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vmware-umds export question

Kirizan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:55:39 GMT

Hey all, go another umds question.

I am trying to export the updates from the beginning of the year to current, so I'm using the following command

vmware-umds --export --dest "c:\exports" --start-time 2009-01-01T00:00:00 --end-time 2009-11-19T00:00:00

But it starts exporting updates from 2008. Is there an error somewhere in my command causing it, because I typed it exactly like it is listed in the admin guide here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_vum_10u2_admin_guide.pdf on page 25.

Anyone have any suggestions, as I would rather not have to ship 8.8 gbs of patches to our isolated sites so they can use about 800mbs of them to get update 4 installed.

umds question

Kirizan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:53:42 GMT

Hi all, I have a quick questions all. When you download the patches with UMDS and then import them into the Update Manager server, where does it store the actual patches? I'm in an environment where the database is stored in a location, and the Update Manager install is in another location, and we have to track not only the current size of the datastores, but we also need to estimate growth of all datastores when we do patching. Does it store them in the same place it would if Update Manager was doing the downloads directly?

My other question is, when I import the patches into Update Manager, it only imports the patches it currently doesn't have correct?

Also, we are using vCenter 2.5 with ESX 3.5, in case that's important.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Nick

Message was edited by: Kirizan to include product version.

.VMDK file missing!!!!

crodierde — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:05:58 GMT

Good evening,

I went to clone our template for server 2003 and it says "A file was not found. xx VM LUN00 SRV2003Bare/SRV2003Bare.vmdk , Is there anyway to recover this file. I found out the hard way if I shut off a VM server that had that template it no longer boots. Is there a fix for this????? Please help.

Lun Ids

f_wendel — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:51:39 GMT

Hello

Is there a way in ESX 2.5.x to see the Lun Ids from the console?

Thanks and regards

Federico

Difference Exists between the Client and the Server, unable to log on

ChrisOng — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:24:52 GMT

Issue reported - Heartbeat alert. Found vmware tool not installed on one domain controller.

Currently, the system is boot to normal mode but administrator cannot login to the server. The client workstation can access the services and files on this domain controller.

After installing vmware tools, this issue occurred. " "Time Difference Exists between the Client and the Server, unable to log on". This virtual machine is running windows 2000 which has all the 5 FSMO Roles on ESX 2.5. It is also running other services such as DHCP, DNS act as file server.

Do note that prior installing this vmware tool, customer have reboot the server last week and there is no issue. The execution of vmware tools was installed yesterday.

Action Taken

Reboot the server to Safe Mode with Networking; verify that the time is same as the any other client. From the safe mode, you can login to the server

If login to the normal mode, the error appear " "Time Difference Exists between the Client and the Server, unable to log on"

Boot the server from "Restore Active Directory Mode" and uninstall the VM tool, reboot the server and able to login but the network card driver has been uninstall.

After uninstall the VM tool, the network driver has been remove as well, Install only the Network card driver again from the VM tool, after reboot the problem still occur again

Generate alam regarding LUN Space through vcms

Ravi1987 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:34:22 GMT

Hi we are using vcms 2.5 with esx 3.5 for virtual environment. i m using 300 virtual machines and 25 ESX server . Total Lun mounted on all esx server in shared mode is 70. now some user have virtual machines creation access by Vcms due to some business requiremnt . now the problem is that suddelny we have found that we are running out of space from storage cx4. can any body tell me the way so i can set alam or generate some trap by vcms server when ever any virtual machine created or harddisk added to the virtual machine. so user or admins will get the mail regarding space left on storage LUN.

Help! Resized virt partitions and they won't boot.

drdemonx — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:59:11 GMT

Hello,

I have two partitions both are the same - clones of each other - both running Centos4x

My ESX version is 2.5.4

I went through the process to expand their partitions using the following command:

vmkfstools -X 15g /vmfs/vmhba0:0:0:6/New server.vmdk

(they used to be 10gb in size).

Now when I power on the servers in Virtual Center I get an error:

"A general system error occured: operation failed to change the VM to the expected power state"

What do I need to do to get them to boot?

Thanks!

Mike

Help with guest log messages

bastilyk — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:50:30 GMT

Hi toghether,

I just searched the community but can´t find useful information for my problem.

I´m using ESX 2.5.3 and have a guest VM running Windows 2003 standard.

The vmware.log for this guest writes the following entry approx. one time a minute.

Oct 15 14:13:39: vcpu-0| VIDE: ATAPI DMA 0x25 Failed: key 0x2, asc 0x3a, ascq 0x0
Oct 15 14:13:39: vcpu-1| VIDE: ATAPI DMA 0x25 Failed: key 0x2, asc 0x3a, ascq 0x0

Can anyone help me with interpreting this message?

Thanks in advance

Regards

bastilyk

How do I format an extended linux partition?

drdemonx — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:35:47 GMT

I extended the partitions on two of my virtuals - both running Centos 4.

How do I configure the OS to use the new partitioned disk space?

Thanks!

Dmotion (Upgrade Vmotion)

Kristof.Vanweert — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:12:35 GMT

Hello mighty wizards,

A few fairly simple questions (or so I hope) ...

A customer for which I'm starting an ESX migration project is running about 50 ESX hosts with around 500 VM's.
The environment is currently 2.5.2 and they want to upgrade to ESX 3.5 U3. VirtualCenter is already 2.5 (since it already manages a different ESX 3.5 infrastructure).

I want to use Dmotion (Upgrade Vmotion) to get the VM's to the new infrastructure. So now my questions:
1. I know I can't directly upgrade from 2.5.2 to 3.5 U3, but if I have new hardware on which ESX 3.5 U3 will be directly installed and new empty VMFS3 datastores, is this still an issue?
I think that the patch version of ESX 2.5 doesn't change the VMFS2 datastore or VM2 formats of the virtual machines. Is this correct?
2. Once I have my new environment up and ready to receive VM's, how do I do the Dmotion? Is it just selecting the option "Relocate VM files" or is there more to it?

All licenses, HW requirements, storage is all no issue ...

Thank you in advance,

Virtual machine templates for Vista and Windows server 2008 and sysprep

reinhartnel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:32:37 GMT

Hi Can someone please help me

When i go to documents and settings in the Virtual Center server there is no folder for Vista and windows server 2008.

What is best practice when it comes to syspreping Vista and windows server 2008 in a system center environment for virtual machine templates?

And is Windows 7 now supported as well

Regards

Reinhart

Converting Physical VirtualCenter Server to VM for testing

pearlyshells — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:04:23 GMT

We are giving thought to going vSphere and vCenter; however, we don't have a testlab to perform testing. So, I'm thinking that I could further our confidence testing on vSphere/vCenter by performing a Copy Conversion of our Production VirtualCenter2.5 (which is a physical server) to a VM and then performing tests on the VM. If all goes well, then we can do the upgrade on VirtualCenter to vCenter. Seems like a good idea. Any problems with that idea?

migration of ESX servers from old vcenter to a new clean database vcenter

jrr001 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:28:20 GMT

I built a fresh install of vCenter 2.5 update 4 using all the best new practices. I want to migrate my workloads from an older prod vCenter 2.5 update 3. I do not want to use the database info...I'm starting fresh.

I setup all the cluseters and permissions in the new vCenter update 4. What is the best way to move the workloads is the question.

can I just remove the ESX server from 2.5 up 3 cluster and add to new 2.5 update 4?

would I have to ESX server in maintenance mode on 2.5 update 3 vcenter, remove from cluseter, manually vmotion some of workload back to it, then remove from old vcenter and add into new vcenter?

Any ideas or suggestions appreciated and ponts will be awarded!

Trouble in deleting ESX user

DheereshLodhi — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:27:17 GMT

I am not able to delete ESX user in case of esx 2.0. I tried deleting this from command and GUI both however, still nto abel to do that.

Some help would be highly appriciated.

Regards

Dheeresh Lodhi

Creating Vm's using template from another ESX server.

anilchaurasia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:56:57 GMT

Can we create VMware machines on ESX host "A" from a VM template hosted to ESX host "B".

If there are no option of doing that what id the best way to accomplish that.

Automaticly create VMs from template on VC 2.5 and ESX 3.5

olegarr — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:09:37 GMT

Hello:

I am wondering if there is an option how I can automatically deploy a lot of VMs (more then 100) from template...

Basically, I have good template and want to deploy new VMs from it with specific name and automatically join them to domain... What is the best way to do it?

Thanks a lot

Auditd daemon

Glen Ziegler — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:46:01 GMT

Has anyone enabled the auditd daemon within the service console on an ESX 2.5.5 server? If so, how did you do it? Is there an rpm included with the install media? If not, did you download one from RedHat?

Thanks,

Glen

Moved Guest OS and now cannot start it

idmtech — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:57:57 GMT

Hello all, I'm a long time user of VM but am stuck in the "dark ages" with v2.01 and v2.51 and do not have any of the "fancy" converter tools.

I recently copied a Windows guest OS from esx 2.01 to esx 2.51 system utilizing FTP from the 2.51 system. Transfer went without error...but now I cannot start the guest OS. I receive the following - "error loading the operating system".

This guest OS was originally physical and we did a P2V several years back (installing on the v2.01 system).....and it has worked fine all this time.....

The .DSK file is just over 34gb.

I've moved other guests with this method without any trouble (between v2.01 and 2.51 - back and forth without any errors)..... this is the only guest that is causing me trouble.

I've also tried to move it with SCP....same problem.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.....

Issue after a reboot

smalldragoon — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:53:25 GMT

Hi all,

I just rebooted the ESX as the GUI was not able to connect anymore and it seems that the problem is bigger than I though.

none of the VM are startting, I can not even list available ones ( with vmware-command -l , result is :

/usr/bin/vmware-cmd: Could not connect to server
(VMControl error -3: Invalid arguments: Login failed.) )

Checking in our action history, the last action which was performed on this ESX was a try for an import for a vmmachine ( and it failed )

I tried to connect using the -U and -P option but nothing ....

Here is the paste from the /var/log/messages

I see 2 lines at the end for " init file not found "???

Thanks in advance !

Sep 1 13:25:55 esx sshd: succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: ACPI DT header at 0xcfeea880
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx sshd864: socket: Address family not supported by protocol
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: DT signature HPET, length 56
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx sshd864: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx vmware-late: Starting VMware late init tools succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: DT mapped at fc6fd880
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: saved
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: ACPI DT header at 0xcfeea900
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: DT signature MCFG, length 60
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: DT mapped at fc6fd900
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: unused DT, skipped
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: ACPI DT header at 0xcfeea780
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: DT signature APIC, length 152
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: DT mapped at fc6fd780
Sep 1 13:25:55 esx kernel: VMNIX: saved
Sep 1 13:25:56 esx kernel: Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Sep 1 13:25:56 esx kernel: Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
Sep 1 13:25:56 esx kernel: OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Sep 1 13:25:56 esx kernel: APIC_set_type: P6 or K7
Sep 1 13:25:56 esx kernel: VMNIX: BSP APIC ID from MPS: 0x0

CUUUTTTT

Sep 1 13:25:58 esx xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:26 esx rc.sysinit: Initializing USB mouse: succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:58 esx kernel: Processors: 2
Sep 1 13:25:26 esx fsck: /: clean, 57280/640000 files, 509648/1279175 blocks
Sep 1 13:25:58 esx kernel: xAPIC support is not present
Sep 1 13:25:26 esx rc.sysinit: Checking root filesystem succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: Enabling APIC mode: Physical. Using 1 I/O APICs
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx ntpd949: ntpd 4.1.2@1.892 Tue Feb 24 06:32:25 EST 2004 (1)
Sep 1 13:25:26 esx rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: succeeded
---cut

ver webAccess:
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: 73 structures occupying 2132 bytes.
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx watchdog-webAccess: PID file /var/run/vmware/watchdog-webAccess.PID not fou
nd
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx ntpd949: precision = 15 usec
Sep 1 13:25:27 esx fsck: /boot: clean, 34/26104 files, 34888/104391 blocks
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: DMI table at 0x000F0000.
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx ntpd949: kernel time discipline status 0040
Sep 1 13:25:27 esx fsck: /var/log: clean, 120/255488 files, 18909/510055 blocks
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx vmware-webAccess: VMware ESX Server webAccess
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: BIOS Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx ntpd949: frequency initialized 0.000 from /var/lib/ntp/drift
Sep 1 13:25:27 esx rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: BIOS Version: ASUS P5NT WS ACPI BIOS Revision 0305
Sep 1 13:25:28 esx rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems: succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: BIOS Release: 02/06/2007
Sep 1 13:25:28 esx rc.sysinit: Saving boot logs: succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:28 esx rc.sysinit: Unmounting initrd: succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: System Vendor: System manufacturer
Sep 1 13:25:28 esx /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usbcore for USB product 0/0/204
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: Product Name: System Product Name
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: Version: System Version
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: Serial Number: System Serial Number
Sep 1 13:25:28 esx /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usbcore for USB product 0/0/0
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: UUID c00d1b5ce09d43ea30349a7c20c7d311
Sep 1 13:25:28 esx /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usbcore for USB product 0/0/0
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: Board Vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Sep 1 13:25:28 esx /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usbcore for USB product 0/0/204
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: Board Name: P5NT WS
Sep 1 13:25:28 esx rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space: succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: Board Version: 1.XX
Sep 1 13:25:29 esx init: Entering runlevel: 3
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: Kernel command line: ro root=UUID=f7d8dfc4-fde7-435e-897d-57c25e3e3
52a mem=272M cpci=0:0,1,2,3,9,10,11,13,14,15,19,22,23;2:7;4:;6:;
Sep 1 13:25:30 esx microcode_ctl: microcode_ctl startup succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:59 esx kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Sep 1 13:25:30 esx vmkstart: Updating summary log:
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Detected 1800.007 MHz processor.
Sep 1 13:25:30 esx vmkstart: succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Sep 1 13:25:30 esx vmkstart:
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 3591.37 BogoMIPS
Sep 1 13:25:30 esx vmkstart:
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 512 KB)
Sep 1 13:25:30 esx rc: Starting vmkstart: succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Page-pin hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 128 KB)
Sep 1 13:25:33 esx vmware: VMware dump partition succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 512 KB)
Sep 1 13:25:33 esx vmware: VMkernel module vmkapimod already loaded succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 256 KB)
Sep 1 13:25:33 esx vmware: VMkernel module vmklinux already loaded succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 128 KB)
Sep 1 13:25:35 esx vmkload_mod: Using /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/forcedeth.o
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Memory: 260204k/278528k available (1659k kernel code, 15808k reserv
ed, 1209k data, 376k init, 0k highmem)
Sep 1 13:25:35 esx vmkload_mod: Module load of forcedeth succeeded.
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: zapping low mappings.
Sep 1 13:25:35 esx vmware: Loading VMkernel module forcedeth.o succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Sep 1 13:25:36 esx vmkload_mod: Using /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/e100.o
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx xinetd937: xinetd Version 2.3.12 started with libwrap loadavg options com
piled in.
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: CPU: L1 I-cache: 32K, L1 D-cache: 32K
Sep 1 13:25:36 esx vmkload_mod: Module load of e100 succeeded.
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx xinetd937: Started working: 1 available service
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx snmpd855: SNMPVMInfo: Initialized.
Sep 1 13:25:36 esx vmware: Loading VMkernel module e100.o succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Intel machine check architecture supported.
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx snmpd855: SNMPVMNet: Initialized.
Sep 1 13:25:36 esx vmware: VMkernel module aacraid_esx30.o already loaded succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx snmpd855: SNMPVMDisk: Initialized.
Sep 1 13:25:38 esx vmkload_mod: Using /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/e1000.o
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx snmpd855: SNMPVMFloppyCD: Initialized.
Sep 1 13:25:38 esx vmkload_mod: Module load of e1000 succeeded.
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx snmpd855: SNMPResMem: Initialized.
Sep 1 13:25:38 esx vmware: Loading VMkernel module e1000.o succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz stepping 02
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx snmpd855: SNMPResCPU: Initialized.
Sep 1 13:25:38 esx vmware: Restoring Nic Settings succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:00 esx kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx snmpd855: SNMPResDisk: Initialized.
Sep 1 13:25:39 esx vmware: Restoring Virtual Switches succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx snmpd855: SNMPResNet: Initialized.
Sep 1 13:25:42 esx vmkload_mod: Using /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/tcpip
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx snmpd855: SNMPESX: Initialized.
Sep 1 13:25:42 esx vmkload_mod: Module load of tcpip succeeded.
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx kernel: enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx snmpd855: SNMPSystem: Initialized.
Sep 1 13:25:42 esx vmware: Loading VMkernel module tcpip succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx kernel: ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
Sep 1 13:25:42 esx vmware: Restoring VMkernel Networking succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx kernel: ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Sep 1 13:25:42 esx esxcfg-route: 0
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx snmpd855: [2009-09-01 13:26:01.446 '
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx kernel: ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Sep 1 13:25:42 esx vmware: Setting VMkernel gateway succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx snmpd855: SNMP
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx kernel: Setting 4 in the phys_id_present_map
Sep 1 13:25:45 esx vmkload_mod: Using /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/tcpip
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx snmpd
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx kernel: ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 4 ... ok.
Sep 1 13:25:45 esx vmkload_mod: Module load of tcpip succeeded.
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx snmpd855: Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 1
20000000
Sep 1 13:25:45 esx vmware: Loading VMkernel module tcpip succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx snmpd855:
Sep 1 13:25:45 esx esxcfg-vswif: Using /lib/modules/2.4.21-47.0.1.ELvmnix/misc/vmxnet_console.
o
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx kernel: ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
Sep 1 13:25:45 esx esxcfg-vswif: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.21-47.0.1.ELvmnix/misc/vmxn
et_console.o will taint the kernel: no license
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx snmpd855: [2009-09-01 13:26:01.928 '
Sep 1 13:25:45 esx esxcfg-vswif: See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information
about tainted modules
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx kernel: number of IO-APIC #4 registers: 24.
Sep 1 13:26:01 esx snmpd855: SNMP
Sep 1 13:25:45 esx esxcfg-vswif: Module vmxnet_console loaded, with warnings
Sep 1 13:26:02 esx kernel: testing the IO APIC.......................
Sep 1 13:26:02 esx snmpd
Sep 1 13:25:45 esx vmware: Restoring Virtual Interfaces succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:02 esx kernel:
Sep 1 13:26:02 esx snmpd855: Disconnect: not connected.
Sep 1 13:25:46 esx vmkload_mod: Using /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/migration
Sep 1 13:26:02 esx snmpd855:
Sep 1 13:25:46 esx vmkload_mod: Module load of migration succeeded.
Sep 1 13:26:02 esx snmpd855: VmomiClient::Init: :514 Error connecting to hostd-vmdb service
instance.
Sep 1 13:25:46 esx vmware: Loading VMkernel module migration succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:47 esx vmkload_mod: Using /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/lvmdriver
Sep 1 13:25:47 esx vmkload_mod: Module load of lvmdriver succeeded.
Sep 1 13:25:47 esx vmware: Loading VMkernel module lvmdriver succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:48 esx vmkload_mod: Using /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/nfsclient
Sep 1 13:25:48 esx vmkload_mod: Module load of nfsclient succeeded.
Sep 1 13:25:48 esx vmware: Loading VMkernel module nfsclient succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:49 esx vmkload_mod: Using /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/vmfs3
Sep 1 13:25:49 esx vmkload_mod: Module load of vmfs3 succeeded.
Sep 1 13:25:49 esx vmware: Loading VMkernel module vmfs3 succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:02 esx vmware-webAccess:
Sep 1 13:25:50 esx vmware: Restoring SCSI Paths succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:02 esx rc: Starting vmware-webAccess: succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:50 esx vmware: Restoring Resource Groups succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:51 esx rc: Starting mptctlnode: succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:02 esx crond: crond startup succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:52 esx firewall: Starting firewall succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:52 esx sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
Sep 1 13:25:52 esx sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
Sep 1 13:25:52 esx sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
Sep 1 13:25:52 esx sysctl: kernel.core_pattern = /var/core/%p.core
Sep 1 13:25:52 esx sysctl: fs.file-max = 32768
Sep 1 13:25:52 esx sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.arp_filter = 1
Sep 1 13:26:03 esx vmware-vmkauthd: Starting VMware VMkernel authorization daemon succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:52 esx network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
Sep 1 13:25:52 esx network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:04 esx watchdog-hostd: PID file /var/run/vmware/watchdog-hostd.PID not found
Sep 1 13:25:54 esx network: Bringing up interface vswif0: succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:04 esx VMwareinit: 1033 Begin '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u', min-uptime = 60, ma
x-quick-failures = 5, max-total-failures = 1000000
Sep 1 13:26:04 esx watchdog-cimserver: PID file /var/run/vmware/watchdog-cimserver.PID not fou
nd
Sep 1 13:26:05 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:26:05 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:26:05 esx pegasus: succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:05 esx watchdog-cimserver: 1069 Begin '/var/pegasus/bin/cimserver daemon=false',
min-uptime = 60, max-quick-failures = 5, max-total-failures = 1000000
Sep 1 13:26:05 esx vmware-autostart:
Sep 1 13:26:05 esx rc: Starting vmware-autostart: succeeded
Sep 1 13:26:06 esx snmpd855: Could not init vmomi client to vmware-hostd.
Sep 1 13:26:05 esx watchdog-cimserver: Executing '/var/pegasus/bin/cimserver daemon=false'
Sep 1 13:26:06 esx snmpd855: SNMPVmodl: Initialized
Sep 1 13:26:07 esx snmpd855: NET-SNMP version 5.0.9
Sep 1 13:26:07 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCor
e 1.
Sep 1 13:26:08 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:26:10 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: hyperthreading disabled, setting number of threads
per core to 1.
Sep 1 13:26:11 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:26:11 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, an
d 2 logical CPUs.
Sep 1 13:26:12 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:26:13 esx kernel: .................................... done.
Sep 1 13:26:13 esx kernel: Process timing init...done.
Sep 1 13:26:13 esx kernel: mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sep 1 13:26:14 esx kernel: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
Sep 1 13:26:14 esx kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xf1e00, last bus=7
Sep 1 13:26:14 esx kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Sep 1 13:26:14 esx kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Sep 1 13:26:14 esx kernel: Transparent bridge - PCI device 10de:0370 (nVidia Corporation)
Sep 1 13:26:14 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I10,P0) -> 17
Sep 1 13:26:14 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I11,P0) -> 18
Sep 1 13:26:15 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I11,P1) -> 16
Sep 1 13:26:15 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I14,P0) -> 16
Sep 1 13:26:15 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I14,P1) -> 17
Sep 1 13:26:15 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I14,P2) -> 18
Sep 1 13:26:15 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I15,P1) -> 17
Sep 1 13:26:15 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I17,P0) -> 18
Sep 1 13:26:16 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I18,P0) -> 16
Sep 1 13:26:16 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 18
Sep 1 13:26:16 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B2,I6,P0) -> 16
Sep 1 13:26:16 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B2,I7,P0) -> 17
Sep 1 13:26:17 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B3,I0,P0) -> 17
Sep 1 13:26:17 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B4,I1,P0) -> 18
Sep 1 13:26:18 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B6,I0,P0) -> 18
Sep 1 13:26:19 esx kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B7,I0,P0) -> 17
Sep 1 13:26:19 esx kernel: VMNIX: vmnixPCIInfo=0:0,1,2,3,9,10,11,13,14,15,19,22,23;2:7;4:;6:;
Sep 1 13:26:19 esx kernel: VMNIX is hiding PCI device (B0,I17,P0)
Sep 1 13:26:19 esx kernel: VMNIX is hiding PCI device (B0,I18,P0)
Sep 1 13:26:19 esx kernel: VMNIX is hiding PCI device (B2,I6,P0)
Sep 1 13:26:20 esx kernel: VMNIX is hiding PCI device (B4,I1,P0)
Sep 1 13:26:20 esx kernel: VMNIX is hiding PCI device (B6,I0,P0)
Sep 1 13:26:20 esx kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Sep 1 13:26:20 esx kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Sep 1 13:26:20 esx kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Sep 1 13:26:20 esx kernel: IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.13 <tigran@veritas.com>
Sep 1 13:26:21 esx kernel: Starting kswapd
Sep 1 13:26:21 esx kernel: aio_setup: num_physpages = 17408
Sep 1 13:26:21 esx kernel: aio_setup: sizeof(struct page) = 60
Sep 1 13:26:21 esx kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Sep 1 13:26:21 esx kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Sep 1 13:26:22 esx kernel: Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
Sep 1 13:26:23 esx kernel: ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Sep 1 13:26:23 esx kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Sep 1 13:26:23 esx kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Sep 1 13:26:24 esx kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 256 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 block
size
Sep 1 13:26:24 esx kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Sep 1 13:26:25 esx kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with i
debus=xx
Sep 1 13:26:25 esx kernel: hdb: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8164B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Sep 1 13:26:25 esx kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Sep 1 13:26:25 esx kernel: hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver.
Sep 1 13:26:25 esx kernel: hdb: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
Sep 1 13:26:26 esx kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Sep 1 13:26:26 esx kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Sep 1 13:26:26 esx kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno =
2
Sep 1 13:26:27 esx kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno =
2
Sep 1 13:26:27 esx kernel: Initializing Cryptographic API
Sep 1 13:26:27 esx kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Sep 1 13:26:27 esx kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
Sep 1 13:26:27 esx kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Sep 1 13:26:27 esx kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Sep 1 13:26:28 esx kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Sep 1 13:26:28 esx kernel: Freeing initrd memory: 5534k freed
Sep 1 13:26:28 esx kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Sep 1 13:26:28 esx kernel: Mod: 816: vmnix module init_module=0xd180f9d0 STACK_TOP_LA=0xfd402f
f0
Sep 1 13:26:28 esx kernel: Mod: 3340: hb timer on.
Sep 1 13:26:28 esx kernel: Mod: 3407: Started hb thread.
Sep 1 13:26:28 esx kernel: Mod: 724: Started vmkMsg thread.
Sep 1 13:26:28 esx kernel: IRQ: 291: COS is using IOAPIC
Sep 1 13:26:28 esx kernel: Mod: 2423: Setting 0xfce00000 to read-only
Sep 1 13:26:28 esx kernel: Mod: 2423: Setting 0xfd000000 to read-only
Sep 1 13:26:28 esx kernel: Mod: 2423: Setting 0xfd200000 to read-only
Sep 1 13:26:29 esx kernel: VMNIX: BSP APIC ID: 0x0
Sep 1 13:26:29 esx kernel: IRQ: 950: irq 0 is used
Sep 1 13:26:29 esx kernel: IRQ: 954: irq 0 is enabled
Sep 1 13:26:29 esx kernel: IRQ: 984: irq 0 was pending in the PIC
Sep 1 13:26:29 esx kernel: IRQ: 950: irq 1 is used
Sep 1 13:26:29 esx kernel: IRQ: 954: irq 1 is enabled
Sep 1 13:26:29 esx kernel: IRQ: 950: irq 2 is used
Sep 1 13:26:29 esx kernel: IRQ: 954: irq 2 is enabled
Sep 1 13:26:29 esx kernel: IRQ: 950: irq 14 is used
Sep 1 13:26:30 esx kernel: IRQ: 954: irq 14 is enabled
Sep 1 13:26:30 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 0 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:30 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 1 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:30 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 2 (from XT-PIC to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:30 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 3 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:30 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 4 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:30 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 6 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:30 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 7 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:30 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 8 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:30 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 9 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 12 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 13 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 14 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 15 (from IO-APIC-edge to vmnix-edge)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 16 (from IO-APIC-level to vmnix-level)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 17 (from IO-APIC-level to vmnix-level)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: IRQ: 1134: Usurping irq 18 (from IO-APIC-level to vmnix-level)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: VGA: 297: VGA start b8000 end c0000 mapped start c00b8000 char heig
ht 16
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: VGA: 397:
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: VGA: 425: 0
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: Console: switching to colour VMNIX-VGA 80x25
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: scsi0 : aacraid_esx30
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: Vendor: Adaptec Model: MAIN Rev: V1.0
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: VMWARE SCSI Id: Supported VPD pages for sda : 0x1f 0x0
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: VMWARE SCSI Id: Could not get disk id for sda
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: :VMWARE: Unique Device attached as scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel
0, id 0, lun 0
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: SCSI device sda: 2499350528 512-byte hdwr sectors (1280642 MB)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: Partition check:
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 376k freed
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd20af000, IRQ 18
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0b.0, PCI device 10de:036c (nVidia Corporation)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: hub.c: 10 ports detected
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: ehci-hcd 00:0b.1: PCI device 10de:036d (nVidia Corporation)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: ehci-hcd 00:0b.1: irq 16, pci mem d20b8000
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: ehci-hcd 00:0b.1: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jan-22
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: hub.c: 10 ports detected
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hid
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,3), internal journal
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: Adding Swap: 554168k swap-space (priority -1)
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Sep 1 13:26:31 esx kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal
Sep 1 13:26:32 esx kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Sep 1 13:26:32 esx kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Sep 1 13:26:32 esx kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,7), internal journal
Sep 1 13:26:32 esx kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Sep 1 13:26:32 esx kernel: microcode: No suitable data for cpu 0
Sep 1 13:26:32 esx kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Sep 1 13:26:32 esx kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2176 buckets, 17408 max) - 308 bytes per
conntrack
Sep 1 13:26:32 esx kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.6
0-Driver Package V1.20.
Sep 1 13:26:32 esx last message repeated 3 times
Sep 1 13:26:32 esx kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.15
Sep 1 13:26:32 esx kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
Sep 1 13:26:34 esx watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/hostd-support'
Sep 1 13:26:34 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:26:35 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:26:35 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCor
e 1.
Sep 1 13:26:35 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:26:35 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: hyperthreading disabled, setting number of threads
per core to 1.
Sep 1 13:26:35 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:26:35 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, an
d 2 logical CPUs.
Sep 1 13:26:35 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:26:49 esx watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/hostd-support'
Sep 1 13:26:49 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:26:49 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:26:49 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCor
e 1.
Sep 1 13:26:49 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:26:49 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: hyperthreading disabled, setting number of threads
per core to 1.
Sep 1 13:26:49 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:26:49 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, an
d 2 logical CPUs.
Sep 1 13:26:49 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:27:03 esx watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/hostd-support'
Sep 1 13:27:03 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:27:03 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:27:03 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCor
e 1.
Sep 1 13:27:03 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:27:03 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: hyperthreading disabled, setting number of threads
per core to 1.
Sep 1 13:27:03 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:27:03 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, an
d 2 logical CPUs.
Sep 1 13:27:03 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:27:18 esx watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/hostd-support'
Sep 1 13:27:18 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:27:19 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:27:19 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCor
e 1.
Sep 1 13:27:19 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:27:19 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: hyperthreading disabled, setting number of threads
per core to 1.
Sep 1 13:27:19 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:27:19 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, an
d 2 logical CPUs.
Sep 1 13:27:19 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:27:33 esx watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/hostd-support'
Sep 1 13:27:33 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:27:34 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:27:34 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCor
e 1.
Sep 1 13:27:34 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:27:34 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: hyperthreading disabled, setting number of threads
per core to 1.
Sep 1 13:27:34 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:27:34 esx VMwareinit: HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, an
d 2 logical CPUs.
Sep 1 13:27:34 esx VMwareinit:
Sep 1 13:27:48 esx watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/hostd-support'
Sep 1 13:27:48 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:27:48 esx VMwareinit: connect: No such file or directory.
Sep 1 13:27:54 esx sshd1940: Connection from 172.20.160.183 port 19345
Sep 1 13:27:59 esx sshd1940: Accepted password for lionel from 172.20.160.183 port 19345 ssh
2
Sep 1 13:27:59 esx sshd(pam_unix)1942: session opened for user lionel by (uid=0)
Sep 1 13:29:28 esx ntpd949: kernel time discipline status change 41
Sep 1 13:29:40 esx sshd1942: Connection closed by 172.20.160.183
Sep 1 13:29:40 esx sshd1942: Closing connection to 172.20.160.183
Sep 1 13:29:40 esx sshd(pam_unix)1942: session closed for user managerGP

Message was edited by: smalldragoon
I tested and it seems that hostd starts and stops after few time ..
root@esx root]# service mgmt-vmware start
Starting VMware ESX Server Management services:
VMware ESX Server Host Agent (background)OK
Availability report startup (background)OK
--root@esx root--# service mgmt-vmware status
vmware-hostd (pid 17243) is running...
--root@esx root--# service mgmt-vmware status
vmware-hostd (pid 17243) is running...
--root@esx root--# service mgmt-vmware status
vmware-hostd (pid 17243) is running...
--root@esx root--# service mgmt-vmware status
vmware-hostd (pid 17243) is running...
--root@esx root--# service mgmt-vmware status
vmware-hostd (pid 17243) is running...
--root@esx root--# service mgmt-vmware status
vmware-hostd (pid 17243) is running...
--root@esx root--# service mgmt-vmware status
vmware-hostd is stopped

nothing in logs :'(

how to find in which mode the ESX server has been booted?

vsusheelkumar — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:49:55 GMT

Hi,

1) Is there any esx-command or procedure to find in which mode the ESX server has booted ( whether normal, debug or troubleshoot mode) ?

2) What are the differences between Debug and Troubleshoot Boot-processing modes of an ESX server?

Msg: cannot create partition table for disk...geometry info is valid

vperris — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:56:53 GMT

We just powered up our SAN and esx 2.5, build 99967 esx servers after a scheduled power outage, and three of the
luns on one of the storage boxes comes up with messages:

cannot create partition table for disk vmhba1:0:3 because geometry info is invalid
could not load partition table.

The three luns that have this issue are 3, 7, and 15 - all other luns before and after
these luns show up fine, so this is not a sparse lun support issue. All other luns
are fine.

They were fine before the outage, and the shutdown closed out all servers before the
storage was closed down. Nothing was changed on the switch or storage.

Any help we can get would be appreciated.

Thanks..Vicki

Server unable to ping or connect to any server on a certian cluster in my VMI enviroment

Redenvy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:46:34 GMT

I have 5 servers clustered together for my VI

VI1 - VI5

I have a server on VI3 that is unable to ping or connect to any server in my VI5 inviroment.

Has anyone else ever had this problem? thoughts or suggestions?

How to configurate the config.js for vcb proxy

king5656 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:11:16 GMT

HI,

I need urgently help. I need to config. the config.js file to back the the vm on ESX servers. Currently, I have 3 virtual Centers and 1 vcb proxy. How can I put all these Virtual centers down in the config.js file?

HOST="vc_server_ip_address";

USERNAME="i.e._admin_username";

PASSWORD="admin_password";

Thank you.

ESX 2.5.x / vCenter 2.0.2 / Cannot ping/rdp vm but it is sending/receiving packets per NIC status

txvtx666 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:30:16 GMT

ESX 2.5.x / vCenter 2.0.2 / Cannot ping/rdp vm but it is sending/receiving packets per NIC status

2 vms on same host, same vSwitch, different portgroups/VLANs, stop responding to ping requests, cannot rdp, NIC status in guests shows incoming and outgoing traffic, no complaints from clients

vSwitch has 3 Gig pNICs and all show up - host/guests have been in production for several years

VMtools repair install and restart - no help although it did change some drivers

Rumor is that it could be legacy devices - I'm checking that this am.

Any help? Bug in ESX 2.5?

VC permissions / roles conflict

MichelNL — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:06:42 GMT

Hi there,

I wan't something very easy but I can't get it done.

I've ESX3.5 with VC2.5.
In VC there is a datacenter with several subfolders.

Want I want is the following:

user authentication based on MS AD server (got that part working)
users in group A can see folder A but not folder B
users in group A and B can see both folders.

I've made the folders in VC but now the hard part...

Group A is VM admin on folder A. This is working. Users can do anything in folder A and can't see folder B.
When creating a VM the user isn't able to select a esx cluster cause of a limitations of rights. I can imagine that, because the user is VM admin on Folder A and not on the datacenter.
So, I've created a new role "create_vm", with only the rights to create a VM. Every group has this right now on the datacenter.
The problem is, users can see now not only their on folder, but al of the folders in VC. (because of the create_vm role)

Simple fix:
Group A and Group B, create_vm role on datacenter
Group A VM admin role on Folder A
Group B vm admin role on Folder B
Group A no access role on Folder B
Group B no acces role on Folder A

But the problem now is that I've got users that need to be member of Group A and B.
But then they can't see anything (because of the no access).

Can someone give a bit of help with this?

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards.

Lint1 Error on HP DL385

Expeto — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:05:51 GMT

Server: HP DL385
VMware ESX: 3.0.1 , 32039

What does the following error mean? I get this on the screen of the ESX server.
Thank you in advance..

10:04:34:59:920 cpu0:1057) apic:1265 lint1 interrupt on pcpu0 (port x61 contains 0x11)

More errors:

10:03:02:43:354 cpu0:1024 (port x61 contains 0x11)

10:04:32:58:354 cpu0:1057 (port x61 contains 0x31)

10:04:35:00:986 cpu0:1058 (port x61 contains 0x21)

10:04:34:59:920 cpu0:1057 (port x61 contains 0x11)

10:04:27:42:710 cpu0:1057 (port x61 contains 0x11)

How to allow to export diagnostic data ?

zemotard — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:33:03 GMT

Hi, can you say me how can I give the access to export diagnostic data in VC ?
I have some administrator, and they need to open some Support Request, but each time, they ask me (super administrator) to generate the diagnotic data file.

I would like to give them this possibility, so how can I do ?

Best Regards

Vmware converter can't connect to vcenter

Red Squirrel — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:15:36 GMT

I am trying to connect to vcenter (I can with the vsphere client) with vmware converter so i can convert a ESX vm to VMware server 1.0 and i am not getting anywhere, this is the error i keep getting:

http://gal.redsquirrel.me/images/other/forum_upload_misc/vmware_converter_error.JPG

I verified again and again and it is the right host. It is the same host that i can connect with the vsphere client.

ESX 2.5.5 supported Guest OS'es?

MBHarris — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:48:18 GMT

I've been trying to find out which flavors of Unix/Linux OS'es are supported on ESX 2.5.5. All the documents on the VMWare site point to the same Guest OS guide and it begins with 3.0x. Is there a document out there that lists supported guest OS'es on ESX 2.5.5?

Thanks

Adding Virtual Centre License

Uch — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:52:59 GMT

Sorry Lads might be a daft question but I'm trying to add a license for my evaluation copy of vc 2.5 and I'm having a few problems, are there any simple instructions for doing this ( an idiots guide type of thing )

Many thanks

Unable to reconnect to an RDP Session on VMware hosted machine

Aganack — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:04:00 GMT

When I remote desktop into a Vista box on VMware I have no problems. When I disconnect from it and try to reconnect to it, it fails to reconnect. I get the following error:
Remote Desktop Disconnected
This Computer can't connect to the remote computer.
Try connecting again. If the problem continues, contact the own of the remote computer or your network administrator.

If I then log into the machine through VMware and restart the Terminal Services service I can then reconnect.

If I log off before i close the session it reconnects fine.

I only have this issue on VMware VDI machines

Any ideas on what could be causing this?

ESX server 2.0

karchandrasekar — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:38:47 GMT

In My machine i tried to run esx commands it s not running..

for example.if i type esxtop it showin esx service not running..pls help on this

ESX server 2.0

karchandrasekar — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:46:27 GMT

ESX Server is not running..wat to do??

securing 2 DataCenters from each other in VirtualCenter2.5

pearlyshells — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:08:35 GMT

I currently have one (1) DataCenter setup in VirtualCenter 2.5U4. This is our true Production VI3 environment (with ESX3.5Up4 Hosts). Our VirtualCenter and Hosts are all situated behind a hardware firewall (Management network side).

We want to virtualize our Production DMZ servers and then place the DMZ hosts in the same protected environment that our other Non-DMZ ESX hosts reside in. However, I'd like the DMZ servers to be totally secured from the other ESX Hosts. To me, this implies the creation of 2 separate DataCenters in VirtualCenter. Is that correct? And, if so, how can I secure the DataCenters from eachother so that I can assure our Security Team that there will never be any "cross-contamination".

Windows 2008 Guest O/S showing up in VirtualCenter as Windows Vista (64bit)

pearlyshells — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:13:47 GMT

I just noticed that after updating VirtualCenter2.5 to Update4 that our early Windows 2008 Enterprise Guest O/S's are labeled Windows Vista (64bit). Why is that?

Need ESX 2.X SMP and Vmotion Licenses Please

DarkOneX — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:05:45 GMT

I have a situation hopefully somebody can help me with, which is the same situation I had awhile back and some wonderful person came through for me on this forum. Our company purchased 6 Blade servers a long time ago and they purchased 6 ESX server 2.X licenses but they failed to purchase Vmotion and Virtual SMP licenses for 2 of them for some stupid reason. I have a new ESX host I have installed with our last 2.X license but I really need a 2.X virtual SMP license and at least 1 Vmotion license but really would like 2 if possible. Yes I know 2.5 is old but I'm not ready to migrate to anything else quite yet but really need to get this remaining ESX host going and since you cannot buy 2.X licenses anymore for whatever reason I have nothing else to try except ask for some on this board. I know some people out there probably still have 2.X licenses that they are no longer using so I would be extremely greatful if I could have them. Just contact me and let me know please, thanks so much in advance!

Vcenter

taou — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:12:51 GMT

How to install virtual center in windows server 2003, i have a Active directory with a user John.

Availability Metrics

mdz4ju — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:57:22 GMT

Is there way in the reporting or elsewhere a way to measure to availability of say a host/cluster? Simply measuring downtime would be sufficient..

Thanks!

Manage ESX2.5.3 Server with VC 2.5 U5

DSchack — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:09:46 GMT

Our problem is, that we currently have two environments: the old one witch contains 6x ESX 2.5.3 servers and 1x VC 1.3.1 and the new one with 4x ESX 3.0.3 servers and 1x VC 2.5 U5.

Now we are trying to manage all ESX servers in one VC 2.5 but every time we try to add one of the ESX 2.5.3 server, we get an error message, that we don't have enough licences for this operation!

Does anyone has an idea how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advanced
Daniel

PS: We don't want to upgrade from VC1.3.1 to VC2.5 we only want to manage the ESX 2.5.3 servers which are currently manged with 1.3.1 with the same VC 2.5 Server which manages our 3.0.3 ESX servers.

Is it possible - Question on disconnect after remoting in

kpayton07 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:42:13 GMT

I'm going to do my best to summarize this but it's going to be hard for folks to get this picture.

I'm have a VM Session hosted. User A connects to that session. He closes the session using the X on the ribbon bar (Needs to leave session running as there is an automated script running)

If user A tries to connect back to it - it tries to log him in again. So my theory is since this is XP Professional when he closes the session using the X in the upper right hand corner - its actually locking the screen or leaving it locked rather because if I bring up my management console the screen is locked. XP does this natively I understand but how would one go about getting around this? I supposed I could turn on VNC and have him go in that way but it kills the entire VDI piece of it

Thoughts?

Unable to remove 'Unknown (inaccessible) VM in VC 2.5

analytico — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:28:57 GMT

Last weekend we had a crash of 1 of our VM hosts. This is now solved but now we are stuck with 1 VM which is Unknown and inaccessible. I tried to remove it but no success:

- From VC: right click returns ' Object reference not set to an instance of an object'

Restarted management services on the host....no luck

Tried to find the vm in /etc/ vmware/hostd/vmInventory.xml ...no luck.

In the Event viewer we constantly receive errors "Failed to fail-over unknown to xxx in cluster xxx

Does anyone know how to remove it manually then?

VMware ESX Server, 2.5.0, build-11548 - can licensing be centralized in vCenter 2.0.2?

txvtx666 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:50:48 GMT

VMware ESX Server, 2.5.0, build-11548

VC V. 2.0.2 Build 50618

My present assignment is with some legacy equipment and versions.

When I add an esx host to vCenter (see versions above) - I don't get any options to add "add-on" licensing from vCenter. The 3.0.2 host works ok with a local host license and add-ons from vCenter. The 2.5.0 host has a host license configured. I assumed I could use a host license for the server and add vMotion, HA, & DRS as add-ons from vCenter. Selecting the 2.5 host in licensing tab doesn't activate "host configuration" link nor does it list licensing config below.

Also, if I just should not use vCenter 2.0.2 for esx 2.5.x hosts ... please chime in with reasons.

How to Migrate VirtualCenter to Another ESX Host?

DarkOneX — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:44:04 GMT

Here is my situation and what I want to do:

We currently have 6 ESX hosts ESX01, ESX02, ESX03, ESX04, ESX05, ESX06

The first 4 are licensed for Vmotion and last 2 are not. These are all Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade servers, ESX05 is the newest one and it's a dual 3.6Ghz CPU setup with 16GB RAM and all the others are dual 3Ghz CPU w/ 4GB RAM. We have some other new ones that match the specs of the that 3.6Ghz one so want I'm wanting to do is migrate everything off of ESX04 onto ESX05 then swap out ESX04 with one of the faster blades like I did with ESX05 already. Now the only problem I'm facing in doing this is I have migrated all the VMs off of ESX04 but the remaining one is VirtualCenter as we have that in a VM. I cannot figure out how to get this off of ESX04 and moved to ESX05 since ESX05 doesn't have a Vmotion license and we can't buy anymore, and I obviously can't shut it off then right click it in VirtualCenter and migrate it like I did the others since shutting it down will kill off VirtualCenter.

So my question is, with our setup, how can I get this VirtualCenter VM migrated over to ESX05?

My other option is I could simply shut ESX04 down and swap out the CPUs and RAM in that ESX04 with the faster CPU and more RAM but I'm not sure if that would be OK to do and maybe that would just be more simple?

how to find a shared LUN?

vsusheelkumar — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:18:01 GMT

I have a shared lun between an ESX server and a Proxy server (apart from individual luns provided to these servers). But how to findout, which lun is the shared lun connected between these servers?

Can you plz tell me the procedure in finding out this.

Thanks

Sam

VMWare infrastructure client could not establish the initial connection with server "bla"

RayWell — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:26:29 GMT

Hi Guys,

After installing VMworkstation 6.5 on my VCS server (VCS 2.5 U4) I get this message: VMWare infrastructure client could not establish the initial connection with server "x.x.x.x"

What will be the reason for this?

VCB+VIM2.5 for backup of ESX2 vm's?

bitbucket — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:02:56 GMT

Hi all,

I already searched the forum and asked google but couldn't find a clear answer if I am able to backup vm's residing on ESX 2.5.2 servers with a VCB 1.5 proxy. All ESX servers are connected to a VIM 2.5U5.

Background:

All vm's are sitting on a MSA1000. The SAN will be replaced by a newer and faster one and the ESX2.x servers will be replaced with new ESX3.5 servers. Everything is already in place but not talking to each other. I already tested to move a vm from the ESX2 server to a ESX3.5 server and it's new storage. Worked perfectly. But I would feel better if I could do a VCB backup of all ESX2 vm's before. The VIM2.5 server has 2 fc hba's but none of them will be connected to a SAN before I know that I am not going to crash something.

1x VCB 1.5 Proxy + VIM2.5U5 with 2 FC HBA's, OS=W2k8 Std.
6x ESX 2.5.2 hosts connected to MSA1000
6x ESX 3.5U4 hosts connceted to 2x DataCore SANMelody storage servers via FC

Thanks,
Bernd

VMWare ESX Server 3.0 Getuptime Failed error

kmullican — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:35:34 GMT

which is causing VM Host to power-off guest server repeatedly - any thoughts re: how to correct - thank you.

Scheduling a task to destroy a machine then create again from a template

leeplastic — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:01:23 GMT

I'd like to be able to schedule a task that would delete an existing machine then about 10 minutes later, run another task that recreates the machine from a template.
From the options available under the new scheduled tasks there doesn't seem possible. ( I'm running VMWare Infrastructure Client 2.5)

I was wondering if there are other ways this can be achieved.
My programming/scripting skills are pretty much non existent so I wouldn't know where to start if things needed to be scripted.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

How to manually mount vmfs volume?

isterios — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:00:35 GMT

Hello,

We have an issue with one of our old esx, v.2.5.5. This ESX crash each time we boot it in normal mode, after only 2 or 3 minutes. We juste know it crashes when the vmware service is started, after a couple of minutes.

So the only thing we can do is to start it in linux-up mode (esx safe mode), with network.

Now, we would just like to recover one VM which is on a local vmfs volume (to put it on another esx). But when you boot in linux-up mode, the vmfs volumes are not mounted.

So is there a way to mount manually the vmfs volumes from linux-up mode? Just to recover our VM?

Thank you.

Multi-answer error encountered during host Migration

TheEsp — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:34:17 GMT

Greetings all

I've noticed error while ESX (3.0.2) was doing it's thing and migrating hosts around the cluster. I noticed the following error after a migration had taken place

"A general system error occured:Multi-answer question encountered while resuming destination"

Just wondering if anyone out there has encountered this error and if it's something keep an eye on ?

Thanks

how to tell that NFS shared storage exists

pearlyshells — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:18:29 GMT

Gee Whiz question - How does one tell whether NAS shared storage is being presented in VirtualCenter? We have two separate AD sites and the administrators of each have their own Virtual Infrastructure. I handle the Fibre SAN environment and was asked to look at the VirtualCenter shared storage on the other site in absence of their administrator. When I asked what type of backend shared storage they use...no one could tell me. So, is there a Give Away Clue in VirtualCenter that would tell me if their storage is NAS (reason I ask is that I suspect they may have one but uncertain if it is being used for their Virtual Environment of the Test Environment)

ESX 2.5: Disk file is locked and unable to delete

Timothy@Corismo — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:48:58 GMT

Hi all,

I've been searching for a solution all day now.. The problem is that one of our customers his ESX server crashed. When the host came back up everything looked fine. Some of the machines were started on other ESX hosts other on the same host. 2 virtual machines are however unable to start...

The error is on the disk filelevel. If you go look at the vms log we'll see the following error

Unable to open scsi target lun:diskname.vmdk : Device or resource busy ( 2 )

If been reading a lot about lsof and grepping the filename on all esx hosts (to see which process is locking the file). However we seem to be unable to find a process. The disks files are not shared with other VMs. Does anybody has an idea on how "releasing" lock on vmfs files. I can see that you can release files on vmfs level. However other virtual machines on the same host are using the lun just fine. Rebooting the server did not help either

TIA

Timothy

ESX 2.5 Windows Servers Not shutting down properly

rcheeseman — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:11:20 GMT

I have a customer with a 3 ESX 2.5 servers and about 6 months ago or so, the virtual Windows Servers on all the boxes with not shutdown all the way. When you go to START and then SHUTDOWN, it will start to shutdown and just hang at an empty blue screen and never complete the powerdown of the servers. This is effecting all of the virtual machines running in the ESX environment. Any ideas

VcbVmname - error

chengdj — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:20:51 GMT

this is weird. I am getting an error while just running vcbvmname to discover a vm. I am getting an error message.

~~2009-06-22 11:15:14.846 'vcbVmName' 4904 error~~ Error: Other error encountered: No connection could be made because

the target machine actively refused it.*

I can see all the VM luns from proxy server. Does anyone encounter this error message before ? Does anyone know where the log is located ?

thanks

How can I get an ESX 2.x license?

bfeeny — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:18:11 GMT

Is it possible to buy one from someone? Is it possible to buy a newer license and downgrade it?

I have a hardware platform that is only supported under 2.x and I need to run ESX on it.

Brian

VM Backups with VCB, VirtualCenter, Active Directory Service Acct and vRangerPro

pearlyshells — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:21:44 GMT

I have this same post in another part of the forum but am thinking it's in the wrong area. So, I am posting it here hoping this is the correct spot.

I am told that I can create an AD service acct for vRangerPro to use along with VirtualCenter and VCB to perform vRangerPro backups. As I understand some of it, it requires me to create an AD service acct then assign that account in VirtualCenter against each ESX Host (presumably alongside VCB that we use). But, I am unsure how that service acct is inserted into a vRangerPro backup job and how it is assigned to the ESX hosts in VirtualCenter.

I am not getting much help from VizionCore so I thought someone in this forum is using vRangerPro, VCB, VirtualCenter to do this and might show me the way

How do I import VMs into ESX?

VirtualMikeS — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:44:02 GMT

I inherited a pair of VMware ESX Server 2.5.2 servers (called ESX1 and ESX2), each badly in need of patches and upgrades. Each hosts 7 or 8 VMs, mostly Windows, but a few Linux VMs, if that matters.

So anyway, back to my point: I used P2V to convert a pair of Windows PCs to VMs, and copied them over on to the ESX's data directory, but how do I import them into ESX? I have a web interface and shell access, but don't see any "import" functionality. The web interface has an "Add Virtual Machine" button, but when I specify the file I copied over, it complains that machine already exists.

And on a perhaps related note, after looking around for the import functionality and not finding it, after I logged off and then logged back in the next day, there are no more VMs registered on ESX2! ESX2 had 6 Windows and 2 Linux VMs, and they are all still up and running and I can ssh to the Linux machines and remote desktop to the Windows machines, but they do not show as registeredin the web interface, and when I attempt to connect with VMware Remote Console, no machines are listed on ESX2.

ESX1 and 2 are connected to a SAN, and browsing the file store, I can see all the .vmdk files for both servers there. The VMs didn't migrate to ESX2 and don't show registered there. How do I re-register them all with one or the other ESX server?

The interesting thing is, if I ssh to both ESXs and look in the /vmfs directory, where all the VMs are stored, I see:

~~root@ESX1 vmfs~~# ls -l
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 512 Aug 22 2007 vmhba1:0:12:1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 May 2 14:49 VMFS1 -> vmhba1:0:12:1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 May 2 14:49 VFMS - Misc Servers -> vmhba1:0:4:1
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 512 May 29 09:37 vmhba1:0:4:1

~~root@ESX2 vmfs~~# ls -l
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 512 May 29 09:37 vmhba1:0:4:1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 Jun 17 16:09 VFMS - Misc Servers -> vmhba1:0:4:1

I wonder why ESX2 doesn't have the VMFS1 -> vmhba1:0:12:1 link and directory.

VM Ware Server Problems, In need of advice

rgreenwood2011 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:01:52 GMT

Hello,

Last year we installed VM ware across out servers, we moved all 15 servers at once. Sadly to say we are not happy.

We were advised by an external company (who later installed it) on the size of the system we need etc and on how we should have it setup.

The setup is as followed:
We have 3 HP Prolient DL380 G5 servers
On each server we have:
2 X Intel (Xeon) 2.83Ghz Quad Core
18 Gb Memory
2 x 60Gb HDD

All our Data is sat on 1 Dell Equal logic server with 4.8TB of data storage, all our server connect to the data via a ISCSI connection.
The problems we are having, mainly the speed constant problems with programs crashing and extreme sluggishness. Servers hang for no reason.

We are in the hands of our support team but we aren’t getting anywhere fast and need to look at fixing this our self

Can any of you see anything wrong with out setup?

Any help would be fantastic!!

Thank- you in advance!

Robert

Vmotion error with CPU mismatch between hosts

lilbstrd — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:41:11 GMT

Having an issue with vmotion and CPU feature mismatch that hopefully someone can help me out with. We have 4 hosts that are HP DL360 servers using Intel Xeon E5345 CPU's we recently added another host into the cluster that is using a Intel Xeon E5420 CPU here is the error message when trying to vmotion a VM to the new host. New host is based on SSE4 and the others are SSE3

Unable to migrate Host CPU is incompatible with
the virtual machine's requirements at CPUID level 0x1 register 'ecx.
host bits: 0000:0100:0000:1000:0010:0010:0001:0001
required 0000:0000:0000:000x:xxx0:0x1x:xxx1:x001

mismatch detected for these features:
*SSE4.1 refer to KB artickle 1993 for a possible solution

I looked at the KB article and I'm not sure what is the best way around this. All VM's are set to expose the nx flag to the OS. Is it recommended to do CPU bit masking or Enhanced vMotion on the cluster? Enhanced vMotion is disabled on the cluster and cannot be enabled because there is an error that all 4 original hosts hardware is incompatible. I booted the new server with the CPUID tool and it's SSE Support is SSE4 NX/ED is enabled and supports 64 bit . What could some possible reasons be why the other hosts are showing as incompatible hardware? Both processors are listed as supported for enhanced vMotion on the compatibility chart I spoke with support and they recommended creating a new cluster and enabling enhanced vMotion or powering off all VM's and enabling on current cluster but all hosts have to be seen as compatible. We are on ESX 3.5 Update 3

What would be the best way to get around this issue without a major outage?

Thank you for any help.

Not able to ping outside network from VM on ESX 2.5

ram84 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:44:33 GMT

I have a single box with running ESX 2.5 and having three VM on this , All are VM able to ping and comunicate to each other but one of the VM from these not able to ping or reach to physical nwetwork , it is ok for the rest VMs. all configuration including Nic setting and IP are the equal.

Please suggest

Deploying virtual machine with template

ajaipathak@rediffmail.com — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:03:58 GMT

Hi, When I am trying to create a VM with template of Win 2K3 server, Virtual machine created is sjhowing the same C:disk spave as the template i.e 6 GB.

I want to increase the size of C drive. During deployment or after deployment.

Why does VMWare store important files in the windows temp directory?

wakako — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:21:49 GMT

Hi. This is my first message here and I hope this is the right place for my question.

Earlier today, I decided to install the lastest version (6.5.2) of VMware Workstation on my Win XP.
The purpose is to test the new Windows 7 with which my current VMware (version 6.5.0) had problems.
But, I stumbled on a problem in installing the new VMware because it wants to uninstall the old version.
Then, the uninstall operation failed because it cannot find the following file:

C:\Window\Temp{A3FF5CB2-.....}~setup\VMwareWorkstation.msi

The problem is I clean up the \Windows\Temp\ directory every now and then by deleting old files and
directories that were saved mothe than 3 months ago. The VMware MSI file was gone long time ago.

Question1: Is there any place that I can find (or download if necessary) and restore the needed file
to proceed?

Question2: I find it very disturbing that VMware saves a file which will be needed in the
unspecified time in the future (many months away) in the \Windows\Temp\ directory which is
intended for temporary storage (at least to my understanding). While there are many locations
that VMware can keep the MSI file, why on earth it chooses the "TEMPORARY" directory?

TIA

VirtualCenter Acct, VCB, vRangerPro and Active Directory

pearlyshells — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:09:40 GMT

I am not getting much help from VizionCore so I thought someone in this forum is using vRangerPro, VCB, VirtualCenter to do this and might show me the way

Power Supply failure not shown in Health Status

pearlyshells — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:44:35 GMT

We have ESX3.5Up4 hosts and VirtualCenter2.5Up4. We recently had a power supply failure on one of our hosts BUT VirtualCenter Health Status still reports it Green. I presume there is a configuration misset. Can anyone assist?

Migrate Server from ESX 3.0 to ESX 2.5

FabriciusM — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:18:48 GMT

Hello Forum,

I'm actually facing the following problem and have no idea how to deal with it, so I'll hope to get some help here.

We have 2 different VM Infrastructures in our company:

4 Servers with ESX 2.5 and VC 1.4.1 and 2 Servers with ESX 3.0 with VC 2.

We migrated a physical machine(SRV001) with the VMWare Converter to our ESX 3.0 Environment. Now we are facing some resource Problems with the Environment and want to "copy" the migrated Server(SRV001) to our ESX 2.5 Infrastructure.

My question is now how to do this the best way.

Can anyone give me a little hint or advise?

Upgrade from ESX 2.5.2 to ESX 3.5 U4

NiskaGas — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:16:11 GMT

Good day,

I am preparing for an upgrade from ESX 2.5.2 to 3.5 U4. This upgrade is
not supported directly so I need to upgrade to a supported version and
then to 3.5 U4.

The release notes for ESX 3.5 U4 say:

"For ESX Server 2.5.1, ESX Server 2.5.2, and ESX Server 2.5.3, upgrade first to ESX Server 2.5.4 and then upgrade to ESX Server 3.5 Update 4. Alternatively, upgrade to ESX Server 3.5 and then upgrade to ESX Server 3.5 Update 4."

So the release notes say i can upgrade from 2.5.2 to 3.5 first, and
then to U4, but when I run the preupgrade.pl script I get this:

~~root@esxhost1 scripts~~# perl preupgrade.pl
Checking for Valid ESX Host version...
ERROR: This version of ESX is not supported by this script

Here’s the perl variable that the script fails on.

my %SUPPORTED_VERSIONS = ('2.5.4' => 1,
'2.5.5' => 1,);

So are the release notes incorrect?

Am I forced to upgrade to 2.5.4, or 2.5.5 before upgrading to 3.5 U4?
I would rather go to 3.5 first then to U4

Second ESX 2.5.3 node fails to see shared VMFS LUNs on second HBA

Sirachosur — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:29:28 GMT

Hi all,

I have this weird problem on an ESX 2.5.3 box since they changed batteries on both controllers of a FaST 4300 SAN, but only for this particular ESX server as the other runs fine:

~~snip~~

VMWARE: Device that would have been attached as scsi disk sdx at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 17 Has not been attached because this path could not complete a READ command even though a TUR worked.

result = 0x8000002 key = 0x5, asc = 0x94, ascq = 0x1

~~snip~~

Since ESX can't read those LUNs through controller B it requests a failover to controller A, thus making warning to appear in IBM storage manager as the LUNs are no longer on their prefered path.

I read from another post about the "0x8000002" and the "0x5", but I don't know the ASC 0x94 means. I highly suspect the fiber itself as the other ESX server has no issue communicating on the B controller of the SAN box but I can't be sure at this point.

As an information complement, I want to point out that Storage Manager reports failure to set up communication speed with the said HBA when ESX loads while it operates OK while still in BIOS / POST phase.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

David

ESX 2.5 additional RAID

thealco — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:49:27 GMT

Hi Guys,

I have added a raid perc controller into my poweredge 1850 and attached an external storage array hosting approximately 7 drives in a single bay and created a raid array.

I wish to dediate this newly formed array as a VMFS partition and host my virtual machines. I understand there is a process of loading the module first using vmkload_mod but i receive an error "Drive or resource busy" as I believe loading the same driver twice is not supported (?). Anywho, how do I go about creating a new partition without reinstalling ESX server altogether?

I tried my best for the last 2 days to find adequate documentation but alas no success.

Regards,

Petar

WOL

gatorback — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:41:19 GMT

I'd like to keep a Poweredge 1600SC demo server (with ESX 2.5.4) off the majority of the time and remotely start and stop it from time to time.

I'm new to WOL and the server supports WOL (details). I suspect that this is not the intended use for WOL, but will it start \ stop the server remotely?

Any advice \ pitfalls to avoid is appreciated.

ESX VMWare Tools Silent Install/Upgrade ANSWER!

quihong — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:06:49 GMT

HOW TO INSTALL/UPGRADE VMWARE TOOLS SILENTLY ON ESX 2.5.

This is not going to be too detail. I am sure you guys can figure it out.

I used the following batch file:

SET VMTOOLPATH=\\ServerName\PathToVMWareTools

regedit /s "%VMTOOLPATH%\disableDriverSigningWarning.reg"
msiexec.exe /i "%VMTOOLPATH%\VMware Tools.msi" /qn REINSTALLMODE=vamus REINSTALL=ALL REBOOT="ReallySuppress"
regedit /s "%VMTOOLPATH%\enableDriverSigningWarning.reg"
shutdown /l /r /t:10 /c

The first problem with silently installing VMTools is the Driver Signing Warning.

This can be disabled via Group Policy. However, for some people (like me, no AD) this is not an option.

To disable the Driver Signing Warning I use the following registry file.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Driver Signing]
"Policy"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Driver Signing]
"Policy"=hex:00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Driver Signing]
"BehaviorOnFailedVerify" = dword:00000000

Copy the above and paste it into disableDriverSigningWarning.reg file. Merge this into the registry with the command "regedit /s disableDriverSigningWarning.reg"

The command that does the silent install is the following:

msiexec.exe /i "%VMTOOLPATH%\VMware Tools.msi" /qn REINSTALLMODE=vamus REINSTALL=ALL REBOOT="ReallySuppress"

Not sure what all the switches mean since I copied it from another community member. Thanks frond!

After the installation I enable the Driver Signing Warning (change registry value from 0 to 1) and then I do a reboot with the "shutdown.exe" that is part of the resource kit.

I have tested this on a Windows 2000 server and everything works well.

Let me know if it works for you or if you have any questions.

Qui

need to manually load the bcm5700

mudha — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:35:00 GMT

after installtion of esx 2.5 i have assigned my add on bcm 5701/bcm5703 to the the COS and network is gone, i need to manually load the bcm 5700 driver to /etc/module.conf.

DO we have any KB for this issue? please guide me to the KB artical if anyone has idea?

thanks a lot for your reponse.

How to traverse the entire inventory tree using SOAP Envelope?

andyankit — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:14:10 GMT

Hi everybody,

I want to traverse the entire inventory tree starting at a Folder in a single web service call.

For example: As of I now if I want to retrieve the names of all datastores in a datacenter, I have to execute 2 requests:

First request

<urn:RetrieveProperties>

<urn:_this type=PropertyCollector></urn:_this>

<urn:specSet>

<urn:propSet>

<urn:type>Datacenter</urn:type>

<urn:all>false</urn:all>

<urn:pathSet>name</urn:pathSet>

<urn:pathSet>datastore</urn:pathSet>

</urn:propSet>

<urn:objectSet>

<urn:obj type=Datacenter>datacenter-2</urn:obj>

</urn:objectSet>

</urn:specSet>

</urn:RetrieveProperties>

Second Request

<urn:RetrieveProperties>

<urn:_this type=PropertyCollector>?</urn:_this>

<urn:specSet>

<urn:propSet>

<urn:type>Datastore</urn:type>

<urn:all>false</urn:all>

<urn:pathSet>info.name</urn:pathSet>

</urn:propSet>

<urn:objectSet>

<urn:obj type=Datastore>?</urn:obj>

</urn:objectSet>

</urn:specSet>

</urn:RetrieveProperties>

Can we combine these 2 requests in a single request and get the datastores name in a single Web Service call?

I could see some examples in the VMware samples but these examples are using the java stubs whereas I want to perform the same operation using Web Service SOAP Envelope.

I have tried the following SOAP Envelope, for retrieving the names of all datastores in a datacenter

Single request

<urn:RetrieveProperties>

<urn:_this type="PropertyCollector">propertyCollector</urn:_this>

<urn:specSet>

<urn:propSet>

<urn:type>Datastore</urn:type>

<urn:all>false</urn:all>

<urn:pathSet>info.name</urn:pathSet>

</urn:propSet>

<urn:objectSet>

<urn:obj type="Datacenter">datacenter-2</urn:obj>

<urn:traversalSet>

<urn:type>Datacenter</urn:type>

<urn:path>datastore</urn:path>

</urn:traversalSet>

<urn:skip>true</urn:skip>

</urn:objectSet>

</urn:specSet>

</urn:RetrieveProperties>

But on executing the above SOAP envelope, I am getting an empty response back from the VMware SDK API.

Can anybody let me know if I am missing anything here?

Thank you

Andy

vCenter Sizing?

mcowger — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:34:04 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I'm curious what kinds of virtual hardware sizing those of you that run vCenter as a VM are using? We have a decent size infrastructure (80 hosts) on 1 vcenter. We have a separate host (actually oracle cluster)for the DB, but I'm interested in knowing how many vCPUs and how much memory people are dedicating to their vCenter VM?

--Matt
VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek

adding EMC 3000 SCSI array to ESX3.5up4 host

pearlyshells — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:54:34 GMT

We have an EMC3000 SCSI disk array that I'd like to attach to one of our ESX3.5Upd4 Test hosts. I've never done this before. How can I do this? Since this is an "acquired" array from a company that was recently purchased, I do not have any documentation for this system. Any advice would be appreciated. I just want to add it to our local disk not as shared storage.

Unable to add raw device mapping

sultanad — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:39:27 GMT

I have migrated a guest os to another esx host, and am trying to add a raw device mapping. However in VI client the raw device mapping is grey'd out so I am unable to add any raw device. Anyclues as to why this maybe? The guest OS is powered off at the mo.

Website Certificate Error

alhall — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:35:06 GMT

I have ESX 2.5.4, when I try to connect to the server using the MUI I get the "There is a problem with the website's security certificate". I can continue on but this is annoying, and I am using IE7. Any suggestions would most appreciated.

Any possibilities to configure iSCSI Multipathing with software initiator

RajaKovilraj1 — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:26:44 GMT

I read somewhere that it is not possible to configure iSCSI multipathing with software initiators. But I want to know if there is an alternative way to configure without installing hardware iSCSI HBA. And also, will it be as reliable and effective compared with iSCSI HBA?

duplicate VM's in Virtual Centre in a 'Migrating with Vmotion...' state

robbid01 — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:48:57 GMT

Hi,

Some VM's have appeared in our Virtual Centre that have duplicate names to valid VM's but have a (1) on the end of the name.

These Vm's are in a 'Migrating with VMotion...' state.

Does anyone have an idea of how to remove these Vm's and or to check if they are valid or not.

Has anyone seen this before ?

I have attached a screen dump to show the issue.

Cheers in advance.

VM Template Deployment Process.

seniord — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:11:21 GMT

I am trying to understand the way VM template deployment works in order to design a distributed VirtualCenter environment with efficient template provisioning. My scenario and question is as follows;

I have an NFS location to store my VM Templates.
I mount the NFS on one of my ESX hosts (ESX01) using a VMKernel port.
I register the VM Template on this ESX host (ESX01).
I have a second ESX host (ESX02) which does not have the NFS mounted.
I deploy a VM from this template to ESX02.

Question: How is the copy of the template deployed/copied to the ESX host?

Is the VM copied to the VirtualCenter server and then to ESX02?
Is the VM copied from ESX01 to ESX02 via Service Console network?
Is there another way the template is created?

If anyone has a detailed understanding of the template deployment process, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks for your time,

Dan.

Need to get DSA Logs off server, but can't reboot.

jbromley — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:01:11 GMT

Hi folks, newbie here.

We are currently using VMWare 2.5 for hosting various servers and the hardware decided to reboot itself the other day. We have logged a call with IBM (the hardware is a System X 365) who want us to run the DSA tool to extract the log information so they can determine the fault in the hardware and why it rebooted itself. However, we are loath to reboot the server again as it has live servers on it.

We have been supplied with a link to the following http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=SERV-DSA&brandind=5000008 which should have the DSA software on it, and "download the compatible version for your server operating system."

However, we're not certain which one we should download, and even once that's done (being a Wintel tech) how on earth to run the software...

We have putty command line access to the server, and can ftp files to and from, but as I say, we're not certain what commands to run, or which version to download.

Any help would be gratefully received.

need to manually load the bcm5700

mudha — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:32:21 GMT

after installtion of esx 2.5 i have assigned my add on bcm 5701/bcm5703 to the the COS and network is gone, i need to manually load the bcm 5700 driver to /etc/module.conf.

DO we have any KB for this issue? please guide me to the KB artical if anyone has idea?

thanks a lot for your reponse.

Can't use license from VMware license Server but well defined as Remaining

ALAINDEWIT — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:06:18 GMT

Hello,

I'm new in the VMware ESX world and have a problem using the licenses from the "VMware license server" (FlexNet).

I install 3 servers of the same type (2 x quadcore processors and 16GB on each system) running VMware ESX server 3.5.0, 82663 and assembled as a cluster HA +DRS system on the VirtualCenter.

All the components get their license through the License server running on the same system as the VirtualCenter.

2 of the ESX server get well all the licenses they need.

The last one get well the licenses needed except for the VMotion license ??!!

Under the VMware Infrastructure client console, in the configuration tab of this server, the "add-ons" say "licensed for 2 CPUs" for all add-ons except for VMotion which tells "Not used". Under the "administration " button and under licenses, it tells me for the VMotion that I have 6 licenses and 2 are still Remaining.

Under the "LMTOOLS" or the "VMware License server tools" when performing a Status query under the "Server status" tab, for VMotion it tells me "Total of 6 licenses issued, Total of 4 licenses in use".

So normally every thing should work : I have all the licenses availlable but for some reason 2 licenses are availlable but not used ?

I try already to disconnect/reconnect the ESX server and also to reboot the ESX server and the Winodws running the license server which is also the VirtualCenter ; but without success : still the same !!

Can anybody help me ?

Any suggestion ?

What can I do for reclaiming the licenses ?

Thank you and regards

Problem IBM X440 See RAM on VMware only Half

supermakka — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:41:41 GMT

Does anyone know about IBM X440 with VMware Version 2.0.1 build 6403 see only half of RAM of physical? Put 8 but see only 4??

Unable to delete .vmdk file

ANSA — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:00:29 GMT

I am unable to delete a .vmdk file from the vmfs volume. This file belonged to a VM that could not be booted. I have since created a new VM and restored the new .vmdk with the original data. Apparently this .vmdk file is locked somehow. Is there a way to 'unlock' this .vmdk file so that I can delete it and regain the disk space

Thank you

troubleshooting vm connectivity problem

pearlyshells — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:09:35 GMT

We have 3 VM port groups called VM1, VM2 and VM3. VM3 was recently created to accept a special VM on its own subnet. I P2V'd a server and placed it into VM3 port group. However, the VM does not make a network connection while in that portgroup. When I assign the VM an IP address in VM1 or VM2 portgroup and assign the Adapter to those portgroups, the VM connects fine to the network. So, it is only when in VM3 portgroup that it does not connect to our network. I've asked our networking team to check the cable to the ESX Host NICs and the physical switch port and also that the vLAN is configured for that switchport. They tell me all is fine. So, I have to presume the issue in somewhere in the vSwitch configuration. I don't think it's in the VM network configuration since it works fine in the other portgroups and the IP addressing is correct. Are there any other troubleshooting procedures that I have overlooked or can use to solve this problem?

Just did some trace routing and noticed that when I am in the VM and try to Trace to the ESX Host that it times out. I would think that , at least, the VM should be able to ping it's own host. The fact that it does not......does that indicate that the wrong NIC may have been activated or connected to the physical switch??????

Why ESX requires at least 2 processor ?

atena — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:34:24 GMT

Firstly hi VMWare community and wish you all a very wonderful weekend.

Secondly i would like to apologize if my thread has been created somewhere in this forum, if it has been created, any experience please show me the link, i will thank you very much.

And thirdly, can anyone give me the answer, why ESX server requires at least 2 processor ? From the requirement of installation : At least 2 Intel Pentium 3 processor 700 MHz. So from my understanding, the co-processor may help in reducing workload and enhance the operating speed. But is it possible if in stead of using 2 slow processor like InTel Pentium 3, i use 1 processor say Intel Pentium 4 of 2.4 GHz >1.4GHz=700MHz * 2 .... ? If not possible , why ?

Thanks in advance,

Atena

Authentification with Pam

flashpixx — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:22:53 GMT

Hi,

i have running an ESX server under Gentoo. I would like to authentificat the administration user against unix files (shadow)

and a user group against LDAP. So I put the pam_ldap.so into the /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd, but it doesnt work.

I readsome articles by Google, that Vmware can't authentificate with pam_ldap.so under a 64bit system. Is this

correct? The webinterface writes down the message "Error processing action request /action/login : InvalidLogin Login failed due to a bad username or password."

on login with the LDAP user

Thanks for help

Phil

Vista connecting to VM hosted on ESX

kpayton07 — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:27:31 GMT

I have an off shore associate connecting in via Vista to a VM hosted on ESX.

Note - I have about 10 other XP workstations no issues what so ever.

The one associate connects in and it blinks for a second and goes away - No Pop up Blockers or anything. I've verified all software is installed etc.

I got a Vista machine myself and tried it and same thing. I did notice Vista has Internet explorer with 256 Bit encryption but that shouldn't impact anything?

Also we are using a VDI Broker which he makes it past. It's when he clicks on connect on his workstation that he just sees a blink

Ideas?

slow disk in virtual machine running solaris 10 and glassfish

mar1o9 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:40:45 GMT

Hello

there are performance issues with our esx 2.5.

there is one of the machines that has very slow disk; eg to create a 1gb file it takes almost two minutes on a local drive and 5 minutes in a nfs mount :

how can i troubleshoot this problem and how do i make disk faster at least for this virtual machine, this affects the performance of the application server glassfish.

thank you in advance .

Mario G

VM has BSOD

shoebag22 — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:02:18 GMT

I have a VM that is displaying a BSOD. i've connected the cd drive to an iso of windowsXP in an attempt to repair. When i try to repair I get the error that says "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your system"... help

Recovering from bad patch on ESX Host?

pearlyshells — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:10:38 GMT

Theoretical question: If I discover that a specific patch was installed on ESX host and want to remove it, how is that done? I have been told that there is no way to remove a patch BUT surely there must be a backout process?

Virtual Machine Copy

ethan_1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:17:11 GMT

I have an ESX2.5 VC1.4.

1-----I´m new in Vmware and I´d like to copy one virtual Machine in my Windows workstation.

I saw a few items talking that they did this with one script but this is too difficult for me.

I wonder if I could do a copy of a virtual machine with the File Manager , copying the virtual disks (vmdk) and vmx files to my workstation.

And more ,...If I copy vmdk and vmx files from my workstation to ESX , will the virtual machine work again ?

2-----An other question : I can not see anything to do "snapshot" , why? , snapshot is not available in this version?

3-----And the last one: If I do a clone machine , will I lose the information of the source virtual machine?

Thanks

performance tab - object refrence not set to an instance of an object

wrekdoll — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:28:40 GMT

hi all,
just moved our VC server and all is well with the exception of the performance tab in the infrastructure client interface.
when going to that tab on a couple of our hosts we get "object refrence not set to an instance of an object" we also see the same error when trying to view the performance tab for any vm's on a host that drops the error.

tried restarting the vpxa and mgmt services with no change, am thinking maybe remove the hosts from VC and re-add might fix but thought i would see if anyone else has a better solution before i go try that

esx is 3.5 u3

vc is 2.5.0 147633

any suggestions appreciated

Thanks,

Randy

Vmware Fusion to ESX

flashpixx — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:31:51 GMT

Hello @all,

we have some Windows VMs under Vmware Fusion and now we're installing an ESX server.

Can we convert the Fusion VMs to ESX? Only copy the data files don't work.

Thanks

Phil

Can't add a REDO log -- too many already

as00201 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:49:28 GMT

ESX 2.5.3 Can't add a REDO log -- too many already is the message I get every night after logging into the Virtual Infrastrucutre client. I have tried using vmcommit.pl and vmcmd to manually commit the redo and the redo.redo log but vmcommit.pl states that redo.log redo.redo also could not be found. Any assistance is grealty appreciated

Deleting old snapshots ESXi 3.x and VMware Server 1.x (tips?)

maxi-m — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:35:11 GMT

One of the folks that assisted me with VM BU solutions noted that keeping long term snapshots can be problematic - now that I am close to a solution for backing up my VM's is there a specific method I need to follow for removing snapshots - I am running both ESXi 3.x and VM Server 1.x environments (free licensing). I want to protect my dev VM's as best I can. I'm still new at this and plan to use the VM Converter v4.0 for the 3.x system.

Will appreciate any advice,

Maxi

Standalone VM Converter 4.0 and VMware Server 1.0.1 (options?)

maxi-m — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:28:30 GMT

I installed the VM Converter 4.0 as a backup solution - we have two VM hosts, a ESXi 3.x and VMware Server 1.x. The VM Converter looks like it will work fine for the ESXi 3.x Host but does not reconize the VMware 1.x server where it is installed locally (the VMware server 1.0.1 hosted on WIN2K3 Ent).

2 Questions:

1) I guess that the converter will not work for the VMware Server v1.x - is this correct?

2) I can actually see the the VM image and vdisk files on my v1.x system but I'm not sure what needs to be backed up so that I can restore a system should it get corrupted. I've been using snapshots but have learned that they are not designed for BU (other than point in time restoration).

My goal is to back up our development VM's on our NAS on a weekly basis with periodic snapshots when we modify configuration, we are using the free licensing.

I'll appreciate any suggestions,

Maxi

Looking for file with physical memory info

Wimo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:49:06 GMT

An HP DL580 G2 running ESX 2.5.2 has experienced a memory issue (NMI and reboot). The server doesn't have a Systems Management Homepage setup. I am trying to find exactly what size memory is installed in which slots. Can't find that anywhere in MUI or SC. There's gotta be a file somewhere... Any ideas?

Tool Bars in VI Client 2.0.2

KurtJanz — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:19:17 GMT

Hello - Couple easy questions I'm guessing. In using VI Client 2.0.2 it seems I have lost some functionality and would like to get it back. Due to some of my hosts being an earlier version of ESX server, I am stuck atm of having to use VI Client 2.0.2 with them. I am missing the following functions and would like to ask someone how to enable them.

1.When right clicking on a VM, I get a little window that pops up instead of the full menu of items I can perform on that server. I must goto the upper tool bars now to perform a simple shout down etc..

2.I get no radio button on my tool bar to mount my local cd-rom drive - Where did it go ?

3.I want to edit the known config file to lower the default seconds it takes for an operation that is going to fail - to actually time out. What file is this and where is it ?

Thank you

vcbmounter - port

balaga32 — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:35:08 GMT

Hello Experts,

I am new to vmware vcb concepts. require few information on the vcbmounter

1. When the command vcbmounter is executed, is it necessary to give the port number (vcbmounter -h vcname:PORT ..) ? Does it read this information from the config.js file ?

2. How does the VCBmounter interprets the PORT specified in the config.js (or as an command option to vcbmounter ) ? Does it treats this as the HTTPS or HTTP ?

3. Is there any API to get the VCB port information ?

Thanks,
Balu