VMware Communities : Unanswered Threads - VMware vCenter™ Server

Install the SDK

fitzie22 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:31:16 GMT

We are looking at implementing HP openview to monitor our esx environment and it connects to https://our vc server/sdk now if I go ot that link it is a 404. is there an sdk package I download adn install?

vSphere 4.0 - UCS Cloning VMs on a cluster Hang and FC connections of the entire chassis go down

MarkOne — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:21:34 GMT

Hi all,
We are implementing a new ESX 4 farm on Cisco UCS.
During tests we tried to clone VMs from our old farm ESX 3.5 to this new farm.
We had a strange error:
Cloning operations of VM, from old Farm versus VMware Cluster, hang at 8% and all Service Profiles assigned on the same chassis crash because the system didn’t see LUN Disks (Boot LUN too).
We can’t see any error log (on FC Fabric, on UCS and on ESX servers) but we find that the problem was generated when traffic was gone on one FC interface.
Are there any person that can help us?
What part of the system have I to control?

Thanks
Marco

vCenter does not monitor vDS uplinks

nik24 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:19:58 GMT

We have created a virtual distributed switch and attached it to several of our ESXi host. We have found that it is impossible to set vCenter alarms to monitor uplinks on the vDS. Therefore an uplink failure on a vDS is not reported at all in vCenter.

An uplink failure on a regular vSwtich is reported immediately and is visible within the network configuration. But on a vDS there is no indication anywhere that an uplink has failed. The only way to tell is to go to the settings of the physical NIC under the 'Manage Physical Adapters' configuration of the vDS and check the NIC connection status.

The status of the uplinks is critical, so we must be able to monitor them. Can someone confirm this is a limitation and not something we are missing?

Growing LDF on virtual center database

HansdeJongh — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:19:15 GMT

Hello,

Last friday we installed update 1 for vcenter server 4.0
Yesterday we installed vmware view 4.0 in the same enviroment.

Now my LDF file is growing insanly fast.
Up to 5GB in 20 minutes..
Our enviroment is small: 7 hosts 70 vm`s
My database is 7GB.

I have no idea why this is happing.
Is there also a way to start over with a new database without loosing my settings (I dont care about performance data).

Regards

Hans de Jongh

Licensing Question on vcenter

ximox — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:03 GMT

Hi All,
A friend showed me vcenter server and i really liked the features. I'd be interested in purchasing vcenter/vsphere (version TBD) but want to clarify some licensing questions.
We currently have a few 32bit hosts on Esx 3.5 and a couple of 64 bit hosts on Esx 4.
Each License for vcenter foundation allows me to add up to 3 hosts, so if I got 2 licenses I'd have up to 6 hosts or is there something else to consider?
These can be a combination of 4 & 3.5 hosts?
If I add 3.5 hosts do I need to have a licensing server just for that purpose? If yes does generating the ESX3.5 license files to put on the licensing server (while now its just a key you get at download) have an extra cost?

Thanks,
Antonio

low memory usage numbers in performance charts

dnetz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:32:12 GMT

Hi,

I've noticed that the percent average of memory usage for my cluster is way below its actual value, it's currently showing "0,02%" as latest, max/min and average for the past week. The hosts presents a decent value and the cluster consumed, overhead and total values are fine too. The rollup jobs on the SQL servers are running fine according to SQL Agent. The only thing I can think of is that I created a new cluster a while ago with EVC turned on, migrated all machines to it, deleted the old cluster and reused the name, which might have confused the statistics?

Thanks in advance,
Daniel

ESX4 host does not reconnect after reboot

Madrilleno21 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:43:56 GMT

I am using the latest versions (19th Nov 2009) of ESX4 and vCentre.
Whenever I reboot a host, vCentre server shows it as disconnected until I bounce the VMWare VirtualCenter Server service.
Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it?

Madrilleno

Help with Event Log

drewdown — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:44:18 GMT

Running vCenter with roughly 6 hosts and 30 VM's. Every 3 seconds I get a Cannot login root@127.0.0.1 but have no idea for the life of me what is prompting it. Or which machine its generating from. Is there anywhere I can look to get a more accurate description or some hint as to how to figure what is going on?

Can't Link vCenter Servers

KGoch — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:42:34 GMT

I am setting up a second vCenter Server for my envrionment. In the installation I set this vCenter to be linked to my current primary vCenter using the FQDN of the first vCenter. Now as installation nears completion I am hit with this error:

Error 28023. Setup failed to setup 'VMwareVCMSDS' Directory Services insatnce. " failed with an unknown error.

Found out where the log files are kept and noticed this:

2009-11-19 09:30:20 SEVERE Operation "Create replica instance VMwareVCMSDS" failed: : Action: Prepare for standalone instance creation
Action: Peer name validation
Action: Check connectivity to a remote LDAP instance
javax.naming.CommunicationException: Request: 3 cancelled; remaining name ''

2009-11-19 09:30:20 SEVERE Recovering from failed Operation "Create replica instance VMwareVCMSDS"

2009-11-19 09:30:20 SEVERE Recovery successful

2009-11-19 09:30:20 SEVERE Execution error.

The secondary vCenter host can ping the promary host, and vice versa

Any ideas?

cold migrating machines with snapshots and multiple disks

dnetz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:36:21 GMT

Hi,

I seem to have gotten myself into quite a pickle, when we started building our VM's I wanted to avoid having to backup and storage-snapshot temp data and swapfiles, so I instructed my colleagues to create a secondary virtual disk on a seperate NFS datastore to store OS swap and temp dirs. This proved to be a bad idea since by default, vCenter creates disks with identical names so when you create and remove a snapshot the disks are merged into new files on the same folder and datastore.

Since then we've avoided doing this but we still have some machines with two disks on two seperate datastores and these machines have snapshots that we're not ready to remove just yet. Now I need to migrate these machines to new storage but svMotion won't move a powered on machine with snapshots or a powered off machine with multiple disks and and snapshots. I also can't figure out how to move these machines outside of vCenter and still preserve the snapshots and disks.

Any and all ideas greatly appreciated!

Upgraded Clustered (MSCS) Virtual Center server to vSphere4

mplewis2 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:04:55 GMT

I currently have Virtual Center 2.5 clustered across 2 physical machines using MSCS. SQL 2005 is also installed on this cluster and hosts the VC databases. I need to upgrade to vSphere 4. Has anyone gone through this? Per VMWare support there is no documentation for upgrading a VC cluster.

My thought was to run the vSphere4 upgrade on the active node, which would then upgrade the database. Then either fail the cluster over to the passive and re-run the install, OR run the install on the passive without failing the services over to it.

If I understand things correctly, the DB will get upgraded with the upgrade of the active node. Just not sure how to get the passive node upgraded.

vSphere Client - Port 903

Weite — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:23:11 GMT

Hello!

I've a test enviromet with 2 x ESX 4 Server and a vCenter Server. I connect with the vClient to the vCenter Server over a VPN tunnel. When I start the console of a VM, I become the error message "Unable to connect to the MKS: ..... :903.

From the PC with the vClient I can connect over telnet to Port 902, Port 903 doesn't work.

From the vCenter Server I can connect over telnet to Port 902 and 903.

All traffic on VPN will forward. What can I do do correct the problem? Hope you have some ideas.

vCenter 4.0 lost connection with ESX 3.0.1 server

nicsys — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:00:31 GMT

We have two ESX 3.0.1 servers and one ESX 4.0 server all being managed by vCenter Server 4.0. For no apparent reason today, vCenter lost connection with one of the 3.0.1 servers. When I try to re-add it, it appears to see the server just fine, but on the last step I get this error:

A general system error occurred: internal error:
vmodl.fault.HostCommunication

I have tried uninstalling the agent, reinstalling it, re-adding the server, even tried rebooting both the vCenter server and the ESX server, but I continue to get the above error. However, I am still able to connect to the ESX server with the VI client.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. This was working just fine until today. The only change I can think of between it working and not working was I renamed all the datastores on all the ESX servers to make them easier to idenify (they all had storage1 and storage2, so when they got hooked into vCenter they were renamed storage1, storage1 (2), storage1 (3), etc, and I was adjusting those to be esx01-storage1, esx02-storage1, etc). This may sound silly, but is there any chance the hyphen in the datastore name is causing a problem? I only ask because during the build of the ESX 4.0 server I tried to name the datastore esx03-storage1 but kept getting install errors. I burned a new copy of the install ISO and also removed the hyphen from the datastore name and the install completed, but I can't be sure if removing the hyphen or the new ISO burn was what fixed it.

Orphaned datastore with templates

hklohr — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:32:23 GMT

Running ESXi v3.5 with vCenter v2.5, when browsing my datastore in VIC, I have three datastores listed: datastore1, datastore1(1), datastore1(2).
datastore1 and datastore1(1) are orphaned and datastore1(2) is what is currently being used. This wouldn't be a problem and I could just remove
the orphaned datastores, but I have critical templates located on datastore1(1) that I can't move to datastore1(2). I don't know how this happened.
Can someone tell me how to move or somehow save the templates from the orphaned datastore1(1)?

Consolidation Tool in Virtual Center 4.0: consolidation analysis error

elleuch1983 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:54:45 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm triying to use Vcenter guided consolidation tool and after lots of issues regarding
installation and configuration now I've 12 servers just
discovered by Active Directory. The problem is that after less than one hour
of starting work the results are very dissapointing and, off course, I
need to know what's happening with it. As a resume :

8 servers in the state of "Bad credentials or insufficient privileges"
4 servers in the state of "computer is unreachable or not supported "

Note : I'm using the same
account for all server that is "DOMAIN\username" and password.

I will appretiate some help or knowledge about the Consolidation
process that is not well documented in the manuals nor the online
helps on vcenter server 4.0. If someone did it completly and succesfully, please give me some
guidelines to understand how it works in general.

Thanks in advance.
Regards.

Med Morsi ELLEUCH

Linked Mode with a Physical and Virtual Server

jeffoutwest — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:44:35 GMT

To continue the age old question of, "+Tis it better for a vCenter Server to be Physical or Virtual+?"

Is it possible to architect the vSphere environment to have one physical and one virtual vCenter server running in Linked Mode managing the same virtual datacenter? Thanks, -Jeff

VMware VirtualCenter Server V4.0 service crashes when connecting to ESX V3.5

JAMOS001 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:17:13 GMT

This is a little frustrating. I just built a new VCenter Server V4 and it connects to my ESX V4 host just fine. When I attempt to connect to an older ESX V3.5 the VCenter server service stops. This entry is logged in the event log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: VMware VirtualCenter Server
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 11/17/2009
Time: 8:13:42 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DCMSVSS001
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( VMware VirtualCenter Server ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: An unrecoverable problem has occurred, stopping the VMware VirtualCenter service. Error: ErrorVdbODBCError (-1) "ODBC error: (23000) - Microsoft SQL Native Client SQL ServerCannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.VPX_VM_FLE_SNAPSHOT_DISK' with unique index 'VPX_VM_FLE_SNAPSHOT_DISK_U1'." is returned when executing SQL statement "INSERT INTO VPX_VM_FLE_SNAPSHOT_DISK WITH (ROWLOCK) (ID, SNAPSHOT_ID, DISK_KEY, VM_ID, UPDATE_KEY) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)".

Then we get this information entry

Event Type: Information
Event Source: VMware VirtualCenter Server
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 11/17/2009
Time: 8:13:42 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DCMSVSS001
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( VMware VirtualCenter Server ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Forcing shutdown of VMware VirtualCenter now.

Any Ideas?

How can you extend the timeout for servers returning from Standby?

TimPorreca — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:49:48 GMT

I have Dell 2950s as my vSphere 4.0 hosts and they take forever to boot. I am using DPM to shutdown unused hosts and every once in a while one will fail. When I console into it, I see it is running fine, but vCenter says it failed coming back from standby. I'm thinking it is just timing out waiting so long. Is there any way to increase the timeout in vCenter to making it wait longer for the machine to boot?

Change IP Address o f the VCenter Server

tomtom1 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:16:17 GMT

This is my first post .

Hi, I need to change the IP Address of the VC Server. My VC server is part of the domain. It is VC 2.5 U2. I have also VDI Configured in my environment. Can, I just changer the IP Address and think DNS will take care of the rest of the issues OR do I need to do a fresh installation of VC Server ?

This is a big environment of more than 200 VMs.

Thanks

Tom

vMotion fails : Virtual Hard disk : is mapped direct-access LUN that is not Accessible

shatztal — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:28:26 GMT

hello
i would like to know why 2 virtaul machines cannot vMotion to other hosts because of this error?
both machines are on the same hots

Upgrading SQL 2005 to SQL 2008

cbronsson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:29:12 GMT

I'm running a VM Win 2003 x64 with sql 2005 installed. For some reason I have to upgrade to sql 2008.
Can I just take a snapshot of the VM and then do the upgrade or should I make a complete clone of it?
Could there be a problem when I merge the snapshot file?

Cannot install VMware-VIMSetup-2.5.0-U4-English.iso

MTANG — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:05:57 GMT

Does someone tell me how to intall vcenter server? I downloaded VMware-VIMSetup-2.5.0-U4-English.iso but could not intall at Win2003 server.

Thanks in advance.

Password from Custom Specification not being applied to template

ouch — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:02:55 GMT

I cloned an existing Windows 2003 VM to a template. Then I wrote a Cusomization Specification which contains a password for the Administrator account

When I deploy a new virtual machine from this template using that Customization Specification, it all appears to work, except the password on the Administrator account remains the password that was set in the original VM that I cloned. The new password from the Customization Spec is not applied.

vCenter won't start after reboot

mshorrosh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:28:46 GMT

here's the errors I've collected from the vpx logs.

Logs are stored here
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs

Errors probably not preventing it from starting
~~2009-11-16 15:05:14.233 05860 error 'App'~~ OptionMgr Ignoring unknown entry from DB: templates.repository
~~2009-11-16 15:05:14.249 05860 error 'App'~~ OptionMgr Ignoring unknown entry from DB: VirtualCenter.PortNumber
~~2009-11-16 15:05:14.249 05860 error 'App'~~ OptionMgr Ignoring unknown entry from DB: WebService.CompatibleWith1x

~~2009-11-16 15:05:20.702 05860 error 'App'~~ VpxdInvtId::CheckIp detected IP ~~Shared 10.196.0-3:0.0.0.0~~ conflict between vm subversiontest (moId:vm-2899) nic:GuestInfo.net[0].ipAddress[0] and entity vpckbjames01 (moId:vm-134)

Error that is preventing it from starting (No idea what this error means)
~~2009-11-16 15:05:20.827 05860 error 'App'~~
Panic: NOT_IMPLEMENTED d:/build/ob/bora-162856/bora/vpx/vpxd/vpxdMoDatacenter.cpp:1401
Backtrace:
backtrace00 eip 0x019e88f0 ?AbortProcess@System@Vmacore@@YAXXZ
backtrace01 eip 0x019e9077 ?CreateBacktrace@SystemFactoryImpl@System@Vmacore@@UAEXAAV?$Ref@VBacktrace@System@Vmacore@@@3@@Z
backtrace02 eip 0x0192b863 ?PanicExit@Vmacore@@YAXABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z
backtrace03 eip 0x019570be ?Vpanic@Vmacore@@YAXPBDPAD@Z
backtrace04 eip 0x008055d1 (no symbol)
backtrace05 eip 0x00727bdb (no symbol)
backtrace06 eip 0x0058db67 (no symbol)
backtrace07 eip 0x0058dcc9 (no symbol)
backtrace08 eip 0x0058faf1 (no symbol)
backtrace09 eip 0x004ef983 (no symbol)
backtrace10 eip 0x004ea4e1 (no symbol)
backtrace11 eip 0x004e6950 (no symbol)
backtrace12 eip 0x7d1f5e91 LookupPrivilegeValueW
backtrace13 eip 0x77e6482f GetModuleHandleA
~~2009-11-16 15:05:24.233 05860 info 'App'~~ CoreDump: Writing minidump

Collector Service High CPU

imclaren — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:25:09 GMT

Hi,

I noticed my vCenter VM was showing unusually high CPU usage today, so I went in to check. The vCenter Collector Service (CollectorServerHost.exe) was running at close to 100% utilisation constantly, so I removed the one (and only) collection task and (when that made no difference) tried to restart the service (which got it stuck in the 'starting' state)

So, I rebooted the vCenter server, which made no difference either.

Guided Consolidation health status is all happy, and there was nothing untoward that I could spot in the GC log file (vmwarecp.log IIRC).

Any suggestions? Maybe it'll thrash itself out overnight and be ok in the morning....

Cheers,

Iain

Cannot insall infrastructure Management

MTANG — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:56:53 GMT

I download VMware-VIMSetup-2.5.0-U4-English.iso from VMware website and extract to a CD. But when I click the autorun.exe inside CD, the computer doesn't do any thing.

Does someone here to help me how to install VIM 2.5?

Many thanks in advance

Error message while installing vCenter Server

imprise — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:38:52 GMT

Please look at the attachment image.

the vcenter user is a domain-based user that is also the Administrator of the computer. It has the following rights:

Replace a process level token
Logon as a service
Logon as batch job
Bypass travers checking
Adjust a memory quota for a process

But i encounter the error message that you can see in the attachment...

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Deployed VM is not getting added to the domain. "The network location cannot be reached" in guestcust.log

cleighto — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:55:34 GMT

running vSphere 4... deploying a VM to a ESX 3.5 host. The VM is a Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2 (32bit) OS.

The Customer spec I am using is pretty vanilla... basically adding the machine to the domain and not much else. The user account to add the user to the domain is valid, and privi'd enough to add machines to the domain. The same custom spec used to workjust fine.... but now, it doesn't everything except adding the machine to the domain properly.

I found a log in C:\WINDOWS\Temp\vmware-imc... in guestcust.log:

Returning value \\DEPTEST2\ROOT\CIMV2:Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration.Index=8 for system property
Joining domain <my lab's FQDN> using account <domain administrator> and password '*****'
The network location cannot be reached. For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help.

That would appear to be a network connection issue.... but its not a permanent issue since the machine is on the network (albiet in WORKGROUP). I usually see that kind of error if I tried a unqualified domain name on a box that can't resolve the FQDN.. but I know all that seems OK. When I log into the machine, I can add the box to the domain using the same FQDN and user just fine.

I've tried using both the VMXNET 2 Enhanced adapter as well as the Flexible network adapter... no dice.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Traffic shaping on ESX4

RunLevelZero — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:34:13 GMT

Well I am not sure exactly how to ask this but what I need is to setup a VPN server that will throttle the traffic to equal the T1 we are going to route the traffic through. It appears on ESX 2.5 and older that it was a per VM setting. Now it has changed to the virtual switch. I don't have the foggiest idea how to start this setup . It appears I need to create a port group? I am hoping that you guys can stear me to docs or something because the help file just shows how to enable it. Not how to configure it per say. We have one DvSwitch and it has 24 vlans on it. That is the only way it's configured atm. I hope I have provided enough info to get started.

Can't download vcenter 4.0 no license?

tom11011 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:45:34 GMT

Hello all. I am trying to understand the licensing.

Our company has 6 enterprise 2cpu licenses for ESX 3.5 server.

I see in the downloads that my licenses have converted over to the new 4.0 licensing. I was able to download vsphere 4.0 iso images. However, when I try to download the vcenter iso, it says I have no license?

I'm not sure what I am missing here? Doesn't vcenter come with ESX 3.5 enterprise?

Thanks.

Virtual Center 2.5 U2 & ESX 2.5.2

eapontevm — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:42:48 GMT

Hi,

I have this issue, I have a Vcenter 2.5 U2 and I want to connect a ESX 2.5.2 Build 16390, I can connect one ESX 2.5.2 but I am trying connect other one but it shows an error message: unable to connect to specific host, I did the instructions in http://communities.vmware.com/message/1096760#1096760 but it wasn't unsucesfull, what can I do? thanks for your help.

Problem after upgrade vCenter Server patch 1

uma_kits — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:52:03 GMT

I install vCenter Server 4 on Windows 2008 Standard x64 SP2. After I upgraded vCenter to patch 1. I found some issue on vCenter as below:

1. Can't use search function in VC
Error: "Could not acquire an authentication ticket for the query service: https://servername:8443/vws"

2. Can't show information in Hardware Status tab
Error: "Do not have permission for this command."

3. Can't show information in vCenter Service Status
Error: "Cannot access the health service"

I must uninstall vCenter and reinstall vCenter without patch 1 because it didn't have rollback function for vCenter patch 1.

Has anyone found issues like me?

Why isn't my 2008 template running sysprep when I deploy VM using template with customization manager?

davidb1234 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:19:48 GMT

I created a customization specification in the customization specification manager.

I created a windows 2008 vm, configured it, updated it, shut it down and converted it to a template.

I choose to deploy VM from template and I apply the customization specification I created.

When I boot up the newly created VM it goes to the logon screen and doesn't apply my customization and does not run sysprep. It's like I just converted the template back to a vm and booted it up.

How do i get this process to run sysprep and actually apply my customization?

Expected put messgae. Got: ERROR

zack_patty — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:57:16 GMT

When trying to download a vmx file via the Datastore Browser I am getting this popup error:

Expected put messgae. Got: ERROR

Also, attempting to use the vifs --get command with the URL form and with --server set to my vCenter I get this error:

Error: File can not be downloaded to <my file>

Running the vifs --get command with --server set to my ESX server succeeds and I can succesfully get the file.

My virtual machine is powered on.

I have seen references on the internet and at VMware's support web site mentioning locks. But, what locks? How can they be released?

Are they any workarounds for getting the file via the vCenter? At this point we need to be able to download the file via the vSphere client connected to the vCenter.

We are using vCenter Server 4.0 and ESX servers are 4.0 too (vSphere 4 Enterprise).

VMWare web interface does not work!

persianwhois — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:32:29 GMT

Hello,

I can't connect to my VMWare Server.
I try to connect to vmwareconsole, but i get this error.
The Vms are up, but the console doesnt work.

https://myserverip:8333 not work.

~~root@m5248 ~~~# uname -a
Linux m5248 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 17:17:40 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

~~root@ ~~~# /etc/init.d/vmware status
At least one instance of VMware Server is still running.

Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running
Host network detection is not running
Module vmmon loaded
Module vmnet loaded
~~root@ ~~~# netstat -anp | grep vmwa
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:902 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 5845/vmware-authdla
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 240180 6645/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251653208538875_6645/testAutomation-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 240190 6645/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251653208538875_6645/servercontrol-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 240192 6645/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251653208538875_6645/control-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 240194 6645/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251653208538875_6645/ui-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 240198 6645/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251653208538875_6645/mks-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 240202 6645/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251653208538875_6645/vmx-vmdb-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 240294 6645/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251653208538875_6645/remoteDevice-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 93706 6089/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645935083736_6089/testAutomation-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 85836 6037/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645420969270_6037/testAutomation-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 85847 6037/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645420969270_6037/servercontrol-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 85849 6037/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645420969270_6037/control-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 85851 6037/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645420969270_6037/ui-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 85855 6037/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645420969270_6037/mks-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 85858 6037/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645420969270_6037/vmx-vmdb-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 85938 6037/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645420969270_6037/remoteDevice-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 86820 6049/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645487622578_6049/testAutomation-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 86831 6049/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645487622578_6049/servercontrol-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 86833 6049/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645487622578_6049/control-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 86835 6049/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645487622578_6049/ui-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 86839 6049/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645487622578_6049/mks-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 86841 6049/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645487622578_6049/vmx-vmdb-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 86929 6049/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645487622578_6049/remoteDevice-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 93717 6089/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645935083736_6089/servercontrol-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 93719 6089/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645935083736_6089/control-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 93721 6089/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645935083736_6089/ui-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 93725 6089/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645935083736_6089/mks-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 93728 6089/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645935083736_6089/vmx-vmdb-fd
unix 2 ACC STREAM LISTENING 93832 6089/vmware-vmx /var/run/vmware/root_0/1251645935083736_6089/remoteDevice-fd
~~root@ ~~~# netstat -anp | grep 8333
~~root@ ~~~# netstat -anp | grep 8222

Have any of you expected this error? And what did you do?
What can i do now?

VMware Infrastructure Client Error

DGI_Drift — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:18:09 GMT

Hi.

After we upgraded to Virtual Center 4, we are getting an error message a lot.
Often it's pops up when we exit VC.

Myself has experienced this error message when I'm in a wizard in VC.

The error message is:

Hope somebody can help me:)

Recent Tasks not displaying correctly

bruno_ — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:52:25 GMT

Hi there,

I'm experiencing a very weird issue here when I manage my VMs inside vSphere Client.
Let me explain better, for example, when I try to vmotion a VM the "task name" isn't displayed correctly.

I'm attaching a image files to you guys see how it looks.

Inside my vCenter Server it displays correct.

Cannot view vCenter client logs in System Logs View

harshvyas — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:46:56 GMT

Hello

Scenario:

I connect to vCenter Server running on win2k3 using viclient from my win xp desktop where in I am logged in as my user account with administrative privilidges.

Observation:

I cannot view the vCenter client logs from the System Logs View.

I can only see the vCenter server logs.

Question:

How can I view the vCenter client logs from the System Logs View ?

Thank you.

HVyas

Hardware Status: Message - Do not have permission for this command

C2NSIAdmin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:31:06 GMT

Hello all,

When using vSphere Client and clicking the Hardware Status tab, I receive the following error:

Message
Do not have permission for this command.

I have already reviewed the following link: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1360601#1360601 to no avail.

I don't understand why all of a sudden I'm receiving this error since all was working well since I installed vCenter Server a couple of months ago. vCenter Server is installed on a Dell PE2900 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. The Dell server is used for nothing else but vCenter Server. I have attached a print screen of my vSphere Client were I receive the error.

Has anyone else stumbled across this problem and found a valid fix?

Thank you in advance.

good explanation and examples for resource pool usage

ehinkle — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:54:24 GMT

Does anyone know of a book or website that explains resource pools with examples. I have read the resource Managment guide but it is still not clear how to use resource pools. I get the concept of what they are used for but I just need to find more information. for example lets say I have a server with 2 Dual core 2gihz processors, that means my total cpu resources is 8ghz. Let's say I create a resource pool of 3ghz, how is that going to limit my VM's to just 3ghz when I would have to use two processors inorder to get 3ghz. If I put one single processor VM in that resource pool, the maximum it will be able to acheive will be 2ghz, which is the speed of a single core. If I added a second VM to the pool and it maxed the CPU and I looked at the host cpu core utilization would I see 1 core maxed and the other at 50% utilization?

Virtual Machines missing from vCenter .

resh — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:47:01 GMT

Hi There

I have a vCenter with a cluster of 2 ESX servers . Recently we noticed that 3 VMs are missing from the cluster. I have checked the Tasks and Events tab and dont see any logs regarding the VMs. But the strange thing is that the VMs are accessible. Both Windows XP Vms are able to access by Remote Desktop. I have checked for the vmdk , vmx etc on the ESX servers , but the directories are missing.My cluster has 6 shared storage (SAN LUNs)

Has anyone seen such a case earlier. Can anyone help me here ?

Vcenter reinstall

pdrace — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:07:11 GMT

One of my current Vcenter installations was upgrade from 2.5 to 4.0. I want to reinstall it fresh as it sems to have some weird issues with Converter and Update Manager.

I moved Update Manager to a seperate server but still have issues. I will be going to Windows 2008 x64 for the new server. I did this with another installation at another site but I changed the IP address of the server. In this case I want to keep the address the same.

So my plan is.

1. Copy SSL cerificates to new server.

2. Shut down old server.

3. Change IP address of new server to match old server.

4. Install Vcenter 4.0 on new server.

5. Install 3.x license server on new server.

6. Point 3.x hosts to "new" license server.

So the question:

1. Are date manager metadata and patch downloads done by the Vcenter server that update manager services when update manager is installed on a seperate server?

(Downloads appear to continue to work after I moved UM to a seperate server so I assume that is the case. If not I'm at a loss as to how it's working as the IP address of the UM server isn't allowed by the firewall)

VIClient gives empty pages when connecting to vCenter Server

SchulieBug — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:23:02 GMT

I've installed a vCenter Server and when i start the viClient on that server everyting works fine. When i start the viClient on my laptop and connect to the vCenter Server, in some caes i get a URL not found? Anyone any idea? I've attached a PDf with some screenshots.

Design of application to start , shutdown and suspend a VM

akkayyakapisetti — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:03:29 GMT

Hi,

We are not running vmware web service , and we need some GUI application where a

authenticated user can start and stop a VM using SDK. I am new to sdk, can any one help

me out to design.

How much does a vcenter 2.5 license cost?

sportivo168 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:49:04 GMT

Hi All,

I know that you may know how much the license cost for per server or per cpu.

I am interested getting a vcenter license for my home server.

I have a custom build server, intel i7 cpu.

I have ESXi 3.5 installed (free version) and would like a full version of vcenter 2.5.

I am a home user so i only use this server as a test environment, hopefully vmware would have a suitable license for 1 cpu home user.

Best regards,

Steven

Ballon driver running with plenty of available memory - looking for answer as to why.

Thibault — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:19:40 GMT

I have a couple of ESX servers that are actively running balloon driver but there appears to be plenty of available memory to support the current workloads. From VC looking at one of those ESX servers in the summary tab the Memory usage is displaying 14.08GB of memory used out of 32GB. When looking at ESXTOP = MEMCTL (MB): 437 curr, 437 target, 10649 max. It looks like balloon driver has reached it's target and I would expect that it would finish up and stop running. NO VM's have limits setup for their resource use, not using resource pools. I am just curious why these servers are displaying balloon activity while other ESX servers with much more demanding workloads are not...Thanks

vCenter Collector Service Cluster Issues.

pfuller — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:14:19 GMT

I have clustered vCenter on two Dell PE 1950 with Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x64. Everything is working fine except when I go to fail over the cluster and the "VMware vCenter Collector Service" does not stop.

Is there any changes I need to make for the "VMware vCenter Collector Service" to stop and allow for the fail over?

VirtualCenter restarts every five minutes

dkleeman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:31:55 GMT

We have VitualCenter 2.5.0 build 119598 and it the VirtualCenter service is stopping after five minutes. It can be restarted and when running it appears to be fine.

The log ends with the following three lines which are the first errors in the log:

2009-11-04 10:42:02.045 'App' 3112 error Win32 exception: Stack overflow (0xc00000fd)
2009-11-04 10:42:02.045 'App' 3112 error eip: 0x7c343241 esp: 0x4ef3000 ebp: 0x4ef3020
2009-11-04 10:42:02.045 'App' 3112 error eax: 0x000001 ebx: 0x000001 ecx: 0x000001 edx: 0x61f55e0 edi: 00000000 esi: 0x61f55dc

We thought that the problem started when we changed our normal service user password, but this might be a red herring. We have gone through the procedure to update the password entered during installation, and we have carried out an installation repair (without resetting the database).

Any help on this problem would be much appreciated. We will be upgrading to vCenter 4.0 in due course, but this is not convenient just now.

Moving hosts between VC's via script

MikePoe — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:58:24 GMT

Morning all,

I have what I'm sure is a fairly common task. We have a group of hosts that we would like to migrate from one 2.5 VC to another. I've looked over the options for doing this via script, but have yet to find an existing powershell script available that will take a list of hosts instead of one at a time. The hostops.pl file in the Perl 1.6 SDK toolkit might be an option if we create it as a policy (we use Opsware) and apply it to a group of servers, but the documentation for it is rather sparse. For example, the blurb below:

__________from hostops.pl _______________

Disconnect:

hostops.pl --url https://192.168.111.52:443/sdk/webService --username user

--password mypassword --target_host 192.168.111.2

--target_username root --target_password esxadmin --operation disconnect

_______________________________________

I'm not sure I understand the usage for two host entries-assuming the first one (111.52) is the ESX host and the second is the new VC? Any feedback appreciated, thanks!

VMWare Host update utility and Update manager proxy setting

AlbertWT — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:16:32 GMT

Hi All,

Does anyone know where to setup the proxy setting for VMWare Host update utility and VUM ?

I could not get the patch from VMWare repository since the applciation cannot talk to the internet.

Cheers.,

Kind Regards,
AWT

Can't put ESX 3.5 and ESXi 4 in vCenter 4

cyrus_ho — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:41:29 GMT

My ESX details:

VM Cluster
-esx1 (ESX 3.5)
-esx2 (ESX 3.5)

-vCenter 2.5

I had upgraded vCenter 2.5 to vCenter 4 recently, during the upgrade I didn't enter the license key.

After upgrade successfully, I also added my free downloaded ESXi into vCenter

VM Cluster
-esx1 (ESX 3.5)
-esx2 (ESX 3.5)

-esxi1 (ESXi 4.0)

-vCenter 4

Afterwards, when I tired to enter the vCenter license key into vCenter, it showed the message (Please refer attachment ) which disallow me to continue.
I was wondering do I need to get more license for ESXi or I need to upgrade the others ESX server to version 4??

Many Thanks

Does VI3.5 Support Customization on Windows 2003 DataCenter 64Bit?

shatztal — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:40:31 GMT

I have ESX 3.5 Update 4. VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 5

i cannot Deploy a New Machine from template that is Win 2003 DataCenter 64 Bit

it gives an erro like :

warning: Customization of the guest operating system "winNetDatacenter64Guest" is not supported in this configuration. etc.

would lime to know what is not configed?

VMWare guest customization remains on

JustyC — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:09:58 GMT

We're running vCenter 2.5 U3 (build 119598). We used Converter to create (6) W2K3 x64 guests from a master image. Customization was checked on to ensure new SIDs were generated. We now notice that on at least 2 of those guests the time is off by approx. 4 hours. We can manually reset the time and it stays accurate until the next reboot. A grey screen displays "VMWare customization process is in progress" for about a half a second. We can login to Windows, but the time is again off. Appears the initial customization option is still set to run at each and every reboot. Is there anyway to turn this off?

Cant install vCenter on Windows 2003 SP2

m1kew1lson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:01:47 GMT

Has anyone come accross this, I'm hoping to install vCenter on a server and it keeps failing once it tries to do the ADAM install, according to this MS link you cannot install ADAM on win2003-SP2? Shouldn't this be in the install guide?

Correcting the issue

If
you have already installed Windows Server 2003 SP2 (for example, from
Windows Update or by using Update.exe) without first updating ADAM, you
can correct this issue with the following procedure:

*To repair ADAM
*

Uninstall Windows Server 2003 SP2.
Download and install ADAM SP1 by following the instructions provided in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 902838 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=82253).
Reinstall Windows Server 2003 SP2.

SYSPREP 4 WINDOWS 2008 SERVER TEMPLATE

azerrad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:39:52 GMT

hello,

im using vmware 4 :

1) how can i be sure in which scsi controller to use (bus logic or lsi logic) ? for those opreating systems:

windows 2008
linux (cent os ,redhat)
windows 2003

2) there is any sysprep file that i can use it in vmware for windows 2008 template ? (like i am using in windows 2003 server ) if yes ,how can i get it and where i need to locate it on my vc ?

respectfully,
avi azerrad

Is there an alarm to monitor vmnic Speed?

olegarr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:24:37 GMT

Hello:

I know that it's possible to create an alarm to monitor almost anything on VI4, however I cannot figure out how to create alarm that will be triggered if Configured Speed on vmnic change...

I want to create alarm that monitors Hosts vmnic and triggered if/when "Configured Speed" will be changed from 1000 Mb, Full Duplex to anything else. Is it possible?

Thank you

VMware, Inc. VMware VirtualCenter key found in many server's Registry

stratolynne — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:06:35 GMT

Hi all,

Here's a good one. We were doing some security triage and found this key in the registry of many servers at this site.

VMware Inc.

VMware VirtualCenter

Some of these servers are Physical boxes and some are VMs. We are only running the VirtualCenter on 1 server and its key has data in it. On the other servers (physical or virtual) the key structure is there with no data in it.

Anyone have any ideas how this key got into these other servers (in some cases that have nothing to do with VMware)?

Thanks.

Resource module 'alarm' not found

jayschupp — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:50:07 GMT

Hoping someone here has seen this...

My vSphere log is full of these messages.

~~2009-11-02 13:29:23.205 03800 warning 'Locale'~~ Resource module 'alarm' not found. Using from default locale...

'alarm' cycles through 'perf', 'enum' and 'vm'

I'm not sure what the default locale would be. I did stop the vCenter server services as I thought maybe something else was using the Tomcat port 8080 but that wasn't the problem.

Thanks in advance.

...Jay

vmware converter server is not running

raghupal22 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:33:52 GMT

Hi,

I have installed VMware-converter-4.0.1-161434.tar.gz and VMware_Workstation-6.5.2 on Fedora 11 Operating System

when i am trying to open vmware-converter, it is giving error as:

Failed to connect server, Check if the converter server is running on this computer

if i run /etc/init.d/vmware-converter, it is saying server is started. but actually there is no process created for that.

even i don't know where i have to check the logs for this converter

Could you please tell me how to resolve this issue.

Thanks in advance

vCenter 4.0 on Oracle 10.2.0.4.0 ?

Tigerstolly — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:39:19 GMT

I note on the compatibility matrix ( http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_compatibility_matrix.pdf ) that Oracle 10.2.0.3.0 is supported, but not 10.2.0.4.0. 10.2.0.4.0 has been out for over 12 months according to our Oracle DBA team.

Problem we have is that firstly our vCenter service has crashed around 7 times in the last month. People are just getting kicked out of the vSphere client and when we check on the server, the service has terminated. Second problem we have then is that when the service has terminated ungracefully the Oracle server still has sessions open and the vCenter service then cannot get exclusive access. Meaning we can't then get the service started.

Anyone got any ideas ?

Slow vCenter 4 host daily operation.

AlbertWT — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:30:33 GMT

Hi All,

Previously I installed vCenter on Windows XP SP3 with 4 GB RAM and SQL Server 2005 Express to manage 3 ESXi hosts with the total of 55 VMs it was slow, and then now I install it in

Windows Server 2003 Std. R2 SP2 with 4 GB RAM and SQL Server 2005 Std. all 32 bit, it is also running slow when i remote desktop into that server :-|

is there anything that i can do to make the vCenter becoming more responsive ? or do I have to upgrade into 64 bit WS2003 with 8 GB RAM ?

FYI: I've set the DB log level into 2 out of 4 due to the a free VM monitoring software.

I double checked the Task manger and it seems that Apache.exe and SQLServ.exe consumesthe biggest memory in the server.

Any idea and best practice in DB tuning would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,
AWT

Templates/Deploy Windows Server 2008 R2 with vCenter 4 and ESX 3.5 U4

DGI_Drift — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:26:19 GMT

Hi

I have issues to install and deploy templates/VM's of windows server 2008 R2
The error messages is attached.

When I try to deploy a server, I first got this error message:

And then the server restarts and after a little while I get this error message:

And if I try to restart, the same message occur again and again. So I can't get through this.

I have tried the trick to set it windows vista before making the template.

Can anyone help me?

Annotations / Custom Fields

houghtp — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:16:56 GMT

Hi,

Is there a way to stop Custom Fields associated with VM's from being deleted when removing and re-adding a Host to a cluster?

thanks
Paul.

vCenter server 4.0 panic's very often on GetYearInCentury

dpandey — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:09:14 GMT

I keep seeing vCenter dump core periodically with this mini-trace. What could I be doing wrong? This vCenter Server is using the SQL Server Express 2005 bundled with the vCenter. I have installed vCenter Server on a VM running Microsoft Windows XP SP3.

--2009-11-02 00:59:18.120 01644 info 'App'-- VpxdHostSync Retrieved host update to 207
--2009-11-02 00:59:18.120 01644 error 'App'-- VpxdMoVm Invalid guest IP address for VM Mercury VM-1: fe80::20c:29ff:fec8:fcac/64
--2009-11-02 00:59:18.136 01644 info 'App'-- VpxdHostSync Completed host synchronization
--2009-11-02 00:59:18.136 01644 info 'App'-- VpxLRO -- FINISH task-internal-14 -- host-29 -- VpxdInvtHostSyncHostLRO.Synchronize --
--2009-11-02 00:59:34.589 03044 error 'App'--

Panic: Not Reached: @ d:/build/ob/bora-161137/bora/vim/lib/vmacore/system/TCPClientSocketMixin.cpp:413
Backtrace:
backtrace00 eip 0x019e88f0 ?AbortProcess@System@Vmacore@@YAXXZ
backtrace01 eip 0x019e9077 ?CreateBacktrace@SystemFactoryImpl@System@Vmacore@@UAEXAAV?$Ref@VBacktrace@System@Vmacore@@@3@@Z
backtrace02 eip 0x0192b863 ?PanicExit@Vmacore@@YAXABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z
backtrace03 eip 0x0192bac4 ?RunTimeFailure@Vmacore@@YAXPBD00HH@Z
backtrace04 eip 0x01a41be5 ?GetYearInCentury@DateTime@System@Vmacore@@QBEHXZ
backtrace05 eip 0x01a423b3 ?GetYearInCentury@DateTime@System@Vmacore@@QBEHXZ
backtrace06 eip 0x019f0b36 ?CreateNamedPipeServer@SystemFactoryImpl@System@Vmacore@@UAEXABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@HAAV?$Ref@VNamedPipeServer@System@Vmacore@@@3@@Z
backtrace07 eip 0x019fa123 ?IsEnlisted@System@Vmacore@@YA_NXZ
backtrace08 eip 0x019fb132 ?IsEnlisted@System@Vmacore@@YA_NXZ
backtrace09 eip 0x019fd9cd ?IsEnlisted@System@Vmacore@@YA_NXZ
backtrace10 eip 0x019fe699 ?IsEnlisted@System@Vmacore@@YA_NXZ
backtrace11 eip 0x0190614f ?CreateHttpUserAgent@Http@Vmacore@@YAXPAVConnectionSpec@12@PAVCookieStore@12@PAVHttpConnectionPool@12@AAV?$Ref@VUserAgent@Http@Vmacore@@@2@@Z
backtrace12 eip 0x019f79e3 ?ThisThreadExists@System@Vmacore@@YA_NXZ
backtrace13 eip 0x781329bb _endthreadex
backtrace14 eip 0x78132a47 _endthreadex

--2009-11-02 00:59:34.589 03044 info 'App'-- CoreDump: Writing minidump
--2009-11-02 00:59:34.604 03164 warning 'ProxySvc Req19737'-- Connection to localhost:80 failed with error class Vmacore::SystemException(An operation on a socket could not be performed because the system lacked sufficient buffer space or because a queue was full. ).

Is It possible to run a Customscript after a Machine is Created?

shatztal — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:26:07 GMT

We Deploy From Templates lots of vm's . and i wrote a VI Powershell Script that is adding some Details to the VM that in the VI client we can see like "Description" "Owner" "Domain"
it is for Order Purpose only .
i want that after i Deploy a Machine it will run the script on my Guest PC so that i can input the details as it says.
is it possible ? have you any idea maybe on an other way?

Host xxxx currently has no management network redundancy - warning

Bluemoon404 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:33:34 GMT

I have a service console port which has two physical NICs attached. I have two ESX 4 servers which are clustered.

I have a yellow triangle over the cluster and a warning:

Host xxxx currently has no management network redundancy

Processing Data from Vcente Agent Error

trevorbell — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:56:16 GMT

hi all,

i have 3 esx hosts and vcentre vmotion drs etc all working until today ,i couldnt log in the vcenter the service just kept stopping and no matter how many restarts would not stay started long enough to log in, so i decided to reload on a fresh server which i have done but when i try to add the hosts back in i get the following error the status bar gets to 9% retrieving data for vcenter agent then loses connection to the vcenter

The 3 hosts are working fine and i can log into them on their own via VC but really need the VC working so i can resetup DRS Vmotion etc

Any help most welcome as i really need to get this problem fixed if anyone can help ?

Many Thanks

Trev..

DL380 G5 ESX 3.5

jstuer — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:52:52 GMT

This has happened twice now. The host has restared once and has been powered off once. I can not find any failures in any of the HP logs or in HPSIM. Where can I look in vCenter for ANY/ALL events that could cause the host to shut off? It is protected by a UPS.

DPM alarms on Vcenter 2.5

dales123 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:54:57 GMT

Hi all,

I was just wondering if there was anyway that I could get vcenter 2.5 to email/snmp trap/alarm a message when a DPM recommendation is generated. Reason being is I am thinking about testing DPM by switching it on to manual and just checking out how many changes that it recommends over a business month.

Also I guess the manual setting would not being any good if a recommendation is made to power off a host after hours when the users have gone home and then the remaining hosts reach saturation during the morning logon for the users if for example the IT bod was not in at that point. I know that manual means manual and it seems like a stupid thing to ask, but just wondered if vcenter would overide the manual setting and power on the host if the other hosts were struggling with the load.

Regards

Dale

VM Groups for Alarms and other Config?

alan328 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:10:41 GMT

We would like to set up alarms for some specific machine to trap a restart - these are machines that require operational interaction after startup.

Is there any type of process that can be used to assign VMs to specific alarms, other than assigning the alarm at the machine level, or creating a folder into which the VM would need to be placed?

I can see a use for VM groups that would allow specific types of configuration to be applied to specific machines, but do not think that this is implemented in the latest (or in previous releases) of vC.

Folders do not really provide this function in a workable way as I don't believe that a VM could be a member of different folders at the same level at the same time. E.g. you may want to apply an alarm for high CPU and one for a restart check, but I don't believe that a VM could be in both folders at the same time and it may be that not all of the high CPU machines needed a restart check.

Does anyone have any thoughts about how different alarms could be associated with different machines, other than by individual assignment?

Thanks,

Alan

ESX 4 take a long time to login VC4

cyriltam01 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:03:11 GMT

Hi all

I have 2 ESX 4 servers, when i reboot the esx server, the server needs very long time to log on vc4. It takes around 5 min to relogon VC

Is that any methods to reduce time for esx server logon? Since I haven't any DNS server and domain server

many thx

VC 4.0 Power off button

hamilton00 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:30:17 GMT

In VC 2.5 the red power off button for VM's would do just that, power off the VM. In VC 4.0 I notice this button now tries to initiate a guest OS shutdown. Is there a way to change this back to just power off the VM?

Enabled Smart cards for interactive logins (at domain level), now web interface doesn't work.

pchadwic — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:34:23 GMT

we enabled smart card logins for interactive logins for user accounts, now those user accounts can't log into the web interface.

yes, we were sure to go back in and reset the user passwords after enabling smart card requirements.

user accounts that do not have smart card requirements all work fine.

anyone else seen this?? this also happens on my local server v2 install.

vCenter guided consolidation error 29593

avallk — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:07:56 GMT

We are trying to install the vCenter guided consolidation application. It appears to get all the way to the end and then throws up "Error 29593.Unknown error occurred during registration." Does anyone have an idea what might be wrong? I thought that it may be a user account permission issue, and so tried different accounts with the same result.

Added log file.

Thanks

Ken

VC 2.0.2 Performance Data - losing Daily Weekly Monthly Options

MrE Here — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:06:38 GMT

I have inherited a VC 2.0.2 U5 VirtualCenter, running SQL 2005 E SP2 situation. One of the (many) things I am trying to repair has to do with performance data. The symptom is that when I go into Performance Chart Options, I only see REAL-TIME for the 5 resources on any given host. However, the Daily, Weekly, Monthly and custom were all there yesterday. They disappeared this morning.

Some more background. The rollup SQL jobs were missing when I started. I have manually created the SQL rollup jobs, which are running without error. I have looked in the various SQL database tables and to the nearly untrained eye, the data looks like it is there. One last thing, the VPX_HIST_STAT table is significantly fragmented. I have run the INDEXDEFRAG on it which has resulted in much better responsiveness when you pull up the REAL-TIME performance chart. However within a few hours I can rerun my SQL query (showcontig) on the index and it is re-fragmenting before my very eyes. I plan to do a full blown index rebuild on Friday (with VC service stopped).

I have spent many hours researching this over the last 2 weeks. Because this is a 2.0.2 scenario, the amount of nuts-and-bolts information has been minimal. I can not say with absolute certainty if the rollup jobs are 100% correct - nor can I say with certainty that the fragmentation of the VPX_HIST_STAT table is involved. There is a plan to upgrade to VC2.5 (please no suggestions on skipping to vSphere, not my choice) and that will probably resolve a lot of the issues, but for the time being I am trying to resolve this as is. Any and all help most welcomed.

I am not a SQL admin, I only play one at work.

vCenter Database Upgrade Error

sbhowan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:31:07 GMT

Whilw trying to upgrade a VC 2.5 u4 server to vCentre 4.0 we are encountering the following error as per the vcDatabase upgrade log.

~~2009/10/23 12:51:45 PM~~ Info: Beginning upgrade process....
~~2009/10/23 12:51:45 PM~~ Info: VCDB2 has been detected as an SQL server.
~~2009/10/23 12:51:45 PM~~ Info: DSN=VCDB2 UID=test\svc.vccadmin LOGFILE=VCDatabaseUpgrade.log SERVICE=vpxd HELPPATH=null QUIET=true
~~2009/10/23 12:51:46 PM~~ Stopping service vpxd again.
~~2009/10/23 12:51:46 PM~~ While stopping service vpxd: Service vpxd was not found on computer '.'.
~~2009/10/23 12:51:46 PM~~ Info: Initiating progress bar
~~2009/10/23 12:51:46 PM~~ Total lines to execute: 695
~~2009/10/23 12:51:46 PM~~ Info: Upgrading database from version 2.5.2 to version 4.0
~~2009/10/23 12:51:46 PM~~ Upgrade-v5-to-v6\T-SQL\upgrade_mssql.sql
truncate table vpx_version
INSERT INTO vpx_version VALUES (400, 'VirtualCenter Database 4.0')
DELETE FROM VPX_EXT_TYPE_IDS WHERE EXT_ID='com.vmware.vim.stats.report'
DELETE FROM VPX_EXT_PRIVS WHERE EXT_ID='com.vmware.vim.stats.report'
DELETE FROM VPX_EXT_SERVER_EMAIL WHERE EXT_SERVER_ID IN ( SELECT EXT_SERVER_ID FROM VPX_EXT_SERVER WHERE EXT_ID='com.vmware.vim.stats.report')
DELETE FROM VPX_EXT_SERVER WHERE EXT_ID='com.vmware.vim.stats.report'
DELETE FROM VPX_EXT_CLIENT WHERE EXT_ID='com.vmware.vim.stats.report'
DELETE FROM VPX_EXT WHERE EXT_ID='com.vmware.vim.stats.report'
update vpx_field_val set mo_id=LTRIM(rtrim(mo_id))
update vpx_sched_scheduler set SCHEDULE_HOUR = SCHEDULE_HOUR - (SELECT DATEDIFF(minute,GETUTCDATE(),GETDATE())/60) , SCHEDULE_MINUTE = SCHEDULE_MINUTE - (SELECT DATEDIFF(minute,GETUTCDATE(),GETDATE())%60) WHERE SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.AfterStartupTaskScheduler' AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.OncetaskScheduler'
update vpx_sched_scheduler set SCHEDULE_HOUR = SCHEDULE_HOUR+1 , SCHEDULE_MINUTE=SCHEDULE_MINUTE-60 WHERE SCHEDULE_MINUTE >= 60 AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.AfterStartupTaskScheduler' AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.OncetaskScheduler'
update vpx_sched_scheduler set SCHEDULE_HOUR = SCHEDULE_HOUR-1 , SCHEDULE_MINUTE=SCHEDULE_MINUTE+60 WHERE SCHEDULE_MINUTE < 0 AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.AfterStartupTaskScheduler' AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.OncetaskScheduler'
update vpx_sched_scheduler set SCHEDULE_DAY = CASE WHEN (SCHEDULE_DAY+1)%31 = 0 THEN 31 ELSE (SCHEDULE_DAY+1)%31 END , SCHEDULE_HOUR = SCHEDULE_HOUR-24 WHERE SCHEDULE_HOUR >= 24 AND SCHEDULE_DAY > 0 AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.AfterStartupTaskScheduler' AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.OncetaskScheduler'
update vpx_sched_scheduler set SCHEDULE_DAY = CASE WHEN (SCHEDULE_DAY-1)%31 = 0 THEN 31 ELSE (SCHEDULE_DAY-1)%31 END , SCHEDULE_HOUR = SCHEDULE_HOUR+24 WHERE SCHEDULE_HOUR < 0 AND SCHEDULE_DAY > 0 AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.AfterStartupTaskScheduler' AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.OncetaskScheduler'
update vpx_sched_scheduler set SCHEDULE_HOUR = SCHEDULE_HOUR+24 , SCHEDULE_SUNDAY=SCHEDULE_MONDAY , SCHEDULE_MONDAY=SCHEDULE_TUESDAY , SCHEDULE_TUESDAY=SCHEDULE_WEDNESDAY , SCHEDULE_WEDNESDAY=SCHEDULE_THURSDAY , SCHEDULE_THURSDAY=SCHEDULE_FRIDAY , SCHEDULE_FRIDAY=SCHEDULE_SATURDAY , SCHEDULE_SATURDAY=SCHEDULE_SUNDAY WHERE SCHEDULE_HOUR < 0 AND SCHEDULE_DAY = 0 AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.AfterStartupTaskScheduler' AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.OncetaskScheduler'
update vpx_sched_scheduler set SCHEDULE_HOUR = SCHEDULE_HOUR-24 ,SCHEDULE_MONDAY=SCHEDULE_SUNDAY ,SCHEDULE_TUESDAY=SCHEDULE_MONDAY ,SCHEDULE_WEDNESDAY=SCHEDULE_TUESDAY ,SCHEDULE_THURSDAY=SCHEDULE_WEDNESDAY ,SCHEDULE_FRIDAY=SCHEDULE_THURSDAY ,SCHEDULE_SATURDAY=SCHEDULE_FRIDAY ,SCHEDULE_SUNDAY=SCHEDULE_SATURDAY WHERE SCHEDULE_HOUR >=24 AND SCHEDULE_DAY = 0 AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.AfterStartupTaskScheduler' AND SCHEDULER_TYPE <> 'vim.scheduler.OncetaskScheduler'
insert into VPX_PARAMETER(NAME, VALUE) VALUES ('client.VerifySSLCertificates-NEW', 'false')
update VPX_PARAMETER set VALUE= (SELECT VALUE FROM VPX_PARAMETER WHERE NAME='client.VerifySSLCertificates') WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM VPX_PARAMETER WHERE NAME='client.VerifySSLCertificates') AND NAME='client.VerifySSLCertificates-NEW'
DELETE FROM VPX_PARAMETER WHERE NAME='client.VerifySSLCertificates'
update VPX_PARAMETER set NAME='client.VerifySSLCertificates' WHERE NAME='client.VerifySSLCertificates-NEW'
alter table VPX_HOST_CPU alter column DESCRIPTION nvarchar(255) null
ALTER TABLE VPX_IP_ADDRESS DROP CONSTRAINT PK_VPX_IP_ADDRESS
ALTER table VPX_IP_ADDRESS ALTER COLUMN IP_ADDRESS NVARCHAR(50)
create index VPX_IP_ADDRESS_M1 ON VPX_IP_ADDRESS(ENTITY_ID, DEVICE_ID)
ALTER TABLE VPX_NIC DROP CONSTRAINT PK_VPX_NIC
CREATE INDEX VPX_NIC_M1 ON VPX_NIC(ENTITY_ID, DEVICE_ID)
create table VPX_ENTITY_VMOP_COUNT ( ID INT NOT NULL, POWERON_COUNT int null, POWEROFF_COUNT int null, SUSPEND_COUNT int null, RESET_COUNT int null, REBOOTGUEST_COUNT int null, STANDBYGUEST_COUNT int null, SHUTDOWNGUEST_COUNT int null, CREATE_COUNT int null, DESTROY_COUNT int null, REGISTER_COUNT int null, UNREGISTER_COUNT int null, RECONFIGURE_COUNT int null, CLONE_COUNT int null, DEPLOY_COUNT int null, CHANGEHOST_COUNT int null, CHANGEDS_COUNT int null, CHANGEHOSTDS_COUNT int null, VMOTION_COUNT int null, SVMOTION_COUNT int null, constraint PK_VPX_ENTITY_VMOP_COUNT primary key (ID), constraint FK_VPX_ENTITY_VMOP_COUNT_REF foreign key (ID) references VPX_ENTITY (ID) on delete cascade )
INSERT INTO VPX_ENTITY_VMOP_COUNT(ID, CLONE_COUNT, DEPLOY_COUNT, CHANGEHOST_COUNT,CHANGEDS_COUNT,CHANGEHOSTDS_COUNT) SELECT ID, CLONE_COUNT,DEPLOY_COUNT, MIGRATE_COUNT ,MIGRATE_COUNT,MIGRATE_COUNT FROM VPX_DATACENTER
INSERT INTO VPX_ENTITY_VMOP_COUNT(ID, VMOTION_COUNT) SELECT ID, VMOTION_COUNT FROM VPX_COMPUTE_RESOURCE WHERE RESOURCE_TYPE=2
ALTER TABLE VPX_DATACENTER DROP COLUMN CLONE_COUNT
+2009/10/23 12:51:46 PM Error: Failed to execute SQL procedure. Got exception: ERROR 42000 Microsoft http://SQL Server Native Client 10.0 SQL ServerThe statistics 'CLONE_COUNT' is dependent on column 'CLONE_COUNT'.+
+ERROR 42000 Microsoft http://SQL Server Native Client 10.0 SQL ServerALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN CLONE_COUNT failed because one or more objects access this column.+
~~2009/10/23 12:51:46 PM~~ Error: Failed to execute command: ALTER TABLE VPX_DATACENTER DROP COLUMN CLONE_COUNT
+~~2009/10/23 12:51:46 PM~~ Error while upgrading: ERROR 42000 Microsoft http://SQL Server Native Client 10.0 SQL ServerThe statistics 'CLONE_COUNT' is dependent on column 'CLONE_COUNT'.+
+ERROR 42000 Microsoft http://SQL Server Native Client 10.0 SQL ServerALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN CLONE_COUNT failed because one or more objects access this column.+
~~2009/10/23 12:51:46 PM~~ Info: Exiting Upgrade Wizard

We have assigned the necessary dbo rights to the database user as well as the msdb rigths required but it keeps failing at this point. The original server has update manager and orchestrator installed as well. Any ideas as to what might be causing thi, as after this failure when trying to rerun the VC 4.0 install we get prompted to re-initialise the database.

Thanks in advance for any assistance

Perf Charts service experienced and internal error

SERRGE — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:54:12 GMT

VCenter v4, not upgrade(install first), Database MS SQL 2005 Express, in log stats.log strang error, how resolved this?

stats.log:

ERROR com.vmware.vim.stats.webui.startup.StatsApplicationLauncher : Task execution produced an error. Re-initialization attempt #3 will startup after 60 seconds...
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: com.vmware.vim.stats.webui.StatsReportException: Unable to initialize Report Descriptor Templates Repository.
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(Unknown Source)

Missing some historical data

jbrown9999 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:13:45 GMT

On my vCenter server, I have a few VM's that aren't showing historical performance data anymore. I was running 2.5 U3 when the problem occured. I worked with my DBA and he found some of the views in SQL no longer had the active links they need to create the historical data. So, in attempt to get these links recreated, I unpgraded to 2.5 U5 yesterday. Still have the same problem. The jobs under SQL that do the roll up run with out error. I have over 100 VM's in 2 clusters on 9 different hosts.

All other functions seem to be working and I haven't done anything within the SQL server that should have broken the links. Any idea on what the best way to get these recreated would be?

vCenter + EMC Storage Viewer

Luca (AUSL Parma) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:50:36 GMT

Hi, i've downloaded EMC Storage Viewer 2.0 plugin and installed it on a vCenter Server 4.0.0 (OS Windows 2003).

Before this i've installed EMC Solution Enabler 7.0.1. I've also configured Solution Enabler and all command succesfull runs:

C:\Programmi\EMC\SYMCLI\bin>symcfg.exe -clariion list

C L A R I I O N

Firmware Num Num Phys Num Clar
ClarID Model Version Disks Devices Devices

CKM00092200137 CX4_240 4.28.0.5.704 22 2 18

Running vSphere client i see the plugin activated. When i browse datastores or other features (LUNs, Targets, ...) the "Status" window reports this message: "Failed to update Solutions Enabler connection data. Error = No objects of the requested type were found" (see attachment).

Also the log in the directory "C:\Programmi\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Plugins\EMCStorageViewer\Logs\" reports:

(10/27/2009)(14:30:52.718)SE ERROR: StorArrayList() failed. Error(1000052):No objects of the requested type were found.
(10/27/2009)(14:30:52.718)SE ERROR: Failed to update Solutions Enabler connection data. Error = No objects of the requested type were found

Any solution?

Thanks in advance

Luca

Hostd not starting after upgrading ESX3.5 to 4.0

Jonas75 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:57:20 GMT

Hi,

I can't reconnect the ESX server after updating my ESX host from Vcenter (the update stays at 46%). I found that the hostd server dies by himself. Here is the log :

here is the log :

--2009-10-26 18:31:19.360 F66366D0 info 'App'-- Trying httpnfcsvc
--2009-10-26 18:31:19.360 F66366D0 verbose 'App'-- Plugin 4 statically linked
--2009-10-26 18:31:19.360 F66366D0 verbose 'App'-- DiskLibWrapperLoader_Init Trying to load disk lib: diskLibWrapper.so,
--2009-10-26 18:31:19.361 F66366D0 verbose 'App'-- DiskLibWrapperLoader_Init Successfully loaded disk lib.
--2009-10-26 18:31:19.364 F66366D0 panic 'App'-- error: Address family not supported by protocol
--2009-10-26 18:31:19.364 F66366D0 panic 'App'-- backtrace:

00 eip 0xf7c3b925
01 eip 0xf7b29e40
02 eip 0xf7ad3d30
03 eip 0xf7c3d18e
04 eip 0xf7c35764
05 eip 0x57fe7221
06 eip 0x57fe5f09
07 eip 0xf7aed921
08 eip 0xf7af24f4
09 eip 0xf7aeba8d
10 eip 0x586bdb12
11 eip 0x586b357a
12 eip 0x586c1d3f
13 eip 0xf67f7dec
14 eip 0x57d72121

If someone has an idea....

Jonas

mail alerts' sending frequency set to 'once' but sent 'repeated'

ericsun11 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:38:56 GMT

version: vsphere 4

Question: IN the alarm setting->operation page, if snmp trap and mail alert are both set, and the frequency is repeated and once separately, the mail alert will be sent repeatedly instead of being sent once.

Is it the drawback of vsphere 4? And how could I resolve this problem while snmp trap is set by most of alerts' operation by default.

Thanks!

VM's getting Object Reference not set since VCenter upgrade.

vm-au-user — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:36:33 GMT

We have noticed that some our VM's are starting to get the attached error since we have upgrade to VCenter.

Where should I begin to investigate and resolve this issue?

some blank (black) console screens since vsphere update

beckhamk — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:12:45 GMT

Hello all prior to upgrading to vsphere and vcenter 4.0 we never have console issues from any client or server using the vic. From most offsite client machines that connect to our vc using vpn have no remote console issues at all. But on the same server that vcenter is installed we have the vic installed one rdp session can connect to vcenter and get consoles just fine. another user could rdp into the same box use another admin rdp session and then try to use the consoles in vc and they resize correctly but the screen is blank or black. We even have the vic installed on another server that is behind the same firewall and it also has this same issue although it happens all of the time.

Has anyone see this before? Makes no sense as some clients have no problems and other due. We find the vc server itself has this issue rather strange.

Slow Performance Virtual Center 2.5 with SQL 2005 after windows updates.

nwbazl — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:05:01 GMT

After Windows updates, include sql patches, VMware Virtual Center is very slow. vMotion session timed out and clicking in VC is very very slow.

How knows a solution for this?

Thanks in advanced,

Robert

Empty black RC after installing Guest OS

srsrsrsr — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:51:13 GMT

Aloha,

im complete new to vmware but since my new job are require it im getting into it for the last days.

Here is the scenario.

I installed vmware server 2 on a Redhat Linux Enterprise 5 system.

Installation gone pretty easy. After that successfull created a VM.

As the guest OS i also choosed RHEL 5.

I also was able to successfull install RHEL 5 on the VM as guest OS.

But after the installation reboot on the VM i end up with a empty black screen in the remote consol, where i cant do any input.

This screen is what i get just after starting the VM.

Full size Screen on imageschack:

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/135/vmerror.jpg

I checked the log files but couldnt find any error messages, I also reinstalled the VM, VMware Server even the complete host OS.

Still after all the reinstallation i end up with the same problem.

I hope any of you experts can give me a hint or even better a solution

King Regrads

PS: im not sure if this is the right forum but i didnt found a subforum for vmserver

Moving VCenter(vm) from one host to another

enigma26 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:40:11 GMT

I am trying to move a vm that happens to be my VCenter from one host (ESX3.5) to another (ESX4).

When I try to migrate it tells me to turn off the server which I cant do because it's my VCenter.

My other option is to enable VMotion... but I can't seem to find the VMotion download anywhere.

Is there a 3rd option or does anyone know where I can find VMotion?

Thanx in advance for your help.

Vcenter very slow when presented storage is offline

joejackson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:57:26 GMT

Hopefully someone can help me here...

We have 8 esx hosts connected to 2 fc sans (msa1000 and eva8000). 4 luns presented from the msa (production vms running) and 4 from the eva (brand new, 2 test vms).

I was doing some testing with the new VDR appliance and did the following

1. shut off the eva - wanted to test a real world failure of the eva.

What i expected to be able to do was log into vcenter and perform restores of the vm's that were running on the eva to the msa however

vcenter seemed to be very slow and stop responding. I couldn't do much at all, tasks would hang at 1% etc...

I believe it might have something to do with the esx hosts looking for the datastores that were located on the eva, and tying up resources or something...

does anyone have any idea how to stop the hosts from polling the non-existant datastores (if that is even the problem) or why vcenter would be so slow and non responsive when the eva is off

Thanks,

vCenter 2.5 VM has high CPU usage when SQL Agent is running

morrisos — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:14:24 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to get my SQL backups scheduled but CPU spikes, on our vCenter VM, to 100% shortly after turning on the SQL Agent. If I turn the SQL Agent off CPU returns to normal. We only have 4 hosts and 25 VM's. Is this a bug? Any fixes?

Thanks,

Morrisos

tomcat6 issues

devzero — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:30:06 GMT

it seems there is a memory leak in tomcat service on virtual center.

every now and then tomcat consumes 100% cpu and is completely busy with garbage collection so i have to restart the service.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1396802

anybody having similar problems ?

I cant see my drop down list of my ODBC connections in vCenter?

theblackknight — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:28:13 GMT

I used the 32 bit ODBC connection per the link below. I can create my DSN connections and test succesefully, but when I go through the vCenter install and go to choose the drop down list there is nothing there?

http://robertoschiabel.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/windows-x64-32bit-odbc-vs-64bit-odbc/

A file was not found

SecureDotCom — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:49:26 GMT

HI,

I have had trouble starting one of my vm's. With the trouble i've had trying to start this VM. I then attempted to clone that particular fm and got the following error. see the attachment. PLease help how ever who ever can. How can I go about finding this missing file?

Virtual center running on MSCS - Upgrade

emaredskin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:32:45 GMT

I'm running Virtual Center 2.5 on Microsoft cluster (SQL 2005, virtual center server and virtual center license server installed on the two nodes of the cluster and related cluster resources defined).

We are planning to upgrade to vc 4, but there are no info in the official vSphere Upgrade Guide. Any suggestion/doc from the community about migrating a clustered vc 2.5 to a clustered vc 4 ?

Thanks in advance for your help

VMware VirtualCenter Management Service Webservices not starting when Windows starts

dmilazzo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:02:18 GMT

Good evening to all

I am in a strange situation, just finished installing vCenter for vSphere 4 and restarted the server, it is reported that a service is not started properly.

In the event log there is only the following error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7024
Date: 10/21/2009
Time: 9:46:45 PM
User: N / A
Computer: vCenter
Description:
VMware VirtualCenter Management Services Webservices finished. Service-specific error 0 (0x0).

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

If I try to start the service manually anything done.

any suggestions?

thanks in advance

Guest Customization Wizard unable to store admin password securely

itsupportzagat — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:03:25 GMT

First off I've followed KBID 1857 to try and resolve this, it did not work. (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1857)

So i have vSphere 4, on Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2, fully up to date for October 2009. This server was upgraded from vCenter 3/ESX 3.5U3 (or whatever confusing name it was before).

When I clone a VM and kick off the "Customize using the Customization Wizard" (meaning I'm not using a template, I've never defined one), when it gets to the Administrator Password and I specify the PW and click next, the following error message appears:

"An internal error has occurred, and the wizard is unable to store the Administrator password securely. The customization cannot proceed. Contact VMware technical support for more information."

We have 5 ESX4 hosts, all Dell PowerEdge 1950s, they all have the same bios & firmware revisions via OpenManage 6.1.0, and all applicable patches are installed to those Hosts (19, iirc). I don't believe ESX is playing a role in this error message; it seems the error coming straight from the vCenter server.

Any ideas before I get on the phone?

Strange Storage View Behavior

VMuser910 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:29:41 GMT

Hi All,

I have 4 x ESX 3.5 U4 connected to a vCenter 4 server. The ESX servers are tied to a NetApp SAN. When I created the datastore under "Configuration -> Storage", the datestores did not show up on the screen (even I have hit refresh multiple times). However when I clicked over to the "Storage Views" tab, the datastores show up fine. Does anyone know what is going on?

Thanks,

VMUser910

Access to Maps through Website

chrisgermany — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:30:18 GMT

Hi all,

i have a problem and hope you can help me...

I try / want to display the auto generated Maps in an extra Website on our intranet...

Till today i haven't found a way to automatically export the map, convert it to an image and bind it into an website...

Do you have an suggestions or solutions?

I thought about using the VM API, but i haven't any experience with it..

thx for your help,

chris

Errors in vws.log

FishB1s — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:29:46 GMT

After I have updated VC from version 2.5 to version 4 I began to receive error messages: ERROR 'com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec'] Error while trying to login to https://vc.lab.ru:8085/vws/Login
However on port 8085 anything is not present. Secured WebAccess listen on port 8443.
What I need to correct that the message did not appear?

vCenter Server and maxsessioncount

sispeo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:31:44 GMT

We are developping collect agents for our product and for some clients having a large ESX farm, we have problems with session count as each ESX agent needs to connect to the vCenter. (for oldier version of our product)

What would be the impact on the vCenter server performances when increasing maxsessioncount (i.e. to a greater value than 100, the default one) in vpxd.cfg ?

Does this manual modification in vpxd.cfg is supported by VMware ?

Permission to connect NIC

zik — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:49:16 GMT

I would like to give my users permission to connect and disconnect their NICs. Not to select which network, just to change the device status. What permissions do I need?

As a higher level question, how do I discover what permissions are needed for any given operation? I have yet to figure one of these out on my own. These things tend to require various permissions at multiple levels and it is never clear what is necessary.

Thanks.

How to restore custom attributes?

koit — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:49:37 GMT

Hi,

We use custom attributes on VMs to add more information about them.

Someone has accidently deleted one of the global attributes and all of the information the attribute contained about every VM.

I have VC database backup, but how can I restore only the attributes and not the entire database?

Please help

Kind regards

Bernt Torbjornsen