VMware Communities : Unanswered Threads - vSphere Web Services SDK

CreateNasDatastore() using the SDK

shaileshd — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:28:25 GMT

I am trying to create a datastore on my esx server. I have the Managed Object Reference to the HostDatastoreSystem. I also have set the fields correctly in the HostNasVolumeSpec.

I am using C++, and have not been able to find any examples regarding how to access the methods of different objects.

I have:

hostDatastoreSystemMOR = *((vim2__ManagedObjectReference*)responseContent->propSet[idx]->t;val);

/* __item and type of the hostDatastoreSystemMOR print correctly. type = HostDataStoreSystem and __item prints the name*/

vim2__HostNasVolumeSpec spec;


spec.localPath=""; spec.remoteHost="";spec.remotePath=""; // these are set correctly.

/* at this point I am all set to CreateNasDatastore() */

but my call:

hostDatastoreSystemMOR .CreateNasDatastore(spec)

gets compile error "class vim2__ManagedObjectReference has no member named CreateNasDatastore".

The error looks correct as there is no CreateNasDatastore() in the ManagedObjectReference.

My question is How do I call CreateNasDataStore() when I have a MOR to HostDatastoreSystem.

really appreciate the help.

thanks

Get Cluster Name of VM with FindEntityViews

crigano — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:39:55 GMT

Hello,

I've got a simple inventory query setup that pulls back all of the virtual machines in vCenter. Is there any easy way to get the cluster name that the VM resides in? I'm not finding a basic VM property that contains this information. I see there's a "parent" property, so I'm not sure if that's what I need to use or not. A code snippet below is basically what I'd like to do:

IList<EntityViewBase> vmList = client.FindEntityViews(typeof(VirtualMachine), null, null, null);

foreach (VirtualMachine vm in vmList)
{
Console.WriteLine(vm.Name);
Console.WirteLine(vm.??)
}

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

WaitForUpdates Hangs

manfred9999 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:50:39 GMT

Hello

I use WaitForUpdates to receive new events. Somtimes my application hangs on the line of code where the WaitForUpdates is called.

I don't see a solutin to avoid this problem. Does anyone have any simular expierience?

Regards

Manfred

SetTaskState questions

mseries — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:06:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to use the SetTaskState method to cancel a task, providing a specific message, but I'm not having much luck.

My first question is: is setting the task state to 'error' and specifying a RequestCanceled fault the same as canceling the task? For example, if it's a CloneVM_Task, will it terminate all sub-tasks and clean up any previously generated artifacts?

My next question is: does anyone have a working example of the use of this command? No matter what I try, I always get the following fault:

:code => 'ServerFaultCode', :reason => 'The operation is not allowed in the current state.'

The task is running when I issue the SetTaskState request, so I don't understand the cause of the error.

I'm using an API binding generated from the API's wsdl, but a Perl example would prove to be just as useful.

Thanks in advance for any insight anyone can provide.

The operation is not allowed in the current state

johndemic — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:44:14 GMT

Hey All,

I'm executing the following SOAP request to determine the amount of tasks running on VirtualCenter:

<CreateCollectorForTasks xmlns="urn:vim2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<_this type="TaskManager">TaskManager</_this>
<filter>
<state>running</state>
</filter>
</CreateCollectorForTasks>

This works well, but under some circumstances (which appear load related) I occasionally get a response as follows:

"The operation is not allowed in the current state"

I've previously only seen this error when performing invalid operations on a VM, like trying to stop an already stopped server.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanls,
-jd

HttpNfcLeaseDeviceUrl importKey Property Format

MikeMatczynski — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:54:16 GMT

I'm importing an OVF appliance into vCenter 4.0 using the VI API (vijava to be specific).

I'm calling the importVApp method to get a HttpNfcLease, which gives me a HttpNfcLeaseInfo, and a list of HttpNfcLeaseDeviceUrl objects.

Question is:

What determines the format of the HttpNfcLeaseDeviceUrl's importKey property? Based on the OVF file described below, the importKey is being set to the value "/ImportTest1/VirtualLsiLogicController0:4". I understand how "/TestExport1" is generated, but I am not sure how "/VirtualLsiLogicController0:4" is derived. I would have expected it to be named after the OVF's diskId property.

I'm free to modify the OVF, so if there's anything I need to set on the Harddisk elements, that'd be fine as well.

Thanks!

Mike

Excerpts from the OVF descriptor:

<References>
<ovf:File ovf:id="fileRef0" ovf:href="ImportTest.vmdk" ovf:size="447" />
<ovf:File ovf:id="fileRef1" ovf:href="ImportTest-flat.vmdk" ovf:size="1048576" />
</References>
<DiskSection>
<Info>List of the virtual disks used in the package</Info>
<ovf:Disk ovf:capacity="1048576" ovf:diskId="disk0" ovf:fileRef="fileRef0" ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized" />
</DiskSection>

...

<ovf:Item>
<rasd:ElementName>SCSI Controller 0</rasd:ElementName>
<rasd:InstanceID>10</rasd:InstanceID>
<rasd:ResourceSubType>LsiLogic</rasd:ResourceSubType>
<rasd:ResourceType>6</rasd:ResourceType>
</ovf:Item>
<ovf:Item>
<rasd:ElementName>Harddisk disk0</rasd:ElementName>
<rasd:HostResource>ovf:/disk/disk0</rasd:HostResource>
<rasd:InstanceID>11</rasd:InstanceID>
<rasd:ResourceSubType>10</rasd:ResourceSubType>
<rasd:ResourceType>17</rasd:ResourceType>
</ovf:Item>

How to move files from one folder to another folder in datastore

haroon09 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:16:31 GMT

I want to move some files (which aI already got using "HostDatastoreBrowser") from one file system folder to another file system folder (not Managed Object folder).

In VI client we can move files when we are browsing the datastore from one folder to another folder, I want to do the same thing.

Thanks

how to know if session cookie expired for retrieveProperties()

mm6 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:55:57 GMT

retrieveProperties() seems to return null if nothing matches or if the session cookie you send has expired. Other calls such as findByInventoryPath() return a SOAP fault if the session has expired.

How do I tell if the cookie is bad or the property filter spec returned no matches? I'm using this for getting tasks which often there are none of. I'd prefer not to do another call each time to check the session if there is another way.

VA deployment degradation on vSphere4

Lexus16 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:03:10 GMT

Hello,

We have high performance degradation when our Appliance is deployed to ESX server via Virtual Center. When the appliance is deployed to ESX directly we don’t have such problem.
We are using the following script:

curl -u username:NfelMC2Ub -k -T upload https://10.250.148.27/folder/LR1_11133_ESXAppliance/upload.dat?dcPath=Center&dsName=Storage1

where 10.250.148.27 is the address of Virtual Center. If we specify the address of ESX instead of Virtual Center, everything works fast.
BTW such problem appeared on vSphere 4, on previous versions everything was fine.
Could you please answer:

What could be the reason of this degradation?
How can we tune up the speed of deployment via Virtual Center?
If we have correct credentials on Virtual Center, is it possible to deploy directly to the ESX registered on it?

Thank you

Example on usage of TaskHistoryCollector using ZSI and Python

rpapiset — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:45:17 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to use pyton with ZSI to retreive task using taskhistorycollector. Can some one post if you have any example using Python and ZSI with filter.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Ravi Kumar P.

Console of vSphere Client in C#

k.malek — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:35:07 GMT

Hello all,

First of all, I apologize if this is the wrong forum, but it looked as the best out there to ask this question.

I tried to find a solution to my "problem" for quite a while now, but no luck.

So here it is....

I'm writing a custom C# windows forms application and I was wondering if it is possible to somehow open the vSphere Client's Console programmatically from within C# .

I'm using ESXi 4.

This application is just for an internal use in the company I work for, so just to clarify, I'm not trying to develop some commercial software.

In previous version of this app I used to open the entire client, but people who use it don't like to click all over the place to get to the console, hence my question.

I have looked into few APIs, but I either don't know which one to use or I couldn't find proper methods.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Chris

"certificate is required" or terrible exception

DannyUtro — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:37:57 GMT

Hello everybody!

Sorry for my english. I get stuck with error while running .NET sample "CIMInfo" - "A certificate is required to complete client authentication" at this line code:

"IWSManEnumerator enumeratorFans = (IWSManEnumerator)
session.Enumerate(urlString,
null, null, wsman.SessionFlagUseBasic() &
wsman.SessionFlagCredUsernamePassword() & wsman.SessionFlagSkipCACheck() & wsman.SessionFlagSkipCNCheck());"

How to install this certificate? I try to install via IE over https://my-esx, but it doesn't installing at "Trusted Root certification Authorities". Any tricks?

Thanks in advance.

Gathering details of all DataStores

ChaitanyaS — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:07:10 GMT

hi,

Is it possible to gather details of all the datastores using web services?

In my client application. i want to keep details of all available data stores in my database.

Can one virtula machine use many disks? ( As per my knowledge, one disk can be shared by multiple virtual machines., Am i right?)

(I've referred to DataStore managed object from the documentation. What i understand is data store is independent of hosts (ESX servers) and the virtual machines. Many hosts can connect to one data store. Similarly one data store can have many virtual disks i.e. virtual machines. )

Developing a Mac OS X and/ or iPhone native application using xcode

cookieme — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:17:21 GMT

Hi

I'm not a programmer, but I'm curious about the procedure for developing a native Mac OS X and/ or iPhone native application using Apple's developer tools (xcode). Is this possible and what VMware development tools are required as I see that there is both a web services sdk and a perl sdk?

If anyone has any experience of developing for the Mac/ iPhone platforms with regards to VMware vSphere I would be very interested in any pointers.

Thanks

P.S. Please move this post if I've posted in the wrong developer community.

can't connect virtual nic to distributed virtual port group

mm6 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:59:31 GMT

I'm trying to connect a virtual nic on a vm to a distributed virtual port group. I have tried every set of options to the nic config spec I can think of.

For any VM I create using the API, in vSphere Client when you right click the VM, edit settings, select the network adapter, the network label dropdown is set to empty. When I pick the correct network from the dropdown the nic in the VM works.

The sample code seems to say that all you need to do is setDeviceName on the nic backing to one of the names in the network label dropdown in vSphere client.

Have tried:

backing.setNetwork to a reference to the network

using VirtualEthernetCardDistrbibutedVirtualPortBackingInfo instead of VirtualEthernetCardNetworkBackingInfo

using nic.setDeviceInfo() and setting label and summary to the name of the network

I just need to know what to set to populate this dropdown so the nic works without manually setting the network label in the gui.

Vmware Data Recovery API

Bartmosss — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:51:44 GMT

Hi!

Is there any API for Data Recovery? One of my project, I would like to do is to add email notification for failed backup?

MCP, A+, Network+, Linux+, VSP, VTSP, VCP

error (501) not implemented

dmitrif — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:08:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to access the WBEM service of the CIMOM on the ESX Server 3i and all my requests end up with this error "(501) not implemented".

What is it?

I use wbemsharp (http://code.google.com/p/wbemtools/wiki/Intro) for my client and the connection is over HTTPS.

Thanks in advance

VMware Coffee Talk - October 7th Wed 9:00 AM PST - vSphere APIs for Performance Monitoring

heyitspablo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:49:32 GMT

Session Title: vSphere APIs for Perfomance Monitoring
Session Abstract:
Understand the features available to developers via vSphere Web Services APIs to
collect performance statistics and discuss best practices in collecting performance
data when using these APIs. This presentation is a must-attend for any developer
that retrieves performance information from the vSphere platform in any large environment.
While the content is advanced, developers new to the platform will find it useful.
Web Ex Link
MP3 Link
Level: Advanced
Speakers:
Ravi Soundararajan
Staff Engineer Performance Team
Balaji Parimi
Ecosytem Engineering
Message was edited by: heyitspablo - Added Web Ex Link

ESX server support provided by VI SDK 4

newsharon86 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:51:25 GMT

I was a bit confused to what versions of ESX servers are supported by Vi SDK 4.

also if it supports ESX 1.8

If not who supports esx 1.8

When connecting to a VC in my test/prod environment SSPI login fails, but works in my development environment.

Leafy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:30:57 GMT

I'm using the VSphere Web Services SDK and develop in Visual Studio 2008 using C#. I'm also using IIS v6.0 to host the web application.

The application I have developed retreives all virtual machines on a given virtual center and displays summary information about each virtual machine in a datagrid. When a grid row is clicked, a page opens and displays detailed information about that virtual machine.

To connect to a virtual center, I use SSPI (required a lot of research and trial and error) and this works great in my development environment using the debug functionality of Visual Studio 2008. However when I move the application to the test environment, SSPI stops working.

I'm not sure if the issue is on the SDK side or on the IIS side.

Has anyone here implemented something similar? or can anyone shed some light on something I may be over looking?

Thanks!

HostNumericSensorInfo collection - does not work!

dmitrif — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:13:31 GMT

Hi all,

What would you say is persistent (can be used as an unique key) in the HostNumericSensorInfo collection (at HostSystem.runtime.healthSystemRuntime.systemHealthInfo.numericSensorInfo) during a session?

Size of the collection? Indexes of sensors? Sensor names?

I have a serious doubts about the only property that comes to mind (HostNumericSensorInfo.name) as it looks like it's being concatenated from an actual sensor name and its status: "System Board 1 FAN MOD 4D RPM - Normal", "Power Supply 2: Running/Full Power-Enabled", "Disk Drive Bay 1 Cable SAS A 0: Config Error - Deassert" etc (a very strange way to name something if you ask me).

Thanks in advance.

Create super user on ESX/ESXi

tanishsr — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:00:01 GMT

Hi,

Using " useradd -o -u 0 TestUser " , I am able to create a user with Uid 0 ( which is same as root Uid). I want to implement same functionality using web services sdk.

Here is the code using to create root user :

szNewUsername = "TestUser";
szNewPassword = "TestUserPassword";

ServiceContent sic = new ServiceContent();
sic = oVimWrapper.GetServiceContent();
VimService service = oVimWrapper.GetVimService();
ManagedObjectReference root = oVimWrapper.GetRootFolder();
ManagedObjectReference morAccManager = sic.accountManager;
ManagedObjectReference morAuthManager = sic.authorizationManager;

if (morAccManager == null || morAuthManager == null)
{
return false;
}

HostPosixAccountSpec hostAccountSpec = new HostPosixAccountSpec();
hostAccountSpec.posixId = 0;
hostAccountSpec.posixIdSpecified = true;
hostAccountSpec.id = szNewUsername;
hostAccountSpec.password = szNewPassword;
hostAccountSpec.shellAccess = true;
hostAccountSpec.shellAccessSpecified = true;

try
{

service.CreateUser(morAccManager, hostAccountSpec);

service.AssignUserToGroup(morAccManager, szNewUsername, "root");
Permission per = new Permission();
per.group = false;
per.principal = szNewUsername;
per.roleId = -1;
per.propagate = true;
per.entity = sic.rootFolder;

service.SetEntityPermissions(morAuthManager, root, new Permission[] { per });

}

catch (System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException se)
{
MessageBox.Show(se.Message);
}

On executing the code its throwing an exception " The specified key, name, or identifier already exists. " . If I commented out the posixid line then it works, creates TestUser ( Uid is different, not 0 , requirement is : TestUser Uid = 0 ). Is it possible to create user with uid = 0 using api?

-regards,
Tanish

support of moref in http request url to get the VM files

yvsvmware — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:04:50 GMT

For getting the VM files we need to formulate the httpurl in the form of

example - httpurl: https://hostname/folder/vmname?dcPath=ha-datacenter/&dsName=Storage is used for listing the folder.

and example httpurl: https://hostname/folder/vmname/vmname.vmx?dcPath=ha-datacenter&dsName=LocalStorage is used for getting the vmx file.

Here We need to form the vm specification like ?dcPath=dataCenter&dsName=dataStoreName which will be recognised as a http resource. As of now vm specification is not supported in moref form (like: "moref=24")

will this be supported in future releases?. otherwise its good-to have if moref is also supported.

Thanks

Yvs

customization event

beckhamk — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:40:51 GMT

I am currently cloning a vm template and specifying a pre-configured customization spec, currently I am doing this manually using vCenter for testing.

I have a sample c# program that I have included at the end of this email, it is not the final code as I used a working example with modifications.
The issue is that I can use this filter type below and see the vm power on and off just fine. But I never see any of the customization events.

eventFilter.type = new String[] { "VmPoweredOffEvent", "VmPoweredOnEvent", "CustomizationEvent", "CustomizationStartedEvent", "CustomizationSucceeded" };

If I comment out this filter type line, I see all events including the customization. But the customization events don't appear to be firing as customizationEvents but rather simply an Event. As I have to make this call: ((Event)value).fullFormattedMessage
Then I see the two start/success messages ie: "Started customization of VM TOMZ2. Customization log located at C:\\Windows\\TEMP\\vmware-imc
guestcust.log in the guest OS."

Is this the proper way to determine when customization is started and succeeds? Or am I doing this wrong? Any suggestions or guidance is appreciated.

BTW: the latest vmware tools are installed in the vm/template.

private void createEventHistoryCollector() {
// Create an Entity Event Filter Spec to
// specify the MoRef of the VM to be get events filtered for
EventFilterSpecByEntity entitySpec = new EventFilterSpecByEntity();
entitySpec.entity =_virtualMachine;
// we are only interested in getting events for the VM
//entitySpec.recursion = EventFilterSpecRecursionOption.self;
entitySpec.recursion = EventFilterSpecRecursionOption.all;
// set the entity spec in the EventFilter
EventFilterSpec eventFilter = new EventFilterSpec();
eventFilter.entity = entitySpec;

// we are only interested in getting events for the VM.
// Add as many events you want to track relating to vm.
// Refer to API Data Object vmEvent and see the extends class list for elaborate list of vmEvents

// with this enabled do not see customization events, comment out will see
eventFilter.type = new String[] { "VmPoweredOffEvent", "VmPoweredOnEvent", "CustomizationEvent", "CustomizationStartedEvent", "CustomizationSucceeded" };

// create the EventHistoryCollector to monitor events for a VM
// and get the ManagedObjectReference of the EventHistoryCollector returned
_eventHistoryCollector = _service.CreateCollectorForEvents(_eventManager, eventFilter);

}

private PropertyFilterSpec createEventFilterSpec() {
// Set up a PropertySpec to use the latestPage attribute
// of the EventHistoryCollector

PropertySpec propSpec = new PropertySpec();
propSpec.all = false;
propSpec.pathSet=new String[] { "latestPage" };
propSpec.type =_eventHistoryCollector.type;

// PropertySpecs are wrapped in a PropertySpec array
PropertySpec[] propSpecAry = new PropertySpechttp://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=%5D+propSpecAry+%3D+new+PropertySpec%5B { propSpec };

// Set up an ObjectSpec with the above PropertySpec for the
// EventHistoryCollector we just created
// as the Root or Starting Object to get Attributes for.
ObjectSpec objSpec = new ObjectSpec();
objSpec.obj =_eventHistoryCollector;
objSpec.skip = false;

// Get Event objects in "latestPage" from "EventHistoryCollector"
// and no "traversl" further, so, no SelectionSpec is specified
objSpec.selectSet= new SelectionSpec[] { };

// ObjectSpecs are wrapped in an ObjectSpec array
ObjectSpec[] objSpecAry = new ObjectSpechttp://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=%5D+objSpecAry+%3D+new+ObjectSpec%5B { objSpec };

PropertyFilterSpec spec = new PropertyFilterSpec();
spec.propSet= propSpecAry;
spec.objectSet= objSpecAry;
return spec;
}

void handleUpdate(UpdateSet update)
{
ArrayList vmUpdates = new ArrayList();
PropertyFilterUpdate[] pfus = update.filterSet;
for (int pfui = 0; pfui < pfus.Length; ++pfui)
{
ObjectUpdate[] ous = pfuspfui.objectSet;
for (int oui = 0; oui < ous.Length; ++oui)
{
if (ousoui.obj.type.Equals("EventHistoryCollector"))
{
vmUpdates.Add(ousoui);
}
}
}
if (vmUpdates.Count > 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Virtual Machine updates:");
for (IEnumerator vmi = vmUpdates.GetEnumerator(); vmi.MoveNext(); )
{
handleObjectUpdate((ObjectUpdate)vmi.Current);
}
}
}

void handleObjectUpdate(ObjectUpdate oUpdate)
{
PropertyChange[] pc = oUpdate.changeSet;
if (oUpdate.kind == ObjectUpdateKind.enter)
{
Console.WriteLine(" New Data:");
handleChanges(pc);
}
else if (oUpdate.kind == ObjectUpdateKind.leave)
{
Console.WriteLine(" Removed Data:");
handleChanges(pc);
}
else if (oUpdate.kind == ObjectUpdateKind.modify)
{
Console.WriteLine(" Changed Data:");
handleChanges(pc);
}

}

void handleChanges(PropertyChange[] changes)
{
for (int pci = 0; pci < changes.Length; ++pci)
{
String name = changespci.name;
Object value = changespci.val;
PropertyChangeOp op = changespci.op;

//Console.WriteLine(" S-------- ");
//Console.WriteLine(" xProperty Name: " + name);
//Console.WriteLine(" xProperty Value name: " + value.GetType().Name);
//Console.WriteLine(" xProperty Value base name: " + value.GetType().BaseType.Name);
//Console.WriteLine(" E-------- ");

if (op != PropertyChangeOp.remove)
{
Console.WriteLine(" Property Name: " + name);
if (value.GetType().BaseType.Name == "VmEvent")
{
VmEvent anEvent = (VmEvent)value;

Console.WriteLine(" Event Type: " + anEvent.GetType().Name);
Console.WriteLine(" Event msg: " + anEvent.fullFormattedMessage);
}

else if (value.GetType().BaseType.Name == "Event")
{
Event anEvent = (Event)value;

Console.WriteLine(" Event Type: " + anEvent.GetType().Name);
Console.WriteLine(" Event msg: " + anEvent.fullFormattedMessage);
}

else if ("name".Equals(name))
{
Console.WriteLine(" " + value);
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine(" " + value.ToString());
}
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Property Name: " + name + " value removed.");
}
}
}

private void Check()
{
bool shouldRun = true;
string version = "";

do
{

UpdateSet update = cb.getConnection().Service.WaitForUpdates(propColl, version);

if (update != null && update.filterSet != null)
{

this.handleUpdate(update);

version = update.version;
System.Console.WriteLine(" Current Version: " + version);
}
else
{
System.Console.WriteLine("No update is present!");
}

}
while (shouldRun);

}

private static OptionSpec[] constructOptions() {
OptionSpec [] useroptions = new OptionSpec[1];
useroptions[0] = new OptionSpec("vmpath","String",1
,"A VM Inventory Path"
,null);
return useroptions;
}

public static void Main(String[] args) {
try {
VMEventHistoryCollectorMonitor eventMonitor = new VMEventHistoryCollectorMonitor();
cb = AppUtil.AppUtil.initialize("VMEventHistoryCollectorMonitor", VMEventHistoryCollectorMonitor.constructOptions(), args);
cb.connect();
eventMonitor.initialize();
// eventMonitor.findVirtualMachine();
if(eventMonitor.findVirtualMachine())
{
eventMonitor.createEventHistoryCollector();
PropertyFilterSpec eventFilterSpec = eventMonitor.createEventFilterSpec();

propColl = cb.getConnection().PropCol;
propFilter = cb.getConnection().Service.CreateFilter(propColl, eventFilterSpec, true);

eventMonitor.Check();

//eventMonitor.monitorEvents(eventFilterSpec);

}
else {
Console.WriteLine("Virtual Machine not found from the vmPath specified");
}
cb.disConnect();
Console.WriteLine("Press enter to exit: ");
Console.Read();
}
catch (Exception e) {
Console.WriteLine("Caught Exception : " +
" Name : " + e.Data.ToString() +
" Message : " + e.Message.ToString() +
" Trace : ");
Console.Read();
}
}
}
}

Disk management is failling when i use RDM with 2TB size on a VM

karthimin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:25:09 GMT

Hi All,

I'm trying to assign a SAN vdisk size 2TB to ESX server3.5 U3 the vdisk
got assigned and i could able to see the vdisk in the scsci luns.Then
i'm trying to assign it to VM as RAW device mapping it assigned and got
created RDM succesfully, now i want to foramt the disk on the vm but
here i'm unable to initialize the disk with size 2TB on windows 2003
sp1 vm

So here formatting failing, assign drive letter failing? is that because of vdisk size 2TB.

Extension loginBySubjectName failed

smileyogurt — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:10:30 GMT

I am working on the implementaion of extension integration with VC. I encountered a login problem which I debugged for a couple of days.

The test I did are by the following steps:

1. Create an extension.

2. Set subject name.

3. Registger extension with success.

4.Register certification with a helper file which has been used and verified by QA

ExtensionHelper.getinstance().registerCertificateWithSocketFactory(<Extension cert>);

5. Try to login by using loginExtensionBySubjectNam
Then I got error:
faultString: Client connected
without supplying a certificate. faultDetail:

{urn:internalvim25}NoClientCertificateFault:null

Any ideas? What is the correct procedure to do this?

Monitoring VM adds/removes and their property changes

gilesm — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:35:53 GMT

I'm looking into implementing C# code that watches for the addition and removal of VMs (any managed entity in general). I'd also like to monitor property updates to the set of VMs that I'm already monitoring. It sounds like I need the following:

Use the ContainerView object to monitor for new/deleted VMs for each Datacenter in my environment..
Each time a VM is added/removed in the above ContainerView, update a ListView object which monitors a set of properties for those VMs it monitors.

Am I way off base here? Is there a C# sample lying around somewhere that might help push me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

- Mike

About VMware Contributed Sample Code

heyitspablo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:17:34 GMT

Note from our Legal department regarding VMware Contributed Sample Code - See attached PDF.

JAX-WS stubs for vSphere Web Services SDK

yvsvmware — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:39:45 GMT

Instead of Axis and Axis2 stubs, I want to use JAX-WS stubs for vSphere Web Services SDK.

I want ot know whether any one use JAX-WS stubs and whether it is evaluated, supported from VMware.

retrieveServiceContent delay

sthakkar — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:27:58 GMT

Hello all,

I am using the vi vim25 sdk for java to complete a few VC operations. I ended up having to deploy my application as an applet and encountered a few odd errors during deployment. When running as an application locally or through the local Java appletviewer, the connection is created right away (~5 sec). However, when deployed as an applet, the VC connection process takes between 60-90 sec.

The main function that the program is getting stuck at is
SERVICE_CONTENT = VIM_PORT.retrieveServiceContent(SIMO_REF);

This function call takes about 60 sec on average. The rest of the function calls are relatively quick. I am initializing the VC connection by calling the following functions (adapted from some of the provided sample code in vim25.jar):

		initSIMORef();
		System.out.println("11111111111111111111 " + new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
		initVimPort(VIM_HOST, VIM_HOST_PORT);
		System.out.println("22222222222222222222 " + new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
		initServiceContent(); //takes forever
		System.out.println("33333333333333333333 " + new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
		connect(VIM_HOST, USER_NAME, PASSWORD);
		System.out.println("44444444444444444444 " + new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
		initPropertyCollector();
		System.out.println("55555555555555555555 "  + new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
		initRootFolder();
		System.out.println("66666666666666666666 " + new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
		System.out.println("Init All complete");

Anyhelp would be much appreciated. tia

Thanks!

event listening in vCenter

signalpillar — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:43:49 GMT

Hi, All!
Is there possibility to listen for events something like 'push' method.

For now - i can use infrastructure SDK API to pull events for some particular VM, but i am interested in some
callback functions or push methods to be notified is some type of event happens

Thanks

How to set Details field of a Task under Recent Tasks in vSphere client using java api?

carllaird — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:28:49 GMT

Does anyone know how to populate the details field of the tasks under Recent Tasks in the vSphere client using the java api?

I've tried setting a summary when I register my extension's task types. It picks up the label, but doesn't seem to pick up the summary:

KeyValue label = new KeyValue();
label.setKey(taskTypeId + ".label");
label.setValue(taskTypeResource.getLabel());

KeyValue summary = new KeyValue();
summary.setKey(taskTypeId + ".summary");
summary.setValue(taskTypeResource.getSummary());

Have also tried setting setting a fault and a result on task.setTaskState().

Thanks in advance ...

Confusion about the web services sdk and C#

derekbelrose — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:21:43 GMT

I've seen answers all around the forums regarding how to create a virtual disk using C# and the Web Services sdk. In the Vim25Api.dll that I built using the SDK, I see a CreateVirtualDisk_Task(), which is, apparently what I need.

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.VirtualDiskManager.html#createVirtualDisk shows that I need a VirtualDiskSpec, but I don't see this in the Vim25Api.dll at all. Has anyone experienced missing classes while working with C# and the Vim25Api?

Any help in this matter would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Derek Belorse

How to create a RDM disk using VI SDK?

kumars17 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:35:15 GMT

I have a LUN from SAN visible to esx i.e. vmhba1:4:7:0, I used the code below to create the RDM disk attached to a VM using VI SDK but ti awalys fails with the error "virtual disk is either corrupted or not a supported format"

string lunuuid="0200070000600601609e212200da19c8a13681de11524149442035";
string devicename="vmhba1:4:7:0";

string dmode="persisitent";
string cmode="physicalMode";

ns2__VirtualDiskRawDiskMappingVer1BackingInfo rdmDisk;
rdmDisk.diskMode=&dmode;
rdmDisk.compatibilityMode = &cmode;
rdmDisk.lunUuid=&lunuuid;
rdmDisk.deviceName=&devicename;
rdmDisk.fileName="storage1 lrmg200/lrmg200.vmdk";
rdmDisk.datastore=&dsRef;

bool allowGuestControl=true;
bool connected=true;
bool startconnected=true;

ns2__VirtualDeviceConnectInfo conninfo;
conninfo.allowGuestControl=allowGuestControl;
conninfo.connected=connected;
conninfo.startConnected=startconnected;

ns2__Description desc;

desc.label="Hard Disk 5";
desc.summary="abcd";

ns2__VirtualDisk newdisk;
newdisk.backing=(ns2__VirtualDiskRawDiskMappingVer1BackingInfo *)&rdmDisk;
newdisk.controllerKey=&key;
newdisk.unitNumber=&devslot;
// newdisk.connectable=&conninfo;
newdisk.key=-1;
newdisk.capacityInKB =4194304;
newdisk.deviceInfo=&desc;

ns2__VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation optype=ns2__VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation__add;
ns2__VirtualDeviceConfigSpecFileOperation fopType=ns2__VirtualDeviceConfigSpecFileOperation__create;

ns2__VirtualDeviceConfigSpec *cspec=new ns2__VirtualDeviceConfigSpec () ;

cspec->fileOperation=&fopType;
cspec->operation=&optype;
cspec->device=&newdisk;

ns2__VirtualMachineConfigSpec vmspec;
vmspec.deviceChange.push_back(cspec);

ns2__ManagedObjectReference vmRef;
vmRef.__item=vmid;
vmRef.type=&VM_NAME;

ns2__ReconfigVMRequestType addreq;
_ns2__ReconfigVM_USCORETaskResponse addres;

addreq._USCOREthis=&vmRef;
addreq.spec=&vmspec;

int retCode = rmSvcConn->GetVimService()->ReconfigVM_USCORETask(&addreq, &addres);

If I go and create the backend RDM map file using vmksfstools e.g. vmkfstools --createrdmpassthru /vmfs/devices/disks/vmhba1:4:7:0 /vmfs/volumes/storage1/lrmg200/lrmg200.vmdk and comment out the line " cspec->fileOperation=&fopType;" it works fine. My problem is I don't have the privelegae to go to esx to create the passthru file first.

Shouldn't fileoperation ns2__VirtualDeviceConfigSpecFileOperation__create should create the RDM mapfile.

What is the best way to implement connecting to VC with Active Directory credentials?

Leafy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:03:54 GMT

I want to make a connection to a VC using the Active Directory credentials of a particular user. What is the best way to implement this?

I'm developing a .NET (C#) application that needs to make a connection to a VC. It also needs to retrieve all VMs this particular user has permission to on the VC.

Any guidence with this is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!

Shawn

vSphere Web Service SDK with MyEclipse

xtyangjie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:37:11 GMT

Hello! everyone,

I have set up the environment of web service sdk now. The next step is to get start with developing. I chose eclipse / MyEclipse. But how can i configure the web service sdk develop environment in eclipse / MyEclipse? Thank you!

Desperate - trying to get information about datastores through web services

paul_xtravirt — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:48:42 GMT

Hi all,

Can some one please help me I have spent hours today and am still stuck. I am trying to retrieve the datastores for a datacenter, with information about the datastores (for example, capacity and free space) and which hosts are connected to them. I am trying to do this in module1, in the datastores() sub. I have searched teh forums but have not found anything that really helps me out. Can someone please put me out of my misery? I have attached my code to this post.

Oh, this is in vb.net by the way using the latest vsphere SDK. I will award points

If you found this helpful, please consider awarding points

VMware CIM Storage Management API requirements

MGALE — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:17:56 GMT

Hello,

I am new to the VMWare API access and am trying to pull information regarding RDM's and LUN's on specific virtual machines.

I believe I need to use the: VMware CIM Storage Management API
I am using a CentOS 5 server with the following installed:

CIM_SDK_159652 (VMware-vSphere-cim-sdk-4.0.0-159652.zip)
PYWBEM ( pywbem.svn.sourceforge.net)

I can query for some information however other queries fail, for example using VMWARE_VMComputerSystem works but when trying to use VMWARE_ESXComputerSystem the connect appears to lock up.

Do I need to setup and config: VMware vSphere Management Assistant?

I am currently accessing the ESX server directly to test out the functionality of the CIM and intend to change access so the scripts go through the VirtualCenter.

Thanks

Michael

VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo

thomasduffy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:02:48 GMT

Hi all,

I'm having a little problem I'm hoping someone can help me with. We're moving to vsphere 4 and I'm now tasked with converting my old applications to our new way of doing things. One thing that has changed is that we are now using DistributedVirtualPortGroups for our network connections. I'm tying into the api to add virtual ethernet cards to the vm's as they get created. This is now a problem since we are using the Virtual Port Groups. From what I can tell from the documentation, I need to be using VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo instead of VirtualEthernetCardNetworkBackingInfo. For the life of me, I can not seem to get this to work. Is there anyone out there who has experience in doing this in .net? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Technology Exchange Developer Day - A new support program for the growing the VMware Developer Community

navadavuluri — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:08:47 GMT

Hello,

We are happy to announce about our discussion at Technology Exchange Developer Day 2009, A new support program for the growing the VMware Developer Community

Presenter: Peter Warren

Demo ID: DS-24

Time: 3:45 - 4:45 PM

Abstract:
In this session, we will present a new support offering being created for the developer community.
This program is aimed at advising developers who are building APIs to extend and customize
VMware technology. This is your opportunity to help guide the direction of this important new support program.

Technology Exchange Developer Day - Choosing the right VMware Toolkit - A Panel Discussion

navadavuluri — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:03:49 GMT

Hello,

We are happy to announce about our discussion at Technology Exchange Developer Day 2009, Choosing the right VMware Toolkit - A Panel Discussion

Presenters: Preetham Gopalaswamy and Carter Shanklin

Demo ID: DS-22

Time: 4:45 - 5:45 PM

Abstract:

This panel will provide an overview of several toolkits offered by VMware. The attendees will have an
opportunity to ask questions about the appropriateness of different toolkits for different scenarios.

Technology Exchange Developer Day - Benefits of VMware Ready Management Solutions qualification

navadavuluri — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:00:59 GMT

Hello,

We are happy to announce about our demo at Technology Exchange Developer Day 2009, Benefits of VMware Ready Management Solutions qualification

Presenter: Phil Strake

Demo ID: DS-20

Time: 1:30 - 2:15 PM

Abstract:
Are you looking for a way to differentiate your product from competitors and desiring closer alignment
with VMware product and solution directions? In this talk you will learn how VMware's qualification program
for vSphere management integrations provides tools for you to build better integrations with VMware APIs, get
you noticed by VMware's customers and field, and shorten your sales cycle. The tools and best practices
are useful even for developing better "products" just for internal use. We'll discuss the technical and business
requirements for earning the VMware Ready logo, qualification tools and guidance provided, third party lab
testing, and timelines. You will leave this talk with a clear grasp of some important integration best practices
and next steps to win the recognition your management integration deserves.

Technology Exchange Developer Day - Java Application Development/Debugging with Eclipse, the Spring framework and VMware Workstation

navadavuluri — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:57:49 GMT

Hello,

We are happy to announce about our demo at Technology Exchange Developer Day 2009, Java Application Development/Debugging with Eclipse, the Spring framework and VMware Workstation

Presenter: Justin Murray

Demo ID: DS-18

Time: 9:45 - 10:45 AM

Abstract:

This demo shows an Eclipse plug-in with the Spring Tools Suite (STS) that allows remote launching
and debugging of server-side Java applications in a virtual machine running within VMware Workstation.
The demo will also show the use of an OSGi server (using new bundling methods) launched in the virtual machine's guest operating system.

Technology Exchange Developer Day - Introduction to the vSphere Webservices SDK

navadavuluri — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:50:36 GMT

Hello,

We are happy to announce about our hands-on demo at Technology Exchange Developer Day 2009, Introduction to the vSphere Webservices SDK

Presenter: Steve Jin

Demo ID: DS-13

Time: 9:45 - 10:45 AM

Abstract:
This lab will provide hands-on training for developers to integrate their applications with VMware environments
to automate and extend it. The participants will have their choice of using Java or C#. Attendees will walk away
from the lab with a better understanding of VMware vSphere, resources for using the SDK, and the essential skills
for building the most common types of integrations. Exercises will cover triggering tasks, examining VM attributes, performing
actions on many VMs simultaneously, and exporting performance data. This lab requires some basic programming experience, ideally in C# or Java.

Technology Exchange Developer Day - vSphere APIs for Performance Monitoring - A Panel Discussion

navadavuluri — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:46:48 GMT

Hello,

We are happy to announce about our demo at Technology Exchange Developer Day 2009, vSphere APIs for Performance Monitoring - A Panel Discussion

Presenter: Ravi Soundararajan

Demo ID: DS-12

Time: 4:45 - 5:45 PM

Abstract:

Our panel of experts will provide an opportunity to explore a deeper conversation on vSphere API monitoring topics

Technology Exchange Developer Day - Key Features in vSphere 4.0 -Live Migration(vMotion), DRS, HA and FT

navadavuluri — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:37:44 GMT

Hello,

We are happy to announce about our hands-on demo at Technology Exchange Developer Day 2009, Key Features in vSphere 4.0 -Live Migration(vMotion), DRS, HA and FT

Presenter: Prasad Pmplaskar

Demo ID: DS-08

Time: 10:45 - 11:45 AM

Abstract:
This demonstration will show how to use the vSphere APIs to perform VMotion and Storage VMotion.
It will also demonstrate how to enable and disable a DRS cluster and change its automation level.
This sample is implemented using Java programming language and vSphere APIs, version 4.0.

Technology Exchange Developer Day - Look Before You Leap- Checking compatibility and license-level

navadavuluri — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:32:28 GMT

We are happy to announce about our hands-on demo at Technology Exchange Developer Day 2009, Look Before You Leap- Checking compatibility and license-level.

Presenter: Rajesh Kamal

Demo ID: DS-06

Time: 2:30 - 3:30 PM

Abstract:

This demonstration will illustrate host capabilities, how to write SDK checks for vMotion and
storage vMotion compatibility, as well as verifying feature compatibility and licensing.

Technology Exchange Developer Day - Key Features in vSphere 4.0 -Host Profiles

navadavuluri — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:12:18 GMT

Hello,

We are happy to announce about our hands-on demo at Technology Exchange Developer Day 2009, Key Features in vSphere 4.0 -Host Profiles.

Presenter: Raju Koganty

Demo ID: DS-04

Time: 1:30 - 2:15 PM
Abstract:
Host Profiles greatly simplify host configuration management in scale-out
deployments.This demonstration will illustrate how to use the vSphere
APIs to create and apply HostProfiles, and check the host configuration
for compliance. This is implemented using Java programming language
(1.5) and vSphere APIs (version 4.0).

List of ciphers supported by Virtual Center / ESX for SSL

jstockall — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:16:08 GMT

I'm looking for the list of ciphers supported by Virtual Center for SSL communications.

If I try to connect using only the 40 bit ciphers that are not covered by export controls I get a handshake failed exception

Thanks

Adding & Removing VMFS datastores without deleting contents

ChrisW199 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:15:34 GMT

I have an ESXi server which is configured and connected to an iSCSI target (RHEL5 with iscsi-target installed).

My question is how do i go about:

creating a VMFS datastore on a LUN on this iSCSI target
Removing the datastore (**WITHOUT** erasing the contents)
Adding the datastore back in at a later date (with the preserved contents)

I can create a VMFS datastore using the code from this thread: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/215818. This works as expected an i can upload a file to the datastore (using the VI client) and check it persists between iSCSI target and ESXi host reboots.

I assume that i can remove (not destoy) a datastore calling RemoveDatastore(datastoreSystemMOR, datastoreMOR). This work as expected and the datstore is removed (as observed from the VI client).

How do i go about re-adding the datastore (similar to step 1 with some addition tweaking of the spec?) **WITHOUT** formatting the LUN? (and thus my files are still present?).

I did see another post saying that DestroyDatastore and RemoveDatastore were doing the same thing (wiping the contents): http://communities.vmware.com/message/1164044. Has this been fixed yet?

Any help would be appreciated.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1164044

Why does QueryPerf() sometimes return null?

Brian.Westphal — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:18:31 GMT

I have an application that uses the VI SDK. It connects directly to ESX server without going through Virtual Center. It samples performance counters at regular intervals.

Most of the time, it collects data fine. However, once in a while when calling QueryPerf() it gets a null return value. There is no exception thrown so there is no error message to indicate what happened. This usually happens for a single sample interval and rather sporadically. Next interval the same metric works fine.

I cannot find any documentation or online posting that describes when or why QueryPerf() would return null. My only guess is that the ESX server chooses to disregard the request when it is under heavy load.

Does anybody have any experience with this and know why it would be happening?

Technology Exchange - Developer Day Details - Hardware Health Monitoring

heyitspablo — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:23:25 GMT

Folks - latest details on our Hardware Health Monitoring Session @ Technology Exchange - Developer Day

Event Information: http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/techexchange

VMware exposes a standards-based interface for monitoring server hardware and its health. This session discusses how to build software solutions that leverage these interfaces. We will explore using common techniques ranging from writing simple PowerCLI commands to more complex Perl, Java applications. We will also have an opportunity to discuss CIM/WSMAN implementations and some best practices when developing monitoring applications. You will walk away from this session knowing what tools and resources you have available to develop robust solutions/commercial applications. There will also be an opportunity to meet our R&D teams and engage in a live demo, ask questions and provide feedback on standards. This is a must attend session for anyone managing small or large datacenters with VMware environments or software vendors building commercial solutions for Server Hardware Health
Monitoring.

Speakers:
Daniel Hiltgen Sr. Staff Engineer VM Kernel Core

Preetham Gopalaswamy Group Product Manager vSphere SDKs / APIs

Retrieve vmci cid

tshamul — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:02:57 GMT

hi,

There is a way to retrieving the vmware machine vmci cid via the web services?

Thanks!

VMware Data Recovery Monitoring ...

nemo_practeo — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:10:37 GMT

Hi,

I would like to monitor that all VM's defined in Data Recovery are still backuped and "in compliance".

Does somebody knowes if any script exist to do this (any hints welcome)...
Or if any API's are available to get the status of Data Recovery ? I'm ready to contribute and write some perl code

My target is to be able to know if all backup are done correctly in a tools like nagios.

Kind regards,

Marc

SSL

thomasjulian — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:05:05 GMT

Hello All,

All sample programs in vsphere4.0 sdk(java) are using the following line to ease the development by accepting all SSL certificates by default.

System.setProperty("org.apache.axis.components.net.SecureSocketFactory", "org.apache.axis.components.net.SunFakeTrustSocketFactory");

while developing applications what we need to do instead of this?.How to get that rui.crt file programmatically?

See we can get the ip,username,password as input.Then what are the things we need to do to establish a connection with an esx server.

1.How to get the rui.crt file.Do we need to change the rui.crt to *******.keystore?

2.How to use the above created file?

Please help me to proceed further.

Thanks,

Thomas.

If you need any sample code to get started, make a request here!

navadavuluri — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:07:19 GMT

Need a sample code, then submit your request here: CodeCentral Sample Code Request Box

We assure you that all the requests will be processed promptly.

For more information on how this works: Learn about Sample Code Request Box and CodeCentral Feedback

difference in performance data between VI API 2.5 and 4.0

dmitrif — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:45:24 GMT

Hi

I'm sorry if this was already discusses and I missed it.

There is a difference between VI API 2.5 and 4.0 cluster performance data and I was wondering if this is expected.

In short, the PerfCounterInfo array returned by QueryPerfCounter In API 2.5 is always larger than corresponding PerfEntityMetric array returned by QueryPerf, but in 4.0 it's the opposite.

Precisely, in 4.0 I run into situation when I receive values with keys that are NOT available for a particular managed object.

This happens because QueryAvailablePerfMetric, which I call without the interval id assigned, in 2.5 returned more number of metric ids than I'd later receive values, but in 4.0 it returns less.

As I said, it happens only with clusters.

Any comment, please?

Thanks a lot in advance.

CIM SDK used across different hypervisors???

vnshilpa — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:37:23 GMT

Hi All,

Can you please let me know whether CIM-SDK used across different Hypervisors like MicroSoft's Hyper-v or Zen server(Citrix)???? or is it used only to access ESX/ESXi????

Regards,

SHILPA

keytool error: java.io.IOException: Invalid keystore format

thomasjulian — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:41:54 GMT

I read the Development Setup Guide.Inwhich they have given

Use the Java keytool utility to import a certificate. The syntax is as follows:
keytool -import -file <certificate-filename> -alias <server-name> -keystore vmware.keystore
For example:
C:\VMware-Certs>keytool -import -file rui.crt -alias sdkpubs01 -keystore vmware.keystore
A prompt requesting a password for the keystore appears:
Enter keystore password:
Create a password for the keystore

But when i try to execute the following command

keytool -import -file rui.crt -alias esxsermachinename -keystore rui.crt

I am getting this error.

keytool error: java.io.IOException: Invalid keystore format

Any idea?

Thanks,

Thomas

UpgradeTools_Task

fordian — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:24:42 GMT

Hello,

I am looking for the installerOptions for UpgradeTools_Task.

ex. found but don't want the VM be rebooted after the upgrade :

my $vm_views = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'VirtualMachine', filter => { 'guest.toolsStatus' => 'toolsOld' });

foreach (@$vm_views) {
my $nameVM = $_->name;
open FILE, "<", "VMToolsUpgradeList.txt" or die $!;
my @lines = <FILE>;
foreach my $vmname (@lines) {
chomp($vmname);
if ($nameVM eq $vmname) {
$_->UpgradeTools_Task();
print "Issued VMware Tools upgrade task on " . $nameVM . "\n";
}
}
}

Thank you

Dominic

Video Overview of vSphere SDKs and APIs

heyitspablo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:39:47 GMT

Short video clip provides overview of the VMware vSphere SDKs and APIs

{youtube} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKaDz0z2_KY {youtube}

Server extension example

gilsharon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:22:57 GMT

Hi,
does anyone have a code example of a server extension?

Thanks,
Gil.

How to use hbcheck.pl in Vmware Perl api

itm.nakul — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:56:29 GMT

Hi all...

I am using Vmware Vmperl Api on my ESX server 3.5..

I got hbcheck.pl a perl script along this package(Vmware Vmperl Api).

I want to know that for what purpose this script is used and how to use it...

Thanks in advance...

regards ..

Nakul

vSphere 4.0.0 and Windows 7 VM Issue

PatrickBDunlap — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:16:27 GMT

I am having an issue with my Windows 7 (build 7100 RC) VMs on our vSphere server (v4.0.0 Build 162856) in that everything works fine in the VMs until I update patches. Then upon reboot the VM hangs after the bios hands off the video presentation to Windows. Did not see anything in the log files that is being recorded.

The issue was repeatable in that I could go to a previous restore point, everything would work fine, then after a few reboots it would hang again. Finally figured out that some patches were being applied without notification and when I went back to the restore point, got the OS running again, and then turned off Automatic Updates, the issue did not pop up again. Other then VMware tools, this is a clean OS.

Question: Does anyone know of any issues with any patches for Windows 7 running on vSphere 4.0.0 that would cause this issue? I googled and search this site but could not find anything. Thanks.

Forum mods: If this question is in the wrong area, please move.

Web Services SDK and ESXi

NPBrown — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:14:43 GMT

I've succesfully written some Javascript to handle some VM tasks within Virtual Center (power on, off, clone etc.). I'm now trying to get info out of our (non-VC managed) ESXi hosts using the web services API and can't even get a succesful login. All I'm trying to do at the moment is login, then logout. I assumed all I'd need to do is modify the SDK location url, username and password in my working script, but am getting no session cookie returned and "Login, SOAP fault string: The session is not authenticated" error.

Am I missing some fundamental difference between the VC API and the ESXi API?

Cheers, Nick.

“RetrieveServiceContent” takes time to execute in win2k3 system during booting.

rajeshv — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:30:31 GMT

I have a windows service and during service start up I connect to VC . “RetrieveServiceContent’ operation takes time (approximately
5 min) to complete and this happens only during system restart in win2k3
systems. Subsequent restart of my service does not take time. These are my
observation.

1. If
I disable "RasMan" service or if I make "RasMan" service
automatic I don't see said behavior.

2. This
behavior is not seen in Win2k8 system.

Why “RasMan” service is getting invoked when we
call “RetrieveServiceContent”?

cisco nexus 1000v - Get vEthernet details

DVyas — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:48:49 GMT

Hi,

I want to get details of the vethernet attached to cisco distributed switch.

As we can see in following output, I required to get vethernet number from vCenter (here for ex. Veth1 or Veth2)

n1000v# show interface brief

Port VRF Status IP Address Speed MTU

mgmt0 -- up 192.168.4.104 1000 1500

Ethernet VLAN Type Mode Status Reason Speed Port Interface Ch #

Eth3/2 192 eth trunk up none 100(D) --

Interface VLAN Type Mode Status Reason MTU

Veth1 192 virt access up none 1500
Veth2 192 virt access errDisa Error disabled 1500

How can I get required details?

Thanks,

D V

Hello World using vSphere Web Services SDK - Balaji Parimi VMware Ecosystem Engineering

heyitspablo — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:07:30 GMT

Balaji from Ecosystem Engineering describes how to get started with the vSphere Web Services SDK 4.0. You can come and meet Balaji at the upcoming Technology Exchange - Developer Day Monday August 31st 2009 @ VMworld 2009

Sample Code and details available at http://blogs.vmware.com/developer/2009/07/vsphere-sdk-hello-world.html

{youtube} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV15qi1rnkM {youtube}

Changes to the ESX Service Console for ESX 4.0

navadavuluri — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:37:08 GMT

Please check out the attched document for information.

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

ERROR:CIM_ERR_ACCESS_DENIED occures

sunilbotre — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:15:53 GMT

hi,

I have install VMWare CIM SDK on my machine.

But while executing the sample c++ application of indications i get following error.

User Sunil has administrative access.

~~root@vcc-cim c++~~# indications ESX _Server sunil Sunil create
DEBUG: Listener started on port 2742
DEBUG: Creating filter for SELECT * FROM VMWARE_InstCreation
Error: failed to create filter: CIM_ERR_ACCESS_DENIED: User (sunil) is not authorized to perform this operation.
DEBUG: Creating handler for http://10.77.164.16:2742/test
Error: failed to create Handler: CIM_ERR_ACCESS_DENIED: User (sunil) is not authorized to perform this operation.
DEBUG: Creating subscription...
Error: failed to create subscription: HTTP Error (400 Bad Request): CIMError = "request-not-valid" Detail = "Semantic error: on line 14: Illegal value for CLASSNAME.NAME attribute".
Sleeping forever to wait for indications... (press ^C to terminate)

Please let me know,any suggetions.

Sunil

vmWare Api VMpowerOps

Tozo — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:29:17 GMT

Hi.

I have a problem: I connect an esx server via vmware api and i get every vm's name, but only the name. I use for that the SimpleClient.java. The problem is: i want power off, or suspend a machine but VMpowerOps.java dont use the vm's name only some number, which i dont know what is it. I can take suspend a machine only if i know the vm's name?

Thanks the answers!

Can I manually configure a snapshot tree?

cacois — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:00:51 GMT

Here's what I'm looking to do:

Create a VM, make changes and take some snapshots. Save the Snapshot-delta.vmdk files in a repository. Later, create a new VM using the same base disk and generate a snapshot tree to add the saved snapshots.

I can do this manually by generating the vmsn, vmsd, & snapshot.vmdk files by hand. What I'd like is a way to do this in code. Does anyone know a way to configure a snapshot tree in code that will them generate all of these snapshot configuration files when the VM is created?

Alternatively, I can also take snapshots using CreateSnapshot_Task() and then manually edit the snapshot.vmdk files to point to the saved -delta.vmdk snapshot files. This is less elegant, but if I must go this route, I'd also like a way to edit the snapshot tree (or snapshot.vmdk files) within code, short of invoking a command line script.

Has anyone done anything similar? Any ideas?

Getting values from .vmxf file

ajayvk — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:58:11 GMT

Is there a way a way by which I can get the value of properties present in .vmxf file? I am able to get the values out of .vmx file using vSphere Web Services SDK. But, I couldn't figure out a way to get the 'VMId' value present in .vmxf file using vSphere Seb Services SDK.

vAPP under vm

kbr5678 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:46:00 GMT

Hi..

In our environment we are using VMWare vSphere webservices SDK....VirtualMachine entity via we get vm properties like runtime,guest,config details.In this entity shows all vms except vApp under vms...We are not get the vApp under vm properties via VirtualMachine entity..suppose we getDynamiProperty method for vApp under vms collection those details..its take more time...Is any idea to get vApp under vm properties.

Thanks

Ramesh

Technology Exchange - Developer Day Session Update - vSphere APIs for Performance Monitoring

navadavuluri — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:31:09 GMT

Folks - this is one of our highest rated sessions. Take a look at the Session from our last Technology Exchange event in Orlando Florida, watch the video.

Event information, register today: http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/techexchange

Session # VS-04

Session Title vSphere APIs for Perfomance Monitoring

Session Abstract:
Understand the features available to developers via vSphere Web Services APIs to
collect performance statistics and discuss best practices in collecting performance
data when using these APIs. This presentation is a must-attend for any developer
that retrieves performance information from the vSphere platform in any large environment.
While the content is advanced, developers new to the platform will find it useful.
Level: Advanced

{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxGcNy5m1GM{youtube}
Speaker:
Ravi Soundararajan
Staff Engineer Performance Team

VCenter 4.0 chunks data even with maxBufferedResponseBytes greater than 200MB

prince0206 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:40:15 GMT

Hello Experts,
We had noticed that the VCenter 4.0 chunks data in response to client request. As per VMware recomendation we have increased the 'maxBufferedResponseBytes' to >200MB but still we recieve the response in chunked format. Can some body help on this regard?. we have some 70Vms on our data center.

Reference:
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/cim-sdk/4.0/smi/cim_smi_400_prog.pdf

Thanks
Elavarasan.S

events monitoring

beckhamk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:10:55 GMT

I would like to know what is the best method for monitoring events in the SDK for a newly cloned vm that is first powered on and is running through the customization process. We noticed the first time the vm is powred on events like "started customization of VM test2. customization log located at c:....... in the guest.

First, I would like to know the best method to use for monitoring this in real time

Second, are we able to filter those events to the specific VM or do we need to parse the text data looking for the vm name on each and every event?

Third, If we are not monitoring in real time, are we able to look back a few hours and review past events?

thanks in advance

probelm with reconfigure resource pool

rickyelqasem — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:10:34 GMT

Having trouble reconfiguring a resource pool. Here's my code:

ManagedObjectReference mor = new ManagedObjectReference();

mor.type = "ResourcePool";

mor.Value = moref;

ResourceConfigSpec rsc = new ResourceConfigSpec();

rsc.cpuAllocation.shares = (string)"1000";

// _service.ReconfigureComputeResource_Task(mor, rsc, true);

_service.ReconfigureComputeResource_Task(mor, ResourceConfigSpec, true);

return null;

Problem I have is not sure that ReconfigureComputeResource_Task is that correct option to use and how to define cpuAllocation.shares as I have the value as a string.

Thanks for any help.

Ricky El-Qasem

VCI/VCP - MCSE - RHCT

VI 4.0 responded with "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" in response to 'RetrieveProperties'

prince0206 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:32:33 GMT

Hello all,
We have developed our application for backup/restore of VM through VI. Our application was designed in such a way that it expects the 'content length' so it was working fine with VI3.5. We migrated to Vi4.0 since then we face problem, VI4.0 responded with Transfer-Encoding: chunked" for 'RetrieveProperties' query, where there is no content length so our application failed. why is this change in VI4.0? is there way to change this behavior on VI4.0 to return content-length?

Thanks for your time,
Prince

vCloud API Session @ Technology Exchange Developer Day

navadavuluri — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:10:20 GMT

Download this Session: See attachment below.

Session abstract: VMware's vCloud API is a key element of VMware's vision for fostering a Cloud ecosystem of Service Providers, Enterprises, ISVs and VARs.The API enables provisioning and consumption of resources in the Cloud, management and publishing of VMs in the Cloud, as well as migration of VMs between internal and external Clouds. In this session, we will get into some details of the API and explore a few usage scenarios. The audience should walk away with an understanding of how the API fits within VMware's overall Cloud vision, what problem areas it addresses and the key concepts it exposes.

Level: Beginner

Presenter Bio

Tichomir Tenev

Tichomir is a senior staff engineer at VMware currently working on VMware's Cloud products. He has been with VMware since 2001 and has worked on a number of the well known VMware products today such as VMware workstation and VMware vCenter.

Prior to VMware, Tichomir worked for an energy trading startup and prior to that for a visualization company that spun off from Xerox PARC.

Tichomir holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT, as well as Bachelor Degrees in Computer Science and Applied Math from MIT.

VM crashed after calling reconfigvm_task

whiteear — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:44:24 GMT

Hi guys,

when i try to set data into guest OS by calling reconfigvm_task, VM crashed.

i have tried using sample code (VMRconfig.java) in vi-sdk-4.0.0-161137.zip, everything is OK.

but if I use c++ (using gsoap to generate files), the reconfigvm_task returns OK, but VM crashed immediately after reconfigvm_task finished(i can see this in vCenter).

does anybody met this before?

Jul 09 16:44:31.156: vmx| PowerOn
Jul 09 16:44:31.162: vmx| VMXVmdb_LoadRawConfig: Loading raw config
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| UNAME VMkernel xavmo03.asia.corp.platform.com 3.5.0 #1 SMP Release build-110271 Aug 12 2008 19:36:55 i686 (uwglibc version 6)
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT --- USER PREFERENCES
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT --- USER DEFAULTS
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT --- HOST DEFAULTS
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT authd.proxy.vim = vmware-hostd:hostd-vmdb
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT authd.proxy.nfc = vmware-hostd:ha-nfc
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT authd.proxy.nfcssl = vmware-hostd:ha-nfcssl
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT vmauthd.logEnabled = FALSE
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT log.vmauthdFileName = /var/log/vmware/authd.log
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT authd.fullpath = /sbin/authd
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT authd.soapServer = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT vmauthd.server.alwaysProxy = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT vmx.fullpath = /bin/vmx
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT authd.proxy.vpxa-nfc = vmware-vpxa:vpxa-nfc
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT authd.proxy.vpxa-nfcssl = vmware-vpxa:vpxa-nfcssl
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT --- SITE DEFAULTS
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT --- COMMAND LINE
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT sched.group = host/user
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT --- CONFIGURATION
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT config.version = 8
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT virtualHW.version = 4
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT floppy0.present = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT nvram = not_delete.nvram
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT deploymentPlatform = windows
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT virtualHW.productCompatibility = hosted
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT tools.upgrade.policy = manual
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT powerType.powerOff = default
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT powerType.powerOn = default
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT powerType.suspend = default
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT powerType.reset = default
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT displayName = not_delete
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT extendedConfigFile = not_delete.vmxf
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT scsi0.present = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT scsi0.sharedBus = none
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT scsi0.virtualDev = lsilogic
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT memsize = 512
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT scsi0:0.present = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT scsi0:0.fileName = not_delete.vmdk
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT scsi0:0.deviceType = scsi-hardDisk
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT sched.scsi0:0.shares = normal
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT ide0:0.present = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT ide0:0.clientDevice = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.167: vmx| DICT ide0:0.deviceType = cdrom-raw
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT ide0:0.startConnected = FALSE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT floppy0.startConnected = FALSE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT floppy0.fileName = /dev/fd0
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT floppy0.clientDevice = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT ethernet0.present = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT ethernet0.networkName = VM Network
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT ethernet0.addressType = vpx
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT ethernet0.generatedAddress = 00:50:56:86:35:15
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT guestOSAltName = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (32-bit)
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT guestOS = rhel4
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT uuid.bios = 50 06 ab c5 01 16 92 2e-a7 10 34 ee 0d 47 1b 15
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT log.fileName = vmware.log
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT snapshot.action = keep
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT sched.cpu.min = 0
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT sched.cpu.units = mhz
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT sched.cpu.shares = normal
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT sched.mem.minsize = 0
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT sched.mem.shares = normal
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT toolScripts.afterPowerOn = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT toolScripts.afterResume = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT toolScripts.beforeSuspend = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT toolScripts.beforePowerOff = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT evcCompatibilityMode = FALSE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT guestCPUID.0 = 0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT guestCPUID.1 = 0001067800010800000802010febfbff
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT guestCPUID.80000001 = 00000000000000000000000000100000
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT hostCPUID.0 = 0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT hostCPUID.1 = 0001067600040800000ce33dbfebfbff
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT hostCPUID.80000001 = 00000000000000000000000120100000
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT scsi0:0.redo =
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT tools.remindInstall = FALSE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT userCPUID.0 = 0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT userCPUID.1 = 0001067600040800000802010febfbff
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT userCPUID.80000001 = 00000000000000000000000120100000
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT vmware.tools.requiredversion = 7302
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT uuid.location = 56 4d 2f 18 1b 32 1f 1d-47 f9 32 8b 18 0e e5 40
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT sched.swap.derivedName = /vmfs/volumes/4a23aa4f-83952332-c698-001ec9b96e60/not_delete/not_delete-2b6a4fc3.vswp
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT ide0:0.fileName = /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/linux.iso
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT tools.syncTime = FALSE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT numvcpus = 1
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT vm-data.script =
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT guestinfo.vm-data2 =
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT --- USER DEFAULTS
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT --- HOST DEFAULTS
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT authd.proxy.vim = vmware-hostd:hostd-vmdb
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT authd.proxy.nfc = vmware-hostd:ha-nfc
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT authd.proxy.nfcssl = vmware-hostd:ha-nfcssl
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT vmauthd.logEnabled = FALSE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT log.vmauthdFileName = /var/log/vmware/authd.log
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT authd.fullpath = /sbin/authd
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT authd.soapServer = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT vmauthd.server.alwaysProxy = TRUE
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT vmx.fullpath = /bin/vmx
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT authd.proxy.vpxa-nfc = vmware-vpxa:vpxa-nfc
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT authd.proxy.vpxa-nfcssl = vmware-vpxa:vpxa-nfcssl
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT --- SITE DEFAULTS
Jul 09 16:44:31.168: vmx| DICT --- GLOBAL SETTINGS
Jul 09 16:44:31.227: vmx| hostCpuFeatures = 0x406000fc
Jul 09 16:44:31.227: vmx| hostNumPerfCounters = 2
Jul 09 16:44:31.274: vmx| VMMon_CreateVM: vmmon.numVCPUs=1
Jul 09 16:44:31.274: vmx| Swap file path: '/vmfs/volumes/4a23aa4f-83952332-c698-001ec9b96e60/not_delete/not_delete-2b6a4fc3.vswp'
Jul 09 16:44:31.305: vmx| Using swap file '/vmfs/volumes/4a23aa4f-83952332-c698-001ec9b96e60/not_delete/not_delete-2b6a4fc3.vswp'
Jul 09 16:44:31.305: vmx| VMXVmdb_LoadRawConfig: Loading raw config
Jul 09 16:44:31.631: vmx| vmm32-modules: vmm.vmm32 .data:0x2c000 .sdata:0x2e000 .statvars:0x2f000 .peer:0x30000 .shared:0x57000 .bss:0x6d000 .rodata:0x74000 .text:0x80000 .kstatvars:0x4000 ,mmu-pae.vmm32 .rodata:0x7f520 .data:0x2d4a0 .peer:0x54be0 .shared:0x6c51e .bss:0x72c00 .text:0xd66a0 .comment:0x40000dc8 .statvars:0x2000 .kstatvars:0x2000 .scb:0x40004740 .shared_meta:0x40004530 .peer_meta:0x40000cc0 ,sharedmmu-none.vmm32 .text:0xe0540 .comment:0x40000ed6 ,pv-none.vmm32 .data:0x2d4c0 .peer:0x1000 .shared:0x6ce5e .bss:0x730c0 .text:0xe056c .comment:0x40000ee8 .statvars:0x1000 .kstatvars:0x1000 .shared_meta:0x400048c0 ,hv-none.vmm32 .text:0xe0660 .comment:0x40000f42 ,<MonSrcFile> .rodata:0x7f530
Jul 09 16:44:31.631: vmx| KHZEstimate 1995000
Jul 09 16:44:31.631: vmx| MHZEstimate 1995
Jul 09 16:44:31.631: vmx| NumVCPUs 1
Jul 09 16:44:31.631: vmx| UUID: location-UUID is 56 4d 2f 18 1b 32 1f 1d-47 f9 32 8b 18 0e e5 40
Jul 09 16:44:31.631: vmx| WORKER: Creating new group with numThreads=2 (2)
Jul 09 16:44:31.637: vmx| Mapped mainmem as pageable
Jul 09 16:44:31.637: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat vm.uptime
Jul 09 16:44:31.637: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat vm.suspendTime
Jul 09 16:44:31.637: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat vm.powerOnTimeStamp
Jul 09 16:44:31.643: vmx| VMXVmdb_LoadRawConfig: Loading raw config
Jul 09 16:44:31.648: vmx| DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 '/vmfs/volumes/4a23aa4f-83952332-c698-001ec9b96e60/not_delete/not_delete.vmdk' persistent R(null)
Jul 09 16:44:31.662: vmx| DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/4a23aa4f-83952332-c698-001ec9b96e60/not_delete/not_delete-flat.vmdk" : open successful (10) size = 8589934592, hd = 41042016. Type 3
Jul 09 16:44:31.662: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "not_delete-flat.vmdk" (0xa)
Jul 09 16:44:31.662: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/4a23aa4f-83952332-c698-001ec9b96e60/not_delete/not_delete.vmdk' (0xa): vmfs, 16777216 sectors / 8192 Mb.
Jul 09 16:44:31.662: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Opened "/vmfs/volumes/4a23aa4f-83952332-c698-001ec9b96e60/not_delete/not_delete.vmdk" (flags 0xa). 896655C
Jul 09 16:44:32.267: vmx| DISK: OPEN '/vmfs/volumes/4a23aa4f-83952332-c698-001ec9b96e60/not_delete/not_delete.vmdk' Geo (1044/255/63) BIOS Geo (0/0/0) freeSpace=311582Mb, lsilogic
Jul 09 16:44:32.317: vmx| TimeTracker host to guest rate conversion 2797829524657212 @ 1995000000Hz -> 2797829524657212 @ 1995000000Hz
Jul 09 16:44:32.317: vmx| TimeTracker host to guest rate conversion ((x * 2147483648) >> 31) + 0
Jul 09 16:44:32.318: vmx| MKS not attempting to initialize X.
Jul 09 16:44:32.318: vmx| Msg_Reset:
Jul 09 16:44:32.318: vmx|

Jul 09 16:44:32.324: vmx| MKS REMOTE Loading VNC Configuration from VM config file
Jul 09 16:44:32.326: vmx| DVGA: Full screen VGA will not be available.
Jul 09 16:44:32.326: vmx| SVGA: Truncated max res to VRAM size: 4194304 bytes VRAM, 1180x885 Max Resolution
Jul 09 16:44:32.327: vmx| Creating virtual dev for 0:0
Jul 09 16:44:32.327: vmx| DumpDiskInfo: scsi0:0 createType=11, capacity = 16777216, numLinks = 1, allocationType = 0
Jul 09 16:44:32.327: vmx| SCSIDiskESXPopulateVDevDesc: Using FS backend
Jul 09 16:44:32.327: vmx| SCSI0: UNTAGGED commands will be converted to ORDER tags.
Jul 09 16:44:32.327: vmx| VLANCE: send cluster threshold is 80, size = 2 recalcInterval is 2 ticks
Jul 09 16:44:32.327: vmx| Ethernet0 MAC Address: 00:50:56:86:35:15
Jul 09 16:44:32.328: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat vm.heartbeat
Jul 09 16:44:32.328: vmx| DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : toolsVersion = 7302
Jul 09 16:44:32.329: vmx| TOOLS INSTALL initializing state to IDLE on power on.
Jul 09 16:44:32.393: vmx| PTSC to VMI Wallclock (nsec) 2797829676465180 @ 1995000000Hz -> 1247157872000000000 @ 1000000000Hz
Jul 09 16:44:32.393: vmx| PTSC to VMI Wallclock (nsec) ((x * 2152865812) >> 32) + 1245755451109887382
Jul 09 16:44:32.393: vmx| PTSC to ParaTime RealCycles 0 @ 1995000000Hz -> 0 @ 1995000000Hz
Jul 09 16:44:32.393: vmx| PTSC to ParaTime RealCycles ((x * 1) >> 0) + 0
Jul 09 16:44:32.393: vmx| ParaTime RealCycles to PTSC 0 @ 1995000000Hz -> 0 @ 1995000000Hz
Jul 09 16:44:32.393: vmx| ParaTime RealCycles to PTSC ((x * 1) >> 0) + 0
Jul 09 16:44:32.396: vmx| guestCpuFeatures = 0x406000f8
Jul 09 16:44:32.398: vmx| VMXVmdb_LoadRawConfig: Loading raw config
Jul 09 16:44:32.403: vmx| guestCPUID vendor: GenuntelineI
Jul 09 16:44:32.403: vmx| guestCPUID level 00000000, 0: 0x0000000a 0x756e6547 0x6c65746e 0x49656e69
Jul 09 16:44:32.403: vmx| guestCPUID level 00000001, 0: 0x00010678 0x00010800 0x00080201 0x0febfbff
Jul 09 16:44:32.403: vmx| guestCPUID level 80000000, 0: 0x80000008 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
Jul 09 16:44:32.403: vmx| guestCPUID level 80000001, 0: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00100000
Jul 09 16:44:32.403: vmx| guestCPUID level 80000008, 0: 0x00003024 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
Jul 09 16:44:32.427: vmx| VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 1
Jul 09 16:44:32.427: vmx| VMX setting maximum IPC write buffers to 0 packets, 0 bytes
Jul 09 16:44:32.427: mks| Async MKS thread is alive
Jul 09 16:44:32.427: vcpu-0| VMMon_Start: vcpu-0: worldID=4850017
Jul 09 16:44:32.436: vcpu-0| APIC: version = 0x14, max LVT = 5
Jul 09 16:44:32.436: vcpu-0| APIC: LDR = 0x2000000, DFR = 0xffffffff
Jul 09 16:44:32.440: vcpu-0| guestCpuFeatures = 0x406000f8
Jul 09 16:44:32.443: vcpu-0| CPU reset: hard
Jul 09 16:44:32.448: vcpu-0| sz=3006432
Jul 09 16:44:32.469: vcpu-0| vmm32 initialized: Releasebuild-110271. cflags: 0x06000000.00000010.0000d181.00000005
Jul 09 16:44:32.517: vcpu-0| MonitorInitNumaUnmapVMM32
Jul 09 16:44:32.798: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering MemSpace at 0xf8000000(0x0) and 0xf4000000(0x0)
Jul 09 16:44:32.810: vcpu-0| SVGA: Unregistering MemSpace at 0xf8000000(0xf8000000) and 0xf4000000(0xf4000000)
Jul 09 16:44:32.823: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering MemSpace at 0xf8000000(0xf8000000) and 0xf4000000(0xf4000000)
Jul 09 16:44:32.839: vcpu-0| SVGA: Unregistering MemSpace at 0xf8000000(0xf8000000) and 0xf4000000(0xf4000000)
Jul 09 16:44:32.841: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering IOSpace at 0x1060
Jul 09 16:44:32.841: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering MemSpace at 0xf8000000(0xf8000000) and 0xf4000000(0xf4000000)
Jul 09 16:44:33.065: vcpu-0| DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : geometry=1044/255/63
Jul 09 16:44:33.128: vcpu-0| BIOS-UUID is 50 06 ab c5 01 16 92 2e-a7 10 34 ee 0d 47 1b 15
Jul 09 16:44:33.423: vcpu-0| DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : toolsVersion = 7302
Jul 09 16:44:33.423: vcpu-0| DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : toolsVersion = 7302
Jul 09 16:44:38.215: vcpu-0| Unknown int 10h func 0x0000
Jul 09 16:44:39.475: vcpu-0| SVGA: Unregistering IOSpace at 0x1060
Jul 09 16:44:39.475: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering IOSpace at 0xfffffff0
Jul 09 16:44:39.476: vcpu-0| SVGA: Unregistering IOSpace at 0xfffffff0
Jul 09 16:44:39.476: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering IOSpace at 0x1060
Jul 09 16:44:46.883: vcpu-0| CDROM: Accepting Event Status Notification 0x10
Jul 09 16:44:47.459: vcpu-0| HBACommon: First write on scsi0:0.fileName='/vmfs/volumes/4a23aa4f-83952332-c698-001ec9b96e60/not_delete/not_delete.vmdk'
Jul 09 16:44:47.495: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-CHAIN : UpdateContentID: old = 0x8ee3653c, new = 0x7bc9ee43
Jul 09 16:44:56.417: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 0, registration number 1, guest application tools-hgfs.
Jul 09 16:44:56.417: vcpu-0| DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : toolsVersion = 7302
Jul 09 16:45:19.010: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 1, registration number 1, guest application toolbox.
Jul 09 16:45:19.010: vcpu-0| TOOLS sending 'OS_PowerOn' (3) state change request
Jul 09 16:45:19.010: vcpu-0| DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : toolsVersion = 7302
Jul 09 16:45:19.241: vcpu-0| Guest: toolbox: Version: build-110271
Jul 09 16:45:19.241: vcpu-0| TOOLS unified loop capability requested by 'toolbox'; now sending options via TCLO
Jul 09 16:45:19.247: vcpu-0| TOOLS autoupgrade protocol version 2
Jul 09 16:45:19.248: vcpu-0| TOOLS ToolsCapabilityGuestTempDirectory received 1 /tmp/vmware-root
Jul 09 16:45:19.248: vcpu-0| TOOLS setting the tools version to '7302'
Jul 09 16:45:19.295: vcpu-0| DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : toolsVersion = 7302
Jul 09 16:45:19.295: vcpu-0| TOOLS installed version 7302, available version 7302
Jul 09 16:45:19.295: vcpu-0| TOOLS don't need to be upgraded.
Jul 09 16:46:35.523: vmx| TOOLS received request in VMX to set option 'synctime' -> '0'
Jul 09 16:46:35.543: vmx| VMXVmdb_LoadRawConfig: Loading raw config
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Caught signal 11 -- tid 4855136
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| SIGNAL: eip 0x100f6053 esp 0xbf5fd5cc ebp 0xbf5fd5f8
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| SIGNAL: eax 0x0 ebx 0x11 ecx 0x0 edx 0xfefeff60 esi 0x878cb42 edi 0x0
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| SIGNAL: stack BF5FD5CC : 0x080f8f32 0x00000000 0xbf5fd620 0xbf5fd5f8
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| SIGNAL: stack BF5FD5DC : 0x0808489f 0x008b0ef0 0x00000000 0x00000000
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| SIGNAL: stack BF5FD5EC : 0x00000000 0x088b0ef0 0xbf5fd620 0xbf5fd838
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| SIGNAL: stack BF5FD5FC : 0x081645d5 0x0878cb38 0x00000000 0x0878cb38
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| SIGNAL: stack BF5FD60C : 0xbf5fd618 0x74617453 0x65722f65 0x00000000
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| SIGNAL: stack BF5FD61C : 0x0878cb38 0x2f6d762f 0x4d565f23 0x6d762f58
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| SIGNAL: stack BF5FD62C : 0x61722f78 0x67664377 0x74617453 0x65722f65
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| SIGNAL: stack BF5FD63C : 0x38232f71 0x762f3537 0x612f6c61 0x232f6c6c
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace:
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[0] 0xbf5fd2fc eip 0x80594a0
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[1] 0xbf5fd3cc eip 0x80bce6a
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[2] 0xbf5fd3fc eip 0x80bcb86
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[3] 0xbf5fd41c eip 0x80bca95
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[4] 0xbf5fd44c eip 0x10043a4e
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[5] 0xbf5fd5c4 eip 0x7d00002
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[6] 0xbf5fd5f8 eip 0x100f6053
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[7] 0xbf5fd838 eip 0x81645d5
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[8] 0xbf5fd858 eip 0x8153ac2
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[9] 0xbf5fd9c8 eip 0x80e4670
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace10 0xbf5fd9d8 eip 0x80ed93f
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace11 0xbf5fdb78 eip 0x8084754
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace12 0xbf5fdbf8 eip 0x81c58bd
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace13 0xbf5fdc18 eip 0x80f3f39
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace14 0xbf5ffc98 eip 0x80f3b32
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace15 0xbf5ffce8 eip 0x80f30f7
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace16 0xbf5ffd08 eip 0x8092dca
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace17 0xbf5ffd28 eip 0x8092df9
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace18 0xbf5ffd58 eip 0x810375e
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace19 0xbf5ffd68 eip 0x81036cb
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace20 0xbf5ffd98 eip 0x8102654
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace21 0xbf5ffdf8 eip 0x804e078
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace22 0xbf5ffe18 eip 0x804d4b9
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace23 0xbf5ffe48 eip 0x1009ebed
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace24 00000000 eip 0x804c6a1
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Unexpected signal: 11.
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace:
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[0] 0xbf5fcedc eip 0x80594a0
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[1] 0xbf5fd2fc eip 0x8102f87
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[2] 0xbf5fd3cc eip 0x80bcf25
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[3] 0xbf5fd3fc eip 0x80bcb86
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[4] 0xbf5fd41c eip 0x80bca95
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[5] 0xbf5fd44c eip 0x10043a4e
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[6] 0xbf5fd5c4 eip 0x7d00002
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[7] 0xbf5fd5f8 eip 0x100f6053
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[8] 0xbf5fd838 eip 0x81645d5
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace[9] 0xbf5fd858 eip 0x8153ac2
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace10 0xbf5fd9c8 eip 0x80e4670
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace11 0xbf5fd9d8 eip 0x80ed93f
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace12 0xbf5fdb78 eip 0x8084754
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace13 0xbf5fdbf8 eip 0x81c58bd
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace14 0xbf5fdc18 eip 0x80f3f39
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace15 0xbf5ffc98 eip 0x80f3b32
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace16 0xbf5ffce8 eip 0x80f30f7
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace17 0xbf5ffd08 eip 0x8092dca
Jul 09 16:46:35.623: vmx| Backtrace18 0xbf5ffd28 eip 0x8092df9
Jul 09 16:46:35.624: vmx| Backtrace19 0xbf5ffd58 eip 0x810375e
Jul 09 16:46:35.624: vmx| Backtrace20 0xbf5ffd68 eip 0x81036cb
Jul 09 16:46:35.624: vmx| Backtrace21 0xbf5ffd98 eip 0x8102654
Jul 09 16:46:35.624: vmx| Backtrace22 0xbf5ffdf8 eip 0x804e078
Jul 09 16:46:35.624: vmx| Backtrace23 0xbf5ffe18 eip 0x804d4b9
Jul 09 16:46:35.624: vmx| Backtrace24 0xbf5ffe48 eip 0x1009ebed
Jul 09 16:46:35.624: vmx| Backtrace25 00000000 eip 0x804c6a1
Jul 09 16:46:40.085: vmx| Msg_Post: Error
Jul 09 16:46:40.085: vmx| http://msg.log.error.unrecoverable VMware ESX Server unrecoverable error: (vmx)
Jul 09 16:46:40.085: vmx| Unexpected signal: 11.
Jul 09 16:46:40.085: vmx| http://msg.panic.haveLog A log file is available in "vmware.log". http://msg.panic.haveCore A core file is available in "/var/core/vmx-zdump.007". http://msg.panic.requestSupport.withLogAndCore Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file. http://msg.panic.requestSupport.vmSupport
Jul 09 16:46:40.085: vmx| To collect files to submit to VMware support, run "vm-support".
Jul 09 16:46:40.085: vmx| http://msg.panic.response We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
Jul 09 16:46:40.085: vmx|

Jul 09 16:46:40.240: mks| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died

timezone returned is wrong when targeting VC.

deepakmits — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:23:59 GMT

I have created application where I am targetting to VC and collecting stats data using perfQuery(). VC is in GMT+5:30 timezone and it can be seen from MOB and also box hosting VC.
After executing query -> (PerfEntityMetric) pValues[j]).getSampleInfo().getTimeStamp().getTimeZone() gives Timezone as "GMT".
I want to know what is going wrong here ? from where this API picks timezone ? or where to configure the timezone for VC so that it gets picked thru queryPerf API ?

Thanks,
Deepak

How to install VIB on ESX using VISDK in C++?

ksvreddy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:07:02 GMT

Hi,

I want install VIB on ESX by using VISDK in C++ . If any body having sample code in c++, Can please share with me.

Thanks,

kvsr

Not able to find HttpNfcLeaseState - c#

rkamal — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:55:59 GMT

Hi All,

Trying to exportVapp. I am not able to find the HttpNfcLeaseState Enum from the .net Vim25Service2005.dll.

Error 1 The name 'HttpNfcLeaseState' does not exist in the current context.

It is not VI SDK 2.5. It is VI SDK 4.0.

Rajesh Kamal.

How to resignature multiple clones vmfs volumes?

asanapa — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:30:46 GMT

Hi all

I`ve cloned iscsi lun (vmfs datastore) backstore, rescaned & got several unresolved vmfs volumes, Of course they have same uuuid & volume label. I need to resign them to get several attached vmfs volumes with same content.

If I make only 1 clone - all is ok, otherwise - failed

For esx3.5 it worked well if VMFS.EnableResignature == 1 (despite how many clones are)

For esx4 I have problem, I use perl sdk - at first call QueryUnresolvableVmfsVolume & get list of volumes. In case of one clone ($unresolved_vmfs_volume->{resolveStatus}{resolvable} is 1 ({resolveStatus}{multipleCopies} is 0) all gone ok - I have new resigned volume,

In case of multiple clones ($unresolved_vmfs_volume->{resolveStatus}{resolvable} is 0 ({resolveStatus}{multipleCopies} is 1) it failed.

I used both "ResolveMultipleUnresolvedVmfsVolumes" or "ResignatureUnresolvedVmfsVolumes_Task" - it failed every time {resolveStatus}{resolvable} was 0. Seems like resolvable is 0 always when multipleCopies is 1.

What I do wrong? Is it possible to resign volumes in esx4 when there are multiple vmfs volume copies??? // In esx3.5 it worked ok

VC Plugin issue: name and description do not show correctly within Plug-in Manager Window

xsigo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:24:35 GMT

I have succesfully used java sdk to registered my plugin into VI client. It works perfect.

However, when I open the Plug-in Manager Window. It has display error

name and description is the last part of key, verndor is empty. I have attached a screen shot of this Plugin-Manger.

When I open http://%3cvc_hostname_or_ip%3e/mob ->content->[extensionList"com.xsigo.xmsweb.xms_172.16.0.181_app"]

I found company is unset, when I open description, type is unset , dynamicProperty Unset, label an d summary is the last part of key : 181_app

here is my java grovy code:

DynamicProperty[] dynamicProperty = new DynamicProperty[0]
Description description = new Description("", dynamicProperty, "Xsigo Virtual I/O Management", "Xsigo Management System")

ExtensionServerInfo esi = new ExtensionServerInfo()
esi.url = plugInConfigureUrl
esi.setDescription(description)
esi.company = "Xsigo Systems, Inc."
esi.type = 'com.vmware.vim.viClientScripts'
esi.adminEmail = adminEmail

ExtensionClientInfo eci = new ExtensionClientInfo()
eci.version ="2.1.0"
eci.setDescription(description)
eci.company = "Xsigo Systems, Inc."
eci.type = "com.vmware.vim.viClientScripts"
eci.url = ""

Extension ext = new Extension()
ext.setDescription(description)
ext.company = "Xsigo Systems, Inc."
ext.key = keyStr //key is com.xsigo.xmsweb.xms_172.16.0.181_app
ext.version = "2.1.0"
ext.subjectName = "VC Extensibility"
ext.server = esi
ext.client = eci
ext.taskList = []
ext.eventList = []
ext.faultList = []
ext.privilegeList = []
ext.resourceList = []
ext.lastHeartbeatTime = Calendar.getInstance()

// get hold of ExtensionManager reference
ManagedObjectReference extMgrMof = service.getExtensionManager();

service.registerExtension(extMgrMof, ext);
log.info "registration successful!"

Can someone tell me what I did wrong? the vim25.jar is downloaded from vspher 4.0 sdk.

Getting the name of the vm using its moref

ayrus — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:36:54 GMT

I ve been developing a plug in . In that I ve the moref of the virtual machine (got moref from the URL) . Now I want to get its name..? how could I do that.? Plz help me.

Thanks in advance.

-ayrus.

Cannot Power on VM - VimApi.FileLocked Unable to access a file since it is locked

cacois — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:06:16 GMT

Hello VMWare Community.

I want to introduce myself and explain our unusual vmware use case, along with some problems we have been seeing. We are working on a custom virtual lab environment, using the VMWare SDK to generate VMs across ~20 ESX hosts. These hosts all points to a Fibre Channel SAN, which stores all of our .vmdk files. When a lab is requetsed, we generate unique virtual machines no the host datastores, using the existing vmdk files on the SAN in independent_nonpersistent mode. The code then takes a snapshot of each VM in the lab, and powers them on.

When we launch high volumes (15+) of VMs using the same vmdk simultaneously (from separate threads), we have started to see file locks when trying to power on the VMs. The exact error message is

VimApi.FileLocked Unable to access a file since it is locked

At this point, the VM cannot be powered on manually or through the web service, but other operations, such as taking snapshots, seem to work fine. The vmkernel log shows something like this when it happens:

*Jun 29 15:12:56 vtevms00 vmkernel: 20:15:28:48.154 cpu3:3532)World: vm 3533: 901: Starting world vmm0:ba853cbd-5ff3-4909-ac53-b5605f5bd5c8*Launchpad with flags 8*
*Jun 29 15:12:56 vtevms00 vmkernel: 20:15:28:48.155 cpu3:3532)Sched: vm 3533: 5333: adding 'vmm0:ba853cbd-5ff3-4909-ac53-b5605f5bd5c8*Launchpad': group 'host/user': cpu: shares=-1 min=-1 minLimit=-1 max=-1*
Jun 29 15:12:56 vtevms00 vmkernel: 20:15:28:48.155 cpu3:3532)Sched: vm 3533: 5352: renamed group 503 to vm.3532
Jun 29 15:12:56 vtevms00 vmkernel: 20:15:28:48.155 cpu3:3532)Sched: vm 3533: 5366: moved group 503 to be under group 4
Jun 29 15:12:56 vtevms00 vmkernel: 20:15:28:48.279 cpu3:3532)Swap: vm 3533: 2169: extending swap to 393216 KB
Jun 29 15:12:57 vtevms00 vmkernel: 20:15:28:48.852 cpu3:3532)FS3: 1973: Checking if lock holders are live for lock [type 10c00001 offset 27942912 v 4399, hb offset 3881472
Jun 29 15:12:57 vtevms00 vmkernel: gen 170, mode 2, owner 00000000-00000000-0000-000000000000 mtime 1784637]
*Jun 29 15:13:01 vtevms00 vmkernel: 20:15:28:52.866 cpu0:3532)Sched: vm 3533: 1031: name='vmm0:ba853cbd-5ff3-4909-ac53-b5605f5bd5c8*Launchpad'*
Jun 29 15:13:01 vtevms00 vmkernel: 20:15:28:52.866 cpu0:3532)CpuSched: vm 3533: 13868: zombified unscheduled world: runState=NEW
Jun 29 15:13:01 vtevms00 vmkernel: 20:15:28:52.866 cpu0:3532)World: vm 3533: 2489: deathPending set; world not running, scheduling reap

Below is a snippet from the vmware.log generated in the dircetory alongside the .vmx file for a locked VM:

Jun 29 15:52:35.857: vmx| DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 '/vmfs/volumes/494044aa-10eb8a87-2887-00144f205b31/vte3/disks/Launchpad.vmdk' independent-nonpersistent R(null)
Jun 29 15:52:39.901: vmx| DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/494044aa-10eb8a87-2887-00144f205b31/vte3/disks/Launchpad-flat.vmdk" : failed to open (1048585): AIOMgr_Open failed. Type 3
Jun 29 15:52:39.901: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Failed to open extents for descriptor file in normal mode
Jun 29 15:52:39.903: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : "/vmfs/volumes/494044aa-10eb8a87-2887-00144f205b31/vte3/disks/Launchpad.vmdk" : failed to open (Device or resource busy).
Jun 29 15:52:39.903: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/494044aa-10eb8a87-2887-00144f205b31/vte3/disks/Launchpad.vmdk" : failed to open (Device or resource busy).
Jun 29 15:52:39.903: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/494044aa-10eb8a87-2887-00144f205b31/vte3/disks/Launchpad.vmdk' with flags 0xe (Device or resource busy).
Jun 29 15:52:39.903: vmx| DISK: Cannot open disk "/vmfs/volumes/494044aa-10eb8a87-2887-00144f205b31/vte3/disks/Launchpad.vmdk": Device or resource busy (1048585).
Jun 29 15:52:39.903: vmx| DISK: Failed to open disk '/vmfs/volumes/494044aa-10eb8a87-2887-00144f205b31/vte3/disks/Launchpad.vmdk' : Device or resource busy (1048585) 3047.
Jun 29 15:52:39.903: vmx| DISK: Failed to create child: Device or resource busy (1048585) 3630.
Jun 29 15:52:39.903: vmx| Msg_Post: Error
Jun 29 15:52:39.903: vmx| http://msg.disk.noBackEnd Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/494044aa-10eb8a87-2887-00144f205b31/vte3/disks/Launchpad.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Jun 29 15:52:39.903: vmx| http://msg.disk.configureDiskError Reason: Device or resource busy.----------------------------------------
Jun 29 15:52:39.909: vmx| Module DiskEarly power on failed.
Jun 29 15:52:39.909: vmx| VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0
Jun 29 15:52:39.911: vmx| WORKER: asyncOps=0 maxActiveOps=0 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=0
Jun 29 15:52:40.767: vmx| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Jun 29 15:52:40.775: vmx| VMX idle exit
Jun 29 15:52:40.797: vmx| Flushing VMX VMDB connections
Jun 29 15:52:40.801: vmx| IPC_exit: disconnecting all threads
Jun 29 15:52:40.801: vmx| VMX exit (0).
Jun 29 15:52:40.801: vmx| AIOMGR-S : stat o=1 r=0 w=0 i=0 br=0 bw=0
Jun 29 15:52:40.801: vmx| VMX has left the building: 0.

The above seems to indicate that the lock is on the vmdk file, but lsof does not show the file as being in use.

This locking will happen on a per-host basis, i.e. all VMs on a particular host using an affected vmdk will be locked, while VMs on another host pointing to the same vmdk (on the same SAN) will be unaffected. The lock seems to clear itself up eventually, though it can take minutes or days for it to go away. Performing an lsof on all vmdk files on the SAN shows that none of them are in use while the lock error is occurring. The lock seems to occur only on vmdks that are heavily requested, which makes sense for an access conflict. However, wrapping the PowerOn web service call in a mutex doesn't stop the occurrence.

Especially confusing is the "owner 00000000-00000000-0000-000000000000" message seen in the logs, indicating some sort of null owner of the lock? I have no idea what to make of this.

I have searched the community forums extensively, and all examples of such locking I could find were seen to be file locks visible using lsof on the host, or the users affected were just looking for ways to salvage a single VM from this condition...we need to prevent the condition from occurring in the first place. I have seen thoughts about scsi reservations causing these sorts of issues, but can't see why I would be able to take a snapshot but not power on a VM in that circumstance. Nor would I know how to avoid scsi reservation conflicts for our setup, if that is indeed the cause.

If anybody has seen this error, or has successfully generated large numbers of VMs off of the same bask disks without locks, I'd very much appreciate any insight you can give. I'm more than happy to run tests and provide any data necessary to try to get to the bottom of this issue.

Thanks!

Create NAS datastore

Ashwin89 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:40:52 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to create NFS datastore through VI SDK.I tried it using VI client and its getting created succesfully.

Through SDK I am not able to achieve the same.

Here the spec for the same.

HostConfigManager hostConfig = (HostConfigManager)vmUtils._GetPropFromMoref(hostmoref, "configManager");

ManagedObjectReference morefHostStorageSys = hostConfig.storageSystem;

HostNasVolumeSpec nasvmSpec = new HostNasVolumeSpec();

nasvmSpec.accessMode = "readOnly";

nasvmSpec.localPath = "/vmfs/volumes/nas_ds";

nasvmSpec.remoteHost = "avocado";

nasvmSpec.remotePath = "/vol/CrashVM/.snapshot/CRASH_NEW2";

nasvmSpec.type = "NFS";

ManagedObjectReference dsMoref = _mconnection.Service.CreateNasDatastore(morefHostStorageSys, nasvmSpec);

if (dsMoref != null)

{

Console.WriteLine("Datastore got created succesfully");

}

Correct me If I am missing something.

Thanks,

-AsHwIN

How to get performance counter information of all the instances?

Chandrashekhar — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:09:59 GMT

Hi,

I want to retrieve performance information of all the instances of CPU. I am using queryPerfComposite to get this information from ESX server and from all the virtual machines under it. I am creating object of PerfMetricId and keeping its "instances" property as "". But when I use "", VI SDK gives me error as :

Exception in thread "main" AxisFault

faultCode: ServerFaultCode

faultSubcode:

faultString: A specified parameter was not correct.

metricId

faultActor:

faultNode:

faultDetail:

{urn:vim2}InvalidArgumentFault:<invalidProperty>metricId</invalidProperty>

A specified parameter was not correct.

metricId

But if I make instance as "", it works, but I cant get information of all the instances. So, question is how to get performance counter information for all the instances?

Also, If my ESX server has 8 cores and VM's running under it has only 4 cores, then how do the query will respond?

My code snippet is as follows :

PerfMetricId counterMetric = new PerfMetricId();

counterMetric.setCounterId(counterId); // I get counterId from an PerfInfo object which I get by queryAvailablePerf() method.

counterMetric.setInstance("*");

issue while associating ports to vms using sdk

Chandras123 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:55:58 GMT

i am trying to find vms associated with ports under a port group using vi2.5 sdk of vcenter. i am getting port info using below

for each host i am getting ports by this property of hostSystem " host-->config-->network-->portgroups-->port".

each port has array of macs. i have collected vnic info which has mac. using this i am finding associated vms. but in mobbrowse i could see some of ports does not have few macs of some vms. where as i could see those vms as connected in the configuration tab of host(in vi client) which displays vswitch and port group and ports. i suprise how ui gets this info. my assumption is in vi client what ever we show it is reflection of vi sdk meaning it also uses the above prop to collect this info if it is from vi sdk.

so i need help for below

is there any other way of getting portgroup info. i know host-->config-->network-->vswitch->portgroup is other way. but i believe this info is same as above mentioned .

how vi client is getting this info.

thanking you in advance.

Thanks,Chandra

Trailing space issue with SearchDatastore

piuhapofuhpaosf — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:26:13 GMT

When using the SearchDatastore method, if the "datastorePath" parameter has a trailing space, an error is generated. Here's the code:

my $path = "dstore_1 /testing ";
my $browse_task = $host_data_browser->SearchDatastore(datastorePath=>$path, searchSpec=>$search_spec);

The "testing " directory does have a trailing space in the name on the physical disk. When I browse the datastore using the SearchDatastore method, the name of that directory is returned as "testing\x{f028}". I don't know why the space is encoded that way, but it is. If I pass that same value into the search though (i.e. I change the "my $path = "dstore_1 /testing\x{f028}"), to search the "testing " directory, I get the error "Empty String at /home/omnitool/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.9/VMware/VICommon.pm line 1406". This is the same error I get if I just pass in the name with the trailing space (not encoded).

I just need to know how to encode the trailing space so that I can actually search that directory. I understand that the easy fix is to just remove the trailing space from the directory on disk and then the problem goes away. However, I want my code to handle the situation properly, which means I want it to handle the space. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

In vApp under virtualMachine.

kbr5678 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:42:26 GMT

vApp vms get only VirtualApp entity only.Not in HostSystem or VirtualMachine.so for vApp vm details ( runtime,guest,config,datastore ) get through getDynamicProperty only..Is any other idea to get vApp vms.

Thanks

ram

Why clone with Webservice API(Java) cost so long?

firerain — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:59:22 GMT

Hello

I am making the clone of a virtual machine from the template now.

When I clone from a template on the VI Client, it spend about only 13 min.

But When I clone with Java API, it cost me more than 2 hours to finish.

I use the sample code VMClone.java to clone, and the code snippet is like:

ManagedObjectReference cloneTask
= service.cloneVM_Task(vmRef, vmFolderRef, clonedName, cloneSpec);
String status = cb.getServiceUtil().waitForTask(cloneTask);

if(status.equalsIgnoreCase("failure")) {
System.out.println("Failure -: Virtual Machine cannot be cloned");
}
if(status.equalsIgnoreCase("sucess")) {
System.out.println("Virtual Machine Cloned successfully.");
}

I have tried remove the waitForTask() function and only excute the cloneVM_Task function like:

service.cloneVM_Task(vmRef, vmFolderRef, clonedName, cloneSpec);

but with only one time fast clone(about 13 min), the cost time for clone still regain to more than 2 hours.

I can not understand why clone with API cost so much time and without waitForTask(), why only one fast clone happened without waitForTask.

Any one kows about it?

and plz forgive my poor English, thx.

My best regards

How can i configure VM to physical network port ?

pattadon — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:08:42 GMT

Like i want VM1 to connect with NIC card number 5 and VM2 connect with NIC card number 7

which method in VI SDK i can use ??

new VM advanced options. IDE or SCSI?

idanmnr — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:09:34 GMT

when creating a new vm, in the advanced options, the virtual device node has 2 options:

SCSI and IDE.

for some guest OSs, the default is IDE and for some its SCSI.

where in the SDK is it defined?

How can I find out for which guest OS the default setting is ISE and for which the default setting is SCSI?

is it in the GuestOSDescriptor? which property?

Thanks

idanmnr

"A specified parameter was not correct" error while executing queryPerfComposite()

Chandrashekhar — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:41:49 GMT

Hi,

I am getting "A specified parameter was not correct" error while executing queryPerfComposite() method. I want to get performance counter information for host systems and virtual machines from vCenter server. I am following steps below :

1) Connect to vCenter server using VI SDK.

2) Get performance manager MOR for vCenter.

3) get MOR of all the hosts present in vCenter.

4) For each host MOR, execute "queryAvailablePerfMetric()" method.

5) Finally, after checking available perfMetrics, call queryPerfComposite().

At step 5, I am getting above error. Anyone has any clue for this?

Below is my code snippet :

final ArrayList<ManagedObjectReference> hostMORList = connection.getServiceUtil().getDecendentMoRefs(*null*, "HostSystem");

for (ManagedObjectReference hostMor : hostMORList) {

final String machineName = (String) connection.getServiceUtil().getDynamicProperty(hostMor, "name");

System.out.println("DEBUG : Machine name : " + machineName);

final PerfCounterInfo] counterInfo = (PerfCounterInfo)connection.getServiceUtil().getDynamicProperty(perfManager,"perfCounter");

Calendar metricEndTime = Calendar.+getInstance+();

Calendar metricStartTime = (Calendar) metricEndTime.clone();

metricStartTime.add(Calendar.HOUR, -1);

final PerfMetricId[] availCounterIds = servicePort.queryAvailablePerfMetric( perfManager,hostMor,metricStartTime,metricEndTime, this.interval);

final PerfCompositeMetric newValues = getCounterValues(hostMor,counterIds);

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* Searches performance counter information for specified entity. Entity can be host or virtual machine.
* @param hostMor Managed object reference to host system
* @param metricList Metric id's from which values to be retrieved
* @return Performance counter values and information
* @throws RemoteException throws remote exception
*/
private PerfCompositeMetric getCounterValues(*final* ManagedObjectReference hostMor,final PerfMetricId[] metricList) throws RemoteException {

final PerfQuerySpec qSpecs = new PerfQuerySpec();
qSpecs.setEntity(hostMor);

qSpecs.setMaxSample(*new* Integer(*this*.sampleCount));
qSpecs.setMetricId(metricList);

qSpecs.setIntervalId(*new* Integer(*this*.interval));

final PerfCompositeMetric compositeMetrics = servicePort.queryPerfComposite(perfManager, qSpecs);

return compositeMetrics;

}

and here is the stack trace after exception :

Exception in thread "main" AxisFault

faultCode: ServerFaultCode

faultSubcode:

faultString: A specified parameter was not correct.

metricId

faultActor:

faultNode:

faultDetail:

{urn:vim2}InvalidArgumentFault:<invalidProperty>metricId</invalidProperty>

A specified parameter was not correct.

metricId

Am I missing anything in this code?

My logic to get performance counters from hosts and VM's is as follows :

1) Log in to vCenter server.

2) get performance manager MOR of vCenter.

3) Check available performance counters for performance manager.

4) Get MOR to all the hosts present under vCenter server.

5) For each host MOR, execute queryAvailablePerfMetric() method.

6) Call queryPerfComposite for each host MOR so that it will give performance counter information for host and its all the virtual machines also.

Is my logic correct? Please let me know if i am missing anything...

Thanks in advance!!!!

Message was edited by: Chandrashekhar

programmatic equivalent to esxcli swiscsi nic ?

rnp2000 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:43:02 GMT

Does anyone know if there is a programmatic equivalent to the remote CLI command "esxcli swiscsi nic"; moreover ideally looking for one that authenticates through virtual center (as opposed to needing the ESX hosts' credentials). The post http://communities.vmware.com/message/1260170 seems to suggest it is not present yet, but I wanted to double check.

Thanks,
Rich

Apache on ESX 3.5 ?

emeirell21 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:15:59 GMT

hi guys,

anyone cant tell me if Apache is still on ESX 3.5 update 4 ?

my problem is security team wants me to "lockdown" Apache on ESX, but I could not find a lot of apache configuration files and settings.

I believe it was used before on version 2.x, but it's not used anymore...it has just TomCat.

please, give me some direction or if there's some documentation saying it's not there anymore.

How to retrieve performance counter information of ESX servers and VM's through vCenter?

Chandrashekhar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:46:37 GMT

Hi,

I want to retrieve performance counter information of ESX servers and virtual machines through vCenter server using VI SDK 2.0. I have one vCenter server , two ESX servers and some VM's on those ESX servers. I am able to get performance information if I directly connect to ESX server but I want to connect to vCenter server and from there directly get performance information of both esx servers and VM's installed on them.

How to do this? Any algorithm, psudocode, steps, hints?

Also, I tried to get MOR of Datacenter using property collector, but it gives null result although I am able to connect to vCenter server. My code is as follows :

PropertySpec] properties = new PropertySpec[ {new PropertySpec()};

properties[0].setAll(new Boolean(false));

properties[0].setType("Datacenter");

ManagedObjectReference rootFolder = content.getRootFolder();

ObjectSpec] Objects = new ObjectSpec[ {new ObjectSpec()};

Objects[0].setObj(rootFolder);

Objects[0].setSkip(new Boolean(true));

PropertyFilterSpec filter = new PropertyFilterSpec();

filter.setPropSet(properties);

filter.setObjectSet(Objects);

ManagedObjectReference propertyCollector = content.getPropertyCollector();

PropertyFilterSpec] filters = new PropertyFilterSpec[ {filter};

bjectContent[] result = service.retrieveProperties(propertyCollector, filters);if(result != null) {{color}

{color:#0000ff} System.out.println("result not null");

*} else {*{color}

{color:#0000ff} System.out.println("result is null");

}

I have one more question. Should I use AppUtil class for all these operation or not? Apputil class logs some information and I want to skip AppUtil. What are the dis advantages if program without using AppUtil?

From user, I will get credentials for connecting to vCenter server only. My program should be able to search all the available ESX servers being monitored by that vCenter server and VM's installed on those ESX servers.

Any clues, how to do it?