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Unable to open console

anibal.nunes@fin.gov.on.ca — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:35:45 GMT

I have two Compaq Proliant 580 G2 servers, one with ESX 2.5.3 and the other with ESX 3.0 installed. These are stand alone hosts, ie, they are not connected to any external storage. They are, however, on the same IP subnet and can ping each other.

I have migrated (cold) a VM from the 2.5.3 box to the 3.0 box. All went well and the files were copied to a unique folder in the VMFS3 storage.

The problem is that I can power on this VM, but I am unable to open the console. I receive the following error:

Error connecting: Cannot connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

Has anyone encountered such??

Installing on unsupported RAID controller

degustator — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:30:06 GMT

My server is built on Supermicro X6DVL-EG motherboard. It has integrated Adaptec ICH5-R / 6300ESB 2-channel SATA RAID controller. I'd like to install ESX Server itself, i.e. the Console OS, on this controller (and use another PCI SCSI controller for storing VMFS volumes). But the setup program (I use ESX Server 3.0 RC2) doesn't recognize the built-in controller.

The motherboard vendor provides drivers for various versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. So I hope it is also possible to use these drivers with the Console OS. How can I do this?

ESX 3.0 and VMTN license

Bo Christiansen — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:59:29 GMT

What will be the license limitations for ESX 3.0 and VC 2.0 for VMTN costumers. What I mean is:

Will there be support for iSCSI for the VMTN license
Will VMotion be enabled.
What about HA
....

Is there any document stating the options included in the VMTN license

SQL best practices for Virtual Center

J-H — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:26:46 GMT

Hello

Is somebody aware of a document that describes best practices for installing and configuring Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for Virtual Center?

I hoped VMware would enhance this part of the Virtual Center manual with version 2.0, but the available documentation of the release candidate is almost identical to the documentation available with version 1.3.

I only have limited SQL skills. I know how to run the installer, apply the latest service packs, create the Virtual Center database and so on, but Im sure that the default setup does neglect security best practices and other topics that I should consider for a production deployment.

Thanks

iscsi + unable to read partition information from this disk

RobMokkink — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:21:33 GMT

I build a iscsi server based on Centos 4.3 in vmware workstation, just for a first test.

I configured the esx server so i can connect to iscsi targets.

I see the lun,
but when i try to add it: i get the following error:

unable to read partition information from this disk

I didn't format the lun in any way.

How to resolve this?

Firewall problems - port 903 instead of 902.

bednarek — Mon, 29 May 2006 16:34:41 GMT

If somebody is forced to work with firewall and there is no connection to VM Console from VIC and VC than try to open port 903 instead port 902.
We had to sniff network to find it out. In documentation they mentioned port 902. ESX 3 build 24596 is using port 903.

restore a VM

serenitynow — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:00:21 GMT

i had to rebuild my v3 RC2 server.

I did not re-format the vmfs storage, so now i have all the servers sitting in there waiting to be added to my inventory again.

trouble is when:

I do the right-click "New Virtual Machine"
set the standard answers for the custom install except i choose an existing virtual disk - choosing the vdk that was left over from the previous install.

I can boot the 'restored' vm, but it does not use the existing vdk, looks like it clones it under a new name.

is there a best-practices procedure to restore a virtual machine from a restored copy of the vdk file?

VT and Pacifica a bit confussed

Kritz — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:17:31 GMT

Hi every

Just a quick question will ESX 3.0 have support for VT and pacifica processors

Second question have these processors already been shipped with servers or is it only going to be a little down the line, if they have already been shipped how do we tell if the processor does or doesn't have these virtualisation techs on the chip

Cheers
Niall

Licence installation question

SHBehm — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:56:03 GMT

Sorry I have to ask this again, it's been weeks and I still don't have my ESX Beta 3.0 License installed.
So far I've done the following:
I take the license file for ESX beta 3.0 exactly as it is presented at my license page and copy it into a text file with a .lic extension. At the VI client | Configuration | License Source | Use Host License File, I browse to the VMware.lic file and hit OK. It accepts it fine with NO errors.

When I try to start the Virtual Machine that I created I get the error There are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation.

The event message says A required license ESX edition is not reserved.
---------------------
So what am I doing wrong?
Do I need to edit the .lic file? Documentation says to edit the file but doesnt say what changes to make. I noticed that my .lic file contains "ProductID = "VMware GSX Server for Win32"" (???).

I have rebooted the ESX beta 3.0 server and VI Client.

Thanks for any help

esx 3 on dell poweredge 6450

RobMokkink — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:52:12 GMT

Hi,

I was wondering how has experience with a Dell poweredge 6450 and esx 3?

I know the 6450 is not on the official systems hcl list. But all the parts in this server are in the io hcl list.

The reason i am asking this is that i can buy one.
Its just for home usage, so i can test some things in vmware esx.
(for vmware projects etc i am working on)

Thanks in advance.

LDAP authentication..

Scott_Hulbert — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:16:19 GMT

This might not be the correct area for this but I need to know how to set up ESX 3 to connect to an existing LDAP directory.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Scott

Few questions about 3.0 that i need HELPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kritz — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:06:54 GMT

Hi guys I have a few questions that need answers ASAP and thought that someone might be able to help me with some references and answers, the guys are asking the questions but I am struggling to get the answers and they want to design solutions but can't until we have the answers

1) Will ESX 3.0 GA support 4 GIG HBAS and throught put to SAN for New EMC

2)I see that there is a Logical Volume Manager in ESX 3 will that include some HA on the starage side for ESX, similar to Veritas Volume Manager wherby you can have a 2 identical VMFS volmes on 2 different SANs and if your primary volume fails then it will seamlisly fail to the secondry VMFS

3)From a processor perspective can you chose to either adress the processor on a core level or socket level, basically for a 4way dual core machine can we address the all four processors with 4way SMP as apposed to just 4 cores

4) Do we know if ESX 3.0 GA will have Infinband support

5)do we have guidlines documents on when we would cluster as opposed to HA for obvious reasons

6)Usage guidlines on when we need to use SAN vs ISCSi vs NAS not just datacentre and Branch office but actual IO thresholds

7)Do we have a Hardware compatability Roadmap. So what is VMware currently testing that is not on the HCL

Requirements for 3.0

bevirtual — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:01:46 GMT

Is Virtual Center a requirement to be able to create and manage VM's? So if someone just had a small box that supports running ESX 3.0 they do not need VC to function, correct? They would just need a license server? But if they wanted the VMotion capabilities then this would create the need for VC?

Compatible Motherboard?

meatball15 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 04:35:04 GMT

Has anyone gotten ESX to install on desktop motherboard? If so which one? Our company will be getting a development ESX server in a couple months but I would like to get a feel for the software before then. I have lots of spare parts but need input on a compatible low cost motherboard. Thanks.

e100 Not found after upgrade of 2.5.2P1 to 3.0

IPSVIS — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 22:28:14 GMT

I just did an upgrade of a 2.5.2P1 ESX box to 3.0. The upgrade seemed to proceed fine, and the box came back up fine. Everything seems to work except for the NIC's. When booting, the ESXServer Service seems to load the e100 and e1000 modules fine, but when the Kernel tries to bring up the e100 interface, it says the interface is missing. When I look in /proc/pci it shows both of my NIC's in there, and the right type. Has anyone else had this issue? And how to fix it?

How to add licenses to license server?

jimshew — Wed, 31 May 2006 16:36:02 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to use the Virtual Center client to move some guests from ESX3 beta RC2 and ESX 2.1.2 and back. I can't seem to add my old licenses to the license server. Is adding a license file to my old ESX server the only way to manage this?

iSCSI connetions

ehinkle — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:04:46 GMT

I am having a problem connecting to an iSCSI device, I finally got it to show the Lun under the storage adapter, but now when I go to add the lun as storage, I can get past the device location menu, but on the next step (current disk layout) I get the following error "unable to read partition information from this disk" any ideas why I get this error? I am trying to connect to a RHEL 4 iSCSI target.

NFS over UDP?

virtech — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:45:00 GMT

I think I read somewhere that ESX does not support NFS v2/3 over UDP can someone confirm this please?

gigabit nics for esc3

ehinkle — Thu, 25 May 2006 05:30:41 GMT

Does any one know if Linksys, Netgear, or D-Link gigabit network adapters work with ESX3, if so what models will work. I need to purchase some additional nic's for my test system and was looking for some low cost adapters.

Thanks.

Is the console OS 32 or 64 bit?

erik.1 — Thu, 25 May 2006 12:00:23 GMT

Hi,

I want to install additional software (Adaptec Storage Manager) in the Console OS , what do I choose 32 or 64 bit?

As the documentation says nothing about that, only:
The ESX Server 3.0 service console is a limited distribution of Linux based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Update 6 (RHEL 3 U6).

Regards,
Erik

Trying to Mount NAS device

virtech — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:03:07 GMT

Im trying to mount to my NAS

mount -t nfs 10.42.10.40:/vmware /vmware

and im getting the following error.
mount: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused

I guess this is permisson related?

ESX 3 RC2 and Virtual Machine Importer

serenitynow — Tue, 23 May 2006 15:10:34 GMT

I was able to use the VM importer with RC1, but after upgrading to RC2,
VM importer is unable to connect to the server.

I can ping fine, and its the same physical box that was running RC1

Ideas?

Will licenses for 2.5.x work when upgrading to 3.x?

bigusdadius — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:03:36 GMT

We very recently purchased licenses for 2.5.x, will they work if we upgrade to 3.x? The servers are not in production yet and if the licenses will work we plan to upgrade before going live. Any feedback will be appreciated....thanks!

Chris

Building a white box using a two socket AMD 940 motherboard for ESX 3.0

J-H — Tue, 09 May 2006 16:28:41 GMT

Can anybody share his experience building a white box using a two socket AMD 940 motherboard for ESX 3.0?
If I spend several bucks of my private money I would appreciate if the likelihood is high that the system will run.

problems with scripted installation (ks.cfg)

rbederke — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:37:24 GMT

I try to install esx rc 2 automatically using source files on a ftp server and http server.
After creating a ks.cfg file i put in the bootdisk.img from the cd and load it on the ILO board of the server (DL380).

The server starts and could not install from disk because of the missing network drivers (Broadcom, Intel E1000).
I could not change the disk and use drivers from drvnet.img because of the ILO board.

So i tried boot.iso where the nessessarry drivers are already included. I put the ks.cfg in the initrd.img and create a new bootable
cdimage with mkisofs (additional installed rpm). Server starts from this iso and tries to get files from network (i tried ftp and http).

Using a ftp server i receive the message "failed to log into ftp server" but having a look on ALT-F3 it tries to get a non
existing file "/VMware/base/updates.img".

If i use a http server as source it also tries to get non existing files and stops with an error.

But, if i use boot.iso without ks.cfg and install manual with all files on the network, both FTP and HTTP is functional.

So, does anybody has a functional image for remote installation using a disk or small cd-image without additional deployment software ?

ESX 3.0 on Sunfire x4200

hmarcel — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:53:05 GMT

Hi ,

when trying to install ESX 3.0 on two X4200 we have some issues to keep these boxes running. Both x4200 were running 2.5.2 without problems.
During the first boot after the installation of 3.0 (and all subseqent boots) we are getting on the console 4 lines with this text :

004.01.0 no interrupt, wrongly assigned to the kernel
004.01.1 no interrupt, wrongly assigned to the kernel
004.02.0 no interrupt, wrongly assigned to the kernel
004.02.1 no interrupt, wrongly assigned to the kernel

The boot process continues and ESX 3 is running between 1 and 5 minutes before the hole x4200 freeze completly (network down , console down ..).
This behaviour is reproductible on both x4200 we have. We installed 3.0 on a v40z without problems and there it runs perfectly. In the systems document the x4200 is stated as an supported env. and my question is if there is someone who has also x4200 with 3.0 running?

I am thinking by seeing the error message that this could be a problem with the onboard Ethernet cards. The x4200 has 4 times 1 Gig. Ethernet ports. These 4 ports are connected to two ethernat cards and the message gives me the point that it could be these cards that could freeze up the x4200. But i am not sure.

We configured and reconfigured the BIOS of the box several times but the problem is appearing at all boot.

The error messages are appearing during the boot when the "enabling interrupts"message comes up. The proc are single opterons , no dual-core.
4 GB of RAM are installed in the x4200.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Marcel

VC 2 install problem.

wfeemnl — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:58:49 GMT

I have the following issue. Installed de VI client, installed the license server and now I want to install VC 2.0.

On the screen VMware VirtualCenter Web Service, where all the ports are shown I get the following error: Invalid Virtual Infrastructure Web Service https port number or TCP/IP port in use. It must be in the 1-65535 range.

The default port is 443 but whatever port I choose I still get the same message.

Anybody come across this problem and has the solution?

Greetings.

ESX 3 and VC 2

tatung70 — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:52:19 GMT

Does anyone have screenshots of the various screens in ESX 3 and Virtual Center 2?

If so can you post a link?

Thanks

ESX 3.0 RC2: vmware-hostd stops

Kobold — Tue, 23 May 2006 19:35:57 GMT

I just installed ESX 3.0 RC2 and i can't connect to any management, neither with VI Client, nor through Webaccess.

Further investigation revealed, that vmware-hostd stops as soon as a connection to the server is being opened. In /var/log/messages there are messages denoting a segmentation fault of vmware-hostd.

The server runs perfectly with ESX 3.0 RC1 and ESX 3.0 Beta2. It's for the first time this error occurs.

Therefor my question, did anybody see a similar behaviour?

Thanks and regards
Stephan

Where the heck is the KickStart Documentation for ESX 3.0?

Schorschi — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:43:03 GMT

Where the heck is the KickStart Documentation for ESX 3.0?

Docs on the web site, have NOTHING, other than a warning that if you use KickStart, then /var has to have 512MB added... What a big hole in the documentation.

Compaq RAID storage driver on ESX 3 RC2

gsxr — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:19:17 GMT

Currently i'm running a test lab with ESX 2.5.2 on a few old compaq (DL360, ML580 PIII) server's.
Everything is running smooth and i'm almost done testing the things we want to test before we order the real stuff

I desided today to upgrade one of these boxes to ESX 3.0 RC2 but it seems that the support for the internal Compaq SCSI Array has been gone?
ESX 3 does not recognize this RAID controller. I have searched this forum and googled arround but nothing on this matter.
The ESX 2.5.2 box gives me the following info:
Driver: cpqarray.o
Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c895 (rev 02)

Any suggestions?

RC2 Server Not responding

JoeDiMeo — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:14:48 GMT

I've been using an old xServes 230 for evaluating ESX 3.0 - It worked fine with the previous build but when I installed RC2 on the sanem box (Fresh install) I cant log into the Web site or contact the server via the VI Client or add it to virtualcenter.

I've reinstalled three times with the same results

The server is pingable and (once I alted sshd config to allow me to do so via root) I can log intemotely via ssh.

What Now?

Kernel panic on ASUS P2B-S motherboard during installation

J-H — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:38:24 GMT

Installing the ESX 3.0 build 24596 on an ASUS P2B-S motherboard generates a kernel panic at apic.c: 298. The panic happens independent if I use the graphic or text mode installer and also specifying noapic on the command line does not help.

I can use this system with ESX 2.5.3 without any issues.

I already flashed the latest BIOS build 1014 Beta 3.
The BIOS has no MPS revision settings or any other setting that I knew from my other motherboard (ASUS P4C800-E) that I had to change for ESX.

I know that the system is not supported. Anyhow a kernel panic is something that should not occur.

I opened a support request.

Does somebody have a tip how I could solve this?

LSI Logic Mega RAID 320-2E Parallel SCSI RAID Contoller

ctsmith — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:30:29 GMT

I've noticed that the LSI Logic MegaRAID 320-2E PCI Express SCSI RAID controller was dropped from the I/O Compatibility Guide between ESX versions 2.5.1 and 3.0. Though I was using it successfully with ESX 2.5.1, it now panics the kernel when the installer loads the driver during initial installation of ESX 3.0 RC2. I'm a bit bummed about this, because it was their latest and fastest parallel SCSI RAID card. I downgraded to a supported 320-2X controller, and ESX 3.0 RC2 loaded successfully on that controller. My question is why the 320-2E was dropped? The MegaRAID SAS adapter is also a PCI Express card, and it was added to the compatibility list. Is VMware prematurely declaring parallel SCSI dead already?

CS

What OS Installs with Altiris Are supported in ESX3

virtech — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:37:16 GMT

Is someone in VMware able to advise what OS installs are supported by Altiris Deployment Server in ESX3 please?

Installed esx 3.0 and it overwrote a vmfs on the san to install

Silver Train — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:17:14 GMT

Installed esx 3.0 and it overwrote a vmfs on the san to install. I confirmed this as a bug with 3.0 learn from my lesson keep esx 3.0 off production until release.

Datastores were erased by VMFS3 conversion!!

squirrelking — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:36:05 GMT

I had ESX3 RC1 with VirtualCenter 2 RC1 up and running perfectly (was an upgrade from 2.5.2) and got to the part in the upgrade guide where you need to upgrade vmfs2 volumes to vmfs3. The vmfs2 volumes were showing under VirtualCenter as "Read Only" which I've read on this forum is normal for vmfs2, thus why you need to do the upgrade vmfs3.

So I started the upgrade on the datastores through VirtualCenter after making sure all VM's where shutdown and that only 1 ESX server was up and running (we have 2 in our environment). The ESX server was also put into maintenance mode (required by the conversion).

The conversion errored with the message:
"Error during the configuration of the host: System Call "ConvertToFS3" failed with code 2: No such file or directory and message Unable to Upgrade Filesystem"

I was bummed about that but thought to myself, "Oh well" and exited out of maintenance mode and rebooted the esx server. I also wanted to bring back up the 2nd ESX server so I started that one. (I was going to try the filesystem upgrade from the 2nd ESX server just to make sure it wasn't server related). After rebooting the 1st ESX server and bringing up the 2nd ESX server, once VirtualCenter reconnected, I would go to the "Configuration" tab and Choose "Storage". Nothing would be listed there. I can choose the "Add" button and I see my SAN LUN's, however they show BLANK! I've tried about every "esxcfg-...." command I can find to see if I can show whats on the LUN's however it looks like they are blank and ESX now wants to format them if I choose the "Add" option under Storage.

I had around 15 VM's on the 3 datastores and now they appear to be gone. Anyone have any suggestions?

I have rebooted both ESX servers repeatly, mostly praying that the SAN luns would magically reappear, but they haven't.

I have also tried to reboot the server with the ESX3 RC1 CD and when it gets to the point of partitioning everything, it shows my internal storage filesystem layout and it shows the SAN LUN's as "Free".. no filesystems..

Here's some outputs of commands:
[root@ESX2 root]# esxcfg-vmhbadevs -m
[root@ESX2 root]#

[root@ESX2 root]# esxcfg-vmhbadevs -q
vmhba0:0:0 /dev/cciss/c0d0
vmhba1:0:0 /dev/sda
vmhba1:0:1 /dev/sdb
vmhba1:0:2 /dev/sdc
vmhba1:0:3 /dev/sdd

Everything on vmhba1 is the SAN LUN's.

[root@ESX2 root]# esxcfg-mpath -l
Disk vmhba0:0:0 /dev/cciss/c0d0 (17359MB) has 1 paths and policy of Fixed
Local 2:1.0 vmhba0:0:0 On active preferred

Disk vmhba1:0:0 /dev/sda (102400MB) has 1 paths and policy of Most Recently Used
FC 10:1.0 10000000c938c9ca<->500601603920052a vmhba1:0:0 On active preferred

Disk vmhba1:0:1 /dev/sdb (204800MB) has 1 paths and policy of Most Recently Used
FC 10:1.0 10000000c938c9ca<->500601603920052a vmhba1:0:1 On active preferred

Disk vmhba1:0:2 /dev/sdc (102400MB) has 1 paths and policy of Most Recently Used
FC 10:1.0 10000000c938c9ca<->500601603920052a vmhba1:0:2 On active preferred

Disk vmhba1:0:3 /dev/sdd (51200MB) has 1 paths and policy of Most Recently Used
FC 10:1.0 10000000c938c9ca<->500601603920052a vmhba1:0:3 On active preferred

[root@ESX2 root]# vdf -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 2.0G 1.3G 626M 68% /
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 51M 16M 33M 33% /boot
none 132M 0 132M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 1008M 20M 938M 3% /home
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 1008M 256M 701M 27% /var
/vmfs/devices 466G 0 466G 0% /vmfs/devices
[root@ESX2 root]#

[root@ESX2 root]# cd /vmfs/volumes/
[root@ESX2 volumes]# ls -alh
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 512 Apr 27 13:36 .
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 512 Apr 27 12:44 ..
[root@ESX2 volumes]#

Any ideas that I'm not screwed? Thanks in advance!

Kernel panic -- please fix apic.c before releasing 3.0

J-H — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:55:03 GMT

I had the ESX 3.0 RC build 24596 CD in the CD-ROM drive of my Compaq NC6000 laptop. When I shutdown my laptop I forgot to remove the CD.
The next time I switched the laptop on, I walked away to fetch something from another room.
I returned and the monitor showed a kernel panic at apic.c: 298.
The installation CD ROM started the installer automatically after some time of inactivity.

Okay, my laptop is not a system that very likely will be used as ESX server, but the occurrence of a kernel panic is something that might give a bad impression of ESX software quality to customers. Forgetting to remove the ESX CD from the CD-ROM drive before shutting down a laptop / desktop is something that might happen at a customer site.
I would prefer that the installation is not started automatically, if this does not break any unattended installations.
The best solution would be to fix the code and avoid the kernel panic.
Isnt it possible to check if the system has the necessary hardware configuration before the real installer starts?
It would be much nicer to inform the user without a kernel panic that his system is incompatible. (It wasnt my intention to install ESX on my laptop).

I verified that ESX 2.5.3 does not generate a panic on my laptop. The installer also starts automatically, but runs without any issues until the graphical introduction screen is shown. (At that point I switched my laptop off.)

Free space required for VMFS3 upgrade?

outbacker — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:44:36 GMT

I'm trying to upgrade a lun from VMFS2 to 3, one where a .vmdk file takes up every bit of available space on the lun. The upgrade fails after about 15 seconds with the following error:

Error during the configuration of the host: System Call "ConvertToFS3" failed with code 28: No space left on device and message Unable To Upgrade File System.

System wide, our .vmdk's are the full size of the luns in which they reside. Is this not going to work for us?

License expiriation?

org2005 — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:01:58 GMT

Now when release date of ESX3 is comming up, we need to begin to plan some time for upgrades of our beta-machine.

So when does the diffrent releases expire? BETA2, RC1, RC2 ?

RC2 : ESX and VC client login problems

komal — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:54:56 GMT

Hi,

I recently installed ESX3.0 RC2 candidate on one of my host and updated my VC client too.

But now when i try to connect to ESX server using VC client, it gives me following error "This client and the server are not talking the same language"

Has anyone faced this issue? PLEASE PLEASE reply..

thanks,
komal

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fallback mode -- ASUS P4C800-E + LSI Logic SATA 150-4

J-H — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:25:07 GMT

Hi

I tried running the current build on a white box using a ASUS P4C800-E motherboard and an LSI Logic SATA 150-4 controller connected to a WD Caviar SE WD5000KS.
Yes, I know that this is unsupported, but I still have to wait until I get a new SCSI controller for my DL580 G0 or my manager approves a new supported test system.
I did not want to wait so long and spend some private bucks for the LSI Logic and the disk.

The installation finished without an error, but after the reboot the systems enters fallback mode.
I checked /var/log/messages and found a few warnings that the capacity of my USB devices could not be determined. I disabled the USB support in the BIOS, but no change.

Any tips how I might solve is issue are appreciated.

Do you know if VMware is interested in a support request if I use a system that is not on the HCL?

Cheers
Juergen

## section with failed in /var/log/messages ##
Jun 2 19:55:27 pc2 vmware-vmkauthd: Starting VMware VMkernel authorization daemon failed
Jun 2 19:55:27 pc2 kernel: Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 4, IRQ 09, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 09
...
Jun 2 19:55:48 pc2 kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Jun 2 19:55:48 pc2 kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Jun 2 19:55:48 pc2 kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Jun 2 19:55:48 pc2 kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Jun 2 19:55:48 pc2 kernel: Initializing Cryptographic API
...
Jun 2 19:55:56 pc2 kernel: hub.c: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled
Jun 2 19:55:56 pc2 kernel: Adding Swap: 554200k swap-space (priority -1)
... ## a new errors about the USB devices ##
Jun 2 19:55:56 pc2 kernel: VMWARE: Unique Device attached as scsi disk sde at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 3
Jun 2 19:55:56 pc2 kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sde at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 3
Jun 2 19:55:56 pc2 kernel: sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
Jun 2 19:55:56 pc2 kernel: sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
...
## /var/log/inintrdlogs ##
Warning: loading /lib/vmware/vmnixmod.o will taint the kernel: no license
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Module vmnixmod loaded, with warnings
vmnix: No space left on device
Using /lib/vmware/vmkernel
0: 0x0:0x0
1: .text 0x600000:0x294f23
2: .data 0xc03000:0x24564
3: .rodata 0x894f40:0x793ac
4: .bss 0xc27600:0x14a9768
5: .stab 0x0:0x698358
6: .stabstr 0x0:0x1d588f
7: .comment 0x0:0x102c
8: .shstrtab 0x0:0x4c
9: .symtab 0x0:0x293c0
10: .strtab 0x0:0x29e61
vmkload_mod PANIC: Vmkernel not loaded
vmkload_mod PANIC: Vmkernel not loaded
VMKernel not loaded
vmkload_mod PANIC: Vmkernel not loaded
(forcing normal run)
Red Hat nash version 3.5.13 starting
Creating block devices
(forcing normal run)
Red Hat nash version 3.5.13 starting
Creating block devices
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem

## System Config ##
[root@pc2 root]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB USB2 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4152
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4172
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
03:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3373 (rev 02)
03:0d.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI Logic MegaRAID (rev 01)
##
I have four additional discs connected to the SATA controller on the motherboard, but they are not used by the installation.

Cheaper NAS Solution for ESX3

virtech — Fri, 26 May 2006 21:46:07 GMT

Im looking for a cheaper priced solution for a NAS device.
Although something like Buffalo Terastation or Thecus N4100 are not on the Storage Compatabilty guide does anyone have any thoughts as to if this would work with ESX3?

Importing a vmdk from ESX 2 to ESX3

Mabeken — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:50:53 GMT

Hi,

Can't find anything about this here so I hope someone can help.

I have exported a vmdk from ESX2 and copied the COW files to a folder on ESX3. Then I used vmkfstools to import the COW file to a monolithic file.
I went to define a new VM and pointed it to this new existing disk. When I do that I get a message that VC cannot access the vmdk.

Does anyone know how to take a vmdk from ESX 2 and use it with ESX3?

Thanks

Installing fresh ESX RC

roartf — Thu, 11 May 2006 09:58:52 GMT

Hi
Have been running Beta without any problem.
Installation of RC seem fine.
When i start up after and it comes to ALT-F1 screen it didnt get an IP and i get also following errors:

CPU 3: 1034, INIT:1505, Invalid vmkernel ID 0, Distributed VMFS L.......

and

CPU 2: 1033, INIT:490, Initialization for vmfs2 failed with -1

This is a 4 processor Dell (but only 733mhz) wich beta worked on.

Any suggestions?

Is it possible or is it like some have said that the HCL has changed w RC.

thanx,
Roar

RC2, VM memory usage

JuanMi — Fri, 26 May 2006 18:02:41 GMT

Hello,

I had RC1 installed on a Dell 1850 with 2 dual core processors and 4GB of memory, and I have installed RC2 now. I chose the clean install and leaving the vmfs volumes alone. Once everything was back up, I run vmware-cmd -s register on to re-register my virtual machines. I am also running VC RC2. What I am experimenting is that there is a much higher memory usage than it used to be in RC1 for the VM's. All them VM's have about 1GB of memory allocated and 1vCPU. Before RC1 did it's magic and I had plenty of memory capacity. Now the server is pegged for memory all the time. I see that when I look at the resources for a VM, it can say that the Guest memory usage is 105.00 MB and the Host memory usage is 800.00 MB. Why is that discrepancy? I have one that is like 140.00 MB for the guest and 1.3 GB for the host. All the VM's are Windows 2003 Standard SP1. And yes, I updated VMware tools in all of them to the RC2 ones.

Thanks for your time and any suggestions you may have.

Juan Rodriguez

NAS for ESX3

virtech — Fri, 19 May 2006 13:35:41 GMT

Can anyone recommend a NAS Device to use with ESX3 RC ?

RC2 Installation Issue

swulm — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:30:15 GMT

Well, I had sucessfully been running RC1 now for a while, and decided to install a fresh RC2 over one of my RC1 boxes after moving the VMs off.

Here is what I get. I tested the CD, everything checks ok. The install completes, then on the reboot, I get the word GRUB on the screen, and it goes no further. Never boots.

The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with 3 73GB HDs, Raid 5, Perc4 Raid Controller, Dual 3.0Ghz Xeon Processors.

HDS SAN support

Gabrie — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:49:37 GMT

Hi

In the ESX2 HCL I see the HDS Thunder 9520V / 9530V / 9570V / 9585V as supported. On the ESX3 HCL only the 9585V is supported and the other models or NOT on the list of SANs that are planned to be supported.

We already have 9585V for production, but would like to buy the cheaper 9520V for our testlab. It would be a major bummer if just for testlab we would have to buy the 9585V.

Gabrie

VC -Upgrade not possible, INFO

christianZ — Wed, 31 May 2006 11:04:00 GMT

I have just tried to upgrade my VC (Build 2.0..23..) with RC2 (2.0..24..)and received an amazing error:

- CAN NOT update a newer Version -

Spend no time more, made a scratch installation with no problems at all(not comparable to previous Version with many problems/Licence Server, MSDE SQL ).

ESX upgrade runs clear.

Just my 2 cents.

Will ESX3 Support Windows XP Installation using PXE ?

virtech — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:42:50 GMT

Question is in the subject.....

Profiling Tolls Like Oprofile or even sar

nowatzki — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:40:14 GMT

I am investigating some performance issues and was wondering if either of the commonly used open tools "oprofile" or "sar" are available on ESX? If not, then is there something similiar?

Regards,
Thomas

connecting to ISCSI

ehinkle — Sat, 27 May 2006 17:59:58 GMT

I am trying to setup an ISCSI storage but I am not able to see any of the volumes on the esx host. I can see from the iscsi server that the esx box is logged in, but when I look on the storage adapter properties it does not show any targets or any of the luns that are presented by the iscsi server. Anyone have any ideas what I can try? I have configured the ISCSI adapter with an IP and the console with an IP on the same virtual switch. The console is configured with 10.5.17.18 and the ISCSI device is configured with 10.5.17.19. Should I be able to ping the ISCSI IP Address? I am able to ping the console IP, but I can not ping the ISCSI address, is this correct?

RC2 - Hp 380G4

tatung70 — Fri, 26 May 2006 18:27:58 GMT

Not able to install RC2 on an HP 380G4 server.

I get thru the entire Q&A and then it hangs at 2% while installing glibc.

Using internal storage.

Any ideas?

Upgrade from ESX 2.5.X to ESX 3.0 RC2 fails..Error: Failed to upgrade RPMS!

cerua — Wed, 31 May 2006 20:12:42 GMT

Has anyone had any problems upgrading from ESX 2.5.3 using the upgrade scripts for ESX 3.0 RC2? I took the proper upgrade steps:

1. Insert the ESX 3.0 RC2 CD and ran pre-upgrade.pl script (Everything checked out OK)
2. Rebooted into linux & linux-up on two different occassions just for sanity check and ran upgrade.pl script
3. Rebooted into Service Console only mode and ran upgrade2.pl script (Failed, until I figured out the problem)

Whenever I would run upgrade2.pl I would receive the following error:

[code]
Verifying files ... done
Upgrading packages
INIT: version 2.85 reloading
Error:
Failed to upgrade RPMS!
[/code]

After reading the upgrade2.pl script and seeing how it eventually goes back to upgrade.pl script, I found the problem. In case it happens to you do the following:

Comment out:

[code]
# }
print "... done\n";
[/code]

That should take of the problem. Good luck!

Upgrade from 2.5.2 Update 3

jchurruca — Tue, 30 May 2006 15:13:59 GMT

Hi
We have 3 ESX 2.5.2 Update 3 servers with an EMC CX300 array. Our LUNs are 100% full because we have created one LUN for each disk, so if one VM has two disks, we have two different LUNs and the vmdk file has all the LUN capacity. So if I try to upgrade to ESX 3.0 which has the vmx and logs in the SAN I could not start the VMs, is OK?. So do I need free space in each LUN for logs and vmx files?.

Thanks in advance,

Kickstart of ESX Server

Prodessa — Mon, 22 May 2006 13:47:28 GMT

To improve server utilization we are designing a virtual infrastructure.

For deploying ESX in our datacenter we want to use kickstart, whereby the kickstart file and the installation packages are located on a web or nfs server.

Everything is loading and working fine, the same configuration is tested by installing a normal Redhat server/workstation. We want to use the same kickstart enviroment for our ESX servers.

Every specific vmware option in the KS.cfg generates a error while installing the server, the first error is when the network is configurated.

--vlanid=0: unknown option

We are using dhcp and tftp to load the initrd.img and the vmlinuz file to our servers.

After that anaconda starts and generates errors and exits on the same error. --vlanid=0: unknown option

Searching by using google gives some results that it isn't possible to locate the KS.cfg on a remote filesystem.

problem redeeming license for VC 2

vmpev — Mon, 08 May 2006 14:23:46 GMT

It seems there are problems with the page for redeeming of licenses, apparently mantained by Macrovision.
I keep getting an error on http://www.vmware.com/cust-fulfill/login
It gives this internal error:

An error has occurred that prevents the display of the requested web page.
Please provide the following information to yourEmailAddress to help us resolve the error:

* Your name and company
* Time (with time zone) at which the error occurred
* What you were trying to do when the error occurred

This happens on both firefox and ie6, from this morning.
Any hint on how to proceed? Any timing for solving this?
Thaks in advance.
Gianluca

Install License Server

ehinkle — Fri, 26 May 2006 03:57:39 GMT

I was going through the documentation on setting the license server and it say's to run Vmware-licenseserver.exe, but it does not indicate where this file was. I am setting this up without virtual center so I would assume I should be able to run a license server with multiple esx boxes, or is that only good if you run virtual center? The documentation recommends running the licensing server on the same box as virtual center but it sounds like it could run on another machine.

If the vmware-licenseserver.exe is located on the virtual center media, which I have not checked, how would someone not running virtual center get access to vmware-licenseserver.exe to setup a central license server?

I plan on setting up virtual center, but I was curious on setting this up in the event I do not run virtual center in production.

Installation of DUAL CPU with Single CPU license?

optvm — Wed, 17 May 2006 08:05:26 GMT

I noticed that my beta-license for ESX is a single-cpu license. Although I need to set up an intermediate ESX3-machine now. The available machine is a Dual Xenon.

Will it be possible to install ESX anyway? Will it in that case only use 1 CPU?

Create VMFS volumes after install

foam — Fri, 26 May 2006 22:21:11 GMT

3.0 beta rc2, ibm 345, multipath to FastT600E (1.7TB)

see hbas, see luns see paths fine, one is set to active

go to create vmfs get unable to read partition from this disk

use vmkfstools -C vmfs3 -b 1m -S myVMFS vmhba0:0:0:2

get Error:Bad file descriptor

/vmfs/devides/disks/vmhba0:0:2:0 is present with the following vml.

vml.0200020000600a0b800012ac4100001038447572ac313732322d36

Its gotta be me but i am not sure what to try next.

Setting the ESX host time get its time from time server

NYSDHCR — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:00:36 GMT

Are there any instructions to direct the ESX v3 host to get its time form the time server? The instructions from 2.5.2 do not work. There does not seem to be any ntpd service.

16 way VmWare Servers on IBM Platform

Paul MOH — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:13:31 GMT

I have purchased 2 x IBM X460 servers with 16 64bit hyperthreaded processors in each and 65GB of RAM. I intend to run these with VmWare 3 and VC 2 and cluster them together. It is intended to be run on a very large shared IBM SAN infrastructure as well. With the intention of running hopefully 100 windows Vm instances on the cluster

Has anyone worked withh Vmware on this type of config or anything close to it?

I will be keen to here from anyone

I have heard on the grapevine that these 2 Vmware servers will be the largest ever sold in New Zealand to Date

ESX 3.0 - License key

HG (IND) — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:17:01 GMT

In process of testing out ESX 3.0, Received an error "Operation failed since there are not enough licenses" - Can somehome guide me how to enter license key ?

Thank you,

Network VLANS

stuten — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:12:59 GMT

Currently I have the service console using a bond of 2 adapters that are set to trunked. When I install a new esx server (pre 3.0) I usually log on to the console and edit hwconfig to create the bond and then use vmxnet_console to "plug" the console into bond0.VLANTAG. All and all it was a very easy thing.

It appears that the config files are such in 3.0 that you can't really do that. So, I assume that I'll need to have a normally configured network port setup to get into the gui config screens to then setup the bond and plug the console into the bond with the appropriate vlan tag.

I read something about easier config for blade servers, which I assumed would mean it would be easier to set the service console into a trunk and/or bond.

Installing ESX3.0 in a Workstation VM

erique — Thu, 25 May 2006 14:51:05 GMT

Has anybody attempted to install ESX3.0 Beta2 in a VM? Purely for playing with and getting familiar with the new software.

Windows XP SP1 Install Cant find Disk

virtech — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:14:21 GMT

Trying to install Windows XP and getting an error message saying setup did not find any hard drives installed on my computer.

I assigned a 8GB partition and have already formatted it.

I have tried Bus logic and LSI logic controllers but obviously the drivers are not being loaded for either controller. Surely this is not normal behaviour?

Can someone else test this for me?

Re-register pre existing vm's

rzomerman — Thu, 25 May 2006 15:02:51 GMT

hello,

after upgrading my host, i want to register my vm's again.. but i get an error:
VMControl error -999: Unknown error: SoapError: ServerFaultCode (1589): (invalid datastore format '[]Astoria.vmx')

any thoughts?

"New Virtual Machine" grayed out

AjayL — Wed, 24 May 2006 22:55:18 GMT

I just downloaded and installed RC2.
Logged in to VI client as root.
the "New virtual machine" button in grayed out!!
How can create a new VM?
Thanks,

loading vmkernel aacraid...

lairdnet — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:59:59 GMT

Tried a lab install on a Dell SC1420 with PERC 320/DC controller 2 x 146GB U320, 4GB RAM, 2 x 2.8 Intel Xeon, 3 x Intel 1000MT. Was running ESX 2.5.2 no problem. Install went without a hitch, defaults. Rebooted and last two lines are:

1. vmkernel succeeded.
Loading vmkernel aacraid

Been sitting there for about 30 minutes now. Poor little guy

Rebooted to SC only mode before and that went fine but not sure where to look.

Any thoughts. Thanks.

Telnet to ESX 3 RC2

virtech — Wed, 24 May 2006 19:34:01 GMT

Need to telnet to my ESX server. Cant see anything relating to this in the documentation.

Anyone got this configured?

VirtualCenter 2.0 Service Terminates After Start

jjjworry — Thu, 18 May 2006 06:11:10 GMT

I have installed on a win2k3 server the license and server portions of the virtualcenter. The license server starts fine with the server license from the webstore - however the VC service portion terminates unexpectedly after about 5-10 seconds. The error in the event log is below. Any thoughts?

-------------

The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( VMware VirtualCenter Server ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: [VpxdVmomi] Failed to start http proxy: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.

ESX 3 RC2

zdeneks — Mon, 22 May 2006 15:17:23 GMT

anyone tried it yet?

Trying to install on DL380, no bootloader

Gabrie — Sat, 13 May 2006 08:56:03 GMT

Hi

Installation on DL380 G2 runs without problems, I use 4x 9.1Gb in a Raid0 (no fault tolerance) config. During installation I let ESX choose the disk config and write the MBR to the disk. After installation if finished and I reboot I get a "non system disk found".

I thought maybe in the bios the Smart Array is not bootable, but found no options to set. I then ran the SmartStart installation (5.50) but when I do that installation of ESX halts with a kernel panic right after I choose the install method.

Anyone tips? Maybe make it boot from floppy?

Gabrie

VM Automatic Startup

virtech — Wed, 17 May 2006 09:50:28 GMT

Where can I configure my VM's to automatically start with ESX3 RC in the service console?

My configuration in VC is not working and im waiting for VMware to come back to me with an answer.

X11 libs?

bryanard — Tue, 23 May 2006 20:41:04 GMT

I'm trying to integrate my APC UPS with ESX 3 for soft powerdown and need to find X11 libs required by the java installer (it uses swing). Anyone?
TIA,
Bryan

Upgrading vCenter from 1.2 to 20 (Release Candidate 1)

Mike_Laverick — Mon, 15 May 2006 13:33:36 GMT

Hi there...

OK, anyone seen a successful upgrade from 1.2 to 2.0 yet... I've been experimenting with many different scenarios... and I've yet to see an VC database upgrade work...

I think at the heart of this is my use of Windows Authentication rather than SA authentication...

Gonna go back and rebuild my test VC 1.2 environment and see whether than works instead...

Regards
Mike

License Server not able to start services

jervolino — Mon, 15 May 2006 20:07:53 GMT

When i am trying to install the license server it tells me that it cannot start the service becuse the user doesn't have rights. I am logged on as the local administrator. Is there a default account that i need to use in order to install VC2?

Anyone got ESX 3 to work on IBM HS20 Blades?

ktwebb68 — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:42:05 GMT

Bladecenter BLades running 2.52 but I have tried to install the esx3 beta on one of them. I chose to upgrade instead of doing a clean install. The NIC is not recognized. I can only assume driver issues. I will install from scratch but another odd thing is after I installed the Beta I can now no longer boot to the CD and the chassis is down the street from where I sit. So, if anyone has experienced this issue and can save me a walk it'd be great. Basically everything comes up fine except the NIC is not recognized by the OS.

As it tries to bring up Eth0 the message is tg3 device Eth0 does not seem to be present, delay: ng initialization.

Reloading from scratch is on the horizon. Just thought I'd throw this out there in the event someone has dealt with it.

Message was edited by:
sherold: Moved question to ESX 3.0 Beta Forum

Missing ata_piix

ceemour — Tue, 23 May 2006 17:23:45 GMT

On both previous installations the driver for ata_piix would load. This is not the case with rc2, cannot see ide drives to install. driver does not appear in list when prompted

Vmkernel swap

RobMokkink — Sun, 21 May 2006 18:31:40 GMT

Just stated to work with esx 3 since yesterday.
Most of it is quite clear to me.

But do you still need to configure a vmkernel swap?
I can't find it.

Upgrade from 2.5.2p4 to 3 RC problem - Resolved

borising — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:52:45 GMT

Update
It was because of a faulty cdrom disk.

---

Yesterday I tried to upgrade my ESX installation from 2.5.2 patch 4 to the new 3.0.0 RC.

I started with booting up on the ISO install, and said upgrade, specified the boot SCSI device, and then it started to upgrade the packages.

I then went away for 15 minutes, and when I came back it said it that I now should reboot the server to finish the upgrade.

I did that, and when it came up, it still was at the 2.5.2 version! Anyone else had this kind of thing happening?

Its on a Dell 1800 with a 36GB SCSI disk and 1.5GB ram installed.

Everything ran like it should afterwards, but it was not upgraded!

UPDATE!:

I just tried again, and just after it begind to verify the packages to upgrade, it shuts down to the console with this line :

Install exited abnormally

If you shift to the F3 workspace, there is these two errors listed :

Unable to copy comps package
Driver CD descriptor.xml not found

Message was edited by:
borising

RC 3. cd-rom failure.

serenitynow — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:29:31 GMT

I cannot mount my cd rom from the vmware server directly. - Superblock errors

I cannot use a host based cd-rom assigned to a virtual machine. "Connect at power on" is checked. No operating system found.

When i try to use the 'Client' option in creating the virtual machine, it gets to 28% copying the windows files.... and does not get any further. Restarting the virtual machine does not re-attach the cd-rom. ONly way to attach the cd rom is to blow the vm away, and create a new one.

beta3 RC running on a Dell Poweredge 2850.

Anybody, with any ideas. pretty please.

Host Status Disconnected

Dave_M — Mon, 22 May 2006 14:24:11 GMT

Hi,

I am running VC 2.0.0-23451 and ESX Server 3.0 Build 23447 RC1, my one ESX Host is connected but the other shows up as Disconnected. The task "Reconnect Host" has the status "In Progress", this has been like this since 16:50 on 19/05/2006, it is currently 16:21 on 22/05/2006.

Does anybody have any idea how I get my ESX Host reconnected?

If I right click on the host in VC, the only options available are: "Add Alarm" and "Add Permission". The rest are greyed out.

I can't cancel the task in the recent tasks pane.

Thanks Dave

ESX server 3.0 shows up only one CPU

Ravinandan — Fri, 19 May 2006 23:15:00 GMT

I installed ESX 3.0 rc1 from the beta site. After boot, the linux commands "top" and "cat /proc/cpuinfo" shows up only one CPU although the system has 4 CPUs. BTW, during the ESX installation, I don't remember it asking for any license either.
How do I install/run ESX in an SMP mode ?

Thanks,
Ravi

Who knows grub...

Mike_Laverick — Wed, 17 May 2006 07:24:05 GMT

Previously I would have used lilo -R to toggle different boot options remotely...

I would I do this with grub?

Regards
Mike

Installing ESX 3

roartf — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:50:47 GMT

Hello all
I wanna test out ESX and i have 2 older servers (Dual 733mhz Xeon machines).
Anyone know if its possible to use these for testing environment?
The also have 4gb memory each.

Roar

What's the URL for reporting bugs

Mike_Laverick — Sat, 20 May 2006 12:01:46 GMT

Looked through my emails...

But can't find the url used to post "findings" about ESX/VC RC1/BETA

Regards
Mike

ESX 3.0

chad.sanders — Mon, 15 May 2006 15:12:40 GMT

Any news on an official release date?

Message was edited by:
jasonboche

Moved to the ESX 3 beta forums

Installation fails

kertofer — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:43:47 GMT

Has anyone else run into the issue where the installation of ESX 3 RC fails by saying that it cannot read X component (it has failed a couple of times and on different pieces)? At first I thought this was a disk error or a hardware error, but I just ran the Media Check on my server and everything ran through just fine.

Thanks in advance all.

Installing/Upgrading VMtools

hkb — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:48:43 GMT

Does anybody have instructions on how to install/ upgrade Vmtools in 3.0 and VC 2 on a Linux VM? I have looked at the documentation and it says how to do a windows OS box, but not a Linux.

2.5.3 upgrade to 3, need help getting service console working.

John Gibson — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:05:56 GMT

Hi, I took my 1st steps in ESX 3 today, I took 2 clean fresh built 2.5.3 hp blades and ran both the CD-ROM upgrade and the esx-3.0.0-23447-upgrade.tar.gz upgrade.

The CD-ROM upgrade went smootly, but slowly, the tar file went ok, it rebooted half way through (it asked 1st), and before I ran upgrade2.pl, I had to reboot it again manually to force it into service console mode. (it said to use lilo -R linux, but that wont work anymore now its moved to a grub bootloader (and i dont know the command for that)).

Anyway, neither server is contactable on the service console, i'm only starting to figure out the commands, so esx-nics -l shows 3 nics found, esxcfg-vswif -l shows a vswif0 with Legacy eth0 bound to it with the correct IP address, but i'm stuck as to where to look next.

Any tips pls.

John

Partition Table Recommendations

Mike_Laverick — Tue, 16 May 2006 14:35:44 GMT

OK...

So what do we think?

Manual partition Vs Automatic Partitioning....

I've compared and contrasted the two - and cross referenced with the BETA documentation...

Automatic Partition creates 100MB /boot BUT the guide recommends 250...

The guides say a minimum 2560MB for /root BUT automatic partitioning creates whopping 5GB partition...

The guide say nothing about the /var/log or /tmp partitions - as would older ESX 2.x documentation. But Automatic partition creates a 2GB /var/log partition. But no /tmp partition.

The guide makes no recommendations for the vmkcore, but automatic partitioning make 100M partition for vmkcore...

I'm find the info around this topic a bit thin on the ground. After years of manual partitioning, I feel uncomfortable with automatic. But I also think there are some missing guides lines in the guides...

In the end I merged what I felt was the best of manual/auto/recommendations and personal experience of ESX 2.x

I proposed this partition scheme:

/boot 250MB Primary
swap 544MB Primary
/ 5GB Primary
/var 2GB Logical
/tmp 512MB Logical
vmkcore 100MG Logical
/vmfs Fill to Max (for local storage for those without SAN)

What do we think?

Regards
Mike

Cannot import .vmdk to vmfs3

platinum — Thu, 11 May 2006 19:36:46 GMT

Has anywone tried to import an V2P image.vmdk with vmkfstool -i ?

I allways get the following error :

vmkfstools -i /vmimages/image.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/storage1/vm1/image.vmdk

Failed to clone disk : there is no enough space on the file for the selected operation ...(13)

This image.vmdk has been made with P2V system reconfiguration in ESX2.5 with 2 cpu and has 20GB with 2 partitions.

vdf -h
/devsda2 /vmimages size:100G used:20G avail:80G
...
/vmfs/volumes/storage1 size:100 used:10 avail:90G

I also tried to use UID instead name but no change.

I installed both ESX3 rc on dell 6850 with QLE2462 4GB and boot from SAN. This HBA is not on HCL but it seems to be working.

ESX upgrade fails

Wirespy — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:48:04 GMT

I've upgraded a 2.5.2 Patch 3 on a test server. The upgrade installation goes smooth but when it boots up, all I get a blank screen with 'LI' in the top corner. I can't terminal out or anything - it appears to be hung.

Hardware
Intel Server board
Dual PIII-1266Mhz
4G RAM
73G RAID-5 on Compaq 5300 ctlr
Dual Intel NICs onboard

Any ideas?

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PCI Express

stmclean — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:51:47 GMT

Is there any support in 3.0 for PCI Express HBA's such as Light Pulse 11000-DC? I don't see it in the I/O guide, but I guess my question is more along the lines of over-all support for PCI Express.

Can't add host...

amirsharif — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:23:57 GMT

Hi,

Fairly new user. Trying to add my ESX server as a new host in Virtual Infrastructure and getting "The host is not accessible because it either doesn't exist, there's a network problem, or the host server software is not responding"

The host exists, there is no firewall between my Virtual Center Server and my host, it sounds to me like something is wrong with my ESX install.

Anything I can check for? What is the VC Server looking to connect to on the ESX server?

Thanks.

Root Password

JasonV — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:01:08 GMT

I'm installing V3.0 beta using the GUI install and I'm unable to enter a root password. Has anyone else experienced this issue? This happened on the first try. Restarting the installation seems to have fixed the issue.

Esx v3 - Beta 2 - Feature Request: integration w/ AD

forearms — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:53:17 GMT

Hello,

is there any talk or plans of having the Esx server have the ability to join an Microsoft AD? For security reasons it would be nice to be able to pull existing groups from our global AD to provide access to virtual machines instead of having to maintain a seperate set of accounts on the Esx server.

Linux/Samba v3.x has the ability to do so and this would be huge boon to large customers who have a large AD implementation.

Thanks again
Michael Kling

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