VMware Communities : Thread List - ESX Server VirtualCenter Private Beta Discussion (VI3 beta, LOCKED)

To all Beta 1 users who can see this forum....

Daryll — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:11:48 GMT

Hey all,

This forum will soon be moved into the new forum area. At that time, the other forums will be used to collect beta 2 information. Please make your comments in the other forum areas unless you have a SPECIFIC REQUEST to move a thread out of this (private) forum, into the more open Bets 2 forum.

Please do start using the other categorized forums for your discussions though. This forum is going to get archived and put into READ ONLY mode in a few days.

-Daryll Swager
VMTN Forum Administrator

Vmware bringing the DEC VAX back?

ekuzmack — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:35:54 GMT

I may be showing my age, but I thought the VAX was dead, but now that we have VMS again...

Proposed new feature now that GSX/VMware server is free

ekuzmack — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:34:21 GMT

Now that GSX/Vmware Server (VMS) will be free and used as a way to get people into ESX, I'd like to propose that some minor VC tweaking be done -

We've already asked for a GUI interface for importing non-ESX VMDK files - I'm proposing essentially another GUI widget that essentially does the same thing, but is targeted at VMS.

Since ESX and VMS can both exist in VC, I think we'll see a LOT of VMS servers in the VC console now. Based on that, a menu/wizard option to "import" a VM from VMS into ESX (and the reverse) as easily as possible would be good.

I'm envisioning something like a right click on a VM on a VMS, select "migrate to ESX" and the wizard would ask the right questions (which ESX server, etc...) and then do all the right things to move the VMDK file, create the VM, etc....

thoughts?

Eric

Any comments on SDK documentation?

KER — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:19:05 GMT

Do any of you guys have any thoughts on the SDK documentation? For example, does the format and navigation of the Reference Guide work for you? More generally, what works and what doesn't in the SDK docs?

Of course, these materials will be refreshed with beta 2. But we want to get to work on addressing any issues for GA.

Thanks for your help!

-Karl

Beta 2?

Dave Duvall — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:20:38 GMT

Still coming out today? Us east-coaster's are a little antsy to get our hands on it.

Dave

Cloning a virtual machine

Bwhite — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:51:00 GMT

In ESX 2x it was quite easy to clone or create a template without VirtualCenter. However when I tried to do this with ESX 3 it appeared that this function was no longer present. Has anyone discovered a way to create a clone without havint to use VCM?

Renaming an ESX 3 Host

Bwhite — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:22:36 GMT

Does anyone know how to rename an ESX 3 host without reinstalling ?

Cheers

VMware Tools with ESX 3/VirtualCenter 2

tatung70 — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:27:11 GMT

We are in the middle of upgrading our environment from ESX 2.5.x to ESX 2.5.2 patch 3. We have about 50 hosts and hundreds of VM's.

After we upgrade the host, we then have to upgrade the VM's VMware Tools. This is a manual process and is ugly. Some of the VM's IP info has to be re-entered as the NIC has changed (as far as the VM is concerned.)

With the ESX 3 release, we really need a way to manage this process better as the upgrade is very painful and requires tremendous amounts of time.

I would like to know VMware's plans for this in ESX 3.

Unable to manage ESX hosts via VC

jjmc — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:28:26 GMT

Hey guys.

I have my two ESX servers set up with the new Unserved key. I can connect to them directly and load vm's, etc but when I add them in VC they show up as (disconnected).

When I check my VC properties page and licensing I see it's trying to point to a licensing server. I try to upload my host lic file to VC but get an error.

So do I have to have the licensing server up to be able to use VC or can I use VC in 'unserved' mode?

Thanks!

64-bit guest OS support???

lrolla — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:23:31 GMT

VMware Confidential Information

Would there be interest in trying out support for 64-bit guest OSs in this beta program? This would, of course, require 64-bit enabled CPUs (e.g. Opteron and x86-64).

C# samples fail when attempting to retrieve content from ESX host

EliJuni — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:41:03 GMT

Well, I finally got the C# SDK samples to connect to an ESX host, but they fail once they're connected:

- Browser fails in ServiceUtils.GetContentsRecursively() in the first call to RetrieveContents() with an exception whose message is "childEntity is an Invalid property path." Here is the call-stack:

[ 2 ] Caught Exception : Name : SoapException Message : childEntity is an Invalid property path
Trace : at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at ClientUtils.VimServiceRef.VimService.RetrieveContents(ManagedObjectReference _this, PropertyFilterSpec[] specSet) in E:\VMware\ESX3Beta1\CleanSdk\SDK\samples_2_0\DotNet\cs\ClientUtils\Web References\VimServiceRef\Reference.cs:line 273
at ClientUtils.ServiceUtil.GetContentsRecursively(ManagedObjectReference collector, ManagedObjectReference root, String[][] typeinfo, Boolean recurse) in E:\VMware\ESX3Beta1\CleanSdk\SDK\samples_2_0\DotNet\cs\ClientUtils\ServiceUtil.cs:line 245
at Browser.Browser.PrintInventory() in e:\vmware\esx3beta1\cleansdk\sdk\samples_2_0\dotnet\cs\browser\browser.cs:line 63

- SimpleClient fails in Connect() with a NoPermissionFault at the line that reads
_sic = _service.RetrieveContent(_svcRef);

- Connect completes successfully, but does not try to do anything beyind connecting and disconnecting. When I added code to it to get the ManagedObjectRef for the root folder, it worked just fine.

Can anyone shed light on what does and does not work within the C# samples?

VirtualCenter Web Service port 8443 does not respond

hagedorn — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:17:48 GMT

I'm not able to connect to the VirtualCenter WebCenter at all
According to the documentation the default port for the Web Service is 8443

A netstat -a does not show a listening port 8443 on the VC server and a reinstallation/repair does nothing.. ? is the feature enabled yet or ?

Regards Thomas

Revoke ESX hosted license

hagedorn — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:54:51 GMT

How do i revoke a Host License file from an ESX server ?
I apparently have problems with the one installed, and even if i upload a fresh copy it does not solve the issue..
/Thomas

C# example code doesn't compile?

RMarquiss — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:55:43 GMT

I know it is early in the Beta cycle to be thinking about the coding examples, but the C#.NET example doesn't compile. And there is only a placeholder for the VB.NET. I am running Microsoft's Visual C# 2005 Express Edition (it's free*) and caught that the Web References needed to be updated from this static location:
[code]
c:\dev\src\ws003\bora\build\vmodl\vimService.wsdl
[/code]
...to the actual location of the web service description. I am getting the following errors in ClientUtils:
[code]
Error
1
The type or namespace name 'DynamicData' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
C:\SDK\samples_2_0\DotNet\cs\ClientUtils\Web References\VimServiceRef\Reference.cs
33260
48
ClientUtils
[/code]
This might be fixed in app.config, but that file was not included with the distribution. Any thoughts?

Upgrading to ESX 3 and VC 2

yushen — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:12:35 GMT

We had a webinar earlier today about the upgrading procedures to ESX 3 and VC 2. The feedback came in loud and clear, but I want to gather some specifics to further justify my case internally at VMware.

We talked about 2 particular approaches to upgrading a multi-host environment on a shared SAN:
1) In-place upgrading of the VMFS 2 disk
2) Copying VM's from an existing VMFS 2 disk to a new VMFS 3 disk

We also discussed an approach 3)... a full VMFS 2 compatibility mode in which ESX 3's can talk to legacy VMFS 2 volumes. This is not currently in our plans for this release. There was clearly a lot of interest and demand for this.

What I'd like to quantify (and please post to this thread to weigh in on your answer) is: for how many companies are the approaches 1) and 2) inadequate for your needs? That is, how many of you are going to delay your upgrade of existing farms to ESX 3 until approach #3) becomes available?

IMPORTANT NOTE (that we did not get to discuss during the call):
While running in this configuration, some new ESX 3 / VC 2 features are unavailable:

Enabled functionality: DRS, 4-way virtual SMP, 16 GB RAM per guest, new guest OS support, CPU and networking performance increases, connectivity to new iSCSI and NAS storage.

Disabled functionality: DAS, VCB, more filesystem perf / larger farms

Also, please answer a corollorary question: would your answer change if DRS were disabled in this compatibility mode?

VC client error: No connection ..target machine actively refused it

hagedorn — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:16:05 GMT

After i installed VC and VCClient i got the "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it" error..

As i can see many have already had this error, but the cause for mine was that the Location setting under "Regional and Language Options" were set to Danish. Changing it to United States and also using English(United States ) under "Standards and formats" solved the issue..
Just to let you know ;-))

VC client cant connect to Virtual Center

smkaise — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:01:58 GMT

I've read a couple of posts regarding connecting directly to the VCMS with the : -9005, and that gets me past the SSL handshake error.

However the new problem is the error: Cannot connect to host 192.168.172.37: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

In VC 1.X speak this generally means the VCMS service has crashed and or is not started. However the service is up and running fine on this server. In fact, I have 2 VCMS servers with the exact same behavior.

These servers are Windows 2003 STD, SP1, post updates, etc... One is a brand new fresh install with no other applications, the other is a AD server.

Anyone run into this and know a work around?

Thanks

Memory Addresses from Pre- to Post- vmkernel loads

RMarquiss — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:56:13 GMT

I have an interesting question.

If the Service Console obtains a physical memory location before the vmkernel is loaded, will that memory location remain the same after the Service Console has yielded control? I have worked it out both logical ways in my head, but still can not convince myself one way or another.

Yes:
The physical address the Service Console originally sees prior to the vmkernel module loading will stay the same, but...

No:
The actual physical address the Service Console is referring to may not be the same due to the VM memory virtualization.

If I am hardware and expecting to write some information to this physical address location, what garauntee do I have that the Service Console will receive it? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Can not create datastore on Fibre-channel LUN

komal — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:04:57 GMT

Hi,

I am unable to create a datastore on SAN attached LUN.

I connect through VC Client to ESX host: <host>:-9005 and then go under 'Configuration' tab.
Just above the 'storage1' datastore, option to 'Add' is there.

I go through the wizard steps and when i click on 'finish', i get error:
"Connection to the VMware VirtualCenter service has been lost. The application will now exit."

This closes the VC client completely.
I also tried creating the VMFS Datastore through CLI but that too fails.

Please let me know if you have seen this issue or resolved this issue.

The other issue which i am facing since yesterday is, i am unable to add ESX host to my VC Server datacenter. I have tried adding host with <hostname> and <hostname>:-9005 . It shows all the host information but at the end, 'Network fault' error comes. According to the task list, it fails because of invalid/bad username/password.

If you have any input, please write it as this is stopping me from doing my work.

Thanks a lot,
Komal

Proliant Agents on ESX 3.0 ?

Stefan Boesner — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:36:36 GMT

Hello,

does anyone know if there are Proliant HW Agents out that we can try on ESX3.0 ?
Has one of you tried to install the current one, supporting ESX 2.x ?

Thanks

Stefan

"... cpu0: 1024)PCI: SetupInterrupt: failed ..." error message (red text)

jmcbane — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:55:14 GMT

This message is on my ESX host's display, in red text. I'm not sure what it means, and if I should be concerned:

0:00:00:05.396 cpu0:1024)PCI: SetupInterrupt: failed for 000:31.3

I can log into the ESX host using an unserved license file, and I've successfully installed a Windows 2003 Guest OS. All seems to be working, although very sluggish.

Any ideas?

Beta Tech Talks

STS — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:18:23 GMT

Have the recent tech talks been recorded and slides collated? If so can they be posted for everyone else who couldnt make it.

Regards

AMD PACIFICA and AMD Nested Paging mechanism

vadim.solovey — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:57:06 GMT

Hello,

Will the Hypervisor of the upcoming ESX server 3.0 provide support for the AMD PACIFICA virtualization chip ,and if so ,will it also support AMD Nested Paging mechanism?

Thanks

Vadim

Snapshots?

DougBaer — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:00:49 GMT

Are snapshots supposed to work in the current beta?

I've not been able to get them to work and I currently have a VM stuck. It reports as powered on, but the console screen is blank and any attempt to shutdown or reset fail with errors like
[code][root@vm-beta root]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/storage1/TEST-TOPNTCH/TEST-TOPNTCH.vmx stop hard
SOAP FAULT: "":ServerFaultCode
"Operation failed on entity since another task is in progress"
VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweroff operation failed unexpectedly.[/code]

renaming a DC in VC 2

citrix_guy — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:59:00 GMT

Anyone try renaming a Datacenter in virtual center. Mine wont do it.

Ron

x460 Installs

bvciske — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:30:28 GMT

Anyone else out there running x460s yet? I'm looking to verify that you can build successfuly using the single x460 but if you have merged with another unit (mxe460) to make an 8 way ie get PSOD? as always
TIA.

VC 2 beta support expired

Jae Ellers — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:43:46 GMT

Just some feedback. My support for VC 2 beta shows as expired, so I have to submit my SRs via ESX 3 beta.

x366 broadcom 5704 needs firmware update

Jae Ellers — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:25:18 GMT

I've been working with a couple IBM x366 boxes for a couple weeks now. When I did the first load I couldn't get the console up on the bcm5704 nics onboard. I did have a couple e1000 ports, so I worked on that to get the systems up.

Now I've had some time to work thru this, the firmware available at
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MIGR-53693 seems to fix the issue. I'm back up on the console and with VC connectiong to nic 1.

Lemme know if this needs to be a SR or if this is a known bug.

AAM512_LINUX.tar and / directory size

RMarquiss — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:18:28 GMT

What is this file: AAM512_LINUX.tar? There is a directory /LGTO/ that contains additional tars and install scripts, but I wasn't sure if I could remove it. We are using the default 2.5G for /, but it is mostly full already and I am looking for space. I have already removed the existing esx-*.tgz files.

This leads me to a question and a follow up. First, should there be an increase in the recommended default amount of space? If not, is there a better way to clean up logs from the service console to free up space?

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Licensing and the Enterprise Agreement customer

qc4vmware — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:30:16 GMT

How will VMware be handling a customer like Qualcomm that has and Enterprise Agreement? At this point I am still really hating the license server with a passion. I am assuming we will continue on as we have in the past with a serial number of some sort that is recognized as having no limit on the number of nodes it can be used on? If that is not the case please enlighten me.

VMKusage?

citrix_guy — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:52:13 GMT

My 3.0 server is dead at the moment (VERY BAD) just wanted to see if anyone has setup (or if it is still available) VMKusage on 3.0?

Ron

vmxnet on linux

troymangum — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:33:38 GMT

Need help getting vmxnet on linux vm. I've installed the vmtools.rpm via RHat9 GUI>right click option> install package.
But the ESX MUI does show the linux vm as having vmtools installed. I've attempted to add an additional virtual nic to see if ESX for give me an option to select vlance or vmxnet driver it did not.

What do I need to do to begin to use the vmxnet driver for my network interfaces on my RH9 linux VM?

Can't install XP pro as VM

Jae Ellers — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:11:12 GMT

I've filed SR225815. I can't seem to install XP Pro SP2. I get to the point in the install after copying the first round of files and get the following error:

Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.

Make sure any ...

Setup cannot continue.

I've tried both buslogic and lsi, haven't tried the driver disks. I thought LSI worked without them before.

I do have 2003 server VMs running fine.

I've tried the obvious (to me)
Recreate the vm
Remove the disk and add a new one.

Ideas?

Starting/Resuming VMs

DougBaer — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:49:34 GMT

Does anyone else see this problem?

WhenI start or resume a (the first VM I created?) VM following a reboot of my ESX3, beta1 server, I get the message in VC:
"Virtual Machine Message
msg.monitorLoop.createVMFailed:Could not create world: Already exists
Failed to allocate kernel virtual machine structure: File exists."

With only an "OK" button.

In the 'Recent Tasks' list in VC, it shows a "Power on Virtual Machine" task that shows "Success", but the VM is not started.

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VM won't start

kbl — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:39:44 GMT

I have a Windows 2003 VM and when I try to start it I just get a black screen with a cursor in the top right of the screen. CPU utilization is 101% even when it is turned off.

2003 server vm fade to black very slow

Jae Ellers — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:00:25 GMT

When I shutdown a Windows 2003 Server Standard vm it takes a long time for the background to fade to grey while I'm presented the comment form. As I enter the text there is a long delay (a few seconds) between each character.

The fade takes 10-15 seconds and another 15-30 to enter a word or to before shutdown. Otherwise performance is reasaonable for B1.

Anyone else seeing this?

Problems - ESX 3 and Netapp via Fibre Channel

ekuzmack — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:22:27 GMT

Has anyone tried to mount a LUN on a netapp into ESX 3? The LUN shows up when I scan for devices, and if I try to create a volume I can select the LUN, but when it tries to create the volume I get an error that it can't read the partition table on the drive.

thanks!

Eric

Can't connect to ESX Server from VC client

listener — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:51:37 GMT

I cannot connect to my ESX server from the VC Client. I am using port 9005 with the "-" in front of it. My license server says it is running. I also have the windows firewall turned off.

"Cannot connect to host ibme326: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it."

I noticed that port 9005 does not appear to be listening...

root@ibme326-rtp01 sbin]# netstat -a
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 *:32769 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 ibme326-rtp01:32770 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:5988 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:5989 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 ibme326-rtp01:8005 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:vmware-authd *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:8009 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:http *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 ibme326-rtp01:32771 ibme326-rtp01:32770

I tried to open it with iptables but I still get the same error.

[root@ibme326-rtp01 sbin]# iptables --list
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:9005

I tried to open it with the esxcfg-firewall I found under /usr/sbin but that looks to be kinda broken.

[root@ibme326-rtp01 sbin]# esxcfg-firewall -o 9005,in,tcp,client
2005-11-30 19:46:43 (15878) ERROR: Not implemented.
2005-11-30 19:46:43 (15878) ERROR: Panic! Stack trace follows:
2005-11-30 19:46:43 (15878) ERROR: VMware::Panic VMware::Panic::DumpStackTrace in /usr/lib/vmware/esx-perl/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/VMware/Panic.pm line 59
2005-11-30 19:46:43 (15878) ERROR: main VMware::Panic::Panic in /usr/sbin/esxcfg-firewall line 763
2005-11-30 19:46:43 (15878) ERROR: Getopt::Long main::OpenPort in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Getopt/Long.pm line 478
2005-11-30 19:46:43 (15878) ERROR: Getopt::Long (eval) in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Getopt/Long.pm line 477
2005-11-30 19:46:43 (15878) ERROR: main Getopt::Long::GetOptions in /usr/sbin/esxcfg-firewall line 775
2005-11-30 19:46:43 (15878) ERROR: Making panic callbacks...
2005-11-30 19:46:43 (15878) ERROR: Done, exiting with code -1. Goodbye!

So maybe I missed something?

Thanks in advance...

Adding hardware (PCI) to and ESX host issues

virtualRW — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:46:21 GMT

Just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue. I've run into it on two separate occasions.

I got a VMkernel panic when I added an Intel dual port to a working ESX 3.0 host.

I just now got a second VMkernel panic when I added a Qlogic iSCSI card.

After adding the card I can not get the VMkernel to load. I've ended up re-installing.
The re-install works fine, loads all the drives for the cards and everything works fine.

Just wondering if I was along with this one.

VC Client and "...actively refused it..."

DougBaer — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:51:15 GMT

I know a lot of people have received the dreaded "...actively refused it..." message from the VC client both in production and the beta -- it generally refers to the VC service not being started or being in some weird state.

In the beta, I've noticed that once the client displays this message, it will not connect to the server (even if the service is started and in the correct state) until the VC client is quit and restarted.

Not critical, just an annoyance.

iSCSI Configuration

bvciske — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:00:30 GMT

I have my QLA4010 installed and apparently configured. It can be pinged from the filer but I get a session failed message in the state field of SanSurfer.
Should I be able to ping the filer from the esx host? What other configuration is necessary? The card is not listed under Storage adapters or Network Adapters.
Any guidance would be appreciated.

Dynamo with Linux VM to a Windows VM running IOMeter

vir2ualjan — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:11:00 GMT

For some reason, the IOMeter application running on the Windows VM hangs up when the Linux VM runs dynamo to try to connect. Has anyone out there ever tried this? I don't know if this is just broken for 3.0 with all it's restrictions right now. If someone knows a trick to try or how to gather debug information I'd be glad to try and provide it. Basically, the Linux VM
just shows this

./dynamo /i w2kpro-test

Command line parameters:
Looking for IOmeter on "w2kpro-test"

Sending login request...
rhel4.0
192.168.0.51 (port 32776)

A Windows dynamo running on w2kpro-test does run just fine so it's something to do with my network I guess. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jan

SimpleClient -sample SDK example not working

komal — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:35:30 GMT

Hi,

I have installed VC Server/client and license server on one system and i have installed my VI SDK toolkit on Solaris client.

I am trying to run the sample program, SimpleClient, using the instructions given in README file.

I am running into following error:

$ run.ksh com.vmware.vimsample.simpleclient.SimpleClient http://10.180.94.123>
RUNNING
Caught Exception : Name : org.apache.axis.AxisFault Message : childEntity is an Invalid property path Trace :
AxisFault
faultCode: ServerFaultCode
faultSubcode:
faultString: childEntity is an Invalid property path
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
{urn:vim2}InvalidPropertyFault:
<name>childEntity</name>

childEntity is an Invalid property path
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:221)
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:128)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(DeserializationContext.java:1087)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:424)
at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnderstandChecker.java:62)
at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2765)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2748)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2424)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2347)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1804)
at com.vmware.vim.VimBindingStub.retrieveContents(VimBindingStub.java:18482)
at com.vmware.vimsample.simpleclient.SimpleClient.getAndPrintInventoryContents(SimpleClient.java:105)
at com.vmware.vimsample.simpleclient.SimpleClient.main(SimpleClient.java:177)

I was just wondering if anyone has observed this?
If you know how to resolve it, please let me know.

thanks,
komal

Beta Schedule

lrolla — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:27:19 GMT

The new beta schedule has been posted to the external website. http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/esx-vc/

login: vinbeta
passwd: dasdrs

Licenses Expired Nov. 30th

vir2ualjan — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:09:56 GMT

Now we are in a real pickle. After rebooting one of our servers we could no longer start VM's. Looks like the Licenses expired end of Nov. and we cannot even load/use the new license file that was delivered.

We even went to the extreme of blasting our VC and License Server and reinstalling everything. Didn't help.

Other out there may be able to get away with working as long as you don't reboot a server. We worked fine yesterday and today until a reboot.

Plus, as I mentioned before I could not login to see the new Beta 1 schedule. We NEED BETA2.

Authentication options

mbtomczyk — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:04:08 GMT

in the coming releases of the beta code is there going to be options for using Active Directory or LDAP (Novel EDir)? Thanks

I'm in license hades

troymangum — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:01:46 GMT

I have the new 'served' license, vc license server, etc... but does not solve the problem that my esx beta1 thinks I have no license at all to do anything.

So I'd like to implement a simple solution using a 'unserved' license placed directly on my esx system. Via these directions:

In order to use unserved licenses:

1. Redeem your license activation code and download an unserved license.
(completed)
2. Copy the unserved license to an ESX Server host using the Virtual Infrastructure Client. (don't know what a virtual infrastructure client is?)

3. Configure the host to use the local license file instead of a license server.
(how?)

BUT where is the documentation that tells you where to place .lic file on esx server, how to get esx server to see the .lic file so I can finally stop getting this message when trying to power up my VM:

"vmodl.fault.NotEnoughLicenses--Operation failed since there are not enough licenses"

Web Services and VISDK questions

komal — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:06:11 GMT

Hi,

I have installed VC Server, License Server and VC Client on same host and using MSDE database. But, when i look at services, i don't see 'VMware Web Services'.

Also, where are the logs where i can see if web-services has started properly.

Is there any documentation on VirtualInfrastructure SDK and changes between previous release and the beta release?

thanks,
Komal

ESX VC Server agent restart

bvciske — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:53:10 GMT

Hi All..
I am getting an error "operation fails due to an existing operation" when I try to reconnect my ESX host.
I used to grep, Kill then restart the httpd.vmware service. Do any of you know what the esx 3.0 equivalent of this would be? As always, Thanks in advance

License Server not properly configured?

jmcbane — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:11:01 GMT

That's what I'm led to believe, at least. I'm getting various licensing-related error messages, such as:

(1) When connected directly to ESX host via VC Client -OR- when connected to VC Server via VC Client...

As soon as I click "Power on" I get the following error message:

"vmodl.fault.NotEnoughLicenses -- Operation failed since there are not enough licenses"

(2) When connected to VC Server via VC Client...

If I go to Admin button, Licenses tab, select my Host, then Host Configuration, Licensed Features, Properties, Use License Server:

When I choose either "Allow VirtualServer to manage license server location" -OR- "Use the following license server" (and enter 27000@localhost I get this error message:

"vim.fault.InvalidLicense -- License content attempted to be uploaded is invalid"

Also, I am currently only using one ESX host. Is it necessary for me to install/use the License Server and the VirtualCenter Server? I assume (but am not sure if) VirtualCenter Server and License Server are for larger environments, as I am able to successfully connect directly to the ESX host using the VirtualCenter Client. I noticed (and it was mentioned in the training webinar) there is an option to upload the license file directly to the ESX host, bypassing the License Server.

This is a new ESX 3.0 beta installation and I'm trying to install a Guest OS on a new Virtual Machine. I have VirtualCenter Server & License Server installed on my desktop, plus the Microsoft SQL server (MSDE).

VMware VirtualCenter Server and vmls system services are both running.

I pointed the License Server to the license.lic file (not the activation code).

Hopefully I'm just missing something simple. Please advise.

New filesnames etc

STS — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:45:40 GMT

VMware can you tell me what these new filesnames within V3.

Anyone else feel free to add to the list.

.vmsd
.vmxf
fbb.sf
fdc.sf
pbc.sf
sbc.sf

I would also like to know how the vswp file grows on the SAN. For example I have a 20gig vmdk file and the vswp file is current 1.5gig, this would be good to know for design perspectives.

On the SAN in the volumes directory I have found that volumes name for the symbolic link of volume ESX3 = 4379e195-6ad4cfc4-5e43-00096be61919 - what is this referenced too? We are on a CX700 SAN for info.

I will log all this to a SR, but thought people might want to know too.

Vmtools

Mabeken — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:35:46 GMT

I have exported a vmdk from a ESX2.5.2 server and imported it into ESX3. When I power up the VM I get the message that it cannot be Vmotioned since the version of VMtools installed is not a supported version. I went into the VM and removed the VMtools and reinstalled VMtools from VC 2.0

Same result. Any one seen the same?

Getting into BIOS of a VM

Mabeken — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:07:09 GMT

Hi,

I am finding I need to get into the BIOS of a new VM to change the boot order. Either the new VM comes up trying to PXE boot. The whole system is so slow that it takes about 25 seconds to comit the hardware changes I make to the VM and then another 15 or so for the VM to come up. At least by the time I see a response and try getting focus in the Console of the VM and then hit F2 it has already tried to boot and usually through PXE.

Has anyone else seen this and found a way around it? Can the boot order be programmed somewhere?

Thanks

Extend VMDK?

DougBaer — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:10:44 GMT

I'm familiar with using vmkfstools -X to increase the size of a VMDK file in previous versions of ESX.

Is there something special I need to do for 3.0? When I open the /vmfs/volumes/storage1/servername directory on my new ESX server, the largest file in there is a 4 GB servername-flat.vmdk file, but vmkfstools fails when I try to run it against that file:

[code]
-rw-rwx--- 1 root root 4294967296 Nov 21 13:55 servername-flat.vmdk
-rw-rwx--- 1 root root 337 Nov 21 10:16 servername.vmdk
-rw-rwx--- 1 root root 0 Nov 15 04:08 servername.vmsd
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 1420 Nov 21 10:16 servername.vmx
-rw-rwx--- 1 root root 251 Nov 21 10:16 servername.vmxf
[/code]

When I run vmkfstools against either the servername.vmdk or the servername-flat.vmdk, I get
[code]
[root@vm-beta servername]# vmkfstools -X 10G /vmfs/volumes/storage1/servername/servername.vmdk
ASSERT /build/mts/release/bora-16563/bora/lib/disklib/diskLib.c:3156
[root@vm-beta servername]#
[root@vm-beta servername]# vmkfstools -X 10G /vmfs/volumes/storage1/servername/servername.vmdk
Failed to extend disk : The file specified is not a virtual disk. (15)
[root@vm-beta servername]#
[/code]

Am I missing something? ...and what's a *.vmxf file?

>100% utilization for a VM

DougBaer — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:50:09 GMT

I have a VM that I've had running for almost three days with the cpubusy.vbs script (the same one from the VMware class) running inside it -- I just wanted something that would cause a lot of processor utilization for a long period of time.

Currently, VC reports on the VM's Summary tab that this VM is using 112% CPU. The ESX host shows only 61% utilization.

I need to bounce the ESX host to disable HT for another test and steal some parts from the server, but figured I'd ask before I did that.

xSeries 366

tharpy — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:49:59 GMT

We're not too familiar with the 366; the one we're running our beta on is the only one we have so far, but we've noticed something strange.

With only ESX installed and no running VM's the hard drive activity lights seem to be running full time and have been for a couple of weeks now.

Anyone know if this is a feature of the 366 or is something going on here?

guestOS choices

ssdev — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:29:09 GMT

I have a Red Hat OS + application running on a virtual machine and
would like guidence on which guestOS to select.

Our OS is based on RedHat 8, linux kernel 2.4.20
("based on" means we have modified the OS and
our uname -r says 2.4.20-AV15 if that makes a difference)

1) should I pick the "RedHat Linux" or "Other Linux"

2) what is/are the indicator(s) that I made the right (or wrong) choice?

How many processors???

DougBaer — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:19:32 GMT

I have an HP Proliant DL360 G3 with 2 processors and HT enabled. VC reports that this machine has 16 processors.

Ideas? Known bug?

Raw LUN Sharing?

kglidewell — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:48:14 GMT

I'm trying to set up a system where two VMs share the same LUN, physically mapped. I can start only one at a time. For the second, I get errors logged (below). Is there any way to configure things so that this works? Even if I power off the first VM, the second can't start until I reboot the ESX server. I use the buslogic I/F from one of the VMs and LSILogic from the other, if that matters.

Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| VMXVmdb_LoadRawConfig: Loading raw config
Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 '/vmfs/volumes/storage1/dm2/dm2_7.vmdk' persistent R[(null)]
Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/storage1/dm2/dm2_7-rdmp.vmdk" : failed to open (1048585): AIOMgr_Open failed. Type 10
Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Failed to open extents for descriptor file in normal mode
Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : "/vmfs/volumes/storage1/dm2/dm2_7.vmdk" : failed to open (Device or resource busy).
Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/storage1/dm2/dm2_7.vmdk" : failed to open (Device or resource busy).
Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/storage1/dm2/dm2_7.vmdk' with flags 0xa (Device or resource busy).
Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| DISK: Cannot open disk "/vmfs/volumes/storage1/dm2/dm2_7.vmdk": Device or resource busy (1048585).
Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| DISK: Failed to open disk '/vmfs/volumes/storage1/dm2/dm2_7.vmdk' : Device or resource busy (1048585) 3038
Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| Msg_Post: Error
Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| [msg.disk.noBackEnd] Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/storage1/dm2/dm2_7.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Nov 08 16:44:31: vmx| [msg.disk.configureDiskError] Reason: Device or resource busy.----------------------------------------

# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=3bf93a62
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="vmfsPassthroughRawDeviceMap"

# Extent description
RW 23068672 VMFSRDM "dm2_7-rdmp.vmdk"

# The Disk Data Base
#DDB

ddb.toolsVersion = "0"
ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.geometry.heads = "255"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "1435"
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"

Pausing a VM

DougBaer — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:54:55 GMT

When I Suspend a VM from VC, I've noticed that the VM's icon does not have the little yellow 'pause' icon on it (it just shows the same icon as 'not running'), and in the General section of the Summary page for the Resources object, that VM is still counted as 'Running' even though the status of the VM is 'Suspended'.

Should we open SR's on small stuff like this?

VMFS-TEST a VMware proprietary tool

vir2ualjan — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:56:54 GMT

I tried to run this test against the vmfs file system on 3.0 Beta 1. What I receive is this error:
sh: line 1: csh: command not found

On 2.5 this same procedure works fine and runs through the test. The reason I am running this is that it is required to perform a self-qualification on our hardware. Sine 3.0 uses a new filesystem will this test need to be re-written? Should I report this as an SR?

Out of Memory: Killed process XXX (java).

DougBaer — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:19:25 GMT

Has anyone else seen this on the ESX3 console?

On virtual console 3, my screen is filled with these, followed by "VM: killing process java"

...and I can no longer connect to the box with VC or directly with the VC client.

Unable to login via the console or SSH as well.

Doug

NFS and vmotion!

Laborman — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:59:26 GMT

Is it possible to use vmotion (Migrate) option if you are using NFS. Currently when i'm trying to migrate a vm that is already running I get a error at 10%. If the vm is not running I can migarte the vm but when I'm starting the firtuel machine it genarate an error that it cannot find its harddisk.

What is going wrong?

Files in the VMFS

Mabeken — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:20:48 GMT

Does anyone know what the files are that you find in a VMFS partition?

fbb.sf
fdc.sf
pbc.sf
spc.sf

Are they part of the VMFS meta data and what purpose do they have?

Thanks

Strange things

Mabeken — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:34:05 GMT

OK I am asking a lot of questions...Here's one more.

Has anyone seen a VM that is powered off still use 15% CPU? VC 2 is showing a VM using 15% CPU.

And I have a dual physical CPU host yet VC reports a total of 16 logical CPU's. Hyperthreading is enabled. My second server is identical yet shows 8 logical processors

License server suggestion(s)

DougBaer — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:57:27 GMT

If we're keeping a license server as a separate service from VC itself, can you allow the use of DNS names or multiple IPs as part of the configuration? I know some people don't like DNS names because DNS resolution introduces additional latency and can introduce another point of failure if it is not also redundant.

One of our complaints about Citrix licensing has always been the lack of redundancy for the licensing server.

I moved my License server to another machine and had to manually go change the License server parameter on my ESX server because the VC option is to change the host's license server when the host is added to the farm.

Another option would be to allow the VC server to propagate license server changes.

Doug

How is the Beta1 testing going?

djacobs — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:34:17 GMT

We are now in our seventh week of this beta and I was curious to find out how things were going with everyone? I have been monitoring the forum while also answering some of the SRs's that you have all been filing.

Please respond with feedback on where you are at with testing?

How things are going?

What types of features and functionality have you tested?

USB drives and Service Console

Mabeken — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:10:27 GMT

Using mount I can get my USB hard disk to be seen by the Service Console. But it refuses to read NTFS. Any ideas? I want to use this to copy ISO's and things across

Adding isos to vmfs

Mabeken — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:51:03 GMT

I have tried using Winscp to transfer my images to one of my ESX 3 servers. Can anyone please confirm how do you do this so that VM's can see the ISO's

VMware Tools - automated install

ssdev — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:56:52 GMT

two questions here:
when we install the vmware tools into our RedHat EL4 vms,
using the rpm install method,
do we need to run the vmware-config-tools.pl if we
do not use the 3 things it asks about - which are
vmmemctl, vmhgfs and vmxnet.

In other words, does vmware-config-tools.pl do other things?

If, so then question 2 is how can we provide an auto-answer script
to this tool?

thanks

Using client CD Drive

Mabeken — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:56:38 GMT

Has anyone got this working? I noticed that you need to use Web Center to select in the configuration part whether the CD is the host or the client. I selected client meaning my laptop CD drive. I loaded the install CD for Windows XP and tried powering on the VM and cannot get it to boot off the CD.

Part of the problem is that I cannot interrupt the booting of the VM to get into the BIOS and chance the boot order. The VM's I have made so far try booting from PXE. Is there any way to change this order so future VM's have their boot order differently?

Thanks

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Can't upload logs

RMarquiss — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:16:54 GMT

The http://www.vmware.com/UploadSRLog page continues to return a 404. Is the server down?

Alarm triggers?

citrix_guy — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:44:20 GMT

Is it just me or was anyone else looking for more logic in the VC alarm triggers?
Like if Proc is above x percent for more than 120 seconds, THEN trip the trigger. not just trip the trigger because of a spike aboe 75 or 90 etc...

Just trying to make sure I am not insane!
Ron

2850 wont boot with 3.0 CD

citrix_guy — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:23:07 GMT

Interesting thing. My PE 2850 test box wont boot with the 3.0 CD (with 3 different 3.0 CDs, with vaild checksums). CD shows as bootable and box will boot to other CDs (like Windows, 2.5.2 etc)

Still researching a little but wanted to see if anyone else saw this issue?

Ron

HP Proliant DL360 G2?

mgrove — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:29:39 GMT

i see support for the DL360 G2 was dropped in esx 3. curious whether it's just not officially supported or whether it's known not to function/install on this box. i have an esx 2.1 install on the box now which i'd rather not delete unless i think the 3 install will work. if nobody knows i'll give it a shot and see what happens, as it's the closest hardware to supported i have available at the moment.

thanks.

-mike

VC20 License Server wont start

innopeak — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 02:18:07 GMT

I am getting "Error 1067" when I start the License Server. Due to this, I am not able to connect to my ESX Server from a VC client.

When I installed the License Server, I created a local file called licenses.lic with the license sent by VMware of the format AC-*****-*****-*****-***** The license server installed with out any complaints.

Has anyone seen this? I am grounded at this point.

HP DL380

virtualRW — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:25:33 GMT

Any one else installed ESX 3.0 on a DL 380? I having an issue getting it installed.

Rolling IP address and Mac HW addr

vir2ualjan — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:34:57 GMT

Every time we reboot our ESX server the vswif0 network interface gets a new ip address and HW MAC addr. Is there some setting to prevent this as it is getting to be a pain to add a new host to VC each time we reboot for various tests?

ServiceInstanceContent's AboutInfo has some unexpected values

mgrove — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:37:07 GMT

using the host SDK with a java client i'm developing. after retrieving the AboutInfo on a ServiceInstanceContent i see the productLineId and version are not what the AboutInfo documentation leads me to expect. i'm expecting a productLineId of esx and a version of 3.0. the productLineId is empty, the version is 1.0, and the fullName is VMware Host Agent - 1.0.devel Catalog - INTL.000. is this a mistake, or do i need to query a different AboutInfo to get the information i'm looking for?

thanks.

-mike

Install ESX using PXE Boot

vir2ualjan — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:16:47 GMT

Does anyone know if 3.0 Beta 1 will support installing ESX using PXE? I am looking for the set of files that you need for this but I couldn't find them. I am not the contact person in our company so I don't know what came with the Beta 1 downloads, etc?

Thanks.
Jan

debug code ESX 3.0 / open source

Christian.Schubert — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:09:30 GMT

Hi,

I've two questions.

What about the debug code in ESX 3.0 Beta? How fast is this beta if you would compare it with the final version - is there still a lot of overhead for the vmkernel in case of debug codes?

Is there an open source kit like the 2.5 version available for public (private beta testing) I think in the direction for self compiling vmkernel modules - I'd like to update the megaraid2 driver for playing with.. I spent lots of hours the last days with this..

Some guys worked with this open source kit thing?

regards,
Christian

PE 2850?

citrix_guy — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:32:59 GMT

Anyone else running 3.0 on a poweredge 2850?

Ron

Virtual center client server connectivity issue SSL handshake

jketron — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:46:41 GMT

I cannot get the client to connect to the server meaning the (VC client to the VC server) I recieve a SSL handshake issue and cannot go further

Any ideas

Dual Core Opterons -- what should VC show?

Lockwood — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:41:38 GMT

I'm running a 585 and a 385 in my lab for ESX 3 and VC2. For the 585, it shows 4 physical CPUs -- should it be showing 8?

Paxville Dual Core

vir2ualjan — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:24:49 GMT

Will 3.0 Beta 1 run on these processors? Is it officially supported?

Jan

New Hardware-Self Qualification

vir2ualjan — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:07:12 GMT

Obviously new servers that come along and need to be qualified for 3.0 will need to pass the Self Qualification Test guide. At least that is the assumption we have here. Since 3.0 is significantly different than 2.0, does anyone know about when a new one will be available for us to see and prepare for?

So many of the tests in the 2.x version no longer apply(e.g. MUI, vmkpcidivy).

Hardware Compatibility Lists

Jae Ellers — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:01:17 GMT

Will the HCLs be released w/ the software or is certification ongoing during the beta phase?

What TOE cards will be supported?

I need this info to setup my test lab.

Documentation availability

jketron — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:52:42 GMT

Please let me know if there is any documentation available yet

JKetron

API help

ssdev — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:00:35 GMT

I'm being asked to develop a couple of simple Perl tools to work with the host agent. This is a API "proof of concept" to demonstrate that we can do things like parent a VM to a resource pool.

The trouble is that the documentation for Beta 1 only includes java code using the Axis toolkit. The SoapLite Perl examples are TBP - presumably in Beta 2. Trying to decipher the java code is like a nightmare wading through all the class heirarchies.

All I need is a SoapLite code snippit showing how to do a login, get a session reference and perhaps something simple like get the host's time and print it. I'll figure out the rest. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

CD connected by Default...

bvciske — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:59:12 GMT

Does anyone else think that the CD should NOT be connected by default. Maybe it doesn't consume as many resources, but it still would stop it from v-motion and just doesn't seem to need to be enabled.
Just my two cents...
Anyone else?

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VC Issues

vir2ualjan — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:25:58 GMT

In our lab we basically have hosed up our Virtual Center. MSDE/VC does not seem to perform well with us. Besides all the rejected connections, we are now at the point that when we do connect to a Server and try to power on a VM, it says there are not enough licenses. But these were the same VM's we've had now that started earlier in the day so this doesn't make sense. Anyway, my real question is this:

If we uninstall MSDE/VC License Server and VC Server and start over again trying to use a SQL DB instead and then re-installing VC, etc., are we going to have a problem when trying to connect to the pre-existing ESX hosts? We had tried reinstalling MSDE once before on a different machine and when we did, VC said it was already being managed by the old one, that wasn't around anymore. I'm afraid we are at a point that we may have to wipe out everything(well maybe not the datastores) and start fresh from the beginning.

Any thoughts from the gallery?

Jan

AMD dual cores and VM mobility

Jae Ellers — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:48:06 GMT

I'm setting up my lab for the beta. If I get one dual-core AMD system and another Intel box will there be any issues with Vmotion between the boxes?

Large unmovable file?

RMarquiss — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:20:12 GMT

Is anyone else having problems with low disk space? We are seeing this issue on two Windows VMs (W2K & W2K3). I went to view the disk defragment and there is a giant unmovable block (1.5GB?) right in the middle of the disk. I am not sure if we managed to infect ourselves while installing, or what, but I wanted to see if anyone else had this trouble.

TIA,
++ Ryan

how many of you got this to work so far?

jketron — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:08:16 GMT

I have tried to get this to work and I cant even get VC up and running. I have the server repsonding to http://server:-9005 but that doesnt do me much good.

Simple Questions

vir2ualjan — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:04:58 GMT

Is the max number of virtual CPU's in 3.0 still 80 per server?

Is 64GB Memory still the max for a server in 3.0?

Thanks

Licenses problem!

Laborman — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:30:21 GMT

Goodday to you all.

Yes i'm new at this form and I'm a new users within VMware. I have one problem while installing VMware VC 2.0. I must enter a license file during the installation of the licensing server. But I don't get any services running extra. When i go to the vc and go to administration I don´t have any licenses installed. Now have a never received a messages from VMware store with the activation code. But When I tried to retrieve my licenses at VMware store. I can create a license file. Is this the same license file you while receive from the store by email. When watching the movie on how to install the server I saw a different license key.

My question really is, can you create your own license key at vmstore or is this send to you once?

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UI Featrure Request

Rob Bohmann — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:14:44 GMT

I just started playing with the beta and one thing I noticed is that it would be nice when you have multiple remote consoles up, if the name of the machine was displayed within the icon in the task bar. So if I have virtual center up and am remoted into 2 (or more) servers I would see 1) VMware VirtualCenter, 2) Server1, 3)Server2 in my task bar. I thought 1.2 had this and just wanted to see if we can have this in the final version.

NFS mount!

Laborman — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:45:01 GMT

Is it possible to mount two ESX servers to the same nfs mount point?

When trying to mount the second ESX server to the first mount point it generates a error. The error is "Unable to Mount: SysinfoExeption:Nodeld(193)= nas_mount; Status(195887114)=I/O error;Message= Unable to Set". What must I do to correct this problem?

HP BL45P Dual Core Opteron kernal panic

bvciske — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:57:24 GMT

Has anyone got a BL45P to work? Ours works with 2.5.2 but instant Kernal panic on 3.0. I'm going to open an SR, but I cannot even get any logs so...
Just thought I would check out there...

Where are you going to place vmimages?

bvciske — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:46:31 GMT

Hi All...
As vmfs3 supports directories....I was considering placing vmimages on one of my luns instead of on each local vmfs. I thought this maybe was what VMware had in mind when they left this directory out of the default installation again.
Your thoughts?