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nobbywfc — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:22:34 GMT

Installed ESXi4 recently and vSphere client was installed to Windows7. After installation, I also installed Fedora12 and Apache 86_64 2.2.13-4 as well as other httpd related daemon/servers. The browser does not browse correct page like http://www.foo.com and instead it redirects to https://www.foo.com. Consetquently I can not see my page in the internet. This might relate to ESXi's usage of port 443 and in any case I like to know how I can resolve this trouble.

ESX 4 and USB Hard Drives

wilhelmnetworks — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:24:28 GMT

Hi,

This is probably more of a general Linux question, but here's the deal...

I've connected an external 1TB USB HDD to an ESX host to move certian files off site from time to time. Connect the drive, mount to a predefined mount point, copy, umount, move drive off site. This works fine.

My issue is that I would like to script the actions, but every time I connect the USB drive it is assigned a different file in the /dev folder. First connect, the drive is /dev/sdc. second, /dev/sdd, then /dev/sde and so on.

How can I fix this so that the USB drive is always assigned the same file under /dev? Is this possible? I'm not a scripting expert (nor am I a Linux expert) by any means, so possibly there is a way to mount the drive to the mount point no matter what the drive is under /dev?

p2v to local usb drive

tdubb123 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:32:19 GMT

I am running stanadlone converter 4.0.1 how do I p2v a runing physical machine to a local usb disk? I cannot p2v to a datastore because of slow network issues.

Did Update 1 take care of these items?

Saadat — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:05:28 GMT

Hi,

Did vSphere update 1 solve these issues?

1- vmxnet3 NIC Card does not show any performance chart. VMware support told me that they will release the patch with update 1, but I didn't see anything in release notes regarding this.

2- Will Fault Tolerance support vmxnet3 ? I don't want to go back to vmxnet enhanced. (Change of MAC Address)

3- Does Fault Tolerance support more than 1 vCPU?

4- Do we have vCore in CPU (like VMware workstation 7) or still vCPU. There was a beta going on with changing the vCPUs to cores.

I haven't got a chance to read the update 1 documentation, but I am really looking for these answers.

Thanks,

Ernest

SuperMicro H8QME-2, 4x Shanghai, ICP Vortex 5085BR SAS Controller?

sr_whq — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:10:33 GMT

Hi!

I've go two of the systems you can see in the subject. I'm currently trying to evaluate ESX 4 / VSphere, which is not possible because it seems the storage controller "ICP Vortex 5085B_R_" is not supported in 4.0 (although it was in 3.5i, please see http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/Hardware_support.php). Another model of the same ICP series is the ICP 5085B_L_, which is even officially supported by "aacraid version 3.5.10.5vmw.

Why? The way a driver talkes to either the BL or BR models differs probably only by the deviceID - so why are not both models supported? Above all there is even a 3rd party ESX driver available from the adaptec website.

Please help me to get my configuration to work without changing hardware parts. How could I e.g. modify the install DVD to include and probe the 3rd party drive?

Best Regards,

Mike

p.s.: In my opinion the controller is identical to the quite common IBM ServeRaid 8s, which is of course supported.
p.s: To get the installer running on the H8QME-2, set the following options in BIOS: Operating System - LINUX (vs. OTHER), ACPI - 2.0 (vs. 1.0 / 3.0), USB 1.1 - disabled (vs. Enabled)

Windows 2008 R2 + ESX4 + vCenter Client Console = FREEZE

joergriether — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:33:27 GMT

Hello,

i reproduced this several times now and also found a coressponding thread in the microsoft newsgroups, ( http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsserver2008r2general/thread/bc0f3c12-eda7-440d-a228-213a8d0b956c ) so here you go:

Install a fresh W2008 R2 to an ESX4 machine, do this all with vCenter Client Console, not with reomte RDP. Add the role
Remote-Desktop-Services to the newly created W2008 R2 machine, reboot, after reboot when the machine tries to finish
the changes (after logon) it totally freezes.

Now the interesting part on that:

If you log on via RDP after the reboot (oh yeah, you urgently need to turn rdp on before reboot!!!), then
the installer of the role WILL FINISH!!!

Now how strange is that?

Any ideas?

best,
Joerg

ESX Server shows 175625 even after updates?

The-Kevster — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:35:21 GMT

I've just installed the last two batches of update bundes ESX400-200907001 and ESX400-200909001 but my ESX version in the vSphere client is still showing 175625 but according to the patches website it should show 193498. Here is the two commands I used to update the server which were successful.

esxupdate --bundle=https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/OFFLINE/release-125-20090806-741959/ESX400-200907001.zip update

esxupdate --bundle=https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/OFFLINE/release-150-20090917-796862/ESX400-200909001.zip update

And here's the output of an esxupdate query showing the update have installed successfully.

~~root@esx01 ~~~# esxupdate query
----Bulletin ID---- -----Installed----- -------------Summary-------------
ESX400-200906412-BG 2009-07-11T17:20:54 Updates esxupdate
ESX400-200906405-SG 2009-07-11T17:20:54 Updates krb5 and pam_krb5
ESX400-200906406-SG 2009-07-11T17:20:54 Updates sudo
ESX400-200906402-BG 2009-07-11T17:20:54 Updates ESX Scripts
ESX400-200906407-SG 2009-07-11T17:20:54 Updates curl
ESX400-200906404-BG 2009-07-11T17:20:54 Updates CIM
ESX400-200906408-BG 2009-07-11T17:20:54 Updates SCSI Driver for QLogic FC
ESX400-200906409-BG 2009-07-11T17:20:54 Updates LSI storelib Library
ESX400-200906411-SG 2009-07-11T17:20:54 Updates udev
ESX400-200906413-BG 2009-07-11T17:20:54 Updates vmkernel iSCSI Driver
ESX400-200907401-BG 2009-09-26T09:45:32 Updates vmklinux and vmkernel64
ESX400-200909404-BG 2009-09-26T09:51:35 Updates ixgbe
ESX400-200909401-BG 2009-09-26T09:51:35 Updates vmx and vmkernel64
ESX400-200909403-BG 2009-09-26T09:51:35 Updates bnx2x
ESX400-200909402-BG 2009-09-26T09:51:35 Updates VMware Tools
ESX400-200909406-BG 2009-09-26T09:51:35 Updates hpsa
ESX400-200909405-BG 2009-09-26T09:51:35 Updates perftools

Is this how it should look or has the update not succeeded? Thanks!

NFS Datastore keeps losing connectivity

soulwaxer — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:10:57 GMT

Please can someone help me. I have created a test bed using vmworksatation and have built two esx 4 servers. All is ok there I installed vc on a 2008 sp2 box and can connect ok. I have also installed Windows for unix on a 2003 r3 server and created an NFS share. My problem is I connect and create a new DS on a shared NFS drive. All seems ok and then I'm unable to connect to the DS becasue its inactive. Sometimes I can dismount sometimes I can't. The connection is intermitent and can restore as quick as it disconnections.

vsphere client on Windows 7 rc

brettcarr1 — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:00:38 GMT

Has anybody managed to get the vsphere client working on Windows 7, it installed fine but when I try and login to an esx server, I get an error:

Error Parsing the server "192.168.1.10" "clients.xml" file Login will continue contact your system administrator

Clicking ok gives me another error

The type initializer for "VirtualInfrastrcture.Utils.HttpWebRequestProxy" threw an exception

Clicking ok returns me to the login dialogue.

I know Windows 7 isn't released yet but as it's so close I would of thought vmware would of tested it.

Brett

Hardware Monitoring of IBM x3850 servers running ESX4

MrJayDee — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:48:41 GMT

We have a number of new servers that were just installed with ESX4 and before that was done we made sure that all firmware (motherboard, HBA's, RSAII-adapters...the works) were updated to the latest and greatest. Now to the problem, when I look at the Hardware Status tab for any of the new ESX hosts the only thing that pops up is: "Hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available".

Any idea what causes this?

Access ESX 4.0 host through serial console

amitdebnath — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:41:18 GMT

Hi,
I want to access ESX 4.0 host through serial console.
I am able to get debug messages with bootup through serial console,
but not able to find out how to access the host i.e log in to the host.
Can any one help me on this.

Regards,
Amit

Errors configuring DPM

HQN — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:19:13 GMT

I'm having this problem which hopefully some of you have encountered and can help. I'm trying to set up DPM on a Unisys 7600R server. Following the steps outlined the vSphere documentation I access the Power Management section in the Configuration tab in the vSphere Client which directly connects to the vCenter. When presented with theEdit IPMI/iLO Settings window I enter the information for the username, password, BMC IP address, and BMC MAC address. I then click on the OK, and about 5-10 seconds I would receive an error message like this "One or more IPMI/iLO parameters are incorrect. Check that the username, password, MAC address, and IP address are valid for host xxxx, and that the BMC is correctly configured."

In my environment I have the setup on the company's public LAN and from a number of machines I could ping the BMC. I've also used the IPMITool running on a separate Linux machine and could access the Unisys 7600R server's BMC and perform power management tasks (like startup & shutdown) using the same information that I provide to the vSphere Client. So atleast I know that the connection is good and the BMC side is working. I have also tried things like setting up another BMC, or changing the format of the MAC address or moving the host to a different cluster or just by itself in the data center.

I've seached VMware communities and didn't find anything remotely similar to my problem.

I'm just out of ideas now and any help that you can provide is greatly appreciated.

regards,
HQN

PS. A screenshot is attached.

Windows Server 2008 R2 VM hangs

TransennaTCF — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:17:16 GMT

Hi vPros;

I've got a problem running af Windows Server 2008 R2 on a vSphere4 host. The installation completes, but certain simple opperations will cause the OS to hang (at a Windows level). One such operation that consequently causes this error, is to navigate through a REGEDIT session with the arrow keys: navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and press the "d" key (ex. to FF to the DISK reg.key) - the OS will hang.

The test has been done both with W2K8_R2 RTM and RC, with various vSCSI Controllers and vNICs and with both the "Windows Server 2008 64bit" and "Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit (experimental)" - all with the same result?

The vSphere host is a HP DL380G5 Intel Xeon X5460, patched to the most recent level.

Has anyone seen the same and/or found a solution?

Pre Thanks

Thomas

4TB SAN Storage Issue

vibranze — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:39:35 GMT

Dear All,

Recently my company just purchased an IBM BladeCenter H with 4GB Qlogic FC (QMI2572) and DS3400 (4TB). During the storage adding in ESX4, under Current Disk Layout, available capacity is only 90.85GB instead of total 4TB capacity stated.

I applied all the ESX4 patches, together with the latest Qlogic driver from VMware website without succeed.

Is this a known issue in ESX4 or rather than a configuration issue that I didn't aware of.

Now I'm going to installl ESX3.5U4 to see if the similar issue exists.

Your advice is highly appreciated.

Cheers!

Help Request - XXX com.vmware.vc.stats.StatsInsertErrorEvent.category not found error

PaulLeclair — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:32:57 GMT

Hi all,
I just completed a fresh installation of vSphere 4 on a 2003 server with SQL 2005. I went through all of the database steps (running each sql script in the order per the documentation). I've successfully installed vSphere on the server and have been able to attach all of my ESX 4 hosts. The database permissions are good (using full control to the VCDB and UMDB). The servers are licensed off the Enterprise licenses.

Here's the issue I'm facing. When I view performance stats on the hosts, I the form layout of the charts, but no data inside of the charts. The performance charts for the realtime views look okay, but nothing historical is saving.

I've looked at the SQL database and there is no data in the dbo.vpx_hist_stat, stat1, stat2, stat3 or stat4 tables. I've looked at the dbo.vpx_stat_config and stat_counter and there's no data there either. I thougtht maybe that it was a sql permissions issue, but I've reset the datasource to use the SA account, but still nothing goes in.

Everytime I open up the performance tab in the VIC, I get the following error in the event log on the vic:

Type Time Description
XXX com.vmware.vc.stats.StatsInsertErrorEvent.category not found XXX11/20/2009 1:20:00 PM event.com.vmware.vc.stats.StatsInsertErrorEvent.fullFormat (com.vmware.vc.stats.StatsInsertErrorEvent)

I thought I'd start here and see if anyone can help me before digging further.

Thanks!
Paul

MSCS on FC SAN

MobiusJB — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:18:31 GMT

Having issues bringing up a VM that is node 2 of a MSCS cluster, node 1 is a standalone physical host. Both run MS Enterprise 2k3. Both SAN attached, each server in its own zone, luns being shown from the SAN to only the ESX server and the physical server. LUNS (quorom and DB) being presented as RDMs in virtual, persistent mode on scsi bus 1:0. If physical node 1 is up and running and cluster services are started I can not boot virtual node 2. Thoughts? Thanks.

... had RDMs set to virtual compatibility mode, was reading http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_mscs.pdf (Physical to virtual clusters) and saw it should be set to physical compatibility mode, can someone confirm? Maybe this was the issue?

CTK.vmdk file

JudedeDude — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:55:29 GMT

Does anyone know what a ctk.vmdk file is for that exists in a vm folder?

Store VM Snapshots

jeffoutwest — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:42:03 GMT

Quick question.

Can you store the VM snapshots on alternate datastores from the virtual machine files?
For example, if the VMDK files for this VM live on a fibre channel datastore, can you place the snap shots on a SATA datastore?
Thanks.

Page Fault exceptions since upgrading to vSphere 4

wsaxon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:16:56 GMT

I've filed an SR about this but I'm still working through the 'maybe it's your hardware' stuff with the support reps.

We upgraded one of our ESX 3.5 hosts to ESX 4 and ran for a couple of days with no issues. Then we upgraded the rest of our cluster (6 machines) this past weekend. I have since experienced 7 PSOD lockups on 3 of the machines, all identical. I have attached a sample PSOD.

My understanding is that I'm supposed to be able to retrieve a core dump image from my VMKCORE partition using esxcfg-dumppart, however when I try to do this I get the following:

Single slot coredump
Error running command. Unable to copy the dump partition: Couldn't find a valid VMKernel dump file. Dump partition might be uninitialized.

I am not sure how to initialize the dump partition. These were set up automatically by the ESX installation software. I have gone to each VM host and issued a 'esxcfg-dumppart -a'. I figure either the partition is still not initialized, or ESX is actually not writing to the partition like it says.

We used to have similar issues (random machine check exceptions) with 3.5, but these were fixed by a BIOS update.

Has anyone else experienced this issue with ESX 4 ?

All system components are on the HCL except for our NICs - these are integrated Intel Pro/1000 EB controllers which were on the HCL for 3.5U4. We don't have any other cards to use, so if this is the culprit we'll not be able to upgrade to 4.0.

Virtual machine dont start -No available licenses

joselynx — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:34:28 GMT

Hello,

I´ve installed a new vSphere ESX 4.0 infrastructure in order to pass the Virtual Machines in ESX 3.5 to this new infrastructure.

The customer has copied (no migrated) some virtual machines to the new Infrastructure. They starts OK on ESX 4.0, but when he try to start the virtual machines in ESX 3.5, Virtual center shows an error indicating that there are no available licenses to perform the operation. It´s something strange because both infrastructures are fully independent.

Could you give an explanation or recomendation about this?

thanks in advance.

Degraded service console network performance in ESX 4.0.... Is this fixed in ESX 4.0 Update 1?

tsadmin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:48:04 GMT

Is the degraded service console network performance problem (according to KB Article 1012159) fixed in ESX 4.0 Update 1?

Ernst

Vsphere Client & Windows 7

samuk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:19:27 GMT

I get an error when i try to connect to the Vcentre server using the VI Client.

Error parsing the server "servername" "clients.xml" fil.
Login Will continue, contact your system administrator.

However connection still fails.

I am able to connect ok from the VI client from the Vcenter server itself.

Cant find iSCSI targets after reboot

Jimjames7 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:36:17 GMT

I have a stange problem in ESX 4.0 where, after configuring a vSwitch with a VMKernel Port, Service Console Port and VM Port and then scanning the HBA for storage devices the connected devices on a MSA2012i SAN is discovered, however after rebooting the ESX server they are then lost and a rescan does not find them.

I have found that removing the vSwitch and then re-creating it again allows the volumes on the SAN to be discovered again only to be lost again after a reboot.

I have 2 ESX 3.5 servers which are configured with the same network setup although they are in their own cluster which do not have this problem.

Has anyone got any suggestions as to why this is occuring?

ESX 4 - Update 1

shub — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:04:09 GMT

Does anyone know when update 1 is suppose to come out.

I could not attend Vmworld, was it announced.

I hear that it might be in October?

VMs randomly power off

dlhartley — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:32:14 GMT

I've been having a strange issue for a few weeks now where Virtual Machines across three ESX 4 hosts randomly power off. Nothing comes up under 'Events' for the VM other than "Virtual machine on (hostname) is powered off".

It has happened to one or two machines on each host over the last couple of weeks and I can find no errors relating to why they have magically decided to power off - has anyone had similar issues?

All of the VMs in question except one are on an iSCSI SAN which has had no issues until now, so I'm at a loss!

Thanks

Datastore unavailable

nasadmin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:33:46 GMT

Suppose if the Guest OS and data disks are on NFS datastore .Due to the NFS server outage if the vmkernel log says the datastore is lost connection to the NFS server what does it exactly mean. Is it from the management perspective or I/O perspective? What will happen to the I/O during this lost period? How does Guest OS react to this? When can I say that there is a loss of data?

Slow startup after upgrading VM Tools

nextlevel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:22:44 GMT

I'm currently evaluating vSphere4 and i copied some VM from 3.5.

Everything work fine - until I've upgraded the VM Tools. After that, every VM (Windows 2003 Server) takes about ten times longer to boot up.

Even the I/O- Performance within the VM seems to be better than under 3.5, this fact does confusing me. And about 15 minutes to startup VM is too long anyway.

Does anyone has a clue about this problem?

Dell PE 6850 4 Dual CPU 3Ghz XEON 32Gb
Raid 5 an 4/DC
ESX 4.0.0, 171294

lsof command missing in ESX 4?

dpcsxa — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:14:27 GMT

I can't find the lsof command in ESX 4:

~ # lsof
-ash: lsof: not found
~ # which lsof
~ # echo $PATH
/bin:/sbin
~ #

On my 3.5 servers, its there. Is it supposed to be removed in ESX 4? If so, can we get it back? It's handy, that's for sure.

Can I use ESX lioke MAC OSX Bootcamp?

2funky — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:46:31 GMT

Deear ESX experts,

In MAC OSX, VM Fusion can run XP from a Boot Camp partition..

Can ESX do the same in a PC? I have a PC with 2 SATA hard drives of 1Gb each.

The first is my usual windows 7 i alwas used.

I installed ESX (together with Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual appliance) in the second. I was wondering if I can startup the 1st Hard Disk Windows 7 machine in a ESX VM .

How can i do this?

Thanks in advace for your input.

Giulio.

VM issues due to no rescan of HBA/VMFS volumes

steve31783 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:52:22 GMT

This morning I had our storage admin remove some old LUNs from my vsphere hosts. I got busy, and never rescanned the hosts/removed the LUNs on the ESX side. We started having issues today with VM performance, intermittent network connectivity loss on guests, etc. Looking through the vmkernel logs I immediately noticed the hosts were having storage issues, remembered I was supposed to rescan in the AM!

As soon as I rescanned, all problems were solved.

Im just curious if someone can explain why a vsphere host would have such an issue? I dont have this issue with ESX 3.X hosts....

Client Device status is greyed out

Virtualizeit — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:08:12 GMT

When I connect to the ESX through the vic I try to enable my client device so I can access my cd rom and device status is grey and will not light up. I can connect to the host device fine if the CD is in the drive but not in my client drive

high cpu on centos 5.4 linux guest which isn't doing anything

aviwollman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:54:33 GMT

over the passed week i'm finding some of my centos guests (both x86 and x64) which normally use 15% cpu jumping to over 50%.
top shows a load of <0.30 and there are no processes which are working hard.

rebooting has brought the guests to there norm
the only clues i see are high timer interupts and fork rate (from smtp)

is it possible that our auto yum updating (which upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4) is the culprit ?

i saw articles about
adding nosmp noapic acpi=off apm=off or divider=10 to the kernel boot parameters of the Centos 5 guest.
or disabling acpid and cpuspeed
does anyone know of a offical recommendation of this ?

any ideas ?
thank you
Avi Wollman

failover between LUNs in vsphere enterprise

iahuca — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:46:28 GMT

We mirror our local SAN with one in another building nearby (syncronous). Both buildings have hosts in the same cluster. We are looking to not only be able to failover the guests between the two buildings, but to move them from one SAN to the other.

so basically:

guest lives on building_a_lun1 ... we want to have it move to building_b_lun1 (which is a mirror of the former)

Is this possible?

Design issue - How smart is VMware?!

Useless1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:08:42 GMT

Hi,

An overview of where I am currently at.

2 hosts with 6 NIC's each.

2 NIC's on vSwitch0 which has vMotion and Service Console

2 NIC's on vSwitch1 Production LAN

2 NIC's on vSwitch2 DMZ Lan

Now I am at a point where I want to expand to 4 hosts, however the 2 hosts I want to expand onto only have 4 NIC's available (Blades)...

I figure I have two options here, either keep my 2 NIC redundancy but make each server single purpose, or drop the redundancy and make each server the same as above but with only 1 NIC on vSwitch1 and vSwitch2 (What do people think?)

What I was thinking was option 1 dedicating one to DMZ LAN and one to Production LAN. So I will set up...

2 NIC's on vSwitch0 which has vMotion and Service Console

2 NIC's on vSwitch1 Production LAN for server 3 and DMZ LAN for Server 4

Question is, if server 1 and 2 fail, will VMware move all the Production LAN boxes onto Server 3, and the DMZ LAN boxes onto Server 4, or will it try to move them all randomly and I have failures?

Trying to add an IDE virtual node when the only option is SCSI.

bakbrad — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:03:38 GMT

In vsphere4 on esx4.0 when trying to add a virtaul device node hard disk to a virtual machine(XP), only SCSI devices are listed and not IDE devices which is what I need to get virtual workstations to deploy from Windows deployment tools. Is there any way to configue with an IDE option?

Active/Active NIC team issue

gedi78 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:14:04 GMT

I have two NIC's teamed in an Active/Active config for a Virtual Machine Port group. I have set all the physical switch ports to 100 Full Duplex and also done the same via vCenter for the ESX hosts.

One of the ESX nic's is shutting down and only when I put this nic to Auto-negotiate does it come back up??

Setup:

I have a VM Port Group - Active/Active (vmnic2 & vmnic3)

Service console - Active/Standby (Vmnic2 is Active and vmnic3 is standby)

vmkernal - Active/Standby ( Vmnic3 is Active and vmnic2 is standby)

My main concern is that some of the VM's are not pingable after vmnic3 shuts down but I have setup the active/active config for some resiliency! - Can anyone confirm if I am missing something fundemental?

Any help/comments welcome.

Thanks

How to prevent VM failover of a SQL Clustered server, in a Clustered host enviroment

tklose — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:56:20 GMT

I have 4 Vsphere 4 enterprise hosts in a VM cluster.
I have a Active/Active Windows SQL cluster server (MSCS) accross 2 of my hosts.

In the event of a HOST failure, I do not want the other HOST to start up a specific VM guest.
I just want the VM to shut down and stay OFF.

Why?
In a MSCS cluster, some of the configuration is on the local host and it is using RAW luns (which are masked out on 2 hosts) .
I do not know what would occur if HA tried to move the VM in the event the HOST stops responding ( and don't wish to find out the hard way)
Because I am already protected in a VM guest cluster enviroment, I don't need failover/restart to occur.

Under the Cluster HA settings:
The 3 HA VM options for Power off VM, Leave VM powerd on, and Shutdown VM all move the VM and try to restart it.

When VM Restart Priorty is set to Disabled, does it prevent moving the host as well as preventing restart?

Please explain.

Trouble with IBM x3650 M2 and ESX 4.0.0 Build 164009

kp238 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:02:37 GMT

I have 8 new IBM x3650 M2 (P/N: 794792G) servers installed with ESX 4.0.0 Build 164009. The servers come from IBM with UEFI Firmware 1.01 (with fixed problem "Interrupt routing was not valid for VMWARE 4.0" - http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5079767&brandind=5000008).

The Service Console show this error:

0:00:00:02.582 cpu0:4096)CosCommon: 2103: Couldn't setup IRQ 11 with vector 193

Who has an idea for solution?

IBM say the problem is ESX 4.0 software and not the IBM hardware.

IDE to SCSI conversion problems

FrantzCollini08 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:55:20 GMT

Hi,
How can i do for the conversion of IDE disk to SCSI without have any problems? i try it with vmware converter 4 and the job has successfull, but when i start my new vm the system doesn't boot....

Thanks in advance!

VMDK's too large and too many

sbgsxr6 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:42:33 GMT

Hi All,

I'm having a few issues with VMDK's and have been struggling to find a solution.

I have created 5 VM's on an ESX server. There are 2 storage arrays (RAID1 and RAID5).

I'm trying to move some of the Virtual Drives over to the RAID5 array using vMotion however i'm getting some strange results.

There are no snapshots and i'm using the "advanced" option to choose individual arrays for each virtual disk, however moving disks always fail after creating 2 or 3 copies of the same drive and running out of space.

I've now moved some images off to another ESX whilst i try getting the 2 big VM's right. VM1 is made up of 4 VMDK's at a total of 580GB. All of these are on (RAID1) according to the VM Properties, however browsing the datastore shows 560GB worth of 3 VMDK's in (RAID5) and 499GB used by 13 VMDK's in the (RAID1) array.

This means that this 1 VM, which has been allocated 580GB, is now using over 1TB of our allocated space. As the VMDK's in (RAID5) are not shown as being in use by the Virtual Machine properties, I moved these to a folder called "test" on the datastore. The VM failed to load. I did try moving two of these VMDK's a while back, but they failed (lack of space). Is it likely that the VM has these VMDK's referenced somewhere in it's config?

I've got exactly the same issue on VM2, this one is using up 300GB more than it was allocated.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Simon

Cannot power On VM, Cannot open the disk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on

superimoAGSGroup — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:02:25 GMT

HI all,
In my environment I have a cluster with 3 ESX 4.0.0 build 175625 with HA and DRS/DPM enable.
I perform all backups with Vmware Data recovery.
This morning one machine was poweroff. I try to poweron the vm but i have received the follwing error:

Cannot power On Myserver on esx05 Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/4a26ad53-c44022a0-d4b3-000423d-227f3/Myserver/Myserver_1-0000-
18.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: Argument list too long.

The files in datastore are:

1168 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 01:07 Myserver_1-000006.vmdk
1171 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 01:04 Myserver_1-000007-delta.vmdk
1170 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 01:35 Myserver_1-000007.vmdk
1173 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 01:33 Myserver_1-000008-delta.vmdk
1172 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 02:05 Myserver_1-000008.vmdk
1175 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 02:03 Myserver_1-000009-delta.vmdk
1174 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 02:34 Myserver_1-000009.vmdk
1177 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 02:32 Myserver_1-000010-delta.vmdk
1176 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 03:06 Myserver_1-000010.vmdk
1179 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 03:04 Myserver_1-000011-delta.vmdk
1178 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 03:36 Myserver_1-000011.vmdk
1181 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 03:34 Myserver_1-000012-delta.vmdk
1180 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 04:04 Myserver_1-000012.vmdk
1183 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 04:03 Myserver_1-000013-delta.vmdk
1182 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 04:35 Myserver_1-000013.vmdk
1185 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 04:33 Myserver_1-000014-delta.vmdk
1184 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 05:05 Myserver_1-000014.vmdk
1187 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 05:03 Myserver_1-000015-delta.vmdk
1186 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 05:35 Myserver_1-000015.vmdk
1189 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 05:33 Myserver_1-000016-delta.vmdk
1188 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 06:05 Myserver_1-000016.vmdk
1191 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 06:04 Myserver_1-000017-delta.vmdk
1190 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 06:35 Myserver_1-000017.vmdk
1160 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 06:33 Myserver_1-000018-delta.vmdk
1192 -rw------- 1 root root 325 Nov 18 06:33 Myserver_1-000018.vmdk
1145 -rw------- 1 root root 69816176640 Nov 17 22:03 Myserver_1-flat.vmdk
1146 -rw------- 1 root root 533 Nov 17 23:02 Myserver_1.vmdk
1147 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37 Nov 17 17:44 Myserver-9f958cf7.hlog
1155 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Nov 17 21:34 Myserver-aux.xml
1143 -rw------- 1 root root 21484431360 Nov 17 22:03 Myserver-flat.vmdk
1148 -rw------- 1 root root 8684 Nov 17 22:04 Myserver.nvram
1144 -rw------- 1 root root 530 Nov 18 09:36 Myserver.vmdk
1142 -rw------- 1 root root 1148 Nov 18 06:35 Myserver.vmsd
1140 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2671 Nov 18 09:27 Myserver.vmx
1141 -rw------- 1 root root 271 Nov 17 22:27 Myserver.vmxf
1153 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29124 Nov 17 22:07 vmware-46.log
1154 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29123 Nov 17 22:11 vmware-47.log
1156 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29123 Nov 17 22:19 vmware-48.log
1150 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29129 Nov 17 22:28 vmware-49.log
1151 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40544 Nov 18 09:10 vmware-50.log
1152 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39412 Nov 18 09:16 vmware-51.log
1193 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39417 Nov 18 09:27 vmware.log
1149 -r-------- 1 root root 7753728 Nov 17 22:05 vmware-vmx-zdump.000

Thank you in advance,
Simone Reale

All VMkernel ports lose connectivity when disconnecting pNic of first vmkernel port.

Remko N — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:07:03 GMT

Hello,

We are setting up 4 VMkernel ports with a 1:1 mapping with physical nics for use with iSCSI Software Initiator multipathing. But we experience an unacceptable issue disconnecting the FIRST vmnic. Not only the vmkernel port of the disconnected vmnic loses connectivity, but EVERY other vmkernel port. When disconnecting any other vmnic, everything works as expected (only the vmkernel port of the disconnected vmnic loses connectivity, all the others keep working).

We've tried many different things, for example changing from Intel NIC's to Broadcom; but the issue is not resolved. We've followed the steps as descibed in iSCSI SAN Configuration Guide.

The issue is very easy to reproduce. What we have done in a small test:

We've created a standard vSwitch, containing 2 vmkernel ports and 2 physical nics:
vmk0 (10.228.0.43); active adapter: vmnic0, unused adapter vmnic1
vmk1 (10.228.0.44); active adapter: vmnic1, unused adapter vmnic0.

When disconnecting vmnic0; neither IP addresses are pingable. When disconnecting vmnic1 we only lose vmk1 as expected, vmk0 keeps on working. No matter how many nics we assign, every vmkernel goes down when disconnecting vmnic0. This is a huge single point of failure.

What are we missing here? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

the authenticity of vendor certified hardware/software

dnetz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:19:32 GMT

Hi,

About six months ago, we bought two Sun Storage 7410 appliances for use with ESX 3.5. Since the Storage 7000 series software was still very much in development back then, we went straight for the latest release, the 2009 software release, and immediately hit huge problems with NFS. The storage machines would stop responding and lock up completely. No biggie we thought, Vmware said that ESX 3.5 and Storage 7000 was only certified for the 2008 software release so we downgraded and things were fine. Now a whole host of other problems arose with the 2008 software release and at the same time we were upgrading to ESX 4. The Vmware HCL listed the 2009 release as compatible with ESX 4, but here's the kicker, to work properly you have to alter a low level system variable that is neither documented anywhere or in any way communicated by Sun unless a support case is opened. This bug is a complete showstopper for running ESX on the Storage 7000 series and is very easily replicated, since all you need to do to trigger it is create a moderate load and start svMotioning a machine.

So my question is, what kind of certification process does the hardware vendors now go through since Vmware has let them do this on their own and how is it possible to let software with this kind of bug get certified? It has cost us a whole hell of a lot of money and made us doubt the entire certification process for hardware.

As a side note, we're now abandoning the Storage 7000 series for Netapp until their software and support organization has proven ready for a production environment.

Ps. This is in now way critique on Vmware's products, they've worked flawlessly.

vmware-hostd use the module from /lib or /lib64?

olano — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:38:11 GMT

Hi,
I found a trick thing when I configured ESX server 4.0.
We configure ESX to support AD account integration using Kerberos for authentication and LDAP for authorization. The problem is in one line in the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file, We add a line
"auth required /lib64/security/pam_listfile.so onerr=fail item=group sense=allow file=/etc/groups.allow" to control the users and groups that have ssh access to the server.

Because ESX4.0 is for 64bit, we use modules from /lib64. After the configuration, we can use ssh to login the server by our own AD account. But Logining the ESX server by vsphere client failed. The log is below:

Nov 18 14:15:21 tsgdvmsomc13 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd6655: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib64/security/pam_listfile.so)
Nov 18 14:15:21 tsgdvmsomc13 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd6655: PAM ~~error: /lib64/security/pam_listfile.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64~~
Nov 18 14:15:21 tsgdvmsomc13 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd6655: PAM adding faulty module: /lib64/security/pam_listfile.so

What does it mean? it means the module from /lib64 is wrong module? the vmware-hostd need use the 32bit module? So I change to use /lib/security/pam_listfile.so. This time, the login to ESX by vsphere client success, but I can't login server by AD account any more due to adding faulty module.... The ssh and vsphere client use the different modules ? One for 64bit, other for 32bit?
Is there anyone can fix this issue?

Lan

Boot from SAN (iSCSI)isn't working for me on ESX4.0: "sh: can't access tty; job control turned off"

IT ST — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:01:29 GMT

We are working with Boot from
San and Installed ESX4.0 GA on a
iSCSI LUN.

After Installation the ESX Server booted with no problems.
We are cloning the iscsi boot LUN in order to provision more
ESX servers.

When doing so and booting
it on a different physical server (exact same h/w though) I get

" sh: can't access tty; job control turned off" error message when
trying to boot.
And the server is not operational.

I must mention that the same process works flawlessly when installing ESX 3.5.
Problems started with ESX4..

FYI: I use QLogic with iSCSI HBA and work with NetAPP storage.

Any idea ?

Troubleshooting vsphere locking up

kiddx — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:02:14 GMT

I have a PE 2900 with 4 NICS, a 2TB san and some local storage with 6 vm's on it. Its been in production for several months now and everything has been running fine. The past week in the afternoons the entire server just locked up 3 times. I couldnt get it to respond or anything and had to just turn it off and back on. Is there any additional logging, I tasked our help desk to get our kvm over ip put on it so I can look at the console, but was hoping I could go somewhere and find more information. The gui of course just tells me the server came up and the vm's started etc etc.

would dmesg or similar provide more information if I ssh into the server?

thx

Use of LSI MegaCli tool in ESX 4

turnerw — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:08:30 GMT

We currently have a ESX 4 server using local storage provided by a LSI MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP
In ESX 3.5, you could use the LSI-provided tool MegaCli to provide command line hardward control of the RAID controller. In ESX 4, the application indicates that it is unable to find any controllers. Does anyone have any expierence with this?

Thank you,
Will Turner

ESX 4.0.0 build-164009 2009-04-30
MegaCLI release 3.6, v4.00.11
RAID controller 11.0.1-0013 (Package); 1.40.42-0615 (Fw); 2009-04-06

Command menu shows only "Power On" and "Edit Settings"

dekiblue — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:24:47 GMT

Hi,

Yesterday I installed ESX 4.0 in order to evaluate it. I know that VMWare workstation has an option to convert VM to template so I tried to do that in ESX. Well, I'm rather new in this virtualization thing but I can't find Convert to Template - actually, I found it but it's in the Commands list only when I enter Maintanance Mode after starting vSphere Client for the fist time. If I exit maintanance mode and go back again, the Commands area of any VM does not show all theCammand it did before. Anyway, how can I enable all those commands that I can see only gray?

Thanks

Dejan

RHEL5.3 64-bit guest: esxtop shows intermittent 100% DRPRX

stensness — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:07:20 GMT

Hello,

I have a couple of RHEL5.2 64-bit guests on a 3-node vSphere cluster (all build 164009) with 2 vCPUs and 8Gb RAM each. They have two virtual NICs using the E1000 driver. Each virtual NIC is connected to a separate vSwitch with VLANs defined. They have VMwareTools installed.

The guests are running apache with PHP. The application behind apache is talking to an Oracle database (actually two Oracle databases in a DataGuard configuration, but that's another story). Each RHEL5 guest also mounts an NFSv3 shared directory from an external server.

I'm noticing that the web service provided by these machines is a lot slower than a similar physical machine. As part of my troubleshooting process in trying to find out why they are a lot slower, I've noticed that there are, intermittently, values of 100% in the '%DRPRX' column in esxtop for one of the two virtual network devices for the VM. However, none of the four physical NICs that are teamed to this vSwitch show any dropped packets in esxtop:

50331650 vmnic4 - vSwitch2 3058.38 6.14 2873.51 6.14 0.00 0.00
50331651 vmnic5 - vSwitch2 21.91 0.08 227.90 0.53 0.00 0.00
50331652 vmnic6 - vSwitch2 3.39 0.04 16.73 0.02 0.00 0.00
50331653 vmnic7 - vSwitch2 8.37 0.04 13.35 0.01 0.00 0.00
50331654 4290:mdl0ap0 all(4) vSwitch2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00
50331655 4290:mdl0ap0 all(4) vSwitch2 3092.05 6.30 3091.65 6.77 0.00 0.13

Does anyone know what this means? Is it normal? Anyone else seeing it with Linux/RHEL5 guests?

Thanks...

Citrix Merchandising Server 1.1 in ESX

MarkWare — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:42:50 GMT

I am currently looking for a way to run the new Citrix Merchandising Server 1.1 in ESX. Anyone have a suggestion?

Windows 7 slow boot time

Zalewskim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:22:16 GMT

We are running 3 ESX4 servers on VM Vsphere 4 in our prduction enviroment. Im trying to get Windows 7 32 or 54bit to run reliably in a VM enviroment. I have read a few post saying to uninstall the SVGA driver as that causes reliability problems. The problem im experiencing is that Windows 7 64 or 32 bit seems to take 20+ minutes to boot to the logon screen.

I have given the VMs 4Gb of ram, 60Gb HDD space which should be plenty.

Is there any advice out there?

VCP4 Welcome Kit

bluebull2rhyme — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:05:43 GMT

Hi Guys,

I heard from VMware that they are still working on VCP4 welcome kit,any idea how long will that take? Did any of the Beta users gor their certificate?

If you find this useful,award me Helpful or Correct answer

Windows Server 2008 R2 support

mskovgaard — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:33:22 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone know when Win 2008 R2 is officially supported as a guest OS?

Morten

VDS and vlans

beckhamk — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:45:06 GMT

If i recall i believe that VDS in vsphere support vlans. My question is these vlans on a vds are strictly internal to the VDS itself and has nothing to do with a physical network switch?

Server 2008 VM install Blue Screen in esx4

drosi — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:54:49 GMT

I am having troubles getting a version of MS Server 2008 to install in ESX 4 as VM. I am running a Dell Power Edge with 16Gb Ram, 1TB datastore, 2 Quad Core intel Xeons running ESX 4. I am using ESX in a lab training facility, not a standard server environment. I have copies of Vista, Server 2003, Linux 9 running or set to run when needed.

I have used the standard VM templates for Server 2008 with all defaults including having thin provisioning selected and not selected. So the VM has 40Gb hard drive, 1Gb Ram, 1 Processor, and standard template disk controller. I have tried the x86 and x64 versions of server 2008 using several different copies of install media on appropriately matching VM template and have the same issue every time.

When I boot VM to install server 2008, install starts fine through initial boot to first install screen. When I click "Install Now" screen and files copy, it gets some where towards the end of this phase and before install phase when I get a blue screen saying Windows has stopped install to prevent hardware problems... etc

I have turned on virtual mode in PowerEdge bios.

Can anyone direct me to a discussion thread that has already addressed this issue or give any suggestions to help diagnose problem.

Thanks for your thoughts. David R

ESX 4.0 build number did not change

uxmax1976 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:59:19 GMT

hello

I just installed 6 patches including a kernel but even after a reboot the build number is still the same (vmware esx 4.0 175626) (details esx host via vcenter)
regarding the patch release the build number should have changed to something like 193498

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1014078

~~root@esxhost ~~~# esxupdate query
----Bulletin ID---- -----Installed----- -------------Summary-------------
ESX400-200906412-BG 2009-08-25T14:04:09 Updates esxupdate
ESX400-200906405-SG 2009-08-25T14:04:09 Updates krb5 and pam_krb5
ESX400-200907401-BG 2009-08-25T14:04:09 Updates vmklinux and vmkernel64
ESX400-200906406-SG 2009-08-25T14:04:09 Updates sudo
ESX400-200906402-BG 2009-08-25T14:04:09 Updates ESX Scripts
ESX400-200906407-SG 2009-08-25T14:04:09 Updates curl
ESX400-200906404-BG 2009-08-25T14:04:09 Updates CIM
ESX400-200906408-BG 2009-08-25T14:04:09 Updates SCSI Driver for QLogic FC
ESX400-200906409-BG 2009-08-25T14:04:09 Updates LSI storelib Library
ESX400-200906411-SG 2009-08-25T14:04:09 Updates udev
ESX400-200906413-BG 2009-08-25T14:04:09 Updates vmkernel iSCSI Driver
ESX400-200909404-BG 2009-11-18T13:28:32 Updates ixgbe
ESX400-200909401-BG 2009-11-18T13:28:32 Updates vmx and vmkernel64
ESX400-200909403-BG 2009-11-18T13:28:32 Updates bnx2x
ESX400-200909402-BG 2009-11-18T13:28:32 Updates VMware Tools
ESX400-200909406-BG 2009-11-18T13:28:32 Updates hpsa
ESX400-200909405-BG 2009-11-18T13:28:32 Updates perftools

the output of "vmware -v" is more confusing

vmware -v
VMware ESX 4.0.0 build-164009

Do you have any experience about that. Thanks a lot!

rgds, uxmax

Vmotion

dkins2010 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:32:28 GMT

This is an easy one, if you vmotion a VM in vSphere 4 does it retain it's IP address or do I need the distributed switch to keep the address?

EVC

RichardBrown — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:37:07 GMT

Hi,

Is anyone aware of have access to an article/white paper that outlines whether the new proccessor Generation for the blade server BL465c G6 is compatible in an EVC cluster with G5 Generation 3 or 2300 CPU's. The G6 is Generation 4 2400 model.

Thanks

Rich

To programitically get the details of ESX Server using VI SDK 4

newsharon86 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:50:52 GMT

Hi All,

I have a doubt how to programitically get the details of ESX Server using VI SDK 4

I have installed VI SDK 4 , but dont know which method to use to get details of ESX Server

Kindly help me out if any one has solution to this doubt.

Can't display HP management Homepage

meteor — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:59:41 GMT

I have installed the HP System Management Homepage on two HP DL385 G2. Version is 3.0.2-77. On HP's download page it state that this version is verified on Vsphere. The install return no errors, just "Installed with default settings".

However, browsing to the 2381 port on the server does not return anything. I think I remember in previous versions that one were asked questions about changing firewall rules and such. Can this be an issue?

Other suggestions?

ESX4 and HP Smart Array P212 + MSL2024 Tape library

bstech — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:54:15 GMT

Hi.

I'm trying to use a HP MSL2024 tape library attached to a smart array P212 (which is the recommended solution of HP, see quick specs of MSL2024). Sadly, VMware just show's the tape drive at LUN 0, but no changer device - which should be at LUN 1.

I looked into the system of ESX and recognized that the VMware developers renamed the module usually named "cciss" under linux to "hpsa", but when reading the files under proc (/proc/drivers/hpsa and /proc/scsi/hpsa) everything looks similar. According to the documentation (see attachment) of the cciss-driver, my configuration works perfectly when the "SCSI engine" of the smart array is engaged. ESX has the SCSI engine engaged, which showed up in the kernel log when I tried to use the engage command.

Has anyone tried such a configuration? Is VMware planning to correct this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Nici

Path Selection for PS6000XV Equallogic array

stevesimoes — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:13:32 GMT

I have done everything mentioned here: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/03/18/iscsi-multipathing-with-esxcliexploring-the-next-version-of-esx/ and this matches up with what is in the official iSCSI VMware guide. I see the 2 paths to my Test LUN. I see Storage Array Type VMW_SATP_EQL which tells me ESX knows the array it is connected to and picked the best SATP setting. I also see that it defaulted to Fixed (VMware) for the Path Selection, and this is what I am not sure about. Do I keep it set to Fixed, or do I switch it to Most Recently Used or Round Robin? What confuses me is that the documentation warns against the risk of path thrashing, yet I have an iSCSI array with one active controller and one in standby mode (Dell uses the term standby, not passive), and all the talk about path thrashing centers on having 2 storage processors competing for one LUN. Since I seem to understand that is not possible, should I not be concerned about path thrashing? Would I then just keep it at Fixed? Or are there riskless benefits to using MRU or Round Robin?

Needing Multiple IP's on VMWare Server

NomadRider — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:44:22 GMT

We are requiring an additional IP for a Apache server application. I have added an additional Ethernet adapter and configured it with the new IP. Regardless of which IP address is used in IE, the site that is being brought up is the first ethernet adapter on the VMWare box. This only happens when using another PC. It works fine when using IE on the local machine. I can ping both IP's from outside as well.

John

Problems enabling PCI passthrough on an MSI X58m whitebox

oschistad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:31:55 GMT

I recently upgraded my whitebox ESX at home with an Intel i920 and a MSI X58M motherboard. From what I've gathered, VT-D should be available on this system but the Advanced Settings page of the ESX still says that the host does not support passthrough. This is rather depressing since I was really hoping to play around with this feature.

Now, I suspect that the real culprit here is the BIOS - aparently many of the motherboards shipping with this chipset claim VT-D support but lack a BIOS capable of setting up the required ACPI tables, however MSI themselves have claimed that enabling "VT" in the BIOS should also enable VT-D.

Anyway; Curious to hear wether anyone else have managed to get PCI passthrough working using non-server hardware. Or if I am missing some vital bit of information..

Merging split vmdk files

vindictive27 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:37:20 GMT

Is there a way to merge split vmdk files on the ESX server through the command line? The reason being - I'm trying to convert a disk using the vmkfstools utility, but it won't work until I merge all the parts of the disk. I know this can be done on VMware Server (windows) using vmware-diskmanager - is there a similar command line utility for ESX?

Slow SFTP transfer speeds TO esx, slightly better FROM esx. But

Brijn — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:28:23 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to transfer VMDK's to an ESX host. Only one datastore on a local RAID aray. When I transfer data to a VM (residing in the same DS) I get 50MB/s. When transferring data to the esx host ik get around 2MB/s, read is around 3MB/s. I know SSH has some overhead, but not that much

What could be the problem?

Bas

Anyone running HP DL 585 G1 with ESX 4.0 ?

meistermn — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:23:43 GMT

Anyone running HP DL 585 G1 with ESX 4.0 ?

Yes I konw it is not supported in the HCL. I need it for Storage VMotion work. A downtime would not be accept be the customer.

Windows 7 build 7600 fails to boot after vmware tools installed

fletch00 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:18:04 GMT

Hi, I've tried this twice on ESX 4.0 build 175625 - installed new Windows 7 64 bit (experimental) VM from trial Windows 7 build 7600 ISO available:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx?ITPID=sprblog

Installed VMWare tools, rebooted, comes up OK

Installed 7 recommended windows 7 patches - rebooted - HANG with messed up screen on VMWare console

power OFF/ON - boots up and requests repair/restore.

Restore operation puts it back to the pre- vmware tools image.

Installed vmware tools again, reboot, - HANG with messed up screen

power OFF/ON - requests restore again

Looks like a bad interaction with a patch and vmware tools

Anyone else seen this?

What is the solution?

I have windows 7 licenses on order for View testing - was hoping to get a head start before the official Oct 22 release of Windows 7...looks like more trouble than its worth at this point?

thanks,

VCP

Create an NFS Share on Windows 2003 for ESX (Youtube)

texasjohn — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:27:00 GMT

I found a fairly good youtube file for this but when they went through creating a group using the Win 2k3 CLI, I lost them. Can someone help me with the commands in video two.

video 1of 3 - 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JVwXw102E

video 2of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCXYS7uCYDY&feature=related

video 3of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN1UZF_C120&feature=related

Vsphere unattended install / scripted installation

sunvmman — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:09:33 GMT

Need some help how to locate my ks.cfg file.

Here is what I have done,

Booted from cdrom (Using HP ILO I mounted a cdrom ), when menu comes up I selected "ESX Scripted Install using USB ks.cfg", select F2 for boot options

now i am stuck, i know the options of ks=cdrom ... however the cdrom is mounted with the os, ks=ftp/http/nfs .. etc i will need DHCP , which the firm will not let.

so what options to i have to present ks.cfg via an ILO connection ?

I have read the article that everybody has pointed to, http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/automating-vsphere-esx4-host-installations but I am not sure the step-by-step what to do.

also, i do not want to run around with a USB flash drive to my remote site.s

Please help

Multiple Copies of VMDK when moving

sbgsxr6 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:01:18 GMT

Hi All,

I've been moving some Virtual disks around in vCentre recently, and have been having some issues understanding how they work. I have a 250GB disk on one drive array and want to move it to another. The 2nd Array has 430GB free at present.

I use the "Migrate" option in vCentre and it starts copying the vmdk over, however when that has completed, it does another copy, and another copy of the same disk. All 3 disks are the same size as the full capacity of the vmdk copied, so they try taking up 3x the amount of space originally wanted. This obviously then fails due to lack of disk space.

Is this meant to happen or am I doing something wrong? I've got a few of these extra disks now. Most of the time they'll have the format of DiskName_1, DiskName_1-f6587c2 etc.....

Cheers

Simon

networking issue

AdamLowe — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:29:20 GMT

Hey guys,
I've got ESX 4 set up and am p2v'ing serveral servers that are in different subnets. When i go into the VM, i put in the ip 10.0.x.x. The esx host is on a 10.10.x.x subnet. The network port on the switch is fully open to accept any VLAN. So that is not an issue. When i go into the VM, i cannot access the internet or network. Anyone have any ideas of what the problem could be?

Also, has VMware came out with a vsphere client that will work on windows 7?

Thanks!

vconverter4 problem

FrantzCollini08 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:11:09 GMT

Hi,
i have the follow problem with a conversion of a windows 2003 phisycal server: i start the conversion and it was successfull but when i start the virtual server, it send me immediately an error "cannot read the disk. press CTRL+ALT+CANC".... i don't know what kind of problem generate this error...how can i do now?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Boot from SAN

Hypnotoad — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:02:01 GMT

Hey All,

I'm about to deploy one more ESX4 server. I have four in place now that were upgrades from 3.5U4. All of my ESX servers boot from SAN. My boot LUNs didn't have VMFS space so I created a new 15GB LUN for the upgrade. This seems messy so I want to corect that with my new server.

My question:
In a boot from SAN environment, how big should the boot LUN be for ESX4 and how big should the VMFS space be for the COS?

Once this new server is in I'll use VMotion and start to rebuild all the other servers to use the same setup.

--Patrick

iSCSI issue

tonybunce — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:32:58 GMT

We have been testing out iSCSI on a ESX4 host and have noticed a problem.

At this point we do NOT have any host running off of iSCSI. There are two host that are on the iSCSI datastore but they are powered OFF.

If we power off our iSCSI target (an openfiler server) all of the VMs on the server appear to hang for at least few seconds up to a minute at a time at least twice an hour. We aren't sure if they are actually hanging or if the networking just stops working. During that time period we can't run esxtop because the service console also stops responding. We have not been logged into the console directly when it happens to prove if the entire host is hanging or just the network stack. As soon as we turn our iSCSI server back on everything goes back to normal. The problem started when we started testing iSCSI and we can't reproduce the issue when our iSCSI server is live.

During the outage time we also get gaps in our performance data. On our CPU percent graphs we see one core spike to 100% right before the gap but on the VM usage graph we don't see the spike (see attached).

Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this or how to fix the problem? We plan on turning off iSCSI but that requires a reboot of the EXS server.

Maps in vSphere 4 vCS

NHessonSD21 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:44:18 GMT

Hello all,

Is this a bug or by design? I can't believe it's by design, doesn't make any sense. From Home, I click Maps under Management. If I check only VM to Network or Host to VM under Map Relationships: and then check a node higher then the cluster (meaning checking Data Center or above that). The maps will not be drawn out. All objects are there. But none of the lines are drawn out.

This has to be wrong? If I Check the cluster, host, or vm first the make my way of the hierarchy. The lines then become drawn.

Please let me know if this is normal. And again if so, why? Well never mind the why? Hopefully I'm the only one with this issue. Since it shouldn't work this way.

Thanks for your time and help,

Nick

PS, the image is what I see, when I do the steps above.

Getting loads of : INTERNAL StorelibManager::fireStorelibCommand - caller StorelibManager::getPartitionInfo, ProcessLibCommandCall failed, rval = 0x8023 in syslog after upgrade.

Phelsbol — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:56:27 GMT

We have just finished an upgrade project of our esx farm from 3.5 u5 to Vsphere.

We reinstalled all our ESX hosts instead of just upgading them, but now we are seeing a lot of "NTERNAL StorelibManager::fireStorelibCommand - caller StorelibManager::getPartitionInfo, ProcessLibCommandCall failed, rval = 0x8023" errors in our Syslog server

I'w not been abel to track down why this is happening, i found a few reference in the 3.5 forums about it, but apparently it should have been fixed in an Update to 3.5.

Our hardware platform is.

Dell PE 2950 III - Vsphere installed on local drives.

FC to a mirrored EMC CX3 san and ISCSI to a Mirrored CX4 San.

Anyone know how why we are getting these errors and how to eliminate them.

/Per

Upgrade VM Machine from 4 to 7 via cli?

Lfgeek — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:34:14 GMT

Is it possible to upgrade a vm machine from version 4 to 7 via the command line?

I ask because my virtual center is a VM.

thanks!

vSphere client and Windows 7 compatibility

TiborMarchyn — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:30:14 GMT

When will be vSphere client compatible with Windows 7? or is there any way to connect to vSphere server or vCenter server???

ESX 4 message: sd still retrying # after 180s

goheels — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:44:56 GMT

After upgrading to ESX 4.0 and applying the most recent patches, I am seeing the following error message reported at the ESX console and in /var/log/messages:

<date> <hostname> kernel: sd 3:0:4:0 still retrying <number> after 180s

the message continually repeats with the <number> incrementing.

I did not see this with ESX 3.5.
What does this mean? How do I resolve this?

I'm seeing this on 5 ESX hosts all are Dell Poweredge systems of various models.

My datastores are on iSCSI LUNS from a NAS system. Some VMs on them are being reported as inaccessible.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Greg

How to enable VMWare Tools shared folders under ESX4

ouch — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:49:53 GMT

On a windows server running on an ESX 4 host, VMWare Tools reports that Shared Folders are currently disabled on the host.

How do I enable them, and use them?

Host profile

galibai — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:25:47 GMT

Will host profile also configure the Dell open Manage? I have dell servers, and I want to use Host profile but I am not sure that it will support.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Need to migrate VC VM

Rohail2004 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:53:08 GMT

I have a VC server running as a VM. I have a new host under new Datacenter and would like to move the VC server into new datacenter. Since the VMotion will not work across the datacenter, so what is the other way to move the VC?

I cant shut down the VC since I have only 1 VC server...

Host not responding and disconnected / Service Console pings but can't log in - HP Smart Array P410i issue

ROM13 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:37:34 GMT

Hi,

I've a problem on a 2-nodes ESX 4.0 cluster, HA enabled.

Esx Patches are up to date.

My hosts disconnect from vCenter periodically (3 times last month). They're marked as "not responding" , then "disconnected" if i try to manually reconnect them. I have to reboot host.

Service console pings, but SSH or console logins fails : i can type my login at the prompt, but there's no password prompt after. Using Vsphere Client directly on a host results as a timeout. Accessing Management Homepage from HP also.
Some VM are still pinging, etc., but some VMs don't. All VMs are showing as "disconnected" on vCenter. They don't reboot on Host1.
I use HP BL 460c G6 for all nodes, on a c7000 Chassis. Smart Array p410i Controller.

Vcenter events :

24/10/2009 04:59:32 : HA agent on Host2.test.com in cluster TEST has an error : HA agent on the host failed
24/10/2009 04:59:39 : Host Host2.test.com in TEST is not responding

All VM's hosted by server2 are marked are disconnected.

Then 14 hours late, other host goes down (edit : but these to consecutive events don't seem to be linked, i'm maybe just unlucky !) :

24/10/2009 19:06:51 : Host Host1.test.com in TEST is not responding
24/10/2009 19:06:51 : Unable to contact a primary HA agent in cluster TEST

The only VM hosted by Host1 was still pinging, but when i tried to remote control it, VM goes down.

**Update : possible answer**

After a call with HP support, and VMWare support, it seems that a
controller issue is the cause of the crash of the service console.

There's a firmware update (v2.50) concerning Smart Array P212, P410, P410i, P411, and P712m ---> here

Fix for a potential controller hang condition (lockup error code 0XBC) seen during heavy I/O.
Fix for a server operating system hang condition encountered during IO stress tests, such as SQLIO.
Fix for a potential controller hang condition (lockup error code
0XAB) seen when controller is configured in Zero Memory Mode (no cache
module installed)
Fix for a potential controller hang condition that may be seen when a 2nd SATA drive fails in a RAID 6 configuration.

Thanks for your help.

Message was edited by: ROM13

HA Insufficient resources to satisfy HA failover

swisst — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:19:37 GMT

Question for the wise...

My two esx4 hosts are configured to use HA and DRS for the majority of my guest machines, however I have tried to reserve some cpu cycles on two guests for which I have already disabled HA and DRS as I don't want them flp-flopping between hosts.
For info, The reservation was for two of the available eight cores.

Is it just a case of hitting the "Allow VMs to power on even if they violate availability allocation"
if so that's a bit rubbish as I have already told ESX that these shouldn't be included....

thanks

No network connection in clean install

roberbizimhatemo — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:24:58 GMT

Hi,

I installed ESX and configured the static ip address. I cannot ping
(default gateway and others) and the "host" command for domain-to-ip
resolution does also not work. When pinging IP's I get from the local
IP "Destination Host Unreachable".

I doublechecked the configuration and it looks good. I alse desactivated iptables to be sure, but no luck.

esxcfg-vswif -l gives:

vswif0 Service Console IPv4 10.0.0.45 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.255 true STATIC

In the VM's startconsole I get the following errors (in red):

0:00:00:02.203 cpu0:4096)PCI : 2060: failed for 000:28.0
0:00:00:02.203 cpu0:4096)PCI : 2060: failed for 000:28.2
0:00:00:02.203 cpu0:4096)PCI : 2060: failed for 000:28.3
0:00:00:02.203 cpu0:4096)PCI : 2060: failed for 000:28.4
0:00:00:02.203 cpu0:4096)PCI : 2060: failed for 000:28.5

ifconfig gives three elements: lo, vmnic (which has no ip, broadcast
and mask, status=UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST) en vswif0 (which has
the correct configuration,status=UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST).

vswifi has only TX packets, all the other properties of vswifi in lines beginning with RX and TX are set to 0.

I testen the system on Windows Xp and CentOS and they worked fine.

What can be the problem?

vconverter cold clone info

FrantzCollini08 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:20:30 GMT

Hi,
i want to download the new version of vconverter 4 cold clone.... where i can download this? Is it free or it requires a license?

Thanks

Servers fail to load in Web Access inventory

JacobSonnich — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:26:46 GMT

When trying to load servers in web access inventory the browser keeps stuck with the servers displaying "loading..."

Looking in the tomcat log's I found this :

~~2009-10-02 10:16:30,347,http-127.0.0.1-8080-1<=>,CustomPropertyResolver~~ Error from CustomPropertyHandler for class com.vmware.vim.managedobject.ServiceInstanceand property _uniHost
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.vmware.vim.service.Inventory.<init>(Inventory.java:167)
at com.vmware.vim.service.ServiceConnection.getInventory(ServiceConnection.java:333)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.util.ProxyAdapter.getInventory(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.custom.property.UniHostPropertyHandler.getValue(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.sdk.toolkit.CustomPropertyResolver.getProperty(CustomPropertyResolver.java:158)
at com.vmware.sdk.toolkit.CustomPropertyManager.getProperty(CustomPropertyManager.java:199)
at org.apache.commons.jxpath.ri.model.dynamic.DynamicPropertyPointer.getImmediateNode(DynamicPropertyPointer.java:165)
at org.apache.commons.jxpath.ri.model.beans.PropertyPointer.getImmediateValuePointer(PropertyPointer.java:127)
at org.apache.commons.jxpath.ri.model.NodePointer.getValuePointer(NodePointer.java:238)
at org.apache.commons.jxpath.ri.model.NodePointer.getValue(NodePointer.java:212)
at com.vmware.sdk.toolkit.util.JXPathUtil.processPropertyPointer(JXPathUtil.java:153)
at com.vmware.sdk.toolkit.util.JXPathUtil.processPointer(JXPathUtil.java:114)
at com.vmware.sdk.toolkit.util.SingleNode.getProperty(SingleNode.java:173)
at com.vmware.sdk.toolkit.view.tree.ObjectListTreeViewContentImpl.processStep(ObjectListTreeViewContentImpl.java:99)
at com.vmware.sdk.toolkit.view.tree.ObjectListTreeViewContentImpl.getProperty(ObjectListTreeViewContentImpl.java:85)
at com.vmware.sdk.toolkit.view.tree.ObjectListTreeViewImpl.getProperty(ObjectListTreeViewImpl.java:131)
at com.vmware.sdk.toolkit.view.tree.ObjectTreeViewImpl.getProperty(ObjectTreeViewImpl.java:84)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.builder.SimplePropertyResolver.resolveProperties(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.builder.PropertySetImpl.init(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.action.PropertySetHelper.createPropertySet(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.action.PropertySetHelper.createPropertySet(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.action.CreateAndQueryPropertySetAction.processRequest(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.RequestProcessor.process(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.broker.ServerBrokerImpl.process(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webaccess.action.ServerBrokerActionServlet.service(Unknown Source)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
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:175)
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:263)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:584)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.vmware.vim.service.Inventory.<init>(Inventory.java:164)
... 37 more

Any ideas?

Best regards,

Jacob

ESXi 4 / vSphere evaluatoin question

nihar15 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:04:12 GMT

Hello,

I am sure this has been asked/clarified before but I could not find a proper response so sorry for repeating. The ESXi 4 comes with a 60 day trial of vSphere. Is there any free app to manage the VM's after that? There is no infrastructure client anymore. I read about the license which will disable some funcationlity in vSphere. Will really appreciate if someone can clarify. Our current h/w is a DELL R905 with 4 Quad core Opterons, 64MB RAM + MD3000i SAN with 10 400GB HDD's. Eventually we want to add another server and use all the advanced features.

Thanks

Nihar

license not available to perform operations

MehulParmar — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:39:00 GMT

Hi,

We have an implementation of ESX 4 (vCenter 4 along with 25 ESX 4 Hosts) for our Testing Lab and we even have enough licenses for the included host.

When we are trying to start the VM image, it is giving error "license not available to perform operations" even though it has enough licenses.

Can anyone please help in this regards?

ASAP response is really appriciated.

Please let me know if you need any more information regarding this error.

ESX 4 Not detect storage adapter (Fibre Channel)

SERRGE — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:33:09 GMT

ESX 4

In HP balde (BladeSystem c7000) install new bay (#3), but vmware ESX not detected installed storage adapter (Fibre Channel HP 4Gb VC-FC Module)

bay #1 and bay #2 see this adapter and works fine.

In bay #1 and #2 installed blade Proliant BL460c G1

In bay #3 installed blade Proliant BL460c G6

passthrough a video card

rizax — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:29:26 GMT

I just wanted to know if passthrough does or will it ever support videocards and similar devices (audio processors, etc ....) or any pci-e x8 or x16 devices with respect to DMA transfers?
I've tested some boards to this respect and the problem I always run into is that the drivers can't seem to talk to the host DMA engine.
Is this feature only supported in the 3-4 certified nic cards and thats it?

Problem with Direct Attached Storage

padraignotlad — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:12:22 GMT

Hello,

I have a Dell PE 2900 with an MD1000 attached via PERC 6/E. I'm trying to add the storage from the MD1000 which is RAID 6. In the vSphere Client, it shows the capacity of the device as 4.72 TB. However, when I step through the Add Storage wizard, it tells me that only 739.99 GB is available? This array is new, and was just Initialized. There is no data, or partitions on it.

Does anyone have any idea why this won't let me use all the storage?

Thanks in advance.

Pat

ESX4 can't see local storage on IBM x3650 M2 with M5015 ServeRaid

geosign — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:41:19 GMT

Hello,

I have a brand new IBM x3650 M2 with an M5015 ServeRAID SAS Card.
Trying to install ESX4 on it but it cannot find the internal storage to install on.

We've made sure that we have the most recent firmware for the card and for the whole machine.
The drives are set up in the raid controller and formatted correctly as well.
Both the x3650 M2 and the M5015 are in the HCL for ESX4, but no matter what we try the ESX installer can't find the storage. The drivers needed are included in ESX4 but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Has anyone successfully installed ESX on a x3650 M2 with that card?
Did you run into similar problems?

Thank you very much,
David

VM's did not fail over over host failure

Brijn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:44:42 GMT

Hello,

We have two hosts in our cluster. A few days ago one host went unresponsive (and as a result the VM's). In vCenter they where showing as "disconnected" when I started looking at the problem.

Whent he host went unresponsive (and showed as such in vCenter), shouldn't the VM's have been started up on the other host.

I don't have VM monitoring enabled, is that needed to get VM's to fail over when the underlying host dies?

Tips welcome!

Bas

VM upgrade Hardware Fails with general system error.

ephillipsme — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:15:50 GMT

I have a recent VI to Vsphere upgrade. All went well and the cluster has 25+ vm's. The hosts and Vcenter were completed fine. We remidicated all the VMtools fine. And on a Single VM I Get an generanl error trying to upgrade the hardware, while all the others are fine. The Vmtools are updated. I have tried through VUM and with the VM powered off. The VM is fairly standard built from teh smae template as many of the others. It is a windows 2003 std server 1 vpu, 2 GB Ram, and 2 Virtual Hard disks. Other then that it is essentially the same. The upgrade only gives a general system error and no further informtion.

~Ernie

VCP3,VCP4, MCSE, CCA

Windows 2003 R2 Blue Screen

charlierhawkins — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:53:43 GMT

I have a Windows 2003 machine that is continually blue screening. It will run fine for several day, but then my developers report that the machine is not available, and I see the blue screen. Any information or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Windows 2003 Enterprise
vmware tools: ok
4cpu / 8gb ram
LSI Logic Parallel
SCSI Bus Sharing: None
4x HDs 40gb / 133gb / 250gb / 150gb - All disk are over 50% free.

How about since Win7 is RTM...... (VI CLient)

ignition-inc — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:56:48 GMT

Weel this is good the $199 Workstation supports win 7

And my $22,000 infrastructure gets no love

Hey VMware WAKE UP!!!!!!!! Can we please get an official VI Client!!!!!! Windows 7 beta has only been around about a year. I guess that wasnt enough time for you to make it work.

When can all the admins of the world actuall get a officially supported VI client for windows 7 anytime soon?

Move License to new server

Johnyryall — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:07:19 GMT

We are cycling out old servers and need to move the vsphere license from a server that we will decommission to a new server.

I have brought the new server into the cluster in Eval mode and moved all the guests to it. The old server has no guests anymore and is ready to be removed from the cluster, how to I release the license on it so I can apply it to the new server?

Thanks,

Eric

Option Support clustering features such as fault tolerance

CarBot — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:34:01 GMT

Hello
I have two virtual machines (vsphere 7) with linux, whose discs were created without the option "Support clustering features such as fault tolerance". Now I have to create a disc and share it with both machines and it does not allow me since the discs of these do not have the above mentioned option
I can enable after created the discs or converter with the option
Thank you