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Problems with VMotion on VC/ESX 4.0u1

anh — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:03:36 GMT

Well, then there is nothing else to do then, power down the vms one at a time and reset the mask to default.

Regards
Anders Hansen

http://www.virtualize.dk

vCenter - HA agent on esx-xx in cluster VMotion Cluster has an error : HA agent on the host failed

vibranze — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:30:31 GMT

Hi Guys,

I have an intermittent problem here with vCenter 4 Update 1 (Standard) whereby all the ESX Update 1 (vSphere Enterprise) hosts managed by vCenter kept showing an 'red !' every now and then (refer to the screenshot), the hosts also kept disconnected and I got a ping timeout to the disconnected hosts.

Not too sure if this a hardware, driver or ESX issue so I included here the info on the hardware that I use.

IBM BladeCenter H Series

IBM BladeCenter BNT Nortel 10G Ethernet Switch Module

ProCurve Switch Zl 4-P 10GbE CX4 Module

IBM System Storage DS3400 4.5TB

Let me know if you guys need a detailed logs as well.

Your help or advice or clue is much appreciated.

Cheers!

Hardware Status and vCenter Service Status error: please try again in another vSphere session

qdsunnywx — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:09:52 GMT

Hi,after updated to the vcenter server 4.0 sp1,
both Hardware Status and vCenter Service Status report the error:

An error occurred, please try again in another vSphere session

i've read:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/222927
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/213528
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/212392

all of above is helpless!

i found the error log in C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs\vws.log
and got:

~~2009-11-25 10:12:00,701 http-8443-2 INFO 'com.vmware.vim.security.vcauthorize.AuthorizeMgr'~~ Computing permissions for Administrator
~~2009-11-25 10:12:01,248 http-8443-2 ERROR 'com.vmware.vim.security.vcauthorize.impl.AuthorizeQueryProviderImpl'~~ Entity library not found
~~2009-11-25 10:12:01,279 http-8443-2 ERROR 'com.vmware.vim.security.vcauthorize.AuthorizeMgr'~~ hasEntityPrivilege: Unknown entity group-d1
~~2009-11-25 10:12:01,279 http-8443-2 INFO 'com.vmware.vim.security.authenticate.servlets.AuthenticationServlet'~~ User has no privileges.
~~2009-11-25 10:12:09,983 Thread-41 ERROR 'com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl'~~ Unexpected exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.computeHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:178)
at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:99)
at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.pollHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:82)
at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.access$100(HealthPollerImpl.java:27)
at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl$PollerThread.run(HealthPollerImpl.java:52)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

i use administrator to login to vCenter.

pls help!

how to change the display language of VI when connecting to vCenter?

linglong768 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:51:53 GMT

sorry ,i know what you said,but i want to a better method.

hardware status tab error

LDE — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:27:06 GMT

As for me, the problem also came from IE7 ESC. Adding 127.0.0.1 to the Intranet zone in IE security tab was enough to fix the hardware status tab error in VCenter 4.

Monitoring Virtual Machines

Saadat — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:29:44 GMT

Hi,

Is vCenter capable of Monitoring inside Virtual machines? (For example Free disk space on logical Drives inside VM) and can we add alerts?

If not is there a technical reason not to do it? (I know you can monitor vCPUs inside the VM and RAM and ...)

Is VMware planning to monitor such items or you have to have a third party software to take care of this task for you?

I don't want to purchase a Monitoring tool like vFoglight or ip Monitoring tool and find out VMware will have these capabilities in the future.

Any comments will be appreciated.

Alarms not clearning

ldornak — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:41:39 GMT

False alarms continue in vSphere. This is now becoming more than an annoyance. With the implementation of thin provisioning, we need to rely on alarms to inform us of disk usage. I do not trust the alarms in vCenter (due to false alarms) thus I'm very leery to start over committing my storage with thin provisioned disks.

How to "export" vmware environment settings.

jaaron — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:38:58 GMT

is there any utility in VMware or a 3rd party utility that will export all of your networks configuration to a document of some sort? esx host info, server(s) info, vmware switch info, etc.

I need to document our VMware environment for a disaster recovery project, and was hoping there is a utility that will do this for me, instead of having to manually go through every box to get the info.

Thanks!

Incorrect version of vCenter (4.0 update 1 .iso) on download center?

GTPerry — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:01:04 GMT

ah good, thanks.

Upgrading to vCenter from Virtual Center and migrating servers, SQL

Troy Clavell — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:26:34 GMT

I have Virtual Center running as a virtual machine in ESX. The Windows Server 2003 operating system on this server has some issues, so I want to run vCenter on a new server, probably Windows DataCenter 2008 64bit.
Can I simply install vCenter on a new server and then import the existing Virtual Center configuration?

see this KB article, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/5850444 , it may be helpful

What about SQL? Is SQL 2008 supported? I can't seem to find the system requirements for vCenter...

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_compatibility_matrix.pdf

We have 3 ESX 3.5 hosts in a DRS/HA cluster, plus 7 more stand alone ESX 3.5 servers.

Upgrade vCenter first, then your hosts, then guest tools, and finally virtual hardware.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_upgrade_guide.pdf

vCenter does not monitor vDS uplinks

nik24 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:20:16 GMT

Anyone? This is a serious issue and I'm supprised no one has brought this issue up before.

Install the SDK

Troy Clavell — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:25:26 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/

also, you may want to poke around http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/

Right Click Host - Relocate VM Files ???

merovingianA51 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:24:21 GMT

Hi guys, my name is Shawn... in addition to being a binge drinker I also like to push buttons when I have no idea what they do… it’s especially dangerous when my two favorite past times (drinking and pushing buttons) unite in a maintenance window… gotta love liquid courage!

Actually – when I saw “Move VMs to Directories” I thought I had discovered the holy grail or something… after recently removing a host from my vCenter (while trying to troubleshoot a VM disconnect problem: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1424990#1424990)

I figured that this button would bring up a GUI that would allow me to move all my VMs from the root folder back into the directory structure that I had previously setup. Apparently it is not what I thought it was… back to drag and drop!

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"Crippling Microsoft is the geek equivalent of taking down the Death Star"

Host keeps disconnecting from vcenter server

merovingianA51 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:21:27 GMT

Hey folks, just wanted to add that I pretty much experienced the same scenario as Tero. I had migrated all my VMs to two ESX 4 hosts/vCenter 4 a few months ago – everything ran fine… until one maintenance window I shutdown both of my ESX hosts (note they did not shutdown properly – had to hard power them – I don’t believe this is related).

Anyways, when I brought them back up I found that one of the hosts was constantly disconnecting. I originally thought it was because my old Virtual center server (2.5) had been restarted and the host was trying to report to it instead, removing itself from the vCenter 4 server. However, I stopped and disabled all the services on the 2.5 server and the problem persisted. I tried all combinations of removing and re-adding the host to vcenter, to no avail. Then I found this thread.

The stopping and starting of the management agents solved my problem as well. Did it live with no affect to the service console or running VMs.

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"Crippling Microsoft is the geek equivalent of taking down the Death Star"

backing up cluster config

Troy Clavell — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:56:09 GMT

all of this information is stored in the vCenter DB. So if you have a backup of your DB, you should have all the information there.

If you are looking for DRS rule, check out
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/195733

Fresh Install - vCenter Service Status and Hardware Status plugins in vSphere 4.0 client Plug-In Manager not working

zmclean — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:42:23 GMT

Upgrade to Update 1 from 3.5 I am getting the same error. Also had to change port to 8444 but dont know if that has any effect.

Z-Bone

storage service is not initialized [solved]

lecorc1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:47:08 GMT

Hi,

Just try to understand. I've got the 2 services mentionned above that are running under localsystem account ..

1/ Do I have to modify these settings ?

2/ Broke the Health status of services and Hardware VIews but got storage views working .. How do you perform this ?

Regards.

Problem after upgrade vCenter Server patch 1

uma_kits — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:53:51 GMT

After I update vCenter Server to update 1 (Launch 19 Nov), It can help me to solve bug on patch1.

vCenter Services...(vSphere)

kbr5678 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:15:42 GMT

Hi..
Thanks a lot .............

upgrade from 4.0 to 4.0u1..... overwrite or use existing database

sidewaysclever — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:20:30 GMT

Thanks everyone... I decided to go for the "use existing db" option so that I still had my data intact.
Upgrade seemed to go fine. no problems so far.

VC 2.5 client slow on Vista

BrendonColby — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:06:19 GMT

The redraw issue still exists for me on Windows 7 64-bit. Disabling Desktop Composition does nothing for me. It's usable, but excutiatingly slow.

Unable to install Converter and VMware Update Manager? Could be a password problem?

Galva — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:20:07 GMT

The user name too.. I have this caracter in my username "ã" and it didn´t work. Whem I created a new user name without strange cacarters (from foreing caracter sets) it was all ok.

bye

Orson Galvão

vCentre migration/move

enDemand — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:34:24 GMT

It also depends on what your end-state architecture looks like. There are new DB platforms supported with vCenter Server 4 (i.e. SQL 2008, Oracle 11g, DB2 9.5). There are also a lot of new products from VMware that have their own support matrix. Do you want 32-bit or 64-bit support? Also, are you going to co-locate all the features on the same server or are you going to divide them up? Do you want all the DBs on the same DB platform, or do you have reason to host them on different ones?

What I usually recommend is to pick the common denominator...a platform that works for all things, keeping it simple. In some cases, you may want to keep the old VC 2.5 around and install a clean VC4 with a new DB.

The good news is that there's options and flexibility. Good luck with the upgrade!

Weekly performance chart can not be shown

xadox — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:43:57 GMT

The problem has resolved by it self.

vSphere 4.0 - UCS Cloning VMs on a cluster Hang and FC connections of the entire chassis go down

MarkOne — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:21:34 GMT

Hi all,
We are implementing a new ESX 4 farm on Cisco UCS.
During tests we tried to clone VMs from our old farm ESX 3.5 to this new farm.
We had a strange error:
Cloning operations of VM, from old Farm versus VMware Cluster, hang at 8% and all Service Profiles assigned on the same chassis crash because the system didn’t see LUN Disks (Boot LUN too).
We can’t see any error log (on FC Fabric, on UCS and on ESX servers) but we find that the problem was generated when traffic was gone on one FC interface.
Are there any person that can help us?
What part of the system have I to control?

Thanks
Marco

VCenter 4 virtual machine to physical machine

anh — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:29:38 GMT

It should be posible with vconverter or acronis software. None of them are free.

Regards
Anders Hansen

http://www.virtualize.dk

I keep losing my Virtual Machine Swapfile Location

MortenHayAndersen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:12:20 GMT

I have just had the same problem. I am running ESX 4.0.0 with all the latest patches. The data store is a EVA4400. No idea why, and I cannot find anything in the log files. This problem happened a few hours after I created a RAID1 LUN for the swap files.

Any news regarding this MAJOR bug?

Change the name of the Windows Server

tom howarth — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:23:45 GMT

If you change the name of your vCenter server it will mean a reinstall of the program, and a complete reinstallaion of the DB if hosted on the same server

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Contributing author on "VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing ESX and the Virtual Environment”.

VCenter 2.5 Networking advice

Hogwilde1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:14:48 GMT

Thanks for the link to the article.. That was very helpful and gives me one more reason to upgrade to VSphere 4.

Tasks hanging in vCenter 4.0U1

NML-vmware — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:56:53 GMT

Cancel me please.

Growing LDF on virtual center database

HansdeJongh — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:19:15 GMT

Hello,

Last friday we installed update 1 for vcenter server 4.0
Yesterday we installed vmware view 4.0 in the same enviroment.

Now my LDF file is growing insanly fast.
Up to 5GB in 20 minutes..
Our enviroment is small: 7 hosts 70 vm`s
My database is 7GB.

I have no idea why this is happing.
Is there also a way to start over with a new database without loosing my settings (I dont care about performance data).

Regards

Hans de Jongh

ESX4 host does not reconnect after reboot

Madrilleno21 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:19:54 GMT

I have just updated all three hosts to ESX4 Update 1, which was released on 19th Nov 2009, and the update now occurs in a reasonable amount of time.

Madrilleno

vCenter Licensing Issue

Troy Clavell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:49:36 GMT

have a look at this assuming your are running vCenter 2.5
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006561

Vcenter upgrade problem 4.0 u1

Speedbmp — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:45:50 GMT

well it did finish after and hour and 15 min.

the CPU was still at 100%

i rebooted the vCenter server and so far all is well.

Stephen

Reinstalling vCenter

Troy Clavell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:38:30 GMT

that's what labs are for. Tear them down and rebuild them, great hands on experience!

Performance Rollup with SQL Express

mclark — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:16:51 GMT

I just ended up re-installing vCenter on another VM from scratch, not copying the database, which "fixed" the issue.

Licensing Question on vcenter

ximox — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:03 GMT

Hi All,
A friend showed me vcenter server and i really liked the features. I'd be interested in purchasing vcenter/vsphere (version TBD) but want to clarify some licensing questions.
We currently have a few 32bit hosts on Esx 3.5 and a couple of 64 bit hosts on Esx 4.
Each License for vcenter foundation allows me to add up to 3 hosts, so if I got 2 licenses I'd have up to 6 hosts or is there something else to consider?
These can be a combination of 4 & 3.5 hosts?
If I add 3.5 hosts do I need to have a licensing server just for that purpose? If yes does generating the ESX3.5 license files to put on the licensing server (while now its just a key you get at download) have an extra cost?

Thanks,
Antonio

low memory usage numbers in performance charts

dnetz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:32:12 GMT

Hi,

I've noticed that the percent average of memory usage for my cluster is way below its actual value, it's currently showing "0,02%" as latest, max/min and average for the past week. The hosts presents a decent value and the cluster consumed, overhead and total values are fine too. The rollup jobs on the SQL servers are running fine according to SQL Agent. The only thing I can think of is that I created a new cluster a while ago with EVC turned on, migrated all machines to it, deleted the old cluster and reused the name, which might have confused the statistics?

Thanks in advance,
Daniel

vCenter Server Virtual or Physical

dnetz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:27:24 GMT

I agree with Troy, the only downside I've found with vCenter as a VM is that when the shit hits the fan and you lose storage then you're blind if you don't have a proper plan to deal with it. I have disabled DRS on the vCenter VM so I know where to find it and I have written instructions to follow to do a complete bootstrap, even when both vCenter and the SQL database is down. I'd also avoid relying on Active Directory for running the services if you only have virtual domain controllers.

Hope it helps!

Is it possible to have two vCenter Servers running at the same time?

yann.bizeul — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:22:51 GMT

I heard that you can use microsoft cluster service to provide vCenter HA capability, (make a MSCS cluster of two windows running vCenter), but you have to provide another HA mechanism for the database (I'm sure there are solution to cluster SQL server instances out there)

This would provide full redundancy, but at cost...

Don't forget the vCenter server is not mandatory, and it is usually an acceptable point of failure.

Can't clone vm with customization

yann.bizeul — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:18:50 GMT

AFAIK VMware does no longer support sysprep downloaded from microsoft website, I had issues with that.
What I do now is always getting sysprep from the OS cdrom under TOOLS directory in DEPLOY.CAB.

vCenter shows 'Unable to retrieve health data from http://localhost/sms/smService-web/health.xml

mrkelder — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:09:09 GMT

Same here, using vCenter Update 1, got this after the update.

EDIT: never mind, it fixes itself after a while.. no problems anymore.

View Manager - Active Directory??? HELP!

HALOTEQ — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:21:42 GMT

Nevermind guys.

I removed the server from the domain and rejoined to the domain and then all communications returned

Can't Link vCenter Servers

KGoch — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:40:49 GMT

Yes. vCenter 4 to 4.

I had found that site earlier today even though its no the exact same error I recieve. I tired everything list, and tried several different accounts to install as(all accounts are members of the admin group on both servers). No luck on any of the them. The time on the servers is also with in 5minutes. Im really stumped on this one.

Help with Event Log

drewdown — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:44:18 GMT

Running vCenter with roughly 6 hosts and 30 VM's. Every 3 seconds I get a Cannot login root@127.0.0.1 but have no idea for the life of me what is prompting it. Or which machine its generating from. Is there anywhere I can look to get a more accurate description or some hint as to how to figure what is going on?

Error 1920 installing VMware Licensing Server on Windows 2008 x64

slickshoes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:33:01 GMT

yeah i just put it on server 2008 r2. needed to use the license manager for 3.5 U4 ISO and not the standalone. Also had to open 27000 and 27010 inbound and outbound

vCenter Server v4.0 on Windows 2008 Datacenter Edition 64-bit

mclark — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:35:24 GMT

I can't answer your question exactly, but I can tell you that I have vCenter 4 installed on Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter (which is 64-bit). It has been working fine.

Virtual Center 4 used to license VI3

GianMarco123 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:42:54 GMT

Great. That worked.

Cannot access virtual center using web access

prakashraj — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:53:08 GMT

Hi,

Check this http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1009291

If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful". Thanks!!!

Prakash

mail from Alarm / Vcenter cannot be stop !

yann.bizeul — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:22:25 GMT

Same thing here, I was adjusting SAN preferred path, triggering one connectivity loss, since then, no alarm is displayed, but the email continue t get send every 5 minutes.
vCenter Server v 4.0.0 Build 162856

A temporary fix seem to be disabling/enabling the alarm again.

how to install VMware vCenter Converter integrated (vCenter Server Plug-in).

itsexe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:49:51 GMT

Hi

Thanks for your help i have installed after installing vCenter from vCenter 4.0 CD.

Regards,

Khurram Shahzad

Update manager - running out of storage space

AppTesterSelfridges — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:16:08 GMT

Hi,

You can also change the event trigger by modifing the following line within vci-integrity.xml

<diskSpaceWarnLevel>5000000000</diskSpaceWarnLevel>

Currently this is set to warn when you have 5gb of space left on your update disk.

I have changed this to 2gb (2000000000) which personally I think is fine.

Dont forget to restart the VMWare Update Manager Service after saving your change to the .xml

Hope this gives another another route for supressing the message untill disk space really does becomae an issue!

Al

cold migrating machines with snapshots and multiple disks

dnetz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:36:21 GMT

Hi,

I seem to have gotten myself into quite a pickle, when we started building our VM's I wanted to avoid having to backup and storage-snapshot temp data and swapfiles, so I instructed my colleagues to create a secondary virtual disk on a seperate NFS datastore to store OS swap and temp dirs. This proved to be a bad idea since by default, vCenter creates disks with identical names so when you create and remove a snapshot the disks are merged into new files on the same folder and datastore.

Since then we've avoided doing this but we still have some machines with two disks on two seperate datastores and these machines have snapshots that we're not ready to remove just yet. Now I need to migrate these machines to new storage but svMotion won't move a powered on machine with snapshots or a powered off machine with multiple disks and and snapshots. I also can't figure out how to move these machines outside of vCenter and still preserve the snapshots and disks.

Any and all ideas greatly appreciated!

vSphere Client - Port 903

Weite — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:25:27 GMT

The firewall on the vCenter server is disabled. It doesn't work ,when I try to connect from a other PCin our network. I've tested 3 PCs.

the virtual machine swap file location

dnetz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:00:56 GMT

Hi,

It's a confirmed bug in vCenter and should be fixed in the next update due sometime this year: http://www.b3rg.nl/blog/blog-it/bug-swap-datastore-is-unset.html

If you're familiar with PowerCLI you can use this oneliner whenever it happens: Get-VMHost | Set-VMHost –VMSwapfileDatastore ”<datastore-name>”

That line will set the specified datastore as swapfile datastore on all your hosts connected to vCenter.

Deploy Server 2008 from Template and Customize

syousef — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:39:00 GMT

Strange, I'm running Update 4 and currently have four hosts setup in a HA cluster and two of the hosts have 37 VMs each. I didn't know about the 35 VM limit.

I'll be upgrading to Update 5 soon as I can get it scheduled out. Thanks for the heads up.

ESX 3.5 U2 - Health status warning

dougjef — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:11:57 GMT

Any update on this? Running ESXi 4.0 with DL585 G2 and DL585 G5's and they ALL have this same issue. Latest firmware from HP as well.

Why does VC upgrade require dbo rights on MSDB?

dwcrist — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:54:39 GMT

We're going through the same thing here. My SQL administrator is asking why we need this permission. I sent him the quote from the KB suggesting we try it on the test SQL server and see what jobs it creates.

Host Profiles fails to create, license error.

newbski — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:35:57 GMT

I was looking for an article like that everywhere and didn't find anything.

Thanks.

VI3 and VC License to Vsphere and Features......

Troy Clavell — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:54:49 GMT

see this KB article for all the features that come with your level of licensing.
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1010579

....and if you have a valid support contract, you will continue to get Platinum support for vSphere4, as you did for VI3

CollectRemote database error

Limeres — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:33:59 GMT

Hi,

I'm having the same problem, with ESX 4, VC4 and Oracle 11g.

The DSN connect properly to DB.

How is your DB global Oracle setting JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES? 0 or 1000? I have 1000, and suspect that this is correct.

Our grants on DB are as following:

GRANT
RESOURCE
TO
VPXADMIN; GRANT
CONNECT
TO
VPXADMIN;GRANT CREATE
SEQUENCE
TO
VPXADMIN;GRANT CREATE
VIEW
TO
VPXADMIN;GRANT UNLIMITED
TABLESPACE
TO
VPXADMIN;GRANT CREATE
TABLE
TO
VPXADMIN; GRANT
EXECUTE
ON
SYS.DBMS_LOCK
TO
VPXADMIN; GRANT
EXECUTE
ON
SYS.DBMS_JOB
TO
VPXADMIN;

I have re-ran this job in de DB: load_usage_stats_proc_oracle.sql

This job could be found in the VC Server, in the installation Folder. Use Search files and folders. This job are 3 files, load_usage_stats_oracle1.sql, 2 and 3.

Try with all this and tell me, I'm following an Incident opened in VMWare, if I know more info will post here.

Regards...

Patricio

Upgraded Clustered (MSCS) Virtual Center server to vSphere4

mplewis2 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:04:55 GMT

I currently have Virtual Center 2.5 clustered across 2 physical machines using MSCS. SQL 2005 is also installed on this cluster and hosts the VC databases. I need to upgrade to vSphere 4. Has anyone gone through this? Per VMWare support there is no documentation for upgrading a VC cluster.

My thought was to run the vSphere4 upgrade on the active node, which would then upgrade the database. Then either fail the cluster over to the passive and re-run the install, OR run the install on the passive without failing the services over to it.

If I understand things correctly, the DB will get upgraded with the upgrade of the active node. Just not sure how to get the passive node upgraded.

Virtual Center 2.5 Service will not start even after the SQL services are running

allisoncassatta — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:25:00 GMT

Just FYI in case someone else runs into this problem. If you have the Windows Remote Management Service installed, using port 80 it causes the same problem (just found that out.) If you stop WINrm and start VCenter, then you can start WINrm back up.

Cost and licensing of vCenter

gary1012 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:26:57 GMT

Two processors and 3GB RAM to start... Here's a link to the install guide. BTW, vCenter can be physical or virtual. Here's a link that explains the pros v. cons of each approach.

Community Supported, Community Rewarded - Please consider marking questions answered and awarding points to the correct post. It helps us all.

VC4: Overview performance could not be loaded

HughBorg707 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:13:23 GMT

Ahh, I was hoping that would work for you.

I've run into the problem here and there so I wasn't sure if it was a gateway, dns, or SQL issue... or just a random mix of all of them.

Regards

Consolidation Tool in Virtual Center 4.0: consolidation analysis error

elleuch1983 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:54:45 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm triying to use Vcenter guided consolidation tool and after lots of issues regarding
installation and configuration now I've 12 servers just
discovered by Active Directory. The problem is that after less than one hour
of starting work the results are very dissapointing and, off course, I
need to know what's happening with it. As a resume :

8 servers in the state of "Bad credentials or insufficient privileges"
4 servers in the state of "computer is unreachable or not supported "

Note : I'm using the same
account for all server that is "DOMAIN\username" and password.

I will appretiate some help or knowledge about the Consolidation
process that is not well documented in the manuals nor the online
helps on vcenter server 4.0. If someone did it completly and succesfully, please give me some
guidelines to understand how it works in general.

Thanks in advance.
Regards.

Med Morsi ELLEUCH

vMotion CPU compatibility issue

ML-EMP — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:30:34 GMT

(EDIT: see http://communities.vmware.com/thread/227172)

Leaving bottom message for reference but does appear to be the same issue so I'll give a check to "reset all" otherwise will wait for the patch.

(former message hereafter)

Hi,

you're not alone...

I run a 3 x HP DL380G5 cluster, 2 x Xeon 5440's each and have exactly the same situation. I run ESXi 4.0 rev 164009 on these three hosts.

Running with or without EVC (45 nm Core2) brings the same message than you with same register 'ecx'.

Yes, VT and so on are enabled and have always worked - and I'm speaking here of two 32 bits VMs refusing to move while the others are OK.

I discovered the issue while I wanted to set one host in maintenance mode to apply latest patches on it but I cannot shutdown those two VMs right now so will be stuck with this for at least the day. Did you get any feedback?

Regards,

ML

Edited

vCenter 4.0 lost connection with ESX 3.0.1 server

nicsys — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:00:31 GMT

We have two ESX 3.0.1 servers and one ESX 4.0 server all being managed by vCenter Server 4.0. For no apparent reason today, vCenter lost connection with one of the 3.0.1 servers. When I try to re-add it, it appears to see the server just fine, but on the last step I get this error:

A general system error occurred: internal error:
vmodl.fault.HostCommunication

I have tried uninstalling the agent, reinstalling it, re-adding the server, even tried rebooting both the vCenter server and the ESX server, but I continue to get the above error. However, I am still able to connect to the ESX server with the VI client.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. This was working just fine until today. The only change I can think of between it working and not working was I renamed all the datastores on all the ESX servers to make them easier to idenify (they all had storage1 and storage2, so when they got hooked into vCenter they were renamed storage1, storage1 (2), storage1 (3), etc, and I was adjusting those to be esx01-storage1, esx02-storage1, etc). This may sound silly, but is there any chance the hyphen in the datastore name is causing a problem? I only ask because during the build of the ESX 4.0 server I tried to name the datastore esx03-storage1 but kept getting install errors. I burned a new copy of the install ISO and also removed the hyphen from the datastore name and the install completed, but I can't be sure if removing the hyphen or the new ISO burn was what fixed it.

Vmotion options greyed out

gkhnyldrm — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:33:49 GMT

Maintenance mode or shutting down is not necessary.

VMware support engineer has disconnected (not removed) the complaining host from the cluster and added it to inventory at datacenter level(standalone)

Then vmotion started to work, we migrated the vm's on the host, then we added the host cluster again.

Orphaned datastore with templates

hklohr — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:32:23 GMT

Running ESXi v3.5 with vCenter v2.5, when browsing my datastore in VIC, I have three datastores listed: datastore1, datastore1(1), datastore1(2).
datastore1 and datastore1(1) are orphaned and datastore1(2) is what is currently being used. This wouldn't be a problem and I could just remove
the orphaned datastores, but I have critical templates located on datastore1(1) that I can't move to datastore1(2). I don't know how this happened.
Can someone tell me how to move or somehow save the templates from the orphaned datastore1(1)?

Cannot install VMware-VIMSetup-2.5.0-U4-English.iso

MTANG — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:18:28 GMT

Thanks for you reply.
When I double click the autorun.exe, nothing happened. There is no error message.

Linked Mode with a Physical and Virtual Server

jeffoutwest — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:44:35 GMT

To continue the age old question of, "+Tis it better for a vCenter Server to be Physical or Virtual+?"

Is it possible to architect the vSphere environment to have one physical and one virtual vCenter server running in Linked Mode managing the same virtual datacenter? Thanks, -Jeff

New vCenter4 server

pearlyshells — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:29:28 GMT

Thanks Troy

Appreciate your help

Virtual Center 4 error

vmitos — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:40:31 GMT

Doing the same... will report back tmorrow. Thanks

Replicating Folders/Permissions

lamw — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:30:17 GMT

Here is a PowerCLI script to export/import roles/permissions: http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/06/15/vsphere-permissions-export-import-part-1/

I'm not sure if there is a script out there to capture the folder structure and re-create, but here is a vSphere SDK for Perl script that might give you some ideas: listVMByFolder.pl

=========================================================================
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VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/
Twitter: @lamw
vGhetto Script Repository
Getting Started with the vMA (tips/tricks)
Getting Started with the vSphere SDK for Perl
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
VMware Developer Comuunity

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VMware VirtualCenter Server V4.0 service crashes when connecting to ESX V3.5

JAMOS001 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:17:13 GMT

This is a little frustrating. I just built a new VCenter Server V4 and it connects to my ESX V4 host just fine. When I attempt to connect to an older ESX V3.5 the VCenter server service stops. This entry is logged in the event log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: VMware VirtualCenter Server
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 11/17/2009
Time: 8:13:42 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DCMSVSS001
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( VMware VirtualCenter Server ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: An unrecoverable problem has occurred, stopping the VMware VirtualCenter service. Error: ErrorVdbODBCError (-1) "ODBC error: (23000) - Microsoft SQL Native Client SQL ServerCannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.VPX_VM_FLE_SNAPSHOT_DISK' with unique index 'VPX_VM_FLE_SNAPSHOT_DISK_U1'." is returned when executing SQL statement "INSERT INTO VPX_VM_FLE_SNAPSHOT_DISK WITH (ROWLOCK) (ID, SNAPSHOT_ID, DISK_KEY, VM_ID, UPDATE_KEY) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)".

Then we get this information entry

Event Type: Information
Event Source: VMware VirtualCenter Server
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 11/17/2009
Time: 8:13:42 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DCMSVSS001
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( VMware VirtualCenter Server ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Forcing shutdown of VMware VirtualCenter now.

Any Ideas?

Restore vCenter Default Roles

Texiwill — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:14:29 GMT

Hello,

Moved to the vCenter Server Forum.

Other than restoring a DB, I am not sure there is a direct way to do this... You could try 'repair'?

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009
Virtualization Practice Analyst
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How can you extend the timeout for servers returning from Standby?

TimPorreca — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:49:48 GMT

I have Dell 2950s as my vSphere 4.0 hosts and they take forever to boot. I am using DPM to shutdown unused hosts and every once in a while one will fail. When I console into it, I see it is running fine, but vCenter says it failed coming back from standby. I'm thinking it is just timing out waiting so long. Is there any way to increase the timeout in vCenter to making it wait longer for the machine to boot?

"Unable to apply DRS resource settings on host 'zzz' in yyy' (Reason: The name 'xxx' already exists.).This can significantly reduce the effectiveness of DRS"

mrjlturner — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:39:42 GMT

Good thread! This link that was provided at the bottom of the thread fixes the issue:

Pegasus (cimserver) memory leaks reported in ESX 3.5 Update 2 and later

I putty'd into the affected server, and ran this command: /etc/init.d/pegasus restart

This fixed the issue instantly

Thanks!

jason

Change IP Address o f the VCenter Server

tomtom1 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:12:51 GMT

I will let you all know how did the update go. This will be very helpful to everybody in the community.

Thanks

Tom

vMotion fails : Virtual Hard disk : is mapped direct-access LUN that is not Accessible

shatztal — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:03:36 GMT

The Thret you said didn't help altough i tried everything

Don't run 2 cluster nodes on same esx host

dagn46 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:58:49 GMT

thanks for then answer

Upgrading SQL 2005 to SQL 2008

cbronsson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:29:12 GMT

I'm running a VM Win 2003 x64 with sql 2005 installed. For some reason I have to upgrade to sql 2008.
Can I just take a snapshot of the VM and then do the upgrade or should I make a complete clone of it?
Could there be a problem when I merge the snapshot file?

vsphere on an domain controller

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:46:26 GMT

What do you mean with vmware service?
Do you mean that you have vCenter Server on a DC? In this case is not supported and does not work with VC 4.0

Andre

Password from Custom Specification not being applied to template

ouch — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:02:55 GMT

I cloned an existing Windows 2003 VM to a template. Then I wrote a Cusomization Specification which contains a password for the Administrator account

When I deploy a new virtual machine from this template using that Customization Specification, it all appears to work, except the password on the Administrator account remains the password that was set in the original VM that I cloned. The new password from the Customization Spec is not applied.

vCenter/vSphere Setup Questions

weinstein5 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:54:43 GMT

You are correct - if vcenter is down FT stops - but this is only a problem is the primary virtual machine failes at the same time -

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One physical server - vCenter or DC?

Troy Clavell — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:28:35 GMT

I think either would not be a bad choice. I would lean towards having your vCenter instance as a VM, because you can utilize HA/DRS. With your DC, I would have to assume it isn't your only DC, so you already have the redundancy built in for your AD environment.

vCenter won't start after reboot

mshorrosh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:28:46 GMT

here's the errors I've collected from the vpx logs.

Logs are stored here
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs

Errors probably not preventing it from starting
~~2009-11-16 15:05:14.233 05860 error 'App'~~ OptionMgr Ignoring unknown entry from DB: templates.repository
~~2009-11-16 15:05:14.249 05860 error 'App'~~ OptionMgr Ignoring unknown entry from DB: VirtualCenter.PortNumber
~~2009-11-16 15:05:14.249 05860 error 'App'~~ OptionMgr Ignoring unknown entry from DB: WebService.CompatibleWith1x

~~2009-11-16 15:05:20.702 05860 error 'App'~~ VpxdInvtId::CheckIp detected IP ~~Shared 10.196.0-3:0.0.0.0~~ conflict between vm subversiontest (moId:vm-2899) nic:GuestInfo.net[0].ipAddress[0] and entity vpckbjames01 (moId:vm-134)

Error that is preventing it from starting (No idea what this error means)
~~2009-11-16 15:05:20.827 05860 error 'App'~~
Panic: NOT_IMPLEMENTED d:/build/ob/bora-162856/bora/vpx/vpxd/vpxdMoDatacenter.cpp:1401
Backtrace:
backtrace00 eip 0x019e88f0 ?AbortProcess@System@Vmacore@@YAXXZ
backtrace01 eip 0x019e9077 ?CreateBacktrace@SystemFactoryImpl@System@Vmacore@@UAEXAAV?$Ref@VBacktrace@System@Vmacore@@@3@@Z
backtrace02 eip 0x0192b863 ?PanicExit@Vmacore@@YAXABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z
backtrace03 eip 0x019570be ?Vpanic@Vmacore@@YAXPBDPAD@Z
backtrace04 eip 0x008055d1 (no symbol)
backtrace05 eip 0x00727bdb (no symbol)
backtrace06 eip 0x0058db67 (no symbol)
backtrace07 eip 0x0058dcc9 (no symbol)
backtrace08 eip 0x0058faf1 (no symbol)
backtrace09 eip 0x004ef983 (no symbol)
backtrace10 eip 0x004ea4e1 (no symbol)
backtrace11 eip 0x004e6950 (no symbol)
backtrace12 eip 0x7d1f5e91 LookupPrivilegeValueW
backtrace13 eip 0x77e6482f GetModuleHandleA
~~2009-11-16 15:05:24.233 05860 info 'App'~~ CoreDump: Writing minidump

vCenter upgrade from 2.5 U3 to U5 gone wrong!!

jguidroz — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:13:17 GMT

Easiest would be to uninstall the new version of vCenter and install the version of vCenter that matches your DB version. Everything is contained in the DB, so a reinstall and pointing to the existing database will get you back up.

Collect all MAC addresses

IB_IT — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:10:33 GMT

cool thanks...I think that's what I need!

Collector Service High CPU

imclaren — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:56:19 GMT

It seems to have settled down now... I'll keep an eye on it!

Vsphere virtual machine incorrect memory usage report

GreenergyRobert — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:24:24 GMT

We are also experiencing this problem on vSphere ESXi, but only for 64bit W2k8 servers, our Linux boxes are behaving perfectly. FYI, we are running a virtual vCenter, I wonder if this has some bearing?

Regards,
Robert.

Which is the best way to configure Virtual Center Server

Texiwill — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:48:52 GMT

Hello,

Moved to vCenter Server forum.

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009
Virtualization Practice Analyst
Now Available: 'VMware vSphere(TM) and Virtual Infrastructure Security'
Also available 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise'
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Automatically backup SQL-Express database

pinkerton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:15:12 GMT

Using the following procedures you can implement an automatic backup of your SQL-Express database:

1. Paste the following SQL-Script in an editor and save as backupsql.sql (for example):

BACKUP DATABASE VIM_VCDB /* select database for backup */
TO DISK = 'D:\backup\vcenter-db\VIM_VCDB.bak' /* select destination for backup */
WITH INIT; /* overwrite existing backup files */

2. Create a new job in "Accessories" -> "Scheduled Tasks" to execute the SQL script:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\SQLCMD.EXE" -S serverName\instance -E -i D:\backup\sqlbackup.sql

-S (this specifies the server\instance name for SQL Server)
serverName (this is the server\instance name for SQL Server)
-E (this allows you to make a trusted connection)
-i (this specifies the input command file)

Some helpful general information about backing up SQL Server can be found here:

http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/backup-and-recovery/sql-server-2005-backups/

Cannot find license manager

ccwhite — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:19:02 GMT

Yep, I had just started that process. At first I thought it was an either/or situation, but read the license agreement and found out that I can split my licenses between versions.

Tks for the help

Inconsistencies in Vcenter

Rajeev S — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:25:21 GMT

hi,
there is a patch released for it. You may need to look at it.

ESX400-200909401-BG
KB 1014019

This patch fixes some key issues such as:

Guest operating system shows high memory usage on Nehalem based systems, which might trigger memory alarms in vCenter.

Hope this helps

Unable to manage datastore after upgrade Virtual center 2.5U4 to vCenter 4

Dready — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:30:04 GMT

Problem solved !!

I've added a test account to the admins group, logged in with the test account and granted my admin account the admin role.
When logging in with my own account I was able to manage the datastores normally again

performance overview tab and storage view tab is not available with Oracle Database

artist-06 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:48:22 GMT

After resolving performance overview tab, my storage views still did not work. This morning I logged on to vCenter and storage views started working magically without making a single change over the weekend. I read another post where same issue happened and resolved magically. I think if your performance overview tab is working and storage views is not, this is likely to be resolved in a week's time by itself. I was looking into jdbc libraries dev kit and there is no place you can configure database name, username and password. Variables are dynamically updated. This may explain how it fixes itself.

It was a challenge to get everything working with Oracle but I am finally there!

Vmware community is the best place to start looking at issues. Thanks everyone.

Burak

Cannot insall infrastructure Management

MTANG — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:56:53 GMT

I download VMware-VIMSetup-2.5.0-U4-English.iso from VMware website and extract to a CD. But when I click the autorun.exe inside CD, the computer doesn't do any thing.

Does someone here to help me how to install VIM 2.5?

Many thanks in advance

Slow deployment

Vitaly91 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:52:49 GMT

Thank you all!

It was a vendor iSCSI storage issue. We ended up switching to using NFS from iSCSI.