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web client: VM Remote console blank

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:59:29 GMT

Hi guys,

I got a problem with my web client remote console. I am using vCneter appliance and web client daemon is running. I am using IE8 and Adobe flesh 11 is installed.

Issue:

-Remote console status “The remote console is connecting..”

I waited for a day but still not connected

Vm remote console screen is just blank

-I checked in add-ons web client plug-in is enabled.

-checked VM dns resolution

-I also checked weather another RDP or remote session is active.(there was no RDP session active)

-I also checked in other posts but no one had this kind on issue

sorry to post web client thread here but I couldn't find specific forum for web client

any advice will be Appreciated

Thanks

Regards

Tejas

Can you do a cold p2v to Esxi 5.0?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:43:16 GMT

Hi!

I am supposed to virtualize a domain controller (Windows server 2003) and since hot migration doesn't cut it(without further discussion about it), I'm off for the cold cloning. Is it possible to do this to Esxi 5.0?

Best regards,

Tero Korhonen

Finland

Watch Pulp Fiction Online and its cool features.

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:51:46 GMT

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vCenter SSL certificate from CA Problems

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:45:18 GMT

Hi All,

I hope someone may be able to help with a few issues I have with replacing the default SSL on a vCenter 5 u1 server.

I had one of my colleagues generate an SSL certificate using IIS7, we then processed the CSR with Thawte, and we purchased an SS123 cert from Thawte which is just a domain validation SSL.

We exported the SSL with the private key into a PFX format; I used OpenSSL to obtain the rui.key and rui.crt and copied them along with the rui.pfx to the necessary locations on the vCenter server. I followed all the steps documented http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.solutions.doc_50/GUID-37AAEDFE-EF2E-45FC-B0C6-44841E4FB302.html and other sites like WoodITwork.com

After completing all the steps, I browse the vCenter URL https://vc_url.com and I still get a certificate warning, I check the certificate from browser and can see the SSL has been installed but I get the error “This certificate cannot be verified up to a trusted certification authority”

I then login to vCenter via the vSphere client and gets a certificate warning, strange warning:

vc.voclients.local is actually the local domain FQDN of the vCenter. The error received is that its untrusted and it also states that The certificate received from “vc.voclients.local” was issued for “” which as you can see from that attachment is blank.

I used the online Thawte SSL Checker, the status stated invalid chain with the following error: “The intermediate CA certificates cannot be found for the following certificate chain.”

I have another concern and I’m not sure if this has ever been brought up before but the documentation states to use the password on the PFX file of “testpassword” now if one were to gain unauthorised access to a vCenter server they could steal the PFX and knowing the password.

Just as a side note I successfully got the SSL to work a few years ago on vCenter 2.5 using the same method, I really wish VMware provided a tool to perform such SSL tasks, it has become very complicated now with having to change 3 or 4 different places. I have attached some images of the errors which may shed some light on the issue.

Any suggestions are welcomed

Прошить hba

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 19 May 2012 07:47:52 GMT

День добрый. Может немного не по адресу, но не знаю где еще помогут.

IBM HS22 Blade center, 7870 машины, на них esxi 4.1, фабрики brocade. Обнаружилось болшое количество потерянных слов на портах фабрик, ibm предложили прошиться. Прошил brocade; для запуска EDCkit на esxi 4.1 поставил драйвер для hba qlogic, запустил EDCkit, после этого потребовалось обновить firmware hba (все паки для hba брал здесь http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com/QLogicDriverDownloads_UI/Product_detail_new.aspx?oemid=224&companyid=6, для обновления фирмавари используется Multiboot Flash Image).

Обновляется только из-под dos или uefi shell. Возникла проблема, uefi shell не вижу в упор, при загрузке хоста есть f1 setup, f2 diagnostics, f12 select boot device, после этого можно запустить LSI Configuration util и Fast!Util - все не то. Много где пишут что можно из под него обновиться, но не нашел как его запустить.

Плюнул, нашел iso dos 6.22, воткнул в корень набор файлов, требуемых для апдэйта, дописал в autoexe.bat запуск update.bat (для uefi это update.nsh), не отрабатывает, при загрузке dos говорит, не найдены подходящие драйвера для cdrom, поэтому установка завершена, вываливаюсь в dos терминал, файл update.bat не запускается, пытался запустить вручную, он лежит в корне НО при попытке запуска говорится что файла нет. dir update.bat тоже говорит что файла нет, хотя в iso я его положил.

Читал про IBM Bootable Media Creator, но для esxi не нашел, видел для suse, red hat и для винды.

Буду рад любым советам и заранее благодарен.

Копылов Анатолий.

Upgrading to 5.1

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:32:05 GMT

Hi Guys,

I am upgrading my 5.0 to 5.1. Can some one help me with the steps?

I have already started with upgrading my connection servers. Though I am now stuck with certificate error. I had a default install of 5.0 with the system generated certificate. After upgrading my connection servers to 5.1 I am unable to connect to it using the View client I get the Error

"Failed to connect to view connection server. The server provided a cert that is invalid. see below for more details:

- The CA is invalid or not correct. --- tried importing the cert to trusted root

- The host name in cert is invalid or does not match --- still the same

- The date in cer is expired ---- not the case"

Was it something I did wrong while upgrading that caused the issue. what could I do to resolve this? Is the only solution to import a new certificate? I am yet to upgrade my view composer, security server and view agents, anything I need to be careful of to avoid such issues?

In view admin dashboard its the same issue certificate invalid. all tjhe desktops in the pool are showing as available.

vCenter web client: remote console blank

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:06:06 GMT

Hi guys,

I got a problem with my web client remote console. I am using vCneter appliance and web client daemon is running. I am using IE8 and Adobe flesh 11 is installed.

Issue:

-Remote console status “The remote console is connecting..”

I waited for a day but still not connected

Vm remote console screen is just blank

-I checked in add-ons web client plug-in is enabled.

-checked VM dns resolution

-I also checked weather another RDP or remote session is active.(there was no RDP session active)

-I also checked in other posts but no one had this kind on issue

any advice wil be Appreciated

Thanks

Regards

Tejas

Hidden NICs issue at Windows 2008 VM

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 01:01:32 GMT

Hi All,

I have an issue with hidden NICs at Windows 2008 VM. I have first installed Windows 2008 server and configured the same and then upgraded the hardware version of the VM from 4 to 7.

Now when I tried to assign IP to the NIC, it says this IP is already assigned to the other NIC.

Infrastructure details are as below:

ESXi: 4.1

Guest OS: Windows 2008

VM hardware version: 7

Error: IP address already assigned to another adapter

I have already tried to uninstall the hidden NICs using the following VMware and Microsoft KBs, but there is no use still the hidden NIC are at VM.

Networking Error: IP address already assigned to another adapter

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269155/en-us

Is there any other option or workaround to uninstall the hidden NICs?

Please suggest.

Regards,

VijayNB

How do I block sharing folders on one virtual machine?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:45:21 GMT

I have a VM running Win7 and one running WinXP. I need to isolate the WinXP version from shared folders, because it's messing up an installation of Visual C++/Dark GDK.

I WANT the Win7 VM to share folders with my Mac. I DON'T WANT the WinXP VM to share folders. How do I do this? If I disconnect the networked folder in the WinXP machine, when I restart it, it shows up again.

Can anyone help?

How to connect two vm on two different esx 4.1 host

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:35:03 GMT

Hi,

I have two esx 4.1 hosts, both having linux vm. I want to connect them like one would connect using cross cable. The reason is i want it to be purely private between the two virtual machines only. Is it possible? if yes, please help.

How to disable local accounts on ESXi5.0 host ???

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:55:27 GMT

Can anyone please help me ??

Multiple vCloud Director instances per vCenter?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:02:54 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to setup a new vCloud Director instance on a vCenter server that is already being used by another vCloud Director instance? This would not be adding another cell to the existing setup but rather a completly seperate instance with its own database.

The instances would use different Clusters but the same dvSwitch. I also imagine this would use a seperate vShield Manager instance too?

Would there be any conflicts in this server?

Thanks for your help,

Experiencing problems after Upgrade to ESXi 5

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:51:06 GMT

Hello VMware Community,

first of all:

Hardware we are using is on the HCL of VMware.

As already stated in the heading, we are experiencing problems after the upgrade to the new ESXi version.

Our environment consists of about 70 VMs running on 6 hosts. The first problem is settled with the iSCSI connections.

Since we are using LUN's to store our VMs, it's a common task to add/remove or rescan storage. Whenever I am trying to do this, it takes about 3-4 minutes. Compared to the old version of ESX that we had installed thats a very long time. So there must be a performance issue somewhere.

A quick check of the logs didn't bring transparency into this issue.

The second problem we are experiencing is regarded to the hardware status watchdog. After some research i have recognized that this has to do with the sfcbd-watchdog service that seems to crash randomly. After restarting the service the hardware health status is shown again on the vSphere Client. Checking the logs didn't help.

I am aware of the iSCSI problems that ESXi 5 had in the beginning, but we are on the most recent patchlevel.

I hope that anyone had similar issues and could solve them quickly.

greetings

Simon

Simple vcli script for extracting vm info including datastore and BU

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 03:42:50 GMT

Hi All,

First off apologies if this is a simple fix as I am really not familiar with VCLI or scripting in general.

I am looking at building a script that extracts all the usual VM infomation;Name, CPU's, RAM allocation ect etc. The 2 items which I am having trouble including in this list are, name of the datastore the vm resides and also the Business Unit that the the vm has assigned to it.

Can any one please help me with how this would work?

Thanks in advance

VMs going inaccessible then accessible again

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:53:08 GMT

We have a new NFS Storage that is much faster than our previous appliances.

However I am migrating a machine. And all the offline VMs on this new datacenter keep going inaccessible. Then after a while they will be accessible again. Up to half of the offline VMs can be inaccessible at a time. Sometimes only 1-2 machines are.

It does not seem to be affecting online VMs. There do not appear to be having performance issues.

I am Running ESX 4.1 and vcenter.

Local SCSI Datastore Connectivity issues

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:41:11 GMT

Hi all,
I installed ESXi server 4.1 before six month. now i saw continuous events related to datastore connectivity issues.I was changed the SATA cable also,but it won't help. how can i rectify this issue without interrupting virtual machines.

ESXi 5.0 does not recognize 4TB storage array

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:45:29 GMT

Hello all!

This is my setup:

HP ProLiant ML350 G5

2x XEON E5345 quadcore
12GB RAM
integrated Smart Array E200i connected to single 250GB SATA disk
Smart Array P400/512MB connected to two 2TB SATA disks in RAID0 (4TB logical array) (please no comments about RAID0, it's for testing only!)
LSI 3041X-R PCI-X SAS Controller (nothing connected at the moment)
vSphere 5.0 starting from USB flash drive)

The server is on the HCL for vSphere 5.

My problem:

In vSphere Client, the 250GB hard disk connected to the E200I controller is recognized correctly, and I can create a VMFS5 datastore without any problems. However, the 4TB array only shows up as a 512byte device, and I can't create a datastore on it.

I also deleted the 4TB RAID0 array and created two 2TB JBOD arrays (one per disk). Now the first one shows up as 1.82TB disk, but the second one as 0.00byte.

Just to add, that the setup worked fine with MS Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 which had no problems recognizing the 4TB RAID0 array out of the box.

So why is that? I thought that vSphere 5 was supposed to be finally able to handle LUNs >2TB, so shouldn't I be able to see the full capacity of both disks in vSphere Client andto create a datastore on it? And what can I do to rectify the situation?

BTW: does anyone know when the HP and Dell editions of vSphere 5 will be available for download?

Thanks,

Ben

Watch Scarface Online and its award-winning features.

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 03:43:05 GMT

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NIC assignment / network design ESXi hosts - how would u do it?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:20:47 GMT

Hi All,

I have two ESXi hosts with 12 NICs each. I have installed ESXi on each and have vSphere 5. My setup looks like this:

[ESXi1]-------------------------|Production |

|Switch LAN|

(ESXi2]-------------------------| |

| |

[NetAPP SAN] | |

[ 1 SATA SHELF]------------------ | <---Vif0 etherchanneled back to switch for CIFS

[1 SAS SHELP]---------------------- <---Vif0 etherchanneled back to switch

Please excuse my crude diagram. Currently the two ESXi hosts have two NICs each teamed and connected to our Production LAN switch. I have not placed them in a vlan as of yet. VIF0 on my SATA shelf of the NetApp is etherchanneled back to our Production LAN switch for CIFS. VIF0 on the SAS shelf is etherchanneled back to the Production LAN switch. Both SAN etherchannel connections are in a vlan.

My question is how should I properly connect the ESXi hosts and best utilize the remaining 10 NICs on each host? I plan to use vMotion. How should I design the vlans for the ESXi hosts? Basically what I am asking is how to best utilize my resources and best practice. How would you design this. The SAN is NFS.

Also my production network is a 192.168.5.x network. Once I start creating VMs they will need to be on the same subnet, so do I just assign them 5.x IP addresses like I would on a physical switch and does the vSwitch need a 5.x IP as well?

Any help, suggestions or insight with this would be great. I want to design this in the best possible way.

Thanks again

VCOPS 5.0.1 colleting performance data grouped by resource pools

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:55:28 GMT

Hi,

Is there a way to generate performance reports for all VM's under a resource pool using VCOPS 5.0.1 Enterprise edition?

Also is there an option to give user access control in Vcenter operations manager for a particular resource pool?

Network connection - bridged NOT working

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:13:52 GMT

Please help on this

I setup a VM

Host system: windows 7

Guest system: fedora 16

I want to use bridged mode for network connection setup.

So I choice this in the virtual machine settings->hardware->Network adapter->Network connection->bridged

Here is the IP address configuration

host system

IP address: 10.0.1.100

netmask: 255.255.255.0

gateway: 10.0.1.1

guest system

IP address: 10.0.1.101

netmask: 255.255.255.0

gateway: 10.0.1.1

The result is guest system cannot access to Internet

Guest can ping itself (10.0.1.101) and host (10.0.1.100)

However it cannot ping the gateway

Host system is normal

It can ping itself(10.0.1.100) and guest 10.0.1.101 and gateway.

Also it can access the Internet.

Can anyone help on this?

Is there anything I miss on the configuration?

Thank you.

2008 R2 VM's unstable after upgrade to 32gb RAM

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:46:27 GMT

Hi there,

I have recently upgraded my ESXi 5 test lab from 16gb of RAM to 32gb of RAM, I have gone from 4x4gb sticks to 4x8gb sticks. After the upgrade I have now started having performance issues with my virtual machines to point of them crashing constantly. All VMs are server 2008 R2 SP1 servers.

I had initially suspected bad RAM so as part of my troubleshooting I removed 2 of the 8gb sticks and put the 2 of 4gb sticks back in place (total of 24gb of RAM) and everything went back to running smoothly. After this i have then swapped the 2 8gb sticks around to test the 2 previously removed and again everything was running smoothly. This leads me to believe the RAM is fine and that there is something else at play here.

I havent got the error message on me at the moment as i am not near the ESXi 5 server, however the error message didnt seem overly useful anyway. I can get the error message in a couple of hours once i am near the ESXi 5 server again if required.

I am not overly familiar with ESXi 5 logs so I am not sure which logs to be going through to check for messages, however happy to include some log info as well once i have access to the ESXi 5 server, just let me know which ones

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as currently 2 of my 8gb RAM sticks are useless since I cant put them in the ESXi 5 server.

Is it possible to enable vt-x on ESXi 3.5 ?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:07:28 GMT

I've had a good look around and I cant find a definitive answer to this. I'm trying to run a VMware player inside ESXi 3.5 and the OS I am trying to run requires hardware virtualization. I have an Intel Xeon CPU which supports VT-x but I don't get an option to enable virtualization in the default PhoenixBIOS that comes with ESXi. Is there a way to force VT-x on or can I update the bios of the host VM to have that option? I have tried various things including:

vhv.allow = TRUE

monitor.virtual_exec = hardware

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE

monitor_control.vt32 = TRUE

any ideas?

Thanks

how to use get-log but for .net api instead

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:05:43 GMT

I want to figure out how to perform the get-log powercli cmd against an esxi host, but using .net api call instead of powercli cmd.

Get-VMHost HostNameOrIP | Get-Log -Bundle -DestinationPath c:\Storage\Location\

I am not sure if this is the right forum, honestly vmware community is difficult to find any forum specificly for the powercli .net api if i am in wrong place please direct me to the right place.

i already figured out in the .net api how to get the host info

IList <EntityViewBase> esxiList = client.FindEntityViews(typeof(HostSystem), null, null, null);

and then for licenses as well

VMware.Vim.

LicenseManagerlic_manager = (VMware.Vim.LicenseManager)client.GetView(client.ServiceContent.LicenseManager, null);

LicenseManagerLicenseInfo [] lic_found = lic_manager.Licenses;

but i am having a difficult time finding the proper calls in the .net api to get logs from esxi hosts and vcenter host in the SDK reference

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/index.html

So if someone could please show me what i need to use for api calls? as i assume the get-log powercli cmd has to have an equivalent api call that is using.

Shared Folders and Visual C++ 2008/Dark GDK

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:47:19 GMT

I'm using shared folders because I'm running Quickbooks/Win 2012 and saving my backups to my Mac.

I'm planning to take the Visual C++ class at the local community college (again - long story), which requires an installation of Visual C++ 2008 and Dark GDK.

It does NOT like shared folders, and when I share folders, I lose my "Wizards" option in Visual C++, which is integral to the assignments (Dark GDK is what uses "Wizards"). This will make it literally impossible to take this class. I have not figured out how to bypass the shared folder or whatever the "shared folder" setting does to the software.

Does anyone know how to help? Please?

vCloud API Login time is too long!

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 05:15:56 GMT

Today`s my Question!

Using vCLoud Director API..

using xml request login time is very short(under 1 seconds..) but..using API ..login time too long..

I`m using Eclipse and Java jdk 1.6 version..

and I`m using Sample code from vmware

Any Idea??

Plz Help me~!

Thank you for reading everyone~

How do I migrate ?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 19 May 2012 23:23:18 GMT

How do I migrate just a select few of my windows based programs instead of the whole PC? Thank you

Linux guest customisation script deployment bug

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:38:41 GMT

I believe the following should be treated as a vCloud Director bug. In a nutshell the vCloud GUI does not allow customization script length to exceed 8,192 bytes. However observe the following for a guest customisation script that is 1,093 bytes large:

- Guest customisation fails on initial boot:
root@myvcloud1vm:~/sol-guest-cdrom# head /var/log/vmware-imc/customization.log
May 18 13:49:38 customize-guest: Starting guest customization
May 18 13:49:38 customize-guest: base64 decoding failed, pre and post customization will not take place
May 18 13:49:38 customize-guest: no pre-customization script to run
May 18 13:49:39 customize-guest: Configuring computerName = myvcloud1vm

- Reverse engineering what vCloud v1.5.0 appliance's /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/guestcustomization/unix/customize-guest.sh does during deployment phase:
root@myvcloud1vm:~/sol-guest-cdrom# vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.ovfEnv" > ovf.xml
root@myvcloud1vm:~/sol-guest-cdrom# SCRIPT=`/usr/bin/awk -f getXML.awk ovf.xml vCloud_CustomizationInfo`
root@myvcloud1vm:~/sol-guest-cdrom# /usr/bin/awk -f ./base64decode.awk encoded_script="$SCRIPT" script_name=/tmp/script.sh /dev/null
awk: program limit exceeded: sprintf buffer size=1020
FILENAME="/dev/null" FNR=0 NR=0
root@myvcloud1vm:~/sol-guest-cdrom# echo $?
2
root@myvcloud1vm:~/sol-guest-cdrom# cat /tmp/script.sh
root@myvcloud1vm:~/sol-guest-cdrom#

- Yet I can I can confirm that my script is properly stored within the VM OVF environment config:
root@myvcloud1vm:~/sol-guest-cdrom# echo $SCRIPT | base64 -d
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin
.............. >>> OUTPUT TRIMMED <<<< ......
root@myvcloud1vm:~/sol-guest-cdrom#

- This guest is supported on ESXi 5.0 according to the official Guest OS Compatibility Guide:
root@myvcloud1vm:~/sol-guest-cdrom# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"
root@myvcloud1vm:~/sol-guest-cdrom#

- Guest customisation succeeds when the script is shorter.

VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:10:29 GMT

I am using VMware ESXi and I am trying to setup a guest that is Windows 7 that will have an ATI Radeon video card passed through to it. I actually had this working on a previous system but I had to reinstall. Now when I do this the guest fails to start and I get the following:

Error message from localhost.XXXXXXXXXXX:
PCIPassthru 004:00.0: Guest tried to (null)map
32 device pages (with base address of 0xb5d20)
to a range occupied by main memory. This is
outside of the PCI Hole. Add pciHole.start =
"2909" to the configuration file and then power
on the VM.
error
12/23/2010 1:04:36 PM
media
User

When I do as it asks, the guest now starts but gets an immediate BSOD concerning memory management. Any ideas on why this is occuring and why it worked at one point but now it fails?

Why does workstation look different in suse?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:52:32 GMT

Vmware workstation looks different in windows then it does in linux, i mean the gui part of it. Why is that?

iPad Client for View 1.2 Presentation Mode

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:22:49 GMT

Just upgraded my iPad client for View to 1.2. When I look at the options, the Presentation Mode is stuck on ON. You cannot toggle. I am trying to get the view client to display on my TV using an AppleTV. Not working at all or else not very intuitive on how to do this.

One of the most exciting features announced as part of this release, but no worky. Has anyone tested this?

静止点ありのスナップショット作成に失敗

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:57:23 GMT

nankazuと申します。

初めての投稿となります。よろしくお願いします。

静止点ありのスナップショット作成に失敗する件について、どなたかご存じであればご教授願います。

■ 事象

　1.静止点ありのスナップショットを作成すると、以下のエラーメッセージで失敗します。

　　スナップショット作成操作が、停止した仮想マシンでのI/O保留時間制限を超えたため、静止スナップショットを作成できません。

　　※静止点無しのスナップショット作成は成功します。

　　※すべての仮想マシンで失敗します。

　2.本現象はvCenter Serverマシンがクラッシュし、WindowsOSからの再構築実施した後より発生しています。

　　vCenter Serverは新規でインストールしており、特にバックアップからのリストアなどは行っていません。

　3.VMware Toolsの再インストールは実施しましたが状況変わらずです。

　　※仮想マシンのコントロールパネルからのアンインストールと通常のインストール

■環境

　・ホスト：VMware ESX 4.1 Update2

　・vCenter：vCenter Server 4.1 Update2

　・仮想マシン：Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Std SP2 64bit

原因や考えられる対応策などありましたら、よろしくお願いします。

以上

VMware View Client for iPad 1.5 Now Available!

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:39:31 GMT

I am pleased to annouce the release of the VMware View Client for iPad 1.5!

See below for list of new and improved features.

What's New in View Client 1.5

- Support for the new iPad

- Updated look and feel

- Up to 2X better video playback performance

- Optimized for VMware View 5.1

- RADIUS two factor authentication with VMware View 5.1

- Save password option if administrator enables new VMware View 5.1 policy

- French, German, Spanish keyboard support with VMware View 5.1

- Direct Korean language input support with VMware View 5.1

- Touch in text fields brings up keyboard with VMware View 5.1

- Extended software keyboard keys no longer cover Start menu and task bar with external keyboards

- Bug fixes

It is available in the App Store now at:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vmware-view-for-ipad/id417993697?mt=8

Enjoy!

Pat

Pat Lee

Director, End User Clients

VMware

workstation update hang

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:35:46 GMT

Hello,

Yesterday I encountered an eternal Software Update.

"VMware Workstation - version 8.0.3

Download Pending"

I cannot exit Workstation:

"Cannot exit while the following operations are still in progress: -Downloading. Cancel all downloads and try again."

I do not see a way to cancel the download.

VMWare un-install problems (windows)

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:22:37 GMT

I had installed VMWare Workstation to try it out and now want to uninstall it. This should be a straight forward process but it isnt and now I am stuck with a half uninstalled application which I cannot re-install / repair / uninstall or upgrade.

It is absolutely infuriating.

I was considering buying Workstation for a server of mine but now I am extremely annoyed and worried that I would never be able to get it off any machine I installed it on should I need to - or indeed to upgrade it.

My setup, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.

Where I am now, I have downloaded the latest version of Workstation and Player, on install attempts both these require uninstall of the earlier Workstation version which then fails with the attached error.

Error message is titled "uninstall" and the message is "Unable to find the file bootstrap.lua in the installation package, this could be due to package corruption. Verify that the package has been downloaded correctly."

I have in the past been very excited about VMWare and the good things they do but this situation is just ridiculouse.

Can anyone can assist please?

Thanks

Ivan

Upgrade process 2.2 to 2.3 in vCloud Usage Meter?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:38:29 GMT

I saw a post a couple of weeks ago that an upgrade package was on the way. Is there an expected availability date yet? We are currently using 2.2, is it Ok if we wait until the upgrade is available rather than install an new appliance?

network problem of windows 7 hosted on ESXi 5.0

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:51:51 GMT

Initially, I had one of my Windows 7 virtual machines hosted on one of my ESXi 5.0 servers was having network problem. I could remote desktop to it without any problem but the vm was very slow in accessing network resources, it would take half an hour to copy a file of 100MB from a file server. After a few weeks, I had another Windows 7 vm hosted on the same server had similar problem, A few days later, another Windows 7 vm on the same server had similar problem. The problem persisted even after rebooting the vm. I migrated one of the problematic vm to another ESXi 5.0 server and it worked without any problem. I then rebooted the problematic ESXi 5.0 server and the problem disappeared.

All other vm (2008R2, 2003R2, XP, ubuntu) on the problematic ESXi 5.0 were not affected.

All Windows 7 on other ESXi 5.0 (identical hardware DL580 G7 & software ESXi-5.0.0-469512) were not affected.

Is this a bug of ESXi 5.0 or a driver problem?

Why cant i move a powered on VM from a resource pool?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:49:41 GMT

Hi All

Got a strange one, i have one specific VM which i just cannot seem to move out of an existing resource pool, ive moved all 300 other VMs apart from this one which just seems stuck, why would this be?

Ive looked at the settings of it without any luck at to why I cant drag and drop it somewhere else (in this case into a new vApp i have created).

Help!

Cheers

Stew

Evaluation question

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 23:15:30 GMT

Good day,

I beleive there is or was an ESXi "limited" demo version which did not expire after 30 days but was limited to 2 servers. Is this version still avaiable?

thanks

Can't backup vmdk-files from different datastores

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:39:21 GMT

Hello,

I try to backup VM which HDD's are on differen datastores. One disk is situated in the same directory with VM, the other one on a different datastore.

I use individual config file for this VM where with VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP="x.vmdk,/vmfs/volumes/..../x_1.vmdk".

As a result i get a bckup only the second HDD(from the different datastore).

If i try VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP="x.vmdk" i have backup OK for this disk. If I try full path for x.vmdk - no success.

I tried to use full path for both disks and short path ..No success. I get a backup only one disk. Where is my mistake?

Auto Deploy boot issue with ESXi 5.0 Update 1

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:13:38 GMT

For the past week I have been implementing Auto Deploy and I have ran into a few problems. Some where easily solved, some don't.

I haven't found a solutions for the problem I'm describing now: whenever I use the Image Builder to build a "standard" (with VMware Tools) image the ESXi Server won't boot up. It will start to boot ESXi and whenever it appears to be loading VMware Tools into memory it stops with the following error:

"Error loading /vmw/cache/c3/7a5f90d82ec0757dd9c601249bf321/tools.0a882fae6275ebd0ca25d71eb0147f7d"

"Fatal error: 4 (Unsupported)"

The thing is, the image I built is an exact clone of the defaults "standard" Image Profile from the "update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update01.zip"-file.

I have attempted several images, also I've tried to fully rebuild the Auto Deploy cache. Unfortunately to no avail.

However when I build an image -without- tools (the no-tools image) it works like a charm.

Does anyone experience this too and might this be a common problem?

Network problem connecting 10gbps back-to-back (direct connect without switch)

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:33:49 GMT

Hi,

I've got a network problem plugins my ESXi to a storage using 10gpbs card to card (direct connect no-switch)

Here's my config

ESXi 5u1 running on Dell R720 using X520-T2 (ethernet)

2 x Nexenta running on Dell R710 using X520-T2 sas cable to Dell MD1200

Dell R720 vmkernel port 1 -> R710 #1

vmkernel port 2 -> R710 #2

R710 #1 -> R710 #2

Both my R710 can ping each other using direct connect. Sadly my R720 can't ping either of my R710 or be pinged.

No firewall on Nexenta.

Anybody got some idea ?

Thanks.

So far I've tried :

Replace the network cable.

Try forcing 10000mbps Full on both R720 and R710 (in auto VMware detect 10000mbps Full)

Updating drivers in ESXi to 3.7.13-NAPI

Different MTU on both end.

Using a simple Cisco 1000mpbs swith work very well.

Some output :

#vmware -v
VMware ESXi 5.0.0 build-623860

#esxcfg-nics -l
vmnic1 0000:42:00.01 ixgbe Up 10000Mbps Full 00:1b:21:d8:6a:d3 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection

#ethtool -i vmnic1
driver: ixgbe
version: 3.7.13-NAPI
firmware-version: 0x80000135
bus-info: 0000:42:00.1

#vmkping -D
PING 192.168.42.20 (192.168.42.20): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.42.20: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.036 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.42.20: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.046 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.42.20: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms

--- 192.168.42.20 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.036/0.040/0.046 ms

Security advisories

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 06 May 2012 06:31:08 GMT

With the release of the security patches for almost all VMware products almost all the products had an update released, including Workstation.

Will one be released for the Tech preview as well?

Maish

Fails with a Kernel bug on FC16

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

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

Any fix for this?

...

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

Windows app not getting focus in unity mode

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:02:39 GMT

Very frustrating issue for us. We are running latest general patch release of both OSX Lion, Fusion and VM Tools and have Windows 7 64 Bit running in our guest with Unity mode. All hardware specs are nominal, in fact we have more than enough memory to share between Mac and VM. We have seen this issue on machines with both SSD drives as well as optical drives (Airs and Pros).

The problem is this - when a user has both a Windows app and Mac app running, and the user uses Mac Mission Control to switch from the Mac app to the Windows app, at least 1 time out of 10 the Windows app will not correctly get focus immediately. The Windows app will come to the top of the desktop, and the Mac top menu bar will change to the Windows apps menu context, but the mouse cursor will still be *black* and therefore in Mac mode, as opposed to *white* as it would be when a Windows apps has focus. That means users are clicking inside the app window, and the app isnt responding. My less technical users all assume that this is a performance issue, and they are about to revote over it, but we do not think its performance related sine we have found that you can immediately make the issue go away simply by clicking on the associated Windows app's icon in the Apple Dock - that simple click somehow forces focus to behave. We also suspect that the Mission Control app switch seems causally related, since its the only way we can successfully recreate the issue with any consistency, and though we have had users report they have seen it without Mission Control in the mix we are not sure if thats the case.

The Windows apps that are easiest to recreate trhe issue with are Outlook for Office 2010 and Office Communicator.

Please dont tell me the obvious "dont use Mission Control." I would love to tell my users that, but thats really not the answer and I worry that the buggy mechanism in play here could flare up in other ways even if I went that route.

We have a case open with VMWare support, but they have not really been as responsive as I would like.

How do I restore a virtualized OS X Lion 10.7 client with Time Machine?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 23:12:30 GMT

Hi all,

I've got a Time Capsule set up so that my virtual Lion clients back themselves up. This works great; my Lion clients see it as a remote Time Machine and happily back up regularly. So far so good.

However, if I have a problem with a virtual Lion client and need to restore it from the remote Time Machine backup, I always get an error that says something like this:

"You can't restore this backup because it was created by a different model of mac"

What? It's the very same virtual client that I created the backup with!?!?! How do I fix this problem?

(On a tangential note, in a virtual Lion client when I try to enter Time Machine to recover a lost file or two, the client appears to freeze up.)

Thanks for any help!

Usb in vCloud Director

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 05:23:12 GMT

Hi.

I have a vm managed by vCloud Director and this vm has a usb controller.

What is the procedure to remove this usb controller?

It´s safe remove the usb controller using vsphere (edit settings of the vm - selecting the usb controller and clicking in remove)?

Obs: when I try to edit the settings of the vm I receive one warning: please see the attached file.

Thanks.

After upgrading to WM8 I have issues starting my machines

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:09:01 GMT

Hi,

I just upgraded from 7 to 8, and when I try starting one of my old machines, it starts normally, and when I click on the desktop of the machine or try to do anything else with it, I get this error message: VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vthread-14)

I click on OK, however the VM Worksation is frozen. I have to end the process from the task manager.

I already rebooted my host machine several times and tried to restart the same machine with the same result.

I am running VM Workstation on a Windows 7 x64 host machine and I upgraded from Workstation 7.1.3 to Workstation 8.0.3.

Any ideas?

Thank you

PS I tried to upgrade the machine to 8 and when I tried to do a clone of the machine before it told me that the virtual disk is corrupted

PS 1 I also tried to start another machine and after a while I get the message that VM has stopped working and that it should be closed.

Cannot add Entitlement groups

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:49:50 GMT

I've created my Pool in VM View 5 and I can open Entitlements and choose an AD group, but when I hit Ok nothing happens. The only way I can get out of the Add Group page is to hit Cancel. I thought it might be the Flash player so I reinstalled it and reboot the Connection Server.

Any ideas what's causing this? (running Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise with 4GB of RAM)

Easy Install for Fedora 16 stopping before installing tools on Workstation 8.03

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:57:21 GMT

Anyone else seeing this ? I though the fedora easy instal had been fixed with 8.02 ?

John

Thin VS. Thick template on vcloud director

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:18:39 GMT

Hey all

Usually when I create a template I use thick provisioning because I don't want to deal with thin provisioned VMs in my production environment and I want to make sure the users create a thick provisioned vm.

In vCloud Director environment the vApps are a linked clone so I don't take this issue into consideration.

Any recommendations for me?thick or thin provisioned templates?

Is there a overhead in case of a thick template?

Thanks

luns and hosts getting disconnected

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 04:21:16 GMT

i svmotioned a bunch of vms from one san to another san. then afterwards, disconnected the san. the vms on the temp luns continued to run fine but after a while all the hosts and luns shows disconnected. i could still ping the hosts and vms but they were not manageable within vcenter.

then finally i had to shutdown all vms and reboot the host.

in the vmkernel log, it was showing a lot of dead paths which should be the disconnected luns from the san upgrade.

how do I avoid this?

Agent not connecting to Connection server

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:57:38 GMT

Hoping someone can help with this one as it is driving me crazy!

I have set up a connection server (Version5) and linked it to my vCenter. I have created a couple of VMs (win7) installed the agent and added them to a manual pool, but the agent does not seem to be connecting. getting " No network communication between the VDM Agent and Connection Server"

I have checked DNS is working ok, can ping both ways by FQDN fine. Disabled all firewalls, there is none inbetween and they are on the same subnet.

Can telnet on 4001 from VM to Connection server ok.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Dave

VMFS-5 for View?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:05:17 GMT

I just completed an upgrade of View 4.6 to View 5.1 and also an upgrade of vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.0 U1.

I can't seem to find any documentation on whether this is supported but I was wondering if I can upgrade all my datastores (that store my virtual desktop/linked clones) to VMFS-5

Thx

Mike

Can you change the login credentials of the synchronization job?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 22:36:11 GMT

I have a large file server that takes a couple days to convert using VMware converter. I virtualized it Monday & Tuesday with the option to synchronize this weekend, but I have changed my password and the job is failing with "Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name and password". Can I modify which account it's using or update my password in Converter?

Virtual Machine in Lion 10.7.4 with Fusion 4.0.1 can't start: Unable to retrieve Kernel Zone sizes -- HELP!!

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:41:43 GMT

hi guys,

I'm running Lion 10.7.4 with Fusion 4.0.1 and I'm no more able to launch my VMs because of these following error messages:

- Unable to retrieve Kernel zone sizes

- Failed to initialize monitor device

- Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to

This affect all the Virtual Machines, also if creating new ones.

Anyone can help on this?

I attach my vmware-vmfusion.log.

Can I control esxi5 server on a vcenter server 4.1

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:22:56 GMT

Hi I think I have found the answer but thought I better check.

We have a vSphere 4.1 environment with a cluster of 4 esxi 4.1 servers with a VCenter Server 4.1

We are just starting the build of a new independent Cluster and would like use esxi 5 but still keep our current Cluster on esxi 4.1 for now.

The area I'm a bit concerned about is the VCenter Server, from reading I would have to upgrade our current VCS 4.1 to 5.0 if we want to manage both 4.1 and 5.0 esxi server as esxi 5.0 is not supported in VCenter 4.1, is this correct?

If we don't have enough time to upgrade the current VCenter server can we build another Vcenter server home all the ESX5i servers on it then migrate the old servers easily ?

When working with a cluster is the best approach to upgrade the Vcenter Server first and then hosts?

To upgrade VCenter Server 4.1 to version 5 the OS needs to be a 64bit OS, you can't upgrade if you have a 32bit OS.

Lots of little questions but I want to be sure what I have read is correct.

Regard,

John

Workstation 8/ Win7x64 SP1: Not Enough Physcial memory

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 19 May 2012 12:09:37 GMT

Hi,

I upgraded from Workstation 6 to Workstation 8.

Host: Win 7 x64 SP1, Guests Win 7 x32 / XP

I have 16 gb of ram and want to allocate 4 gb for each vm. My ram for All VMs is set to 10 gb. When I start any of the VMs I get the message. "Not enoguh physical memory"... Decrease.

The decrease size shows as about 1 gb when I have the oiption 'Fit all virtual Machine Memory into reserved host ram'. When I change it to 'Allow some..' the size in the message changes to about double that.

There were some KB articles about a bug related to memory handling in SP1, which are supposed to have been fixed.

I tried the suggestions in that article (Changing the config.ini to reserve 75% of the host for VM. This resulted in a *load of ' Operation on file failed errors' .

Thanks,

Raoul.

Errors appearing in syslogs

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

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

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

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

followed closely by

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

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

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

Cannot get OS X install in Fusion to boot from Live CD

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:05:12 GMT

Hello,

I have VMware Fusion 4.1.1 installed on my Macbook Pro. I have a 10.7.3 guest installed in Vmware and it is working fine except that I would like to boot the VM from a Linux (Ubuntu) live cd. I found the directions to get to the EFI boot manager (holding down the Option key), and I have configured my CD drive to be the .iso file for the ubuntu installer, but when I tell the efi boot manager to boot from the CD drive it does not. So then I changed the boot order permanately from within the EFI manager, but it still boots directly into the Mac.

I have turned on Filevault 2 (full disk encryption) in the guest. I do not know if this affects the boot order process since the login screen for Mac loads first, but it would seem strange if it did.

An help would be appreciated!

Microcode upgrade - should I worry ?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 12 May 2012 20:03:37 GMT

Just installed Server 2008 R2 SP1 in one of our VM guest and I keep seeing these log entries:

Message from myserver.local: CPU microcode
update available. The guest OS tried to update
the microcode from patch level 3 (3h) to patch
level 4 (4h), but VMware ESX does not allow
microcode patches to be applied from within a
virtual machine. Microcode patches are used to
correct CPU errata. If you are not experiencing
any problems with your CPU, you can ignore this
microcode patch. Otherwise, you may be able to
obtain a BIOS/firmware update which includes
this microcode patch from your system vendor, or
your host OS may provide a facility for loading
microcode patches obtained directly from the
Intel web site.

Is the service pack actually doing this ?

Should I bother obtaining this microcode update ?

Thanks for your help

Windows 7 crashes after Update...

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:49:23 GMT

I used the VMware vCenter Converter Sandalone to create a VM of my Toshiba Windows7 32bit OS.

After modifying the IDE setting to scsi0, in the vmx, the system booted successfully. However, shortly after the boot, the OS reports a driver is updated and a reboot is required. Rebooting results in BSD with irq_not_less_than. Running the vCenter using the Configure option allows the VM to successfully start, however the update and reboot message is again displayed and the cycle repeats itself.

Any suggestions to where I start to resolve this issue? Attached is the vmx and recent log.

Thanks,

Paul

Questions concerning vmware High Availibility

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:05:09 GMT

Dear All,

I am new in this area, We have plan to deploy vmware 5 in our environment using HA, I am studying about it. I have few questions about it, I need assistance from experts in this area:

- I read that vmware network redundancy is highly receommended for configuring vmware HA, but I did not get it fully?

- When vmware HA is configured and there are two hosts in the cluster, now when creating a new virtual machine, do I need to specify under which host this new virtual machine has to reside OR the HA feature will automatically decide about it?

- When vmware HA is configured and I have two hosts in cluster, one host have 4physical processors and 8GB RAM , the other host is also same having 4 physical processors and 8GB RAM, then for me what set of resources will be presented? I will be viewing resources on individual basis for each host when going to create a new virtual machine OR I will be presented with a SUM of resources host 1+ resources host 2 to play around?

- Is it possible that I assigned 4 vCPU's to a virtual machine and 4 GB Mem, and it use few resources of host 1 and few resources of host 2, like 2 vCPU from host 1 and 2 GB and rest 2vCPU from host 2 and remaining 2GB ( Considering that I am presented with SUM of resources in cluster as mentioned in my second question)

- I read that in case of OS failure when in vmHA the particular virtual machine will be re-started on same host it is residing, what does this mean? If OS is crashed, then when new virtual machine will start it will also be having crashed OS copy? I mean how this new machine will be initiated, is it a secondary identical copy of the crashed virtual machine?

Waiting for your assistance.

Kind Regards,
Wajeeh

I am new at this and am in a bad situation. Am I doing this correctly?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:54:31 GMT

At my work I have been thrust into a job of maintaining the vmware installations. This is fun and it is enjoyable.

My employer currently has a domaincontroller/fileserver, a MSSql server for Dynamics, and a simple RDP/various things server. The issue that I have found is the backups on these can take between 8 and 10 hours combined.

The original installer of these servers created each machine using one massive virtual disk each thickly provisioned. Each backup is done once a day.

My question is, would it not be better to split each machine into smaller files and do backups of the "server" portion of once a day, and do backups of the "data" portion many times a day (not backup up the whole virtual disk, just the incrementally changed file structure).

When I asked the original installer why he had not broken each virtual machine up his response was "You just don't do things that way.". Makes no sense.

Is my thinking sound? Break it all up into "server" and "data" virtual disks, backup the "server" parts once a day and the "data" many times a day?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

How to export vSphere vCenter 4.1 config file ?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:39:26 GMT

Hello,

We are planning to re-install ESXi 5.0 on existing ESX 4.1, we want to export all config file from vCenter before re-installation, and then import config file to ESXi 5.0, is it impossible to to that ?

Thanks

FUSION 4

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:44:45 GMT

I recently upgraded to latest version of Fusion, running Widows7 64-bit version on my virtual drive. Problem is that even if my Mac has 4GB RAM, I only have 1GB for running Windows. I'm not able to find out anywhere how to get maximum RAM to run Win7......can anyone help me?

storage vmtion over ucs and npiv

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 19:21:34 GMT

hi all,

We have a wired situation and maybe someone here had this issue and can help us..

we are using VMware ESX 4.1 over ucs servers.

the ucs servers are connected to the fabric by one port, and from that port we are generating npiv to the physical servers (the hosts them selves).

now we are trying to do storage VMotion from one array to another array and we get an error that saying the source had detected that the destination failed to resume.

Is it possible that its because we are using npiv over the hosts?

as far as i researched the web, i saw VMotion is not allowed when you are using npiv. but its not saying if its npiv for virtual hosts or the host it self.

can someone advise please, and share any idea for how we can make it work?

thanks ahead,

Michael.

[ESXI 5.0] Patch ESXi500-201205001 (autostart)

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:33:26 GMT

Bonjour,

Après avoir eu le problème de démarrage automatique des VMs avec le pacth update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update01 et après un retour arrierère en version 515841 (cf. build number), j'ai malgré tout voulu appliqyué le patch ESXi500-201205001.

Et à mon grand désespoire je recontre à nouveau le même problème ...

Comment le résoudre ?

Plus généralement, j'ai un peu de mal avec les mises à jour à appliquer soit même en ligne de commande (je n'ai pas vCenter). Depuis la sortie de la version u1, il existe 2 autres patchs celui que j'ai récemment installé et un autre à peine plus récent, ESXi500-201204001. Faut-il tous les appliquer et dans le bon ordre ? Le dernier n'est-il pas censé embarquer tous les correctifs ?

Et enfin, existe une façon plus propre de mettre à jour ESXi 5, comme avant ?

Merci de vos retour.

Cordialement,

Sten

PS: J'ai une licence gratuite de l'hyperviseur, bien sûr ...

ESXi 4.1 can't get iqn name when enable iSCSI software adaptor

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:10:20 GMT

Dear All,

Now I have a problem when enable iSCSI software adaptor on esxi 4.1 I already enable iSCSI Initiator but software don't display iqn name and can't add iSCSI Server Location if someone have any idea for solve this problem please kindly recommend me.

Workstation 8.0.2 unable to connect to update server.. times out anyone else ?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:29:17 GMT

Coming from VirtualBox to first time install user of VMWare Workstation 8.0.2 and for the life of me can't connect to update server at all.

Not sure if it's 8.0.2 specific issue or my Eset Smart Security 5 anti-virus/firewall (tried disabling it and the same problem). Was wondering if anyone else come across this ?

Host system where Workstation 8.02 installed:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601

Guest machines so far:

3x CentOS 6.2 64bit minimal ISO install guest machines

Error message when update timesout:

The connection to the update server timed out. Try again later and if the problem persists, contact VMware Support or your system administrator

Excerpt from vmware-ui-*.log

2012-03-12T23:48:28.454+10:00| vmui| I120: cui::DownloadJobMgr::ProductRequest::Start: submitting jobID=7

2012-03-12T23:49:13.456+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS: cURL error: Timeout was reached (28)

2012-03-12T23:49:13.456+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS: Change client state to CDS_HTTP_TIMEOUT_ERROR, 0 bulletins available

2012-03-12T23:49:13.456+10:00| vmui| I120: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::ConnectCompleted: Client connect failed, CDS_HTTP_TIMEOUT_ERROR

2012-03-12T23:49:13.456+10:00| vmui| I120: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product fusion

2012-03-12T23:49:13.456+10:00| vmui| I120: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product fusion-antivirus-windows

2012-03-12T23:49:13.456+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS error: No install keys defined for fusion-mas

2012-03-12T23:49:13.456+10:00| vmui| I120: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product fusion-mas

2012-03-12T23:49:13.456+10:00| vmui| I120: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product fusion-ovftool

2012-03-12T23:49:13.456+10:00| vmui| I120: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product player-linux

2012-03-12T23:49:13.456+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS: CdsUtil_QueryMsiByProductCode: {A53A11EA-0095-493F-86FA-A15E8A86A405} is unknown in the MSI database.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.457+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS: CdsUtil_QueryMsiByProductCode: {313C6E9F-180C-46C3-8CB1-A2AFB34DF643} is unknown in the MSI database.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.457+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS error: CdsUtil_QueryMsiPropertyByProductCode: MsiViewFetch failed: 259.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.458+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS error: CdsUtil_QueryMsiPropertyByProductCode: MsiViewFetch failed: 259.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.459+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS error: CdsUtil_QueryMsiPropertyByProductCode: MsiViewFetch failed: 259.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.460+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS error: CdsUtil_QueryMsiPropertyByProductCode: MsiViewFetch failed: 259.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.461+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS error: CdsUtil_QueryMsiPropertyByProductCode: MsiViewFetch failed: 259.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.461+10:00| vmui| I120: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product ws-linux

2012-03-12T23:49:13.461+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS: CdsUtil_QueryMsiByProductCode: {A3FF5CB2-FB35-4658-8751-9EDE1D65B3AA} is unknown in the MSI database.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.461+10:00| vmui| W110: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: Install database empty! Overriding install state of ws-windows

2012-03-12T23:49:13.461+10:00| vmui| I120: cui::DownloadJobMgr::FetchRequest::OnAbort: jobID=7 cancelled=0 error=The connection to the update server timed out. Try again later and if the problem persists, contact VMware Support or your system administrator.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.461+10:00| vmui| W110: The connection to the update server timed out. Try again later and if the problem persists, contact VMware Support or your system administrator.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.461+10:00| vmui| I120: VMDlg: The connection to the update server timed out. Try again later and if the problem persists, contact VMware Support or your system administrator.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.483+10:00| vmui| I120: LOCALE windows-1252 -> NULL User=c09 System=409

2012-03-12T23:49:13.495+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS: Using NONE proxy for https://ueip.vmware.com/customer-experience-program.php.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.496+10:00| vmui| I120: cui::DownloadJobMgr::FetchRequest::ProcessDoneAbort: mOnAbort - jobID=7 cancelled=0 error=The connection to the update server timed out. Try again later and if the problem persists, contact VMware Support or your system administrator.

2012-03-12T23:49:13.498+10:00| vmui| I120: wui::dialog::DownloadProgress::UpdateQueueItem: jobID 7 not found

2012-03-12T23:49:13.500+10:00| vmui| I120: cui::DownloadJobMgr::OnConnectStatusChanged: Connect state=DISCONNECTED Component state=

2012-03-12T23:49:13.500+10:00| vmui| I120+ -- VMware Player for Windows: 8.0.2(591240) install=not update=no! url='' id='player-windows'

2012-03-12T23:49:13.500+10:00| vmui| I120+ -- VMware Tools for Mac OS X: 8.0.2(591240) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-darwin'

2012-03-12T23:49:13.500+10:00| vmui| I120+ -- VMware Tools for FreeBSD: 8.8.2(591240) install=old update=no! url='' id='tools-freebsd'

2012-03-12T23:49:13.500+10:00| vmui| I120+ -- VMware Tools for Linux: 8.8.2(591240) install=old update=no! url='' id='tools-linux'

2012-03-12T23:49:13.500+10:00| vmui| I120+ -- VMware Tools for Netware: 8.8.2(591240) install=old update=no! url='' id='tools-netware'

2012-03-12T23:49:13.500+10:00| vmui| I120+ -- VMware Tools for Solaris: 8.8.2(591240) install=old update=no! url='' id='tools-solaris'

2012-03-12T23:49:13.500+10:00| vmui| I120+ -- VMware Tools for Windows 95, 98, Me, and NT: 8.8.2(591240) install=old update=no! url='' id='tools-winPre2k'

2012-03-12T23:49:13.500+10:00| vmui| I120+ -- VMware Tools for Windows 2000 or later: 8.8.2(591240) install=old update=no! url='' id='tools-windows'

2012-03-12T23:49:13.500+10:00| vmui| I120+ -- VMware Workstation for Windows: 8.0.2(591240) install=cur update=no! url='' id='ws-windows'

2012-03-12T23:49:13.500+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS error: Failed to finish active transfer for https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/index.xml: CDS_HTTP_TIMEOUT_ERROR

2012-03-12T23:49:58.520+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS: cURL error: Timeout was reached (28)

2012-03-12T23:49:58.520+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS error: POST failed for cdata52cd6748-4b0c-0536-0db2-77be33b671b3.xml

2012-03-12T23:49:58.520+10:00| vmui| I120: CDS error: Failed to finish active transfer for https://ueip.vmware.com/customer-experience-program.php: CDS_HTTP_TIMEOUT_ERROR

2012-03-12T23:50:15.581+10:00| vmui| I120: CVMUIApp::MenuButtonClicked: 40041

When I view ESET logged blocked connections and connection view I see these and the ip 125.56.179.51 and 205.140.197.8 seem to belong to VMWARE and akamai connections listed as coming from VMWARE

akamai

12/03/2012 11:25:55 PM TCP packet not belonging to any open connection 125.56.179.51:80 192.168.0.2:12900 TCP

12/03/2012 11:48:03 PM No application listening on the port 125.56.179.51:443 192.168.0.2:13064 TCP

13/03/2012 12:52:22 AM Communication denied by rule 192.168.0.2:137 205.140.197.8:137 UDP Block NETBIOS Name Service requests System

13/03/2012 12:52:21 AM Communication denied by rule 192.168.0.2:137 205.140.197.8:137 UDP Block NETBIOS Name Service requests System

13/03/2012 12:52:19 AM Communication denied by rule 192.168.0.2:137 205.140.197.8:137 UDP Block NETBIOS Name Service requests System

13/03/2012 1:25:02 AM No application listening on the port 205.140.197.99:80 192.168.0.2:13757 TCP

Is there specific ip list or ports needed by VMWARE to properly connect to VMWARE update servers ?

From my browser I can access directly the urls and contents listed at

I tried VMWARE support by I get an Indian accent guy who I can't properly understand what he's saying and who insists on over phone and remote desktop access (which I don't feel comfortable providing).

I have no problems with internet access from

within all 3x CentOS 6.2 64bit guest machines within VMWARE
Windows 7 host system software updates
ESET Smart Security 5 software updates
general internet access no problems.
virtualbox updates and guest net access

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

thanks

p.s. I also can't download latest vmware tools as well as it results in same timeouts but did install older vmware tools within guest CentOS 6.2 64bit machines without problems

player 4 uninstall silent

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:28:12 GMT

There appears to be an issue getting vmware player 4 to uninstall with the /silent switch. Any one else been succesfull in getting it to work?

VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vmplayer) Not IMPLEMENTED

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:03:48 GMT

Hey Guys I really need your help. I have a Problem with my Windows 7 64 Bit VM. I just have to recover one folder, I dont mind about the vm. Today I just wanted to shut down the vm like every day. While shutting down the vm disappeared suddenly and dont recover. The Error Message and the Logfiles are attached. I really need your help.

doubt with the nic teaming on ESX

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:55:28 GMT

guys, if we have a vswitch for vms with two or more nics and a virtual machine running on it will it failover to the other nics if one nic fails. We have deafult settings link state only configured.

When I check from the esxtop commands it shows vmnic1 as the used one for the virtual machines even if I have both the nics active for the virtual machine. We have vmnic 1 and 2 for a vswitch and on that we have virtual machines placed first vm takes vmnic1 second one takes vmnic2 third one take vmnic3 and so on. So, suppose my vmnic1 fails for some reason will it switch on to vmnic2 automatically if we have deafult link status selected. I have this confusion for a long time but forgot to ask here.

mac address changes and forged transmits clarifiction

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:04:20 GMT

I'm looking to disable mac address changes and forged transmits on all of my ports groups. I have several virtual machines that require static mac addresses for licensing purposes (the application licesne is tied to the mac address). The applications don't acutally need to change there mac addresses to function after initial configuration of the virtual machine. I presume that I can go ahead and set mac address changes and forged transmits to reject correct? This is for an application like BMC Remedy and BMC Configuration Management (marimba).

Also, we have some Cisco stuff that when you upload the templates it appears to set static macs for the machines. It's CUPS, Unity Connection, Unified Communications Manager. Is anybody familiar enough with knowing whether mac address changes and forged transmits can be disabled at the port group level for these applications?

Unable to connect to Workstation Server externally

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 08:58:26 GMT

Hi There,

I am using the most up-to-date version of VMWare Workstation 8 and I can't seem to access the workstation server feature externally. I have the server enabled and I've also enabled all the relevant settings in my router, but when I try to connect to it I simply get "connection timed out" error.

Can anyone guide me through trouble-shooting this please?

My router responds to pings externally, so it's not the internet connection. I'm using the standard port of 443.

Thanks!

Mike

recommendations for a syslog server

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

Hey

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

There are something like 400-500 ESXi's.

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

I'm looking for something that is free.

There are:

*vMA

*vMA + free Splunk (500MB/day)

*rsyslog

*syslog-ng

I missed something?..

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

Thx!!:)

V2P - VMWare Drivers

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:24:32 GMT

In V2P scenario, what are the VMWare drivers that need to be uninstalled. I cant see any in device manager, neither under installed programs.

Possible typo in vSphere 4.0 Hardening Guide

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:02:08 GMT

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this - vSphere 4.0 Hardening Guide (May 2010) - VSC07.

Instructions say to add the line <enableDebugBrowse>false<enableDebugBrowse/> to the vpxd.cfg file.

Doing so prevents the vCenter service from starting. To resolve the issue I updated the line to <enableDebugBrowse>false</enableDebugBrowse> (moved theforward slash to the start of the closing statement) which seems to have done the trick.

Was just wondering if this was a known typo / issue with the document or if I've just made a mistake implementing the change?

Chris

Security monitoring for vSphere

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:02:39 GMT

Hi,

I was looking around for a tool that will monitor security operations performed within virtual infrastructure.

There are nice tools that monitor health or performance but nothing dedicated to security.

So my question is… are there any good tools of an enterprise class that will implement security monitoring ?

Best regards

Martin

Web STIG on vCenter (for embedded Apache Tomcat Server)??

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:25:31 GMT

Anyone have experience with attempting to do the Web STIGs on a Windows Server running vCenter? I have been asked to look into this in regards to doing the Web STIGs on the vCenter 5.0 server because of the embedded Apache Tomcat Server.

Appreciating any responses.

Guest Security, Guest Drivers and Vulnerability Mitigation

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:15:05 GMT

Hello folks,

I'm looking at an interesting dilemma poised by the security team on our VMGuest build. Were on 4.1 u2 running a mixture of 2003r2sp2 and 2008r2sp1 quests running v7 hardware and tools v 8.3.12 build 493255. A recent vulnerability scan identified the native e1000 drivers used with tools as a medium level threat http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2006-6385 .

I have always been told in best practice to use the tools version of the drivers and not to ever use hardware drivers because of "compatability" issues.

My question now is........ is it now common practice to patch the Virtual guests with Driver updates from the manufacturer of the emulated card in leiu of just using the native driver sets and vmware tools?

I've seen the occaisional post that says no don't do it....but that seems dated information.

If this is is not the case then it means factoring in a newer hardware driver to the template build or opting potentially for using vmxnet3 drivers for windows based guests.

I can do one of 3 things here:

a) Further challenge security on the basis of VMWare Compatibility then finding the docs to back it up
b) Replace the drivers with an updated hardware based drivers set from Intel
c) Avoid the issue entirely? and potentially use vmxnet3 s

I'm in the process of Standing up VUM which will handle host based updates however the Guest patched for windows will be handled through a third party tool

Any thoughts on this issue would be appreciated

Many Thanks

RDM and Snapshot

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:32:10 GMT

If the RDM is in the virtual compatibility mode we can take the snapshots of the vm but the default delta size is 16MB but why in this case it is of 20KB only. Anyone who tested this and who has the answer of this query?

VMWare Workstation bug in virtual Windows 7/Windows 8 (graphical glitches).

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:24:58 GMT

I have the black glitches on my virtual desktop.

Does anyone knows the solution, how to fix it?

Guest system reinstall didn't helped.

Videocard drivers reinstall also didn't helped.

VMWare Workstation 8.0.3 build-703057; Accelerate 3d graphic - enabled

Host system: Windows 7 x64, 8 GB RAM, Video card NVIDIA 580 GTX 2GB (nvidia driver 301.32)

Guest system: Windows 7 x86, 2 GB RAM,

Acces Desktop w/o installation of any VIEW Client software

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 13 May 2012 12:58:11 GMT

Hi, we need to implement a solution, where the remote users (users accessing their VMs from internet), do not need to install any kind of softwares on their home computer. Something like, the VM should run either from browser OR their should be some mechanism, that it auto launches RDP.

The main requirement - User accessing their corporate VMs, without any software (like View Client) installed on their home PCs.

Thanks

Windows7 is not able to ping VMplayer-ubantu

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:12:12 GMT

on Windows7-home premium I installed vmpplayer4.0.

On vmplayer4.0, I installed ubantu.

In the /etc/hosts,

I have changed the IP address of ubantu-machine as 192.168.1.12.

From Ubantu, if I do $hostname -i , it gives 192.168.1.12.

In My windows7, its IP address is 192.168.1.7

issue:

From windows machine, If I do ping 192.168.1.12. , it failes. it gives destination is not there

From ubantu-vmplayer4, If I do ping 192.168.1.7 , it works.

From ubantu-vmplayer4, If I do ping 192.168.1.12 (it self) , it fails.

Can you please let me know how to resolve this...

I am planning to resolve the ping from both sides...than start ngnix on vm player4 and check that(pages) in windows...

Thanks again .

Major Crashing Bug in Gnome 3 and vmware workstation 8

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:48:13 GMT

Please see the attached log.

Ubuntu 11.10 Gnome 3.1, vmware workstation 8

im using gnome 3.1 on ubuntu 11.10. when vmware is fullscreen and i move the mouse over the the lower right corner of the screen (where gnome icons appear) the computer freezes. anyone else had this problem?

This occurs everytime I move the cursor over the lower right of the screen and the gnome icons popup.

Storage Provider error: 'ServiceNotInitialized'

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:00:53 GMT

I am running vCenter 5.0 b455964 with ESXi 5.0 b469512.

When I go to the Storage Providers tab under Administration, I get the below error:

The server fault 'ServiceNotInitialized' had no message.

Call "SmsStorageManager.QueryProvider" for object "storageManager" on Server "elab055081.lss.emc.com" failed.

Looking in the SMS logs, I see the following:

2011-12-16 16:37:16,312 [Thread-18] DEBUG com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl - [loadProviders] Loading previously registered providers from XDB
2011-12-16 16:37:16,359 [Thread-18] INFO com.vmware.vim.clientutil.InventoryClientUtil - Using key: b68aea7a-ec5b-43bf-b06e-ed17bd4fedcc/VIMWEBSVC
2011-12-16 16:37:37,421 [Thread-18] ERROR com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.QsProxyStrategy - Initialize QS connection failed
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.vmware.vim.binding.vmodl.fault.HostCommunication:

inherited from com.vmware.vim.binding.vmodl.fault.HostCommunication: An error occurred while communicating with the remote host.
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.impl.BlockingFuture.get(BlockingFuture.java:70)
    at com.vmware.vim.clientutil.InventoryClientUtil.acquireSessionTicket(InventoryClientUtil.java:124)
    at com.vmware.vim.clientutil.InventoryClientUtil.getAuthDataForDataService(InventoryClientUtil.java:92)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.QsAuthenticationProvider.getAuthDataForQueryService(QsAuthenticationProvider.java:25)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.QsProxyStrategy$1.execute(QsProxyStrategy.java:73)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.QsProxyStrategy$1.execute(QsProxyStrategy.java:70)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.util.RetryTaskExecutor.execute(RetryTaskExecutor.java:26)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.QsProxyStrategy.createClient(QsProxyStrategy.java:88)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.QsProxyStrategy.<init>(QsProxyStrategy.java:50)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.QsProxyStrategy.getInstance(QsProxyStrategy.java:57)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.client.impl.QsClientImpl.<init>(QsClientImpl.java:33)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.data.QueryMapper.<init>(QueryMapper.java:84)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.data.QueryMapper.getInstance(QueryMapper.java:92)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl.loadProviders(StorageManagerImpl.java:173)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl.access$200(StorageManagerImpl.java:47)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl$ProviderLoader.run(StorageManagerImpl.java:128)
Caused by: com.vmware.vim.binding.vmodl.fault.HostCommunication:

inherited from com.vmware.vim.binding.vmodl.fault.HostCommunication: An error occurred while communicating with the remote host.
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor210.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.types.impl.ComplexTypeImpl.newInstance(ComplexTypeImpl.java:143)
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.types.impl.DefaultDataObjectFactory.newDataObject(DefaultDataObjectFactory.java:26)
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.soap.impl.unmarshaller.ComplexStackContext.<init>(ComplexStackContext.java:33)
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.soap.impl.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl$UnmarshallSoapFaultContext.parse(UnmarshallerImpl.java:135)
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.soap.impl.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl$UnmarshallSoapFaultContext.unmarshall(UnmarshallerImpl.java:98)
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.soap.impl.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshalSoapFault(UnmarshallerImpl.java:84)
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.SoapFaultStackContext.setValue(SoapFaultStackContext.java:37)
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.ResponseUnmarshaller.unmarshal(ResponseUnmarshaller.java:97)
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.ResponseImpl.unmarshalResponse(ResponseImpl.java:243)
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.ResponseImpl.setResponse(ResponseImpl.java:202)
    at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpExchange.run(HttpExchange.java:105)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
2011-12-16 16:37:37,421 [Thread-18] ERROR com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl - Exception while loading providers from xDB!
com.vmware.vim.sms.fault.QsConnectionException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.vmware.vim.binding.vmodl.fault.HostCommunication:

inherited from com.vmware.vim.binding.vmodl.fault.HostCommunication: An error occurred while communicating with the remote host.
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.QsProxyStrategy.createClient(QsProxyStrategy.java:92)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.QsProxyStrategy.<init>(QsProxyStrategy.java:50)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.QsProxyStrategy.getInstance(QsProxyStrategy.java:57)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.client.impl.QsClientImpl.<init>(QsClientImpl.java:33)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.data.QueryMapper.<init>(QueryMapper.java:84)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.qs.data.QueryMapper.getInstance(QueryMapper.java:92)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl.loadProviders(StorageManagerImpl.java:173)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl.access$200(StorageManagerImpl.java:47)
    at com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl$ProviderLoader.run(StorageManagerImpl.java:128)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.vmware.vim.binding.vmodl.fault.HostCommunication:

I see that there is an error communicating with something, but I am unsure as to what it is. I had previously registered a Provider with this VC, and I believe that I had removed it as well. I am wondering if it is trying to connect with this Provider again, but it is either being rejected or the Provider is unavailable. The main issue is that I can't determine if the host that SMS is trying to connect to is a provider or not. How can I determine this? Is the "host" that it is trying to connect to the XDB server? Isn't this located on the vCenter Server itself?

If it turns out to be a stale entry in the XDB, is there any way to remove it or re-initialize the XDB?

Site Recovery Manager e IBM DS3524

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:16:56 GMT

ciao a tutti,

ho un "problemino" con la configurazione di Site Recovery Manager, in particolare con un paio di DS3524 IBM:

il sito primario ha un vCenter che controlla 2 host ESXi 5U1 aggiornati all'ultima patch, un DS3524 collegato tramite switch f/c, il sito secondario è identico ma con un solo host. I 2 siti sono collegati in f/c sia per la rete eth che per la f/c. A livello di storage, la replica (bidirezionale) fatta tra i 2 DS è funzionante senza problemi, collegando tra loro le porte "4" dei controller tramite switch f/c opportunamente zonati, i 2 vCenter (su vm win 2008 R2) si vedono e sono sulla stessa subnet dove insistono anche i 4 controller dei 2 DS, ci sono 2 vm con SRM e SRA installati e sono sempre nella stessa subnet, ho configurato le connessioni tra i 2 siti e la mappatura delle risorse senza problemi. Il passaggio successivo è aggiungere gli array manager, ma il wizard di configurazione si blocca sempre dopo 5-10 secondi con un errore di connessione agli ip dei controller. Se immetto degli ip volutamente sbagliati, invece, il wizard va in errore al timeout (300 secondi), quindi "qualcosa" arriva dai controller.

VMware dice che è colpa di IBM, IBM mi chiede di chiamare VMware...

Nessuno ha provato la combinazione vSphere 5U1-DS3524-SRM5U1? Ovviamente ho già provato le varie soluzioni delle communities, ho aperto un SR in VMware e una chiamata in IBM, finora senza avere soluzioni...

Grazie in anticipo

Reg: Restarting automaticaly

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 07:40:09 GMT

Experts,

I installed VWware8 and OEL 4 for two machine and i gave ssh access and both are able to ping each others.

I started two machine and one of machine is restarting automatically .

Example . M1 and M2 are machines

I started M1 and M2 . M1 is restarting auto matically after some time vise versa.

Pls help me to fix

Thanks

Automatic virtual machine startup and shutdown option is disabled/greyed out

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 03:35:23 GMT

I upgraded to the latest vCenter and esxi5 update and now I cannot set automatic virtual machine startup and shutdown within the configuration in VC. The option is disabled and greyed out. I checked my cluster and all 3 host within the vcenter are greyed out. I can however logon the host directly and the option is enabled and not greyed out. how can I fix this issue? it is not the permission issue as I logon with the highest permission in vCenter.

SCHEDA VIDEO COMPATIBILE ESXi 5

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:11:06 GMT

Buongiorno ragazzi,

stavo cercando una scheda video ad alte prestazioni compatibile con vmware esxi5 in quanto sulle macchine virtuali devo usare programmi di grafica che richiedono una scheda video di un certa potenza

io ho un pc assemblato con la seguente scheda madre:

Asus P6T se

processore intel i7 930 (prima generazione)

ram 24 GB

Grazie

Info su conversione macchina linux fisica a virtuale

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:35:42 GMT

ciao a tutti!

ho provato a cercare ma non ho trovato una soluzione certificata, dovrei a breve virtualizzare un server linux posso farlo serenamente con il converter via boot cd? o esistono altri metodi magari a caldo?

grazie a tutti!

modifica path policy datastore

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:26:22 GMT

Ciao

devo effettuare una modifica sulle path policy di alcuni datastore da fixed a RR (supportate entrambe dallo stoage vendor e vmware per l'array in questione)

ho in mente 2 strade percorribili

1) metere il nodo in manteinance mode , modifica path policy , rispristinare il nodo

2)modifica path policy al volo

la prima sono certo che funzioni , ma sarei tentato per la seconda , visto che su altri sistemi la modifica della policy di accesso allo storage può essere

fatta a caldo (vedi veritas)

che ne pensate?

HP NC364T PCIe Quad-port Gigabit Server Adapter, driver download

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:56:18 GMT

Hi,

I am wondering, where can I find this driver...

(e1000e version 1.1.2.1-1vmw)..

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=5696&deviceCategory=io&keyword=NC364T%20&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc

It's for ESXi 4.1 U1

searching using google, vmware and hp sites, no clue...

Please help..

THanks

network load balancing ibm hs22 esxi 5

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:14:52 GMT

Dear all, I have a Blade HS22 connected to a bladecenter H with 2 ethernet switch io modules. So my HS22 blade has 2 nic's and each is connected to diferent switch on the blade center. I want to configure nic teaming on me HS22 server that has ESXi 5.The load balancing mode i will configure the default option on the ESXi. I want to ask if i need to connect both ethernet switch io modules to a single external switch, or is better to connect them to 2 diferent switches and may be configure the same vlans on the ports of all swithces?

VMware ESXi 5 does not work with AMD FX-8120 Bulldozer CPU

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:46:05 GMT

It seems to me that these two things don’t get along. My system is now with latest AMD processor and that is AMD FX-8120 Bulldozer. I have installed a latest version of VMware ESXi. When I try to boot a VM, the hypervisor itself will load but vsphere agent crashes. While crashing it shows me an error about the CPU microcode not existing and so on. I assume that this issue has something to do with the motherboard / bios. My motherboard is asus 990fx sabertooth.

abirhasan

GuestOS can't connect to the Internet thru NAT

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:32:48 GMT

Host: Windows 7

Guest OS: Ubuntu Server 12.04

I have problems connecting the GuestOS to the Internet. I'm using NAT.

I believe I've already made all the necessary configurations in linux, but in the end I couldn't ping anywhere on the external network.

I figured this could be a problem:

Should it show this? Does VMnet8 transparently connect to my Internet connection? Or, should the network 'be available' on Windows Network and Sharing Center?

NTP vsphere 5

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:16:22 GMT

Ciao ho provato a cercare ma non si trova nulla di chiaro. Ho configurato 2 NTP interni che poi prendeno l'orario da internet; vorrei sincronizzare il cluster Vsphere5 con i due ntp per avere sincronizzate anche le VM al corso mi avevamo detto che è ottimale come configurazione ma ho letto che consigliano di non farlo.

Thinprint

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:45:59 GMT

I was wondering if there was a way of allowing Thinprint to autoconnect local printers but prevent Thinprint from setting a default printer. The specific issue I'm having is client machines have the default Microsoft XPS writer and Thinprint autoconnects it to View and overwrites the users pre-existing default printer every time they login. I don't want to disable Thinprint for everyone just because a subset of user are having this issue. However if I can prevent it from changing the default printer then that would solve my issue completely.

Impact of migrating hosts with vDS Nexus1000V to new vCenter?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:59:18 GMT

Hi,

I am planning to upgrade my current vCenter 4.1 / ESX 4.x / vDS 4.0 Nexus1000V environment to vCenter 5.0 / ESXi5 / vDS5 Nexus1000V.

Planned upgrade steps

A. install new vCenter 5 vm, using a fresh database

B. shut down old vCenter 4 Server and old database server

C. add ESX 4.x hosts to new vCenter 5

D. upgrade ESX 4.x hosts one by one to ESXi5

E. upgrade vDS to version 5 (?)

The old vSphere 4 environment is using all vDS 4.0, the new vSphere 5 environment eventually will use vDS 5.

My questions

what will happen to the old vDS when adding the hosts one by one to the new vCenter 5? Will I lose the vDS configuration? Or is it imported by the new vCenter 5?
is there an impact on the vms running on the ESX4 hosts related to the vDS migration/recreation? Downtime? Missed pings?
do I need to first create vDS version 4.0 since initially I will have ESX 4.x hosts in my vCenter 5?

Thanks,

Nelsom.