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Growing LDF on virtual center database

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

Hello,

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

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

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

Regards

Hans de Jongh

PtoV Network Traffic

gregtaylor — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:27:43 GMT

Does anyone know the precise way network traffic is generated when you
PtoV a server? There is obviously traffic to the VMWare console as
there must be to the SAN disks. We are seeing excessive traffic on our
data network and PtoV is taking 90 minutes on a relatively small server. The problem is that we have 3 computer rooms (hence the virtualisation project) and I suspect we are generating a lot of network traffic on the backbone. I wonder if there is some way we can use VLANs to try to
speed up the PtoV and still leave the main data network fairly lighly used.

Greg

cannot upgrade ESX4 to ESX 4 Update1

vmwaredownload — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:29:15 GMT

Hi,

After upgrading Vcenter 4 to vCenter 4 Update1 and putting the ESX 4 Update 1 iso into the Update Manager repository
i created a baseline..when trying to remdiate my ESX 4 hosts, im gettin the following error:

Upgrade is not supported from host version 4.0.0 build 175625 to release version 4.0.0 update 1
Build 208167

and

VM's at Recovery takes longer times to power on after recovery

Funtoosh — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:06:21 GMT

We had performed DR failover this weekend using SRM1.0.1 /NetAPP ISCIS LUN/41VM/4 ESX host running 3.5 1999xx at the recovery site. Everything came backonline as I have defined but here is my trouble began.

We had 4 ESX host into cluster and I power off all the VM. When I tried to power on it was taking huge time than normal. I then remove all the cluster and tried to power on individual VM on each of the esx host and still it was talking longer time. Not sure nothing changed. Enough resources but this process was talking longer time. Is it normal when you try to power on VM on snapped lun takes longer time?
I found following error message in the vmkernal ,not sure how much it was relevant though

Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.728 cpu0:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 2 4ad6e5d9 6b885ba3 1f003e01 a0dc5829 4 1 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu0:1024)StorageMonitor: 196: vmhba2:0:17:0 status = 2/0 0x3 0x27 0x0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)FS3: 4702: Writing HB addr 3ede00: I/O error
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)WARNING: FS3: 3406: Failed with bad000a
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 1 4ad6e5b2 11252b 1f00e7b1 a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)WARNING: Fil3: 1787: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 4ad6e5b2 11252b 1f00e7b1 a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 2 4ad6e5b2 11252b 1f00e7b1 a0dc5829 4 1 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu0:1024)StorageMonitor: 196: vmhba2:0:19:0 status = 2/0 0x3 0x27 0x0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)FS3: 4702: Writing HB addr 3ede00: I/O error
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)WARNING: FS3: 3406: Failed with bad000a
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 1 4ad6e625 782c12f6 1f00630a a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)WARNING: Fil3: 1787: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 4ad6e625 782c12f6 1f00630a a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 2 4ad6e625 782c12f6 1f00630a a0dc5829 4 1 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.230 cpu2:1301)VSCSI: 4060: Creating Virtual Device for world 1302 vscsi0:0 (handle 8222)
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.362 cpu0:1301)World: vm 1304: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.363 cpu0:1304)World: vm 1305: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.363 cpu0:1304)World: vm 1306: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.364 cpu2:1302)Init: 1057: Received INIT from world 1302
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.468 cpu1:1304)World: vm 1307: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.471 cpu1:1303)Init: 1057: Received INIT from world 1303

I was still able to power on VM

VMware SRM 1.0 : failed to configure Array managers in SRM in secure mode.

justyouguess — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:39:41 GMT

In My VMware SRM setup. We are trying to do bidirectional SRM. Like Site I and SIte II will act as Protected and recovery site vice versa in failover. But it seems to me that when I keep my ESX Host which has solution enabler installed & windows SRM host which also has ENMC solution enabler installed ( Symclient). When I use non-secure mode to configure arraymanagers, I am able to add/configure array managers but when I chose secure mode it gives me error that Management system error while configuring array manager ( pls. see attached screenshot for details).

To change secure mode on ESX solution enabler host as well as windows Solution enbaler ( which I eventually installed on SRM host itself), I do as below.

On ESX solution enabler host: /var/symapi/config/options...changing secure mode to nonsecure and vice varsa.

On windows solution enabler host: C:\Program Files\EMC\SYMAPI\config\netcnfg ...changing secure mode to nonsecure and vice varsa.

But when I chose secure mode to configure array manager, it is giving me error as specified in screenshot, with non-secure mode. Array managers get configured.

Now I am confused what is wrong with secure mode in my setup ?

Cold Clone: IBM Blade Server - Hangs "Please wait"

Stevester — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:11:54 GMT

Good Evening Everyone,

I have a slight problem. I am trying to cold clone an IBM Blade Server HS20. The screen shows the convertor hanging saying please wait. I injected both VMware LSI driver and Netextreme II Broadcom drives for the NICs. Can anyone tell me what i am missing? I am leaning toward the idea that I may have a wrong LSI driver. I would prefer not to hot clone it.

Thanks
Stevester

Change the name of the Windows Server

brenko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:46:35 GMT

In our lab environment we changed the actual server name (windows 2003) from Lab1 to Lab2, and after a reboot we were unable to access the vCenter server using "localhost". Since this was in the lab, we simply reinstalled after playing with the Data Connections and having no success.

If anyone knows of a standard procedure for doing this it wouild be appreaciated if you could share your insight.

Ben

Licensing Question on vcenter

ximox — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:03 GMT

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

Thanks,
Antonio

Vmware Converter .sv2i to vmdk with commandline

AndyP2009 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:54:59 GMT

How can I use the converter on Windows command line.
I try to convert a .sv2i file into a vmdk file.

With the graphical interface works.
Does this also work in the command line?

Kind regards

Andy

low memory usage numbers in performance charts

dnetz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:32:12 GMT

Hi,

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

Thanks in advance,
Daniel

Patches could not be installed

HaM1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:02 GMT

Dear all,

I have aproblem regarding the Office patches MS09-21, MS09-27, MS09-60 and MS09-62. I'm not able to install these patches via the Update Manger. (All patches for Office 2007)

He is telling me that they are not supported?

Does anyone have the same problem?

Thanks and best regards

Sebastian

ESX4 host does not reconnect after reboot

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

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

Madrilleno

Unable to P2V Ubuntu 8.04 to esxi 3.5

sbinder — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:12:29 GMT

I'm not sure what's going on. There are 2 disks on this Ubuntu Workstation (Each 40 GB).

The Converter job gets to 49% and my Ubuntu workstation freezes. (Note: I am running converter 4 on a windows Vist Workstation)

I have tried this a couple times and the same thing happens.

Below are the diagnostics.

Anyone have any sugestions?

Appspeed Server username and password

talwara — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:01:13 GMT

Hi guys,

What is the username and password after the Vappspeed server is installed.

I tried root as both username and password and its not working.

Thanks
Aman

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 Update 2 Release

justinking — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:34:15 GMT

Available for download this evening!!

h1. VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 Update 2 Release Notes

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 Update 2| XX OCTOBER 2009| Build 3117

Last Document Update: XX OCTOBER 2009

Check frequently for additions and updates to these release notes.

This release of VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat provides protection for the following products:

vCenter Server 2.5
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 1
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 2
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 3
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 4
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 5
vCenter Server 4.0
vCenter Server 4.0 Update 1

These release notes include the following topics:

What's New

Learning about vCenter Server Heartbeat

Prior Releases of vCenter Server Heartbeat

Before You Begin

Known Issues

Resolved Issues

What's New

The following information provides highlights of some of the enhancements available in this release of vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 Update 2.

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Note: The features available depend on the version of vCenter Server installed.

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Features*

Support for Windows Server 2008 SP1 and SP2 (x86/x64) â€" VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat now supports running on Windows Server 2008 SP1 and SP2 (including x86 and x64 versions) operating systems.

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Support for Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 (x64) â€" VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat now supports running on the Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 (x64) operating system.

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Protection of VMware vCenter Management Web Services â€" This release of VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat adds the vCenter Management Web Server to its list of protected vCenter Server components.

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Introduction of the WinZip Self-Extracting executable file for Setup â€" Installation and setup of VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat is initiated through the use of a WinZip Self-Extracting executable file.

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60-day evaluation mode â€" This release of VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat provides a built-in 60-day evaluation mode that is triggered from the date of installation. Either prior to or upon expiration of the 60-day evaluation period, administrators will need to provide a valid license key to continue to leverage VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat functionality.

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Tomcat Monitoring Rule â€" A new rule has been added for vCenter 4.0 Tomcat Web Server availability.

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Note: The term vSphere Client is applicable to both vSphere Client and VI Client except where VI Client is specifically stated.

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Justin King
Product Specialist - VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat

http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server-heartbeat/

Windows 2008 Unattend.xml File Location

samualcc — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:38:19 GMT

I know that VMware prefers that the pre and post config functionality be used to customize templates. However I find modifiying the sysprep.inf and unattend.xml files to be much more powerful and flexible when deploying templates. Changing the unattend info for Windows 2003, XP, etc is easy. However I cannot figure out where Lab Manager is pulling the unattend.xml file for Windows 2008 setup.

Now on my lab manager server, I have found the original unattend.xml file. It is located in e:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Lab Manager\Tools\CustomizeGuest\Windows\Sysprep. However what I cannot figure out is how to load that unattend.xml into Lab Manager once I modify it. I know about the Build Sysprep package option under settings-->guest customization. It work GREAT for 2003, etc but not for 2008.

Any help on this would be great. For those interested in how to properly modify the 2003, XP sysprep file I can post that as well.
Thanks.

VUM and erroneous disk space installation issue

gary1012 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:57:26 GMT

Hello,

I have an interesting problem with a manual VUM installation and wanted to know if anyone has run into this problem. I'm trying to retrofit VUM into an existing vCenter on W2K8 R2 EE installation using VMware-VIMSetup-all-4.0.0-162902 and am getting a disk space issue (see attached). The error states that I need at least 20GB of free disk space to perform the VUM installation. I have two disks with 26GB and 54GB free and have tried both without success. Has anyone run into this issue before? If so, what was the workaround?

TIA,

-g

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Help with Event Log

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

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

Can't Link vCenter Servers

KGoch — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:42:34 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any ideas?

Is there a way to shutdown Lab Manager gracefully?

SgRddY — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:38:04 GMT

Hello,

I was just wondering if there is a way to automatically trigger Lab Manager to undeploy all runing VM's and shutdown gracefully when the power is running low on the UPS.

I think that you can install agents on ESX/Virtual Center to trigger gracefull shutdown automatically when the power goes out. But what about Lab Manager? How does Lab Manager aware of this? And what will happen when I bring the systems back online and Lab Manager thinks that the VM's are still running but they are not?

In another word, is there a way to tell Lab Manager to undeploy all VM's and shutdown the ESX when triggered by the UPS power outage?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ken

cold migrating machines with snapshots and multiple disks

dnetz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:36:21 GMT

Hi,

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

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

Any and all ideas greatly appreciated!

Questions comments about the vCenter ChargeBack APIs ?

heyitspablo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:34:05 GMT

For developers interested in building solutions using the VMware vCenter ChargeBack APIs visit our community dedicated to all things developer.

http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/forums/chargeback

Regards,

Pablo Roesch

Installation Order

HALOTEQ — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:56:58 GMT

Hey all,
we just loaded ESX on 2 hosts, installed VMware 3.5 (waiting for 4.0). This is our first installation.

Can someone provide a software installation order when adding the other plug-ins. I want to be sure not to miss any prereqs and do not want to load out of order

Thanks!

e.g.

ESX
VMware 3.5
Update Manager
Orchestrator
etc......

Upgraded Clustered (MSCS) Virtual Center server to vSphere4

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

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

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

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

VMware Site Recovery Manager Service will not start Error 1067

WAMTech — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:54:18 GMT

We have ESX 3.5 Update 4 and we are using SRM 1.01 Update 3.

For some reason after completly configuring SRM including the DR IP customizer I went on to create my Recovery plan and after that my SRM Service in the DR site does not want to start. There were a few things I noticed while finishing up the configuration. After running the DR IP Customizer script I checked the customization of some of the VMs and I noticed the customization for each VM was inserted correctly. After that I went ahead and ran through creating my recovery plan and after it finished I checked the customization section again and the customizations were gone. I can see them in the DR site VC but they are not associated with the correct VM as they were right after I ran the customizer script. Now I can't even start the SRM Service in the DR site.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

vSphere Client - Port 903

Weite — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:23:11 GMT

Hello!

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

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

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

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

Lab manager website not working

kathirkk23 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:56:01 GMT

Hi,

I have VC 2.5 with 5 esx 3.5 . I installed Lab manager recently and try to schedule the update but getting
"web site hosting the update signature and update packages cannot be reached" error

the web site for vmware update manager is not working even with direct internet.

https://www.vmware.com/PatchManagementSystem/patchmanagement

_http://pchmgmt-prod-wlc-vip.vmware.com:7004/patchMdSvc?WSDL

_https://xml.shavlik.com/unix/corefiles.xml
can any one help us to configure lab manager.

Thanks in advance
Regards
Kathir

Storage Quotas in LM 4.0

robert jensen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:14:46 GMT

According to LM 4.0 release notes, its cable of handeling storage Quotes.

http://www.vmware.com/support/labmanager40/doc/releasenotes_labmanager40.html

I can however not find that option.

Can any of you point to where i find it ?

The only option i can find, is a VM quota.

What we are trying to do, is to have a couple of templates, on one LUN, taht other organisations can use.

Every organisation, have there own storage, and must not be able to create configurations, on out shared template LUN.

Storage qouta, would be a way to restrict organisations, from using more storage than they are allowed to, insted of giving them their own lun each.

If storage quotas not posible, can you then se any other way to acchive this ?

Regards

/Robert

vCenter 4.0 lost connection with ESX 3.0.1 server

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

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

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

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

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

Orphaned datastore with templates

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

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

Consolidation Tool in Virtual Center 4.0: consolidation analysis error

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

Thanks in advance.
Regards.

Med Morsi ELLEUCH

Linked Mode with a Physical and Virtual Server

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

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

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

List of current patches

jeffoutwest — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:34:16 GMT

Hello all,

I have a few questions about managing ESXi embedded hosts in a vCenter 4.0 environment:

Is there a repository that I can review to evaluate the current patches out for ESXi embedded v 4.0?

Is the prefered method to patch, such as use Update Manager, or can the Host Utility also be used for vCenter controlled hosts?

Also, is there a need to use the remote command line interface to apply any patches, or is this strictly for kernel parameter adjustments?

As always thanks for your time. -Jeff

How to back up lab manager and linked clones?

jjohnson0000 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:31:04 GMT

I was wondering if anyone can explain to me how you go about backing up lab manager, as well as linked clones within lab manager?

My lab manager is running in a Windows 2003 VM. I know that you can't just simply back up the VM, because if you go to restore there will be issues with the database.

Also, most of the configurations in my lab manager are using "linked clones". How exactly do you go about backing all of those up? Since you have to undeploy the template you use to create the linked clone in, it does not show up in the ESX server. So if I were to back up the ESX server using VCB and such, it would back up the VM's that lab manager created, however it wouldn't back up the disk file (flat file) that the clones are looking to.

This creates an issue.

Even if I were able to backup the VM's, if I lost my lab manager server, it wouldn't do me any good because I wouldn't be able to restore the configurations the way they were before.

So how does VMware recommend you go about backing up Lab Manager?

Can't enable Update Manager

llamaware — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:10:31 GMT

My problem is similar to the one found in this discussion:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/214413?start=0&tstart=0

I have installed Vcenter on a VM, and on a seperate VM installed Update Manager. During the Installation of Update Manager I followed all the steps and pointed the Update Manager at my Vcenter server (They are both Windows Server 2008 SP2). It recognizes that the Update Manager has been installed, however when I right click enable, nothing happens. It is a clean install and there are no older Plug-Ins installed. I have rebuild the Update Manager VM a few times and still have the same problem. When I run a netstat on the VCenter server it shows the IP Connection and the correct port is established. Has anyone else had this problem/Any Suggestions

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

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

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

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

Then we get this information entry

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

Any Ideas?

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

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

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

Change IP Address o f the VCenter Server

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

This is my first post .

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

This is a big environment of more than 200 VMs.

Thanks

Tom

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

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

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

Upgrading SQL 2005 to SQL 2008

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

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

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

MTANG — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:05:57 GMT

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

Thanks in advance.

Password from Custom Specification not being applied to template

ouch — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:02:55 GMT

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

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

vCenter won't start after reboot

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

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

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

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

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

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

Collector Service High CPU

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

Hi,

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

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

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

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

Cheers,

Iain

disk metrics

Itzikr — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:58:50 GMT

hi,
is there a way to see a summary of all the VM's disk IO (mbps) and not see it manually for each VM

Itzik

Cannot insall infrastructure Management

MTANG — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:56:53 GMT

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

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

Many thanks in advance

Problem Starting Win2K3-64bit Enterprise after P2V-ed 100% CPU

habibalby — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:33:02 GMT

Hello,
I have P2V-ed Our Exchange 2007 Server, 1 Node is fine without any problem. But the Second node is giving problem in booting, loging, even when I start to click inside the VM, the response will be very slow or someting there is no response at all. The CPU utlization it always shows 100 %.

When this VM P2V-ed, the initiall configuration it was with 4096 memory and 4 vCPU. I kept the default and try to boot, still same symptoms. I have changed memory to 6 gig and 2 vCPU, with no luck.

Also, in the ESX Server, i have changed the Advanced Settings -> Mem -> "Mem.SharedScanGHz" to 0 instead of 4 the default. But still no luck.

I have also, created a new 64 bit VM and use the existing disk which was P2V-ed, still no luck

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Hussain Al Sayed

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convert windows 2000 server on Vmware server 202

TestVM1 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:02:31 GMT

Hello there,
I use VI3 infrastructure and would like to use Vmware server 202 installed on a windows 2000 server machine for disaster recovery.
I backed up using VCB a W2K server residing on VI3.
I copied all VCB files to the Vmware server 202 and I tried to convert it numerous times, using a different machine name and IP but although it converts the machine, it does not change the machine name and IP as I specified. I have sysprep tools installed. Thank you.

Error message while installing vCenter Server

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

Please look at the attachment image.

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

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

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

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Weekly performance chart can not be shown

xadox — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:15:54 GMT

I have installed the vCenter Server on Windows Server 2003 Standard. Everything has worked fine until today the weekly performance chart can not be show in the vSphere Client, in the graphs is show "Allgemeine Ausnahme bei Berichtgenerierung". All other charts for Day,Month,Year are shown.

Missing Webviews

JMulkey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:36:05 GMT

I have installed Orchestrator as per the install config guide.
The step that tells me to start a published web view has me go to General then Webviews tab. I have nothing listed.
Were do I go to start looking at this problem???
It is all green in the Configurations tabs...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Traffic shaping on ESX4

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

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

Can't download vcenter 4.0 no license?

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

Hello all. I am trying to understand the licensing.

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

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

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

Thanks.

Virtual Center 2.5 U2 & ESX 2.5.2

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

Hi,

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

Problem after upgrade vCenter Server patch 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

Has anyone found issues like me?

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

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

I created a customization specification in the customization specification manager.

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

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

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

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

Missing authentication header.

cesarcesar — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:27:21 GMT

I am getting the following error when i try to use the "ListConfigurations" method. Any resons why?

Missing authentication header. ---> Missing authentication header.

Below is the PHP code I am using.

<?php /***** code from - http://code.google.com/p/phlabmanager *****/
require_once("labmanager.php");

$hostname = "wv-labmgr-01.wv.sitename.com";
$username = "myuname";
$password = "rgh7hj6d";

$lm = new labmanager($hostname, $username, $password, "ITGO-TTS", "Main");
echo $lm->ListConfigurations(1);
?>

<?php /******** labmanager.php ********/

class labmanager
{
public $client;
public $debug_mode;

public function debugXMLDump(&$request, &$client)
{
global $debug_mode;

if ($debug_mode == true)
{
$request = $client->__getLastRequestHeaders();
file_put_contents('headers.xml', $request);

$request = $client->__getLastRequest();
file_put_contents('request.xml', $request);

$request = $client->__getLastResponse();
file_put_contents('response.xml', $request);
}
}

function __construct($hostname, $username, $password, $organization, $workspacename, $debug=false)
{
global $client;
global $debug_mode;

$debug_mode = $debug;

unset($soap_dat);

$soap_dat = $username;
$soap_dat = $password;
$soap_dat = $organization;
$soap_dat = $workspacename;

$namespace = "http://vmware.com/labmanager";

if ($debug == true)
{
$client = new SoapClient("https://$hostname/LabManager/SOAP/LabManager.asmx?wsdl", array('trace' => 1));
}
else
{
$client = new SoapClient("https://$hostname/LabManager/SOAP/LabManager.asmx?wsdl");
}

$authvar = new SoapVar($soap_dat, SOAP_ENC_OBJECT);

$header = new SOAPHeader($namespace, 'AuthenticationHeader', $soap_dat);

$client->__setSoapHeaders($header);
}

public function ListConfigurations($value)
{
global $client;

try
{
$result = $client->ListConfigurations(array("configurationType" => $value));
}
catch (SoapFault $e)
{
echo $e->getMessage();
$this->debugXMLDump($result,$client);
return NULL;
}

if (is_array($result->ListConfigurationsResult->Configuration))
{
foreach ($result->ListConfigurationsResult->Configuration as $config)
{
$this->printContainer($config);
}
}
else
{
foreach ($result->ListConfigurationsResult as $config)
{
$this->printContainer($config);
}
}
}

}

?>

Lab Manager RDP Breaking Fence?

jmvirtual — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:02:13 GMT

Hello All,

I've deployed in a Fenced only configuration 4 configurations each having one copy of the same Virtual Machine. The machines have SQL Server installed and MSDTC. I can work on the VM's fine in console mode all day. However, As soon as I RDP to a VM it breaks the MSDTC components. I get Ident Errors, COM errors, but overall DB connectivity works fines. Its just some functions in the virtual machine no longer work because of MSDTC being out of service. I worked on the issue for weeks I finally got thinking it my might have something to with having the console session open and RDP at the sametime. Maybe some how the user is still logged on and when I create teh RDP session I'm creating another instance...

When MSDTC breaks I have to delete the clone and import it from the template again. Which um takes sometime. Anyways I ended up discovering that it only happens when I RDP into the VM. If I hadn't recorded it I wouldn't believe it either. Its like somehow my RDP connection allows the machines to see each other which will of course break MSDTC. I've used Sys Prep though its not recommended, I've tried changing the GUID, I've tried linked vs full clones, in short everything that I can think of...

Update Scan fails with unknown failure

mcvmwaresupport — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:43:22 GMT

I've a strange issue happening on my vSphere environment. When I try to scan a cluster or an individual host, I get the error:

Scan Entity
esxserver
VMware vCenter Update Manager had an
unknown failure. Check Tasks and Events
tab and logs for more details.
user
11/11/2009 7:38:08 PM
11/11/2009 7:38:08 PM
11/11/2009 7:38:09 PM

When I get into the events on a host, I see the following:

Failed to scan esxserver
for patches
error
11/11/2009 7:38:09 PM
Scan Entity
esxserver
user

XXX TaskEvent.formatOnHost not found XXX
XXX TaskEvent.category not found XXX
11/11/2009 7:38:08 PM
Scan Entity
esxserver
user

This all started this past week. I'm not sure what could have caused this, but I'm having trouble figuring out where to go from here. Any ideas?

Plugin error after changed login user

cbader — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:01:19 GMT

I had a running VMware Orchestration installation. We needed to change the user used to login into vSphere from VMware Orchestration. We noticed after the user change Orchestrator was still using the old user. We restarted the Orchestrator service and now can't connect to the vCenter 4.0 plug-in. We changed the user back and restarted the service and still can't connect to the plug-in. Is there somewhere I can look to figure this out?

Carl

Expected put messgae. Got: ERROR

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

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

Expected put messgae. Got: ERROR

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

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

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

My virtual machine is powered on.

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

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

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

VMWare web interface does not work!

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

Hello,

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

https://myserverip:8333 not work.

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

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

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

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

VMware Infrastructure Client Error

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

Hi.

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

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

The error message is:

Hope somebody can help me:)

description = "InitrdNativePatcher failed to generate initrd image

micsame — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:54:12 GMT

Need help stock at 97%

I am trying to convert a SUSE SLES 10 SP1 x64 running IBM DB2 9.7 x64. I use Vmware ESXi 4.0 Server installed on an IBM x3650 7979KFG server (the server already runs other vmware clones). For the cloning I use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client 4.0.1.

Everything seems to be ok until the process reach 97% where it fails. I have tried different solutions with no luck, fx. start from a fresh boot, running fsck, disabling the firewall, limit the clone to only contain the most important disk partitions (I have a partition with a lot of data)

The Vmware ESXi server and the DB2 server are in the same subnet. I have converted other servers with success.

The end of the log file:

~~2009-11-10 16:19:28.347 AE59CB90 verbose 'TaskSummary'~~ UpdateTask

(converter.task.TaskInfo) {

dynamicType = <unset>,

key = "task-27",

task = 'converter.task.Task:task-27',

name = "Convert",

descriptionId = "Convert.P2V",

userName = "michael",

source = "192.168.127.121",

target = "192.168.127.123/db2-kanet",

state = "error",

cancelled = false,

cancelable = true,

data = <unset>,

error = (converter.fault.CloneFault) {

dynamicType = <unset>,

faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

description = "InitrdNativePatcher failed to generate initrd image: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/initrdGenSuse.sh failed with return code: 1, and message: * /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev has 2 files

/dev/shm is not a directory

ERROR: failed running mkinitrd vmlinuz-2.6.27.19-5-default initrd-2.6.27.19-5-default with chroot /mnt/p2v-src-root

umounting /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev /mnt/p2v-src-root/proc and /mnt/p2v-src-root/sys

",

msg = "An error occurred during the conversion.",

},

result = <unset>,

progress = 97,

estimatedTimeRemaining = <unset>,

transferRate = 6398,

queueTime = "2009-11-10T12:39:24.785171Z",

startTime = "2009-11-10T12:39:25.058318Z",

completeTime = "2009-11-10T15:19:28.343297Z",

eventChainId = 427,

vcTask = <unset>,

logBundleInfo = (converter.DiagnosticManager.TaskLogBundleInfo) {

dynamicType = <unset>,

key = "task-27-diag-20091110151918-RPHPIF.zip",

timeCreated = "2009-11-10T15:19:18.738963Z",

format = "zip",

content = (converter.DiagnosticManager.BundleContent) [

"agentLogs",

"serverLogs"

],

size = 5183932,

crc = -1807028430,

},

}

~~2009-11-10 16:27:32.190 B30EB6B0 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'~~ Keep alive signal sent at: 2009-11-10 15:27:32.189

any help will be valued

change keyboard layout ?

daikyu — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:09:07 GMT

hi community

is there a possibility to change the keyboard layout ? its nearly impossible to insert my vcenter admin account details, because of password complexity

thanks, peter

Recent Tasks not displaying correctly

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

Hi there,

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

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

Inside my vCenter Server it displays correct.

SRM 4.0 versus Symantec Pure Disk w/ VCB (or vSphere DR)

wallabyfan2 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:54:53 GMT

Hello Community

Can anyone point me in the direction of resources which compare the advantages and disadvantages of VMware SRM 1.0/4.0 versus Symantec Pure Disk w/ VCB (or vSphere DR)?

I have a customer who is thinking of doing Symantec Pure Disk but I am encouraging not do based on the fact that SRM is an automated fail-over solution with granularity and ability to Test Recovery Plan.

What are the pros of Pure Disk? I'm not so sure Pure Disk will even scrape the surface of the functionality found in SRM.

Cannot view vCenter client logs in System Logs View

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

Hello

Scenario:

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

Observation:

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

I can only see the vCenter server logs.

Question:

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

Thank you.

HVyas

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

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

Hello all,

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

Message
Do not have permission for this command.

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

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

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

Thank you in advance.

Problem starting W2k3 server converted with 4.0.1 in ESXi

gdrauch — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:04:52 GMT

We have tried several times to convert a Windows Server 2003 box using 4.0.1, both remotely and locally. The conversion finishes and the machine shows up in inventory on ESXi. However, when we start the VM it hangs shortly after the VMWare screen. When you send a Ctrl-Alt-Del to the machine a two line message flashes but it's gone before you can read it. Does anyone know what is going on? I've read some of the other threads and have tried disabling the anti-virus and any local firewall settings to no avail.

We successfully created new VMs on the ESXi box. We just have 4 or 5 additional machines we need to convert. It would be undesirable (to say the least) to have to build these from scratch.

Thanks for your help.

Can't access the converter server remotely

damko — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:52:41 GMT

Hi, I'm Dam and this is my first post in the community.

I installed Converter standalone on a debian lenny. Connecting to the server locally avoiding the tcp based login works perfectly.

At this point it should be possible to go on another client machine
and install just the client side of the application and try to connect
it to the server. Well it
doesn't work at all. I tried with linux and windows client even with
the original ports (80, 443), even locally using the tcp connection on
127.0.0.1 and with different users (root included). I tried to disable
the ssl but there is noway to make it working.

All the time the client pops up this error message: "Server logon failed due to a bad username or password"

On the server side, where the problem seems to be, this is the common error written into the log file:

[2009-11-09 21:09:09.707 EFCDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0' [2009-11-09 21:09:09.707 EFCDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1) [#3] [2009-11-09 21:09:09.707 EFCDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] HTTP Response: Complete (processed 1491 bytes) [2009-11-09 21:09:09.751 EECDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0' [2009-11-09 21:09:09.751 EECDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1) [#3] [2009-11-09 21:09:09.751 F04DAB90 error 'App'] [user,776] Failed to authenticate user root [#3] [2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'App'] [eventManager,2037] [EventManager] Event[97] [2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0' [2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1) [2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] HTTP Response: Complete (processed 573 bytes) [2009-11-09 21:09:59.705 F3BC46B0 warning 'App'] Read timeout after approximately 50000ms. Closing stream UNIX(/var/lib/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/vmware-converter-server-soap) Can you help me please?Best regardsDam

Remediate entity just sits at 33%

joemailey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:51:29 GMT

It puts esx 4.0 host in to maintaince mode and then doesn't do anything else.

Just sits at 33%.

anyway to do this and watch if it is actually doing something?

Change Network Label on running VM

THAGDF — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:31:58 GMT

I have a problem with changing the assigned Network to a virtual NIC when the virtual machine is running. In the vCenter it is possible to change the Network-Label of a vNIC in a running state. But with the Lab Manager i had to shutdown the machine to change that network label. The Lab Manager disables the Network-Label if the VM is running so I can't change it although the vCenter Server is able to realize that.

Is there a work-around or something like that to handle this feature with the Lab Manager?

Multiple LM instances, single pool of users

jschlach — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:49:02 GMT

Does anybody have a group of users accessing more than one instance of Lab Manager? I'd love to bounce some ideas off of you.

LiveLinks and configuration name length

jschlach — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:04:29 GMT

Using LM 3.0.2.56 --

We have very long configuration name lengths, and when one with a 64 character name is captured to the library and LiveLink generated, we find that the LiveLink is undeployable because it violates the length limit. I have a user who somehow has two configs whose names start with "LiveLink-" and are 65 characters each. I'm not sure how those came to be until I investigate further.

Has anybody seen this behavior before?

Issue with DNS_Update.cmd not deleting the A record

damianpb — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:33:53 GMT

I have configured the servers with the necessary tools. I have written a batch file with call to the cmd and all the necessary switches. When you run the batch file it executes the dns_update command. As you watch it the syntax reports that the A record is deleted and then added and the command completes successfully. However, when you go check the forward lookup zone in DNS the old A record remains while the new a record has been added as well as the reverse lookup. Not sure why it tells me the old record has been deleted when it hasn't. Has anyone seen this issue?

Convert VMs from vSphere change mouse driver in XP SP3 from VMMouse to Compatible PS2 -> slow mouse!

Virgile — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:28:22 GMT

Hello,

I use vCenter Converter in order to shrink the VMs on my vSphere, and I just find out that after a conversion, the VMs get a horribly slow mouse: in fact the driver change from vmmouse to mouse compatible ps2 (default driver for XP).

I have the last converter (4.0.1) and a uptodate vspshere, what should I do ?

thx!

what's TCP port for SRM connect to EMC Celerra ?

chaoyuan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:05:04 GMT

Dear All,

Could you help to point out which ports need to open throught firewall?

I guest following direction need to define:

1. (VC+SRM) ---> local site Celeraa

2. (VC+SRM) ---> local ESX

3. remote (VC+SRM) --> remote ESX

4. remote (VC+SRM) --> local ESX

note: VC and SRM are the same computer

Thank you for any input

good explanation and examples for resource pool usage

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

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

Virtual Machines missing from vCenter .

resh — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:47:01 GMT

Hi There

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

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

Vcenter reinstall

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

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

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

So my plan is.

1. Copy SSL cerificates to new server.

2. Shut down old server.

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

4. Install Vcenter 4.0 on new server.

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

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

So the question:

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

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

Unable to contact the specified host 'hostname' from the Converter Agent machine.

JohnnyNeckU — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:35:11 GMT

Hi all,

I read a thread similar to mine, but I didn't understand the answer.

So here's my problem :

From my PC, I'm running VMware vCenter Converter Standalone version 4.0.1 build 161434. I try to convert a physical machine to one of my host which is under ESXi 4.0.0 build 161434.

"When I try to run convertng I get this error message : Unable to contact the specified host .hostname. from the Converter Agent machine. This might be because the host is not available on the network, there is a network configuration problem, or the management services on the management services on this host are not responding. Please verify that all Converter components are able to connect to 'hostname'."

I don't really understand why this is happening because it works well last I'd used it.

Any Idea?

Thanks

Johnny

VIClient gives empty pages when connecting to vCenter Server

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

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

Unable to launch Converter Standalone on Seven x64 and x32

Virgile — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:18:36 GMT

Hello!

I'm using the converter standalone for resizing and cloning VMs on my vSphere (I don't have vcenter neither vmotion).

I installed this converter (last one, 4.01) on a XP VM, and it works great.

Now I tried to install it directly on my laptop (seven pro x64) , and when I start it, the app tells me that it's not possible to start the converter server..

I've tried on another physical PC with seven pro x32, and the same problem happened

I did already desactivate UAC (I read somwhere that it could be the problem), and I tried to start the converter server service manually, without anymore results.

Thank you for helping!

Design of application to start , shutdown and suspend a VM

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

Hi,

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

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

me out to design.

How much does a vcenter 2.5 license cost?

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

Hi All,

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

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

I have a custom build server, intel i7 cpu.

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

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

Best regards,

Steven

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

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

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

vCenter Collector Service Cluster Issues.

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

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

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

cannot evaluate on ESXi

klsh — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:21:23 GMT

I am comparing options for APM monitoring in virtual environments. I would like to include appspeed and got a ESXi server provisioned to test this. Initially getting 4GB + on the server was a problem and one of the reasons I thought the INSTALL failed was lack of memory resources. Other options would include SAAS hosted offerings.

I now realize that APPSPEED is trying to hook in to a vCENTER instance which I haven't configured / installed.

My questions is, with limited hardware is it possible to evaluate APPSPEED on ESXi or will I require TWO servers just to get APPSPEED to install?

VirtualCenter restarts every five minutes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Delete Library Configuration?

Muzika — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:30:49 GMT

Lab Manager 4.0

I have a configuration in the library that is in use by other users. I updated the original template that I initialy captured into the library and would like to replace the configuration currently being used in the library with the updated one. Can I delete the original configuration in the library without impacting the users that have checked a copy of it out?

Being hesitant about this I captured the updated template to the library but get duplicate IP errors after I deploy even when fenced. I'm assuming it's because both configurations in the library were captured from the same template.

Just looking for a way around this... or best practices when updating a library configuration.

Moving hosts between VC's via script

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

Morning all,

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

__________from hostops.pl _______________

Disconnect:

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

--password mypassword --target_host 192.168.111.2

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

_______________________________________

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

VMWare Host update utility and Update manager proxy setting

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

Hi All,

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

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

Cheers.,

Kind Regards,
AWT

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

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

My ESX details:

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

-vCenter 2.5

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

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

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

-esxi1 (ESXi 4.0)

-vCenter 4

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

Many Thanks

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

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

I have ESX 3.5 Update 4. VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 5

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

it gives an erro like :

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

would lime to know what is not configed?

VMWare guest customization remains on

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

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

SRM 4 WSDL

dmedvitz — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:26:19 GMT

I've been attempting to use the WSDL that came with SRM4 to create some powershell scripts to automate recovery plan testing. When I use the standard MS tools to compile the .NET class, everything appears to work as expected. When I attempt to create an instance of the SrmBinding, however, it hangs forever. I've also attempted to import the wsdl file into a workflow app that I have with no success (it throws an invalid index error).

I created a .Net class with the old SRM WSDL file, and it works great, so far.

Has anyone had any luck with the WSDL from SRM4?

Thanks

Dave

unable to query the live linux source machine

rfm01 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:48:23 GMT

I am having problems converting P2V Linux (Debian) system.

I have looked at all the google results concerning the above converter error but still cannot solve the problem.

I am running the converter from a windows XP Pro system (dutch language).

I have SSH root access, have checked the source machines logs and can logon, i have tested with sftp clients and can logon and create files in the /tmp directory. There is no echo in the .bashrc file.

For some reason i am still getting the 'unable to query the live linux source machine' error.

I have tested this from three different pc's (in different networks) using the standalone converter. The error is consistent.

In all the cases a get (about) the same log file from the converter:

+++++++++++++++

Section for VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, pid=3140, version=4.0.1, build=build-161434, option=Release
~~2009-11-03 14:00:51.476 05764 info 'App'~~ Current working directory: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
~~2009-11-03 14:00:51.476 05764 info 'Libs'~~ HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1 numThreadsPerCore 2.
~~2009-11-03 14:00:51.476 05764 info 'Libs'~~ HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 1 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
~~2009-11-03 14:00:51.476 05764 verbose 'ThreadPool'~~ TaskMax=10, IoMin=1, IoMax=21
~~2009-11-03 14:00:51.476 05764 info 'Libs'~~ Using system libcrypto, version 9070AF
~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 05764 info 'App'~~ Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000
~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 02664 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ Connecting to server on pipeName \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap.
SSL:false
Path:/converter/sdk
VMODL version:converter.version.version1

~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 02664 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ NOT using SSL to connect to VMOMI server \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap
~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 02664 info 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Getting ServiceInstance contents
~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 02664 verbose 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Yes, we connected to Converter Server.
~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 02664 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Logging in to Converter Server (Using Impersonate).
~~2009-11-03 14:00:54.101 02664 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Converter Server session established. (Session ID = "0CF734D5-3893-4A32-9847-667C592ECB42")
~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.132 05764 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ Connecting to server on pipeName \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap.
SSL:false
Path:/converter/sdk
VMODL version:converter.version.version1

~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.132 05764 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ NOT using SSL to connect to VMOMI server \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap
~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.132 05764 info 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Getting ServiceInstance contents
~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.132 05764 verbose 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Yes, we connected to Converter Server.
~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.132 05764 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Logging in to Converter Server (Using Impersonate).
~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.929 05764 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Converter Server session established. (Session ID = "A23923CA-1F20-4668-BC80-E89B6D0AF5B0")
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type microsoftVirtualPCVM not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type parallelsVM not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVCBBackup not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type livestateBackup not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type shadowProtectBackup not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type acronisBackup not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVM not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildThirdpartyHostedExtVector 3rd party type vmwareVM not found
~~2009-11-03 14:10:54.234 05764 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'~~ Keep alive signal sent at: 2009-11-03 13:10:54.234
~~2009-11-03 14:20:54.244 05764 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'~~ Keep alive signal sent at: 2009-11-03 13:20:54.244
~~2009-11-03 14:30:54.155 05764 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'~~ Keep alive signal sent at: 2009-11-03 13:30:54.155
~~2009-11-03 14:30:54.155 03524 verbose 'ConverterImpl'~~ ConverterImpl::TaskCollectorThread: TimeoutException
~~2009-11-03 14:31:04.186 03524 verbose 'ConverterImpl'~~ PropertyCollector::WaitForUpdates[1]
(vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.UpdateSet) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
version = "1",
}

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This is the log on the linux source machine (the one i want to conver from p2v).

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Nov 3 14:26:46 servername sshd32160: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2270 ssh2
Nov 3 14:26:46 servername sshd32162: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:26:47 servername sshd32163: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2271 ssh2
Nov 3 14:26:47 servername sshd32165: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:26:48 servername sshd32166: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2272 ssh2
Nov 3 14:26:48 servername sshd32166: subsystem request for sftp
Nov 3 14:26:48 servername sshd32168: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:26:59 servername sshd32169: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2273 ssh2
Nov 3 14:26:59 servername sshd32171: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:26:59 servername sshd32174: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2274 ssh2
Nov 3 14:26:59 servername sshd32176: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:27:00 servername sshd32182: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2275 ssh2
Nov 3 14:27:00 servername sshd32184: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:27:00 servername sshd32185: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2276 ssh2

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(i have substituted my ip number with 999 / i have substituded the name of the server by 'servername' ).

Can someone please help me with this problem.