXi host is accessible and is protected with our issued certificate. However, when we try to add the host to vCenter 4.0 it gets to 80% (checking that vCenter agent is running...) and dies with:

Cannot install the vCenter agent service. Agent is not running.

If I reset the ESXi host configuration and configure it exactly the same but keeping the self-signed certificates, all is well. The common name of the SSL certificate is the FQDN of the ESXi host, and it's registered in DNS. In vCenter we are adding the host using the FQDN.

If I'm sneaky and add the host to vCenter with the self-signed certs then upload our custom SSL certs, it tries to re-install the agent and dies at 80%.

Thoughts?

vmware esxi 3.5 supported

lk5246 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:12 GMT

how long is vmware esx 3.5 32 bit suppotted for before vmware stops supporting it.

Thanks

Lekshmen Kannan

Virtualisation SERVER

BRAVOTEM — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:03:54 GMT

Installing Virtual Server VM Additions on Windows Server 2008 & Windows Vista

by Vukelic Ranko - January 8, 2009

Virtual Machine Additions are a very important component of Virtual Server 2005 (and Virtual PC 2007). Running VM Additions on a VM is not a must, but you'd better do it as soon as possible, even as the first thing to do right after finishing the installation phase of the OS itself.

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Note: if for some reason, you're using VMware products to virtualize Windows Server 2008 Server Core, you might be interested in reading my Core Installations article.

Virtual Machine Additions adds the following enhancements to a guest operating system:

Improved mouse cursor tracking and control
Greatly improved overall performance
Virtual machine heartbeat generator
Optional time synchronization with the clock of the physical computer

You can use several methods to install the VM Additions:

Through the Virtual Server administrative website
Through VMRC Plus
Unattended installation
Through scripting

Additionally, if you've got Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) installed, you can also:

Install the VM Additions from the VMM console
Use PowerShell

Let's see how each method is carried on:

Using VMRC Plus to Install the VM Additions

If you've got VMRC Plus installed you can easily install VM Additions by performing these steps:

In the VMRC Plus console, point to the virtual machine you want to install the VM Additions on, and then double-click it to turn it on.
Once the virtual machine has started, point to the virtual machine name, and then double-click it to remote control it.
Log on to the virtual machine as an administrator or member of the Administrators group.
Once the guest operating system is loaded, in the Console Manager window click Media > Install Current VM Additions.
Inside the VM, follow the prompts and perform the installation.
You must *reboot the guest virtual machine* in order for the VM Additions to function properly.

Using the Virtual Server administrative website to Install the VM Additions

To install Virtual Machine Additions through the Virtual Server administrative website please follow these steps:

Open the *Virtual Server Administration website.*
In the navigation pane, under Virtual Machines, point to Configure and then *click the appropriate virtual machine. *
In Status, point to the *virtual machine name*, and then click Turn On.
Once the virtual machine has started, *point to the virtual machine name*, and then click Remote Control.
Log on to the virtual machine as an administrator or member of the Administrators group.
Once the guest operating system is loaded, press the HOST KEY to release the mouse pointer, and then in the lower-left corner under Navigation, click Configure virtual_machine_name, where virtual_machine_name is the name of the VM you wish to install the VM Additions on.
In Configuration, click *Virtual Machine Additions,* click *Install Virtual Machine Additions,* and then click OK.
Under Status, point to the *virtual machine name, *and then click Remote Control.
Click in the Remote Control window to return to the guest operating system. The Virtual Machine Additions installation wizard will start. Proceed through the wizard.
Once the wizard is complete, you will be prompted to restart the virtual machine to complete the installation.

Using Unattended Installation to Install the VM Additions

To perform an unattended installation, place the Virtual Machine Additions image file (.ISO) to a location where it can be accessed by the virtual machines. Logon to the VM and in a command prompt window from within the VM type the following command:

setup.exe -s -v"/qn [Reboot=ReallySuppress]"

Using Scripted Installation to Install the VM Additions

The script to install Virtual Machine Additions in a running guest OS is fairly straightforward, but for a good scripting guide I suggest you look at Desmond Lee's excellent article:

2005 R2, Part 2

Using the SCVMM Administrator Console to Install the VM Additions

First, it is recommended that you add the Virtual Machine Additions to your VMM Library. This will allow you to use the same ISO image for all of your virtual machines.

To add Virtual Machine Additions to your VMM Library:

Copy the VMAdditions.iso file to a share in the *Virtual Machine Manager library* and then refresh the library server. The default location is C:'Program Files'Microsoft Virtual *Server*'*Virtual* Machine Additions.
If you do not see the VMAdditions ISO file in Library view or when you browse for a known image file, disable any filters and manually refresh the library.

To install Virtual Machine Additions on an existing virtual machine:

In Virtual Machines view, right-click the *virtual machine* on which you want to install Virtual Machine Additions, and then click Properties
In the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box, display the Hardware Configuration tab.
If there is no DVD drive, add a DVD drive to the IDE device by clicking DVD on the New menu bar to add one.
Click K*nown image file,* click Browse to open the Select ISO dialog box, click the VMAdditions.iso file, and then click OK.
Start the virtual machine. Virtual Machine Additions will install from within the running virtual machine.

Using SCVMM and PowerShell to Install the VM Additions

Coming from this blog - VMM Beta 2: Installing VM Additions:

Here is a PowerShell script you can run on the VMM server that will do that. It assumes that you have an ISO called VMAdditions.iso in a library share managed by VMM. The VM Additions are installed with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 in the <yourinstalldrive>'Program Files'Microsoft Virtual *Server*'*Virtual* Machine Additions folder. So you first either copy this ISO to the library for use on all VMs, or modify the script to use the copy local to the host your VM is on.

Copy the following text and save it as Install-VMAdditions.ps1:

# Install-VMAdditions.ps1 $vm = $args[0] if ($vm.Status -eq ‘Running' ) { $vmadditions = get-iso | where { $_.Name -eq ‘VMAdditions' } Set-VirtualDVDDrive -VirtualDVDDrive $vm.VirtualDVDDrives[0] -Link -ISO $vmadditions } else { write-host "The VM must be Running before you can install VM Additions." }

To use this script:

$vm = get-vm -Name "My VM" C:'Scripts'Install-VMAdditions.ps1 $vm

The VM Additions installer will launch automatically inside the guest OS.

Notes:

The VM does not need to be running order to attach an ISO to a Virtual DVD drive, but the VM does need to be running in order to install VM Additions.
On the Set-VirtualDVDDrive lines, the -Link¬ parameter means: Point to the ISO inside the library instead of copying it to the host.

Reinstalling Virtual Machine Additions for use with Virtual PC

If you move a virtual machine that was created with Microsoft Virtual PC to Virtual Server, we recommend that you reinstall Virtual Machine Additions, even if it was installed in Virtual PC. This is because the version of Virtual Machine Additions included with Virtual Server has been updated.

Current VM Addition versions are:

VM Additions in VS 2005 R2 SP1 = 13.813
VM Additions in VPC 2007= 13.803

Links:

VMM Beta 2: Installing VM Additions

2005 R2, Part 2

MEM_ALLOC bug

marcosestevesbarbosa — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:09:38 GMT

I'm have a problem: When i click to create a new virtual machine in VMware Workstation 7, crash and occur this error in console:

MEM_ALLOC /build/mts/release/bora-203739/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeSimpleBase.c:793

Any ideas? Thanks

Windows 7 (guest) network adapter does not work (VMPlayer 3 with Fedora12 host) despite *NdisDeviceType fix

MihaiSapteCai — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:55:11 GMT

I found that others had problems with Vista's identification and fixed it via the Registry with *NdisDeviceType. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be sufficient for Windows 7 - it solves the identification problem (stops complaining about "Nework not identified"), but it still does not seem to get an IP address from the VMWare Player.

VMWare Player was configured to use NAT (was unable to bridge). Any ideas are welcomed!

:edit: command line in Windows 7 %ipconfig /renew

fails saying that DHCP server does not answer - it seems that (finally) Windows7 tries to get the IP address, but the VMWare DHCP server does not oblige.

Thanks,

Mihai

VM View, SunRay2 terminals - Sun Server needed ?

NHCdmont — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:43:42 GMT

Just a quick general question here ;

We're in the process of planning our new VM View system, we plan to use SunRay 2 terminals to connect to the users desktops.

My question is;

Do we need to purchase the SunServer software so that the SunRays2's can connect to VM View ? ie SunServer is acting like a broker/bridge to connect the terminals to VM View ?

Thanks in advance..

Mouse pointer in VM gets stuck displaying hand cursor, sometimes disappears altogether

jkwuc89 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:40:21 GMT

System info:

MacBook Pro running Leopard with all patches downloaded and installed
Spaces configured for 4 desktops, VMWare Fusion assigned to space #2
VMWare Fusion Version 2.0 (116369)
VM is running Windows XP Professional in Full Screen, 3D graphics is turned off
Gaming preference is set to Auto-detect mouse for gaming

Problem Description:

I leave my Windows XP VM running all of the time. I use either the mouse or the keyboard to switch from Spaces desktop #1 to #2 quite often. OS X will switch the mouse pointer to the hand cursor when Spaces is activated even when quickly switching between spaces. Usually, when I switch to the space containing my full screen VM, Fusion will allow Windows XP to redisplay the mouse cursor using its the Windows of mouse pointers. But after some time (a day or two or perhaps after bring my MacBook Pro out of sleep mode...I have not determined the exact scenario), using spaces to switch to space #2 containing my XP VM will no longer change the mouse pointer from the hand cursor displayed by OS X to the Windows set of pointers. Instead, the mouse pointer continues to be displayed as the OS X hand pointer even though the XP VM has control of the mouse. And under some circumstances, the mouse pointer will completely disappear inside the VM after a space swtich

I have determined that this only happens when running the VM In full screen mode. I have also determined that simply restarting the XP VM does not correct the problem. I must shutdown the VM and then, restart VMWare Fusion to correct the problem. Switching the VM from Full Screen to Windowed mode and then, back to Full Screen also does not correct the problem.

I have also tried changing the Gaming preference to no effect.

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VMware SRM 1.0 : failed to configure Array managers in SRM in secure mode.

justyouguess — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:39:41 GMT

In My VMware SRM setup. We are trying to do bidirectional SRM. Like Site I and SIte II will act as Protected and recovery site vice versa in failover. But it seems to me that when I keep my ESX Host which has solution enabler installed & windows SRM host which also has ENMC solution enabler installed ( Symclient). When I use non-secure mode to configure arraymanagers, I am able to add/configure array managers but when I chose secure mode it gives me error that Management system error while configuring array manager ( pls. see attached screenshot for details).

To change secure mode on ESX solution enabler host as well as windows Solution enbaler ( which I eventually installed on SRM host itself), I do as below.

On ESX solution enabler host: /var/symapi/config/options...changing secure mode to nonsecure and vice varsa.

On windows solution enabler host: C:\Program Files\EMC\SYMAPI\config\netcnfg ...changing secure mode to nonsecure and vice varsa.

But when I chose secure mode to configure array manager, it is giving me error as specified in screenshot, with non-secure mode. Array managers get configured.

Now I am confused what is wrong with secure mode in my setup ?

esxi 64 bit ram

lk5246 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:54:29 GMT

i have a ESXi installed on my server i've but 4GB ram in it and ESXi reports 3.36 on vi client.. i have a 32 bit Pentium 4 thats problem . but what if i upgrade my Pentium 4 cpu to 64 bit will ESXi detect the 4GB ram or is becuase ESXi 32 bit. the bios reports the full ram. i just some understanding. if i have to 64 bit cpu will esxi see the full ram.

Thanks

Lekshmen Kannan

error durring javaserver workload result collection

simonpha — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:16:28 GMT

Hi I've run into this problem with the javaserver workload when completing the workload run. I receive the following error in STAX. It seems to me that the workload completes correctly but when trying to do the result collection it errors out.

20091119-18:55:02 Start JobID: 2, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local, Function: Main, Args: { 'CONFIGFILE' : r'C:\vmmark\VMMARK.CONFIG' }, JobName: smalltest1
20091119-18:55:02 Info Holding block: main
20091119-18:55:02 Info Received RELEASE BLOCK main request
20091119-18:55:02 Info Releasing block: main
20091119-18:55:13 Start Testcase: VMmark Setup
20091119-18:55:36 Stop Testcase: VMmark Setup, ElapsedTime: 00:00:23
20091119-18:55:36 Start Testcase: VMmark Wkld Setup
20091119-18:57:54 Stop Testcase: VMmark Wkld Setup, ElapsedTime: 00:02:18
20091119-18:57:54 Start Testcase: VMmark Run Tiles
20091119-19:53:24 Stop Testcase: VMmark Run Tiles, ElapsedTime: 00:55:30
20091119-19:53:24 Start Testcase: VMmark Results Collection
20091119-19:53:25 Error STAXPythonEvaluationError signal raised. Terminating job.

===== XML Information =====

File: c:\vmmark\xml\javaserver_functions.xml, Machine: local
Line 322: Error in element type "call".

===== Python Error Information =====

com.ibm.staf.service.stax.STAXPythonEvaluationException:

Python object evaluation failed for:
'Info: COPY FILE C:\javaserver_%u.stdout TOFILE %s%sjavaserver_%u.stdout' % (tileserver, gResultsDir[0], gFsep, tileserver)

Traceback (innermost last):
File "<pyEval string>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for __int__: javaserver0
===== Call Stack for STAX Thread 1 =====

[
function: Main (Line: 106, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 16/22 (Line: 128, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
testcase: VMmark Results Collection (Line: 507, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 1/2 (Line: 508, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
iterate: 1/5 0 tilelist (Line: 510, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 1/1 (Line: 511, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
iterate: 2/6 JavaServer gWORKLOADLIST (Line: 513, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 2/2 (Line: 514, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
function: GetResultsJavaServer (Line: 227, File: c:\vmmark\xml\javaserver_functions.xml, Machine: local)
sequence: 8/12 (Line: 234, File: c:\vmmark\xml\javaserver_functions.xml, Machine: local)
]
20091119-19:53:25 Info Terminating block: main
20091119-19:53:25 Stop Testcase: VMmark Results Collection, ElapsedTime: 00:00:01
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase: VMmark Run Tiles, Pass: 1, Fail: 0, ElapsedTime: 00:55:30, NumStarts: 1
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase: VMmark Setup, Pass: 1, Fail: 0, ElapsedTime: 00:00:23, NumStarts: 1
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase: VMmark Wkld Setup, Pass: 1, Fail: 0, ElapsedTime: 00:02:18, NumStarts: 1
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase Totals: Tests: 3, Pass: 3, Fail: 0
20091119-19:53:25 Status Job Result: None
20091119-19:53:26 Stop JobID: 2

Anyone have any idea what this may be?

Thanks in advance

My VMware workstation is very slow!!

pdsouto — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:08:20 GMT

I am running a software called SAP ECC 6.0 through the VMware Workstation and the software is installed in my computer, but the performance is very lousy. Even the mouse arrow moves slowly into the VMs window. My notebook is good, I have an intel processor 2.53hz, 4gb RAM, HD (7200 rpm).
Does anybody know how i can speed this softaware up????

My OS is windows 7 (64), and i am running windows server 2003 in the VM.

Thanks

Did Update 1 take care of these items?

Saadat — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:05:28 GMT

Hi,

Did vSphere update 1 solve these issues?

1- vmxnet3 NIC Card does not show any performance chart. VMware support told me that they will release the patch with update 1, but I didn't see anything in release notes regarding this.

2- Will Fault Tolerance support vmxnet3 ? I don't want to go back to vmxnet enhanced. (Change of MAC Address)

3- Does Fault Tolerance support more than 1 vCPU?

4- Do we have vCore in CPU (like VMware workstation 7) or still vCPU. There was a beta going on with changing the vCPUs to cores.

I haven't got a chance to read the update 1 documentation, but I am really looking for these answers.

Thanks,

Ernest

Clone to Template Fails - No room on datastore

VMSystems — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:35:36 GMT

We have a vSphere Essential License. I have cloned a few virtual machines with no problems IE Clone to template but I'm having an issue with some recent changes I made. I know what the problem is, I just don't have the answer if there is one.

We have one VM that I have connect to an iSCSI data store. This is strictly for data storage IE mail files etc. Now when I go to clone the VM, I get the message "File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore 'datastore1' I realize that this is because the LUN I connected is 1.25 TB and my datastore with my VM's is smaller than that (750 GB free), but I was under the impression when I mapped the datastore for file storage that it would not be connected to the VM.

Is there a solution to this or am I going to be stuck unable to make a template or clone of this VM without adding some room somewhere? The actual useage at this point is under 4 GB when I look at it in the datastore inventory in vCenter.

Cannot update WS7 preferences on XP Pro for standard user

kdshapiro — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:36:56 GMT

I purchased the WS7 upgrade from WS6. It's running on a multiboot system W7/Vista 64/XP pro SP3. The XP install went smoothly and WS7 runs fine logged in as administrator. However, modifying the preferences or editing the virtual network configuration under a user id that has standard privileges, an error message to the effect: "Need administrator privileges in order to modify ....all users\application data\vmware\config.ini" is displayed.

6.5.3 worked flawlessly running under a standard XP user, does anybody have a suggestion as what is going on?

Regards, Ken

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (mks) Inception 0x0000005 (access violation)

Sonoben — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:13:16 GMT

had this error come up after Lenovo x200 tablet went into sleep. Log and dmp attached. any thoughts?

extend a vmdk\windows hard drive via powershell

kwharrisit — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:25:43 GMT

Id like to know if its possible to write a script that will extend the vmdk to a specified size , and then extend the windows "d:" drive based off an alarm?

Id like to have a vcenter alarm for 5% disk space, then expand the windows partitiion and send the admins an email that this took place.

httpd.vmware will not start

Leftie59 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:22:50 GMT

A fresh build of CentOS 5.3 with server 2.0.2 and VMware-mui-1.0.6.

When I start httpd.vmware "service httpd.vmware start" it replays ok

When I check if it is running "service httpd.vmware status" it replays it is not running.

I have checked the /var/log/message and there is no error messages.

Can you give me an idea where to look for any message that may be generated?

If I need to get this running by Monday to avoid a major storm at work.

Thanks in advance, Mark

"Logging in to your PC and gathering information." goes FOREVER, in migration assistant

tj1234 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:13:35 GMT

I attached a screen shot png file. I'm wondering if i did something wrong? It hasn't finished "logging in" for hours.

I think I wish there were just a way to do this using my external hard drive. I exported my old machine using vmware converter, but I get an error, when I try to import it. I have attached that screen shot, also. I had downloaded vmware converter last week, before fusion 3 was released, and used that to put it on the external hard drive. I wonder if it's simply that it's not compatible with fusion 3.

I really don't care how I do it, I just want to get my PC on my Mac.

note: I have XP Professional SP3 on my pc, and snow leopard on my mac.

workstation 7 crashes after pressing ctrl+alt

HerbZhang — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:46:18 GMT

workstation 7 crashes after pressing ctrl+alt when guest os is being installed.

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (mks)
Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred.
A log file is available in "E:\vm\Windows 7 x64\vmware.log". A core file is available in "E:\vm\Windows 7 x64\vmware-vmx-2032.dmp". Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file.
To collect data to submit to VMware support, choose "Collect Support Data" from the Help menu.
You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly.
We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

Host: win7 7600 x86

Guest:win7 7600 x64

log is attached.

Success installing drivers for iSight from a Snow Leopard DVD in Fusion 3.0.0 XP VM?

avanpelt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:16:54 GMT

Hi, all.

I want to use my built in iSight in my XP SP3 VM for the first time. When I connected the iSight to the VM, I got the message from Fusion that I should install the Boot Camp drivers for the iSight. Fair enough. . .

I popped in my Snow Leopard DVD and immediately two options popped up relating to sharing my CD/DVD drive with a MacBook Air or remotely installing Snow Leopard on a MacBook Air. I've got a MacBook Pro, so I could care less about the MBA.

No problem, I thought. I browsed the Snow Leopard DVD to the "Boot Camp" folder and double-clicked "setup.exe". I get error almost immediately from the Windows Installer which says that the installer encountered errors before Boot Camp could be configured.

OK, I thought. . .I'll just use the New Hardware Wizard in XP and when it prompts me to locate the driver, I'll point it to the \Boot Camp\Drivers location on the disc. No go. . .no drivers found.

Has anyone had any success installing the iSight driver off a Snow Leopard DVD since upgrading to Fusion 3.0.0?

Thanks for your help!

Does remote display via VNC work with WS 7 ?

continuum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:24:31 GMT

When I enable remote display in VM-settings and try to connect to the display via Real VNC version 4 to "localhost" this imediatly opens hundreds of VNC Windows - also any other open Window running on the host is duplicated hundreds of times.
The result is completely unusable.
Normal sessions with the same client to different hosts work as expected - so my VNC client works fine

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ESXi vs HyperVserver

solarice — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:43:42 GMT

Well first off I have been working with most versions of virtual host versions ie vmware and microsoft for several years and have entire companys setup as fully virtual. In the last year I have been working with Microsofts 2008 HyperV but am now focused on ESXi 4. After testing on both platforms here is what I have come up with so far.

HyperV and ESX seem to run vm's at a comparable performance rate. The main differences seem to be in install and management. On the MS side the install is 15 to 30 min and 1.5 gig install program but once up and running the management console is clean and very easy to use. On the VM side install is light and takes only a few moment to install - about 5 minutes on my system and it's up and running. the vSphere client is a bit clunky but once used to it it is OK.

On the real downside is the lack of support for Linux systems on the MS side. But on the ESX side is the total the absence of differencing disks, child machines and a decent file transfer utility like samba. This maks it a non choice for lab and test environments as new machine deployment on the MS side is a minute or two for 10 or 15 new machines and on ESX it's an hour plus huge disk space requirements.

I am currently working with a company to deploy a virtual solution and as is I am leaning towards HyperVserver as it is free and much more full featured than ESXi 4. To be truthfull I had high hopes for ESXi but came out of testing quite dissappointed. I was expecting a mature seasoned server system and what I found was something I would expect from a new company in it's infancy.

I am not trying to slam vmware but this is my honest discovery to date, I hope the upscale this product to at least match the MS free product as I for one would love to take advantage of the clean thin system install.

vmware server2 not working with kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

sk8harddiefast — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:38:52 GMT

george@gentoo bin # ./vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines failed
Stopping VMware management services:
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
VMware Server Host Agent failed
Stopping VMware services:
VMware Authentication Daemon done
Virtual machine monitor done

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? yes yes

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8'

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
from include/linux/module.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_module.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:26:
include/linux/mmzone.h:18:26: error: linux/bounds.h: No such file or directory
include/linux/mmzone.h:256:5: warning: "MAX_NR_ZONES" is not defined
In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
from include/linux/module.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_module.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:26:
include/linux/mmzone.h:290: error: 'MAX_NR_ZONES' undeclared here (not in a function)
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
include/linux/poll.h:67: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_page.h:23,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:33:
include/linux/mm.h:446:63: warning: "NR_PAGEFLAGS" is not defined
include/linux/mm.h:494:62: warning: "NR_PAGEFLAGS" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU':
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriver_Ioctl':
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'euid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'egid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only~~ Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-products" and
"http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-tools".

Execution aborted.

View 4 downloads are now available

cburry — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:36:27 GMT

View 4 downloads are now available.

vmware server2 not working with kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

sk8harddiefast — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:35:35 GMT

VMware very slow!

pdsouto — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:34:06 GMT

I am running a softaware called SAP ECC 6.0 through the VMware Workstation and the softaware is installed in my computer, but it is very lousy.
Even the mouse arrow moves slowly into the VMs window. My notebook is good, I have an intel processor 2.53hz, 4gb RAM, HD (7200 rpm).
Does anybody know how i can speed this softaware up????

My OS is windows 7 (64), and i am running windows server 2003 in the VM.

Thanks!

vMotion from ESX 3.5 U3 to ESX 4.0 failing

jjewett — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:56:59 GMT

I'm at the half-way point of my ESX vSphere migration. We have two facilities managed by one vSphere vCenter and VUM 4.0. Things were progressing well with our upgrade from ESX 3.5 until yesterday. I have 6 ESX hosts left to upgrade but I'm stuck.

The first group of ESX servers upgraded nicely with this process:

1. Created new EVC Cluster
2. Added ESX hosts to cluster
3. vMotioned off all VMs from one ESX server
4. Upgrade that ESX server with VUM (reboot)
5. vMotioned VMs back to ESX server
6. Repeat steps 3-5 until complete

However, with this second batch of ESX servers these steps aren't working. When trying to vMotion back to the upgraded ESX 4.0 host I get the message:

A general system error occurred: The product version of the destination host does not support one or more CPU features currently in use by the virtual machine. Such features from CPUID level 0x1 register 'ecx' are indicated with a '1' bit:
x00:0000:x00x:x100:00x0:00x0:000x:010x

The difference between the two sites may be the version of ESX that I upgraded from. These ESX servers that fail to vMotion are ESX 3.5 Build 143128 (Update 3) but I believe the ESX version that worked was Update 4. I haven't found a kb article or post related to this. Has anyone seen anything about ESX U3 unable to vMotion to ESX 4.0?

Thanks in advance,

Jonathan

Sound not working on Ubuntu 9.10 (VMware Fusion 3.0.0 on an iMac)

eleetselad — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:05:20 GMT

I'm running VMware Fusion 3.0.0 on an iMac. I have created an Ubuntu 9.10 (released version) Virtual Appliance. All seems fine except there is no SOUND.

Any suggestions for a fix? Thanks!

VMWare Fusion 3 Windows 7 bootcamp partition blue screen on startup (error 0x0000007b)

gozulin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:22:43 GMT

I have a fresh install of windows 7 on my bootcamp partition. I installed the bootcamp drivers and it works fine when booted natively .

Now, using VMWare fusion 3 to start it as a virtual machine causes it to blue screen and reboot with: error 0x0000007b .

If I pick Safe Mode , I also get the dreaded blue screen.

if I pick the Launch Startup Repair option, it boots into that mode just fine.

And, of course; when I reboot my mac into windows natively, it starts up fine.

Possibly relevant details:

Running Snow Leopard
Macbook Pro 17¨
I enabled Snow Leopard's NTFS write by adding my disk identifier into fstab.
I had not used VMWare fusion 2 to virtualize my windows 7 bootcamp partition prior to installing VMWare Fusion 3.

EDIT: Attached my VMX file in case it helps.

please display the full post while typing an answer

continuum — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:05:53 GMT

please display the full post while typing an answer - it is a pain to always be forced to open the original post in a second browser tab just to see the full context.
This is the only forum that only displays one post while answering

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Mouse motion speed changes with Fusion 3 and MS Mouse

hconceicao — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:34:12 GMT

Hi all,

Has anyone experienced weird changes on the mouse motion speed with Fusion 3? From times to times, it goes crazy here.

I'm using a microsoft comfort mouse and windows 2008.

Activating OS via providing key in wizard vs when using the OS

BladeR1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:07:18 GMT

Hi,

I was just wondering, when setting up a VM and providing the OS ISO file in the wizard, is there any difference or implication to not providing the serial key at this stage but then activating the OS when it's installed and you're using it?

In my case, this is Windows Server 2008 R2.

Juniper VPN and VMware

Hushpuppy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:36:59 GMT

Has anyone ever gotten this to work? I have tried 3 different VMs (Virtualbox, Parallels, and VMware) and no joy. This is my last one. If I can't get VMware to work, I'll go with Bootcamp.

This is for connecting to a Juniper SA4500 appliance. You login on a webpage and you get to RDP to your machine in some sort of jail; you don't get a full IPsec VPN connection to work. Outside of this webpage, your regular Internet connection on your box continues to work as before. I assume this is the crux of the problem.

Thanks for the help.

Warnings on virtual machine memory usage

walterD — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:16:25 GMT

Hello,
Have a question about the difference between ESX 3.5 and vSphere 4. I have 4 ESX 3.5 and 2 vSphere 4. On the ESX 3.5 the memory usage is clearly lower then on the ESX 4 for the same virtual machine.
Example : SVR2003 TS with average of 20 users configured the same, running the same application.

On the ESX 3.5 : HP Prolaint DL380 G5 with 16 GB memory, dual processors running on 3 GHz (4 logical processors no Hyperthreading)
Memory Granted : 2.134.016 KB Average
Memory Active : 313.342,33 KB Average

On the ESX 4 (vSphere) HP Proliant DL380 G6 with 16 GB memory, Quad processors running on 2,8 GHz (16 logical processors with Hyperthreading)
Memory Granted : 2.097.152 KB Average
Memory Active : 1.987.864,5 KB Average

As you can see there is a big difference in mem usage. We therefore always get alerts and warning from our virtual center whiel I cannot find anything wrong on the config from the virtual servers, as well on the vmware machine.

Does anybody had the same problem, and what can we do about it ..

THX

Walter

ChromeOS in Workstation 7

Student Driver — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:16:05 GMT

You can read about it here:

http://lifehacker.com/5408932/chrome-os-virtual-machine-build-ready-for-your-testing

I thought I would go ahead and post that it works just fine on my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install with WS7. I just created an "other" Linux 32bit VM, and replaced the created virtual harddrive with the downloaded VMDK. It's a tad slow, but not bad. You have to logon to it with your GMail account. Also, they recommend bridged networking, and that's what I used.

Have fun.

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

Getting Cluster Name of VM

crigano — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:26:04 GMT

Hello,

I've got a simple inventory query setup that pulls back all of the virtual machines in vCenter. Is there any easy way to get the cluster name that the VM resides in? I'm not finding a basic VM property that contains this information. I see there's a "parent" property, so I'm not sure if that's what I need to use or not. A code snippet below is basically what I'd like to do:

IList<EntityViewBase> vmList = client.FindEntityViews(typeof(VirtualMachine), null, null, null);

foreach (VirtualMachine vm in vmList)
{
Console.WriteLine(vm.Name);
Console.WirteLine(vm.??)
}

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

VMWare View 4 Download Availability?

billu — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:52:11 GMT

I thought I had read somewhere that the View 4 trial download would be available today ( 11/16 ), but it apparently still isn't available. Does anyone know when it will be made available?

Thanks in advance,
Bill

SAN PATH : "The path is marked as 'busy' by the VMkernel"

91gsixty — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:24:16 GMT

root@ESX2 ~]# esxcfg-mpath -s off -P vmhba2:C0:T0:L0
Unable to set path state. Error was: Unable to change path state, the path is marked as 'busy' by the VMkernel.

Heres the situation:

600gb vdisk

I added a volume to LUN0, Set the paths to default in the san.
I realized i didn't like the size and removed the volume.
Split vdisk into two volumes.

500gb and 99gb Volumes

Created volumes for both and set them to LUN 0.
The 1st disk, created and mapped. 2nd disk wouldn't path because LUN 0 was already taking (stupid me put it on the same LUN 0)

This is when the ESX alerts come.

Alarm Definition:
+(Event alarm expression: Lost Storage Connectivity OR
Event alarm expression: Lost Storage Path Redundancy OR ~~Event alarm~~
-- expression: Degraded Storage Path Redundancy--)+
Event details:
Lost connectivity to storage device
+ naa.600c0ff000d7e9120000000000000000. Path vmhba1:C0:T1:L0 is down. Affected+
+ datastores: Unknown.+

I tried to deactive these luns but get

root@ESX2 ~]#* esxcfg-mpath -s off -P vmhba2:C0:T0:L0

Unable to set path state. Error was: Unable to change path state, the path is marked as 'busy' by the VMkernel.

Update: I have since added the 500gb and 99gb to LUN 3 and LUN 4 with no problems. LUN 0 is still being seen by ESX when i don't have these anymore. How can i remove these without interupting my production enviroment.

thanks

jeff

fc.20000000c987cd55:10000000c987cd55-fc.208000c0ffd7eaad:217000c0ffd7eaad-naa.600c0ff000d7e9120000000000000000
Runtime Name: vmhba2:C0:T0:L0
Device: naa.600c0ff000d7e9120000000000000000
Device Display Name: HP Fibre Channel Enclosure Svc Dev (naa.600c0ff000d7e9120000000000000000)
Adapter: vmhba2 Channel: 0 Target: 0 LUN: 0
Adapter Identifier: fc.20000000c987cd55:10000000c987cd55
Target Identifier: fc.208000c0ffd7eaad:217000c0ffd7eaad
Plugin: NMP
State: active
Transport: fc
Adapter Transport Details: WWNN: 20:00:00:00:c9:87:cd:55 WWPN: 10:00:00:00:c9:87:cd:55
Target Transport Details: WWNN: 20:80:00:c0:ff:d7:ea:ad WWPN: 21:70:00:c0:ff:d7:ea:ad

vmhba2:C0:T0:L0 state:active naa.600c0ff000d7e9120000000000000000 vmhba2 0 0 0 NMP active san fc.20000000c987cd55:10000000c987cd55 fc.208000c0ffd7eaad:217000c0ffd7eaad

vmhba1:C0:T1:L0 state:active naa.600c0ff000d7e9120000000000000000 vmhba1 0 1 0 NMP active san fc.20000000c987f29f:10000000c987f29f fc.208000c0ffd7eaad:207000c0ffd7eaad

vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 state:active naa.600c0ff000d7e8690000000000000000 vmhba1 0 0 0 NMP active san fc.20000000c987f29f:10000000c987f29f fc.208000c0ffd7eaad:247000c0ffd7eaad

64 bit linux redhat on 32 bit xp professional on Vmware player

dubeysom — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:30:55 GMT

I have 32 bit XP host and installed VMware player 3.0.
I am trying to install 64 bit Linux redhat but the system does not allow me to.
I turned on VT in BIOS.
But still the same problem. I shut down the machine, took the cable off, even left it for one night all that good stuff but it still gives me the same error.
I have T-60 Lenovo.
Could you please help with this.
Also I read somewhere that I need to enable 'Execute disable' but I could not find it.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Som

Planning the installation

DSRSAS — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:45:29 GMT

I have to virtulize a physcial datacenter having a mix of windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 servers and exchnage servers and database servers.

Now I am kind of lost.. on how to start desigining the infrastructure. I am having a Dell blade server attached to a storage. Now I need to virtulize all these servers. My confusion in on following points

1. should I virtulize the Domain controllers?
2. How do I reach a conlusion that how much resource should allocated to a VM ( the physical server which I will be virtuailzing)
3. Should I keep the Vcenter server a physcial system or a VM.
4. How do I plane a backups

I would highly appreciate anyone can shed some light on this

Regards
DS

Issue with raw disk - cannot read disk

jvivenot — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:20:50 GMT

Hello,

I am using Vmware Server 2.0 on a Debian 64 bits server, running 2 Windows Server 2008 guests.

In one of these guests, I added quite a long time ago a raw disk, thinking that any update of this data within the Windows Servers would be done directly on the raw disk.

However, it seems that the disk was not changed, and that the latest data was stored in another child vmdk (in my datastore).

The issue I am currently having :

the base raw disk is lost (completely)

I do still have access to its child vmdk, which weighs about the same.

I cannot find a way to retrieve any data from my vmdk, whereas it seems that the latest files should be in the child .vmdk and not in the (lost) raw disk.

Is there any way to retrieve any amount of data from this child vmdk if I cannot recreate the base parent raw disk ?

Thanks.

Question about Get-View

AGFlora — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:06:47 GMT

Note:
I'm using () instead of brackets because this page doesn't like brackets.

Hi

For some reason when I use the following code:

Get-VM | Get-View | % {
$_.CustomFields("Barcode")

I get a Cannot index into a null array error.

But... if I use this code:

$Vms = Get-VM
foreach($vm in $vms) {
$Vm.CustomFields("Barcode")
}
It takes longer but it works with no errors.

Does anyone know why this is? Is there a known issue with the Get-View cmdlet?

Thanks

Suspend script for Linux?

AndersN — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:06:12 GMT

Does anyone have a working script to use vmrun (VMware Server 2) on a Linux host to find all running VMs and suspend them?

I've found some via Google, but none of them does the job..

VMWare Workstation 6.5, can't seem to get networking to work

MarkusR83815 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:08:00 GMT

Good day all,

I used the tool awhile back that created my VM from an existing machine. Everything has been working great within the VM. I don't know if the network ever worked though and now I am trying.

My host computer is XP SP3.
Guest is XP SP2

My host is on a domain (not sure if that matters).
There is no DHCP server.
I don't need access to other VMs.
I need to be able to access the internet.

What network connection should I use? I have tried them all to no avail.

On my host I have VMnet1 and VMnet8 set to obtain ip automatically? Should I hardcode an IP address? Also noticed that VMware bridge protocal is unchecked for both of them.

My host has a VMWare Accelerated AMD pcNet Adapter. Currently had it hardcoded to an ip address on the network.

I have tried many different settings. Hardcoding the host vmnet1 and or 8.

Can someone tell me the correct combination please

-Markus

Suggestions for end to end monitoring solutions

mckenzieaj — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:38:03 GMT

I am looking for suggestions for monitoring solutions for a virtualised environment - but not just for the virtual environment, but something that provides an end-to-end "single pane of glass" overview of the entire P+V infrastructure.

Primarily I want to address the need for a consolidated view showing Status, warnings and alerts of various devices and applications and windows event logs in the infrastructure, along with historical performance reporting. Root cause analysis, capacity analysis and predictive alerts are open to discussion.

Infrastructure Overview

6 ESX Hosts
50 Windows based guests including terminal services and MS infrastructure applications
20 remote sites with site to site VPN's to main office
Dell Blade servers
Dell switches
EMC SAN
predominantly Sonicwall routers, but others as well including Cisco.

Environment steadily growing. Currently using a bunch of software/hardware native products for monitoring, therefore not necessarily seeing issues as they arise.

Budget apparently not huge, but not zero

Not greatly interested in monitoring to the level of remote client PC's

Have started looking at:

Solarwinds - Not a bad product. Provides ok reporting on ESX hosts and VM. Event log monitoring a bit ordinary at first glance, and not agentless. Otherwise this product is agentless, easy to intially set up, very configurable.

SCOM+Veeam - painful (imho) to set up especially compared to Solarwinds... early days on this one in terms of understanding what I will get out of it. Veeam component a bit pricy especially as you grow.

EG Innovations - Brief look at web site is as far as I have gone. Looking for feedback.

Netuitive - appears to rely on having other monitoring tools in place for it's source data, and not necessarily be able to pull data directly from hardware/apps.

PacketTrap - appears to be a little bit like solarwinds.

Anyone have comments, suggestions experiences or recommendations they would like to share?

thanks

Andrew McKenzie

IBM blade 8853 cold clone

cef2lion — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:36:34 GMT

Trying to run Enterprise 3.0.3 converter on an IBM 8853 blade in cold mode. The host OS is Windows 2003 64 bit. The converter gets so far and says can't determine guest OS. Searching a bit and there were suggestions to removed media tray and disconnect the blade chassis floppy. I removed cable right at floppy. Still get the converter error. Thinking converter can't see the drives in the 8853. The 8853 is running OS on local drives on the 8853 in RAID 1 config. Going to try using converter F6 to add in the LSI drivers. Problem with the SAS drivers is I have no floppy at F6 time. Looking at adding the LSI drivers to the converter ISO image.

Anyone running into this and gotten around the issue.

Craig

vmware-umds export question

Kirizan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:55:39 GMT

Hey all, go another umds question.

I am trying to export the updates from the beginning of the year to current, so I'm using the following command

vmware-umds --export --dest "c:\exports" --start-time 2009-01-01T00:00:00 --end-time 2009-11-19T00:00:00

But it starts exporting updates from 2008. Is there an error somewhere in my command causing it, because I typed it exactly like it is listed in the admin guide here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_vum_10u2_admin_guide.pdf on page 25.

Anyone have any suggestions, as I would rather not have to ship 8.8 gbs of patches to our isolated sites so they can use about 800mbs of them to get update 4 installed.

HowTo: Installing vSphere SDK for Perl on OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard)

akutz — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:37:42 GMT

I thought some of you may find this useful. I document how to install the vSphere SDK for Perl on a OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) system at http://akutz.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/installing-vsphere-sdk-for-perl-on-os-x-10-6-2-snow-leopard/

Windows 2008 PTV converter fails Unable to find system volume, reconfiguration is not possible

StephenPayne262 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:39:16 GMT

I've tried several times to convert a physical Windows 2008 SP2 Server (member server, not DC), and I always fail at 95% with the above error. My system doesn't have a boot.ini file (I'm not familiar with how Windows 2008 changed this process), but I tried following a previous post about creating one, and it didn't help.

My system hard drive configuration (SATA RAID controller) is like this:

Disk 0: Dynamic disk with 31 MB EISA Configuration, 20 GB System/Boot partition

Disk 1: Software mirror of disk 0

Disk 2: 110 GB Basic disk on RAID array

Disk 3: 600 GB Dynamic disk on RAID array

When I run converter, I'm trying to just conver the C drive - I'm de-selecting everything else. I've tried playing with the settings for Disk controller using "Preserve source" as well as "SCSI LSI Logic SAS" and "IDE", and they all fail at the same place.

Anyone have any ideas on how I can convert this W008 server?

View provisioning error: Customization operation timed out

marcelorizzo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:39:51 GMT

I am trouble getting pass the custumization while provisioning VMs.
It keeps timing out with the following error: Customization operation timed out

I am new to View so any help with be appreciated.

Cheers,
Marcelo Rizzo

2009-11-20 14:06:57,714 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:06:57,714 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 9171b31d-83cb-4085-b5b5-9e37a3884261
2009-11-20 14:06:57,714 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones locked clones.
RequestId: 0907146b-17b6-49bc-a564-579f8928b953
CloneId[0]: 9171b31d-83cb-4085-b5b5-9e37a3884261

2009-11-20 14:06:57,714 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:06:57,714 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - DestroySviClones called for 1 SVI clones. Request id: 0907146b-17b6-49bc-a564-579f8928b953, force: False. CloneIds: 9171b31d-83cb-4085-b5b5-9e37a3884261.
2009-11-20 14:06:58,120 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The session is not authenticated.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.FindByUuid(ManagedObjectReference _this, ManagedObjectReference datacenter, String uuid, Boolean vmSearch)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.c__DisplayClassc.<GetVmMoId>b__b()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:06:58,464 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection - Unable either to logout from url: https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk with username: monterey\administrator or to dispose the connection.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The session is not authenticated.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.Logout(ManagedObjectReference _this)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection.Disconnect()
2009-11-20 14:06:58,464 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Unable to free up the vc connection.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The session is not authenticated.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.Logout(ManagedObjectReference _this)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection.Disconnect()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.HandleVimException(Exception e)
2009-11-20 14:06:58,464 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Reconnect called to create a new connection to VC https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk and user monterey\administrator.
2009-11-20 14:06:58,839 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Successfuly connected to the VC server at: https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk with user: monterey\administrator
2009-11-20 14:07:01,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 9171b31d-83cb-4085-b5b5-9e37a3884261
2009-11-20 14:07:01,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones released clones.
RequestId: 0907146b-17b6-49bc-a564-579f8928b953
CloneId[0]: 9171b31d-83cb-4085-b5b5-9e37a3884261

2009-11-20 14:07:01,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:07:01,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:07:05,136 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:07:05,136 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: e5ddbb45-817e-451e-a558-e813bcbe25e0
2009-11-20 14:07:05,136 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones locked clones.
RequestId: 29fe7e83-f634-4925-a06e-2cd136400310
CloneId[0]: e5ddbb45-817e-451e-a558-e813bcbe25e0

2009-11-20 14:07:05,136 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:07:05,136 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - DestroySviClones called for 1 SVI clones. Request id: 29fe7e83-f634-4925-a06e-2cd136400310, force: False. CloneIds: e5ddbb45-817e-451e-a558-e813bcbe25e0.
2009-11-20 14:07:07,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: e5ddbb45-817e-451e-a558-e813bcbe25e0
2009-11-20 14:07:07,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones released clones.
RequestId: 29fe7e83-f634-4925-a06e-2cd136400310
CloneId[0]: e5ddbb45-817e-451e-a558-e813bcbe25e0

2009-11-20 14:07:07,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:07:07,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:09:22,145 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:09:22,145 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 780050af-97f0-4f98-8e42-0fbf42b412d2
2009-11-20 14:09:22,145 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones locked clones.
RequestId: 349b0359-6bab-4a35-9055-53305e15bccd
CloneId[0]: 780050af-97f0-4f98-8e42-0fbf42b412d2

2009-11-20 14:09:22,145 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:09:22,145 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - DestroySviClones called for 1 SVI clones. Request id: 349b0359-6bab-4a35-9055-53305e15bccd, force: False. CloneIds: 780050af-97f0-4f98-8e42-0fbf42b412d2.
2009-11-20 14:09:24,130 | 5 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:09:24,130 | 5 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 9a3a8323-4abe-4a75-99b4-6388d2a918db
2009-11-20 14:09:24,130 | 5 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones locked clones.
RequestId: 09a96cec-b39a-4f38-a8e8-c0817d7a0756
CloneId[0]: 9a3a8323-4abe-4a75-99b4-6388d2a918db

2009-11-20 14:09:24,130 | 5 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:09:24,130 | 5 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - DestroySviClones called for 1 SVI clones. Request id: 09a96cec-b39a-4f38-a8e8-c0817d7a0756, force: False. CloneIds: 9a3a8323-4abe-4a75-99b4-6388d2a918db.
2009-11-20 14:09:24,426 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:09:24,926 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 780050af-97f0-4f98-8e42-0fbf42b412d2
2009-11-20 14:09:24,926 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones released clones.
RequestId: 349b0359-6bab-4a35-9055-53305e15bccd
CloneId[0]: 780050af-97f0-4f98-8e42-0fbf42b412d2

2009-11-20 14:09:24,926 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:09:24,926 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:09:29,676 | WFE thread 2 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 9a3a8323-4abe-4a75-99b4-6388d2a918db
2009-11-20 14:09:29,676 | WFE thread 2 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones released clones.
RequestId: 09a96cec-b39a-4f38-a8e8-c0817d7a0756
CloneId[0]: 9a3a8323-4abe-4a75-99b4-6388d2a918db

2009-11-20 14:09:29,676 | WFE thread 2 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:09:29,676 | WFE thread 2 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:10:08,799 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:10:08,878 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - CreateSviClones was called for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa, for 1 clones.
2009-11-20 14:10:08,878 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Received a request to create 1 clones for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa. Filed as request id d4dc883b-36a9-48bd-a974-f9830ffacbff
2009-11-20 14:10:08,878 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:10:08,878 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:10:08,987 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - Created an UfaInitializeDiskAction with total disks 1.
2009-11-20 14:10:09,003 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 0b3500d8-a0f5-413b-b275-15dffbd460ad
2009-11-20 14:10:11,627 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 temp-lc-9f4c2e72-b894-4d5c-a695-/temp-lc-9f4c2e72-b894-4d5c-a695-.vmx
2009-11-20 14:10:13,002 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-184
2009-11-20 14:11:13,031 | 7 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:12:13,044 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:13:13,057 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:14:13,070 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:15:13,098 | 7 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:16:13,111 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:17:13,124 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:18:13,121 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:19:13,150 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:20:13,147 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:20:34,725 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateCloneAction - Clone created with VM MoId: vm-186
2009-11-20 14:20:36,849 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateSnapshotAction - Snapshot created with VM MoId: snapshot-188
2009-11-20 14:20:39,209 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 source-lc-ec326597-1ff5-4ed4-af2/source-lc-ec326597-1ff5-4ed4-af2.vmx
2009-11-20 14:20:40,287 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-189
2009-11-20 14:20:52,692 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1.vmx
2009-11-20 14:20:53,708 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-191
2009-11-20 14:20:59,098 | WFE thread 8 | INFO | ServiceCore.ActiveDirectory.AdUtil - New computer account has been created successfully.
2009-11-20 14:21:01,348 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Getting NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-191
2009-11-20 14:21:01,442 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Recevied the NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-191 from VC.
2009-11-20 14:21:01,442 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: issuing disk connection request to UFA service for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:02,505 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: partitioning the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:02,551 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: formatting the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:08,520 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating2 files on the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:08,520 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000023000000\simvol.dat
2009-11-20 14:21:08,535 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000023000000\sim.dat
2009-11-20 14:21:08,551 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: finish init disk operation for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902 successfully.
2009-11-20 14:21:09,832 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - UfaInitializeDiskAction: finished init disk: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk.
2009-11-20 14:21:09,848 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 0b3500d8-a0f5-413b-b275-15dffbd460ad
2009-11-20 14:21:09,848 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:21:09,848 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:21:09,848 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:21:14,035 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:21:14,113 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - CreateSviClones was called for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa, for 1 clones.
2009-11-20 14:21:14,113 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Received a request to create 1 clones for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa. Filed as request id 5bddefdf-952b-4e74-b96e-8156ffcb8d3e
2009-11-20 14:21:14,113 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:21:14,113 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:21:14,223 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - Created an UfaInitializeDiskAction with total disks 1.
2009-11-20 14:21:14,223 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 6c4cc2b2-47e3-41f4-aadd-585cd06124f6
2009-11-20 14:21:16,738 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2.vmx
2009-11-20 14:21:18,082 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-193
2009-11-20 14:21:23,394 | WFE thread 9 | INFO | ServiceCore.ActiveDirectory.AdUtil - New computer account has been created successfully.
2009-11-20 14:21:26,535 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Getting NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-193
2009-11-20 14:21:26,535 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Recevied the NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-193 from VC.
2009-11-20 14:21:26,535 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: issuing disk connection request to UFA service for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:26,863 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: partitioning the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:26,957 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: formatting the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:33,925 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating2 files on the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:33,925 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000024000000\simvol.dat
2009-11-20 14:21:33,941 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000024000000\sim.dat
2009-11-20 14:21:33,956 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: finish init disk operation for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902 successfully.
2009-11-20 14:21:35,394 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - UfaInitializeDiskAction: finished init disk: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk.
2009-11-20 14:21:35,409 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 6c4cc2b2-47e3-41f4-aadd-585cd06124f6
2009-11-20 14:21:35,409 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:21:35,409 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:21:35,409 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:55:14,334 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:55:14,444 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - CreateSviClones was called for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa, for 1 clones.
2009-11-20 14:55:14,444 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Received a request to create 1 clones for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa. Filed as request id 3c6cb2d8-f2b7-43ff-9b44-36fec1714303
2009-11-20 14:55:14,444 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:55:14,444 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:55:14,834 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
VMware.Sim.CommonLib.Exception.SimVcConnectionException: Error in the application.
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.RetrieveProperties(PropertyFilterSpec[] specs)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.c__DisplayClass37.<GetObjectProperties>b__36()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke(), Machine Name: MTRY-MARCELO, Timestamp: 11/20/2009 10:55:14 PM, App Domain Name: SviWebService.exe, Thread Identity: , Windows Identity: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3, detail information: VC session timed-out during RetrieveProperties call, Configuration ID: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:55:14,834 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection - Unable either to logout from url: https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk with username: monterey\administrator or to dispose the connection.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The session is not authenticated.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.Logout(ManagedObjectReference _this)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection.Disconnect()
2009-11-20 14:55:14,834 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Unable to free up the vc connection.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The session is not authenticated.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.Logout(ManagedObjectReference _this)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection.Disconnect()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.HandleVimException(Exception e)
2009-11-20 14:55:14,834 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Reconnect called to create a new connection to VC https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk and user monterey\administrator.
2009-11-20 14:55:14,866 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Successfuly connected to the VC server at: https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk with user: monterey\administrator
2009-11-20 14:55:14,959 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - Created an UfaInitializeDiskAction with total disks 1.
2009-11-20 14:55:14,959 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 9eb91c52-0bb7-4a14-b494-6b92f09f3e29
2009-11-20 14:55:17,569 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4.vmx
2009-11-20 14:55:18,553 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-195
2009-11-20 14:55:23,881 | WFE thread 6 | INFO | ServiceCore.ActiveDirectory.AdUtil - New computer account has been created successfully.
2009-11-20 14:55:26,412 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Getting NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-195
2009-11-20 14:55:26,428 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Recevied the NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-195 from VC.
2009-11-20 14:55:26,428 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: issuing disk connection request to UFA service for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:27,100 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: partitioning the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:27,162 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: formatting the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:33,584 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating2 files on the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:33,584 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000025000000\simvol.dat
2009-11-20 14:55:33,599 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000025000000\sim.dat
2009-11-20 14:55:33,615 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: finish init disk operation for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902 successfully.
2009-11-20 14:55:34,834 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - UfaInitializeDiskAction: finished init disk: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk.
2009-11-20 14:55:34,849 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 9eb91c52-0bb7-4a14-b494-6b92f09f3e29
2009-11-20 14:55:34,849 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:55:34,849 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:55:34,849 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:55:39,911 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:55:39,990 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - CreateSviClones was called for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa, for 1 clones.
2009-11-20 14:55:39,990 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Received a request to create 1 clones for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa. Filed as request id ab5dcbf9-ee9d-4852-a9ae-b4d96f33871b
2009-11-20 14:55:39,990 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:55:39,990 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:55:40,099 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - Created an UfaInitializeDiskAction with total disks 1.
2009-11-20 14:55:40,099 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: d37c7206-16e1-46aa-b33f-559a72dfe0bc
2009-11-20 14:55:42,568 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3.vmx
2009-11-20 14:55:43,818 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-197
2009-11-20 14:55:54,083 | WFE thread 4 | INFO | ServiceCore.ActiveDirectory.AdUtil - New computer account has been created successfully.
2009-11-20 14:55:56,567 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Getting NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-197
2009-11-20 14:55:56,567 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Recevied the NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-197 from VC.
2009-11-20 14:55:56,567 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: issuing disk connection request to UFA service for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:56,989 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: partitioning the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:57,020 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: formatting the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:56:03,426 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating2 files on the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:56:03,426 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000026000000\simvol.dat
2009-11-20 14:56:03,442 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000026000000\sim.dat
2009-11-20 14:56:03,457 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: finish init disk operation for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902 successfully.
2009-11-20 14:56:04,754 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - UfaInitializeDiskAction: finished init disk: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk.
2009-11-20 14:56:04,770 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: d37c7206-16e1-46aa-b33f-559a72dfe0bc
2009-11-20 14:56:04,770 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:56:04,770 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:56:04,770 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98

found a bug in vmware workstation 7

ubergitler — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:05:15 GMT

win 7 x64
vmware workstation 7
bug
vmware workstation install service that handles usb devices, and make them connect as needed to virtual machines.
this service make my usb 3g modem huawei e1550 not detected properly.

when this modem connected to pc, it first detected as cdrom and card reader.
after installing drivers, in moment of connect software try to switch it to modem mode but cannot.
stopping this service solve the problem.
that all.
it will be great if fixed.
thanks

VMware converter standalone

Formatter — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:20:46 GMT

So is there a new converter coming out that will convert 2008 R2??? since the esxi 4 u1 is out now and supports 2008 R2. Stanalone that is.

Cold Clone: IBM Blade Server - Hangs "Please wait"

Stevester — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:11:54 GMT

Good Evening Everyone,

I have a slight problem. I am trying to cold clone an IBM Blade Server HS20. The screen shows the convertor hanging saying please wait. I injected both VMware LSI driver and Netextreme II Broadcom drives for the NICs. Can anyone tell me what i am missing? I am leaning toward the idea that I may have a wrong LSI driver. I would prefer not to hot clone it.

Thanks
Stevester

WHY is a clone not a clone! If you clone with pre-allocated disc, the resulting clone is variable!

chico9 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:06:20 GMT

I had made 6 clones of a vm with a pre-allocated disk size of 10gb & installed diferent software on each clone for testing purposes, only to find the clones were made with VARIABLE disk size! I HAD TO DELETE THEM ALL AND START OVER! Which meant clone them one by one (slow), them having to convert (again slow) each one to a fixed (preallocated disk size), and then installing all the software again on each one. I lost 2 days of work because a clone is not a true clone. WHY?

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No VMware VSS on 2k8 R2?

rjtd — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:00:27 GMT

Hi,

While I can see a "VMware Snapshot" service on my Win2k8 VMs, there is no such thing on Win2k8R2 even with ESX 4.0 U1 (VSS provider selected on VMware Tools Installation). I wonder if VMware will create crash consistent (VSS enabled) snapshots of the VMs or not.

I can't see anything on the logs, even when I enable the "quiesce" option.

Thanks.

VCB Snapshot issue only with Server 2008 R2

AWharmby — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:17:06 GMT

Dear all,

We have VCB running smoothly for some time backing up close to 100 VM's. This is pure vcbmounter script based to the VCB proxy server.

However one two of the newer VM's (Server 2008 R2) fail to be backed up/snapshoted with this error:

"Cannot create a quiesed snapshot because the create snapshot operation exceeded the time limit........ etc"

Our environment is ESX4 / vSphere.

I have tried reinstalling VMware tools, recreating the VM, some post suggested deleting a regkey for VSS but this only made all the VSS writers disappear, reinstalling with the VGA driver but nothing so far has worked. vMotion works fine and the issue is replicable by doing a snapshot without the memory option ticked and ticking the quiese option.

Any ideas?

Enable Hardware-assisted virtualization (HAV) in BIOS in a VMWare Fusion 3 VM

frobitz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:03:26 GMT

Hi,

I'm a web developer and have a Windows 7 Pro install on Boot Camp with IE6, IE7 and IE8 running via XP Mode (VirtualPC) via the recent article on Sitepoint,

I'd like to be able to access these through the Boot Camp Partition option in VMWare Fusion 3 but I'm blocked by not having Hardware-assisted virtualization enabled in the VM, and there's not option in the BIOS.

I realise running a VM inside a VM is a bit crap, but for my purposes I don't think the slowness will matter as it will be just to check rendering issues when coding CSS/HTML.

Additionally I don't want to install XP or Windows 7 inside VMWare VM's on OS X as I'm happy with my Boot Camp set up and don't want to use up more disk space, nor waste money on more M$ licenses!

I have come across some hacks for older version of Fusion but somehow doubt they work on 3.

Can anyone suggest a solution?

Thanks!

Locking Icons in Place

tow-eric — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:22:58 GMT

I know this isn't a huge deal but I was wondering if there is a way to lock the icons in place on the main template so when the desktops are deployed and logged into from the view client they are in the same exact place as they are on the template? Is this some sort of group policy setting?

Thanks.

View 4 Composer won't install

Rob Lisi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:30 GMT

I just updated my infrastructure to Vsphere update 1 including vcenter. View Composer was wasn't working properly (the View Manager couldn't see that composer was running on vcenter), so I uninstalled view composer and now I'm trying to reinstall but it gives me a the following error "Installation failed. The wizard was interrupted before Vmware View Composer could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time, please run setup again."
A reboot of the system did nothing. I'm running View Composer 2.0.0-192972. Any input would really help. Thanks

Storage space used by VMs linked to a template

krdeepak75 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:52:46 GMT

We find that the storage space for VMs linked to a template grows pretty fast when users do things like application installs, copy builds, source control updates etc. I understand that for such large writes we should avoid cloning.

Can we do following to limit the growth rate of the delta disk?

Suppose we create a template with base OS installed. Now a user creates a configuration off the base template and deploys the VM in Lab Manager. The user then adds a new virtual hard disk (this disk is not on the template), configures this disk (say to E: drive) and does all large write activity on E:. I understand that all of E: will be consumed from the shared storage pool all at once. But after that will the delta disks grow at the same rate as it would if E: was configured in the base template?

ESXi 4 support for Dell T110

jknott67 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:15:38 GMT

Hello,

Any idea if / when the Dell T110 server will be tested & supported for ESXi4? It has the Intel 3420 chipset.

Thanks

ESX4 on Poweredge T110?

kevcherry — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:04:04 GMT

Has anyone successfully install ESX 4 on a Dell PowerEdge T110?

Wyse WTOS & View 4

joegarrett — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:45:05 GMT

I'd like to know what version of Wyse WTOS will be required to support a connection to View 4.

I had an idication from a Wyse tech that 6.5 (which is in beta) would be needed. The tech also said they didn't expect WTOS 6.5 to be released until the end of the year (raise red flag here), but they couldn't be sure about that.

Thanks, Joe

Migrating user profiles from Terminal Services to WinXP on View 4

Paul Kourany — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:22:37 GMT

We have 50 users with profiles on Win2003 Terminal Services. The hardware is old and slow and they are using their local PCs more since the terminal sessions are slow. We are building a VMWare View environment (soon to be v4) to create a pool of Virtual PCs (Win XP or possibly Win7).

Does anyone have any tips/tools for migrating the TS profiles to the Virtual PC profile? At present, we see this as a manual process, one user at a time.

Thanks!

Support for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 on ESX 3.5

dfehse — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:11:13 GMT

Hi,

maybe I'm just too stupid to find this information, but will there any official support for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 on the ESX Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 Plattform?

Thx for any feedback

Daniel Fehse

Recommendations for Profile manager

BOOKER — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:59:49 GMT

We're planning on using windows vista for virtual desktops on wyse stations. In our testing we are seeing how profiles take long to create and get applied.

What does anyone here recommend for profile management. I'd like to see the the whole process get speeded up. But would also like to see deployment and management. This is our first time looking at this so I don't know what kind of gotchas we may miss.

I've seen Appsense, RTO, Res Powerfuse and Script Start mentioned. Anyone have any feedback on these, and costs?

ESXi is reporting that VM's are using excessive amounts of physical resources.

doepain — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:12:58 GMT

Our vSphere Client reports that VM's guests are utilizing more resources tha they actually when you go to the actual Guest and check its resources they are relatively idle.

When reboot the VM that was using almost 97% of its allocated memory its released the memory back into the the pool, but as soon as it came back online it immediately grabbed the full amount it was assigned ...eventually it leveled off back to 35%.

Then another system decided it wanted to consume nearly 90% of its resources.

The VM's them selve (through TaskManager) are barely doing anything.

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Problems with networking using Workstation 7

omnicc — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:03:22 GMT

My current environment is Windows 7 X64 as my host machine running Workstation 7. My VM is running XP SP3. When I was running version 6.5.2 with Vista 64 everything worked properly. I use the DHCP server from my router. My internal network is 192.168.1.0. I am attached to a domain and the domain server is 192.168.1.200. The DHCP server is 192.168.1.245. When I try and login to my VM using a bridged network (which is what I had with 6.5.2), I get a error

The system could not log you on. Make sure your User name and domain are correct, then type password again. Letters in the password must be typed in the correct case.

Now if I change my network to use NAT. I can login with no problems. The problem at that point is that I can't access anything that is not in this VM. If I then change the network to bridged everything works fine. I don't believe that I should have to login using NAT and then use bridged to access the network. This machine was built originally as a 6.0 machine. The problem existed in this mode, so I did a full clone upgrading the VM to 6.5-7.0 machine. Same results.

Best Regards

Michael Gould

DOS printing to USB device

BillPedersen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:19:51 GMT

Well, the newer systems do not have parallel ports. So have installed a USB to parallel converter...

Only problem now is how to connect from a DOS VMware machine using Workstation 7 to the HOST USB printer.

Virtual Printer - no VMware Tools for DOS

Parallel goes to file or PHYSICAL parallel port.

Serial goes to file or PHYSICAL serial port

Any suggestions are welcome. One obvious one is to add a parallel port...Well, IF it is the ONLY solution...

Thanks,

Bill.

Windows 2008 R2 + ESX4 + vCenter Client Console = FREEZE

joergriether — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:33:27 GMT

Hello,

i reproduced this several times now and also found a coressponding thread in the microsoft newsgroups, ( http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsserver2008r2general/thread/bc0f3c12-eda7-440d-a228-213a8d0b956c ) so here you go:

Install a fresh W2008 R2 to an ESX4 machine, do this all with vCenter Client Console, not with reomte RDP. Add the role
Remote-Desktop-Services to the newly created W2008 R2 machine, reboot, after reboot when the machine tries to finish
the changes (after logon) it totally freezes.

Now the interesting part on that:

If you log on via RDP after the reboot (oh yeah, you urgently need to turn rdp on before reboot!!!), then
the installer of the role WILL FINISH!!!

Now how strange is that?

Any ideas?

best,
Joerg

Moving vm server

Greggk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:02:41 GMT

Hello,
I'm trying to move a windows 2003 vm server to a new host. The new host is configured, and ready to go. Both are on x64. When I start up the vm server on the new faster host, it shows that it's loading in the console, then it just stops loading with a blue screen error.
STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000026c (0x0000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down.

And it will reboot,and go through the same thing.
I thought moving a vm server would be an easy thing, that's the reason I was trying out the vmware to begin with, in case you need to move it, you can just move it to a new hardware without issues, but now am I going to have to live with the vm server staying on an old slow server, and not being able to move it to a new faster server? Any help and or suggestions is appriecated

How do we increase VMUG attendance???

csilouisville — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:59:31 GMT

We had 104 members signup for the October 2009 VMUG meeting. Only 37 attended according to the attendance sheet.

What can we do to increase attendance to the meetings?

Please provide suggestions on what we can do to make the experience better for our members....

Michael Hart
Louisville VMUG Leader
VMWare vExpert - 2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 VM hangs

TransennaTCF — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:17:16 GMT

Hi vPros;

I've got a problem running af Windows Server 2008 R2 on a vSphere4 host. The installation completes, but certain simple opperations will cause the OS to hang (at a Windows level). One such operation that consequently causes this error, is to navigate through a REGEDIT session with the arrow keys: navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and press the "d" key (ex. to FF to the DISK reg.key) - the OS will hang.

The test has been done both with W2K8_R2 RTM and RC, with various vSCSI Controllers and vNICs and with both the "Windows Server 2008 64bit" and "Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit (experimental)" - all with the same result?

The vSphere host is a HP DL380G5 Intel Xeon X5460, patched to the most recent level.

Has anyone seen the same and/or found a solution?

Pre Thanks

Thomas

Cisco Nexus 1000V (separate Host?)

vmproteau — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:37:22 GMT

We are looking at this an I don't yet have my head wrapped around it but, my understanding is:

(1) You can have 1 or 2 VSM (primary and secondary)
(2) VEM becomes part of the kernel for ESX 4 Host you want managed by these VSMs
(3) A VSM will manage only one ESX cluster.

My assumption was that these VSM virtual appliance(s)would live within the cluster it manages along side VMs however; this diagram (attached) seems to show the VSM on a sepearate ESX Host that isn't a VEM instance?

It seems like the benefit to this 1000V is lessened if you need to purchase 1 (2 for HA) ESX Host(s) with licensing to support just these virtual appliances.

Am I not understanding this correctly?

Unable to view certain directories on console.

doepain — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:54:42 GMT

Logged into my ESXi 4 host with putty, and I find that I am unable to view the contents of "linked directories (short-cuts) such as "bootbank, altbootbank, locker, and scratch... etc.

I run ~# ls /bootbank

Any explanation?

Senior Hosting Engineer
ModusLink Open Channel Solutions, Inc.

Clicks with Intuos 3 pen go to "wrong" window

MacNephDoc — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49:48 GMT

Environment: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit VM running within Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) on a 2008 dual Quad Core 2.8 GHz Mac Pro.

I'm running (via Citrix Server over the internet) a Java Machine version of a large health care entity's electronic health record. I use a Wacom Intuos 3 graphics tablet for screen navigation. Sometimes when I click the Intous pen on a clickable region of the Java application, the click is sensed not by the clickable region of the foreground window in the VM, but rather by a window in the background (whatever native Mac application lies in the background window. Bringing the VM to foreground focus again and clicking with the Intuos pen in exactly the same spot works as intended.

I've installed the latest (Oct '09) versions of the Mac and Windows Wacom drivers into the Mac OS and Windows OS (VM) respectively. The drivers are said to be Snow Leopard and Windows 7 compatible, respectively.

I've not tried clicking at the same VM window regions with a USB mouse, but I can do that.

I see that there have been discussions about problems with Wacom tablets and VMWare fusion, but I haven't seen discussions that describe problems such as I'm describing. Are these known issues? Is there anything you'd like me to do to clarify my problems to the VMWare community?

Thanks so much,

Change the name of the Windows Server

brenko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:46:35 GMT

In our lab environment we changed the actual server name (windows 2003) from Lab1 to Lab2, and after a reboot we were unable to access the vCenter server using "localhost". Since this was in the lab, we simply reinstalled after playing with the Data Connections and having no success.

If anyone knows of a standard procedure for doing this it wouild be appreaciated if you could share your insight.

Ben

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