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Re: "Resource Allocation" error: spec.memAllocation.overheadLimit

habibalby — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:06:35 GMT

Hello,

just to confirm that, this problem is still exists in vSphere 4-U1.

I've just upgraded my hosts to vSphere U1, after i found everything working fine, i have shutdown the vCenter VM to upgrade the VM-Tools, and accessed to the host where the vCenter was running. when i ugraded the VMTools, and PowerOn the vCenter VM, i see the error still appearing in the host.

A specified parameter was not correc" error: spec.memAllocation.overheadLimit

Best Regards,

Hussain Al Sayed

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Re: 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

Re: Moving a virtual machine to a different hard drive

Jain — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:03:31 GMT

Follow below steps :

1. Shut down the guest operating system and power off the virtual machine. If the virtual machine is suspended, resume it, then shut down the guest operating system

2.Copy all the files in the virtual machine's original directory to the new location.

3. If you stored any files in directories other than the virtual machine directory, be sure to move them into a directory of the same name and same position relative to the location of the virtual machine.

4. Start VMware Workstation and open the new virtual machine you just created. Choose File > Open, then browse to the virtual machine's configuration (.vmx) file.

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Re: ESX iSCSI Storage - Error

Dave.Mishchenko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:01:39 GMT

I would open a support call if you can, but as a last ditch effort you might try this driver to give access to the LUN from Linux / Windows - http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/.

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Re: esx 4.0 vmotion broken (on some VMs, not all) - not sure when/why

krowczynski — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:00:57 GMT

Hi,

check this out if it can help you.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1011294&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=50096468&stateId=0 0 50459451

MCP, VCP

Re: vSphere Client on windows 2008 R2

lebron — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:00:46 GMT

That is not exactly true.
It does work, but only after lots of manipulations

Re: PETITION - Native Mac version of the VI Client

v1n2 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:58:53 GMT

Re: Windows 2008 R2

krowczynski — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:58:12 GMT

HI,

as far as I know it is supported only since vsphere Update1.

MCP, VCP

esx 4.0 vmotion broken (on some VMs, not all) - not sure when/why

thro — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:56:36 GMT

Hi all,

For a while now I've been getting the following error when trying to vmotion several of my VMs:

"Host CPU is incompatible with the virtual machine's requirements at CPUID level 0x1 register 'ecx'.

Host bits: 0000:0000:0000:1000:0010:0000:0001
Required: 1000:0000:0000:100x:xxx0:0x1x:xxx0:x001

Mismatch detected for these features:
*general incompatibilities; refer to KB article 1993 for possible solutions."

Now, the thing is... all of my hosts are identical in terms of CPU. They've been happily running vmotion for the past year and a half under ESX 3.5, and these same hosts can vmotion other VMs. These same VMs have been vmotioned in the past. I'm certain they have also vmotioned in the past on ESX4 as well (to do updates via update manager after the 4.0 upgrade).

Vmware tools are up-to-date.

Any idea what gives?

Re: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error when trying to use a disk with vSphere Client

cdc — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:57:49 GMT

I would bet dollars to donuts that you have previously had the hard drive you're trying to add setup as part of a RAID array before you put it into your ESXi system.

If so, you'll have to clear the MBR of that hard drive before you attempt to add it to the storage configuration in ESXi.

Windows 2008 R2

talmizrahi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:54:14 GMT

Hi, I'm currently using ESX 3.5 and i need to install Windows 2008 R2 guest machine. Is it supported ?
On other v Sphere ESX Server I can see Windows 2008 R2 but 3.5 is too old.

Thanks!

Re: Windows7 Guest hangs / Excessive HD IO

Jason Hersey — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:54:09 GMT

I noticed this by accident when troubleshooting this with extra attention to options details. If you look in the dropdown for Operating System and you are running a Windows 7 64-bit Guest on a 64-bit host, the auto install pick Windows 7 32-bit rather than 64-bit. I changed it to Windows 7 64-bit and the thrashing and excessive IO seems to have vanished with performance back to it's expected levels.

Hope this helps someone.

J

Re: VMware Logins - Too Many

Dave.Mishchenko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:53:36 GMT

Moved to the Communities Website Feedback forum.

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Re: Fusion 3.0, Bootcamp and Office 2007 Activiation Issue

getz76 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:51:47 GMT

I am having the same issue.

VMware Fusion 3.0
Mac OS X 10.6.2
Mac Pro (5,1)
Windows 7 Professional
Office 2007 Professional

Destination does not support 64-bit guests.

Joskin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:51:01 GMT

Hi all

I am trying to P2V a linux box (redhat 5 64-bit xeon cpu) to ESX 4.0 running on vmware workstation 7.0( Windows 2003 64 bit xeon cpu)

Cpu VT are enabled on both guests and destination server, with a cold start.

When i start to convert, it stop at the destination tab with the error : Destination does not support 64-bit guests.

In the log i can see : 37 ~~2009-11-24 16:04:09.531 'App' 4864 error~~ Destination does not support 64-bit guests.

I am able to create a Virtual machine on esx with the template for a Redhat 5 64-bit .

I have read all the posts talking about that problem on this forum. Is there something else to configure than the VT configuration in bios? Maybe a special configuration of the ESX virtual machine in vmware workstation?

Thanks for your help.

Olivier.

Re: Can not install VMware Workstation on host any XP64 bit

tumpi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:50:16 GMT

No one knows why I can not install any VMware Workstation on a host of new XP64 bit sp2?
Help!

Re: Moving a virtual machine to a different hard drive in VMware Workstation 7

A25Simon — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:47:41 GMT

Do you want to move VMs live ?
Cos on workstation you can clone the VMs but you would have to power off the VMs first.

Re: ESX4i - Can't create partition/datastore with 1 of 3 identical logical drives

Dave.Mishchenko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:46:28 GMT

Could you post the output of fdisk -l?

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is it possible to run MAC OS. X in vmware?

serge68 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:45:22 GMT

hello,

the question is probably many time asked...it's my turn now.

I discovered that there are many people who use macs so I have to know how mac os works but I don't have mac computer (and i am not going to have one for that matter).

So can I run mac os in vmware? What can be a solution?

Thank you

Re: "initializing scheduler" takes too long

jidhin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:41:54 GMT

hi,

Please upgrade to latest BIOS and try booting. This will solve your issue.

/Jidhin

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Re: Get-Cluster - CPU Usage 95%

harkamal — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:39:19 GMT

Thanks LucD

That helped me reduce CPU load by 30%

vpxd.exe now takes 70% usage to process about 1000vm, takes only a minute to complete, earlier it took more than 5 minute

wonderfull to have you around

Re: Patches could not be installed

HaM1 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:36:18 GMT

No No, I'm not able to patch my XP machines. That's why I opened this discussion. My Servers are all successfully patched - no problem,

but the XP machines have the problem. In fact this are "only" Office patches, but I have not yet tried to remove Office and to scan for updates again.

Normaly the problem should be solved then - But uninstalling Office is not the solution I think

Problem: ping doesn't work from VmWare over the host to an other physical machine and vise versa

vonamar — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:35:02 GMT

My host OS is windows XP SP3, and I have stop the firewall.
My VmWare OS is windows XP SP3, and I have stop the firewall.

The guest using bridge connection.

I can't ping from the VmWare-Machine to an other physical PC / machine in the same network and vise versa.

The ping works correctly from the VmWare-Machine to the host-machine and vise versa.

========================

On an other system the host OS is windows XP SP2 and the VmWare OS is windows XP SP2.
I have also stop the firewalls and the guest using bridge-connection.
On this system the ping works in both directions.

What's the matter?

View 4 and Windows 7 x64 VM: Cannot install SVGA driver

Anton V Zhbankov — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:31:40 GMT

View Agent fails to install SVGA driver automatically. Manual installation ends with message:
"Driver is not intended for this platform"

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Re: vSphere client 4 cannot connect to ESXi3 3.5

Dave.Mishchenko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:31:34 GMT

If you have the free license at worst you would just need to get a new one after the upgrade should there be a problem with serial number you have.

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Re: Dudas sobre configuración HA.

hinojosa89 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:30:57 GMT

Con que valor tienes confiurado el parametro host isolation response? si es con leave vm powered on, no se van a levantar en el otro cuando detecte la caida.
Para hacer la prueba deberia de bastar con quitar los latiguillos de red delas tarjetas donde tienes la service console del servidor esx que quieres aislar.
Aqui tienes un enlace http://kurrin.blogspot.com/2008/04/como-funciona-vmware-ha.html de un blog que esta muy bien explicado.
Un saludo

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!

Re: vSphere client 4 cannot connect to ESXi3 3.5

fajarpri — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:20:04 GMT

David Mischenko answered in vSphere forum, that I can get the VI3 files from the VCenter download files.
On second thought, I think I'll try to upgrade the ESXi3 3.5 to 4.0 instead. I'm downloading the upgrade package.
Any issue with this? The 3.5 host is still empty without any VM. Should be ok right.

Trouble with HP Management Agents 8.2.5

VCPMa — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:17:56 GMT

Hello guys,

yesterday, i have installed der HP Management Agents on 2 ESX 4.0 Build 164009, after the installatrion and sucessfully reboot the Systems

i was not longer able to access the ESX Servers with the VMware VI Client, i was very angry about this situation i wait and wait locking in the locks but nothing

to see about the problem. After 1 hour i have deinstalled the HP Agents - reboot the server and i was able after a few seconds uptime to access the server over the vi client.

does anyone know something about this bug ???

regards

Chris

AD Hang after starting Linux

eny — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:13:06 GMT

Hi,

We noticed that our AD VM hang after we start up a newly created Linux VM.

Anyone has this problem before?

Re: Shrunken partition still showing same size

WoodyZ — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:09:33 GMT

You can only change the size downward via Fusion GUI if no OS is installed! You can change the size of the logical partition that Windows occupies with a third party utility so it doesn't take up any more space then you want even thought it would still have the 40 GB capacity if you needed to increase the logical volume at a later date.

The other option is to use a product like Ghost and image the drive to a new smaller drive or use VMware vCenter Converter to create a new virtual hard drive from the existing one.

Moving a virtual machine to a different hard drive in VMware Workstation 7

manimal29 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:57:31 GMT

I have three virtual machines created that I wish to move from the hard drive where they reside to a new larger capactity hard drive on the same host. Is there a way to do this without (re)creating the virtual machine on the new hard drive? Thank you in advance for any/all help!

Re: Moving a virtual machine to a different hard drive

manimal29 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:08:55 GMT

My apologies. I should have been more thorough in describing the issue. I am using WMware Workstation 7.

Re: how to move the guest OS to the other server saftly

AlbertWT — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:06:47 GMT

Hi Jones,

in my case, the shared storage to use with VMWare HA is nothing more than a SAN which has got one LUN and then present that LUN into both host using two cable criss-crossed (4 cable of separate IP subnet) so that in both host, they can see one same LUN in which the VM resides.

HTH

Kind Regards,
AWT

Re: VMware tools при переходе на Update1

m0ps — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:05:54 GMT

нет, имеется ввиду версия виртуального железа.

Выбираеш виртуальную машину, на вкладке Summary в области General смотриш свойство поля VM Version. Какая там циферка - 4 или 7?

best regards, m0ps

VMware disables console shortcuts on Linux host

v1nsai — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:05:49 GMT

Title pretty much says it all, I can't use shift+ctrl+C to copy or shift+control+V to paste anymore in Konsole (Yakuake) anymore. I was going mad trying to figure out how I lost it until I realized it worked until I started VMware. Is there a way to disable the hotkeys, I've been playing with it but I can't find a way, and I really miss being able to paste into the command line by keyboard.

Re: Poor man's VMware View

AlbertWT — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:03:04 GMT

Hi All,

Out of curiosity, if somehow the base image got corrupted or deleted accidentally, what happened to the cloned VM ?
what if somehow the base image got updated (eg. Office 2007 updated into 2010) while one of the user still using it ?

Kind Regards,
AWT

Shrunken partition still showing same size

vr8ce — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:59:11 GMT

Fusion 3.0 running Win7 Pro guest on SL 10.6.2 Host.

I created the initial VMware hard disk as 40GB pre-allocated. After running a week, I decided that was a mistake – it was far too big (16GB is more than enough). So, I shutdown the VM, unchecked the pre-allocated checkbox on Hard Disk Settings, applied it, re-started the VM, ran VMWare Tools, chose "Shrink Partition", and it did so. The physical .vmdk file is now 10.5GB instead of the previous 40GB. So far, so good.

However, VMWare Settings doesn't know it's shrunk, i.e. Hard Disk Settings still shows 40GB, and it won't let the slider be moved any further to the left. Going into Win7's Disk Manager, it doesn't know it's shrunk, either, i.e. it still shows 40GB. I told DM to shrink the partition (it showed 28GB free), but it told me it could only shrink 8GB. I went ahead and did so, and now DM shows three partitions: the System Reserved 100MB one, the 32GB used partition, and now a 8GB Unallocated one.

How do I get everything (VMWare Settings, Win7 DM, etc.) to agree on the size, where the size is the actual size, e.g. 10.5GB? Or, alternatively, having everything agree on 16GB (and increasing the size of the physical .vmdk to 16GB) is fine, too.

I've Googled here and on the web in general, and the half-dozen documents I've found so far all have the above steps, but little else related to shrinking. Let me know if I've missed one.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Moving a virtual machine to a different hard drive

Jain — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:02:13 GMT

are you using vCenter server or just standalone ESX/ESXi server ?

View 4 and Windows 7 x64 VM: Cannot login with View client

Anton V Zhbankov — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:59:44 GMT

I have Win7 x64 VM.
There was a lot of issues during View Agent installation.

Now I cannot login to it with View Client. PCoIP shows me black screen, RDP doesn't login at all - "All desktop sources are busy"

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Re: Buggy upgrade

Tlater — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:57:59 GMT

Can't paste from Excel to Mail either.
Can someone please help me return to my previous setup.
I'm willing to pay money for a "downgrade" that works.

Re: VMware tools при переходе на Update1

SaratovGOV — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:53:11 GMT

Не понял вопроса, если речь о ESX, по 4ка.

Именно для неё недавно вышло обновление Update01

View 4 and Windows 7 x64 VM: USB driver issue

Anton V Zhbankov — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:52:49 GMT

View agent installation fails because it cannot install USB driver.

Where is the problem?

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Re: ESXi free DL380 G6 just spontaneously reboot.

Eamo2006 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:46:16 GMT

Just to say that Our ESX 4.0 server has stayed up with no reboots for the last 6 days with the following settings in the bios.
Restart the server to BIOS
Select Power Management Options
Choose “HP Power Profile” and choose “ Maximum Performance”
Save the changes & exit BIOS

Server has two Quad Pros, 32GB Ram and 6 x 300GB hard disks.
I’ll don’t know what he chip set revision is but will check it out over the next few weeks.
Thanks

Re: vSphere - ks.cfg: line31: virtualdisk size is too large for vmfs volume

ann_86 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:41:31 GMT

Hi,

Its better you keep atleast keep 1100mb difference between COS.vmdk and vmfs size.

I think u should try checking the checksum of the image as said in comment#3. Please let us know if you still face any problems.

Re: More Help

A25Simon — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:41:23 GMT

Hey Melanie,

For the No IP Address generated .. maybe the second VM did not boot up as part of ur network.

Try setting a static IP Address for the same.

Now tel me if ive got ur setup right .. two virtual machines (VMs) , on one U have VMware Wokrstation running and the other VM has ur win 2003 server.
Is this rgiht ?

Re: vSphere client 4 cannot connect to ESXi3 3.5

fajarpri — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:39:42 GMT

Thanks David, I'll do that.

On second thought, is it better if I upgrade the ESXi3. 3.5 to 4.0 instead?

I'd like to follow this howto http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/ESXi40_upgrade_without_virtualcenter.php

Will it affect the license installed?

Thanks

Re: 2TB limit and still barfing

pitogo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:19:22 GMT

Yes, great! Thanks and exactly my point thinking like its 1994. Why still be hampered by SCSI2 technology?

Re: vSphere client 4 cannot connect to ESXi3 3.5

Dave.Mishchenko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:27:02 GMT

If you download one of the firmware patches for ESXi 3.5 and then extract the ZIP, one of the ZIP packages will have the VI client embedded in it.

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vSphere client 4 cannot connect to ESXi3 3.5

fajarpri — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:22:18 GMT

Hi, I'm not sure this should go to ESXi3 3.5 or ESXi4.

When I try to connect to ESXi3 3.5 host using vSphere client (v4), it
says that I must download and install updates from the host. So, I did
that but the downloaded file seems corrupted. I tried to download it
from the web UI of the host, still same.. corrupted.

So, I install VCenter and somehow it updates my vSphere client into VI client and I can connect to the ESXi3 3.5 host now.

But, is there any workaround beside installing Vcenter? Can I get VI3 client somewhere? I don't have any other ESXi3 3.5 to try to download the VI client.

Thanks.

Multiple IP's in Debian Linux

VMSystems — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:21:25 GMT

We're having some problem adding virtual IP's to a Linux Guest.

I was told that I need to change the guest settings for the network from NAT to bridge.

I think I found this in under the Host in Configuration - Networking by looking at the info (little balloon) to the right of "vmnic0". Near the bottom under "CDP Device Capability" Router is True and bridge is False.

I realize this is not in the guest settings, but I can't find anything that comes close to NAT or bridge in the guest settings.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Re: IRQ Conflicts - IPMI & VMK

jhanekom — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:20:45 GMT

Bit of a late reply, but in case you don't have an answer yet, I found the following post to be extremely useful in addressing a similar problem, which may be the same as yours: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/201551 (note: this particular post only applies to HP servers with iLO.)

It basically explains that you should disable the cpqci module which provides an interface to the iLO (an IPMI adapter.) This is done by adding it to the list of exclusions in /opt/compaq/cma.conf. (Note: follow the steps in that post in order - if you add the exclusion first and then stop the hpasm service, it doesn't stop the cpqci module!)

Also, the post goes on to explain that all of this is of no use if you don't uninstall the hp-OpenIPMI RPM package as well. One final tip: ignore the bit about editing /opt/compaq/hpasmd/etc/hpasmd. All that that "-d 4" parameter does is to increase the logging level, spamming /var/messages.

Re: Migrating offline 64 bit VM into different ESXi 4 host (Xeon – P4) error?

AlbertWT — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:15:21 GMT

Hi There,

The Offline x64 Windows VM is from the Dell 2950-III series (host-host since I've got no clustering service) which has got Intel Xeon 5 4xx series processor and I'd like to migrate our webserver and Terminal Service Gateway (WS2008) due to the hardware failure but it failed, I tried to move it into the following CPU:

Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.0 GHz (I tried to create and host 64 bit VM and it works from scratch).
Intel Pentium D 2.8 GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3 GHz

all is failed with the same error message :-|

Kind Regards,
AWT

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!

Re: ESX4i on Dell R710 has lost QLA2640 HBA Storage devices

Dave.Mishchenko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:05:48 GMT

Are you able to find any errors in the vmkernel log?

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Re: how to move the guest OS to the other server saftly

Dave.Mishchenko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:04:28 GMT

Do you also have vCenter server installed and licensed? With HA you essentially cluster your hosts together and they share some sort of storage like FC / iSCSI SAN or an NFS share.

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

qdsunnywx — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:02:57 GMT

i use administrator to login to vCenter.

pls help!

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

Dave.Mishchenko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:02:31 GMT

Are you using the free edition of ESXi? You might just try editing the file or running esxcfg-advcfg at the console or via SSH.

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Re: Tasks hanging in vCenter 4.0U1

iankoenig — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:00:28 GMT

The new vCenter 4.0 is pointing to the original VirtualCenter system for the 3.5 licenses. That is working fine.

Re: 2TB limit and still barfing

mcowger — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:49:38 GMT

The limit is 2048 - 512bytes, actually. So 2199023255040 bytes is the limit.

The limit is imposed by SCSI2 protocol.

--Matt
VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek

Re: Unable to backup Virtual Machine from VDR

Ace007 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:47:59 GMT

what i did is i copied the vmdk files with the configuration files and moved it to backup by copying. then i moved remaining vm's to other host, then rebooted the host then got them back. now its working fine.

But i think the problem was with vmware tools on that particular machine, because last time when i installed windows 7 also faced the same issue, it will work fine upto installing vmware tools. after installing vmware tools it never booted.

is there any other solution for stopping the thing which says always - Already another task is in progress. i have tried many ways to stop it but i couldnt.

vSphere client 4 cannot connect to ESXi3 3.5

fajarpri — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:46:45 GMT

Hi,

When I try to connect to ESXi3 3.5 host using vSphere client (v4), it says that I must download and install updates from the host. So, I did that but the downloaded file seems corrupted. I tried to download it from the web UI of the host, still same.. corrupted.

So, I install VCenter and somehow it updates my vSphere client into VI client and I can connect to ESXi3 3.5 host now.

But, is there any workaround beside installing Vcenter? Can I get VI3 client somewhere?

Thanks.

2TB limit and still barfing

pitogo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:46:50 GMT

I bound a 2TB (2048GB) LUN but ESX is still barfing at me and I can't format it as a VMFS volume what the heck? What is the real limit? Geez its almost 2010 and they are still on 2TB limits?

Re: Is it possible to install OS X Server on a VM created with VMWare View?

ttutt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:41:52 GMT

Thanks,

Are there any plans being made to support OS X Server using VMWare View? Look at the specs it looks like something that would be great to use, but its unfortunate that it does not currently support OS X.

Thanks again. Tim

Re: Clone to Template Fails - No room on datastore

VMSystems — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:34:51 GMT

So If I did not make it a Raw-Device mapping would the size of a potential backup be smaller?

Re: Just upgraded to Fusion 3, now "Network Settings" causes crash

etung — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:29:47 GMT

Sounds like a UI crash. Can you post vmware-vmfusion.log after such a crash (see HOWTO: Ask (and Answer) Questions)?

Does this happen if you don't have any virtual machines running? If you do have virtual machines running, are they still running after you relaunch Fusion?

Re: Is it possible to install OS X Server on a VM created with VMWare View?

lbourque — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:27:13 GMT

View can only use Windows Desktops, whether physical, vCenter-managed VMs or other VMs (e.g., Xen, Hyper-V, etc.). The supported OSes are XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Term Services. Experimental Support exists for Windows 2008 Terminal Services (don't remember if that's changed in View 4) and Windows 7 (technical preview).

Want make a difference in the future of VMware Products? Feature request your ideas ( http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/feature.html )!

Re: Compatibility Issue - Windows 7 with WS7 and HP Connection Manager 3

cweber@dtc.ch — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:20:47 GMT

Hi

Thank you both for your help. Disabling the VMware USB Arbitration Service solved my problem.
I'll start it manuall if I need USB Support within a VM.

Kind regards
Chris

Re: cmd.exe copy speed limitation -> Powershell

Lakshmi Gayatri — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:15:04 GMT

Dave,

its,

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework>ver

Microsoft Windows http://Version 6.0.6001

More Help

MelanieFoster — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:10:27 GMT

I currently have 2 machines running virtually, a workstation and our Windows 2003 ERP server. I have them both set as "Host Only" for the network adapter but they cannot see each other. When I run ipconfig on the workstation I get an ip of 192.168... but when I run on the Windows 2003 I do not receive any ip information. It just returns to a c: prompt.

Can I get some pointers? Possibly a link to an "Idiots" guide??

Thanks

Melanie

Re: Migrating offline 64 bit VM into different ESXi 4 host (Xeon – P4) error?

runclear — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:06:14 GMT

Have you tried to enable EVC on your Cluster?

I dont recall recieving the x64 error if i was able to run/build x64 guests prior to a migration task - vmotion...

http://www.rack42.com | VCP[3] | VCP[4]

windows 2003 keep on rebooting

laieh — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:02:56 GMT

Hi,

I have install win2k3 on ESX 4, after vmware tools install and windows patches update. The next reboot after I login to windows then the VM just poweroff it self. Anyone can help

Guest cannot ping window7 host first?

soulaero — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:59:11 GMT

My host OS is windows7, and I have stop the firewall.
The guest using bridge connection, I have tried the Ubuntu9.10 and windowsXP, the results is the same!

If I first ping from guests to host, the guest will show the destination host unreachable.
however, if I first ping from host to guest, and then, ping guests to host, it works.

What's the matter?

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

eku1 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:16:32 GMT

I probably should have mentioned this earlier - I`m currently using ESXi 4.0.0 build-208167. There is no such setting under VMKernel\boot in vSphere client. I`ll try the alternate suggested solutions and post observations. Thanks.

Update - I did get the esx.conf file:

vifs.pl --config c:\VMs\myconfig.txt --get /host/esx.conf c:\VMs\esx.conf
Downloaded file to c:\VMs\esx.conf successfully.

and it does NOT have the skipMicrocodeCompatCheck setting even though I typed it at boot-up. I tried to upload the file after modification with:

/vmkernel/skipMicrocodeCompatCheck = "TRUE"

but no luck:

vifs.pl --config c:\VMs\myconfig.txt --put c:\VMs\esx.conf /host/esx.conf
Error: File c:\VMs\esx.conf can not be uploaded to esx.conf.

I also tried uploading the same file I downloaded with same rejection.

Re: Workstation 7 with Windows 7 Professional XP instance

ACCS — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:49:55 GMT

so the input so far was not useful ?

Suggestion of a broken tool useful? Suggestion that files successfully extracted are corrupted? Useful? NOT

Plan B in short: run vhd in Virtual PC and clone it from there

Actually, that's Plan D. Plan A was that VMware Workstation was smart enough to import the VHD file without the VMC file. Plan B was the broken tool. Plans C & D require a new system install, and installation of VirtualPC and the XP Mode tool. Plan C is that a VMC file will be automatically created when XP Mode is started. Plan D is to clone the running system.

Plan D has always been the worst-case solution, and it's what I've wanted to avoid, but it appears that there's no good way around it.

Plan E is to do a fresh install of Windows XP into a VM under VMware Workstation.

Re: 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.

Re: Disk performance in Fusion3 versus Parallels5

squirrelking — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:51:46 GMT

Unfortunately I have to agree with you... all of my benchmarks between Fusion 3 and Parallels 5 always showed Parallels 5 killing Fusion 3 on disk and LAN access, one of the reasons that I switched to Parallels.. Hopefully VMware will fix this..

Re: RAM cache to local HD not to NAS?

mike.laspina — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:48:58 GMT

weinstein5 wrote:Welcome to the forums - if you do store the per VM swap file on local drive of the server remeber that will prevent you from using vmotion, drs or ha because the swap file location will not be accessable by the other esx server

Using a locally stored swp file will not disable Vmotion, DRS or HA in a vSphere enviroment. It can however degrade the VMotion performance.

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

Is it possible to install OS X Server on a VM created with VMWare View?

ttutt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:49:05 GMT

I've done some reading and realize that OS X Server can be installed on VMWare Fusion with the current licensing that Apple has for OS X Server. I'm curious as to if OS X Server can be installed as a client OS using VMWare View installed on a Xserve Machine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Tim

Re: Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized NEM (X4238) driver is MIA

csoto — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:49:02 GMT

It has show up: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx_35u4_sun_hxge_dt/dGViZGpkZWJqQA==

Charles

Migrating offline 64 bit VM into different ESXi 4 host (Xeon – P4) error?

AlbertWT — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:45:56 GMT

Hi All,

I’m having problem in migrating offline VM from my ESXi 4.0 which is run on my Dell Server with Xeon 54xx series into Pentium 4 and Core 2 Duo Desktop running ESXi 4.0 u1 the error message is like the attached screenshot.

This is very strange as I was able to create new 64 bit VM from scratch in those “desktop” ESXi but when I migrate offline VM of the same OS it failed ?

For 32 bit VM this is not the problem, can anyone explains what may cause this problem ?

Note: I’ve enabled EM64T in the BIOS on certain Pentium D processor and Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU but it is still failed.

Thanks

Kind Regards,
AWT

Re: password question

rcardona2k — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:42:48 GMT

Newer versions of Windows have password policies that require all accounts to change their password after X days. There are many other policies like for password complexity, etc. Try googling "Windows Group Policy" if you want to persue an interest in account configuration intricacies.

Re: Virtual Machine RDM + Windows Server 2008 R2

sketchy00 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:40:30 GMT

On that "vFileServer" VM, have that RAW NTFS LUN presented and available to it. Then create a share for other server(s) to access the data on that LUN. That would be the way to present this data to the other server. Any "clustering" using RDM would only be available via MSCS

Re: Data Recovery + NTFS storage on SAN

MattMarcos — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:31:56 GMT

I don't think you can read within the datastore that is formatted as a VDR storage point.

I've tried mounting VMDK's on my 2K3 VCB proxy that were formatted for use in VDR (pulled them out via VCB) and you can't practically ready anything from them, prolly cause of the de-dupe system, etc..

cheers,

Matt.

VIC folders under folders

GeekBoi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:21:14 GMT

Hello,

I have a frustrating problem with the vSphere SDK. The people that setup our infrastructure made things a little more complicated than we would prefer. That will be remedied when we upgrade to 4. The issue I am having is with folders within folders in a datacenter. Looks something like this:

Datacenter
	Dev Folder
		Project1 Folder
			Some Servers
			One Cluster
		Project2 Folder
			Some Servers
		Project3 Folder
			More Servers

The issue is tring to get that structure from the SDK. Everything I have tried returns all of the servers as if they were all under Dev Folder and not under the project folders. It seems to flatten the structure and ignore my attempts to retain the correct layers.

Here is a snippet of test code I was trying to get the structure. I get the datacenter views with Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'Datacenter'), and ask for the list of folder views with the same find_entity_views method. For each folder view I filter out the builtin folders for datastores and the like. I then loop through the list of folders and use find_entity_views(view_type => 'Folder', begin_entity => $folder) to try and get the sub folders. This is the part that does not seem to work.

I use %allhosts as a temp hash to keep a list of servers I have already gone over. All hosts end up being listed und the very top level folder and none listed under the sub folders as they have already been used and exist in the %allhosts hash.

Any suggestions or am I asking the vim service the wrong questions?

my $dc = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'Datacenter');
foreach(@$dc) {
my %allhosts = ();
if($_->name =~ m/Dev/i) {
#print Dumper($_);
my $dcfolders = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'Folder', begin_entity => $_);
foreach my $folder(@$dcfolders) {
next if($folder->name =~ m/vm|Discovered\ Virtual\ Machine|host/i) ;
my $subfolders = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'Folder', begin_entity => $folder);
print "Should be here first\n";
foreach my $subfolder(@$subfolders) {
next if($folder->name =~ m/vm|Discovered\ Virtual\ Machine|host/i) ;
print $subfolder->name . "\n";
my $subhosts = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'HostSystem', begin_entity => $subfolder);
foreach my $subhost(@$subhosts) {
my $subhostname = $subhost->name;
next if(exists $allhosts{$subhostname});
$allhosts{$subhostname} = ($subfolder->name);
print $subfolder->name . " - " . $subhost->name . "\n";
}
}
my $hosts = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'HostSystem', begin_entity => $folder);
foreach my $host(@$hosts) {
my $hostname = $host->name;
next if(exists $allhosts{$hostname});
$allhosts{$hostname} = ($folder->name);
print $folder->name . " - $hostname\n";
}
}
}
}

Thank You,

Charles Hutchinson

P.S. Sorry about the formatting. I seem to be a failure at this web editor

Re: Fusion support for Snow Leopard - 10.6

scottntx — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:17:02 GMT

Sorry, yes it was a Kernel Panic (Apple's version of the Blue Screen). This has happened at least a dozen times in the last month.

vCenter Service Status...(vSphere)

kbr5678 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:15:41 GMT

HI..

In VI Client - > Home -> Administration ->vCenter Service Status - It shows some service and status.How to get those servics via VI SDK

Re: password question

Michblit — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:12:05 GMT

Thank you , that makes sense, even to me . Can you explain why it's still asking for a change in passwords though when, it's set up not to have one? I am just trying to understand why this is even asking me to change it. That part still doesn't make sense.

Virtual Machine RDM + Windows Server 2008 R2

Justin Farrow — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:12:05 GMT

Hi All,

My client is currently going through a hardware installation and ESX upgrade. They currently have the following configuration

3 x ESX 4.0 Hosts
1 x Server 2008 R2 Management Server (vCenter)
1 x 4 TB SAN (Fibre)

They wish to create a VM for a file server (let's call it vFileServer) and then add a vDisk via RDM that shall connect to a 700 GB NTFS LUN on the SAN. Then also present this LUN to the vCenter server and directly access from here for file level backups to tape. The installation and configuration of the solution has worked without a hitch however they have now gone live on the new VM vFileServer but the data is not updating on the vCenter Server disk.
When I reboot the vCenter server it performs a ChkDsk process on the LUN and then updates.

Can anyone point me to the solution on how to have this data refresh immediately? I did perform some tests from the vCenter server and the data appeared to update on the VM successfully but it only appears to be working 1 way.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Just passed VCP3, am I eligible for enrolling for VCP4?

madhavi.p — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:11:22 GMT

Few questions were tricky, but if we prepare according to the Blueprint, should be good to go.

Does anyone know the marks each question carries?

Regards,
Madhavi

Re: PETITION - Native Mac version of the VI Client

gluetolf — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:01:25 GMT

Guten Tag

Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht. Ich bin bis am Montag 7. Dezember 2009 abwesend. Ihre Nachricht wird nicht weitergeleitet. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an andreas.urfer@phbern.ch.

Freundliche Grüsse
Gregor Lütolf

Allow Out and software development

billk — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:00:02 GMT

We are a small company that has a set of vms (sql server 2005, application server, search server) that have the same host names for licensing purposes. We have a single physical network to which the lab manager pulls IP addresses from. We noticed that the application servers were writing to the database servers in other configurations because we were using Allow In and Out fencing mode generally in most configurations.

If we switch to allow out only, that will eliminate the problem of windows not picking the right vm, but is using the Console the only way to access the machines now? It seems like using the console is not as efficient as remote desktop at least for windows hosts. Rebuilding each vm from scratch for each configuration with different host names also seems to defeat the benefits of using the lab manager automation pieces.

Is there an easier way to accomplish this or must we use the console?

Re: Newbie Question

MelanieFoster — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:59:54 GMT

Thanks everyone!!

Data Recovery + NTFS storage on SAN

Justin Farrow — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:57:55 GMT

Hi all,

I'm hoping for some guidance on the following.

We are in the process of deploying VDR 1.0.2 for a client and they have requested the following configuration;

VDR 1.0.2 deployed with a 500GB RDM on Fibre Channel LUN as a 2nd disk for storing the snapshots. They would also like to be able to access this 500 GB disk from their Windows 2008 R2 management server and periodically back up some historical snapshots to tape for off site storage.

The main reason behind this is to backup the snapshots across the fibre instead of ethernet.

My first question is if it is possible and obviously the 2nd is if it is possible, how? I can present and mount the NTFS partition in read only mode on the vApp but cannot write to the file system. If I attempt to mount the EXT3 FS to the W2k8 server it cannot readit at all.

Environment is;

3 x ESX 4 Hosts
1 x vSphere vCenter Server
500 GB FC LUN

The LUN has been presented to both the ESX hosts and Windows vCenterServer and all paths are workign correctly.