Hi, I have an issue where when I create XP VMs (NetApp flexclone - ESX 5.5)
I have 2 XP templates - they use VMXNET3 NICs and mainly they are successful.
However there always seems to be at least one that doesn't connect the NIC and therefore the IP is 0.0.0.0. I can resolve by going into vcenter and connecting it and it picks up the IP allocated by the PortGroup/Network.
I have just created a batch of 10 VMs and a batch of 8, one in each batch was affected
What seems to happen is as the VM is cloned, it starts the Guest Customisation, then DRS migrates the VM, then it completes Guest customisation but the NIC is disconnected.
Our Windows 7 VMs are unaffected
We have 4 hosts in the Cluster and VMs are working fine on each host. So the pattern doesnt point to a particular host. There are plenty of ports left on the DVSwitch for that network too.
The following is whats shown in the VM Events:
Customization of VM vRAC-XPLite-10 succeeded. Customization log located at C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log in the guest OS.
info
12/03/2015 08:40:11
vRAC-XPLite-10
User
Alarm 'Virtual machine memory usage' changed from Gray to Green
info
12/03/2015 08:35:13
vRAC-XPLite-10
Resource allocation changed
info
12/03/2015 08:34:14
vRAC-XPLite-10
Migrated from 10.x.x.1 to 10.x.x.2 by DRS
info
12/03/2015 08:34:05
** NO DESCRIPTION FOR: Drm.ExecuteVMotionLRO
NET_vRAC01
Resource allocation changed
info
12/03/2015 08:34:05
** NO DESCRIPTION FOR: Drm.ExecuteVMotionLRO
vRAC-XPLite-10
Resource allocation changed
info
12/03/2015 08:34:05
** NO DESCRIPTION FOR: Drm.ExecuteVMotionLRO
vRAC-XPLite-10
Message from 10.x.x.2: There is at least one virtual SCSI device installed on this Windows XP virtual machine. Windows XP does not include
drivers for the BusLogic SCSI adapter that VMware ESX uses for virtual SCSI devices. To use these virtual SCSI devices, install the VMware
driver in the virtual machine. Download the driver from "http://vmware.com/info?id=43".
info
12/03/2015 08:34:04
vRAC-XPLite-10
User
Migrating off host 10.x.x.1
info
12/03/2015 08:33:49
** NO DESCRIPTION FOR: Drm.ExecuteVMotionLRO
vRAC-XPLite-10
Migrating VM from 10.x.x.1, NET_vRAC01 to 10.x.x.2, NET_vRAC01
info
12/03/2015 08:33:48
** NO DESCRIPTION FOR: Drm.ExecuteVMotionLRO
NET_vRAC01
Task: Migrate virtual machine
info
12/03/2015 08:33:45
** NO DESCRIPTION FOR: Drm.ExecuteVMotionLRO
vRAC-XPLite-10
Resource allocation changed
info
12/03/2015 08:33:29
vRAC-XPLite-10
Alarm 'Virtual machine memory usage' changed from Gray to Green
info
12/03/2015 08:33:20
vRAC-XPLite-10
Started customization of VM vRAC-XPLite-10. Customization log located at C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log in the guest OS.
info
12/03/2015 08:32:57
vRAC-XPLite-10
User
Resource allocation changed
info
12/03/2015 08:32:29
vRAC-XPLite-10
This virtual machine is vSphere HA Protected and HA will attempt to restart it after a failure.
info
12/03/2015 08:32:23
vRAC-XPLite-10
Alarm 'vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed'
changed from Gray to Green
info
12/03/2015 08:32:15
vRAC-XPLite-10
Virtual machine on 10.x.x.1 is powered on
info
12/03/2015 08:32:14
powerOn
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
Resource allocation changed
info
12/03/2015 08:32:14
vRAC-XPLite-10
Message from 10.x.x.1: Install the VMware Tools package inside this virtual machine. After
the guest operating system starts, select VM > Install VMware Tools… and follow the instructions.
info
12/03/2015 08:32:14
vRAC-XPLite-10
vpxuser
Message from 10.x.x.1: There is at least one virtual SCSI device installed on this Windows XP
virtual machine. Windows XP does not include drivers for the BusLogic SCSI adapter that
VMware ESX uses for virtual SCSI devices. To use these virtual SCSI devices, install the VMware
driver in the virtual machine. Download the driver from "http://vmware.com/info?id=43".
info
12/03/2015 08:32:14
vRAC-XPLite-10
vpxuser
Virtual machine is starting
info
12/03/2015 08:32:13
powerOn
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
Task: Power On virtual machine
info
12/03/2015 08:32:13
powerOn
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
Reconfigured virtual machine
info
12/03/2015 08:31:59
customize
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
Task: Customize virtual machine guest OS
info
12/03/2015 08:31:57
customize
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
Changed custom field vrmManagedMachine to True
info
12/03/2015 08:31:44
setCustomValue
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
Task: Set virtual machine custom value
info
12/03/2015 08:31:44
setCustomValue
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
Changed custom field VRM Owner to jdavis@DOMAIN.local
info
12/03/2015 08:31:44
setCustomValue
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
Task: Set virtual machine custom value
info
12/03/2015 08:31:44
setCustomValue
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
Template vRAC Template PC16 WXP deployed on host 10.x.x.1
info
12/03/2015 08:31:32
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
Reconfigured virtual machine
info
12/03/2015 08:31:32
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
Deploying VM on host 10.x.x.1 from template vRAC Template PC16 WXP
info
12/03/2015 08:31:29
vRAC-XPLite-10
DOMAIN\vcacaccount
