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backup rdm with netapp snapshots

steveharder — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:42:41 GMT

hi,

Can I create netapp snapshot on RDM lun that is in virtual mode or does it have to be in physical mode?

The scenario is like this -

VM (file server) have rdm lun for the data in virtual mode.

I want to backup the vm via Netapp vibe.

What happens to the rdm luns when I create a vibe snapshot?

Thanks

VMware Workstation - Backtrack - WG111v2 Realtek RTL-8187L chipset

nikolay100 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:39:34 GMT

Hello everyone!

Recently I had installed Backtrack 3 using VMware Workstation. And I have wireless USB adapter WG111v2 Realtek RTL-8187L chipset and I can't get it to work. I have looked like a million posts and web pages about this, but I couldn't find a good tutorial or explanation how to get this USB adapter to work in Backtrack 3. When I plug the adapter the Backtrack detects it, but when I try to configure, it gives me a choise from 5 or 6 drivers and when I choose one of them an error pops out - cannot start wpa_supplicant. And then it seems like the USB adapter is woorkin, but in is not detecting any wireless networks /and that is impossible, because my router is like 2 meeters from my laptop/.

Also I have tried to install this diver - Realtek RTL8187L Wireless Driver 1.10 Linux Kernel 2.6. But it seems it's not possible, because I am using a virtual machine and it can't create/find the folders which are required to install the driver. That is how I understand all the errors when I was trying to insall it.

If someone have managed to get this to work please... please tell me how? Or if there is a post or a tutorial that I didn't found please let me know.

Thank you in advance!

Regards!

P.S. Sorry for the bad English:)

Unable to connect to ESX server through Putty!

vDeepak — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:54:44 GMT

I recently configured a new host ESX 3.5 and tride to add to my VC server 3.0 and am able to do that with Ip of ESX server, not by name!

Also am not able to connect to ESX through putty..it seems to be some issues with DNS configuration over ESX server!

Am able to ping both ESX and VC sevrer and vice versa.

Will you please let me know how should i reconfigure ESX DNS file or else possible cause of issue?

Clearing old LUNs / devices from storage adapters

Aesthetic — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:13:02 GMT

I'm having a strange issue and was hoping for some help.

To all of my ESX hosts, I've got dual 4Gb Fibre-Channel cards. Previously I've had some LUNs handed to my hosts temporarily that I have since removed (migrating those VMs to other LUNs). The problem I'm having is after removing them - those LUNs remain listed in Devices (Storage Adapters) as 0.00B in size. I've already completely deleted those LUNs -- they should no longer exist or be listed. I thought that upon performing a Rescan they'd disappear.

Running VMware ESX 4.00, 164009
EMC SANs (CX300 and AX4-5)
QLogic Fibre Channel Cards

How do I get rid of these old 0.00b LUNs listed? Any assistance would be appreciated!

Please make sure SQL Server Agent service is running on the database server

zatara — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:36:36 GMT

Trying to do a fresh install of vcenter 4 and I get the following message when entering the db credentials. I've tried both sql and windows authentication, same thing. Trying this on SQL 2005.

I checked the sql server and the agent is definitely running.

Anyone know what the problem is?

Thanks!

How do you map an external USB drive in VMWare Fusion running Win ME?

HapK — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:05:58 GMT

If I have missed the instructions for this, my apologies, but I have looked. I have also just asked this question in my thread on trying to get my OED to install on VMWare running Win ME, but since this is a general question that may be of use to others, I will also ask it here (where it may be more visible): How do I map my external USB drive to to a drive letter in VMWare running Win ME?

I have a specific purpose for trying to do this. ( I need this external drive to show up as E:\OED in Win ME.)

Crash of VMWare Server 2 VMs on AMD64 X2 System

davidlaw@us.ibm.com — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:11:16 GMT

I have an SLES 11 host system running kernel 2.6.27.23-0.1-default. The
system has 6 GB of ram as well as a 64 X2 AMD processor. I will run a
guest image and, periodically, the system will just crash. When I run the VM in debug mode it appears to last significantly longer (sometimes for several days at a time) while in regular mode it crashes within an hour or less. I have run into this same issue with all versions of VMWare Server 2.0.x. Does anyone
have any ideas? I think it's possible that the host bios may not be
configured correctly for VMWare but I didn't expect the host to crash
like this. I have seen nothing similar to this in any of the newsgroups
and I'm running out of ideas.

The error I see in the VMWare log is:

VMware Server internal monitor error ***
vcpu-0:VMM fault: regs=0x2f94, exc=13, eip=0xac378

and this same error is shown for both linux and windows clients. I have a hunch that "exc=13" probably narrows it down if anyone knows what this exception is associated with?

Please let me know if you have any ideas.

no login-fields at web-service, just blank

peterpilsl — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:35:50 GMT

A few days ago I ran into the following problem:

when try to logon to my vmware-server at https://myhost.com:8333 I only get a blank page but not the usual and expected login-window

I tried with firefox3 and recent opera under linux and IE7 under windows. This is not a certificate-problem, cause all certificates are installed and this never was a problem before. I tried to restart vmware-mgmt but it didnt help. I even rebooted the whole host-machine (a linux-server) but no effect.

I can connect to the vmware-server using the vmware virtual infrastructure client and all VM's are running fine. Its just that I cant use the webinterface, which I really like to use, cause its the easiest way to manage our VM's on the run.

any suggestions?

thnx a lot,

peter

vmkwarning log is full of scsi warnings: Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller

Penic Albin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:30:13 GMT

two days ago i check customer infrastructure and i found that vmkwarning logs are full of this. Can anyone help me with this?

And can someone explan me what is this error Returning I/O failure. 0x25 0/0x2 0x5 0x25 0x0. Is there any table with this error codes?

Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.971 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.972 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.972 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.972 cpu2:1026)WARNING: SCSI: 5350: vml.02001e0000600601601fc014008b8cb434ab71dc11524149442035: Too many failed retries 33 (32), Returning I/O failure. 0x25 0/0x2 0x5 0x25 0x0
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.972 cpu2:1037)WARNING: ScsiDevice: 3264: Failed for vml.02001e0000600601601fc014008b8cb434ab71dc11524149442035: Not supported
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.972 cpu2:1037)WARNING: ScsiDevice: 3633: READ CAPACITY on device "vml.02001e0000600601601fc014008b8cb434ab71dc11524149442035" from Plugin "legacyMP" failed. Not supported
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.972 cpu2:1037)WARNING: SCSI: 4545: Delaying failover to path vmhba1:1:30
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.975 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.975 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.975 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.979 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.979 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.979 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.981 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.981 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.982 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.984 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.985 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.985 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.987 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.988 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.988 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.990 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.991 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.991 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.993 cpu0:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.994 cpu0:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.994 cpu0:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.996 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.997 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.997 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.999 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.999 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:17.999 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.001 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.002 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.002 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.004 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.004 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.004 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.007 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.007 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.007 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.010 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.010 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:04 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.010 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.012 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.012 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.012 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.015 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.015 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.016 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.019 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.019 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.019 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.022 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.023 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.023 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.025 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.026 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.026 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.028 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.029 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.029 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.031 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.032 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.032 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.034 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.034 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.034 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.037 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.037 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.037 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.039 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.040 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.040 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.043 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.043 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.043 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.047 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.048 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.048 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.052 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.052 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.052 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.054 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.055 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.055 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.057 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.057 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.057 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.061 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.062 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.062 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.066 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.066 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.066 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.069 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.069 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.070 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.073 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.074 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.074 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.077 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.077 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba1:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.077 cpu2:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba1:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.078 cpu2:1026)WARNING: SCSI: 5350: vml.02001e0000600601601fc014008b8cb434ab71dc11524149442035: Too many failed retries 33 (32), Returning I/O failure. 0x25 0/0x2 0x5 0x25 0x0
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.078 cpu2:1037)WARNING: ScsiDevice: 3264: Failed for vml.02001e0000600601601fc014008b8cb434ab71dc11524149442035: Not supported
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.078 cpu2:1037)WARNING: ScsiDevice: 3633: READ CAPACITY on device "vml.02001e0000600601601fc014008b8cb434ab71dc11524149442035" from Plugin "legacyMP" failed. Not supported
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.078 cpu2:1037)WARNING: Fil3: 1787: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 4704b67c ae130147 15008f37 7449ac60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.168 cpu2:1036)WARNING: SCSI: 4545: Delaying failover to path vmhba2:0:30
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.170 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:0:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.171 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:0:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.171 cpu2:1051)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:0:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.173 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.173 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.173 cpu2:1052)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.177 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba2:1:30 begins.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.178 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 3747: Could not switchover to vmhba2:1:30. Check Unit Ready Command returned an error instead of NOT READY for standby controller .
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.178 cpu2:1054)WARNING: SCSI: 4623: Manual switchover to vmhba2:1:30 completed unsuccessfully.
Jul 2 12:09:05 esxdd17 vmkernel: 49:00:38:18.180 cpu0:1053)WARNING: SCSI: 4563: Manual switchover to path vmhba1:0:30 begins.

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Network Segregation with only one physical soho router on PE2850

shawn130c — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:21:22 GMT

Hello Guys,

I have a Dell PE2850 that is running the free version of ESXI 4 on my personal network. My main reason for installing esxi was to create a test environment to test different operating systems and software without having to worry about my personal machine. I have been able to successfully do this but I am also interested in creating a seperate virtual network for some of the vm (virus testing, ect), while allow others to stay on my current network and communicate and share files with physical machines.

My current setup is this: DSL Modem- WRT54GS Router - Gigabit Switch
with two network cables going to PE2850 (one for the dell remote access
card and the other to one of the onboard gigabit ports for esxi) There is also another onboard gigabit switch available.

I understand through my limited networking/esxi knowledge I could create a seperate network by adding another soho physical router like this: http://www.ezlan.net/shield.html. But I would than lose the gigabit speed and sharing (which I want to keep for some of the vms). Another option I researched was creating different vSwitches and than using a virtual router to create a virtual networks. I attempted to do this by using a virtual router (ipcop) and vswitches. I was able to successfully get vm to get online through ipcop but even though ipcop was set to hand out 192.168.2.x ips I still was able to communicate with my machines on 192.168.1.x network through vm behind ipcop.

Is there a way to create a virtual network that will allow me to prevent vm from communicating on my personal network but still allow other vms to share files between physical machines and maintain gigabit speed for file transfers? Also I know this is probably easily done with more expensive networking gear, but at this point I want to first investigate setting up a virtual router first.

I didnt want to make my first post too long but if you need more information let me know. Any assistance would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks,
Shawn

Windows 64Bit support, DL580 G3

GALROY — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:54:40 GMT

Hi There,

I have ESXi 3.5 running on a DL580 with 4 * 3.66Xeon CPUs.

I am trying to install a 64Bit windows 2008 VM, and after it tries to reboot I get the message (Microsoft one) that the CPU is not compatible.

Is there any way to handle that?

Thanks in advance.

How do you handle rebooting for Windows Updates

Hedleyp — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:47:08 GMT

Hi,

I am a complete and utter Virtualisation Virgin having only just been to a VMWare/Dell Workshop yesterday in Frimley and I have a couple of questions...

1) We seldom have problems with our hardware (after the usual bedding in period) and the only time I have to shut down a server and reboot it is when applying the copious Microsoft Security patches. These updates have to be performed out of hours due to the customer requirements, either late at night or at the w/end.

If we go down the VMWare route, would it be possible to reboot a VM but have another copy of that server running so as to make the process seemless to the customer?

2) If a machine bluescreens or hangs, does VMWare recognise this and bring up another copy?

Thank you,

Hedley Phillips

Urgent. I have a big problem !!!

jacc — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:40:57 GMT

Hello frieds, I have a terrible problem.

I have vmware 3.5 U3. The hosts servers are HP bl460c (64 bits blades servers in a HP c7000 enclousure). All was working fine, sice august-2007 with esx 3.02. In febrary-2009 we upgrade to ESX 3.5 U3, and all was aparently fine. The VI is conected to an IBM SAN with 2 redundants paths. The IBM storage is a DS8100.

Nos, the problem is: I have a windows 2003 vm that was hang this noon (windows do not respond). I try to shut down guess, but I can´t, I try to power off the vm but the esx server answer with time out. So the last thing I did was restart the esx host. (the esx delay 20 minutes to shutdown) After that, I can see the LUN where the VM is, but I CAN´T SEE THE DATASTORE, so if I can´t see the datastore. I try with 3 diferents esx hosts and the same LUN with the VM with problems. I can´t do anythign. I really don´t know what the problem is. Please help.

Unable to create automated desktop pool, unable to see domains from quickprep dropdown

cparrish001 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:21:30 GMT

I have not been able to create an automated desktop pool on my View 3.1.0, view composer 1.1.0. I was able to go into view administrator / configuration / servers and add the server IP, domainname.local/administrator account and select verify Composer compatability. I was able to add the Virtual Center (where the composer is installed) server and enable the server. I am able to launch and work through the add automated pool process until I get to the final page where quickprep is looking for a domain on a drop-down list and the list is empty. I can push through the menu by changing the CN but receive an error:

View Composer error: Invalid value for parameter policy.AdConfigId passed to View Composer function, Error type: com.vmware.SviService.InvalidParameterFault, Details: null

I believe that I have DNS & DHCP functioning on a domain controller which is configured as domain.local. All my servers have a static address. I do have the domain admin account fully qualified under View Administrator / configuration / administrators. My browsing seems to work well between servers. i am able to create single desktops to share.

Any help in resolving this would be appreciated.

Asterisk on ESXi? Yes, No? So much disagreement!

rightfoot — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:55:25 GMT

I've been trying to get a handle on this question for many months now. Everyone seems to disagree about running asterisk production servers on ESXi.

I've built a number of ESXi asterisk guests with no problems what so ever, but, they were only for testing as we are developing a large roll out. What I am getting is that yes, asterisk will run fine on a virtual platform but not for a large roll out. I'm talking hundreds of extensions per pbx. I've built those guests using the vm kernels and other tuning suggestions and never seem to have any problems but again, these are small, 5 person test systems.

Has anyone built and is successfully running very larger asterisk systems on ESXi and if so, could you share your thoughts on it.

Thanks very much.

Mike

FreeBSD Virtual Machine Migration from VMware Server 1.0.9 to ESXi 3.5

paulo.andrade — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:26:20 GMT

Hi,

I have this virtual machine running freebsd 6.2 , it was and is working fine on VMware Server 1.0.9, Iused the vmware converter to conver and upload the virtual machine to ESXi, so far so good,did this many times but this time it didn't work. Shortly after I boot virtual machine in the ESXi the system is unable to boot because of the partition issues.

I am guessing it has todo with SCSI Controller Type

A couple of questions:

What is the difference between BusLogic and LSI Logic

In FreeBSD does any one know what is the /dev/ partition for the BusLogic or LSI Logic, /dev/da0s1a does not seem to be working, so I am guessing /dev/da0s1a is not the correct partition or freebsd 6.2 can't load the disk from BusLogic or LSI Logic,

Any ideas and thoughts?

thanks

paulo

hotel reservation system

VMware View Download

IanZ — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:16:19 GMT

Where to download VMware View 3 60-day eval? Thanks.

DELL Power Edge 840: Freezes periodically

WiAemUser — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:48:58 GMT

We have 3 identical machines from DELL:
DELL Power Edge 840
Intel Xeon CPU X3220 @ 2.40 Ghz
8 GB Memory

all running with:
ESX 3i 3.5.0 build 163429 (u4?)

All this machines stops working and freezes periodically:
One machine every 7 days, the other two every 14 days (+- some hours).
We don't get any purple screen, just a freezed machine. Only switching power off and restart helps.

In the downloaded 'diagnostic data' we found this informations in the kernel-log:

7:01:15:14.165 cpu0:1033)BC: 2546: Failed to flush buffers for object 1 4 57f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0: Out of memory
7:01:15:14.165 cpu3:1540)WARNING: Heap: 1397: Heap mainHeap already at its maximumSize. Cannot expand.
7:01:15:14.165 cpu3:1540)WARNING: Heap: 1522: Heap_Align(mainHeap, 20/20 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0x88a309

7:01:15:14.165 cpu3:1540)WARNING: LinStubs: 2609: Couldn't allocate memory
7:01:15:14.165 cpu0:1033)WARNING: Heap: 1397: Heap mainHeap already at its maximumSize. Cannot expand.
7:01:15:14.165 cpu0:1033)WARNING: Heap: 1522: Heap_Align(mainHeap, 400/400 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0x7a0a05

7:01:15:14.165 cpu3:1540)WARNING: Heap: 1397: Heap mainHeap already at its maximumSize. Cannot expand.
7:01:15:14.165 cpu0:1033)BC: 2546: Failed to flush buffers for object f530 28 3 4a0bddec e671cc02 2200fd57 1605d719 1cc00284 172 0 0 0 0 0: Out of memory

7:01:15:14.165 cpu3:1540)WARNING: Heap: 1522: Heap_Align(mainHeap, 20/20 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0x88a309

7:01:15:14.165 cpu3:1540)WARNING: LinStubs: 2609: Couldn't allocate memory
7:01:15:14.165 cpu0:1033)WARNING: Heap: 1397: Heap mainHeap already at its maximumSize. Cannot expand.
7:01:15:14.165 cpu0:1033)WARNING: Heap: 1522: Heap_Align(mainHeap, 400/400 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0x7a0a05

7:01:15:14.165 cpu0:1033)BC: 2546: Failed to flush buffers for object f530 28 3 4a0bddec e671cc02 2200fd57 1605d719 1d400284 174 0 0 0 0 0: Out of memory

7:01:15:14.165 cpu0:1033)WARNING: Heap: 1397: Heap mainHeap already at its maximumSize. Cannot expand.
7:01:15:14.165 cpu0:1033)WARNING: Heap: 1522: Heap_Align(mainHeap, 400/400 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0x7a0a05

7:01:15:14.165 cpu0:1033)BC: 2546: Failed to flush buffers for object f530 28 3 4a0bddec e671cc02 2200fd57 1605d719 9800284 148 0 0 0 0 0: Out of memory

7:01:15:14.165 cpu1:3221)WARNING: Heap: 1397: Heap mainHeap already at its maximumSize. Cannot expand.
7:01:15:14.165 cpu1:3221)WARNING: Heap: 1522: Heap_Align(mainHeap, 3328/3328 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0x642270

7:01:15:14.165 cpu3:1540)WARNING: Heap: 1397: Heap mainHeap already at its maximumSize. Cannot expand.
7:01:15:14.165 cpu3:1540)WARNING: Heap: 1522: Heap_Align(mainHeap, 20/20 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0x88a309

7:01:15:14.165 cpu3:1540)WARNING: LinStubs: 2609: Couldn't allocate memory
7:01:15:14.165 cpu1:3221)Backtrace for current CPU #1, worldID=3221, ebp=0x3c57ee0
7:01:15:14.165 cpu1:3221)0x3c57ee0:0x62b234Panic+0x17 stack: 0x83b5f5, 0x3c57efc, 0x3c57f38, 0x64239c, 0x83b5f5
7:01:15:14.165 cpu1:3221)0x3c57ef0:0x62b234Panic+0x17 stack: 0x83b5f5, 0xd00, 0x4, 0x0, 0xad0001
7:01:15:14.165 cpu1:3221)0x3c57f38:0x64239cTimer_AddTC+0x33b stack: 0x1, 0x0, 0x754d34, 0xd33d6c53, 0x5320c
7:01:15:14.166 cpu1:3221)0x3c57f8c:0x76321dCpuSched_VcpuHalt+0x10c stack: 0x7, 0x81000000, 0x2f54, 0x88ffc0, 0x800
7:01:15:14.166 cpu1:3221)0x3c57fe0:0x62785dVMKCall+0x12c stack: 0x7, 0x2f54, 0x81000000, 0x0, 0x1246
VMware ESX Server 3i Releasebuild-163429
Out of memory for timers
frame=0x3c57d84 ip=0x62b234 cr2=0x8298bb58 cr3=0xd2f03000 cr4=0x669
es=0xffffffff ds=0xffffffff fs=0xffffffff gs=0xffffffff
eax=0xffffffff ebx=0xffffffff ecx=0xffffffff edx=0xffffffff
ebp=0x3c57ee0 esi=0xffffffff edi=0xffffffff err=-1 eflags=0xffffffff
0:1033/BCFlush *1:3221/vmm0:SXXX 2:1766935/vmm0:SXXX 3:1540/sfcbd
@BlueScreen: Out of memory for timers
0x3c57ee0:0x62b234Panic+0x17 stack: 0x83b5f5, 0x3c57efc, 0x3c57f38
0x3c57ef0:0x62b234Panic+0x17 stack: 0x83b5f5, 0xd00, 0x4
0x3c57f38:0x64239cTimer_AddTC+0x33b stack: 0x1, 0x0, 0x754d34
0x3c57f8c:0x76321dCpuSched_VcpuHalt+0x10c stack: 0x7, 0x81000000, 0x2f54
0x3c57fe0:0x62785dVMKCall+0x12c stack: 0x7, 0x2f54, 0x81000000
VMK uptime: 7:01:15:14.167 TSC: 1462405465651878
7:01:09:30.555 cpu3:1540)NMI: 1625: Faulting eip:esp 0x904146:0x4213d58
7:01:11:30.555 cpu2:1033)Heartbeat: 470: PCPU 3 didn't have a heartbeat for 180 seconds. may be locked up
7:01:11:30.555 cpu3:1540)NMI: 1625: Faulting eip:esp 0x647e93:0x4213ae0
Starting coredump to disk Starting coredump to disk Dumping using slot 1 of 1... using slot 1 of 1... log buffers for object f530 28 3 4a0bddec e671cc02 2200fd57 1605d719 9800284 148 0 0 0 0 0: Out of memory

7:01:15:14.154 cpu0:1033)WARNING: Heap: 1397: Heap mainHeap already at its maximumSize. Cannot expand.
7:01:15:14.154 cpu0:1033)WARNING: Heap: 1522: Heap_Align(mainHeap, 400/400 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0x7a0a05

What do you think about this lines?
Any help would be really appreciated!

MSA60 Disaster Recovery

keysolution — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:01:23 GMT

I have a question about disaster recovery. My company is running VMware infrastructure 3.5 on a HP DL360G5 with 32GB of RAM, 2 Quad-core Xeon 3.0Ghz CPUs and for storage of the VMs we have a HP MSA60 with 3TB of storage connected via P800 controller.

My question is, what would we do if that DL360G5 were to fail? We have a server exactly like it with the same specs (RAM, CPU, storage controller, ESX loaded on it) as a backup. I know we can't have both hooked up to that MSA60 at once. Would it be possible to just unhook the failed server and hook the backup server to that MSA60 and keep going? I would think that it wouldn't be that simple.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

ホストメモリとゲストメモリの違い

kobumax — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:57:46 GMT

ESXi4.0上に仮想マシンとしてP2VしたRedHat9を動かしています。

H/Wには物理メモリが4GB搭載されていて、仮想マシンのメモリ構成として
3GB(3072MB)のメモリを割り当てています。

仮想マシン上のAP処理時間が旧物理環境に比べて非常に大きくなっており調査をしております。
仮想マシン上でtopの出力結果を確認すると以下のようにメモリが逼迫している状況です。
Mem: 3098592k av, 3072460k used, 26132k free, 0k shrd, 187264k buff
1949352k actv, 0k in_d, 70268k in_c
Swap: 4000616k av, 1436k used, 3999180k free 2346248k cached

単純なメモリ不足なら仕方ないのですが、気になる点があり質問させていただきます。
ESXiについては初心者です。

vSphere Client で仮想マシンのリリース割り当てを見ると以下のようになっています。

ホストメモリ
3227MB中、消費が2.27GB

ゲストメモリ
3072MB中、有効が368.00MB

リソース設定
予約　0MB
制限　制限なし
構成済み　3.00GB
シェア　高(327680)
オーバーヘッド予約：　155.00MB

ホストメモリとゲストメモリの違いが良く分かっていないのですが、ヘルプを見ると、
ホストメモリの消費とは「仮想マシンに割り当てられた物理メモリの実際の消費」
と書かれています。
また、ゲストメモリの有効とは「最近アクセスしたメモリの容量」と書かれています。

上記を見て混乱しています。
仮想マシン上で見ると3GBを振り切っているように見えますが、実際には仮想マシンに
アサインされている物理メモリは2.27GBで、実際に仮想マシンで使っている物理メモリ量が
368MBということなのでしょうか？

仮想マシンには3GBしっかりと使わせたいのですが、何か設定を誤っているのでしょうか。
お詳しい方、よろしくお願いします。

High Availability without shard storage

curiousagain — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:24:51 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to work with High Availability without shard storage?

I mean, if I have 2 separate host servers, is it possible to manage HA between them?

Thanks.

ESX3.5のチーミングについての質問

SoniX0001 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:53:54 GMT

お世話になっております。

ESX3.5のNICチーミングで以下のようなことが出来ないか資料を探しているのですが、見つけられないため質問させていただきました。

内容：

物理NIC4枚（ここではN1,N2,N3,N4と呼びます）でロードバランシングとフェールオーバーを混合して使用することは可能でしょうか？

例： N1とN2でロードバランシング(N1+2)、N3とN4でロードバランシング(N3+4)。これらをN1+2とN3+4でフェールオーバーさせる。

VMWareのNICチーミング事態初めてやるため、訳のわからないシステムをしているかもしれませんが、情報がありましたらよろしくお願いいたします。

Can SDK for perl execute an ESX service console command: esxcfg-info?

duyuyang — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:37:35 GMT

Hi,
I want to get an esx/esxi host's esxcfg-info result from a vMA, can I do that from a SDK for perl script?
Regards,
Shawn

Initial setup for Cheap server

Diddoo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:27:05 GMT

Hi all,

needing to setup a data storage machine, and have a few questions.

planning on the following

ESXi 3.5 or 4.0 installed to a single local drive
2 VM;s running on a mirrored SATA Drive (windows xp or 7 and Ubuntu server) i can separate these out to individual drives if needed
Data Storage = 1 RAID 10 array (all 1TB SATA drives)

The machine itself is a 64 bit Athlon 3500 whitebox that has become available.

Will this work? Drives have to be SATA as SCSI/SAS is just not currently possible.

I need both the VM's to be able to access the Data store( or should i split into 2 separate Raid1 discs, 1 for each VM?)

I read something about SATA drives not being able to be used in shared mode. i don't really understand what this means?

My main query is, Will ESXi support the SATA RAID systems i have planned or am i better installing Ubuntu server as the OS and running VMserver for the windows VM.

iscsi vm - performance less than expected

dm001 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:02:26 GMT

Hi All,

Although not supported its always good to experiment. I have tried setting up a VM (tried various os's - solaris, ubuntu) as a iscsi target however when vm's sitting on this target write data performance is less than expected and I am seeing "read'" happening on the disk during the write process. Is this a VMFS alignment issue? All storage is happening local on a single disk.

I have attached a picture to better describe what I am trying to do. (similar to a Sanmelody setup)

Thanks in advance.

How to exit a target environment?

duyuyang — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:33:15 GMT

Hi,

After vifpinit server (entering a target environment), how can I return from it?

In other word, how can I wipe off the server part in the prompt?

Thanks,

Shawn

Network Benchmark

opanwar — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:01:01 GMT

Hi folks,
I am comparing the performance of Vmware Server 2.0 and VMware ESXi over the network. I can see that VMware server is slow as compared to ESXi, but are there any benchmarks available so that I can document it?

Thank You,
Ojas Panwar

Unable to Connect to Internet on Windows Side

alanl3 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:44:02 GMT

The Mac side connects flawlessly with Safari ver 4. The Windows side using Explorer ver 8 attempts to Repair Local Area Connection by renewing IP Address, and fails.
The IP address is: 169.254.213.19

VMWare 2.0.5 Windows XP Home edition.

It was all working perfectly yesterday.

Thanks for any help,

Alan

cannot add virtual disk to vm after copying via putty session to new LUN

VirtualTman — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:58:51 GMT

I detached a large 1TB vmdk from a vm, then migrated the vm to a new LUN. After that, I copied the large vmdk using cp command via putty from the old location to new (both 8mb block size luns)

I had to call the vmdk a different name in target location as there was already one by that name.

Why can I not add the vmdk to the server afterwards? Is it perhaps due to a file lock? If so, how would i remove the lock? I get the following error when trying to add the copied file and i did notice that while adding it, it was reporting an incorrect size in VI Client (yet correct size on file system and copy was completed successfully)

Uneditable device: Internal problem: The system information reported by the host for the 'VirtualDisk' is inconsustent. The device cannot currently be edited

On clicking ok on the error i get:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Any help would be most appreciated! Thank-you!

How in the <BLEEP> do you press F4 on a mac when you are installing ubuntu???

zabouti — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:55:43 GMT

How in the <BLEEP> do you press F4 on a mac when you are installing ubuntu???

I finally discovered two fantastic articles about installing minimal versions of ubuntu server in VMware:

1. Development virtual machines on OS X using VMWare and Ubuntu,
http://intranation.com/entries/2009/03/development-virtual-machines-os-x-using-vmware-and/

2. Ubuntu Installation Guide for Guest OS (and Server)
http://blogbuildingu.com/articles/ubuntu-installation-guide

Both articles tell me that when I first boot from the ubuntu server 'CD', I need to hit the F4 function key to enter the Modes Menu. This would enable me to select the submenu: "Install a minimal virtual machine”

I'm using a Macbook Pro running 10.5.7 to create a guest vm from ubuntu-9.04-server-i386-32bit.iso using VMware Fusion 2.0.5, the only version what seems to work with ubuntu 9.04.

So I started.... I see the initial screen, as expected, with a list of function keys at the bottom. And I try to send <F4>.

Nothing. Nada.

I found and read - and I think I've followed the advice in these articles:
1. how in the hell do you press F8 on a mac when you are installing XP??? (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1108356)
2. New MacBook Function Key mapping (F1, F2, F3, F4...) (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/115576)

Here are the settings I've made on OSX:

OSX > Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard
CHECKED Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys

After doing that, I can open gvim, type the F4 key and see "<F4>", so I think it's acting correctly.

Here are the settings I've made on VMware Fusion:

VMware Fusion > Preferences > Key Mappings
UNCHECKED Enable Key Mappings
VMware Fusion > Preferences > Mac OS Shortcuts
UNCHECKED Enable Mac OS Keyboard Shortcuts

Still, nothing seems to be sent to ubuntu.

I tried another tack, using VMware > Virtual Machine > Send Key ....
But there's no way to send F4!!???

I sure would appreciate any help you might have.

Thanks,
ge, chapel hill, nc

Licensing different versions of ESX3.5

GJGGreen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:27:48 GMT

All,
i have 4hosts currently running ESX3.5.2 and a VI3.5.4 Server running VI,Licensing, etc.

When i change the details in the esx hosts to the new licensing server it reverts back to Unlicensed.
Now i have failed back to the old vi3 and licensing server it has the same behaviour.

In the images attached you can clearly see that vmware licensing server is handing out some of the licenses however the esx hosts don't seem to be registering them. I have restarted the mgmt-vmware service to see if that will kick start the update however i am reluctant to reboot the servers as any VM's will be unable to start again.

I have reread the license file in the licensing tool, rebuilt the licensing server also but this seem to be a host issue maybe across the 4 hosts simultaniously

any ideas?

ESXi Online Training - What version?

cookieme — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:34:42 GMT

I'm about to take the following ESXi Online Training http://store.vmware.com/store/vmware/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.104519700, but it doesn't say what version it covers?

Can someone confirm that it covers ESXi 4.0?

Thanks

Web interface doesn't load - what's up ?

atakacs — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:07:52 GMT

Folks

For some reason the web management interface doesn't seem to load on my vmware server 2.01 / Ubuntu box.

Nothing really obvious in the logs except for this

Apr 20 00:07:08 xxx watchdog-webAccess: End '/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess -client -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start', failure limit reached

tried to google this but I'm quite sure where to get started...

Any help would most appreciated !

Regards

alex

Getting credentials from VICredentials.xml - using PowershellASP

tteller2001 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:04:29 GMT

Hello.

I have created this simple ASP page to interact with PowerCLI. This script works fine, only if I put in my credenitals in the Connect-VIServer cmdlet. I would like to use the Credentials Store to supply the Username and password... mainly the password.

I created a credential store using the New-VICredentialStoreItem,
copied the .xml file to the systemprofile appdata directory( on Windows 2008 Server it's c:\windows\system32\config\roaming\appdata\vmware\credstore).

I am
unable to get the script to work. It bombs at the connect-viserver
cmdlet. The error message is : *+The method or operation is not
implemented.+*

Here's the code:

<html>
+ <head>+

+ </head>+
+ <body>+

+ <% Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core %>+
+ <% $credentials=Get-VICredentialStoreItem -Host vcenter %>+
+ <% Connect-VIServer -Server vcenter -User $credentials.User -Password $credentials.Password %>+

+ <table>+
+ <tr>+

+ <% Get-VM | where {%>+
+ <td><% ($_ | get-networkadapter).NetworkName -eq "Virtual Machine Network"%></td>+
+ <td><% } | ft name, powerstate %></td>+

+ </tr>+
+ </table>+

+ </body>+
</html>

Have you successfully used the Get-VICredentialStoreItem with your ps1x pages?

Thanks,

Tim T

Comparision Citrix Xen 5.5 and Vsphere

meistermn — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:28:44 GMT

Is anyone testing citrix xen 5.5 essentials versus vsphere enterprise (plus).

1.) Tests about security

2.) Which benchmarks do you use (only syntethic versus real)

Benchmark Test : Density , CPU, Mem troughput, Network throughput ,Disk throuput / IOPS, Latency test, real filecopy tests , microbenchmarks , functionality test e.g. drs ,ha, fault-toleranz, workflow creating, anymore

ESXi 4.0 reboots during install with "Booting: MBI=0x000100d8, entry=0x00100212" message

fennecnee — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:00:54 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to install ESXi 4.0 on a machine where 3.5 used to work well. Here is the configuration :

Motherboard: DFI Lanparty UT SLI-D (NForce4)

CPU : Athlon 64 3200+ (Rev D0) (http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=116&f1=AMD+Athlon%E2%84%A2&f2=&f3=&f4=&f5=&f6=&f7=&f8=&f9=&f10=False&f11=False)

RAM : 3GB DDR (2*1GB + 2*512MB)

Disk : Western Digirtia 500 GB Sata

Video : Matrox mystic

I use a USB DVD Writer to boot the CD, choose install and waits that all tgz file are loaded (fills the screen with a lot of dots). After the last file the following message is displayed :

Booting: MBI=0x000100d8, entry=0x00100212

And the system reboots just after displaying the message.

I found others having the same problem but there were suggested that it was because their CPU did not support 64 bit. However my CPU is an Athlon 64, and according to the guide about 64 bit CPU on vmware site it has to be a revision D CPU, and my CPU is indeed D0 revision (check provided link for more details). I also checked device compatibility guide for ESXi 4.0 and the NForce4 chipset is supported.

I tryed GA build 164009 and new build 171294 but the results were the same. I also booted from an USB key with the same result.

Thank you for your help !

Change VM ip address

ICT-Freak — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:12:59 GMT

I am trying to get the change vm ip address (from the PowerCLI faq http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-4210) to work but get an error. The error can be found in the attachment.

This is the code:

$vmclonespec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec
$vmclonespec.Customization = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationSpec
$vmclonespec.Customization.NicSettingMap = @(New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationAdapterMapping)
$vmclonespec.Customization.NicSettingMap[0].Adapter = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationIPSettings
$vmclonespec.Customization.NicSettingMap[0].Adapter.ip = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationFixedIp
$vmclonespec.Customization.NicSettingMap[0].Adapter.Ip.IpAddress = "192.168.123.123"
$vmclonespec.Customization.Identity = New-Object vmware.Vim.CustomizationIdentitySettings
$vmclonespec.Customization.GlobalIPSettings = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationGlobalIPSettings

$vmclonespec.config = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
$vmclonespec.location = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec

$vmclonespec.powerOn = $false
$vmclonespec.template = $false
$name = "Test"

$target = Get-Folder -Name "Lab" | % {Get-View $_.ID}
$vmmor = Get-VM -Name "WXPLAB" | Get-View
$vmmor.CloneVM_Task($target.MoRef ,$name, $vmclonespec )

ESXi 4 and Thin Disks (again:-)

GarthDK — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:48:22 GMT

I know this has been well discussed (try Googling esxi thin disk) and it seems that this is possible but I'm having no luck. First, I know thin is not the "preferred" format but we're "space challanged" on this server (Dell 2950 with dual Quad Core Xeons, 16GB RAM, but only 1.2TB available disk space) and thin disks would be a big help. Second, I've just rebuilt the server from W2K3 and VMWare Server 2.0 to ESXi 4.0 latest version with vSphere and have used Converter 4.01 along with vmkfstools to try and accomplish growable disks but no luck.

All VMs on Server 2.0 were thin and mostly empty. First I tried using Converter with the "Thin" option but the disks all grew to their max size, according to "ls -ls" on the console (both local and remote vis ssh). Second I used scp to copy the 2.0 VMDK files over to the ESXi box after creating a new VM on the server that matched the characteristics from the 2.0 VM. Tried bringing up the VM directly but that didn't work so I used vmksftools -i -d thin to create a new vmdk from the copied file but it grew to the max as well. I've seen a few other approaches to try but they seem a little risky so I've not tried them as yet.

Interestingly enough, while ls -ls shows a thick file, if I try and attach the file in vSphere, it only shows up as being the same size as the original 2.0 thin disk. Which one of these is correct? Am I doing the right thing and just looking at the wrong numbers? And what's with the new XXXX-flat.vmdk file that gets created? I've done a fair bit of reading of the docs but never found them referenced.

I know the trick for creating a new VM with a thin disk for ESXi 4 but I don't want to start over on all 12 or so VMs, most of which have valuable test data that would take days to replicate.

Is this doable or am I wasting my time?

Lastly, this is my first post to the VMWare forums so if I'm in the wrong place with the wrong question, my apologies.

Thanx,

Garth

Hard disk space

UlrikSchmidt — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:46:13 GMT

How much space should a virtual machine take up ? I run MS Vista and office and a few other small programs. I have maybe 7-8 Gb data, but the WM ware takes up 70 gb. Is that normal ?

Frozen PC

willienugent — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:36:39 GMT

I installed fusion on my macbook pro on march and all was well untill 2 weeks ago.I tried to open the windows xp virtual machine and it was frozen with a black screen.Just 3 days ago it displayed a message about 3D graphics being uncompatible with the mac and today it displayed a message about ati card being not compatible.I have data i need to recover and stupidly did not back up.Any ideas ?/Users/willienugent/Desktop/vm-07-04-09.306.tgz This is the report file i took.

Changed Preallocated Disk to Growable and now Snapshots doesn't work

AntDar — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:17:25 GMT

Hello Everyone.

I hope someone around here can help me.

I had a VM with a really limted preallocated HD (6GB) which i couldn't format to create bigger disks, i needed the licenses of the applications installed there. So i checked a process to increase the size of my disk.

I used the tool vmware-vdiskmanager to change my disk to growable and increased it's size to 10GB. With that tool a new disk was created, i had to replace my previous 6GB disk by this new one. To allocate the new space of the disk i had to add it to a second virtual machine as a secondary HD and use the command diskpart.

After i configured the original VM again with the new disk everything seemed to be working fine, so i deleted the old disks and kept working with my new one.

The problem came when i tried to create a new snapshot of the VM, every time i try to do it an error pops-up:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/Daryon/Imagenes/VMDBFailure.jpg

It says: "VMDB Failure" "A needed file was not found".

It doesn't allow me to create or delete snapshots and i really need to do so, because i use the VM for testing all the time.

The files of the VM are this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/Daryon/Imagenes/VMwareFiles001.jpg

I deleted the old disk called:

VDiskMSWS2003SE-000001.vmdk, VDiskMSWS2003SE-flat.vmdk and VDiskMSWS2003SE.vmdk.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks a lot.

3Com 3C905CS-TX-M NIC Card

backpedal — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:29:18 GMT

Hi, I have ESX4 running in a test lab. I have a 3COM 3C905CX-TX-M NIC that I would like to use. I know its not on the VMWare hardware list, but has anyone managed to get this card to work. When I install it in the PC ESX fails to recognise it in any way.

Backup Query

microproc — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:25:23 GMT

We have two servers each with 2 CPU's and ESX 4.0, each connected with MSA 30 separately. We have another server which we setup for VC 4.0. We have ordered for the Vmware Essentials plus bundle, license. Its a very simple setup. I want to use the backup method. I couldnt find VCB For Vsphere 4. From where should i get this VCB fro vsphere. I have seen that the there is a license for Vmware data recovery. But it does work like a proper mechanism. Can anybody highlight what method should i use for backups my VM's to make my life easier on backups. This are new provisioning servers and just added some VM's for testing purpose. If somedbody can brefiely explains which is better VCB or Vmware Data Recovery. Also, can i use the same VC server (Machine) to use this VCB or do i require another system for VCB Or data recovery software ? This is important as we dont have much budget to add any other physical server.

Thanks in advance

Composer + View Connection problem

marcand — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:44:38 GMT

I'm using View Manager 3.1 + Composer 1.1

After few hours or few days, the composer stop creating new VM (linked clones) and VM gets stucks in "deleting" status. I must reboot the view Connection service on my 2 connection servers to make composer works again (Creating or deleting VM). I'm using NLB for my load balancing between connection servers

I tried to reinstall the composer service (with a new DB) and/or the view connection services, with no success!!

The VMware agent 3.1 is also installed on my XP SP3 vm

Any idea what can cause this issue!!

Unable to add an ESXi 4 host to a cluster

VirtualVT — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:55:58 GMT

I get the following error when I try to add an ESXi 4 host to a cluster:

~~2009-07-02 07:07:01.565 5A981B90 info 'App'~~ AdapterServer caught exception: vim.fault.AgentInstallFailed
~~2009-07-02 07:07:01.565 5A981B90 info 'TaskManager'~~ Task Completed : haTask--vim.AgentManager.upgrade-1852797015 Status error
~~2009-07-02 07:07:01.565 5A981B90 info 'Vmomi'~~ Activation N5Vmomi10ActivationE:0x5ab93e58 : Invoke done upgrade on ~~vim.AgentManager:ha-agentmgr~~
~~2009-07-02 07:07:01.566 5A981B90 verbose 'Vmomi'~~ Arg executable:
"upgrade"
~~2009-07-02 07:07:01.566 5A981B90 verbose 'Vmomi'~~ Arg signatureFile:
"upgrade.sig"
~~2009-07-02 07:07:01.566 5A981B90 info 'Vmomi'~~ Throw vim.fault.AgentInstallFailed
~~2009-07-02 07:07:01.566 5A981B90 info 'Vmomi'~~ Result:
(vim.fault.AgentInstallFailed) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
reason = "UnknownInstallerError",
statusCode = 201,
installerOutput = "168429 2009-07-02 07:06:00: Logging to /var/log/vmware/vpx-iupgrade.log

I'm not sure how to fix the error. I've tried reinstalling vSphere and ESXi 4 but that didn't solve the problem. I checked the vpx-iupgrade.log and this is what I found:

168429 2009-07-02 07:06:00: Logging to /var/log/vmware/vpx-iupgrade.log
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:00: Removing /opt/LGTOaam leftovers if any
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:00: extracting vpx-upgrade-installer/VMware-vpx-eesx-1-linux-162856.tar.gz...
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:00: exec rm -f /tmp/vmware-root/ha-agentmgr/upgrade
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:00: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:00: exec cd vpx-upgrade-installer
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:00: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:00: exec gunzip VMware-vpx-eesx-1-linux-162856.tar.gz
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:01: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:01: exec mv VMware-vpx-eesx-1-linux-162856.tar vpxa.tar
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:01: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:01: exec /sbin/vmtar -c vpxa.tar -o vpxa.vmtar
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:01: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:01: exec rm -f vpxa.tar
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:01: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:01: exec gzip vpxa.vmtar
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:09: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:09: exec mv vpxa.vmtar.gz vpxa.vgz
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:09: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:09: exec rm -f vpxa.vmtar.gz
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:09: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:06:09: exec /sbin/BootModuleConfig.sh --add=vpxa.vgz --verbose
Acquiring lock /tmp/bootbank.lck
Copying vpxa.vgz to /bootbank/vpxa.vgz
Editing /bootbank/boot.cfg to add module vpxa.vgz
168429 2009-07-02 07:07:00: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:07:00: exec /sbin/vmkramdisk vpxa.vgz
Failed to mount archive: Out of memory
168429 2009-07-02 07:07:01: status = 12
168429 2009-07-02 07:07:01: exec rm -f vpxa.vgz
168429 2009-07-02 07:07:01: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:07:01: exec rm -f VMware-vpx-eesx-1-linux-162856.tar.gz
168429 2009-07-02 07:07:01: status = 0
168429 2009-07-02 07:07:01: Build: 171294 Installing tarball..
168429 2009-07-02 07:07:01: All done! Status: 201

The 'Failed to mount archive: Out of memory' seems to be the error causing the host not to be added to the cluster however I'm not sure how I can fix this. I've tried turning off all the unnecessary VMs and that didn't work.

What can I do to solve the problem?

Thanks!

Ann Arbor Virtualization User Group July 23rd

Chamdor — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:58:24 GMT

A Summer Time Ann Arbor Virtualization User Group on July 23rd!

We have a tentative Agenda as follows:

1. Free Pizza and Drinks from our sponsors HiperLogic (15 minutes).

2. Tech-Talk: "Hyper-V vs VMware vs Linux KVM ( 20 minutes)
This will be a user led presentation with one champion from each presenting their case for why they are using their technology.

4. AAVUG T-shirt and Prize Raffle. ( 5 minutes )

5. Unconference style networking/talks per popular demand. Topics will be determined and presented by our members at the event in parallel, walk to what you want to hear about . ( Remaining time).

A list of already planned tracks include:

Track 1:
Client Side Hypervisors have arrived! - Learn how you can run Windows 7, Windows XP, and Linux side by side on a CLIENT side bare metal hypervisor on your laptops and workstations. A new virtualization technology that has promise.

Track 2:
VMware vSphere Demo - See it in action, learn from other peoples upgrade experiences.

Track 3:
No/Low cost iSCSI SAN solutions for VMware .

RSVP is required to lock down the food and drinks needed. Please login to aavug.org and go to Events to RSVP.

VMWare Fusion (trial) vs Parallels (currently own)

HapK — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:01:14 GMT

Hi,

I need a virtual machine to run Win ME (no lectures please) on my iMac (Leopard 10.5.7) 24" 3.06ghz with Nvidia Geforce 8800 GS.

I need Win Me or Win 98 to run my Oxford English Dictionary CD-ROM 2nd ed. ver. 2 (this isn't just any dictionary--cost me around $400 in 2000). That is the only reason I need to run a PC! I can just barely run the OED in Parallels. Parallels doesn't support Win 98 or Win Me. The virtual tools don't load; the display is only 16 colors...Win Me on Parallels sucks. BUT at least the OED will run on Parallels (even if in a sad state). I want to buy VMWare because Win Me loaded like a champ and looks great with VMWare Fusion. Everything seemed to good to be true as I explored the trial I downloaded of VMWare. Well, it was to good to be true. On VMWare, the OED CD-ROM's Cdilla Safedisc 1 protection will not allow the data disc to be authenticated.

Why, why can Parallels load the OED on Win ME with no authentication problems, but VMWare cannot? (The OED also worked fine on Virtual PC 4, 5, & 6.)

If someone can help get VMware to load my legally purchased copy of the OED, I will buy VMWare Fusion in heartbeat.

BTW, I am not the only user of the OED facing this problem. There are others on other forums across the internet who would love to hear that their beloved OED can be run with VMWare without them having to buy the new update to the OED. The charge to previous owners of the OED for the brand new native Mac version of the OED is $295. (There's no upgrade price for Mac users because there has not been a Mac version of the OED since the early 90s. Only Windows versions lumbered with the atrocious Cdilla Safedisc protection have been on the market. So we have to run the OED on a virtual PC. Yeah, yeah, another sad story. )

Hope there's some help out there. I am used to solving my own problems, but I am stumped as to why VMWare which seems so much better than Parallels at handling Win ME cannot open the OED as painlessly as Parallels.

restoring driverless printing with 2.0.5

camner — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:49:28 GMT

When an earlier version of Fusion (2.0.2 I believe) broke driverless printing for me, installing 2.0.3 fixed it. Installing 2.0.4 broke it for me again (well, I don't know that for sure, because I did some OS X software updates in there as well). 2.0.5 didn't fix it again by itself, but using the Fusion uninstaller and reinstalling 2.0.5 from scratch took care of things.

I thought I'd pass this along in case it might be of help to someone else.

How to enable SNMP on a VMWare ESX Servers

gboskin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:02:18 GMT

We have a couple of vmware esx 3.5 update 2 hosst and are looking at upgrading to vSphere before the end of the year. We however have a requirement to enable SNMP so that SNMP traps can be captured for performance monitoring.

Is it just a cse of

.1 Login as root

2. Edit the snmpd.conf file and add "rocommunity xxxx" where xxxx is your read-only community string). The file is usually located in /etc/snmpd.
3 Restart the SNMP daemon - /etc/init.d/snmpd restart

In the software vSphere4.0 ,the vmfs lun or RDM lun can be larger than 2T?

dragooner — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:39:35 GMT

Hello:

AMM, I am just an Engineers,and do some test work about the vmware VI3 or VI4 software.Now, I have a customer who has an application needs a 4T space.

But, in my Laboratory I do not have such large storage. So is there any body or any good guys have all ready yet done the test which is about the lun large than 2T in the new software vSphere4? Please just tell me the results.

Or there some body could give the step by step configuration,it will be much useful.

I have looked for the topic about these things in the community, some one say could,some one say the 2T limited is still. Can some body give me an exact answer.

VMUG San Fransico Meetings?

PlateSpinSE1 — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:36:27 GMT

Hi, is ther going to be any meetings of the SF VMUG any time soon?

How to use the RDM disk to create the VM and install the OS

zhangfred_vm — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:11:21 GMT

HI experts,

How to use the RDM disk to create the VM and install the OS?

thanks.

Network latency on ESXi 4 with Windows Small Business Server 2003

carlose71 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:25:28 GMT

Hi there, we´re having problem with our ESXi 4 with 1 Windows Small Business Server 2003 32bits (SBS 2003).
After the p2v migration it began to have latency on its network adapter. At first we used the Flexible type adaptor, after that we changed it by the E1000 one.

There are 2 aditional VMs in that server with Windows Server 2003 (64 bits) and Windows Server 2008 (64bits) with out any problems.

My host is a PowerEdge R710 with 24GB of RAM and 2 E5504 processors.

The VM has installed:

Active Directory
DNS Server
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Microsoft SQL 2000 Server

Has somebody a clue what's going on?

Thanks in advance
Regards
Carlos

Backup strategy using a combination of Time Machine and Crashplan... valid?

sgkrasts — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:25:35 GMT

I've read many of the discussions about backing up, but I'm still not clear on whether or not the strategy I've come up with will work. Hoping that the community will share their wisdom.

I only have a few files on my Virtual Machine that I really care about. They are: ~18GB of Outlook archive files and some Quicken files. I don't think I need to worry about doing a complete system restore. So, my thought is that I can use Crashplan (on my Virtual Machine/PC) to backup my select windows files to my Mac HD and then a) use Time Machine to back up the Mac HD (excluding the Virtual Machine) on my external drive at home and b) use CrashPlan (on my Mac) to backup the Mac HD an external drive at my friend's house.

Is this a reasonable and valid strategy?

Also, if it isn't obvious by the language I've used, I'm a novice user...

High idle CPU load after upgrade to server 2

tadeuszjl — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:08:34 GMT

Hi,

I have two similar machines running vmserver, and one is exhibiting very high CPU load when all machines are idle. What should I look for to identify the problem ?

Details: I have two servers to host 15 virtual machines, which run daily builds and qa tests for large finite element solver project. Most of the day, both machines sit idle, the builds are scheduled at night where load of both servers is high. During idle time machine A shows about 100+% CPU usage (out of 400%), and the other is at 5% (out of 400%)

Machine A: 2 dual core Opterons 8GB RAM, running OpenSuSE 11.1, 7 guests with different distros of Linux (SLES/RHEL/Fedora, 32/64). Till last week, this machine ran OpenSuse 10.1 with vmserver 1.0.7 and behaved (to get remote access, the vmware service had to be restarted 3-4 times a week). I added new rootdisk, installed new SuSE 11.1 + vmserver 2.0.1, mounted old disks, registered all guests, upgraded guests hardware, installed vm-tools. Previously idle load was 5-10%, after upgrade it jumped to 100-120%, uniformly distributed for all guests. On guest side, there is no load showed.

Machine B: Quad core PHENOM with 8GB RAM (this machine is about 2.5 times faster than the other one), running OpenSuSE 11.1, 7 virtual machines, with different versions of Windows (XP/Vista, 32/64). I was forced to reinstall SuSE because unidentified upgrade prevented recompilation of vmserver. Wiped system partition, reinstalled Linux, and vmserver 2.0.1, mounted old disks, registered all guests, upgraded hardware, installed vm-tools. Idle load is at 5% total (out of 400%).

Both machines are left at the CD distro version ( 2.6.27.7-9-default ) and have nearly identical set of rpm's installed. The hardware is different, but not vastly so, and each has plenty of spare disk space. No RAID, just 3 or 4 disks mounted as separate partitions, so guests are distributed between different drives. During vmserver installation, I had to force gcc version (4.3 vs. 4.3.2) and it did not build vmsock module. In both cases config was left at defaults, except remote port, which is configured at default 902 and A, and changed to 904 on B. I registered the same set of users, the same roles and permissions on both machines. In both cases I had to manually edit authorizations.xml because of the bug in 'NextRoleId' (funny that they fixed NextAceId, but left NextRoleId with the same bug)

To verify the issue I pulled small Linux guest machine from old backups and copied to each machine. Hardware level 4, no vm-tools, Fedora 8 - 64-bit. When started on Machine A it shows 20% idle cpu usage, when started on B it quickly drops to 1-2%. Same test with Win2K machine, same results. I am at loss as to where to look for the source of the problem, but it is clearly in the config for vmserver.

Attached is the snapshot of CPU load history over the last week for both servers to show the dramatic difference between the old and new behavior.

Any suggestions will be welcomed

Tadeusz

Change Hard Drive capacity

curiousagain — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:16:40 GMT

Hi,

I've configured hard drive with 30 GB and would like to increase it to 50 GB.

Is there any way to change hard drive size after configuring it?

Thanks.

OOPS! Locked out!

serverstage — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:07:17 GMT

Hello Experts!

I was trying out the roles and permissions on a newly installed ESXi4 and managed to restrict my root account to read-access only. It was easier than you might think- all I had to do was add the localadmin group to permissions on the host object (highest in the inventory tree) and assign the read-only role. Voila!

I've been trying to reverse this in the shell but I'm lacking the insight to do this quick and easily.

It seems there must be a number of ways to fix this, for example:

remove the localadmin group from this object
change the role from read-only to administrator
change the read-only role to have administrative powers
remove root from the localadmin group
create a new user in the root group who can log into vSphere client and reverse the changes

so far I tried 4 & 5 but it seems the shell accounts don't directly affect the roles and permissions in the GUI. No luck yet-

Can offer a clue?

Thanks, Brandon

vSphere Server Harware Status and Serivce Status Plugin Error

JSCSJSCS — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:36:27 GMT

After installing the vSphere server upgrade I see the following in the plugins managagement:

vCenter Hardware Status VMware, Inc. 4.0
Disabled
Displays the hardware status of hosts (CIM monitoring)
The following error occured while downloading the script plugin from https://WINXP:8443/cim-ui/scriptConfig.xml:
Unable to connect to the remote server

vCenter Service Status VMware, Inc. 4.0
Disabled
Displays the health status of vCenter services
The following error occured while downloading the script plugin from
https://WINXP:8443/health-ui/scriptConfig.xml:
Unable to connect to the remote server

I am guessing that I mistyped the user name or password durring the install, but I cannot for the life of me find where to change it now.

Or maybe there is some other problem? I don't suspect a firewall issue, as I turned it off to test and still go the same problem (will not enable)

Jim s.

Lost vmnic0

simo79 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:07:51 GMT

Yesterday I have rebooted a server with esx3.5 and, after this moment, I don't be able to see the vmnic0, only the wmnic1 work.
There is a way to understand if there is a hardware problem or a software problem? some logs or other..

I hope that it's not ko the nic...

Thank you

Can't start VM from NFS Datastore

alemuen — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:05:07 GMT

I cant start a VM from a NFS Datastore (WIn2k3). Datastore is connected and all Files are visible from Vsphere Client.

Error is "Could not power on VM: Not found.Failed to power on VM"

Log:

info 'App'-- VpxLRO -- ERROR task-148 -- vm-93 -- Drm.ExecuteVmPowerOnLRO: vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault:

(vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault) {

dynamicType = <unset>,

faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

reason = "Could not power on VM : Not found.

Failed to power on VM",

msg = "Could not power on VM : Not found.

Failed to power on VM",

Any Ideas ?

Thanks

403 forbidden status code when trying to PUT vmdks

bob54321 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:51:12 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to upload a VM in an ovf+vmdk file format via the webservices SDK to a vcenter/esx and am running into some issues. Heres a brief description of what is being done:

use the com.vmware.vim25.OvfCreateImportSpecParams method with a VM name, the ESX info, and network mappings
the come.vmwarevim25.OvfCreateImportSpecResult that comes back looks ok (no warnings), except all the OvfFileItems have create = false (possibly a sign of something wrong right here)
we then go on to create a HttpNfcLease via the importVApp command, and wait on it properly as per the api programming guide - i believe all this works fine
when we iterate over the HttpNfcLeaseDeviceUrl.getUrls() and attempt to PUT the content to them, we get the 403's.

In the vpx.log file on the esx's we get the following errors when we try to do this:

~~2009-07-03 15:22:17.751 0x16eb1b90 info 'HttpNfcServer'~~ DiskUploadWorker PUT request /vmfs/volumes/4a23c7fd-05389109-b84c-0022192b1768/bob17/bob17.vmdk (/nfc/13794651-5df7-49ae-ab1f-e96dc543cdeb/disk-0.vmdk)
~~2009-07-03 15:22:17.752 0x16eb1b90 info 'HttpNfcServer'~~ DiskUploadWorker File exists, overwrite not allowed: /vmfs/volumes/4a23c7fd-05389109-b84c-0022192b1768/bob17/bob17.vmdk

So obviously something in the import spec or ovf needs to convince ESX that WE actually want to overwrite these files, but i can't figure out what that is. If i pause my code right before the upload, delete all the vmdk files from the ESX, the PUT will succeed, and the VM upload will be successful.

Any tips or points would be appreciated - thanks!

Bob

issues with datastore and RAID-5

JohnnyBekkestad — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:26:01 GMT

Hi, I am running ESXi 4.0 and i have a server with 6*500GB SATA discs and i have configured it to be RAID-5, in vSphere Client i need to create a datastore, when doing so it sees that the capacity is 2.27TB but it will only allow me to create a datastore that is 270GB... Any ideas how to solve this?

I thought that perhaps i need to add multiple datastores but it after adding the fisr one i am not getting any more space.

I am not an export in this, but i thought RAID-5 was n-1 drives and it says i have 2.27TB capacity.

Thanks for your time

Johnny

creating VMs from template - New Sid alone?

oberon1973 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:15:06 GMT

Hey folks, I hope everyone is having a great weekend. Here is my question. I created several VMs from one Windows 2003 template. I have come to find out that copying a file from one VM to another VM on the same vSitch is slow and pings are also slow. I only ran "New Sid" on the VMs after creation from template and then added them to the domain and assigned the IPs. Could this be the source of the issue? There is no bandwidth throttleing on the vSwitch. THey are in default configuration with 1 port group for VMs. I am pulling my hair out so any ideas would be welcome.

Impossibly stuck trying to mount VMWare Tools ISO on Linux Guest

Aarti — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:08:31 GMT

Hello

I have read dozens of articles on this subject an I am completely unable to install VMWare Tools for the past 3 days. I tried a couple of versions of Fedora and now am trying Mandriva. Essentially, I am unable to get past the first point:

I am following instructions for Linux as per: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/new_guest_tools_ws.html

1. I log in as root in text mode.

2. Select Install VM Tools from VMWare menu

3. Get a message saying to the effect CDROM is in use by guest...disconnect and unlock anyways? I select "Yes". Nothing happens. I have also tried an explicit umount: umount \dev\cdrom.

4. I issue a mount command: mount \dev\cdrom \mnt. Nothing other than standard message telling me the media is read only. Fine

5. I do a copy cp \mnt\*tgz \tmp. I get a message back saying no such file was found and indeed the directory is empty.

I am at a complete loss. Also, I do not see (I am operating on a Windows Vista host) any iso image for VMWare tools or a *.tgz file anyware on my host - should I? There has to be a solution. Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Aarti

How do I script changing from Bridged to NAT?

mswarbrick77 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:47:42 GMT

I want to be able change from Bridged to NAT on a running VM and have it take effect immediately. I need to do this with a script. How can I do it?

My host is Vista. My guest is Server 2003. I am running VMware server 2x

Orchestrator's purpose and sample code?

DougBaer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:03:10 GMT

I have been reading about Orchestrator as I can get information -- and I have read the manuals that come with vSphere. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of meat in them. I think it would help to see some examples of what Orchestrator can do, or what VMware wants it to do.

Customers ask me about it constantly since VMware is pitching it as a big feature in vSphere, but I can't explain to them why they should care without some kind of example. The slides shown by the sales guys at the vSphere launch events are useless: basically a picture containing flowchart boxes and arrows and the word, "Orchestration" over it all.

I am familiar with LCM and the Orchestrator backend. There were rumors of 'many Orchestrator examples' to be included with vCenter 4.0. I was envisioning hooks between Orchestrator and the currently anemic 'Scheduled Tasks' function of vCenter, but I haven't had time to go spelunking through the C:\Program Files\VMware directories yet.

VMotion fails with imcompatible CPUs error (1993) But CPUs are the same

VanAlex — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:59:12 GMT

Hi,

I have a vSphere Cluster with two similar dell servers, VMotion migration has been working correctly, but since yesterday it fails with a message stating the CPUs are imcompatible, but the CPUs are exactly the same. This is clearly an error or Bug with VMware. Any thougths on how to solve this SERIOUS issue?

Get-CDDrive

ief — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:59:22 GMT

By using the Get-CDdrive command, Is it possible to display the VM name the CDdrive is connected to?

Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted

NickelNetworks — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:47:01 GMT

I have a Vmware Studio 1.0.0 Build 620 running under ESX 3.5 at 10.5.36.15 and a Vmware server running on Centos 5.0 on 10.5.36.16 on a separate physical server. I can ssh from either one to each other without any issues, there are no firewalls in between the hosts, still when I try to do a simple test for creating an appliance I keep getting the error"

"Failure: An error occured while connecting to the VMware Server at 10.5.36.16: The system returned an error. Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted".

I initially tried with Vmware server running in windows, installed OpenSSH and got either similar errors or completely inconsistent errors, meaning that I will hit the validate button and will get one error, waited a few seconds and selected validate again and got another different error. I then switched to vmware under centos and I am stuck at this.

There are no errors on "/opt/vmware/www/build"

Any hints will be appreciated..

Regards,

Paul Aviles

UBOX 2100/4100

komarm — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:47:23 GMT

Witam,

miał ktos przyjemność z urządzeniem jak w temacie (lub też alternatywami innymi niż Digi i Belkin) ?

pzdr,

missing File | Import

sprotsman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:31:55 GMT

Does VMware Workstation 6.5.2 for Linux support importing? I want to import an OVF image but my only options from the File menu are "New, Open..., Close Tab, Close Window, Add to Favorites, and Quit". Another user in our office running 6.5.2 on Windows and has "File | Import". I'm confused about this one.

Two users using one computer simultaneously

jshellman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:59:28 GMT

I found this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/237498-44-users-computer-tutorial-simplified

That tutorial is for vmware workstation, but is it possible to accomplish that with one of vmware's free products?

Trying out the player, I don't see any way to control which devices the guest and host operating system uses.

I posted this in the player forum and it was suggested server might do it so I'm posting here. I tried Server but again, can't figure out how to control which devices control host and guest.

Thanks!

Capacity Planner on Novell servers

PP_LAN — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:28:34 GMT

Does anyone know how to perform capacity planner against novell servers ?

Why do all of my VMDK's constantly have their timestamp updated?

peskypescado — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:05:42 GMT

I have a Windows Server 2003 guest running on a VMserver 1 host on Windows Server 2003 that I have been having issues backing up. It has about 270GB of 2GB VMDKs that I want to incrementally backup. The problem I am running into is that the timestamps for all 476 VMDKs get updated everyday, even the "empty" (320KB) placeholder ones. They all even get updated on days where the VM is up but doesn't get used at all. This makes it so I have to ignore timestamps and do binary comparisons when I try to do an incremental backup. Obviously calculating 540GB (270GB x 2) worth of checksums is pretty time consuming and not much faster than just doing a full copy of the data since bandwidth isn't a major concern (backups are done over gigabit and firewire). Does anyone know why VMserver always updates the timestamps, or have a better suggestion for incremental backups? Does VMserver 2 change this behavior?

Thanks in advance,
peskypescado

Capacity Planner - UNIX - Root only or is there a way to use SU

happyhammer — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:32:33 GMT

All

currently installing cap planner and client has no ssh access via root but there is a login and can then SU, is it possible to setup this up within Cap Planner or is it strictly root access only

Here is patch for Workstation 6.5.2 on Linux 2.6.29 kernel

Krellan — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:42:37 GMT

Here we go again, with VMware Workstation 6.5.2 (including VMware Player 2.5.2).

Here is a patch to get their modules to cleanly build on Linux kernel version 2.6.29.

It's a followup from this earlier thread, that was for the earlier 6.5.1 version:

http://communities.vmware.com//thread/202340

The changes between 6.5.1 and 6.5.2 are minimal. VMware, thankfully, no longer attempts to re-define the APIC_BASE_MSR symbol, making one part of the patch no longer necessary on 2.6.29, so it has been removed. That was what was causing the earlier error: the patch was attempting to patch something that no longer existed in the code.

Here's the new 6.5.2 patch, and a shellscript to help you apply it, attached.

Make sure your /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source directory is pristine. Reinstall 6.5.2 if you have to, in order to return this directory to its unchanged settings, if you had trouble applying the patch earlier.

Use the bash command to run the script:

bash ./vmware-6.5.2-modules-2.6.29-fix.sh

It should now apply cleanly, and there should be no errors.

Hope this helps!

Josh

Perform Capacity Planner on Linux machine

MauroMoraes — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:40:43 GMT

Hi,

When i collect inventory data from linux server, the CPU Speed data appers more than normal.

Example:

Windows CPU Speed: 1,200 Mhz
Linux CPU Speed: 1,200,000 Mhz

And, when a create a consolidate scenario, all linux machine are discarded. Because, if one linux server have 10% avarage use of CPU from 1,200,000 MHz, mens that the server use 12Ghz on avarage.

Help!!

queryChangedDiskAreas problem

nicok — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:17:20 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to query the changed blocks of a disk as described in the "designing Backup solutions for for VMware vSphere".

For whatever deviceKey I try I get an "invalid argument" error indicating that the deviceKey is wrong

Steps I do:

+create snapshot

+ wait till snapshot is done

+ try the queryChangedDiskAreas()

How can I get the deviceKey?

Thanks,

Nico

ESXI 4.0 Drivers

tpcvmware — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:41:52 GMT

I don't understand a thing.

There http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?device_cat=io&device_id=938

I can see the drivers for my server that had a Serveraid 8k.

If I click in Model Dtails i see that for ESX 4.0 (i think esxi 4.0 too)

ESX 4.0 aacraid version 3.5.10.5vmw type inbox.

What does it mean? That the driver is included and not needed to do nothing to load it, or what i need to load the right driver?

SuperMicro H8QME-2, 4x Shanghai, ICP Vortex 5085BR SAS Controller?

sr_whq — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:10:33 GMT

Hi!

I've go two of the systems you can see in the subject. I'm currently trying to evaluate ESX 4 / VSphere, which is not possible because it seems the storage controller "ICP Vortex 5085B_R_" is not supported in 4.0 (although it was in 3.5i, please see http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/Hardware_support.php). Another model of the same ICP series is the ICP 5085B_L_, which is even officially supported by "aacraid version 3.5.10.5vmw.

Why? The way a driver talkes to either the BL or BR models differs probably only by the deviceID - so why are not both models supported? Above all there is even a 3rd party ESX driver available from the adaptec website.

Please help me to get my configuration to work without changing hardware parts. How could I e.g. modify the install DVD to include and probe the 3rd party drive?

Best Regards,

Mike

p.s.: In my opinion the controller is identical to the quite common IBM ServeRaid 8s, which is of course supported.
p.s: To get the installer running on the H8QME-2, set the following options in BIOS: Operating System - LINUX (vs. OTHER), ACPI - 2.0 (vs. 1.0 / 3.0), USB 1.1 - disabled (vs. Enabled)

How to convert .img to .vmdk format?

jayamurugan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:05:30 GMT

Hi,

I want to convert *.img to *.vmdk format. Could anyone of you help me out?

Thanks

Capacity Planner Technical Requirements

Herschelle — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:27:02 GMT

Greetings all,

We are investigating the employment of the capacity planner in our environment and are unsure if the wmi and remote registry services are actually available before we engage a VAC to do the work. So I am looking for some simple tests or confirmation that the tests I have run below are actually showing what I think I need. The team of people responsible for our AD are "not sure, i think so" if wmi and remote registry is enabled, or rather not disabled (since MS like double negatives in their group policy settings). That sort of response doesn't fill me with confidence. If a group policy change is required then I have to initiate some change management processes which take time, so i will delay the start of the engagement until I can confirm the technical requirements have been met.

I have run these couple of tests on one server in the AD to point at a number of random servers within the same AD. Both of these tests return valid information that I have been able to confirm whilst rdp'd to the server(s) tested so far.

Is this a sufficient test that WMI is enabled?
A vbscript to return the processes running on the server

strComputer = "<server>"

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer &"\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Process")

For Each objItem in colItems
    Wscript.Echo objItem.Name, objItem.WorkingSetSize
Next

Is this a sufficient test, that remote registry is enabled?
Run a command prompt and run the following command:

reg query \\<server>\hklm\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run

I guess the last question is, is there anything else I need to specifically test to ensure successful operation of the Capacity Planner. Internet, AD, local Administrative access for the application aside.

TIA

Snapshot and backup

biokovo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:59:37 GMT

Is it necessarily to remove snapshots before backup, clone or migrate a VM?

Thanks,

Ante

Use LLDP as well as CDP in VI Client's Network Details view

gclinch — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:11:30 GMT

Unfortunately our environment does not support Cisco's proprietary discovery protocol CDP, but all our edge devices do support the vendor-neutral protocol LLDP - it'd be really nice if the VI client's display of networking details could be extended to include details from LLDP as well as CDP.

Graham

Dell 2850's and ESXi 4 (or 3.5U4) - RAID Monitoring and Management for PERC4 cards

SilvioSantoZ — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:22:12 GMT

Hello, we're trying to get ESXi on Dell 2850's, with PERC4 RAID cards.

Unfortunately, it is highly important for us to get RAID card and disks management and monitoring.

We can get that on our 2950's, which use PERC6. In those newer machines, ESXi3.5U4 with Dell addons, we can use OMSA 6.x to administer RAID, and we can use CIM (or viclient) to check on storage.

On the 2850's we can't! We tried ESXi4, and 3.5U4Dell, and both do not show any storage options in viclient, CIM or Dell OpenManage.

Any ideas about this? We have a lot of those machines, and they're running VMWare Server 2.0 with the common CPU-degradation problem, so we really need to upgrade to ESXi.

Vmware converter temp directory

phampson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:13:45 GMT

I'm sure this has been asked before but I'm having trouble finding it.

How do you change the temp directory for vmware converter 4?

My ova files are too big to restore apparently.

Thanks in advance.

Pat

How to consolidate vmesx3.0.2 license.

ultrasoul — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:00:36 GMT

Hi, Expert

We have two sites with the following ESX servers 3.0.2 with VC2.0.

Site A: HP DL385 G2(Dual-Core CPU x2) x2
Site B: HP DL685c G1(Dual-Core CPU x4) x6

Now, we want to adding two HP DL385 G2 with VMWARE ESX server installed to Site A.
And The VC of Site A needs to manage four HP DL385 G2 VMESX server. We want to move
the vmware license of Site B to Site A, the current VMWARE license info for Site A&B
is as follows.

========== Before ==========
Site A: 2cpu x2 lics
Site B: 4cpu x6 lics

========== After ===========
Site A: 2cpu x4 lics
Site B: 4cpu x5 lics

I think we must disconnect one VMWARE ESX server from Site B for assigning license for Site A.
We have a license server on Site A by using vmware.lic on the local disk of VC.
My question is that how we apply the license of Site B to the new HP DL385 G2 ESX servers of Site A.
Is it needed to edit vmware.lic of Site A Or is it possible to apply license for every ESX server
respectively.

Kindly pls help.

3D Graphics broken in 2.0 (DirectX 9, Direct3D)?

digdugggler — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:17:04 GMT

I recently upgraded to 2.0. I upgraded my VM and have noticed that a component I use for development no longer works (it worked great in 1.1.3). It makes use of DirectX 9 and Direct3D. The component simply does not paint correctly in 2.0.

Other than uninstalling VMware tools and reinstalling (which I've done) are there any other steps I can try? I'd love to get things up and running in 2.0 and would like to avoid downgrading to 1.1.3 and finding my vm's on my time machine backup as I upgraded the virtual machines for 2.0 (in which I was instructed I can no longer use these in previous versions).

Any input/ideas appreciated.

Edit: none of my vm settings changed (ram, etc)...

Double Edit: I see I can downgrade as well as upgrade machines. That makes my decision much easier. Any advice on what can be tweaked for graphics performance still appreciated.

Online software registration issue with Network Card

Amoscowdog — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:38:52 GMT

Hi,

I'm just recently swapped from a PC to the Mac and installed VMWare Fusion but I'm running into an issue with the online registration of one of my programs.

a. When I try and register across the internet it just fails

b. An alternative offline registration option allows you to creat an ARF file and send it for approval, but I get another error saying it failed to create the activation ID and asked me to make sure the Network Card is installed or the TCP/IP is installed.

Connection to the internet is fine, I'm using NAT, this is the first online registration I've had to do all my other programs have installed just fine.

Hope someone can help.

regards,

Tony

Establish connectivity between ESX3.5 and windows 2003 storage server

hituuu — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:15:08 GMT

Hi,

I have installed evaluation copy of ESX3.5 server on HP Blade BL 460C which has 60GB space. I have HP AIO 600 box having capacity of 1TB and running win2k3 storage server OS. I want to utilize partion on HP AIO 600 box for all my vitual servers.

How do I configure NFS partion on win2k3 storage server and add it on ESX3.5 server so that I can utilize same for all virtual servers?