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Есть необходимость в P2V...

Umlyaut — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:55:38 GMT

Собственно, сабж.

Возникла настоятельная необходимость виртуализировать физический сервер следующих кондиций:

2 Xeon s604, i7xxx, 2GB RAM, LSI MegaRAID 320-1, onboard Intel Server NIC (Gentoo)

Думаю сделать это оффлайновым конвертером (LiveCD), VM будет крутиться под ESXi4U1

Кто-нибудь уже виртуализовал подобное железо? Если да, то какие грабли возможны (не хотелось бы потом в пожарном порядке ковырять VM - сервер боевой, должен работать).

Заранее спасибо.

Display Grid lines or square pattern using MS Remote Desktop

DaronMc — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:25:26 GMT

HI All,

I've had this problem since Fusion 3.0. I've upgraded to 3.01 and now 3.02 (232708) - running latest snow leopard patches on the unibody macbook pro.

I've searched but maybe I'm using incorrect keywords as I cant find any text on this problem.

The current problem is when I use MS RDP to connect to and manage my windows 2003 and 2008 HP and Dell servers, gridlines, or horizontal and vertical lines corrupt my remote desktop's display. (My desktop/display continues to work ok). I have attached a screenshot of the RDP screen as an example. This problem manifests itself when I using either fusion's windowed or fullscreen mode. I tried connecting to a windows 2000 server, and did not see this
problem.

I've activated and deactivated 3d acceleration to troubleshoot this issue.

My Fusion Guest OS is Windows XP SP2, built from scratch in Fusion 3.0.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Issues with VM networks

KsLIVER — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:43:35 GMT

Hey all,

Here's the setup: ml370g6 w/ 4 port netcard. I've installed ESX 4.0 Update 1 and have run this with a static IP on one of the nics with no issues for initial setup of management, storage, etc. I've configured a second nic for VMnetwork traffic (i.e. a second vswitch). I setup and installed Win2008 R2 (successfully) and the guest boots fine.

I confirmed network connectivity was good in the guest and all was well... Till about 5-10 minutes of uptime. The entire local network I'm working on suddenly stops responding (dns, internet traffic, servers, etc), and the only way I get the network backup is to turn off the Virtual machine (guest) and physically power cycle the core network switch in our office (3com)... Not fun. There are no VLANs as it's one subnet. I had a second guest os on the host (same OS) and tried again - same thing.

I've check for MAC address conflicts, and all is OK. The DHCP server shows the guest VMs get IPs fine and they surf the web fine while up and before everything stops.

Is it possible that there is a loop of some sort between the 2 vswitches on the host ESX server that crashes out the network switch on our netwrok? Most servers still see each other on their local switch, but the paths to internet and other distribution switches go down.

Any suggestions? I was thinking about trying the Guest VM traffic back on the management card (vmnic0). Is this worth testing?

Thanks!

Переодически происходит отключение data store

str1k3r — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:52:31 GMT

Сервер Supermicro X7DW3, 52Gb RAM
Контроллер 3Ware 9690 (кэш обратной записи включен, установлены последние драйвера)
В сервере 8 посадочных гнезд которые заняты 2мя массивами: RAID-5 5хSAS Cheetah 15.5k 300gb и RAID-5 3xSATA 750Gb Seagate 7200.9
Установлен ESXi 4.0.0 181792
Данная железяка обслуживает 31 виртуальную машину.

Переодически в логах проскакивают такие сообщения:
Lost access to volume
4a97e229-41052426-d0c3-003048c63132 (sata) due
to connectivity issues. Recovery attempt is in
progress and outcome will be reported shortly.
info
Successfully restored access to volume
4a97e229-41052426-d0c3-003048c63132 (sata)
following connectivity issues.
info
10/3/2009 3:27:48 AM
Lost access to volume
4abf931a-8dfac0c2-cf06-003048c63132 (sas) due to
connectivity issues. Recovery attempt is in
progress and outcome will be reported shortly.
info
10/3/2009 3:27:27 AM
Successfully restored access to volume
4abf931a-8dfac0c2-cf06-003048c63132 (sas)
following connectivity issues.
info
10/3/2009 3:27:48 AM

Ссылка на KB: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1009556

При этом происходит подвисание виртуалок. Через пару минут к виртуалкам можно достучаться. Такое ощущение что проблема с кэш памятью RAID контроллера.

Кто что может сказать или посоветовать?

CIM Server in ESX and ESXi

LNarine — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:10:53 GMT

Hi,

I develop a CIM Compliant application program to manage both ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.0 servers, will the CIM Service in both the servers respond to my CIM Compliant application's requests?
In other words, is CIM Server running in ESX4.0 and ESXi 4.0 the same?

VMWARE Server 1.0.3 - Snapshot

ESXi35 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:20:19 GMT

I have a VMWARE Server 1.0.3 installed on Windows 2003 box. There are 2 VM's running on it. Both VM's are Windows NT.

one server is currently running in snapshot and it is running like this for almost 9 months.(Not sure who had configured to run in snapshot).

Since snapshot disk is growing, we thought of committing it to the original disk .

My question is -------> Can i do the snapshot removal without a downtime on the VM ? I think, it is not possible but out of curiosity(I know it is possible with VI 3 and above)

Snapshot disk size is of about 4 GB. How long it could take for the removal process (Approx)?

I have done the snapshot removal in other versions but not on this version.

Can someone help me with some best practise to address this ?

Thanks in advance

USB issue with VMWare Server 2 for Linux

obriapqz — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:48:28 GMT

Hi,

I am running VMWare Server 2.0.2.203138 under Gentoo Linux running a 32bit 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 kernel. I have a Windows XP host running on Server that's up to date and has the tools installed. Almost everything works properly, but I have one issue I cannot figure out. I am using the XP VM to sync my iPhone and it all works fine until I try to upgrade the firmware. The phone goes into some special mode and I can't recover it.

I have documented the steps I took to get it working on the Gentoo Wiki. I have also tried some other settings I had found through searching. I've tried things like skip-setinterface, skip-setconfig, skip-reset but none of that helps. I have also changed to 'usb.autoConnect.device0 = "vid:5ac" after I realized the USB product ID changes when it goes into recovery mode, while the vendor ID seems to stay the same. I use HAL to keep Linux from trying to automount the device. Here are the files in /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe:

cat 10-iphone.fdi

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="usb.vendor_id" int="1452">
<match key="usb.product_id" int="4756">
<merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

cat 11-iphone-recovery.fdi

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="usb.vendor_id" int="1452">
<match key="usb.product_id" int="4737">
<merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

This all works fine until I try to upgrade. When that happens, there are messages in my log that lead me to believe vmware-vmx isn't handling a USB reset properly or iTunes is sending a strange reset that I am not configured to understand. I attached a log (313.log) of what's happening. To me it looks like the USB device isn't being claimed properly by VMWare but I could be wrong. I also attached the vmx file for this guest. Can anyone offer any advise? I can provide more data if needed.

Issue: The vmware server 2 web interface can't be displayed

Borja_Mari — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:53:01 GMT

It isn't a secret that the vmware server 2 web interface is some buggy.

Sometimes the web isn't displayed, then maybe the issue is fixed (in a linux host) just running the command
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart

The above command restarts the services related to the vmware web services.

But maybe the issue isn't fixed with the previous command, then there are others problems that can be happening. Lets verify it carefully.

If in the host is enabled ipv6 and you don't need it, it is a good idea disable it. Just search the web to learn how to do it in your particular linux flavor.

When the cause of the issue is ipv6, usually the webAccess process dies quickly just after starting the vmware web services. You can check it just running this command:
ps -efw | grep webAccess

Is ipv6 enabled in my host? Just try running this two commands and if the netstat output shows some tcp6 port open or the ping works, then ipv6 is enabled and you must disable it:

netstat -lnp | grep tcp6
ping6 -c1 localhost

Another possibility is a malformed /etc/hosts file. The format must be similar to this (i guess this example will be easily understand):

127.0.0.1 localhost
ip.local.net.work hostname hostname.local.domain

or just this /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 localhost
ip.local.net.work hostname

Ok, is all previous advices doesn't work and in the /var/log/vmware/webAccess/*proxy.log* this error appears:
SSL Handshake on client connection failed

then maybe the issue is in the firefox web browser (and maybe IE too). A quickly workaround can be use the Opera web browser to access the vmware server 2 web interface. It should work. Another fix is use firefox 3.5.X instead 3.6.

But is you want to use firefox 3.6, then you can set this in the firefox "about:config" configuration page:

security.enable.ssl2 from false into true

and the above workaround should fix the issue.

Anyway is any of this fixes and workarounds fix your issue, then open a discussion in the vmware server 2 community forum explaining the issue, the things you tried to resolve the problem and attach the host.log and proxy.log files taken from your /var/log/vmware vmware server 2 host directory.

Regards.

User Names and Passwords with Server 2.0

Peter986 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:39:29 GMT

I have written an application on Windows and have found that the Connect function requires an administrative user name and password to connect with VMware Server 2.0. My app is a Windows service and always runs with privileges (SYSTEM account). I would like to run this on different machines and it is not convenient to have to specify a user name and password on each because they may be different.

Is there a way to connect on Server 2.0 without specifying the user name and password if my program is already running as SYSTEM?

Thanks.

Learn how VMware user, ONWASA leverages existing servers for VMotion, VMware HA & DRS

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vSphere client install disables Full Screen option in Web Access via Browser!

philvirt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:57:24 GMT

After running through some scenarios, I’ve concluded that if the vSphere Client (Version 4.0.0/Build 208111) is installed, I no longer have the ability to use Full screen when accessing a VM via browser (See the attached image).

What component (s) in the install package is disabling this option?

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Phil Couto

Hibernate ESXi 4.0 U1

avtandil1 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:42:03 GMT

Hi,
Can I put an ESXi 4.0 u1 server into hibernate mode?

Web interface doesn't load - what's up ?

atakacs — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:07:52 GMT

Folks

For some reason the web management interface doesn't seem to load on my vmware server 2.01 / Ubuntu box.

Nothing really obvious in the logs except for this

Apr 20 00:07:08 xxx watchdog-webAccess: End '/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess -client -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start', failure limit reached

tried to google this but I'm quite sure where to get started...

Any help would most appreciated !

Regards

alex

Access to NFS at Windows Server 2008

aelus — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:18:01 GMT

Hallo,

I've several ESXi (3.5U3) server and I've one fileserver running Windows Server 2008 with installed Services for Network File System. On my 2008-DC I've installed Microsoft Identity Management for UNIX (user name mapping is not possible with server 2008), but I still cannot access the NFS-Share on the fileserver. Does anyone of you also run this configuration, any thoughts? Thanks in advance!

aelus

Fusion 2.0.6 Hangs - Can't even shut down mac

indigopete — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:39:36 GMT

Hello Folks

I've had this problem twice in 24 hours now. Guest OS is Windows Server 2003 Enterprise running on a Macbook Pro 2.8 Ghz under Mac OS 10.5.8.

I spend about 3 hours configuring the OS and installing various software. The VM gets started up and shut down with no problem, then out of the blue on one of the shutdowns the spinning pizza appears AFTER VM ware arrives at the "VM Off" screen (the one with the big play button on it).

No VMware menu bar appears and I can't even force quit the VMware process. The mac fans power up to full power and the only way of shutting down the mac is to hard-start it (holding the power button down for 5 seconds).

When I restart the VM, the disk is corrupted - either beyond repair or enough to send Win 2003 into extreme repair mode.

If anyone has seen this problem or can help it would be much appreciated since I'm completely losing confidence in the whole process. It's a brand new virtual machine each time. I've lost almost 2 days work now and don't fancy having to back the whole VM up every time I change anything.

I've had this problem now with 2.0.5 and 2.0.6, disk split into 2 Gb segments and unsplit, various memory configurations etc.

Many thanks

Pete