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Re: Memory Consumption seems odd

rsaha — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:05:52 GMT

Hi,

We have similar kind of issue.We have Set Mem.AllocGuestLargePage to 0 and VMotion the VMs off and back to the host or reboot.
It works for us.

Re: Passthrough Abit AirPace PCI-E

tompl — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:00:54 GMT

I tried to change reset mode, but not to enable msi interrupts.
I'll trym and than give a report

Re: VMware Server 2.0 Backups (VIX 1.6.2 only)

ffcastro — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:59:55 GMT

x86 / native test: OK
x86 / wrapper test: OK

x64 / native test: System.NullReferenceException: Referencia a objeto no establecida como instancia de un objeto.
en connectTest.Form1.Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
en System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)

x64 / wrapper test: Failed (error 'Vestris.VMWareLib.VMWareInterop')

anyCpu / native test: System.NullReferenceException: Referencia a objeto no establecida como instancia de un objeto.
en connectTest.Form1.Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
en System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)

anyCpu / wrapper test: (error Vestris.VMWareLib.VMWareInterop)

Re: Enquiries on Snapshots Management

continuum — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:59:33 GMT

hot snapshot = a snapshot created while the VM was running
cold snapshot = snapshot created while the VM was powered off

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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

Improvement in Backup Speed related to separate vlan for backup.

sayhi2shariq — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:56:11 GMT

Hi,
We have created a separate vLAN for backup in our infrastructure. So we have configured the same on our physical switch as well as added an extra NIC on each of the physical as well virtual servers to facilitate the backup process on different vLAN.

For understanding, the configuration are like

Each physical esx server is having four NIC.

NIC 1 - vmnic0 - Virtual switch - vswitch0 - VLAN 3
NIC2 - vmnic1 - VLAN8 This one we have created for storage and backup purpose
NIC3 , NIC4 - vmnic2/vmnic3 - Team - Trucking on ( All VLAN accessible ) - Assgin to virtul machine.

Other details :

VLAN 8 Backup 255.255.252.0

Now the question is although Backup Speed has been improved for physical machines significantly but in the case of virtual servers there is no improvement.

I request someone from the community to advice me on the same.

Re: VMware-Tools fail after SLES10-SP3 Update

hackenhans — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:54:17 GMT

Hi,

the solution I took to solve this problem was to update the ESXi-host to Build 208167, reinstall and recompile the tools and, heurika it works.

Thanks for the support

Ferdi

Re: Multicore Processors & CPU Scheduling

Deepeer — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:51:58 GMT

How long is a ESX system

considered as "undercomitted" and how do you get aware that it changes
from "undercommitted" to "overcommitted"?

ESX system is considered "undecommitted" if the total # of cpus assigned to all VM's ( powered on ) is less than #of cpus/cores of the host and "overcommitted" when the total exceeds # of cpus/cores of the host .

How do youfigure out

that there is significant data sharing between virtual CPU's? Are there
some real world examples/experiences like "this application XYZ is
known to have significant data sharing between CPU's"?

CPU's running similar instruction set can have data sharing between them . Running identical instance(s) of same process may increase the probability of data sharing between virtual CPU's .

Thin Provisioning not working for storage vmotion

rsaha — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:37:33 GMT

I am working in a storage migration project of VMs.In the environment we have VCS ver 4.0 and ESX 3.5 servers.We need to move all the VMs from symmetric to clarion storage.So i did the storage vmotion(GUI) with thin provisioning as a option to move the VMs during pilot phase.After the migration completed,the VM disk till showing Thick format instead of thin.

Also i have moved the VM from one datastore to another datastore in clarion(same storage box,but different lun) using storage vmotion with same option and its working fine.The VM disk showing Thin.

Can anybody help me why thin provisioning is not working when moving to different storage (symmetric to clarion) box using storage vmotion?

Re: Default Shares Values Weird

Deepeer — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:35:29 GMT

But they all have

different values for this "normal". Some have 8192, some 1000 and so
on. Obviously they are not all entitled to the same resources

Seems odd ..... Could you post a screen shot of the host "Resource Allocation" Tab ???..

Re: ERROR MAQUINA VIRTUAL EN ESXi

mokymura — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:32:25 GMT

Hola

a la hora de hacer el converter, cuantos discos te salian para convertir? Los separaste en ficheros individuales?

El converter con los linux...a veces dan muucha guerra :s

Saludos

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Re: VC shows Nics are down but can't be?

fajarpri — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:29:23 GMT

Hi Andre,

This is the info:

~ # esxcfg-nics -l
Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MTU Description
vmnic2 24:00.00 bnx2 Up 1000Mbps Full 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX
vmnic3 24:00.01 bnx2 Up 1000Mbps Full 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX
cdceth0 00:00.00 CDCEther Up 0Mbps Half 1500 Intel Corporation Unknown
vmnic0 10:00.00 bnx2 Up 1000Mbps Full 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX
vmnic1 10:00.01 bnx2 Up 1000Mbps Full 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX

I think IBM HS22 Blade should be in HCL, isn't it? Because I got the ESXi3 3.5 already installed on a usbdisk inside the blade from IBM.

Re: vmware esxi 4 and nehalem xeon processors

DSTAVERT — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:21:22 GMT

The blade BIOS

Re: Is OS X Server under ESXi running on a Mac supported?

coax_k — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:21:09 GMT

Not sure if I'm reading this thread right but anyway, has anyone got OSX running in ESX/i at all?

虚拟机如何同宿主机共享串口？？

oliverlee — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:18:23 GMT

大家好啊，

我在用虚拟机的时候，发现虚拟机使用串口的话会把端口一直独占着，这样导致我宿主机的另外一个程序无法使用该串口，
有没有办法能让虚拟机里的程序和宿主机的程序同时使用相同的端口的，请大家支个招，多谢了！！！

Get-Cluster - CPU Usage 95%

harkamal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:18:20 GMT

Get-Cluster appears to be an expensive query, on the VC, CPU usage goes as high as 95% (for vmxd.exe) when using get-cluster, otherwise it is fine.

Is there any workaround to avoid this, or an equivalent SDK method ?

Get-VM | %{
   Get-Cluster -vm $_.Name
}

Re: Need a powershell script to collect esx patch info

harkamal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:14:54 GMT

This is how you can query patches on esxHosts

$h = Get-VMHost <host> | Get-View
$h.ConfigManager.PatchManager
$pm = get-view $h.ConfigManager.PatchManager
$pm | gm -MemberType Method Query*

Re: vmware esxi 4 and nehalem xeon processors

dcordina — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:12:04 GMT

Sorry for my lack of knowledge but you are referring to the physical blade bios or the esxi?

How to make vwmare and host operating system use same serial port simultaneously??

oliverlee — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:10:23 GMT

hi,every one,good day~

I found that vwmare player will hold the serial port connection after startup,but this cause another application in host operation system cant connect to the serial port,of coz,if i disconnect the vwmare's connection,the other app can use the port properly,but i have to use the two apps simultaneously,
how to share the serial port between vwmare and host operating system??

thank you !!very appreicate!!

Re: VM won’t boot with vmdk attached

tom howarth — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:04:11 GMT

When you converted your VM did you upgrade the hardware to version 7?

if so please rerun the conversion but chose the option not to upgrade your hardware.

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Re: ESXi 4 Whitebox Build Idea - Comments/Suggestions?

tom howarth — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:00:30 GMT

I am moving this post to the community hardware sub forum

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Re: P2V guest black screen

tom howarth — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:57:27 GMT

Read my blog post on the matter "Black Screen of Death"

It has nothing to do with "Priacy blocking" but more to do with corupted profiles, if it was a piracy block, it would be asking for authentication.

Re: VC shows Nics are down but can't be?

tom howarth — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:53:09 GMT

Post moved to the ESXi 3.5 forum

Re: Training Documents for ESX4 & VC4?

upg3 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:49:36 GMT

Hi I have a presentation training to give...pls help me on this. I need documents like ppt, client wants training on handiling their vsp4 setup.

thanks...........

Re: Windows Activation question

tom howarth — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:48:55 GMT

I have almost managed to make the conversion from an XP machine to an iMac.
During the installation of the Mac, the Windows startup requires Windows Activation.

This is expected and there has been major hardware changes to the Operating system

Although the Mac has full connectivity to the internet, Windows direct Activation comes back with a "Cannot connect to the internet" message.

The key code will not accept my PC license (it contains ...OEM..) in the second field and gets rejected. I have tried putting a valid Enterprise license in but that also gets rejected.

That is expected the Build recognises that it is an OEM version and expected an OEM license key

Questions - does the installation on Fusion 3 from a PC machine to a Mac require a new license?

Your OEM license is tied to the original hardware and dies with it, you will need to purchase a full retail version of windows to be legal.

Can one use an Enterprise license instead?

NO not with out a rebuld

Is there a simple way to get this done without phoning M'soft (2 hr hold delay)?

No. what you are attempting to do in is breach of Microsoft EULA as the version you have is OEM, unless you are virtualising it on the original hardware, which you are not as you have already mentioned VMware Fusion

This all seems like basic stuff, but so far I have seen no info whatsoever from VMware on the details of completing the installation on a Mac.

This is not a VMware issues, it is down to the licensing standpoint of Microsoft, VMware have not power over this.

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Re: Fedora Core 5 with a Nagios system monitoring tool

TheCoder — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:36:41 GMT

Download doesn't work. where I find the right link?

3ye

Diego

Re: High CPU utilization after upgrade to ESX 4 Update 1

shrex — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:33:29 GMT

Each processor cores usage is the same high usage.

I haven't need to use esxtop or top before so I will have to get back to you on that.

I've gone over the network configuration a few times to confirm it is correct and the same both hosts.

Even though I have confirmed the network settings are correct could it be a network issue because I've notice a few strange things going on with my management network which the service console of the ESX servers are connected to e.g. some packet loss and the inability to connect to some network devices on that network but there are no connectivity issues with the ESX servers themselves.

Re: Heavy mouse lag when using VMWare player through remote desktop

AndersJo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:31:52 GMT

I might add that the problem appears only when using the VM through remote desktop. When I use my office computer directly, eveything is fine.

What happened to VMWare & the website??

keithwoods — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:48:37 GMT

I used to remember its was easy to browse and navigate VMware
website, even selection a product for download. Unfortunately the amount of cognitive
effort now required to simple download a trial of something like VMWare Workstation,
or even the free player and try get it to do as it states on the web page +"Create: Use VMware Player to create
virtual machines with the latest 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux"+,
is mind boggling.

Even posting this message I had to navigate through another
'user set up process' and select from a drop down with a bazillion entries for
the desired forum.

Sorry but not impressed!!

Heavy mouse lag when using VMWare player through remote desktop

AndersJo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:29:55 GMT

Hi everyone!

I have VMWare Player installed on my office computer, which I frequently access from home using remote desktop. The OS is Windows XP on the host, as well as on the VM. Since I updated to Player 3.0, I experience very heavy mouse lag when ever I use the VM. This was never an issue with the previous version.

Any ideas?

Re: WSUS and VMware patches

Jdsony5 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:25:00 GMT

thanks for the reply guys. cheers

Re: VI client loses connection to ESXi (3.5 update 4).

roity57 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:18:39 GMT

Yary did you find a resolve to this issue? I'm having a very similar problem with the remote site ESXi host dropping into disconnected state and when trying to work with VMs on that machine it's VERY VERY SLOW. We have a 4Mbit link to a remote office with a site to site VPN with a ping response of about 15ms (Inter capital).

The VI Client itself also drops out.

VI Client 2.5.0 Build 147633 with same VirtualCenter build.
ESXi host build 153875

If I RDP to the remote VM directly it seems to operate fine but VMWare connectivity is a major problem.

We've seen some far more minor issues with remote hosts connected via a 4Mbit link as well but it's a remote site less than 10km away. Sometimes we get timeout responses when editing machine configurations etc. Anyhow please let me know.

Cheers,
Dave

Re: PSOD after U1 upgrade by updatemanager

Oletho — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:14:03 GMT

Does any of you use the HP agents, and did you uninstall them before upgrading?

Mine were running during install, and I wonder if they could have anything to do with the mess.

My pre-upgrade check did not report any problem.

Ole Thomsen

Re: Page Fault exceptions since upgrading to vSphere 4

CrazyTao — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:13:11 GMT

My SR Number:1446872971,Unfortunately unresolved !
The engineer of vmware let me to check the dump Partitionmany times,But, I think there is no problem with the dump partition.
When PSOD occcurred,dump partition was used to save the system information,and at the end of the PSOD screen there will be some words like "Starting coredump to disk,using slot 1 of 1 ...998876543210 DiskDump Successful",But in my PSOD screen there was no those words.
So, I think DUMP is unsuccessful !
I contact Intel support center,they have no effective measures.
Now,I Removed the Intel Remote Management Module,and the server works fine,but I still don't know the real reason.

Re: Need a confirmation

tom howarth — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:12:40 GMT

A broadcast
address is one in which all bits in
the host portion of the IPv4 address have been set to 1
as recommended by RFC 919. Therefore in a "C" class subnet it is always x.x.x.255. the setting of the Broadcast address is defined by the setting of the Subnet Mask.

visualise your windows Static IP address dialog and you will see that the only user definable settings are IP Address, Gateway and Subnet Mask. this is also the same for Linux.

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Re: how to upgrade ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4; kindly suggest & provide step-by-step doc.

Jain — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:04:47 GMT

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1406996 this post will help you to get details

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Re: DPM - How do I remove ilo settings?

NV1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:57:20 GMT

Thanks for that. I will leave this open and hopefully VMware will build a way to disable this simple setting without removing hosts from the cluster.

Thanks again for the workaround.

Re: vSphere 4u1 - any issues?

krowczynski — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:56:37 GMT

I've updated both of my hosts (Dell R410) with VUM with no problems.
Everything went fine!

MCP, VCP

Re: upgrade to vsphere4

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:54:28 GMT

Re: Health Check Analyzer Appliance---Where did they hide it?

HamR — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:50:41 GMT

As of Nov 23, I found it by clicking on "Content" from the top link ribbon then searching for "health".

The search option on the left-hand window of the Partner Central homepage returns nothing for the same search string.

HamR.

Re: My VMware workstation is very slow!!

pdsouto — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:50:41 GMT

Hi Scissor,

First of all thanks for your help.

1. When you asked for reconfiguring my guest to 1 vCPU, you meant to change the number of processors from 2 to 1, isnt it? (sorry for my lack of knowledge).
2. I have changed the memory from 3.5 GB to 1 GB as you said, but the software i am running is quite heavy, it has 200GB. How would be the
maximum amount of RAM I could alocate to my guest? Do you think I would get a better perfmance if I get more memory RAM into this machine?
3. You are right, I am running the software from an external HDD which there is the software pre-installed.

I would like to say your changes were really helful, the performance has increased a lot, it's not perfect yet, but heaps better than before!

Many thanks mate!

Re: how to upgrade ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4; kindly suggest & provide step-by-step doc.

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:34:55 GMT

Re: Tasks hanging in vCenter 4.0U1

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:32:43 GMT

Your ESX are still 3.5?
In this case what's the license server that their are pointing?

Andre

Re: WSUS and VMware patches

krowczynski — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:30:05 GMT

Hi,

no with WSUS you are only able to patch MS Patches.
For vmware linux install an VUM in your enviroment.

MCP, VCP

Re: High CPU utilization after upgrade to ESX 4 Update 1

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:27:31 GMT

Can you check each core usage? All the VM have the same high usage?
Do you see something strange in top and esxtop command?
The ESX configuration (vSwith for example) is the same?

Andre

Re: cmd.exe copy speed limitation -> Powershell

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:24:43 GMT

It does not depend by your shell, but from your VCB transport method.
Are you using NDB mode? Can you set to SAN mode (and give to VCB proxy the LUN visibility)?

Andre

Re: WSUS and VMware patches

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:21:44 GMT

As written by Troy, WSUS can handle only Microsoft updates.
I cannot handle Linux or other Windows products updates.

System Center can handle other products, but I'm not sure if it can hadle also other OS updates.

Andre

Re: VC shows Nics are down but can't be?

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:18:53 GMT

Enable console access or SSH and check the output of this command:
esxcfg-nics -l

The system is in HCL? Maybe you need a firmware upgrade.

Andre

Re: Windows Activation question

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:16:01 GMT

Cause hardware is changed the new activation is required.
If you have a physical OEM installation you can not use the same license (from a legal point of view).
But usually it must be accepted... so be sure the read the license on your case and NOT the license in the windows box (cause several vendor's use the same license number to do their preinstallation process).

Andre

Re: 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.

Re: Unable to backup Virtual Machine from VDR

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:12:06 GMT

Just power off the VM from the vSphere Client.
Seems that there is a process or a driver that lock the guest shutdown procedure.

Andre

Re: High CPU utilization after upgrade to ESX 4 Update 1

shrex — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:11:11 GMT

There are the same number of VMs but only some of them have the updated VMware tools. My main problem with running the install for the tools are that the machines are running so slowly it's taking forever to update them.

Otherwise no other changes have been made.

I did find somewhere a potential fix for ESX 3 and 3.5 was to remove and recreate the HA cluster may solve the issue but I've tried it and it hasn't changed anything.

Re: VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

charlie98 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:10:20 GMT

I am one of those who is looking at VirtualBox. I have a win 7 64 bit virtual machine running there and it is fast. My requirements are minor so my experience would not be typical; I need Windows for Quicken and QuickTax otherwise I wouldn't bother.

I was running 2.0.6 and based on this thread I'm glad I didn't attempt 3.0.

Re: ESXi 4 on Dell PE2950

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:09:49 GMT

You can do directly with the zip file, using the host update utility.
See:
http://vm-help.com/esx40i/ESXi40_upgrade_without_virtualcenter.php

Andre

Re: SQL server 2005 performance issues

gerasimatos — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:09:12 GMT

There are no VM's on the host.

Re: VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

citationpoint — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:04:16 GMT

I share your frustration. I think many of us will look at Virtual Box (from Sun), and Parallels before giving any more money to vmware.

Re: vmware esxi 4 and nehalem xeon processors

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:03:25 GMT

As written before Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are now fully supported with U1.
See also:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_compatibility_matrix.pdf

Andre

Re: VM Fusion 3

WoodyZ — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:57:23 GMT

Duplicate - Can be deleted.

Re: ESX 3.5 Host Hardware Replacement Job

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:35 GMT

I have heard that you cannot add additional servers to existing clusters when no licenses exist

You can in evaluation mode.
But to use them in license mode the first step could be right.

Task two can be done with vCenter Server.
But if you use free ESXi 4.0 you cannot add them to vCenter.
So Converter could be a option.

Andre

Re: VM Fusion 3

WoodyZ — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:59:20 GMT

golferdude wrote: I cannot not find any thing in the help file that will assist me with this problem in. If you can direct me in another way, I would appreciate it.

I already gave you the information when I said "...or by sending Ctrl+Alt+Delete to the target Virtual Machine from the VMware Fusion Virtual Machine menu or forcing a restart if necessary by holding the the Option key and selecting the appropriate command from the Virtual Machine menu." however find attached a QuickTime Move to give you addition clues.

File Attached: VMware_Fusion_Help_Restart..zip

Guests on ESXi 4 shutdown

jvigil — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:58:29 GMT

HP DL 380 dual QC's w/12GB RAM

I just did my first install of ESXi 4 today on this brand new server. I then installed a couple 2k8r2 DC's and a 2K8 FS to mess with. Everything went together quite nicely with vSphere.

Then I fired up about half a dozed vm's (on my workstation) that I had build some time ago with Sun's Virtual Box and started joining them to the new DC's (on the ESXi server). My local workstation (with vSphere running) bogged down hard- as to be expected, and a few minutes later when I couldn't join on of the vm's to the domain, I noticed that all of the VM's I had built in ESXi had shutdown! There were plenty of resources available on the stand alone HP.

I shut all the Sun VM's down. Restarted the ESXi VM's and repeated with the same result. When firing up the VM's with Virtual Box on the workstation, vSphere goes into a "not responding" mode and after the workstation cpu's stop being pegged and I go look at ESXi it shows that the VM's are off.

Looking through the Event log on the servers shows no 6008 event!! The "Events" tab in ESXi shows that the VM was shutdown, and the NIC time shows that the VM has booted, in addition to me being able to see the boot up process from the console.

What is going on? If vSphere stops responding, does it shutdown the ESXi VM's? Even if my workstation, running vSphere were to crash, I would expect that the VM's on the ESXi box would continue to run.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you,

-ESX noob

Re: How do I downgrade to Fusion 2.0?

citationpoint — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:57:57 GMT

I followed these instructions, and I'm back to Fusion 2.0 ... THANK YOU!!!

I have my computer back. Upgrading to Fusion 3.0 has been one of the biggest fiascos I have ever experienced. I cannot believe that vmware put this software out. They should do something significant to compensate their loyal customers that upgraded. How about a free 4.0 upgrade? Just do me a favor, and test 4.0 before releasing it.

I will sure try Parallels the next time an upgrade comes along.

Re: P2V guest black screen

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:56:34 GMT

It could be a problem with the boot disk.
Try to change it to a IDE disk.
Or be sure that the conversion fix the virtual hardware and install also the VMware Tools.

Andre

Re: VM won’t boot with vmdk attached

gsinker — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:53:23 GMT

I saw that error message in the ESXi logs but right afterwards is this line:

CDA Jax2-flat.vmdk" : open successful

so it's capable of reading it.

I'm pretty sure the vmdk wasn't being accessed by another VM.

Re: cmd.exe copy speed limitation -> Powershell

Lakshmi Gayatri — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:52:40 GMT

are you talking about the vcbMounter.exe, I think there is no such limitation.

Re: High CPU utilization after upgrade to ESX 4 Update 1

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:51:50 GMT

Seems very strange.
Do you have the same number of VM? Have you upgrade the VMware Tools?
There are other changes?
Local disk is not so important for overall performance.

Andre

Re: VCP 4 Certification

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:46:03 GMT

Seems that nobody has (yet) received the welcome kit:
VCP4 welcome kit

I'm waiting for it too, from August.

Andre

Re: What can be done from ESXi direct consoel access ?

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:40:48 GMT

Also with some practical labs you can simply answer by yourself to this kind of question.
Some question require that you know very the manual or you have seen the menu/interface...

Andre

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

mykmelez — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:33:41 GMT

img47 wrote:
Frankly saying I much more prefer "Ubuntu", than "Ubuntu Linux 9.04, 8.10, 8.04.3, 7.10, 6.10, 5.10".

IMHO, the latter is preferable, because it's clear what it means: that VMware supports those specific versions of the Ubuntu OS.

Parallels' declaration that it supports "Ubuntu", on the other hand, is unclear. Does it claim to support all released versions of Ubuntu, from the oldest to the most recent? Or only certain versions? More to the point, does it support the specific version of Ubuntu you want to run on it? Given that a Google search for "parallels ubuntu 9.10" finds a number of forum posts from people having trouble installing Parallels tools on Ubuntu 9.10, I don't think the answer to that question is the one you seem to think it is.

FWIW, I too would love to see Fusion support for Ubuntu 9.10, and more generally, I'd like to see VMware roll out compatibility updates for new versions of Ubuntu more quickly, since testing versions of Ubuntu releases are available months in advance of their release, and there's no reason VMware couldn't update their tools well in advance of a release.

I also disagree that we shouldn't complain about this issue. Complaining about issues is one of the primary reasons for this forum! How else would VMware learn about the issues their customers are facing and which they might want to address?

However, I do think that it's important to be respectful when complaining and not assume incompetence or malevolence.

High CPU utilization after upgrade to ESX 4 Update 1

shrex — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:24:57 GMT

I have just upgraded 2 hosts (IBM HS21 Blades) from ESX 4 to ESX 4 Update 1 and now I'm experiencing extremely high CPU utilization. Previously the utilization on each host would be around 10% but now after the upgrade it is around 80% on each and now all of the VMs are running very slow as a result.

The only change that has been made is that I downgraded the local hard disk drives from mirrored 500GB 7,200RPM SAS drives to mirrored 73GB 10,000RPM SAS drives and performed a clean install of ESX 4U1 on each host. As the 14 VMs are located on a SAN disk array I thought this would only improve the performance of the hosts.

Has anyone else had a similar issue or a potential fix?

Cheers,
Josh.

Re: vmware esxi 4 and nehalem xeon processors

DSTAVERT — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:11:24 GMT

Update 1 was released a few days ago. It does support 2008 R2. The client has updated support as well

Re: My VMware workstation is very slow!!

Scissor — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:27:30 GMT

Ok, After reviewing your vmware.log file....

Your Host has a dual-core processor, so you should not configure a single Guest with more than 1 vCPU. Please reconfigure your Guest for 1 vCPU.
You stated that your Host has 4 GB RAM installed, but you have allocated 3.5GB of RAM to your Guest, which only leaves 500 MB of RAM for your Host to run in. Suggest lowering the amount of RAM allocated to your guest. Start with 1 GB and move up from there.
I see some indications of slow Host storage. What type of storage is your Guest stored on? (external USB? Network drive? Other?)
I see that you are running Workstation 6.5.1. Workstation 6.5.3 is now available and is a free download for you. I don't think 6.5.3 has any specific fixes for your problem, but something to think about.
If it is not already, please configure your Guest's CD-ROM to start "disconnected".

Give the above a try and let us know if it helps.

Re: Networking to use Homeworks Illumination

WoodyZ — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:17:19 GMT

ljpell wrote: Just to let you know, I finally managed to connect using my Airport Extreme device. In a way, you helped me understand what I needed to do but it would have been nice of you to tell me you could not do anything more for me rather that simply ignoring me and letting me wait for a reply.

Just who the hell do you think you are you little ingrate!? I gave you several good pieces of information in an effort to try to help you with your situation however it is not my fault you are ignorant of how properly networked devices together! Over the last five years I've given thousands of hours to helping individuals in this and other forums free of charge out of kindness of my own heart and I can tell you every time I run into someone that makes a comment like you have it just makes me want to give less and less!

Re: SQL server 2005 performance issues

kdc — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:17:07 GMT

Hey,

If you have many virtual machines with 4 vCPU's then your VM's will be waiting a long time for 4 free CPU's

its best all VM's start with only 1 vCPU and the move up to 2 vCPU's if required.

You may have too many VM's wanting 4 vCPU's and they are not getting any time on the CPU's.

Re: Allocate more CPU to Guest...

djchrissocal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:03:47 GMT

I've got more or less the same issue...no matter how hard my virtual machine is working (Windows Task Manager pegged at 100% CPU usage), the most my computer's CPU is used is around 20%. I have the CPU settings at the max (4 cores). Hope I can figure out a solution to this - Rendering video on this is about the same speed as on Pentium 4 I'm replacing...with a much faster comptuer.

Chris

Re: SQL server 2005 performance issues

gerasimatos — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:03:10 GMT

Xenon E5320 processors. 2 of them.

Re: SQL server 2005 performance issues

weinstein5 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:01:36 GMT

What type and how many CPUs do you have in the ESX host?

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Re: SQL server 2005 performance issues

gerasimatos — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:00:44 GMT

Can you explain specifically what you mean by configuration of ESX? Dell PowerEdge 2950 2x4 Xenon processors and 32GB RAM.

Re: SQL server 2005 performance issues

gerasimatos — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:58:24 GMT

This is the only VM running on the ESX host.

Re: SQL server 2005 performance issues

weinstein5 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:56:31 GMT

The issue has do with how the virtual cpus are scheduled - this is balanced to what type of hard you ESX server is running on and other virtual machines that are running on - what is the conifugration of the server esx is running on? do you have other VMs running on the server?

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Re: HA and Vmotion a extreme status

miaohl — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:55:20 GMT

thank you, 15 seconds is a fix parameter in the manual?

Re: My VMware workstation is very slow!!

pdsouto — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:55:00 GMT

is this the file you guys were talking about?

Re: WS 7 major problems

Student Driver — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:53:41 GMT

So, what host OS and hardware are you using?

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

Re: Trouble deploying vDR appliance 1.1

MarkIveli — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:47:45 GMT

SUSSED!!!

I have solved my problem. I am able to deploy the ovf but only if i am in the Hosts and Clusters view. If i try from the VM and templates view it errors. Is this how appliances should be deployed (from the hosts and cluster view) or should i be able to deploy from the VM and templates view?

Re: ESXi 4 Whitebox Build Idea - Comments/Suggestions?

lowburb — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:43:29 GMT

I have the 3ware card you're speaking about. It works. I'm having some issues with my ESXi server, but can't pin it on the RAID card just yet. I'll know in the next couple days. Keep an eye on my troubleshooting steps to see if my RAID card is the cuplrit.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/243623?tstart=0

Re: vmware esxi 4 and nehalem xeon processors

lowburb — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:38:37 GMT

Is there a new VSphere Client that supports being installed on Windows 7? (I'm asking because you suggested downloading and installing the new Client)

Re: P2V guest black screen

lowburb — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:36:35 GMT

It's most likely Microsofts piracy deterrent. I dont know the specific term it's called, but it's when XP senses too many hardware changes, it simply locks up. You need to do a fresh install on your VM. I am sure someone else can confirm my theory. It's pretty much the same thing as removing your HDD from a working XP box and putting it into a box with all different hardware. It just wont boot up.

However, I have managed to get around this security measure MS has put into place. (I dont know if this is legal or not, so attempt at your own risk). That is by removing all possible drivers in the decive manager within the physical machine. Remove every possible thing you can, then try the conversion again.

If that doesnt work, you can try this. It's a little more difficult, but should work, and that is doing a sysprep, shutting down the machine, use a network boot disk with combination of Norton Ghost and transfer the disk image from the physical machine to an FTP server. From there, you can boot your VM into the network boot disk and do the procedure backwards to pull the image down to the VM hard disk.

If someone else has a much easier way or better way of handling this, please please share. I'd love to know. And if my theory is NOT the reason XP doesnt boot up after a P2V conversion, I'd love to hear that, too.

ESX 3.5 Host Hardware Replacement Job

pomiwi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:34:28 GMT

Hi all

I am about to perform the following two tasks. Please could you review and make comments as appropriate?

__Task One__

3 x ESX 3.5 Servers in Cluster. All licenses in use. Need to replace all 3 x servers with new hardware.

I have heard that you cannot add additional servers to existing clusters when no licenses exist, i.e. you can only run eval licensing on single servers. What I propose to do is put 1 x host into maintenance mode and let all VMs migrate off. Remove the server both from virtual center and physically. Install the new server giving it the same name/IP address and add to the cluster. Let all VMs migrate over to the server. I will use the same method for all servers over a period of say 3 days - i.e. if we have a PSOD we can put the old server back in etc.

__Task Two__

Setup a new Cluster with 2 x new hosts and migrate VMs from 2 x ESXi FREE boxes running on local storage.

What I propose to do is to setup the new cluster with datastores etc.. install convertor on VC, power off the VMs on the ESXi FREE boxes, run convertor and migrate them from local storage over to SAN storage being hosted in the new cluster

Cheers

WS 7 major problems

russellr — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:33:05 GMT

Hi,

Support has aksed me to try WS 7 to overome a problem in 6.5.3 with guests not being locked into memory.

The problem still exists in WS 7.

Furthermore, WS 7 introduces two new serious bugs:

Some USB devices won't connect to guest OS. In my case, my iPhone cannot connect to my Windows XP guest.
Moving the mouse in and out of a guest creates a delay which makes guests difficult to use.

#2 was present in 6.5.2 and earlier. It was fixed in 6.5.3 but the problem returns in WS 7 (not as bad, but bad enough to be very annoying).

It's time to look at Open Source solutions, I think - I'm tired of paying for product and support and not having problems properly fixed.

regards,

Re: VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

davidb2 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:22:54 GMT

jasimon9 wrote:FWIW, my long time favorite has been NOD32, which is not one of the most well-known, but top ranking on effectiveness, small footprint, and performance. I have also adopted ZoneAlarm Security Suite on lots of the systems I manage. And on the ones where I have NOD32, I have ZoneAlarm with AV turned off.

Sorry to be so ignorant, but when you say that on systems where you have NOD32 and ZoneAlarm with AV turned off, isn't NOD32 AV?

Also, how do you rank AVG Internet Security (paid)?

David

Re: ESXi 4 locks up every couple days

lowburb — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:28:01 GMT

ESXi installed perfectly. The only thing that didnt go "as planned" or "out of the box" was in-fact the RAID card. But I installed the manufactures drivers from their website via the host update utility.

I have pulled all my VM's off the RAID and removed the card all together. Now all I have is 3 standalone HDD's. One is the original 74GB "system" drive, second is a 500GB, third is one of my 1TB drives I robbed from the RAID which is the new home for my VM files. I'll see how this runs and then think about doing a memtest.

Is there any known issues with running an Intel G45 ICH10 chipset? I saw some posts about this combination, but those posts were a fairly old. I'd think that if ESXi didnt support it or run on it, it just wouldnt install, just like another box I attempted to install on. It just flat out didnt install.

Re: Fusion 3: Windows 7 Upgrade from XP Pro - No Drives Found

runningfish — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:27:51 GMT

Hey, I had the same problem, I am going the route of a "trail install" to an upgrade, is installing now. With any luck the product key will work after i upgrade this time

Re: vSphere 4u1 - any issues?

enDemand — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:27:28 GMT

Hope this is a rare issue, but for me, this one was quite impactful. After the complete upgrade (ESX 4.0 to U1 and vCenter Server 4 to U1), I realized that all of my resource pools and the few vApps that I had were gone. The VMs were still intact, but configured in a flat resource hierarchy. I initially noticed when jobs targeting those missing objects began failing. I'm assuming that the issue was a result of the vCenter Server upgrade and not the ESX upgrade.

Anyone else seen anything similar to this?

David

Re: SQL server 2005 performance issues

gerasimatos — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:07:43 GMT

Forgot to mention, we are running ESX 4.0 the latest release, which just came out Nov 19th.

SQL server 2005 performance issues

gerasimatos — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:06:52 GMT

We recently imported a physical machines that was running our production databases. The physical machine had dual 4 core Xenon processors, our VMware license only alows us to use a max of 4 Vcpu's and thus I configured it in such a manner. However, the performance is TERRIBLE. I know it has nothing to do with disk I/O as the VM is running on a SAN with a R10 configuration and 10 heads.

I did some research and read that we should look at the CPU ready time, which was VERY high. I lowered the number of Vcpu's to 2 and performance has gotten much better. I dont understand why performance is so bad with 4 Vcpu's and was wondering if there is some setting I am overlooking or that needs to be set.

I am not a DBA, so I have no idea when it comes to configuring SQL and any specific SQL settings. Any ideas what I should look into? Where should I start. HELP!??

Tasks hanging in vCenter 4.0U1

iankoenig — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:03:35 GMT

In an effort to migrate to vCenter 4.x from VirtualCenter 2.5 I did the following:

1) Disconnected all Hosts in VirtualCenter 2.5 system
2) Powered off VirtualCenter 2.5 system
3) Copied the VC25 database to a new 64bit SQL Server system
4) Installed vCenter 4.0 U1 on a new app server and pointed it to the new 64bit SQL Server instance.
5) Updated the database and did all that with no issues.
6) Removed all the Hosts that I didn't want managed by vCenter 4.0 U1 from the vCenter system and did likewise for the VirtualCenter 2.5. All hosts are in one or the other systems, not both.

Everything appears to be working just fine from the surface. After several hours of running the vCenter 4.0U1 system started to have tasks that DRS would start or would be started manually that would never finish or be acted upon. Example: Migrate virtual machine was initiated by the system (DRS) at 2pm today. I found it at 8pm today still sitting there waiting to start or finish or do something. Example2: Pushed the "Power On" on a VM that was moved to a new LUN and it is "In Progress" by System for the past 30 mins. I finally started it manually from the service console.

If I stop and restart the vCenter service, the tasks are cleared and if I reinitated them they take off immediately. I have no option to cancel the hung task from the vSphere client at all.

Anyone else see this or have any suggestions on what is going on? Where might I look to see why its hanging or cancel these manually without restarting vCenter?

Tasks hanging in vCenter 4.0U1

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

Cancel me please.

Re: Windows 2008 R2 + ESX4 + vCenter Client Console = FREEZE

jefmes — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:57:27 GMT

Very disappointing to hear the results you guys are seeing. We have been holding off on implementing Server 2008, partially so we can make a straight 32-bit to 64-bit move (on the Microsoft side) from 2003 R2 to 2008 R2. Considering the majority of our new server deployments are on VMWare, we won't be able to do that until this issue is resolved. I can't have Analysts bugging us about poor console performance, and RDP isn't always an option.

At the very least it would nice to hear an official response on this from VMWare. Yes yes, we know, submit through the official channels...but the truth of the matter is that the community comes together in places like this specifically to discuss these kinds of things and hopefully engage the vendor in the conversation.

Re: VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

jasimon9 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:51:23 GMT

FWIW, my long time favorite has been NOD32, which is not one of the most well-known, but top ranking on effectiveness, small footprint, and performance. I have also adopted ZoneAlarm Security Suite on lots of the systems I manage. And on the ones where I have NOD32, I have ZoneAlarm with AV turned off.