VMware Communities: Message List

Re: How to use the VmProvisioningChecker?

AngelaS — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:02:55 GMT

Manfred,

As mentioned in the previous post, ServiceContent.VmProvisioningChecker will only return in case of vSphere as this object has been newly added in vSphere and would not be available with VC 2.5. To use similar method which checks for host compatiblity for VMotion in VC 2.5, you can use QueryVMotionCompatibility_Task API which is the API of ServiceInstance managed object. However, this has been depricated in vSphere so you need to use QueryVMotionCompatibilityEx_Task API which is the method of VmProvisioningChecker managed object.

Hope this clarifies your query.

-Angela-

Re: REG:HA

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:59:52 GMT

You need:

same shared storage access
sname network for VM
same network of heartbeat (usually the service console/management interface)
VMware HA license
vCenter Agent license
available vCenter Server "connection"... ok if you have vCenter Standard... warning on vCenter Foundation (max 3 hosts)

Andre

Re: How to update vCenter 4.0 to 4.0u1

krowczynski — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:59:09 GMT

Hi,

this path should be done.

Update vcenter
Update VUM
Update hosts

-Update vmtools

MCP, VCP

Re: vSphere Host Update Utility Scan Failed

expr — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:58:08 GMT

Ok.

Can you ssh to the esx host? If so, run `df -h` to check for free space on the partitions (specially scratch)

Re: How to update vCenter 4.0 to 4.0u1

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:56:00 GMT

Run the setup and be sure to select "existing DB".
Also update the VUM and Converter server part.

Andre

Re: vCenter Services...(vSphere)

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:54:28 GMT

The remote name couldnot be resolved: hostname

It's a DNS resolution problem.
Try to add the name in hosts file both on vCenter Server and your client.
Also try to use the vCenter Client directly from a RDP session on vCenter Server.

How to get the VCenter services status inforamtion via VI SDK ..

For this question I cannot help... sorry.
Try to post in the relative community section

Andre

Re: Чем заменить RDP

vikarti — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:51:48 GMT

Вот у меня тоже похожий вопрос есть:
View 4 (Trial пока что) стоит
Пробую PCoIP с виртуалками - работает приемлимо
Хочу физическую машину добавить во View - говорят что надо железку от Teradici либо надо использовать RDP/RGS
Какую именно железку добавлять и как ее настраивать(учитывая что по тому что доступно в сети-например Teradici Host Card от EVGA вообще сама себе компьютер со своим сетевым стеком и своим IP)?Как такие конфигурации вообще настраиваются?И-вообще это работоспособно сейчас?
Насколько больше расходуется полоса по сравнению с софтовым PCoIP?

Также вопрос про HP RGS - я правильно понимаю что роль RGS Receiver играет сам View Client?Как быть например с USB Redirector'ом(который есть и во View Agent и в RGS Sender)-при работе по RGS -будет использоваться его редиректор а с PCoIP/RDP-от View Agent?

Internet на гостевой Ubuntu

Ghorgol — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:50:21 GMT

Помогите пожалуйста разобраться в следующей ситуации:

Имеем кабельный интернет через прокси сервер (Small Proxy Server), инет раздаётся динамически, но стоит ограничение по ip-адресу в 256 kb/s

В Wmware lan настроенно на bridge, а в гостевой ubuntu прописан прокси.Интернет на ubuntu работает, даже более чем, в этом и вопрос:

в гостевой ОС ограничения в 256 kb/s нет , и используется весь канал до 4-5 Mb/s, почему так я не могу понять

Re: Configure Passthrough

AGA1978 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:46:39 GMT

Hola de nuevo, gracias por la respuesta.
Tenía entendido que con vsphere4 y con esx4 se podía hacer passthrough con controladoras usb.

Saludos.

How to update vCenter 4.0 to 4.0u1

impag — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:44:42 GMT

I have three ESX hosts on vSphere 4.0 and got vCenter 4.0 running as well
I manually update vSphere Client 4.0 to 4.0u1 doing manual install procedures (setup.exe)
I run Update Manager on vSphereClient to apply updates to my hosts. So the hosts run 4.0u1 as well.

But how can I update my vCenter from 4.0 to 4.0u1? Do I have to take the full package 208167 and run setup?

Re: Need help about iSCSI .

mypass604 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:28:59 GMT

thanks again many many times. Yes on the vmware workstation it is by default as Bridge.I connect my phycal Lan card to a switch and then it enable and does't show message as following.

The Network Bridge on device VMnet0 is temporary down because the bridge Ethernet Interface...The Virtual Machine may not be able to communicate with the host or with other machines on your network.

I also make a new Hard disk using start port ....smile.

One problem is still there that my host operating system does't ping the guest operating system but the guest can ping what should be the problem.

Finally in the StarPort software I can see

Local Ram Disk devices
Virtual DVD
Image File device
AoE device

Can u please highlight it its purpose and what they are?

At the end I may pay many many thanks for your complete help and assistance.

bundle of thanks,
mypass

Re: vCenter Services...(vSphere)

kbr5678 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:41:45 GMT

Hi..
txs a lot
How to get the VCenter services status inforamtion via VI SDK ..

Re: vCenter Services...(vSphere)

kbr5678 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:41:00 GMT

Hi....
Exception in Vcenter service status
==========================
The following error occured while downloading the script plugin from https://hostname/health-ui/scriptC-onfig.xml: The remote name couldnot be resolved:
hostname

Re: Is it possible to convert from a hard disk?

BobAgi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:34:36 GMT

More info:
I decided to boot from an XP install CD to try to repair the installation.
To my surprise the XP setup did not see any hard disks on the PC!

But if I attach the vmdk to another XP virtual machine and boot it up then I can see this disk in disk manager and it is a healthy NTFS active partition on it.

I tried to remove it from my virtual machine and then re-add it but it seems not to make any difference.

If I start to BIOS the disk is not visible at all!

What is going on here???

Re: Setting up SCSI card

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:33:35 GMT

Driver updates can be found here - http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_4/4#drivers_tools or you can just update ESXi to the latest firmware version.

This is the version that comes back for ESXi 4.0 update 1 so if you get it installed you'll have the latest aacraid driver - Version: Version 1.1-52459.5vmw, Build: 208167, Interface: 9.0, Built on: Nov 8 2009
Parameters:

Dave
VMware Communities User Moderator

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vSphere Client on windows 2008 R2

lebron — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:25:59 GMT

Hi all,
I'd like to know whether a new release of vSphere client is on its way,
which would be easy to install on Windows 2008 R2 and without having
to perform all the manipulations we currently have to do in order to install it on this OS type.

Any news?

Thanks.

Re: Hardware Monitoring of IBM x3850 servers running ESX4

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:23:24 GMT

DNS resolution is fine?
Is the only vCenter service that does not work? The plugins are fine?

Andre

No Hardware Acceleration after U1

Sven Vollmann — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:15:48 GMT

Hello,

after installing yesterday the U1 of vSphere and vCenter we tried to install a new Windows 2008 R2 Server with paravirtualized Controller for the Bootdisk.
All worked fine (the VM does not freeze) but still the Hardware Acceleration is full activated after the installation of the VM-Tools the mouse judders and it seems that there is no Hardware Acceleration .
Any ideas ?

Yours sincerley

Sven

Re: Not able to find "ssh_config and lwiod_config" files in ESXi4.0

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:15:15 GMT

ESXi has a limited (and unsupported) management console.
If you enable SSH, then root access is enabled.
To isolate root from non-root access see:
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/08/14/esxi-ssh-and-non-root-users/

Andre

Re: Not able to find "ssh_config and lwiod_config" files in ESXi4.0

ESX41 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:14:37 GMT

hi ,

Thanks for the reply, i already enabled SSH in the path /etc/inet.conf. I know DBCLIENT is also used for authentication purpose as SSH only ,if it so then where is dbclient conf file?? i found one conf file for dbclient in the path "/etc/dhclient-vmk0.leases"(i am not sure whether it is the conf file for dbclient or not).

In the same way can i know about "lwiod.conf" file,where it is placed i found it is not there is ESXi4.0,can i know why it is not there.whereas it is present in ESX4.0.

please suggest.

thanks,

Srinivas

Re: Problems with VMotion on VC/ESX 4.0u1

anh — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:11:31 GMT

You could try to make a new cluster with EVC enabled.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1013111

Regards
Anders Hansen

http://www.virtualize.dk

ESXi 3.5 on a HP ProLiant ML110 G3

sebi88 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:06:50 GMT

Hello

I have tried a lot. But always the same result.

I try ESXi 3.5 U4 on an HP ProLiant ML 110 G3 to run. Installation CD and USB stick. Generig and HP image.
I always get the Purple screen with an APIC message if he wants to load the ipmv module.

Current BIOS is installed.
Hard disk are in Compatibility mode (SATA only) in BIOS. There are 2x SATA disk. No RAID.
I try many diffrent setings in BIOS... But always same result...

I know it is not supported HW.
I have searched a lot and I know I'm not the only one how wants to install it on a ML110 G3.
So maybe there are some new ideas what i could to try!

Thanks!!!
Sebi

REG:HA

krisrao — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:02:58 GMT

what are the prerequisites to add new server into existing HA servers.

Re: vCenter Services...(vSphere)

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:02:57 GMT

Be sure that vCenter can do a DNS resolution for itself.
Also check that there isn't a local firewall that block some ports.

What's the error of the plugin?
Have you tried to upgrade to U1?

Andre

Re: How to Connect to ESX Server 3.5 programmatically (C#) using VI SDK 4

lamw — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:02:46 GMT

Please take a look at: Getting Started with vSphere SDKs

Here is a sample code repository for C#: Web Services SDK - C# and of course visit the Developer forums: http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer

=========================================================================
William Lam
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

If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".

Re: Workstation 7: Can't SSH to guest from host....Bridged networking broken?

kkeeton — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:00:25 GMT

dont seem to have the issue on other builds of linux, only newest ubuntu.. will test with other ubuntus

Lock Player 2.5.3. No rights for normal Useres

Syntetic — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:58:45 GMT

Hi,

i woud like to create a VM on a Laptop. The user should not be able to switch between NAT & Bridged Networkmode. He has only to use the configuration that i give him and he should not able to change the configuration. Is there a way to do this?

Re: Disable USB Passthrough has no effect

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:58:03 GMT

Glad to hear it worked out for you.

Dave
VMware Communities User Moderator

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Re: ESXi 4.0U1, ICH10, JMicron, Passthrough Separation Issue

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:55:40 GMT

When a VMDirectPath VM is started ESXi must reset the device and in some cases it has to reset all devices on a common bush. It may be that these devices all share a PCI bridge. You can confirm that by looking at esx.conf and seeing which device is enabled for passthru. See some examples here - With ESXi you can enable SSH but it is not supported unless directed by VMware tech support - http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/ESXi_enable_SSH.php. With a standalone ESXi host you don't have the option for AD inDave .

Dave
VMware Communities User Moderator

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Do you have a system or PCI card working with VMDirectPath? Submit your specs to the Unofficial VMDirectPath HCL.

Re: Not able to find "ssh_config and lwiod_config" files in ESXi4.0

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:52:05 GMT

With ESXi you can enable SSH but it is not supported unless directed by VMware tech support - http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/ESXi_enable_SSH.php. With a standalone ESXi host you don't have the option for AD integration. If you have vCenter Server then you can assign AD permissions but on it's own ESXi is missing the necessary modules for AD.

Dave
VMware Communities User Moderator

Now available - vSphere Quick Start Guide
Do you have a system or PCI card working with VMDirectPath? Submit your specs to the Unofficial VMDirectPath HCL.

Re: Connect-VIServer - scope of execution

LucD — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:50:58 GMT

Which PowerShell version are you using ?
And from where did you try the script ? PowerCLI prompt, PS prompt, PS IDE, PowerGui, EcoShell...

Re: vCenter Services...(vSphere)

kbr5678 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:47:27 GMT

Hi ..
Actually in plug- ins->ManagePlugins->VCenter services status is Disabled...I think this the problem .am not able to view that one..I have attached img also..

And one More How to get the VCenter services status inforamtion via VI SDK

Re: Get-Cluster - CPU Usage 95%

LucD — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:46:13 GMT

The high CPU usage probably also depends on the other load you have on your VC and the type of HW your VC is running on.
In my environment that query doesn't go higher than 30% CPU usage.

To start with you can optimise the small script like this

Get-VM | %{
	Get-Cluster -VM $_
}

If you pass the VM-name to the Get-Cluster cmdlet it will have to perform a Get-Vm (again).
By passing the VirtualMachineImpl object (output from the Get-Vm), you avoid that extra (internal) step.
I noticed that the script uses only half of the CPU resources compared to the original script.

Not able to find "ssh_config and lwiod_config" files in ESXi4.0

ESX41 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:34:26 GMT

hi,

i had installed ESX and ESXi 4.0 versions.i am able to join the domain and even authenticate with domain users.

In ESX4.0 i am able to find /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etclikewise/lwiod.conf files,but the same is not seen in ESXi4.0. i am not able to find these two files in ESXi,can i know the reason behind this. i know ESXi4.0 is not supporting SSH but iam able to login using domain users using dbclient option.then where this dbclient files will present.please help me

thanks,

Srinivas

Re: Get Guest OS Family and OS Full Name from PowerCLI when VM Tools not installed?

LucD — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:33:25 GMT

Partially right.
The OS that you see in the VIC or in the VMX is what the creator of the guest defined during the creation.
It corresponds with the -GuestId parameter on the New-VM cmdlet.
See Errors when specifying GuestIDs to New-VM for some more info on this GuestId.

The problem is that the creator of the guest can define whatever he wants in here, it doesn't have to correspond with the actual installed OS on the guest !

You can get that entry like this

(Get-VM <VM-name> | Get-View).summary.config.guestFullName

Re: I put ESXi 4 on too small of a USB thumb drive...

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:27:46 GMT

Do you have a scratch partition configured for the host? 1 GB is sufficient to run ESXi and if you're cloning be aware that the dump partition is not FAT. It might be better to run a new install and then restore a configuratio backup.

Dave
VMware Communities User Moderator

Now available - vSphere Quick Start Guide
Do you have a system or PCI card working with VMDirectPath? Submit your specs to the Unofficial VMDirectPath HCL.

Re: How do I migrate XP PC to Fusion 3

wattle — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:25:35 GMT

I have the same problem.

I have found a log file that - see attached.
It looks to me like it gets to starting the ssl connection, then immediately shuts down.

Is it dependent on your web browser configuration? I use Firefox as primary browser on this windows PC.
Tablet XP actually.

specs of server needed for run 44 VM

dmankg — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:24:07 GMT

hi all,

task is to give for 44 guests(think clients) remote desktops.
this think clients will be connected to tv sets in each room so guests use pc and watch iptv and hdtv.
pcoip with vmware view 4 will be used.

specs of server needed so server can easily maintain such amount of work.
any advices plzz

Re: Data recovery, impressioni

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:23:00 GMT

Ma stai usando vRanger o VDR (Data Recovery)?
La velocità comunque è già abbastanza alta (12990 MB/minute).

Andre

Re: Cann´t connect a NFS server to ESX 3.5

arumon — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:14:41 GMT

Hi Roluje,

One more doube on this.
Why it is not resolving the name??

Regards,
Aravind

Re: vCenter Services...(vSphere)

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:12:59 GMT

Are you connected to vCenter Server?
Do you have the menu in Administrator menubar?

Andre

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

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:07:54 GMT

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.

HCL change from 3.x to 4.0... so check it again.

You output its' ok... all vmnics are up in full mode 1Gb.
I do not know what's is this card:

cdceth0 00:00.00 CDCEther Up 0Mbps Half 1500 Intel Corporation Unknown

... but it isn't a vmnic...

Andre

VMware tools при переходе на Update1

SaratovGOV — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:05:37 GMT

Добрый день!

Наблюдается интересная особенность. Сервера ESX обновление Update01 восприняли без проблем и все изменения прошли в штатном режиме.

На виртуальных серверах появилось предупреждение о необходимости обновить VMware tools.

Обновление стартует нормально, но НЕ ЗАВЕРШАЕТСЯ!!! Приходится в аварийном режиме перегружать сервер, после этого, вроде бы все нормализуется.

Как правильно обновить VMware tools?

характеристика сервера для 44 ВМ

dmankg — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:03:26 GMT

Приветствую!

есть задача в каждый номер отеля а их 44 поставить тонкие клиенты а тонкие клиенты подключить к телевизорам.
главный сервак будет раздавать 44 виртуальным машинам(тонкие клиенты) hdtv и iptv. все будет сделано через pcoip использую vmware view 4.
на данный момент возникает вопрос от которого болит голова какие характеристики должны быть у сервака чтобы он с легкостью с этим справился.
Благодарю за советы!

Re: vSphere-client as a thinapp package

mikelane — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:01:02 GMT

It looks like the new vSphere Client that was released today with vSphere 4.0 Update 1 works as a thinapp (on Windows 7 at least anyway) ... would be great if VMware would release a thinapped version of the application still ...

Re: Is it possible to convert from a hard disk?

BobAgi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:59:48 GMT

So now I have successfully created the virtual disk image of the physical disk using vmware-vdiskmanager.exe.

Then inside VMWare Workstation I created a new virtual machine using this disk image as the disk for it. I made it a WinXP virtual machine and used the defaults except for networking which was set to bridged.

Then I used the VMWare converter 3.0.2u1-62546 which I had already installed on my PC and used the Configure function since the disk conversion was already done. Configure opened up the virtual mchine and did something inside the vmx and vmdk files and finished in quite a short time.

So I then tried to start the new vm from WorkStation, but it failed. I am only seeing a black screen with a blinking cursor. Apparently it is not booting.

If I check the vmdk by looking into it with WinImage all seems to be just fine and dandy. The boot.ini file looks fine for example.

The source disk was a 320 Gb drive with two partitions, one 200 Gb system part with about 70 Gb of data and where Windows was installed. The other was a 120 Gb data partition with a lot of data. But I figured that I could cope with that data later so I only converted the system partition, was this an erroneous decision?

What do I do now to make the virtual machine _boot up_?

How to Connect to ESX Server 3.5 programmatically (C#) using VI SDK 4

newsharon86 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:52:01 GMT

Hi All,

I have downlaoded VI SDK 4 , can anyone provide me help to connect to ESX Server 3.5 using VI SDK API or methoda in that

Re: Cannot Purchase Upgrade To Workstation 7

cdc — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:41:22 GMT

Still no contact from VMware regarding my issue ...

See them tumbling down,
Pledging their love to the ground,
Lonely but free I'll be found,
Drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweed.

Bob Nolan, "Tumbling Tumbleweed"

Re: Can/How to ESXi 4.0 to an HP ML350 G4p

enDemand — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:48:36 GMT

Wow...been a while since I've seen a thread like this. But if it makes some feel better..."I was wrong!" Well partially. It wasn't accurate just to say that it won't install on a DL350 G4p. I guess what I should have said was "It's not a supported configuration", which was my intent. I have no clue whether it would install or not...and that wasn't the point of the post. The 2nd part of the response was directed to the question about running 64-bit VMs. Just my opinion, but when someone new to VMware infrastructure asks a question similar to the original post, I think it's the community's responsibility to direct them to supported configurations or at least make it clear that the reply is not supported and generally not recommended for running in a production environment...something that wasn't done in the initial response. With that said, thanks to cookieme for clarifying the situation!

vCenter Services...(vSphere)

kbr5678 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:44:27 GMT

Hi..
Iam not able to view that vCenter Services in VI Client(Home-->Adminis)..Is any about that?
How to get those information via VI SDK..

Re: cmd.exe copy speed limitation -> Powershell

Lakshmi Gayatri — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:36:39 GMT

My setup is using EMC san array with Emulex FC cards.

Just taken a fullvm backup of a 30GB VM (full data on disk) within 5 minutes .I use vcbMounter from the cmd prompt.

Re: Running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 on a VM

weinstein5 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:30:11 GMT

You can actually use VMware Converter to import a VHD and create a VM on an ESX server -

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VNC and Vmware

papatangocharly — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:28:00 GMT

Hi

Can anybody tell if VMWare 7.0 has got some improvement on the mbedded VNC server or if any future release (when ?) will have ?
I am mostly looking for support for:

copy/paste between the remote machien and the VMware accessed through VNC
file transfer
java access thorugh http

Thank you

Re: Paravirtual SCSI floppy images for 4.0U1?

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:23:56 GMT

You can use the pvscsi-1.0.0.5-signed-Windows200X.flp image.
But on ESXi installation there isn't.
So just take from a full ESX installation.

Or try (but I not sure that it can work) with /store/packages/4.0.0/floppies/vmscsi-1.2.1.0-signed.flp

Andre

Re: PCoIP graphic distortion

supportsd — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:22:08 GMT

Knowing that everything renders first in a lossy state then transitions to lossless is good to know. Because that behavior is not expected, it has a tendency to seem incorrect. One of the main issues is that even small image alt tags when browsing render first as lossy, then move to lossless. This gives the overall impression of a blurry display.

Do you know of any parameters that can be adjusted or tweaked to adjust this behaviour?

Re: ESX3i - Create Resource Pool on other server?

hstern03 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:19:26 GMT

oh ok. thank you so much for your time. i'm sorry it came to an uneventful ending. I ordered another 4 gigs. I'll be sure to let you know what happens.

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

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:15:57 GMT

Thanks for helping me Andre.

You're welcome.

PS: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/243404

Andre

Re: vmware esxi4 does not support nehalem processors

Josh26 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:14:22 GMT

As stated above, this will be your BIOS that is failing to support VT, rather than your processors.
I would look at whether there is a firmware update applicable to your hardware.

Re: Intel PRO/1000 NICs not working

scratchfury79 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:14:01 GMT

I used "esxcfg-module -s IntMode=1 e1000e" and got my Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter working under ESXi 4.0 on a Dell Optiplex 740. Thank you, AramiS_1970!

Re: VCP[4] - Passed

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:10:08 GMT

Well done!

Andre

Re: I put ESXi 4 on too small of a USB thumb drive...

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:08:38 GMT

It can work... cause ESXi "system" partitions are simple FAT partions.

Andre

Paravirtual SCSI floppy images for 4.0U1?

DSeaman — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:07:37 GMT

In the release notes for 4.0 U1 it says the Paravirtual SCSI adaptor can now be used for the boot drive. During the Windows OS installation you can press F6 and point it to the /vmimages/floppies directory for the needed drivers. The problem is with my ESXi 4.0 U1 host, I can locate the vmimages directory but there's nothing in there. So where are these mysterious paravirtual floppy images for Windows 2003/2008?

Quorum Cluster Functionality in Vmware 7

netbob — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:06:50 GMT

I've tried to get clustering working to use a Quorum disk and the basic steps that used to work in 5.5 give me variable errors with 7. Has anyone done this using 7? (I know that the official line is not supported in a production environment but really, Vmware is for our test environments too so...)

Here are the changes to the vmx file that I have added:
' Add the following lines to create a second SCSI channel:
scsi1.present = “TRUE”
scsi1.virtualDev = “lsilogic”

' Modify the additional hard drives to be attached to the new SCSI channel. Example:
scsi1:5.present = “TRUE”
scsi1:5.fileName = “I:\Cluster Shared\Quorum.vmdk”

scsi1:6.present = “TRUE”
scsi1:6.fileName = “I:\Cluster Shared\Data.vmdk”

' Add the following lines to disable disk locking and caching:
disk.locking = “false”
diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = “0″

Thanks in advance,
Nb

Re: what's the difference between VixVM_CreateSnapshot and VixVM_BeginRecording?

enDemand — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:02:30 GMT

VixVM_CreateSnapshot creates a static snapshot that represents a point-in-time of the VM, where VixVM_BeginRecording creates a snapshot that will continue to grow with recorded "transactions" that represent activity within the VM since the point-in-time when the snapshot was taken. Note that you must eventually call VixVM_EndRecording to stop recording or, theoretically, you will continue to record indefinitely. The recording functionality was made available with the release of Workstation 6.5. In comparison, VixVM_CreateSnapshot was a valid call back since Workstation 6.0 (VIX API 1.1). Hope this helps.

Get Guest OS Family and OS Full Name from PowerCLI when VM Tools not installed?

Schorschi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00:37 GMT

Ok, been looking for this one, but need some help... If a VM is powered off, or does not have the VMware tools installed you can not get the OS Family or OS Full Name? That can just not be right... it is in the VMX file, in the VI Client GUI, so PowerCLI must be able to get it some how, right? Someone has to have tackled this one! Right?

Re: Chrome OS - VMWARE no network connection in Windows 7

netbob — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:56:08 GMT

I've tried this with Vmw 7 and here are basic tips:
1.) To use the vmdk file, open VMware and create a new virtual machine. One of the options will be to use an "existing virtual disk." (In VMware Fusion, this is the last option below, "use operating system disk" and "use OS disc image file.")
2.) Make sure your VM is set to use bridged networking, rather than NAT.
2.) The username and password to login to Chrome OS / Chromium OS is your google account!

Re: I put ESXi 4 on too small of a USB thumb drive...

SlickBag — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:54:43 GMT

Thanks. We use Acronis TrueImage, do you think that would work with USB thumb drives?

Nelson

Re: Running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 on a VM

galibai — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:54:23 GMT

I have a microsoft disks and the only way that I know that will work in to install the Virtual Server. Can I convert those disks into vmdk files ? I dont know.

Thanks

Re: VCP[4] - Passed

weinstein5 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:53:59 GMT

Congratulations!

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Re: I put ESXi 4 on too small of a USB thumb drive...

lowburb — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:52:13 GMT

Just clone the USB drive to a larger one. Something like Symantec's Ghost would do you just fine. It'd also extend the partition to full capacity.

Com Port Problem in Win98 with VMWARE

ar34x — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:51:38 GMT

Hi,

I needed to run few older soft for servicing mobile ....

Which can only be run in win98 (as they were made in it years ago) so i installed Vmware workstation and Win98 in it on my System running winxp (sp2)

NOw problem is All my servicing soft runs only on COM1 port ...when i run soft and try to execute any operation it just not get any response from Phone ...neither any error on soft ...Soft keep searching for reply from Phone or device connected...

I think com is not geting properly communicate with mobile or device ....

Any work out how to solve this issue ?

Re: Intel PRO/1000 NICs not working

MarcBouchard — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:45:35 GMT

Will try that as soon as I get a chance. Thanks for posting this!

Re: ESX3i - Create Resource Pool on other server?

weinstein5 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:43:17 GMT

That limit calue will fluctuate as memory is used by VMs - and looking at the DRS usage you have one host that memory is 80% utilized and theother about 40% utilized - so there is a lot of memory being used -

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Re: Intel PRO/1000 NICs not working

MarcBouchard — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:41:14 GMT

I put ESXi 4 on too small of a USB thumb drive...

SlickBag — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:41:02 GMT

I screwed up and put ESXi on a 1 GB USB thumb drive. That was the only one I had that would fit vertically in an HP ProLiant DL380 server (all my other ones were too tall). Yes, I am an idiot

I figured the ESXi installer would complain if it was too small - it didn't, so I figured I was safe and carried on with the install.

Now I trying to update to ESXi 4 U1 and the if fails telling me there is not enough space. Anyone have any suggestions? I thought of these possible options:

1) Install 1 of the 4 updates at a time, hoping it deletes temp files each time and there would be enough space to do at least one, and then move on to the next one.
2) Build a new ESXi 4 server will the same configuration (on a larger USB) and swap them? Would this work? Would it recognize my existing SAS drives I use for the VMDK files and let me import the VMs? I am using all local drives with no SAN connection.
3) Copy the USB to a new one...not sure of the techincal skills required to do this...I am not much of a Linux admin

SB

Re: Running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 on a VM

weinstein5 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:31:54 GMT

I do not know the answer to your question - but I do have a question for your - Why would you want to do that?

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Re: Player 3.0 full screen mode issues

brf — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:30:48 GMT

Just downloaded a Workstation 7 eval. Thank god they didn't create this problem there too. It works fine.

Surely there has to be a way to avoid this full-screen mess in Player 3 though.

Remote debugging not working in VM7

danra — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:30:41 GMT

Hi,

I was able to remote debug using a trial VM 6.5, but I can't using my recently purchased vm workstation version 7.0.0.

Firewalls are off, same username/password/domain on host and guest, changed the "users log on as themselves" in the security policy but... When I start the live debugging visual studio gets stuck and after a few minutes gives the attached generic error message.

In the VM, the msvsmon is started but can't find any process to attach to.

I am able to start a process without debugging.

The error messages I get in the log file when I attach start a process are

Failed to attach the debugger to selected processes. (in case of attaching)
Debugger->Go failed with error 0x80004005 (in case of starting)

Would very much appreciate any help...

Re: P2V guest black screen

dmadden — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:12:07 GMT

There's a couple of solutions here:

1) Reconfigure the virtual disk file to be a SCSI disk instead of IDE

Remove the virtual disk from the virtual machine (right-click edit settings -> hard disk -> remove from virtual machine -> OK)
Connect to service console (ESX) or unsupported mode (ESXi) and open the descriptor disk with a text editor such as vi (i.e. "vi /vmfs/volumes/storage/virtualmachinefolder/virtualdisk.vmdk"
Change ide to "buslogic" or "lsilogic" and save the file
Add the virtual disk back to the virtual machine (right-click edit settings -> add -> hard disk -> use existing disk -> browse to the disk etc)
Verify that the scsi controller is set to buslogic or lsilogic (buslogic will probably have the most success)
Power on the virtual machine

2) Use Converter to create the destination disk as SCSI instead of IDE

Converter 4x has a new disk controller option that is defaulted to "preserve source"
If the original disk is IDE, the virtual disk will be IDE as well
Perform the conversion again and go through the Converter Wizard
On the 2nd last screen with the various "Edit" options, there should be an Edit button for devices (without looking at the screen)
Select the dropdown menu and choose buslogic/lsilogic instead of preserve source
Convert the VM and it should boot

Rule of thumb is that if the virtual machine boots up and it immediately has a black screen with a blinking cursor at the top left, then it's a hardware issue (controller most likely).

Hope this helps.

Re: P2V guest black screen

lowburb — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:04:31 GMT

Vegemite

I did as described above, which was changing the destination disk controller to SCSI BusLogic Parallel when converting. I did it within the conversion process. The default is "preserve source" and I forced it to SCSI which makes it SCSI (0:0) Hard Disk 1.

Try going into your SCSI controller and changing it from what it is now (which is what?) to what I have set on mine, which is BusLogic Parallel and see if you have the SCSI options in your hard disk configuration.

If this doesnt work, I'd try the conversion one more time, but making sure to change the "preserve source" for the HDD or SCSI controller and set it accordingly. I had a few XP machines go wrong and they ended up like this and I never did resolve it. I did it today with this new "fix" and it worked when it previously did not.

Also, I was wrong with my first assumption of the piracy protection in Windows. It will just force you to re-activiate before you're allowed to sign in. This is also assuming you're not running a volume license version of XP.

Re: BackupExec & Solaris 10 VM issue

rappleby — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:03:08 GMT

Hi,

I am having exactly the same issue but with BackupExec 12.5, using Solaris 10 64bit.

Any solution?

regards,
Rob

Миграция VM на новый vCenter

alex77501 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:03:04 GMT

Есть vCenter 4.0 и 14 блэйдов с ESX 4.0 привязанных к нему, все используют vNetwork Distributed Switch. Поднял новый vCenter 4 на друггой машине со своей базой. Необходимо привязать все хосты к нему. Как правильно это сделать?
Если бы использовались обычные vSwitch а не Distributed, все понятно, отсоединяем хост от старого vCenter и присоединяем к новому. А как смигрировать настройки Distributed Switch на новый vCenter?

Re: VM's at Recovery takes longer times to power on after recovery

Funtoosh — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:56:02 GMT

Ok here is the catch though. I will try to follow what you have suggested. I have 4 host cluster and only 3 of them had this issue . Other one was doing just fine.
I have support case open and keep you updated. I will also update how your suggesation worked out.

Thanks
Funtoosh

Player 3.0 full screen mode issues

brf — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:52:04 GMT

I've used VMware Workstation 4, 5, and 6 quite a bit in the past, just decided to give VMware Player 3.0 a try. Linux host, Windows XP guest.

A "feature" I've noticed is that when you resize your VMware Player window to take up all of your screen (not counting your KDE taskbar, apparently), it automatically jumps to full screen mode. This is actually extremely annoying because I want my KDE taskbar available at all times. I don't want VMware Player to ever go into full-screen mode. Is there a way to make this happen? Hard to believe there isn't, but I haven't found any info (or, surprisingly, anyone else complaining about this) on the net.

Moving from 3.0 to 2.6

MWMadison27 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:45:11 GMT

What is involved in moving from Fusion 3.0 BACK to 2.6? The performance on 3.0 is not acceptable. Are the VM files backward compatible?

Has anyone heard if Parallels has a similar problem?

Quicken 2008 install gives error 1603

phl08 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:43:23 GMT

I have seen many internet threads about error 1603 when installing Quicken 2008 in my VMFusion session. They all say to do a complete cleanup, run the Intuit cleaner, etc. I have tried installing it as Administrator, in safe mode, etc. but I keep getting the error.

I am running VM Fusion 3.0 (but also had the issues in 2.x), and I have tried it in both a Win 7 64 bit image as well as an XP image.

Any ideas??

Re: ESXi free DL380 G6 just spontaneously reboot.

slofly — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:41:33 GMT

My system works stable (after replacing motherboard almost week ago). I will put it in production now.

vSphere Host Update Utility Scan Failed

inasol — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:30:50 GMT

Hi everyone,

I've recently upgraded my Dell PE2950iii ESXi 3.5 Embedded to 4.0. After the upgrade I was unable to patch the host after successfully scanning and downloading the 2 available patches. I then decided (after reading a user's post) to run the Repair option on the ESXi 4 CD. The repair went through fine without any visible errors. Now that I am attempting scan and patch my host, I get an error which referred me to an viu-3 log file. I'm not to clear on how to read it but I managed to locate this piece of info that may be valuable in determining what is at fault in my setup.

VIU :QuickInf 2009-11-18 17:10:15.328 msg: hostCacheManager, 50 cache location: /tmp/updatecache cache size: 260408MB
VIU :QuickInf 2009-11-18 17:10:15.328 msg: Host scanner wrapper: scanning(all) started.
VIU :QuickInf 2009-11-18 17:10:15.328 inf: Managed patch manager using metadata URLs:
VIU :QuickInf 2009-11-18 17:10:15.328 inf: Start uploading files to host
VIU :QuickInf 2009-11-18 17:10:15.328 inf: Event posted: Start uploading files to host
VIU :QuickInf 2009-11-18 17:10:15.328 inf: Upload file: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VI Update/vmw/metadata/vmw-ESXi-4.0.0-metadata.zip to: /tmp/updatecache/vmw-ESXi-4.0.0-metadata.zip
VIU :QuickInf 2009-11-18 17:10:15.328 inf: Managed patch manager uploading file, src: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VI Update/vmw/metadata/vmw-ESXi-4.0.0-metadata.zip, dst: /tmp/updatecache/vmw-ESXi-4.0.0-metadata.zip
VIU :QuickInf 2009-11-18 17:10:15.328 msg: Host scanner wrapper scanning(all) failed [2]: I/O error occurred. Failure details: System.IO.IOException: I/O error occurred.

Can someone please advise me on how to proceed?

Re: vSphere Host Update Utility Scan Failed

inasol — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:37:42 GMT

I'm using Host Update Utility installed on a Windows XP pc in the USVI

what's the difference between VixVM_CreateSnapshot and VixVM_BeginRecording?

brownliu — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:27:00 GMT

I have learnt vix api recently, and I found that both VixVM_CreateSnapshot and VixVM_BeginRecording can create a snapshot, I want to know the difference between them, can anyone help me?

thanks!

Re: TIP: for those affected by 'microcode levels not supported' pink screen at installation (cpu stepping mismatch, tlb bug, etc.)

eku1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:25:04 GMT

Is there a trick to making the boot argument permanent? I have to enter "esxcfg-advcfg -k TRUE skipmicrocodecompatcheck`` every time I reboot the machine. This isn`t the practical in case the power goes out and I want it to reboot automatically.

如何修改vSphere Http的端口，如将 80 和443端口修改掉，增加安全性

realji — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:00 GMT

请问如何修改vSphere Http的端口，如将 80 和443端口修改掉，以增加安全性。
我没有在esx的配置文件中找到这部分的设置。

Re: ESXi 4.0U1, ICH10, JMicron, Passthrough Separation Issue

datarimlens — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:23:46 GMT

Do I not read the p6tconfig.jpg correctly?

I understood it as the ICH10 SATA being one device and the JMicron (4 main lines from the bottom) another. The SATA AHCI line says nothing about ports either. The behavior is more as if all devices on the board (including the plugin card for ethernet, which is clearly a separate device, just as the JMicron chips) are subsumed as ICH10 under the ports of the ICH. So, for example even if I would plug in another SATA controller, it could end up being classified as ICH10 and not be available separately. How do you then keep running an ESXi with local resources? I thought several controllers in one box are possible?

I would really just like to use one device for a VM and keep the other one for the host without being usurped. It was not clear to me that the anexation of the JMicron was real or just a configuration issue (to be clear, the JMicron is NOT on the Intel Chip, but a separately attached controller, just like the Ethernet card). How do you read the p6tconfig?

Re: P2V guest black screen

vegemite — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:50:47 GMT

Well I've tried a few things but without any luck. Still get the black screen. I tried the following:

Re-installed the Vmware agent on the XP guest.

VM's hard disk can only be set to "IDE (0:0) hard disk 1"

Copied "sysprep" MS files to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\sysprep\xp, on both the vCenter Server and the source physical XPmachine.

@ lowburb - yes I have the same problem - the XP logo doesn't show at all.

Attached are some screenshots...

Thanks all!

Message was edited by: vegemite

Re: Very Slow /Misrendered Window Drawing in Unity

Texasbob — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:19:00 GMT

I have the same problems. The best suggestion I've heard is to switch into unity mode and then change your desktop wallpaper in Windows to match your wallpaper on your Mac. It doesn't fix any of the drawing problems, but it tricks you into thinking its not as bad. I really hope VMware at least acknowledges this problem. Thus far I am really disappointed with this upgrade.

Re: Can/How to ESXi 4.0 to an HP ML350 G4p

cookieme — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:18:30 GMT

enDemand wrote:

You won't be able to install ESXi 4.0 on an ML350 G4p. The minimum requirement is a G5, as Intel-VT must be available and supported by the chipset and CPU. I think this is due to the 64-bit nature of ESXi 4. Either way, the G4 is not on the HCL for ESXi 4.0 or 4.0U1:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

This is incorrect! Yes, the server does not have Intel-VT (correct) and therefore you cannot run 64bit virtual machines. Nonetheless, enDemand has said that ESXi won't install because the minimum requirement is a G5 with Intel-VT. These statements are just wrong.

So, if you like it is not totally incorrect. Just incorrect. Better?