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How do i get to be part of corp beta testing for vmware

tonyjpone123 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:06:54 GMT

How do i get into the beta tesing for corp beta testing i just finished beta testing windows server 2008 r2 I can be reached at tonyjpone@hotmail.com

is there any beta version of VMware MVP??

ikalbeniz — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:18:29 GMT

Hi,

I want to know if there is any beta verison of VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform avaliable..

Did vCap work with vCenter 4?

small_man — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:15:09 GMT

I have open config.xml and there only configered until vCenter 2.5 client.

If I manually add vCenter 4.0 clien, will it work OK?

any further versions of VCAP planned?

pfuhli — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:15:26 GMT

Hi,

we appreciate the usage of VCAP more and more while the number of VMs in our two VCs is rising and more and more application admins want to have console access to their VMs. Because we have a lot of custom fields it would be very nice if we could filter/search using these fields.
Is it planned to make any further improvements on VCAP?

Regards,

daniel

One Virtual center shows no data

SpiderIce — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:31:01 GMT

One of my 3 Virtual centers is not showing any data, it is using the same login info from the other VC that is working. I can get to the /sdk as well from a different window. Any ideals?

vCenters with different logins?

SpiderIce — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:35:24 GMT

Ok I have 3 Virtual centers two are a member of one domain, and the last is a member of another domain, is there a way to handle this for VCAP? I get access denided on that system when I login.

Where is vcap-1.0.war

monjo11 — Sat, 16 May 2009 06:50:05 GMT

Hi all

For this Administrator Portal (VCAP) where is the +vcap+-1.0.war I am supposed to deploy+?+

I can't find it ANYWHERE and I am getting exasperated!

Thanks all

-Monjo

ESX upgrade from ESX 3.5 U3 to ESX 4

kkshirsagar — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:14:14 GMT

Hi All,

Did anybody tried to upgade to ESX 4 from ESX 3.5 U3 with existing VM on ESX 3.5 U3 host ?

Thanks,

Kaps

VC Administrator Portal

cpfcg — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:16:48 GMT

Will this ever be a full release and not just community preview?

Don't suppose there's way of adding in your ESX3I Servers?

Shigura — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:42:01 GMT

I suspect the answer is a no on many levels - but just in case there is a way!!

to join future vmware beta

tonyjpone123 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:52:38 GMT

Hello i want to join future vmware betas for Windows 7 server

VCs with zero data

Milk Man — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:14:09 GMT

I have 5 VirtualCenter servers, each with 600 - 1100 virtual machines. When I put all 5 host names in the config.xml file, the two largest VC servers show 0 for hosts, virtual machines, etc. When I have just the individual VirtualCenter servers in the config.xml file, the information is correct. Where can I look to find out why all of the data is not importing, especially since you can add up to 10 VC servers? I have messed with the <refresh> and <timeout> settings but didn't seem to help anything. Any ideas?

How to change hostname of the appliance

ChrisRu — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:40:40 GMT

Hello Guys,

can anybody help me ho can I change the hostname of the appliance.

If I edit /etc/hostname or /etc/hosts the new hostname is away after a reboot .

Thanks for your help.

Chris

Error no VC servers showing up

nigelv — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:51:46 GMT

I have setup the VCAP on Windows 2003 using Apache/TomCat6.

I have modified the config.xml file to include my two virtual center servers.

When I log into VCAP, using the same domain credentails as I would
use to log in directly to the VC server via the VI client I get no list
of servers.

But if I look on the VI Client I can see sessions under my username contected to the VC Server.

In the logs I get

multivcserver.log

2008-12-23 15:30:37,784 http-8080-1 ERROR com.vmware.multivcserver.MultiVCServerImpl (MultiVCServerImpl.java:210)-concurrent user count : 1
2008-12-23 15:30:40,550 pool-70-thread-1 ERROR com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager (VCServerManager.java:724)-Loading Inventory failed on https://+++++++/sdk
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager.buildDatastore(VCServerManager.java:1758)
at com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager.buildManagedObjectBean(VCServerManager.java:743)
at com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager.access$1000(VCServerManager.java:141)
at com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager$4.run(VCServerManager.java:710)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2008-12-23 15:30:41,378 pool-68-thread-1 ERROR com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager (VCServerManager.java:724)-Loading Inventory failed on https://t+++++/sdk
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager.buildDatacenter(VCServerManager.java:1115)
at com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager.buildManagedObjectBean(VCServerManager.java:737)
at com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager.access$1000(VCServerManager.java:141)
at com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager$4.run(VCServerManager.java:710)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

localhost.date.log

23-Dec-2008 15:30:42 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
SEVERE: Exception while dispatching incoming RPC call
com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.UnexpectedException: Service method 'public abstract net.mygwt.ui.client.data.LoadResult com.vmware.weap.gwt.client.WeapService.getAllServers(net.mygwt.ui.client.data.LoadConfig)' threw an unexpected exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.encodeResponseForFailure(RPC.java:361)
at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:547)
at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.processCall(RemoteServiceServlet.java:265)
at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.doPost(RemoteServiceServlet.java:187)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:845)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager.buildServer(VCServerManager.java:1851)
at com.vmware.multivcserver.VCServerManager.getServerBean(VCServerManager.java:2059)
at com.vmware.multivcserver.MultiVCServerImpl.getAllServers(MultiVCServerImpl.java:631)
at com.vmware.weap.server.WeapServiceImpl.getAllServers(WeapServiceImpl.java:217)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor411.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:528)
... 16 more

Error when opening any console within VCAP

gr1pp3rjay — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:22:07 GMT

Hi all.

I am not able to view any consoles using this tool, which is ashame as i'd really like us to use this.

I am using the linux version and within config.xml am connecting as https with a non standard port of 4443. (this may be the reason?)

Everything else in VCAP works, but just the console doesnt. Getting the following error once the VMware remote Console window pops up:

"Error Opening the remote virtual machine 192.***.**.*** A4443\vm-1057: The Hostname could not be resolved."

Any ideas?

Cheers.

Enable SSL ?

kimono — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:31:06 GMT

Who are the Tomcat Guru's in here?

I wish to enable SSL for the VCAP main page, that's on port 80, presumably get it going on 443.... SSL is already enabled for the administrative port, but the documentation only says "read this apache.org" document to enable SSL for everything else. So presumably the SSL key generation steps can be fixed and I only need to edit server.xml.

Too much for my small brain...

/kimono/

Remote Console on Linux, help!

SillyRegistration — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:51:38 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to get the Remote Console work on a RHEL 5.2 x32.
I could download and install the .XPI add on, it is listed in Firefox's add-on as installed.
When I try to start it to get a Remote Console toward a server, I get no answer and the following error at the console:

VMRC:ConnectWithSession: attempt to connect with invalid viewer delegate!

Any idea?
So far, the Remote Console on Windows in IE 7 has been good, my Linux attempts all disastrous (I am not that good at Linux, I might have missed some config).

No Snapshots and No Virtual Machines and Templates View

VirtualNoitall — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:55:39 GMT

Hello,

I have had a quick look at the product but have noticed two glaring omissions in terms of fucntionality. Where is the ability to manage snapshots ( create, delete, revert ) and where is the Virtual Machines and Template view? Did I just miss them? If not will these be included? Everything else looks really good but with the above it won't really work in our environment.

Thanks!

No Shuitdown nor Reboot for running VMs with VMware Tools running

SillyRegistration — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:11:11 GMT

Hi,

Besides the already mentionned Snapshot Management being missing, one major annoyance: the capability to shutdown or restart running VMs with VMware Tools running. I use this feature a lot to manage servers and turn them off / reboot them without logging on them. I don't want to power them off, of Reset them (which we can), just initiate that nice shutdown / reboot through VMware tools.

Other than that, it's a joy.

Thanks.

JP

can't find vcap-1.0 war file - please help

yoyoYoo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:09:51 GMT

hi guys,

Please help me out. I'm new with this.

I built a vm test box. i want to setup the VCAP server. However, I can't file vcap-1.0.war file from the vcap-1.0.zip file.

Please advise.

Thanks,

First Login

jsurprenant — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:21:39 GMT

Hello.
I've installed the appliance and have IP working. I am able to log into the appliance as root over the web interface.
I've configured my virtual centers by name within the config.xml and verified the DNS servers listed in the web are correct.

What is the proper format to pass domain credentials?
I've tried domain\user, user, and user@domain but always failed to authenticate.

Are there logs to review on the host?

Thanks,
-john

Error: Unrecoverable error - host connection state exception on VC server. Please logout and login again.

mag01 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:34:03 GMT

I have added 2 virtualcenter servers into the appliance. One is working fine, but the other one displays the following error :

Error: Unrecoverable error - host connection state exception on VC server. Please logout and login again.

Any idea what could be causing this ?

Thanks.

Ports between VCAP and the VCs ?

olczak — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:37:43 GMT

Hello,

I will have many Firewall between my centralized VCAP and my differents Virtual Centers.

Could you confirm me that Ports used between the VCAP and VCs are 902 and 903?

Thanks by advance.

Apliances is the way to go

diazrube — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:16:00 GMT

After downloading the applicance it took me three minutes to get it working. Applicances is the way to go. I do not what to install an application any more. Lets the software vendors do it.

bug?

Kindred VMSupport — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:47:51 GMT

Product looks really great. I like that you have some control of the vm from the Portal. However, I was unable to use the "Launch Client' button. See IE error. Any thoughts?

Adam

Feature Request: display EVC mode

joncellini — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:53:12 GMT

Would it be possible to get the EVC mode displayed in the cluster object view (like the VC client)?

Error messages when importing the OVF file

Driffaud — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:23:38 GMT

Hi,

I've just unziped the vcap-ovf-1.0.zip file and got 2 files: system.vmdk and vcap.ovf.

Trying to import the appliance with Workstation 6.5 I have the following messsage: "The OVF descriptor file could not be parsed".

Trying to use VMware-ovftool-0.9-62566 to install the OVF package and got the following message: "Extra, required XML element found: Product".

Any clue?

TIA

OSX/iPhone/Blackberry

ploleary — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:41:57 GMT

Wow, can i just say - Finally an almost native vCenter client for my Mac!!! Great idea and excellent use of the sdk VMware. (Side note: With FluidApp making a Site specific browser you can almost not tell the difference!)

Second, remote administration is always a requested feature, and now it's a very close thing here - I've not got my guys to test a Blackberry browser yet, but my iPhone browser seems to not want me to be able to enter username/pass. I know it's probably a low priority but thru VPN this would be a great way to be able to manage-on-the-run.

Can anyone else confirm the iPhone browser issue? It works swimmingly thru safari on the desktop, but it does come up with an error in the iPhone debug:

http://<address>/javascript/vmrcplugin_ff.js ReferenceError: Can't find variable: Components

The call failed on the server; see server log for details

awciske — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:27:30 GMT

I get this error when attempting to login with credentials that have access to the VC servers, any suggestions?

I can login fine with root/vmware.

"Login failed due to a bad username or password." error

SillyRegistration — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:03:28 GMT

Hi,

I downloaded the VM Appliance as it was easy to do.
Configured my config.xlm file with the 2 VirtualCenter we have.

First comment: in the bottom part of the config.xlm file are the path to the VIC installation on Windows, one path per version, all hardcoded with "C:\Program Files...". We are using default path, one of my VC is on C: (no issue) but the other is on E:... Shall I worry?

Second point, once I restart the appliance, I logon (root / vmware) and see my 2 VCs. But both of those display in red: "Login failed due to a bad username or password.".
My 2 VCs uses different set of usernames and password; none matching root / vmware. So how can the VC Admin Portal connect to my VCs without knowing usernames / passwords? What did I miss?

Thanks,

SR

clickable events?

hsmith-vmware — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:19:49 GMT

I think it would be a nice feature if I could click on a VM that appears in the main events frame. For example, when I first login and select a VC, I see an alarm for a VM, but cannot click on that VM to go right to it.

Default console user/password

Driffaud — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:53:02 GMT

Hi,

Need to modify the \webapps\vcap-1.0\config.xml file so I need to log into the console. It seems that root/vmware is not a valid userid/password.

Who could help and tell me how to log into the system?

TIA

Great Portal

michaeltsa — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:43:48 GMT

I have installed it already, quite easy to use. I hope the release to public version can be more powerful (same as virtual center).

Strange network behavior

Gabrie — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:08:04 GMT

A very strange problem that might not be VC Admin Portal related, but still I thought I post it here.

I downloaded and imported the OVF into my VC 2.5u2, running on ESX 3.5u2. After booting the VM, it received an IP from my dhcp server. Strange thing is I can't ping the VM from my workstation. When trying to find out what is wrong I noticed that I can ping the Admin Portal VM from all my other VMs and from the Admin portal to all other VMs. But from my physical systems, I'm unable to ping ONLY this Admin Portal VM and from the Admin Portal VM I can ping no other physical system.

Very strange.... Except for this VM, all other systems (virtual and physical) can ping each other. Any clues?

Accessing the portal's internal website also works only from other VMs.

Gabrie

http://www.GabesVirtualWorld.com

Reporting?

hsmith-vmware — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:51:53 GMT

I don't remember the answer to this one. Will there be a reporting feature of this for GA? I am connecting many VCs to this and would like to export an inventory of all VMs in all VCs (rather than connecting to each VC with VIclient and exporting the list).

Thanks!

future feature

Dave Lusty — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:55:26 GMT

Hi, I've just downloaded this and love it. I do have a small request though, which will most likely turn into a lot of work for you guys! Could we have this accept different credentials for different vCenters please?

I work in a network operation center supporting many varied networks. Each of these has it's own domain and different set of credentials. I was half expecting the ability to do this when I saw the portal, but (unless I've missed it) it just forwards whatever I logon with to all servers.

Could you also clarify whether the credentials are forwarde, or if the VCAP authenticates and uses an access token to open the VCs? If it passes on the credentials, is this secure enough? If I add servers in different domains, would I want my username and password forwarded to those domains?

keep up the good work!

Dave

Welcome!

Rahul_VMware — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:29:56 GMT

Welcome to the VCAP Technology Preview site. To get started, please take a look at the VirtualCenter Administrator Portal (VCAP) Overview document as well as the Installation Guide that spells out the compatibility requirements for the release. Next, download the product, take it for a spin and let us know what you think.

Thanks for the interest,

Rahul Ravulur
VI Product Management