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vmware-umds export question

Kirizan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:24 GMT

I was able to figure this out. the vmware-umds command uses the timestamps on the files to export, not the date of the patch itself. That's why it's exporting patches from 2008, because I downloaded them all a few weeks ago, all in 2009.

Anyone happen to know if VMware will be fixing Update Manager and UMDS so we can pick from the patches, or at least pick the verson of the software we want to download/export?

umds question

Troy Clavell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:58:33 GMT

see this link
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vum_pubs.html
vCenter Update Manager Sizing Estimator

The default patch download location is: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware
\VMware Update Manager\Data\

.VMDK file missing!!!!

crodierde — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:05:58 GMT

Good evening,

I went to clone our template for server 2003 and it says "A file was not found. xx VM LUN00 SRV2003Bare/SRV2003Bare.vmdk , Is there anyway to recover this file. I found out the hard way if I shut off a VM server that had that template it no longer boots. Is there a fix for this????? Please help.

Lun Ids

f_wendel — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:51:39 GMT

Hello

Is there a way in ESX 2.5.x to see the Lun Ids from the console?

Thanks and regards

Federico

Difference Exists between the Client and the Server, unable to log on

mike.laspina — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:37:29 GMT

Hi,

Is this the only domain controller?

You should setup an external time service or source that all servers and clients sync to. e.g. 0.pool.ntp.org.

Do not sync the DC time to the esx hosts time with VMtools unless it also used the same time source.

If it is set to sync with your esx host then change it back and manually set the time correctly on the DCs console, then fix your time sources.

Regards,

Mike

http://blog.laspina.ca/
vExpert 2009

Generate alam regarding LUN Space through vcms

Ravi1987 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:34:22 GMT

Hi we are using vcms 2.5 with esx 3.5 for virtual environment. i m using 300 virtual machines and 25 ESX server . Total Lun mounted on all esx server in shared mode is 70. now some user have virtual machines creation access by Vcms due to some business requiremnt . now the problem is that suddelny we have found that we are running out of space from storage cx4. can any body tell me the way so i can set alam or generate some trap by vcms server when ever any virtual machine created or harddisk added to the virtual machine. so user or admins will get the mail regarding space left on storage LUN.

Help! Resized virt partitions and they won't boot.

drdemonx — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:32:56 GMT

Yes, you got me rolling and I eventually used fdisk to create a new partition, format it with ext3, and mount it to a new mount point /disk2.

Life is good and I really appreciate your help!

Help with guest log messages

cherzberg — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:13:38 GMT

Ich werde bis zum 2 November nicht im Büro sein.
Meine Mails werden in dieser Zeit nicht gelesen. In dringenden Fällen wenden
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I am out of office until the 2 November.
In urgent cases please do not hesitate to contact my colleague Markus Bahr.

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How do I format an extended linux partition?

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:22:11 GMT

First you have to create a partition with fdsk /dev/sdX (where X is the letter of your each drive).
Then if you have LVM follow the LVM howto (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/).
If not you have to make a new filesystem and mount in a new mount point.

Or you can simply use Gparted from a live Linux distro.

See also
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/83611-how-extend-existing-ext3-paritiion.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/how-do-i-extend-an-ext3-partition-408599/

Andre

Dmotion (Upgrade Vmotion)

Kristof.Vanweert — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:12:35 GMT

Hello mighty wizards,

A few fairly simple questions (or so I hope) ...

A customer for which I'm starting an ESX migration project is running about 50 ESX hosts with around 500 VM's.
The environment is currently 2.5.2 and they want to upgrade to ESX 3.5 U3. VirtualCenter is already 2.5 (since it already manages a different ESX 3.5 infrastructure).

I want to use Dmotion (Upgrade Vmotion) to get the VM's to the new infrastructure. So now my questions:
1. I know I can't directly upgrade from 2.5.2 to 3.5 U3, but if I have new hardware on which ESX 3.5 U3 will be directly installed and new empty VMFS3 datastores, is this still an issue?
I think that the patch version of ESX 2.5 doesn't change the VMFS2 datastore or VM2 formats of the virtual machines. Is this correct?
2. Once I have my new environment up and ready to receive VM's, how do I do the Dmotion? Is it just selecting the option "Relocate VM files" or is there more to it?

All licenses, HW requirements, storage is all no issue ...

Thank you in advance,

Virtual machine templates for Vista and Windows server 2008 and sysprep

lamw — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:39:35 GMT

This thread might help: Re: Deploy Server 2008 from Template and Customize
and
http://www.amikkelsen.com/?p=120

I believe Win7 support is coming but is not currently available for vSphere.

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Converting Physical VirtualCenter Server to VM for testing

pearlyshells — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:28:36 GMT

new revelation. Our Server Admin has advised me that the VirtualCenter server is going out of lease so we'll replace it anyway with a 64bit server.

So, under that situation, I'm thinking that I'll just install a fresh vCenter4 on it , instead. Then, I'll create a license server and point to my license file and connect it to the SQL database instance. Shouldn't that work?

migration of ESX servers from old vcenter to a new clean database vcenter

krowczynski — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:32:42 GMT

Poer doen you vms, put the hosts in maintanace mode and disconnected them from your old vcneter.

After that import them to new vcenter.

MCP, VCP

Trouble in deleting ESX user

weinstein5 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:10:15 GMT

Do you receive any error either form the MUI or the service console command line?

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Creating Vm's using template from another ESX server.

anilchaurasia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:39:40 GMT

Thanks

Automaticly create VMs from template on VC 2.5 and ESX 3.5

Troy Clavell — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:20:51 GMT

are these desktop guests? I would say the easiest way is to bring up VMware View in your environment.

Other than that, it can probably be done using PowerShell.
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/225790

Auditd daemon

Glen Ziegler — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:46:01 GMT

Has anyone enabled the auditd daemon within the service console on an ESX 2.5.5 server? If so, how did you do it? Is there an rpm included with the install media? If not, did you download one from RedHat?

Thanks,

Glen

Moved Guest OS and now cannot start it

idmtech — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:57:57 GMT

Hello all, I'm a long time user of VM but am stuck in the "dark ages" with v2.01 and v2.51 and do not have any of the "fancy" converter tools.

I recently copied a Windows guest OS from esx 2.01 to esx 2.51 system utilizing FTP from the 2.51 system. Transfer went without error...but now I cannot start the guest OS. I receive the following - "error loading the operating system".

This guest OS was originally physical and we did a P2V several years back (installing on the v2.01 system).....and it has worked fine all this time.....

The .DSK file is just over 34gb.

I've moved other guests with this method without any trouble (between v2.01 and 2.51 - back and forth without any errors)..... this is the only guest that is causing me trouble.

I've also tried to move it with SCP....same problem.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.....

Issue after a reboot

dickybird — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:38:09 GMT

As per your log looks like mgmt-vmware is stopped

--root@esx root--# service mgmt-vmware status
vmware-hostd is stopped

Also, see if license server is defined properly and can be reached from ESX server.

how to find in which mode the ESX server has been booted?

changhai — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:12:36 GMT

After you login the ESX host, you may check the /etc/grub.conf file, which indicate different cmd-line option for debug & troubleshooting mode.

cat /etc/grub.conf

...
title VMware ESX Server (debug mode)
...
kernel --no-mem-option /vmlinuz-2.4.21-57.ELvmnix ro root=UUID=115c32ae-ccf4-4def-a7cd-1f615cf9e3e3 mem=272M console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 debug
...
title Service Console only (troubleshooting mode)
...
kernel --no-mem-option /vmlinuz-2.4.21-57.ELvmnix ro root=UUID=115c32ae-ccf4-4def-a7cd-1f615cf9e3e3 mem=272M tblsht
...

Therefore, you may check it in /proc/cmdline after you login ESX host.

cat /proc/cmdline

...

Msg: cannot create partition table for disk...geometry info is valid

RDPetruska — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:11:34 GMT

Thread moved to ESX 2.x forum.

Server unable to ping or connect to any server on a certian cluster in my VMI enviroment

Redenvy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:46:34 GMT

I have 5 servers clustered together for my VI

VI1 - VI5

I have a server on VI3 that is unable to ping or connect to any server in my VI5 inviroment.

Has anyone else ever had this problem? thoughts or suggestions?

How to configurate the config.js for vcb proxy

king5656 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:11:16 GMT

HI,

I need urgently help. I need to config. the config.js file to back the the vm on ESX servers. Currently, I have 3 virtual Centers and 1 vcb proxy. How can I put all these Virtual centers down in the config.js file?

HOST="vc_server_ip_address";

USERNAME="i.e._admin_username";

PASSWORD="admin_password";

Thank you.

ESX 2.5.x / vCenter 2.0.2 / Cannot ping/rdp vm but it is sending/receiving packets per NIC status

txvtx666 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:52:21 GMT

Wierdness:

(1) 2 vms become unpingable, cannot RDP, but vNICs show inbound and outbound packets and the client reports apps are OK. VMs are on separate VLANs/portgroups on same vSwitch. (this resolved by physically disconnecting 3rd pNIC on vSwitch that vms were likely linked) ESX 2.5.4 and vCenter 2.0.2

(2) I have 3 vNICs on 2 vms, one vNIC on A VLAN, two vNICs on B VLAN, I pwr dwn vms, delete the vNICs on both on A VLAN, boot them up and one A VLAN vNIC & one B VLAN vNIC remains? Why is the A VLAN NIC still there and the one B VLAN NIC gone? I deleted the vNIC that was labeled for A VLAN but a B VLAN vNIC was deleted. (had to completely wipe and reconfigure) ESX 3.0.2 and vCenter 2.0.2

I have witnesses. Any explanations?

VC permissions / roles conflict

MichelNL — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:06:42 GMT

Hi there,

I wan't something very easy but I can't get it done.

I've ESX3.5 with VC2.5.
In VC there is a datacenter with several subfolders.

Want I want is the following:

user authentication based on MS AD server (got that part working)
users in group A can see folder A but not folder B
users in group A and B can see both folders.

I've made the folders in VC but now the hard part...

Group A is VM admin on folder A. This is working. Users can do anything in folder A and can't see folder B.
When creating a VM the user isn't able to select a esx cluster cause of a limitations of rights. I can imagine that, because the user is VM admin on Folder A and not on the datacenter.
So, I've created a new role "create_vm", with only the rights to create a VM. Every group has this right now on the datacenter.
The problem is, users can see now not only their on folder, but al of the folders in VC. (because of the create_vm role)

Simple fix:
Group A and Group B, create_vm role on datacenter
Group A VM admin role on Folder A
Group B vm admin role on Folder B
Group A no access role on Folder B
Group B no acces role on Folder A

But the problem now is that I've got users that need to be member of Group A and B.
But then they can't see anything (because of the no access).

Can someone give a bit of help with this?

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards.

Lint1 Error on HP DL385

jbrown9999 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:13:21 GMT

The same manufacturer thing doesn't fly. I have all Kingston RAM and I just got this error. apic 1382 lint1 interrupt on pcpu"

How to allow to export diagnostic data ?

zemotard — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:33:36 GMT

Thanks for you answer, you are right it's working.

Bye.

Vmware converter can't connect to vcenter

Red Squirrel — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:15:36 GMT

I am trying to connect to vcenter (I can with the vsphere client) with vmware converter so i can convert a ESX vm to VMware server 1.0 and i am not getting anywhere, this is the error i keep getting:

http://gal.redsquirrel.me/images/other/forum_upload_misc/vmware_converter_error.JPG

I verified again and again and it is the right host. It is the same host that i can connect with the vsphere client.

ESX 2.5.5 supported Guest OS'es?

Troy Clavell — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:38:33 GMT

the problem is the ESX 2.5 is end of life, so putting out a supported documentation has no benefit.
http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/eos_v_chartsi.html

You can look through the archives to see what you can find, but not matter what Guest OS guide you find, it will link back to the most current.
http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/archives.html

Adding Virtual Centre License

nirvy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:29:11 GMT

Odd, Have you opened the license? you should be able to see what features you are entitled to (at the top in comments) and when/if they expire(further down)

Unable to reconnect to an RDP Session on VMware hosted machine

bulletprooffool — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:51:52 GMT

Probably just RDP sessions not timing out . . and you are only allowed one session running at a time.

Worth reviewing if you have a GPO in place that is setting the timeout policy?

ESX server 2.0

karchandrasekar — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:41:10 GMT

Hi,

Yes I logged in ROOT only ...once i execute the TOP i m not seeing the HOSTD process..

wat i shud do now??i m new to this ....

ESX server 2.0

karchandrasekar — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:34:15 GMT

Hi,

can u tell how to start a service in ESX server..and in my machine if i tried ESXTOP command it says.

ESXTOP:ESX Server is not running...wat i should do ..i m new to this VMWARE>>help me on this..

securing 2 DataCenters from each other in VirtualCenter2.5

pearlyshells — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:24:29 GMT

Thanks for the reply

Windows 2008 Guest O/S showing up in VirtualCenter as Windows Vista (64bit)

JGONZALEZH — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:30:22 GMT

Estoy fuera de la oficina por vacaciones. Contestaré a su correo a mi vuelta. Para temas urgentes contacte con Rafael Hernandez o Carlos Castellano.

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Need ESX 2.X SMP and Vmotion Licenses Please

dickybird — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:05:29 GMT

You will be fine, after this arrangement

Vcenter

dickybird — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:38:57 GMT

you will need a database for Virtual center SQL server/Oracle. You can choose to work with MSDE (free) if you choose to.

Create a ODBC connection to the database.

Install VC application and it should be pretty straighforward.

After VC is installed add the ESX servers (using fully qulaified domain names) to VC.

Consult install guide if you still need help

Availability Metrics

dickybird — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:34:35 GMT

You can find the uptime for ESX server by going to command prompt from Service console and using following command

This will give you the time since ESX host is up and running. Yuo can script this for all ESX servers and generate nice report.

Manage ESX2.5.3 Server with VC 2.5 U5

DSchack — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:00:04 GMT

Do you know if this upgrade is for free? or do we have to buy upgrade licenses?

Is it possible - Question on disconnect after remoting in

kpayton07 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:34:18 GMT

The problem I have is the scripts that are running emulate a user so it actually clicks on the line sand everything as a user would. Im assuming VNC would be another preferred approach?

Unable to remove 'Unknown (inaccessible) VM in VC 2.5

cherzberg — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:40:02 GMT

Ich werde bis zum 27 Julyi nicht im Büro sein.
Meine Mails werden in dieser Zeit nicht gelesen. In dringenden Fällen wenden
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I am out of office until the 27th July.
In urgent cases please do not hesitate to contact my colleague Markus Bahr.

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VMware ESX Server, 2.5.0, build-11548 - can licensing be centralized in vCenter 2.0.2?

weinstein5 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:36:01 GMT

Can vCenter 2.0.2 licensing server handle add-on (vMotion, HA, DRS) licenses for a 2.5.x esx host with a local host (Server/SMP) license(s) OR even just centralized?. It does it for 3.0.2 with no effort.

No - vmotion, HA and DRS is not possible with ESX 2.5 - even if it were possible to use the centralized license server with VC 2.0.x these VI-3 features can ont be used with earlier versions of ESX -

If not, can I modify 2.5.x esx to open ports or start a service to allow centralized license mgmt?

The only way to centrally manage ESX 2.5 licenses is withe VC 1,x -

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How to Migrate VirtualCenter to Another ESX Host?

MauroBonder — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:28:52 GMT

look if it help http://www.esxguide.com/esx/content/view/73/17/

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how to find a shared LUN?

vsusheelkumar — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:24:59 GMT

Awesome ! Thanks buddy

VMWare infrastructure client could not establish the initial connection with server "bla"

RayWell — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:26:29 GMT

Hi Guys,

After installing VMworkstation 6.5 on my VCS server (VCS 2.5 U4) I get this message: VMWare infrastructure client could not establish the initial connection with server "x.x.x.x"

What will be the reason for this?

VCB+VIM2.5 for backup of ESX2 vm's?

bitbucket — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:02:56 GMT

Hi all,

I already searched the forum and asked google but couldn't find a clear answer if I am able to backup vm's residing on ESX 2.5.2 servers with a VCB 1.5 proxy. All ESX servers are connected to a VIM 2.5U5.

Background:

All vm's are sitting on a MSA1000. The SAN will be replaced by a newer and faster one and the ESX2.x servers will be replaced with new ESX3.5 servers. Everything is already in place but not talking to each other. I already tested to move a vm from the ESX2 server to a ESX3.5 server and it's new storage. Worked perfectly. But I would feel better if I could do a VCB backup of all ESX2 vm's before. The VIM2.5 server has 2 fc hba's but none of them will be connected to a SAN before I know that I am not going to crash something.

1x VCB 1.5 Proxy + VIM2.5U5 with 2 FC HBA's, OS=W2k8 Std.
6x ESX 2.5.2 hosts connected to MSA1000
6x ESX 3.5U4 hosts connceted to 2x DataCore SANMelody storage servers via FC

Thanks,
Bernd

VMWare ESX Server 3.0 Getuptime Failed error

kmullican — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:35:34 GMT

which is causing VM Host to power-off guest server repeatedly - any thoughts re: how to correct - thank you.

Scheduling a task to destroy a machine then create again from a template

leeplastic — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:26:28 GMT

I think it's too early in the morning... my brain hasn't engaged yet.

I rebuilt the machine last night froma template and it's on a differnt server in the cluster now. I'll give it another try from the correct box

How to manually mount vmfs volume?

isterios — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:27:25 GMT

Sorry I edited the thread: it's a local vmfs, not a lun on SAN.

Multi-answer error encountered during host Migration

changlinn — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:53:40 GMT

I know this maybe too late but I had this issue recently and thought I would add this just in case someone else can't find the google cached version I found

1) Power down the VM
2) Change the SCSI Card from LSI Logic to Bus Logic.
3) Reconfiguration will take place Don't start the VM!
4) Change the SCSI Card from Bus Logic to LSI Logic
5) Reconfiguration will take place
6) Start the VM, when starting VI tells you that one of the harddisks is configured with a Bus Logic adapter and asks you if you want to change it.

if you're CLI-inclined: power off the VM, use the service console to edit the something.vmdk (300-byte) metadata file and replace buslogic with lsilogic, and power the VM on again.

Interestingly the GUI method didn't work for me, had to use the console, but that is fine.

how to tell that NFS shared storage exists

pearlyshells — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:05:38 GMT

appreciate your response. I'll give a try

ESX 2.5: Disk file is locked and unable to delete

mail.vijayar — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:36:13 GMT

There might be some VM's that have .lck files which is preventing the VM from booting up, you can delete these .lck files after which you will be able to boot your VM's.

Regards,

Vijay

ESX 2.5 Windows Servers Not shutting down properly

JohnADCO — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:34:58 GMT

Anti-virus software in general is rather notorious with this one. It effects all the different MS operating systems, because typically it is the same software and version number of the Anti-virus software running on everything. I'd start there for sure.

We went through this with CA Anti-virus 2009. Same exact symptom too. With CA it took a registry hack to fix it.

VcbVmname - error

RParker — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:21:50 GMT

dumb (dm)
adj. dumb·er, dumb·est
1.
a. Lacking the power of speech. Used of animals and inanimate objects.
b. Often Offensive Incapable of using speech; mute. Used of humans. See Usage Note at mute.
2. Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear: I was dumb with disbelief.
3. Unwilling to speak; taciturn.
4. Not expressed or articulated in sounds or words: dumb resentment.
5. Nautical Not self-propelling.
6. Conspicuously unintelligent; stupid: dumb officials; a dumb decision.
7. Unintentional; haphazard: dumb luck.

Nevermind.. I am a dumb dumb.

I am going with Def 7 . Just a result of unfortunate timing...

How can I get an ESX 2.x license?

bfeeny — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:59:26 GMT

No I did not, I decided to just by a Adaptec 2120S which is on the HCL. I will disable the onboard SCSI (AIC7899), remove my ZCR raid card and just use the 2120S and install ESXi 3.5

VM Backups with VCB, VirtualCenter, Active Directory Service Acct and vRangerPro

pearlyshells — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:03:38 GMT

Thanks Anton

I've forwarded what you've found to our backup admin. He'll research it. He says that his dilemma is that when he configures vRanger for each ESX host, it asks him for the Root Password and he presumed that also means that it requires the root acct. Perhaps I'll get some other advise from other forum members to help clarify this.

Again, thanks very much.

How do I import VMs into ESX?

VirtualMikeS — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:48:51 GMT

Hmm, that didn't work for importing a machine created with P2V and then ftp'd onto the server. I just get an error "insufficient permissions" even though I'm logged in as root and the files have r/w permissions.

VM Ware Server Problems, In need of advice

weinstein5 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:31:33 GMT

Welcome to the Forums - I am sorry you are having such issues - How are your Virtual Machines configured? How many virtual CPUs do you have assigned to the virtual machines? How much memory? How many NIC ports do you have on you Equalogic device? How many NICs are on your vswitches?

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Vmotion error with CPU mismatch between hosts

ajaipathak@rediffmail.com — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:17:58 GMT

You may see that error when you migrate virtual machine between two ESX servers with different hardware.

ESX

Please right click on VM and choose "Edit Options", select "Options", select "CPUID mask" and change it to "Hide the NX flag from quest".

ESX

CPUID

It will give you more comparability between CPUs but will hurt performance.

Not able to ping outside network from VM on ESX 2.5

ajaipathak@rediffmail.com — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:03:36 GMT

Hi, If the VMs are windows machine.Pls check whether the Firewall is turned off on the VM which is not able ping outside the network

Deploying virtual machine with template

Anton V Zhbankov — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:42:57 GMT

Open VM settings, increase VMDK size. It can be done even if VM is powered on.
After that you have to extend partition. Use Dell ExtPart, it can extend system partition without rebooting VM.

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Why does VMWare store important files in the windows temp directory?

wakako — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:21:49 GMT

Hi. This is my first message here and I hope this is the right place for my question.

Earlier today, I decided to install the lastest version (6.5.2) of VMware Workstation on my Win XP.
The purpose is to test the new Windows 7 with which my current VMware (version 6.5.0) had problems.
But, I stumbled on a problem in installing the new VMware because it wants to uninstall the old version.
Then, the uninstall operation failed because it cannot find the following file:

C:\Window\Temp{A3FF5CB2-.....}~setup\VMwareWorkstation.msi

The problem is I clean up the \Windows\Temp\ directory every now and then by deleting old files and
directories that were saved mothe than 3 months ago. The VMware MSI file was gone long time ago.

Question1: Is there any place that I can find (or download if necessary) and restore the needed file
to proceed?

Question2: I find it very disturbing that VMware saves a file which will be needed in the
unspecified time in the future (many months away) in the \Windows\Temp\ directory which is
intended for temporary storage (at least to my understanding). While there are many locations
that VMware can keep the MSI file, why on earth it chooses the "TEMPORARY" directory?

TIA

VirtualCenter Acct, VCB, vRangerPro and Active Directory

pearlyshells — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:09:40 GMT

I am told that I can create an AD service acct for vRangerPro to use along with VirtualCenter and VCB to perform vRangerPro backups. As I understand some of it, it requires me to create an AD service acct then assign that account in VirtualCenter against each ESX Host (presumably alongside VCB that we use). But, I am unsure how that service acct is inserted into a vRangerPro backup job.

I am not getting much help from VizionCore so I thought someone in this forum is using vRangerPro, VCB, VirtualCenter to do this and might show me the way

Power Supply failure not shown in Health Status

RParker — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:09:34 GMT

I presume there is a configuration misset. Can anyone assist?

No, I think you did everything correct, apparently the health status is just a guideline, because I have seen a few posts regarding other things that aren't working as well, like bad sectors on disks, RAID health, and now power supplys aren't showing up, I'd say the health status isn't something we can rely on with any degree of certainty, so we have just resorted to using 3rd party tools still, that way we KNOW we are covered.

Migrate Server from ESX 3.0 to ESX 2.5

weinstein5 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:48:41 GMT

Welcome to the Forums - I think you are going to have to reverese your process and use VMware converter to go backwards if it is even possible -

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Upgrade from ESX 2.5.2 to ESX 3.5 U4

NiskaGas — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:33:11 GMT

Thanks. Will do

Second ESX 2.5.3 node fails to see shared VMFS LUNs on second HBA

Sirachosur — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:29:28 GMT

Hi all,

I have this weird problem on an ESX 2.5.3 box since they changed batteries on both controllers of a FaST 4300 SAN, but only for this particular ESX server as the other runs fine:

~~snip~~

VMWARE: Device that would have been attached as scsi disk sdx at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 17 Has not been attached because this path could not complete a READ command even though a TUR worked.

result = 0x8000002 key = 0x5, asc = 0x94, ascq = 0x1

~~snip~~

Since ESX can't read those LUNs through controller B it requests a failover to controller A, thus making warning to appear in IBM storage manager as the LUNs are no longer on their prefered path.

I read from another post about the "0x8000002" and the "0x5", but I don't know the ASC 0x94 means. I highly suspect the fiber itself as the other ESX server has no issue communicating on the B controller of the SAN box but I can't be sure at this point.

As an information complement, I want to point out that Storage Manager reports failure to set up communication speed with the said HBA when ESX loads while it operates OK while still in BIOS / POST phase.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

David

ESX 2.5 additional RAID

thealco — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:10:47 GMT

Thanks for the welcome.

The added space is not visible. I worked out that by running vmkpcidivy -i I can reconfigure the boot configuration and then the drive becomes visible in Storage Management and then I was able to create the VMFS volume. Instead of running through the whole configuration, can I just specify what adapter I would like to initialise?

WOL

gatorback — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:41:19 GMT

I'd like to keep a Poweredge 1600SC demo server (with ESX 2.5.4) off the majority of the time and remotely start and stop it from time to time.

I'm new to WOL and the server supports WOL (details). I suspect that this is not the intended use for WOL, but will it start \ stop the server remotely?

Any advice \ pitfalls to avoid is appreciated.

ESX VMWare Tools Silent Install/Upgrade ANSWER!

curious2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:59:04 GMT

Can you send me the reboot ~~script....mdt1123@hotmail.com~~

thx

need to manually load the bcm5700

mudha — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:42:29 GMT

Taxville,

any update on KB??

thanks for your help...

How to traverse the entire inventory tree using SOAP Envelope?

andyankit — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:14:10 GMT

Hi everybody,

I want to traverse the entire inventory tree starting at a Folder in a single web service call.

For example: As of I now if I want to retrieve the names of all datastores in a datacenter, I have to execute 2 requests:

First request

<urn:RetrieveProperties>

<urn:_this type=PropertyCollector></urn:_this>

<urn:specSet>

<urn:propSet>

<urn:type>Datacenter</urn:type>

<urn:all>false</urn:all>

<urn:pathSet>name</urn:pathSet>

<urn:pathSet>datastore</urn:pathSet>

</urn:propSet>

<urn:objectSet>

<urn:obj type=Datacenter>datacenter-2</urn:obj>

</urn:objectSet>

</urn:specSet>

</urn:RetrieveProperties>

Second Request

<urn:RetrieveProperties>

<urn:_this type=PropertyCollector>?</urn:_this>

<urn:specSet>

<urn:propSet>

<urn:type>Datastore</urn:type>

<urn:all>false</urn:all>

<urn:pathSet>info.name</urn:pathSet>

</urn:propSet>

<urn:objectSet>

<urn:obj type=Datastore>?</urn:obj>

</urn:objectSet>

</urn:specSet>

</urn:RetrieveProperties>

Can we combine these 2 requests in a single request and get the datastores name in a single Web Service call?

I could see some examples in the VMware samples but these examples are using the java stubs whereas I want to perform the same operation using Web Service SOAP Envelope.

I have tried the following SOAP Envelope, for retrieving the names of all datastores in a datacenter

Single request

<urn:RetrieveProperties>

<urn:_this type="PropertyCollector">propertyCollector</urn:_this>

<urn:specSet>

<urn:propSet>

<urn:type>Datastore</urn:type>

<urn:all>false</urn:all>

<urn:pathSet>info.name</urn:pathSet>

</urn:propSet>

<urn:objectSet>

<urn:obj type="Datacenter">datacenter-2</urn:obj>

<urn:traversalSet>

<urn:type>Datacenter</urn:type>

<urn:path>datastore</urn:path>

</urn:traversalSet>

<urn:skip>true</urn:skip>

</urn:objectSet>

</urn:specSet>

</urn:RetrieveProperties>

But on executing the above SOAP envelope, I am getting an empty response back from the VMware SDK API.

Can anybody let me know if I am missing anything here?

Thank you

Andy

vCenter Sizing?

Troy Clavell — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:46:28 GMT

we have multiple instances, some are physical, some are virtual.

Our most recent is running as a VM and managing 16 ESX Hosts and 200 VM's. It has 1vCPU and 2GB RAM. One of our VDI vCenter instances which is also a VM is managing 18 ESX hosts and 908 XP VM's

All are running vCenter 2.5U4 and our DB is a clustered physical SQL server.

If you haven't seen this, even though a little old, it's still a good paper
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_vc_in_vm.pdf

adding EMC 3000 SCSI array to ESX3.5up4 host

pearlyshells — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:54:34 GMT

We have an EMC3000 SCSI disk array that I'd like to attach to one of our ESX3.5Upd4 Test hosts. I've never done this before. How can I do this? Since this is an "acquired" array from a company that was recently purchased, I do not have any documentation for this system. Any advice would be appreciated. I just want to add it to our local disk not as shared storage.

Unable to add raw device mapping

Chamon — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:06:25 GMT

Good

Website Certificate Error

Dono2 — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:51:52 GMT

assuming I did change the FQDN how would I change the site certificate to reflect the change?

Any possibilities to configure iSCSI Multipathing with software initiator

satishgte — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:48:28 GMT

Using ISCSI Software initiation you don't have storage level multipathing becaue this we can do only with HARDWARE INITIATOR. Since ISCSI we are configuring through IP. However you can provide Multiple Physical NIC(vmnic) for VMkernel and configure Network teaming so it will provide you ISCSI Storage Load balancing, redundancy and good performance. Hope it will help you.

THANKS

duplicate VM's in Virtual Centre in a 'Migrating with Vmotion...' state

robbid01 — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:48:57 GMT

Hi,

Some VM's have appeared in our Virtual Centre that have duplicate names to valid VM's but have a (1) on the end of the name.

These Vm's are in a 'Migrating with VMotion...' state.

Does anyone have an idea of how to remove these Vm's and or to check if they are valid or not.

Has anyone seen this before ?

I have attached a screen dump to show the issue.

Cheers in advance.

VM Template Deployment Process.

seniord — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:18:43 GMT

In this scenario I am referring to the NFS share that contains the templates.

Need to get DSA Logs off server, but can't reboot.

maishsk — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:55:51 GMT

Download from here - http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/license?location=ftp.software.ibm.com&filename=system_x/ibm_utl_dsa_212p_rhel3_x86-64.bin&root=/systems/support/&brandind=5000008&lic=Y

And from the Readme.txt

+*2.0 RUNNING DYNAMIC SYSTEM ANALYSIS *+-----+* Complete the following steps to run DSA Portable Edition. Note: The operating-system account that runs DSA Portable Edition must have local root authority. DSA supports VMware ESX 3.0. For correct operation please use the RHEL3 32bit portable edition of DSA in the ESX console. DSA will not operate as intended when run in a virtual machine. 1. Log in as root on linux. 2. Open a linux shell prompt (or command line session). 3. Copy the DSA file to a local folder like /tmp folder (do not execute from a Vmware VMFS file system, it will not run) Assuming the DSA file name is ibm_utl_dsa_212p_rhel3_i386.bin and the usb key is mounted to /mnt/key ie: cp /mnt/key/ibm_utl_dsa_212p_rhel3_i386.bin /tmp 4. Make sure DSA has executable attributes cd /tmp chmod +x ibm_utl_dsa_212p_rhel3_i386.bin 5. Run DSA Type "./" and the name of the DSA Portable Edition executable. ie: ./ibm_utl_dsa_212p_rhel3_i386.bin 6. (Optional) Type DSA command-line options following the executable file name. For more information, see "4.0 USING DSA COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS." 7. Wait for DSA to complete. A new file should be created in the /var/log/IBM_SUPPORT folder Send this file back to support. The executable extracts the DSA program files into temporary disk space on the server as defined by the TMP system variable in the Linux environment. DSA will then execute and start the collection process. When DSA is completed, the DSA program files are deleted from temporary disk space. If you ran DSA without any options, DSA collects information into one compressed XML file that can be sent to IBM Service. For information about where this file is created, see "5.0 ACCESSING AND VIEWING DSA OUTPUT." For information about sending the file to IBM Service, see "6.0 SENDING DSA OUTPUT TO IBM XSERIES SERVICE AND SUPPORT."*+
Hope that can help you out.

Most probably they are going to tell your that your firmware is extremely out of date and needs to be updated - but hey - that 's is the way it goes.

Maish
Virtualization Architect & Systems Administrator
http://technodrone.blogspot.com

need to manually load the bcm5700

mudha — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:49:46 GMT

any insights would be great help.

thanks in advanced

Can't use license from VMware license Server but well defined as Remaining

cx4gunman — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:08:25 GMT

Thanks, solved my problem too !

Don't know why the checkbox was unckecked suddenly?

Thanks again.

Rick

Problem IBM X440 See RAM on VMware only Half

supermakka — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:41:41 GMT

Does anyone know about IBM X440 with VMware Version 2.0.1 build 6403 see only half of RAM of physical? Put 8 but see only 4??

Unable to delete .vmdk file

satishgte — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:06:50 GMT

I faced same problem, Can you just try to connect through winscp and delete it may be work.

thanks

troubleshooting vm connectivity problem

pearlyshells — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:37:13 GMT

my thanks to kjb007 and satish for their help. I wanted to give both of you credit for assisting me in solving the problem but it appears it only took the first choice. If there is a way that I can also give Satish credit, please advise. After all, the final solution came as a result of both of your suggestions.

In the end, it was a problem at the switch but the network team is not ready to say it is a physical problem....so, I infer that to mean it is a vLAN issue. Regardless, they were not so willing to take a deep look. In fact, everyone I solicited help from were satisfied it was a "virtual" problem. So, your help allowed me to finally convince them that a deep look was required.

Again, many thanks. And, if there is a way that I can give both of you credit please tell me. I certainly feel you both deserve it.

Why ESX requires at least 2 processor ?

jrVMguy — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:19:16 GMT

VMWare is selling the licenses on a per processor basis - as long as it has no more than 6 cores.

http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/multicore.html

We have a few single processor systems in our cluster to allow us to add much needed RAM. We have found out that we run out of RAM long before we run out of processor.

Authentification with Pam

kjb007 — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:07:54 GMT

He is not using ESX. From the version output above, he is using VMware server.

-KjB
VMware vExpert

Vista connecting to VM hosted on ESX

kpayton07 — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:05:57 GMT

Edit - My apologies. Firewall was still up.

Disabled Firewall.

now I can get in fine from my Lan and also over a cell card.

The person whom is trying to connect however cannot. He is an offshore associate I don't know if connection speed is an issue or not?

slow disk in virtual machine running solaris 10 and glassfish

satish.lx — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:33:03 GMT

Which iscsi controller you have on VM host buslogic ? LSI. and also its depend on your physical Disk performance and number of VM running on host as well as allocated resoure to VM. but also you can check your disk performance via hdparm command if you have Linux OS as a guest.

If possible fine tune you Guest machine I/O.

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Thanks
Satish Patel

Journey toward "Virtual world"

VM has BSOD

Troy Clavell — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:12:50 GMT

hit F6 when prompted to install 3rd party drivers, attach the .flp file, then continue your repair.

Recovering from bad patch on ESX Host?

azn2kew — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:13:01 GMT

As mentioned it would much faster to rebuild the host to the right build level than going through technical support process takes hours rather 10-15 mintues reinstall from scratch. Anyways, wouldn't it be nice to have VMware Update Managers have the options to select/deselect on patches that we do not want and gracefully remove it. I'm surprise VMware doesn't have a backout plan for bad patches If they have VUM components working right now so why not integrate minor features that makes people's life easier as well. I still remember VMTS.net patch systems works like a charm but don't never touch it after using VUM.

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Virtual Machine Copy

azn2kew — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:51:11 GMT

In order to convert virtual machines from VMware workstation format to ESX 2.5 format, you will have to use VMware Converter 4.0 tools its free download it online and run through the wizard from source/destination information and it should be fine. You can try vmkfstools command to see if it work, but I've found using VMware Converter is easy and flexible.

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performance tab - object refrence not set to an instance of an object

kjb007 — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:43:51 GMT

Yes, the vc log is located under: c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs\vpxd.log

-KjB
VMware vExpert

Vmware Fusion to ESX

Troy Clavell — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:44:52 GMT

you may want to take a look at VMware vCenter Converter

Can't add a REDO log -- too many already

as00201 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:49:28 GMT

ESX 2.5.3 Can't add a REDO log -- too many already is the message I get every night after logging into the Virtual Infrastrucutre client. I have tried using vmcommit.pl and vmcmd to manually commit the redo and the redo.redo log but vmcommit.pl states that redo.log redo.redo also could not be found. Any assistance is grealty appreciated

Deleting old snapshots ESXi 3.x and VMware Server 1.x (tips?)

maxi-m — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:35:11 GMT

One of the folks that assisted me with VM BU solutions noted that keeping long term snapshots can be problematic - now that I am close to a solution for backing up my VM's is there a specific method I need to follow for removing snapshots - I am running both ESXi 3.x and VM Server 1.x environments (free licensing). I want to protect my dev VM's as best I can. I'm still new at this and plan to use the VM Converter v4.0 for the 3.x system.

Will appreciate any advice,

Maxi

Standalone VM Converter 4.0 and VMware Server 1.0.1 (options?)

maxi-m — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:28:30 GMT

I installed the VM Converter 4.0 as a backup solution - we have two VM hosts, a ESXi 3.x and VMware Server 1.x. The VM Converter looks like it will work fine for the ESXi 3.x Host but does not reconize the VMware 1.x server where it is installed locally (the VMware server 1.0.1 hosted on WIN2K3 Ent).

2 Questions:

1) I guess that the converter will not work for the VMware Server v1.x - is this correct?

2) I can actually see the the VM image and vdisk files on my v1.x system but I'm not sure what needs to be backed up so that I can restore a system should it get corrupted. I've been using snapshots but have learned that they are not designed for BU (other than point in time restoration).

My goal is to back up our development VM's on our NAS on a weekly basis with periodic snapshots when we modify configuration, we are using the free licensing.

I'll appreciate any suggestions,

Maxi

Looking for file with physical memory info

RParker — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:54:05 GMT

Bios? You probably have to restart the server. Otherwise reinstall the HP tools.

Tool Bars in VI Client 2.0.2

KurtJanz — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:19:17 GMT

Hello - Couple easy questions I'm guessing. In using VI Client 2.0.2 it seems I have lost some functionality and would like to get it back. Due to some of my hosts being an earlier version of ESX server, I am stuck atm of having to use VI Client 2.0.2 with them. I am missing the following functions and would like to ask someone how to enable them.

1.When right clicking on a VM, I get a little window that pops up instead of the full menu of items I can perform on that server. I must goto the upper tool bars now to perform a simple shout down etc..

2.I get no radio button on my tool bar to mount my local cd-rom drive - Where did it go ?

3.I want to edit the known config file to lower the default seconds it takes for an operation that is going to fail - to actually time out. What file is this and where is it ?

Thank you

vcbmounter - port

depping — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:02:45 GMT

1) when you are using a default vCenter setup you will not need to provide the port. And no vcbmounter will not read config.js. That why I only use vcbmounter for testing and then use pre-command.wsf.

2) It's encrypted if that's what your asking...

3) it's not the VCB port, it's the VC port, check the vCenter Client (I think the section where you can find the port info is server settings... (don't have my client here at the moment))

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