VMware Communities : Thread List - vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

convert Fusion disk to ESXi using vMA

atakacs — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:08:48 GMT

Folks

I have just successfully deployed vMA v4 and managed to link it to a freshly installed ESXi4 server.

I would like to migrate a VM from VMware Fusion to this ESXi box. I have already update the virtual hard disks but I can't figure out how to convert them before re-building a VM based on those disks.

I'm sure that I will eventually find out poking around here but some head-start would be greatly appreciated !

Thanks in advance

alex

Can't Install VMa

Zigmo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:50:58 GMT

I'm new to VM Ware and I'm trying to install VMa for my education. Currently, I'm running ESXi 4.0 on a Dell PowerEdge. When I try to install VMa, I get the following error when it tries to start:

Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a 32bit distribution. (full image attached)

My two questions are:

How can I tell if I'm running a 64 bit system? vSphere lists my Processor type as Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66 GHz, but doesn't say if it's 32 or 64bit. I read the requirements in the VMa manual, but I have no idea if my processor has EM64T support with VT enabled.
If I am running 32bit, where can I find a 32bit distribution? I've tried loading via uploading the file and the deploy URL, but both appear to be the same version.

I tried to install the Linux CLI interface on another machine, but that didn't work and is a discussion for another thread.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Slow Performance with RCLI Scripts

rhunter — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:32:18 GMT

I've noticed that almost all RCLI scripts (ESX 4 or 3.5) take anywhere between 5-30 seconds to complete on the vMA. But when running directly on the console, the output is returned instantaneously. Has anyone had this problem? 5 seconds seems like its not such a big deal, but in reality, it can add hours to an automated test suite that uses the vMA to communicate to all ESX hosts.

~~root@vma1 ~~~ibm3550-10# time esxcfg-scsidevs -a
Adapter_ID Driver UID PCI Vendor & Model
vmhba0 aacraid pscsi.vmhba0 (2:0.0) ServeRAID 8k/8k-l8
vmhba1 qla2xxx fc.2000001b3200d037:2100001b3200d037 (7:0.0) ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA
vmhba2 qla2xxx fc.2001001b3220d037:2101001b3220d037 (7:0.1) ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA
vmhba3 ata_piix ide.vmhba3 (0:31.1) 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller
vmhba32 ata_piix unknown.vmhba32 (0:31.1) 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller
vmhba33 iscsi_vmk iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:ibm3550-10-39acade4 () iSCSI Software Adapter

real 0m7.522s
user 0m3.760s
sys 0m0.208s

Same command on the console:

~~root@ibm3550-10 ~~~# time esxcfg-scsidevs -a
vmhba0 aacraid link-n/a pscsi.vmhba0 (2:0.0) Adaptec ServeRAID 8k/8k-l8
vmhba1 qla2xxx link-up fc.2000001b3200d037:2100001b3200d037 (7:0.0) QLogic Corp ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA
vmhba2 qla2xxx link-up fc.2001001b3220d037:2101001b3220d037 (7:0.1) QLogic Corp ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA
vmhba3 ata_piix link-n/a ide.vmhba3 (0:31.1) Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller
vmhba32 ata_piix link-n/a ide.vmhba32 (0:31.1) Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller
vmhba33 iscsi_vmk link-n/a iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:ibm3550-10-39acade4() Software iSCSI

real 0m0.024s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.020s

The protocol used is https@443. I've tried changing it to http@80 but this caused the following cryptic syntax error in one of the RCLI perl libs.

~~root@vma1 ~~~ibm3550-rtp10# time esxcfg-scsidevs -a --protocol http --portnumber 80
Can't call method "getChildrenByTagName" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm line 1884.

real 0m1.685s
user 0m1.517s
sys 0m0.161s

i suspect the slowness is due to the authentication piece, has anyone figured out why?

Rob

How to reset IP / hostname info in vMA appliance?

cincinnerdi — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:33:58 GMT

A while ago, this question was asked and answered (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1020415) for VIMA, but the answer no longer seems to work.

If you've assigned the wrong IP, or need to change the hostname, it would be great to restart the initial wizard.

It used to be that you could run:

sudo /usr/bin/system-config-network

But this no longer exists. Any idea what it is now?

How to retrieve target ESXi4 license from vMA?

mtee — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:43:25 GMT

I have added an ESXi4 as vMA target.

From the vMA appliance I want to view the license installed on the ESXi4 target.

How do I do that?

vim-cmd vimsvc/license --show does not work from vMA.

Is there an equivalent command in vMA to traverse and look through

hostsvc/ proxysvc/ vimsvc/ help
internalsvc/ solo/ vmsvc/

of ESXi4 targets?

Thanks

mtee

Can you use ghettoVCBg2 for Lab Manager?

landslove — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:53:17 GMT

HI,

I have started to test ghettoVCBg2 and have succesfully backed up a machine. Could this system be used for Lab Manager or do I need to look for an alaternative?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Regards,

Nick

Failed Adding Target Servers (hosts! not guests...) to VIMA with sudo vifp addserver

BASCII — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:20:04 GMT

Hallo,

I've 2 ESX hosts:

I installed the VIMA virtual machine on one of these (an ESX3i) and i'm able to execute:

$sudo vifp addserver 10.0.45.67 (i give the password and everything is ok

When i run the command for the other host (an ESX3.5):

$sudo vifp addserver 10.0.45.68

Error: failed to connect.

I have no firewall problam at all (quite sure, i disabled them)...

Why?

Thanks for the kindly help

Need dynamic updates on VM's Status... is vMA right for me?

davidsulock — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:52:42 GMT

Hi,

First of all I would like to say vSphere is amazing.

Secondly, my goal is this: To get real time updates about the CPU usage, disk i/o, and memory on a per-VM basis, not just for an overall ESX server. I will send this information to another machine (possibly a VM on the same ESX server, but not necessarily).

Is vMA the right tool for me?

inquiry about vmware-vilogd (vilogger daemon)

russ_givens — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:37:43 GMT

Does the vilogger daemon not run all the time? I setup the vilogger up to collect logs for all of my ESX hosts and it appears to work, but when I log of the Management Assistant virtual machine and then log back onto it several days later it seems that it had stopped collecting log files the minute I had logged off a few days before. I issue a service vmware-vilogd restart and it starts collection the log files again. I want it to continually collect log files as I have a monitoring application that can run through the log files and alert me to conditions I want to monitor. Is there anyway to have the vilogger continually collect log files?

can't remove ESX hosts from vMA

russ_givens — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:42:06 GMT

I added some hosts to the vMA and enable the log collection. It has been collecting logs for the hosts successfully. I don't want to monitor those hosts with the vMA any more because they are in a remote location and was going to setup a vMA in the remote location. I use the command sudo vifp removeserver servername to remove the ESX hosts and they are removed appropriately. I run the command vifp listservers and they no longer show up anymore. The thing is that the log collection is still happening against the machines on the vMA. I'll look in the /var/log/vmware directory and the directory for the ESX hosts I've removed is still there. I removed tthe directory and they come right back along with the logs. I'll rerun the command to remove the hosts and it says they are already removed.

How do you get rid of the machines off of the vMA?

esxcli command does not work as expected

maxel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:30:09 GMT

We try to list the preferred path of an device with

esxcli nmp device getpreferred --device naa.xxx (as described in http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_vcli.pdf)

but we get

ERROR:root:Unknown method getpreferred
Error: Unknown method getpreferred

Usage: esxcli nmp device {cmd} cmd options

Cmd:
list List the devices currently controlled by the VMware
NMP Multipath Plugin and show the SATP and PSP
information associated with that device.
setpolicy Allow setting of the Path Selection Policy (PSP) for
the given device to one of the loaded policies on the
system.

Is the esxcli command in vma not the latest one?

Using VIMA to shut down an EqualLogic PS5000E SAN

dsnowden — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:24:57 GMT

Currently I'm working on setting up a VIMA to handle shutting down hosts in the event of a power failure (Talking to an APC UPS)

Has anyone had much experience with Dell/EqualLogic's host scripting toolkit? I'm trying to create a script that will send the shutdown command to the PS5000 when apcupsd is triggered.

These arrays do not seem to be very UPS friendly, I've found no material anywhere about connecting these arrays to a UPS. (Strance as it's a very expensive piece of kit that should be shut down gracefully.)

I've managed to build up a basic understanding of the scripting from the examples provided with the toolkit. All the commands used seem to be commands which do not require confirmation. When I telnet in to the array I can shut it down by using the command "shutdown" but I need to confirm by trying "yes".

From what I understand about this toolkit it's just telnet wrapped up in perl. If a connection is open then will I be able to use somehting like this:

$remote->cmd("shutdown");
$remote->cmd("yes");

I previously tried sending a carriage return along with the command:

@result = $remote->cmd("shutdown\nyes") or print "Failed to shutdown\n", $remote->errmsg and exit 1;

but this did not work.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Update vMA without internet access

RobMokkink — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:11:08 GMT

We are not allowed to let our servers to connect to the internet. Not even a proxy.
Is there a way to update the vMA offline?

Add vcenter- should i see all esx hosts too?

maxel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:41:21 GMT

Hello!

I've added our vcenter to vma , but when i do a "vifp listservers" i see only the vcenter. Should i see all ESX Servers managed by this vcenter too or have to add all ESX Hosts manually?

vMA corrupt, stuck in fsck boot-loop (how do I get in as "root"?)

vancod — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:17:34 GMT

Subject line fairly says it all.

I have a vMA that somehow got its filesystem torqued and I am now stuck in the "you can't log in as root" - "please log in as root and manually fsck" boot loop.

Am I screwed? Is there a way to actually enable the root login? (I am guessing the answer to one is "yes" and to two it's either "no" or "sure, on a working vMA")

Can I boot a RHEL install disk and fsck in rescue mode? (hmm... will have to investigate)

Honestly - do these things really need to be this secure out of the box? If the answer is yes the developers need to plan on issues like this - a fsck @ boot is a common occurance.....

Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/vmware-cmd line 392 error?

AndyShinn — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:40:31 GMT

I am getting the following error with vMA 4.0 build 161993:

~~vi-admin@vma perl~~vc-01$ vmware-cmd -T esx-08 /vmfs/volumes/4a4d5344-49ca8461-cc25-003048d27c87/SAM/SAM.vmx getstate
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/vmware-cmd line 392.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/vmware-cmd line 392.
getstate() = on
~~vi-admin@vma perl~~vc-01$

Wondering if anyone else is getting the same?

I am going to try and write some simple bash scripts to do monitoring of my infrastructure and vmware-cmd looks like a necessary part. I'd rather not have to parse around the errors!

vMA 4.0 + Patch1 Still Vulnerable

joshp — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:53:18 GMT

I put a vMA 4.0 virtual "appliance" in our ESX envioronment patched it with Patch1 through the vMA update process. After submitting the appliance to our Security unit they sent back a list of vulnerabilities on the vMA appliance, lots of them (RHSA advisory numbers included). Is there a way to patch the underlying Redhat OS outside the normal VMware released vMA patch (which did include patches for OS related services)? If not, I will not be able to use vMA.

Thanks in advance,

Josh

vMA RCLI

Mizzou_RobMan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:36:05 GMT

Did vMA replace the RCLI appliance?

Does the vMA have to reside on the vSphere/ESXi host that it will manage?

Problem with vdiskcreate.pl

ii00907 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:36:07 GMT

Hello everyone,

I have a problem with the VMA when launching the command vdiskcreate.pl comes back to me the following message?

~~vi-admin@itrmvma vm~~$ perl vdiskcreate.pl --server 111.23.42.001 --username root --password passw0rd --vmname Test --filename Test1
Can't call method "key" on an undefined value at vdiskcreate.pl line 82.

End Disconnect
~~vi-admin@itrmvma vm~~$

And also as' the syntax for attaching a rdmp?

what should I put on --filename xxx ?

Can you help?

ESXi 4 - vGhettoLinkedClone - Agent Error

HQNetwork — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:40:06 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to run the vGhettoLinkedClone.pl script and keep getting this error:

" Operation is not supported by the current agent "

I am trying this from a remote linux machine (not on the same server as the one I'm trying to clone)

I've installed the Perl SDK for VMWare - no errors there.

Trying to Clone VM: testvm (names changed to protect the innocent)

Snapshot name: PreInst_Snap_Before_lc (XP Pro)

Below is my command line entry for vGhettoLinkedClone.pl running from a remote linux machine:

./vGhettoLinkedClone.pl --server using server IP --username root --vmhost server.localdomain --vmname testvm --vmname_destination "testvm-01" --snapname PreInst_Snap_Before_lc

(obviously on my server I used the server ip and server's hostname rather than server ip and server, etc. values above were taken out for privacy reasons.

So I get the error:

" Operation is not supported by the current agent "

After i hit enter on that command above, and after I enter my password. So it's getting TO the server, just not playing nice with it.

Besides a resolution to this error above, I'd like to be able to do linked clones in a range. We may want 3 of these linked clones, so it would be nice to tell it to start with testvm-01 and end with testvm-03

I believe this was possible with an older version of GhettoLinkedClone but not sure how to do it with this one (or at all).

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Noob... haha. Need help understanding...

swerly01 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:28:19 GMT

Ok, i've downloaded and have the VMa 4.0 linux virtual machine on my cluster...

Now what....

What our goal is, is to get daily reports in our email of information about our VM environment, we are running a 3 node cluster.

I have not worked much with linux, so i may need some help figuring it all out.

Thanks

vMA4 vima-update error

ii00907 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:58:17 GMT

Hi,

i have a problem when i run the sudo vima-update scan.

I have this Mess.:

Encountered error TypeError:

This is an unexpected error. Please report it as a bug.*
Error Message - iterable argument required*

I have config my /etc/vmware/esxupdate/vimaupdate.conf so :

platform
product = vima
version = 4.0.0
build = 161992

log
size = 5192000
file = /var/log/vmware/esxupdate.log
level = DEBUG

vima

URL for vima update depot
Modify this option to allow local depots

#
depot = http://www.vmware.com/go/vma4/update/

Proxy settings
Uncomment these options if a proxy is required to access the
URL specified in vima.depot

proxy = 10.111.22.333

proxyport = 1234

Help Please?

This patch resolv the problem with vdiskcreate.pl?

Change Keyboard Layout in vMA

rock0n — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:20:48 GMT

Hi,

I'm wondering if i could be possible to change the keyboard layout from US to DE?

Thanks in advance.

Raiko

How to install VDDK 1.1 on vMA 4.0 (libfuse.so.2 fix)

lamw — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:07:29 GMT

For those of you that might be interested in installing and giving Virtual Disk Development Kit 1.1 a try on VMware vMA, you may run into an issue with the following:

The following libraries could not be found on your system:
libfuse.so.2

Here is the procedure on remediating the issue and getting VDDK 1.1 installed

1. Download VDDK 1.1 ( VMware-vix-disklib-1.1.0-163495.x86_64.tar.gz ) and upload to your vMA host

2. Extract the contents

tar -zxvf VMware-vix-disklib-1.1.0-163495.x86_64.tar.gz

3. Download libfuse.so.2 rpm package for RHEL 5 (http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/9551023/com/libfuse-2.7.4-1.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm.html) and upload to your vMA host. You can actually do this in one step using curl found on vMA:

curl -O ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.pramberger.at/systems/linux/contrib/rhel5/x86_64/libfuse-2.7.4-1.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm

4. Install the rpm dependancy

[vi-admin@inTheGhetto ~]$ sudo rpm -ivh libfuse-2.7.4-1.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm
warning: libfuse-2.7.4-1.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6971f6ac
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:libfuse                ########################################### [100%]

5. cd into VDDK 1.1 extracted directory

cd vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/

6. Install VDDK 1.1 and accept the EULA and default installation in /usr

[vi-admin@inTheGhetto vmware-vix-disklib-distrib]$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Now both vmware-mount and vmware-vdiskmanager will work without complaining about the missing libfuse.so.2

I would hope in the future that all side toolkits/products will be compatible with vMA without any additional research/package dependency. I disklike the fact that users must go out to the net to find patches/packages to satisfy a VMware product installation. I know that vApp's produced by VMware are highly customized to fit a specific need and I prefer that all dependency's are covered without having end-users potentially download unsupported/unknown packages onto these vApps.

It would also be awesome to include with vMA: VMware VIX, VDDK, etc.

=========================================================================
William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/
vGhetto Script Repository
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
http://twitter.com/lamw

If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".

cron + vifpinit

romant — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:28:07 GMT

Hi,

I've added the required server, and by manually running "vifpinit" am able to run commands against it.

What I wish to do is have a crontab task do some of the things, and unfortunately there seems to be an issue with vifpinit persisting.

As an example:

function enable_passthrough () 
{
	HOST=blade304
	vifpinit
	env | grep -q VI
	if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then
		echo "Failed"
		exit 1
	else
		echo "Great success"
	fi
}

When I run "enable_passthrough" myself, all is well, and the prompt in bash indicates that blade304 is now active (through PS1)

Unfortunately when I run this within a cron-task, "Failed" is the result.

Am I missing something basic here?

I understand that profile information is disregarded for cronjobs, so I've included the necessary alias form ~/.bashrc as well as the related ones from /etc/bashrc. Still to no avail.

Any ideas? Sure am not the first nor last person to try and carry out automated tasks against an ESX machine.

Cheers.

Can't run VMa 64 bit compatability confusion

Mintz — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:29:26 GMT

I've just installed VMA on my ESXi server, but when I start the Red Hat Linux guest OS I get "Your CPU does not support long mode". when I look this up I found the following thread. http://communities.vmware.com/message/1320585 so I assumedthat the processor doesn't support Intel VT.

However my processor is an Intel Xeon E5320 and on http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=28031&processor=E5320&spec-codes=SL9MV,SLAC8,SLAEL is suggests that this does support Intel VT.

So I'm a bit confused.

Regards

Eugene Gill

VMA concept overview question.

AlbertWT — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:40:53 GMT

Hi,

Is it true that VMAusage is common to vCenter, instead that by using VMA we can actually control the ESX/i hosts instead of using vcenter ?

Kind Regards,
AWT

Transferring Script Files to vMA

sammyvm — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:24:33 GMT

Hello,

I had the similar request awhile back when we were using VIMA however the problem has popped up again with the new vMA. I'm wondering how everyone is transferring scripts files into the vMA appliance. It seem's when I use SCP/SSH the vi-admin user does not have the privleges to actually copy files over.

Cheers

problems updating VIMA

pfuhli — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:18:12 GMT

Hi,

I cannot get an update for my instance

See attached pic for error messages. Any idea what might be wrong?

Thanks in advance!

daniel

Technology Exchange Developer Day - Learn about vMA as a platform for deploying scripts and agents

navadavuluri — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:08:38 GMT

Hello,

We are happy to announce about our demo at Technology Exchange Developer Day 2009, Learn about vMA as a platform for deploying scripts and agents

Presenter: Ashwath Seshadri
{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtLStlCK-Q{youtube}

Demo ID: DS-23

Time: 5:45 - 6:45 PM

Abstract:

VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) is a prepackaged Linux virtual machine in which
administrators can deploy scripts and select third-party agents to manage ESX and ESXi systems.
Software included in vMA includes vSphere CLI, an authentication component that supports
non-interactive login, and a log collection component. Learn about the features provided vCLI and vMA and how you can integrate with your vSphere environment.

vilogger vs syslog

spig777 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:01:11 GMT

I'm using syslog to a syslog server, also to a local datastore using syslog.local.datastorepath setting. I've recently has to contact HP/vmware support over an ESX issue, they suggested using VIMA to collect the logs as it would provide more information than syslog alone.

I've set up vMA which is collecting the default logs of hostd, messages and vxpa. This seems to only contain the same informaton as syslog.

Is this correct? Is there addional logs you can turn on? I'm struggling to see the point of vilogger over simple syslog other than seperation of the logs by host and type.

compatible with "apcupsd-multimon"

lhimin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:36:50 GMT

Hi there,

First of all - this vMa is fantastic! Really appreciate the information that is shared within this community.

I've downloaded the latest vMA and installed apcupsd-3.14.7-1el5.x86_64.rpm and works like a charm... But I've noticed that the latest documentation for APC UPS Daemon talks about Network monitoring. I see that there is another package which includes the Multimon CGI program.

I've tried to install the file and it seems that it needs further packages - but it seems that I'm going in endless circles trying to install the right packages for dependencies.

I was wondering if there will be another updated version of VIMA on its way? one that works with, say... apcupsd-multimon-3.14.7-1.el5x86_64.rpm

Many thanks!

Installing VM like Vima.

abufa — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:02:26 GMT

Hi!

How can I install a virtual machine with the characteristics that the Vima?

I want to install this in a linux 32 bits becouse I don't have nothing in 64 bits yet.

What steps I need to do fo do this?

Thak you for all.

Learn about vSphere vMA @ Developer - Video

heyitspablo — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:27:31 GMT

Folks, Ashwath will be presenting on vMA @ upcoming Tech Ex - Developer Day

Event is August 31st, 2009 Monday @ VMworld 2009
More info http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/techexchange

{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtLStlCK-Q{youtube}

vGhettoLinkedClone script and additional documentation

Tripwire — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:13:58 GMT

I was an avid fan of GhettoLinkedClone and so when vSphere came out I started trying out vGhettoLinkedClone. Some of the readme's in the Perl script were helpful, but I am still lost on somethings. I am trying to customize the VM to rename it and join it to a domain. Below is the statement I am using:

./vGhettoLinkedClone.pl --server *vCenterServer *--username Username --vmhost *vSphereHostTarget *--vmname MasterLink1 --vmname_destination LinkedCloneName --customize_guest yes --filename */home/vi-admin/vGhetto/xml/w2k3r2sp2-32bit.xml *--datastore DatastoreName --snapname Pristine_Snap_Before_LC

When I run the above script it says "../schema/vmclone.xsd doesn't exit or is not readable"

I am not sure what files and variables are required in order to reconfigure the LinkedClone, so any documentation with examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Resizing the vMA disk

VMNU — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:36:28 GMT

Help! I need to resize the vMA /var/log filesystem, after adding 100(ish) ESXi hosts and enabling vilogger the disk is now full. Is there an easy way to increase the disk size/LV?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

How to get any VM's hostname using Remote CLI [ESX Server] ?

coolfrenz — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:51:59 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to automate some testing where in i need to depoly some packages on the VM's on the ESX server. I need the hostname information for the same. i know that we can get the Vm location using the remote CLI but is it possible to get the hostname for the corresponding location ?

Please let me know asap.

Thanks,

Piyush

Vima 1.0 setup Help

msemon1 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:52:21 GMT

Hello,

I have installed Vima 1.0 and it everything appears correct. I did an vifp addserver and added each of my hosts .When I do a vifp listservers command I see all of my ESX hosts.. I also ran a vifpinit for each server. My question now is how do I run scripts? Do I copy scripts to this device or where do I need to place them to run? What kind of scripts can I run Perl, Powershell, etc. Also is there a special syntax to run this script on all hosts. I am especially interested in running the Vmware Health check Script.

Thanks,

Mike

vMA CPU long mode error

cookieme — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:59:11 GMT

Hi

I installed vMA and during boot I get the error shown in the attached screenshot. My CPU was identified by the INTEL CPU utility and gave the following:

Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility
Version: 4.10.20090310
Time Stamp: 2009/06/19 17:52:03
Number of processors in system: 1
Current processor: #1
Active cores per processor: 1
Disabled cores per processor: 0
Processor Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
Type: 0
Family: F
Model: 4
Stepping: A
Revision: 2
Maximum CPUID Level: 5
L1 Trace Cache: 12 Kµops
L1 Data Cache: 16 KB
L2 Cache: 2 MB
L3 Cache: None
Packaging: 604 pin µPGA
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep(R) Technology: No
MMX(TM): Yes
Intel(R) SSE: Yes
Intel(R) SSE2: Yes
Intel(R) SSE3: Yes
Intel(R) SSE4: No
Enhanced Halt State: Yes
Execute Disable Bit: No
Intel(R) Hyper-Threading Technology: Yes
Intel(R) 64 Architecture: Yes
Intel(R) Virtualization Technology: No
Expected Processor Frequency: 3.0 GHz
Reported Processor Frequency: 3.0 GHz
Expected System Bus Frequency: 800 MHz
Reported System Bus Frequency: 800 MHz

So, it should work, no? If not is there a 32bit version of vMA?

Changes to the ESX Service Console for ESX 4.0

navadavuluri — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:36:02 GMT

Please check out the attched document for this information

This technical paper discusses incompatibilities between the ESX 3.5 service
console and the ESX 4.0 service console. Included are suggestions of what you might do to upgrade your
existing environments that depend on the ESX service console. This document also discusses how you might
bridge the gap to support ESXi, which does not include a service console. And finally, if you are currently
writing applications that run in the ESX service console, this document suggests some possible options you
have for transitioning away from it.

OVF won't register

imudd1 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:14:35 GMT

I am trying to install this on my new vSphere dev - but the EULA to accept is greyed out and it will not let me continue to install the app as it will tell me the

validation not applicable this time. (most likely since i couldn't hit the "accept" button on the EULA section.

thoughts?

Need Help in Cloning VMs

Akshay Sukhwal — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:30:51 GMT

Hi All

As I am new to this VM world. Need some help in building it up further.

Scenario

I have 2 x ESX 3.5 Update 4 Servers with Virtual Instances on it.

1 x Virtual Center

Datastore on NFS

Now I am trying to clone the VMs. I got through to the scripts

ghettoClone.sh

my-vmregister.pl

I came to know to run these scripts I would know I would need VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA).

I download a Virtual Machine that's available on the VMWare Site.

Now when I run the script I come accross the following error.

Could not locate /usr/lib/vmware-viperl/apps/vm/vminfo.pl and/or /usr/bin/vifs.pl, please ensure system has RCLI & VI Perl Toolkit installed

Then I downloaded VMware-RCLI-3.5.0-104314.i386.tar.gz & VMware-vSphere-SDK-for-Perl-4.0.0-161974.x86_64.tar.g.

When I try to install them they give error.

please help me in cloning the VMs. I dont mind if I have to follow a new set of steps all together.

Regards

Anurag

How to exit a target environment?

duyuyang — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:33:15 GMT

Hi,

After vifpinit server (entering a target environment), how can I return from it?

In other word, how can I wipe off the server part in the prompt?

Thanks,

Shawn

ESXi shutdown via vMA and apcupsd. ssh issue.

sim0 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:03:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to set up a safe shutdown of our ESXi U4 (free) host using the method described by jholland here.

I have set it up as described in the article and am attempting to test it, for testing purposes I have done the following:

created /ups_shutdown.sh on the ESXi machine containing only "echo TEST SUCCESSFUL"
commented out the last line of the doshutdown section of /etc/apcupsd/apccontrol on the vMA VM so that vMA does not shut down everytime I do a test.

So to test that vMA will call the shutdown script from ESXi I do:

--~~vi-admin@vma~~ apcupsd--$ sudo ./apccontrol doshutdown

Which returns:

Broadcast message from root (Tue Jun 30 20:39:13 2009): \\\\\\ UPS initiated Shutdown Sequence
--~~vi-admin@vma~~ apcupsd--$ The authenticity of host 'esxihost.domain.local (192.xxx.xx.xxx)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is **:**:**:**:etc.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
Host key verification failed.

Obviously I'm doing something wrong with either the ssh key generation in ESXi or importing it on vMA.

My only previous ssh experience is limited to " I use putty and it just works" so I'm a bit lost here.

I have followed jhollands instructions to create the ssh key in ESXi a couple of times and it all completes successfully. The last line reads:

"You can now, using WinSCP or scp from another server transfer off the id_rsa.ssh public key file."

Transfer it where? For what?

Given that we need to insert this line into the "doshutdown" section of /etc/apcupsd/apccontrol:

ssh -i /root/esxi_id_rsa.pub root@<esxi_ipaddress> "/ups_shutdown.sh" &

I am assuming that I need to make /root/esxi_id_rsa.pub the pair to the ssh key created in ESXi.

I have tried copying both id_rsa.ssh and id_rsa.pub from ESXi to vMA and renaming them to /root/esxi_id_rsa.pub. Both return the error above.

I have also disabled the vMA firewall as described in version 7 of jhollands howto.

Is there a command to import the ssh key to vMA? I'm pretty sure this is a config/lack of knowledge error on my part.

Interestingly I can do this:

--vi-admin@vma apcupsd--$ ssh ~~root@esxihost~~ ./ups_shutdown.sh
~~root@esxihost's~~ password:
TEST SUCCESS

Thanks to Joseph Holland for his work, when I get it working this will solve a real issue for us.

Cheers for reading.

Simon

differnces between vMA to vSphere CLI

Itzikr — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:31:50 GMT

Hi,

what's the difference in terms on functionality between vMA to vSphere CLI

Itzik

continuous "BrowseDiagnosticMessages" in ESXi Tasks

ThorstenT — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:55:41 GMT

Hi everyone,

I just installed a fresh ESXi3.5U4 node and added it to an also absolute fresh VIMA. Everything works fine that far, but the moment I enabled vilogger, hell break loose on the ESXi node:

[2009-04-22 04:54:24.318 'TaskManager' 16384 info] Task Created : haTask-ha-host-vim.DiagnosticManager.browse-1321
[2009-04-22 04:54:24.319 'TaskManager' 16384 info] Task Completed : haTask-ha-host-vim.DiagnosticManager.browse-1321

I got log entires like the above about ten times a second. Has anyone an idea how to fix this?

TIA,

Thorsten

Message was edited by: RDellimmagine for better formatting.

How to resize VIMA console?

lguinn — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:37:18 GMT

I apologize if this is a noob question, but I couldn't find the answer in the doc set...

Is there a way to resize the console window for VIMA? 80 x 25 is not great, especially since some of the commands output much wider lines.
100 x 50 would be great...

Thanks!
Lisa

Secure way to transfer files to VIMA?

sammyvm — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:47:09 GMT

I just started using the VIMA appliance the other day and its very good and will come in very handy for us.

One thing I haven't been able to get working is the ability to use a program like Veeam FastSCP or WinSCP to transfer files (scripts) to the appliance. As the root user account is disabled in the applianc, tools like those that use the root account to sudo seem not to work or I possibly I have overlooked something.

I have found a working around by first uploading the data to our VM datastore then using the vifs.pl --get command from VIMA to copy the data locally but it's a pain.

Thanks!

Configuring automatic startup with perl in VIMA

dsnowden — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:03:38 GMT

I have 3 ESXi hosts running in a vCenter cluster. I need to configure the virtual machines on them to start up automatically as they could potentially be shut down by a UPS.

I have HA enabled which should start VMs up automatically but the only problem is that th vCenter and supporting SQL Server are virtual machines in the cluter they are managing. Automatic startup (configured on the host) and HA do not play well together. Configuring auto startup in a HA cluster causes errors when vmotioning. HA coming online removes the auto start configuration from the hosts. That second part can work to my advantage if I can configure auto start when the cluster is being shut down, bring the SQL and vCenter back online and let HA take care of the other VMs and removing auto start.

Shutdown is handled by a lamws upsVIShutdown.pl/ghettoShutdown.pl scripts.

Extending upsVIShutdown.pl looks like it should be simple, but I'm not too familiar with the API. Does anyone know how I can create an instance of a VM object by passing a VM name? (All the scripts I've seen so far simply iterate through a list of all VMs) and how to configure automatic startup delays on the VM object? And presumably I would need to enable virtual machines starting up and shutting down with the host?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

vGhetto linked clone script in vMA : Can't locate AppUtil/VMUtil.pm in @INC

Timothy@Corismo — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:47:47 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying out the new vGhetto linked clone script in th vMA script. I currently got the "Can't locate AppUtil/VMUtil.pm in @INC" error when i tried the script on n empty vMA appliance.

When i link the following together it seems to work, so i just wanted to share

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/* /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5

New VIMA release announced: vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) 4.0

halcabes — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:46:53 GMT

On April 21, VMware announced VMware vSphere 4.0 (see http://www.vmware.com/go/vsphere). As noted on http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/overview.html , "VMware vSphere will be available for sale on May 21, 2009."

As noted on http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/DeveloperCenter/2009/04/21/what-is-new-in-vsphere-sdks-38toolkits , "we will be releasing our SDKs and Toolkits at the same time as the vSphere platform releases ", with the following name changes:

"VI Management Assistant" (VIMA) will be renamed "vSphere Management Assistant" (vMA -- the abbreviation can still be pronounced "vee-ma")
"VI RCLI" will be renamed "vSphere vCLI"
"VI Perl Toolkit" will be renamed "vSphere SDK for Perl"

Administrators and developers will be able to use vMA 4.0 to run scripts and agents to
manage VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 and later, ESX/ESXi 4.0, and
vCenter Server 4.0 systems. When vMA 4.0 is released VMware will recommend that all customers currently using VIMA 1.0 upgrade to vMA 4.0.

--Harvey

Harvey Alcabes
Product Manager
VMware, Inc.

Sending e-mail from VIMA

BobMHNZ — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:34:20 GMT

Hi,

I have created a very simple backup script, which works just great, but I am tryng to get the VIMA appliance to e-mail me a copy of the log file the script makes,
can any one help with some code to make the appliance e-mail me a text file..

Bob

Error mounting CDROM from VIMA client

wnp1 — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:37:19 GMT

When attempting to mount CDROM from VIMA client I get errors

end -request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 64

Isofs-fill-super: bread failed, dev-hda, iso_blknum=16, block=16

Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,

Missing codepage or other error

The mount command used is

sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

I have attached screen shot of error along with the mesg file

help with health scripts running using vima

puzzledtux — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:09:55 GMT

I am trying to use the health script which is located at http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9420

Using health script version 0.9.4
VIMA 1.0

The below command runs perfectly for a ESX host and gives me a detailed html report
./vmwareHealthCheck.pl --server esx_server_ip --username esx_username --type host

However, when I run
./vmwareHealthCheck.pl --server vCenter_IP --username administrator --type vcenter
I get the error

No clusters found.

Does that mean that I need to create a cluster and then add hosts within it or I am missing something in the command syntax? All I need is a way to get report of all esx hosts which are being managed by my vCenter server.

Also, is there a script available which lists
1. the virtual machines that are part of DRS/HA enabled cluster
2. orphaned virtual machines in a vCenter.

Maximum number of target servers?

micromonkey — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:15:26 GMT

When adding multiple target servers, I received the following error when attempting to add ESX host number 21:

Error: The XML file appears to have been edited and is now invalid.(/etc/vmware/viconfig/viconf

I can't find reference to any maximum number of hosts to manage with VIMA, and I don't know of any other reason why the store would become corrupt.

Any help would be appreciated.

vima error when using ghettoClone.sh

zenomorph — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:09:53 GMT

Hi there,

I have a query, I'm running the vima and using the script ghettoClone.sh when I run the script the clone a VM template which I've created I get the error "fault restrictedversion.summary" is this because I using a version of ESXi higher than Update 2?

Many thanks

cannot ssh to vima

zenomorph — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:32:29 GMT

Hi,

I've jsut setup vima on my ESXi and it has some great features, however what I cannot figure out is how to ssh to it. I use something like "Putty" but when i try to connect I cannot it just gets stuck at the Putty "black" screen and I cannot see the login prompt or anything. Because I want to copy some of the scripts on the http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/ and try them out but cannot.

Does anything need to be configured on the vima to enable ssh access.

Cheers

VIMA esxcfg-mpath -a bug

mcowger — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:52:26 GMT

So there is a bug in the VIMA 1.0. When you run esxcfg-mpath -a on a host with a service console, it out puts the WWPNs on the FC cards (good). When you run it on the VIMA against a host, you get the WWNN (bad).

Here is a diff to fix it:

sub list_hbas {
my ($ss, $lunName) = @_;
my $hbas = $ss->storageDeviceInfo->hostBusAdapter;
foreach my $hba (@$hbas) {
if (defined($hba)) {
next if $hba->isa("HostBlockHba");
next if $hba->isa("HostParallelScsiHba");
my $pciString = get_pci_string($hba);
printf("%s %s%s\n",
$hba->device,
-$hba->isa("HostFibreChannelHba") ? $hba->nodeWorldWideName . " " : "",
+$hba->isa("HostFibreChannelHba") ? $hba->portWorldWideName . " " : "",
$pciString);
}
}
}

Is this the right place for asuch a bug report?

--Matt
VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek

Agents running in VIMA

ccullingford — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:25:30 GMT

What agents have people running in VIMA?

I have been pushing back on loading agents into the console. These include CA UniCenter and CA DSM agents.

I am also interested in how people are really using VIMA.

Thanks,

Chris

RCLI 3.5u2 new?

lamw — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:49:10 GMT

Hi Harvey,

I was unable to post a comment under your newly created document for VI Remote CLI 3.5 Update 2, hence I created a new forum thread.

Is this actually a new update? Or were you just creating a reference to the RCLI under VIMA forum?

It looks like it's pointing to:

3.5U2 | 07/25/08 | 104314

Which seems to be the current version of the RCLI

=========================================================================
William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/
http://twitter.com/lamw

If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".

Network issue with VIMA appliance

carteran — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:27:39 GMT

Greetings,

I downloaded and installed the VIMA appliance, started it up and entered the network parameters as required.

The VM has no network connectivity though. I've checked the virtual switch it's connected to and other VM's on that switch are OK.

I attempted to access the /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 config file (which appears in a directory listing) and get "No such file or directory" error. I'm logged on as the vi-admin user. Using sudo returns a similar error.

ifconfig -a command does not return an IP address or mask.

Can anyone suggest a fix

Password for VIMA?

theblackknight — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:49:55 GMT

Dumb question, but I can't find the passwod in the Admin guide? Can someone help?

VIMA viconfig.xml now invalid.

william.bonin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:31:47 GMT

Hi guys,

Got a file system full on / and now I get this error tying to use vifpinit : error: The XML file appears to have been edited and is now invalid.

I delete the file and reboot with no success.

How can I fix it without importing a new VIMA ?

Thanks for your help.

PS : I have only 5 hosts managed by VIMA.

VIMA : cannot add server with 'wifp addserver' command

flavien — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:01:56 GMT

Hi,

I've just installed VIMA to be able to manage my ESX3i, by installing the Virtual appliance VIMA found on the wmware website.

No problem to import and start the Vima vm, but, when I try to add a target server, I always got the same message : 'Error : failed to connect'

The command I typed is :

sudo vifp addserver XXX

then I've been asked to enter the root's password, and just after that I got immedialtly the error message.

I'm able to connect to the server XXX using ssh (All the server I want to manage are Linux-Suse server)

So my question is : is there some services that need to run on the servers I want to manage with VIMA ?

Thanks

Flavien

VIMA update

mclark — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:34:47 GMT

I just found out about VIMA at a local VMUG session yesterday, so I've got it set up and I am playing with it. I've configured vima-update, and when I run a scan I get an "unable to lookup depot url http://www.vmware.com/go/vima1/update/vmw-VIMA-1.0.0-metadata.zip: Errno 14 HTTP Error 404: Not Found."

Is this just because there is no update available yet, or because I have something wrong?

Thanks!

Problem with VIMA and APCUPSD

llyubenov — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:38:57 GMT

I have 2 ESXi 3.5 hosts and APC SmartUPS RT 6000 and i was following the steps in Joseph Holland guide to make VIMA shut down my VM's i case of power failure.So the problem is that when i came to start the apcupsd daemon, VIMA couldn't connect with the UPS. The apcupsd.conf file is same as the guide, then i set up apcupsd on a windows machine and it worked without any issue. So my guess is the problem is somewhere inside the VIMA. i'm not very experienced with VIMA, so if any of could gave me i tip how to work this out i'll be very thankful.

My apcups.conf file is attached.

Thanks in advance

RPM install in VIMA?

jholland — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:39:58 GMT

So I want to install apcupsd (a daemon for controlling APC UPSes www.apcupsd.com) on VMWare's VIMA virtual appliance. Is this possible? I'm sure others have installed rpms on VIMA before. I usually work on Debian systems and know very little about package management on Red Hat based distros.

When I execute:
rpm -i apcupsd-3.14.5-1.el3.i386.rpm

I get back:
warning: apcupsd-3.14.5-1.el3.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a57b2d90
error: Failed dependencies:
++ libcrypto.so.4 is needed by apcupsd-3.14.5-1.i386++
++ libnetsnmp.so.5 is needed by apcupsd-3.14.5-1.i386++

Anybody have any pointers?

PCNS v2.2.3 with VIMA

Matrix_a123 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:10:45 GMT

To all,

I have recently been testing VIMA with a niffty set of shutdown scripts and have created single script, to shutdown the client servers, the SAN Mass Storage and finally the ESXi Host. My next step was to get PCNS V2.2.3 installed & configured and running this script when a UPS condition is met. Everything is working, I can even access the PCNS URL from a Wintel server and configure the UPS conditions to run the script.

My only problem is that no script will run from PCNS !

I have been testing for some time and can't get it to work. (Note: I have tried using the @START "/home/vi-admin/script.sh"). I have even tried a simple "echo" script, without joy. To summarise: VIMA Firewalls are opened. Full access granted to all files. When PCNS is configured to do so, UPS event notification messages are displayed in VIMA. The VIMA's JRE 1.5.0_15 and the PCNS's JRE 1.5.0_13 were both tested.

It seems that PCNS 2.2.3 isn't fully compatible with VIMA or I'm missing something.

Are there any suggestions or work-arounds?

Thanks.

Rob

Apache Install on VIMA

tdimaggio — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:57:46 GMT

Is there a simple way to get Apache running on the VIMA appliance? I'm using William's kick-arse healthcheck script and some other scripts to move html reports ever 30 minutes, then using logrotate to archive week old reports. I'd like to just throw these reports to a webserver and instead of creating a new VM running Apache, I'd rather use the same box. I'm by no means a Linux expert. I tried installing the Apache RPM I downloaded but there are a few dependencies missing. I also tried using YUM but all the repositories are set to VMWare and no public repositories.

Can we execute commands in VM using VIMA?

chorgeas — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:22:58 GMT

Hi,

I have downloaded VIMA appliance and booted in ESX server. After booting I have setup hostname and password for it.

1. Now in my ESX server I have more Linux and Windows VM's, so using VIMA appliance can I execute commands like process check, disk space check, IP address in those VM's?
2. Also for doing this, do I have to install any agent inside the VM's?

Regards,
Ashish

VIMA can't connect to the network

vancod — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:29:46 GMT

I've got a freshly installed cluster of ESX 3.5.3 hosts on Opteron-based HP Proliants. There are numerous other Guests up and running just fine.

I've instaled the VIMA, removed the vmxnet NIC and added an e1000 NIC (so I can VMotion), and powered on.

I've configured the IP, hostname, and password, and booted successfully.

However, I can see nohing on the network. Can't see the default gateway.

I have tried removing and recreating the /etc/sysconfig script - no change.

I've tried migrating to a different host - no change.

The network appears to be functional (no errors at boot, the output of ifconfig looks as expected).

I followed this exact proceedure on my hosts here at home and it worked without issue - only these are Intel CPUs.

???

VIMA logging and log rotation - does it miss entries?

ewannema — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:58:51 GMT

Does anyone know how VIMA deals with log rotation? It polls for logs and it seems like there is the possibility that it will miss some events if events are written after the previous poll and log is rotated before the next one.

The manual seems to indicate that it uses the DiagnosticManager object in the API and I don't see a way to get anything other than the current log.

resxtop error

benma — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:48:42 GMT

Hi Guys,

when i try to open /usr/lib/vmware-vicli/bin/resxtop

I receive ./resxtop: error while loading shared libraries: libvmksysinfo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

vilogger and location of log files

russ_givens — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:40:03 GMT

I've setup vilogger deamon to collect log files from one of my ESX servers (default log file collection policy). Where does the vilogger utility store these log files?

vima and firewall

russ_givens — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:51:04 GMT

Is vima running a firewall? I've installed an agent into VIMA that I would like to use in conjunction with some of the tools in VIMA. The agent installed successfully but the application that manages the agent is not connecting to it.

Setting PAM - Kerberos Auth in VIMA

mickkael — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:23:27 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to authenticate vima users with AD instead of a single local account vima-user. I've set /etc/krb5.conf, but when i try to test it with kinit:

kinit user@domain.tld

Segmentation Fault

Any idea ?

Scripting ESX(i) configurations in VIMA

sammyvm — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:56:05 GMT

Hey There,

Im wondering if any one has confirmed if your able to script commands through the VIMA appliance to customize ESX 3.5 thin and fat version using commands such as the vimsh shell. I know the esx-cfg commands work well but Im trying to get my head around this hypervisor based ESXi system as its a pain for me to now script build our ESX nodes. Currently I have a PXE boot kickstart setup which completely builds and configures all our ESX service console based server's in a matter of minutes with all the vmotion, networks, security, lun balancing setup etc.. Alot of the features I;ve got working with the esx-cfg commands but some such as enabling vmotion, or setting load balancing types on NIC's teams is only possibly through vimsh.

Cheers,

"SNMP Get" Support with VIMA?

barrells99 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:05:43 GMT

Does VIMA enable the SNMP GET command? (esxi doesnt support GET natively. It only support TRAPs)

Thanks in ADVANCE

Barry Weinstein

32-bit

ewhite-ns — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:52:58 GMT

Don't suppose there is a 32-bit VIMA appliance is there? ( I do not have 64-bit hardware in my dev environment.)

HowTo set up agents (VCBn Insight...) ?

abidspam — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:45:32 GMT

I have 2 ESX 3.5i servers (replacing 2 ESX 3.0 including agents). I've installed VIMA vm and it's look running ok (connection...)

I wanted to install some agents : Consolidated Backup and HP Insight Manager. I've search the HowTo install new agent on Vmware site and even google but nothing real consistent.

May someone knows where to find a guide or the syntax to install new agents via VIMA ?

Thanx for advance.

Cloned vima, now vifp doesn't work.

immad70 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:20:43 GMT

Hello gurus,

I cloned (restored from vcb) our vima, and it is now connected to the network. Issue that I am having now, is this error message;

Error: This VIMA was either cloned or moved.
Please reboot VIMA before continuing.

I rebooted and still get the error listed above. Any ideas out there?

Thanks,

Andrew

Having issues with "vmclone.pl" and "vmreconfig.pl"

lamw — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:33:02 GMT

I'm running into an issue when trying trying to execute the RCLI command "vmclone.pl" located on VMware's VIMA

Here is quick look at the environment:

[vi-admin@vima-primp-industries vm]$ uname -a
Linux vima-primp-industries.com 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Tue Apr 29 13:16:15 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[vi-admin@vima-primp-industries vm]$ sudo vifp listservers
172.30.0.64
172.30.0.61

This proves that accessing the host for info has been done correctly on another command "guestinfo.pl"

[vi-admin@vima-primp-industries vm]$ ./guestinfo.pl --vmname UCSB-RESNET --server 172.30.0.64 --operation display


Guest Info for the Virtual Machine 'UCSB-RESNET' under host olga.resnet.ucsb.edu

UCSB-RESNET guestFamily: windowsGuest
UCSB-RESNET guestFullName: Microsoft Windows XP Professional (32-bit)
UCSB-RESNET guestId: winXPProGuest
UCSB-RESNET guestState: running
UCSB-RESNET hostName: WinXPeDev.
UCSB-RESNET ipAddress: 169.254.74.15
UCSB-RESNET toolsStatus: VMware Tools is running and the version is current.
UCSB-RESNET toolsVersion: 103908
UCSB-RESNET Screen - Height: 0
UCSB-RESNET Screen - Width: 0
UCSB-RESNET Disk[0]: Capacity 10725732352
UCSB-RESNET Disk[0]: Path : C:\
UCSB-RESNET Disk[0]: freespace : 5716729856
UCSB-RESNET net[0] - connected : 1
UCSB-RESNET net[0] - deviceConfigId : 4000
UCSB-RESNET net[0] - macAddress : 00:50:56:b4:69:0b
UCSB-RESNET net[0] - network : IsolatedNetwork
UCSB-RESNET net[0] - ipAddress : 169.254.74.15

Now the issue arises when executing the clone command:

[vi-admin@vima-primp-industries vm]$ ./vmclone.pl --vmname UCSB-RESNET --vmname_destination UCSB-RESNET-CLONE-1 --vmhost 172.30.0.64
Host '172.30.0.64' not found

I've gone ahead and removed the server and tried to re-add but the error still continues and I'm not sure if there's any more info on the error. The host in question is "172.30.0.64" which is running VMware ESXi 3.5u3

I also found a funny discrpency when trying to execute "vmconfigure.pl":

[vi-admin@vima-primp-industries vm]$ ./vmreconfig.pl
Can't locate object method "new" via package "XML::LibXML::XPathContext" (perhaps you forgot to load "XML::LibXML::XPathContext"?) at ./vmreconfig.pl line 318.

End Disconnect

I have not tired to rebooting the VIMA appliance, but was wondering if there's something I'm missing. I was under the impression the appliance was ready out of the box (or download)

ESXi logging limitations?

ralish — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:07:38 GMT

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could confirm if ESXi has any specific limitations as to what logfiles can be collected versus ESX? I ask, as I have setup logging on my ESXi server, however, I appear to only be able to retrieve the "messages" and "host agent" log files. The output of "vilogger list" is below:

~~vi-admin@vima ~~~$ vilogger list
ESX Server: <removed>
Log Status CollectionPeriod NumRotation MaxFileSize Location (Seconds) (MegaBytes)
hostd Enabled 60 5 5 /var/log/vmware/<removed>/hostd.log
messages Enabled 60 5 5 /var/log/vmware/<removed>/messages.log

I would be particularly interested in collecting the vmkernel related log files, according to the VIMA documentation: vmkernel/vmksummary/vmkwarning. Is this possible? If so, how?

Thanks for any help!

running IBM ServeRaid agent in vima

_d1z — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:30:45 GMT

Hi.

Is there a way to get ESXi ServeRaid`s health using VIMA? I tried to install IBM ServeRaid agent to VIMA, but ServeRaid Manager shows only virtual LSI logic controller:(

The hardware is IBM 3650 with 8k raid

How to set timezone for VIMA appliance

martin_s — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:30:24 GMT

I discovered the timezone of the VIMA is set to pacific time. But I dont like this....

So, After some searching, I found a redhat article about changing the timezone:

RedHat change Timezone

How to set IP Addr for VIMA?

dsubram — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:30:46 GMT

Hi,

While booting VIMA, I opted for DHCP to pickup address. I would like to reset this and assign a static IP address for the same. How to do this?

--Subram

Update syslog.conf

RobMokkink — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:26:31 GMT

Today i downloaded VIMA. And give it a go.
I thought there were some tooling to update the ESX hosts syslog.conf. However this is still not possible, only for 3i.

I now make use of plink in combination with powershell to get things done.

Does anyone else have an idea?

64-bit Enterprise Linux

pgarousi — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:09:29 GMT

I noticed that VIMA's OS specification is a 64-bit Enterprise Linux. Does this mean that we'd need to have a support contract for our Linux?

Thanks!

Opteron processor compatibility

Flicka — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:55:14 GMT

We have a number of IBM e325 servers with processors in the 200-series "SledgeHammer" (B3 & C0 & CG, 130 nm). It appears from KB 1901 that VIMA won't run on top of ESXi on one of these because the processor doesn't support SSE3. Since the Opteron 200-series "Troy" (E4, 90 nm) does support SSE3, we are looking into a processor upgrade. Questions:

Am I correct, in that the VIMA install will fail on the current chip?
Does anyone know if IBM provides a BIOS upgrade (or if one is even needed) to go from the first Opteron to the 2nd? Both are Socket 940, so the pinouts work...
One article I read seems to imply that the chip upgrade won't work because the manufacturing process for the chip went from 130 nm to 90 nm-- true?

Based on my (so far) limited understanding of VIMA, it isn't clear whether it is required to be running on all the ESX or ESXi hosts which are being monitored, or only on the one host which is doing the monitoring (in which case one additional server on our rack, with the correct chipset, could monitor all the others). I think it must run as an appliance on all the monitored hosts-- correct?

Thanks for your help!

default login name

tregnabm — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:27:14 GMT

I have VIMA running on an ESXi server. I was speaking with a colleague when I assigned the password and missed the default login name which I assumed was root.

noob question, at the login prompt, what is the username?

VIMA for 64 bits

abufa — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:37:04 GMT

Hi.

I don't know if the is a Appliance of VIMA for 32 bits computers.

How can I run this appliance in a 32 bits computer?

Thanks.

unable to update VIMA

vpert — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:39:54 GMT

Hi there,

I tried to run the vima-update - but just get the error message that the URL can not be accessed. But when I cut&paste the URL into a browser I can download the .zip File without any errors.

There are no proxies or filewall rules blocking the internet access.

Has anyone updated the VIMA sucessfully and/or the same issue?

rgds

Tom

vitop.sh

einstein-a-go-go — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:15:49 GMT

after installing the pre-requistes Apache Axis 1.4 to run the java sample

here /opt/vmware/vima/samples/java/vitop.sh

I get the following:-

at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.samples.vitop.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:35)
at com.vmware.samples.vitop.VITop.reconcileESXConnections(VITop.java:121)
at com.vmware.samples.vitop.VITop.<init>(VITop.java:42)
at com.vmware.samples.vitop.VITop.main(VITop.java:238)

which is not what I expected!

perl sample script runs okay, and the VI Toolkit works okay with two ESXi servers, I've registered.

DNS Resolution

dsubram — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:03:44 GMT

DNS resolution is not happening with VIMA. When I check /etc/init.d, I don't see any service by name "named" and /etc/host.conf contents is as below,

order hosts,bind.

How to get DNS resolution happen from VIMA? I would like to add all my ESX server by name rather then IP Addr.

Regarding vifplib Library

dsubram — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:37:04 GMT

Presently vifplib is available for Java and Perl APIs. Any idea if this library can be made available for C/C++ programmers.

--Subram

VIMA on VI 3 host

tlaurent — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:50:06 GMT

Is VIMA only supported in VDC-OS envirionment?

I have 2 HP BL460 c's, one is a ESX 3.5 host and the other is a VDC-OS beta host. VIMA will work on the VDC-OS host but not on the ESX 3.5 host (get message on boot that 64 bit is required).