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vCenter Update Manager "Unknown Failure" with VMA in operation

jaspain — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:09:06 GMT

I have vCenter Mobile Access running on ESX 4. When the VMware Update Manager attempts to download patch definitions, it generates the error message "VMware vCenter Update Manager has an unknown failure. Check Tasks and Events tab and logs for more details." Checking Tasks and Events, there are two related errors: "Repository address not set for vitual appliance vCenter Mobile Access, it doesn't support updates by VC" and "Failed to scan vCenter Mobile Access for VA upgrades".

Shutting down the vCenter Mobile Access appliance makes this error go away.

The release notes for VMware Update Manager 4.0 b162871 (http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vum_40_rel_notes.html) describe a known issue that may relate to this:

VMware Tools Upgrade Remediation Might Fail with a Misleading Event Error Message
When you try to upgrade VMware Tools on a virtual machine with no installed VMware Tools, the remediation fails with a misleading error message:<code>VMware vCenter Update Manager had an unknown failure. Check Tasks and Events tab and logs for more details.</code>Update Manager does not support VMware Tools upgrade for virtual machines on which VMware Tools is not installed.

Busy as you no doubt are, if you get the chance to rebuild the vCenter Mobile Access appliance with the current ESX 4 VMware Tools, it would be interesting to see if that makes this error go away.

Thanks. Jeff.

timezone change

zzmax65 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:17:39 GMT

Hy guys,

how can I change the tz in vcma? The appliance is located in "PDT", but I'm in Italy...

Thanks in advance

Ciao Massimo

Two New Videos: VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA): Installation & Usage

HyperViZor — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:11:53 GMT

Hi all,

I'm so excited about this great addition to the vCenter, i produced two videos one for the back end installation of the vCMA virtual appliance, and the second using the BlackBerry emulator for demonstrating most of the features. One thing however that did not work with me was the SRM, so any suggestions would be most appreciated.

I hope you will like them.

Video: VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA): Installation (1/2)
Video: VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA): BlackBerry (2/2)

Regards

Hany Michael
HyperViZor.com | Virtualization, and everything around it

vMA OVF and vSphere4 RC

Mike_Laverick — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:10:55 GMT

(OK, I know vMA is bad abbreviation as that is in use by another management tool by VMware)

I want to know if the .OVF format used for Mobile Access is compartiable with vSphere4 - as I'm currently getting an error message...

(I'm not sure if the VMX file version will be either - so I'm going to use the vmdk, and vmkfstools and start with clean VMX file.)

Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education
http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk
Author of the SRM Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147

Potential bug under Blackberry browser version 4.6.1 Nextel 8350i

mlangguth — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:48:23 GMT

Nextel 8350i

Using the browser in hotspot mode, i.e. connected to the local network via wifi and bypassing the blackberry proxy.

The first row of icons; search, migrate, hosts and clusters all link to the events page. Happens in both column and page view regardless of zoom level. While hovering the pointer over any of the icons then using the link address option the dialogue box shows http://server_name/vim/action.do?=scheduledTasks as the URL.

Second row of icons is not affected.

Welcome to VMware vCenter Mobile Access Technology Preview program

Srinivas — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:28:35 GMT

Hello,

I’m very excited to share information about a new and exciting project that a few of our wonderful engineering folks have been working on - VMware vCenter Mobile Access. (Thanks BenK, Cabir, Harish!)

Did you ever get paged when you are in a meeting about some virtual machine that needed to be restarted? Or, did you ever get an alert when you are at your kid’s soccer game or at the movies that a particular server is overloaded? Actually, imagine any scenario where you need to actively manage your datacenter but you are nowhere close to a PC. Wouldn’t it be nice to act on the notification from your mobile phone? After all, we are now a generation that doesn’t leave home without a mobile phone…

Introducing VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA). vCMA allows you to monitor and manage VMware Infrastructure from your mobile phone with an interface that is optimized for such devices. Specifically, it allows you to:

• Search for virtual machines in your data center
• Migrate virtual machines from one host to another using vMotion
• Execute recovery plans using VMware Site Recovery Manager
• Access Scheduled Tasks, Alarms and Events
• And much more...

Instead of explaining all the capabilities, we figured it would be easier to show them in a video - you can view a demo at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UxDnV2qaeM.

We will be releasing vCMA as a technology preview in April 2009. You will be able to download the bits (vCMA server virtual appliance) and access the discussion forums at: http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/vcmobileaccess. We enabled the discussion forums already so if you want to jot down your first thoughts or feature requests once you’ve seen the demo, you can get started now. A lot of us associated with this project will be trolling here and will be happy to answer your questions.

I recommend that you bookmark the vCMA portal and check back in early April to download the bits.

Thanks!
Srinivas