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com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine

Feb 22, 2008 5:11 AM

gregchait 55 posts since
Dec 13, 2006

I administer approximately 200 servers in a VC2.5/ESX3.5 environment ... all are windows except for one Red Hat Linux guest build. And I am almost sure the OS is the culprit of my question, since it what is so unique about this virtual machine.

I see that "com.vmware.vcIntegrity" is intiating a "Reconfiguring Virtual Machine" on a somewhat erratic basis. It's occured about 2 dozen times in the past 3 weeks. I was just wondering if anyone could shed some light on what is going on here... perhaps this is an easily answered question overlooked by my inexperience with non-Windows guests...

Thanks for any thoughts in advance...
~grc

Tags: 3.5, guest_os, linux

Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine Mar 20, 2008 7:39 AM

andrea.annoe@iks.it 31 posts since
Sep 7, 2006

Hi,

I have the same problem and in RHEL 4 when VC try to reconfigure VM , I lost mountpoint NFS....

Please help me.

Andrea.

Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine Mar 20, 2008 7:55 AM

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andrea.annoe@iks.it 31 posts since
Sep 7, 2006

I think that com.vmware.vcIntegrity is made from Vmware Update Manager.

I have disable VUM. When task VUM start for Update Signature --> start task for reconfiguring machine...

Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine Mar 20, 2008 9:56 AM

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gregchait 55 posts since
Dec 13, 2006

Andrea

You're right, it has something to do with the way that update manager interacts with RHEL OSs'. Are you sure this is what caused an issue with your mount point? I am still somewhat curious what exactly it's "reconfiguring", however it doesn't appear to have an adverse affect on anything on the VM I have...

~grc

Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine Apr 1, 2008 7:17 AM

violettek 1 posts since
Jun 17, 2005

I am experiencing the same issue on my LINUX boxes only. The "reconfigure" seems to "disconnect" the vNIC. Also, seems to be more prominant in the 64-bit systems using the E1000 vNIC. Any thoughts?

--kev

Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine May 30, 2008 12:29 AM

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hphuhtin 17 posts since
Mar 29, 2004

Also experiencing the same problem.

One question though, have you guys updated the tools in the Linux virtual machines? Also, are you downloading also guest patches (from Plugins -> Update Manager -> Schedule Update Download) or just ESX patches?

Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine May 30, 2008 4:48 PM

john.gallucci 12 posts since
Jun 13, 2007

I have also been having the same problem for the past 2 months.

The error messages are in fact due to the new VMware Update Manager feature in VC 2.5 (should be called a beta product in my opinion), and occur every time the service is started from the VC server, and also whenever a client adds the plugin to the VIC.

I originally thought those messages appeared on ALL of my VMs...this was not the case. Until reading this post I did not realize this issue was directly related to Linux. I have over 200 Linux VMs and after checking my recent task list, to my suprise, every VM that was reconfigured from com.vmware.vcIntegrity was either RHEL 4 or 5.

This has not caused any technical issues, but it definitely is very annoying to see (especially with 200+ messages).

This is the only thread I have seen on this issue, and I have not seen any reply from a VMware developer, so I am interesting in what they have to say.

Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine Jun 3, 2008 2:00 AM

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andrea.annoe@iks.it 31 posts since
Sep 7, 2006

Hi,

I have suspend the task of VUM, and after when I decide to upgrade hosts ESX I move the VM to another host and attach a base line to host ESX (this is a bad workaround but this problem it isn't resolve from Vmware).

If someone has a solution can post it?Thanks to all.

Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine Jul 23, 2008 7:58 PM

john.gallucci 12 posts since
Jun 13, 2007

I finally figured this one out! It was to do with the Flexible vs E1000 virtual network adaptor. Use the Flexible for 32-bit and E1000 for 64-bit. During VM creation, Vmware chooses the appropriate adapter depending on which OS you use. If you later decide to change this, you must first delete the old virtual network adapter, and add the new one. This will not be done automatically.

Update manager is trying to do something to update this configuration, and is not successful because the OS type is labelled incorrectly from the network adapter type. Because of this failure, the message "Reconfiguring Virtual Machine" from com.vmware.vcIntegrity repeats itself over and over again.

The moral of the story is to always make sure you pick the correct OS type before installing any Operating System (we've learned this the hard way). We had over 100 VMs created from a bad template (ouch!).

Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine Sep 5, 2008 1:49 PM

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ndmuser 32 posts since
Feb 2, 2006

I have doubts that this issue relates to the wrong NIC selection. I have two RHEL 4 and 5 (32-bit) guests, both with Flexible Adapter type. Both are reconfigured periodically by com.vmware.vcintegrity user. It seems to me that one of these guests (without VMTools) is losing network connection during such reconfiguration.

So could someone post the solution for this issue, please!

Thank you!

Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine Sep 9, 2008 9:41 AM

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christianZ 2,251 posts since
Apr 21, 2006

I can see it too - it seems GA-Deploy (guest agent) will only update the Red-Hat machines.

In the my log file I haven't any RH but in our production we have many of them and my RH administrator has asked, what is it. We then have disabled the VUM (didn't found any other way, check this: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/143150?tstart=0 - although my method didn't work).

Has anyone deeper knowledge about it?

Reg

Christian

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Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine Sep 8, 2008 12:04 PM

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lhedrick 79 posts since
Aug 23, 2005

I have noticed that if you restart the Update Manager service you can cause it to happen. Maybe it is related...

Reply Re: com.vmware.vcIntegrity reconfiguring machine Nov 18, 2008 8:07 AM

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pajenson 8 posts since
Jan 22, 2008

We have seen this exact issue as well, although it didn't cause any issues with any of our RHEL servers. I am curious to see if anyone has a definite answer as to why this happens.