Hi!
I've a problem with my ESX cluster (VMware 5.0 Essentials Plus). I'm not longer allowed to poweron any VM's because of this error message: "Unable to perform the operation. There is no available vRAM capacity.". I've read VMware white paper and asked the support there should not be any limit on vRAM. This is from the pdf file:
No Limits on Physical Resources
There are no restrictions on physical cores or physical RAM with
vSphere 5.
No Limits on Number of Virtual Machines
There are no restrictions on the number of virtual machines that
can run on each properly licensed vSphere 5 processor.
I had some problems in june when the cluster failed without any reason and first I was only able to add 2 host to my cluster but after some tries (~5) I was able to add my last host as well. I didn't think more about that but now the problem is a little bit bigger when I'm not able to poweron machines...
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
The vRAM entitlement was introduced with vSphere 5.0, but eliminated some time later. If you are still running an early version of vCenter Server 5.0 you may still be affected. To resolve this you'll need to update vCenter Server to at least Update 2 (see VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2 Release Notes - "vCenter Essentials no longer enforces vRAM usage limit of 192 GB ")
André
What builds are you working with for vCenter and ESXi?
Welcome to the Community - Do you have any memory reservations set on your VMs? I am assuming you have HA enabled? What are the setting for you HA cluster?
The vRAM entitlement was introduced with vSphere 5.0, but eliminated some time later. If you are still running an early version of vCenter Server 5.0 you may still be affected. To resolve this you'll need to update vCenter Server to at least Update 2 (see VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2 Release Notes - "vCenter Essentials no longer enforces vRAM usage limit of 192 GB ")
André
Thanks for quick replies!
vmroyale
Host: 5.0.0 build 1117897
vCenter: 5.0.0 build 623373
weinstein5
I didn't have some reservations what I could see but I did have some limit's. I took them away but no change.
a.p.
Okay! That's probably the reason! But I guess I don't have update 2 on the hosts as well..? update is 5.0.2 right?
How would you recommend me to upgrade? First vCenter and then the hosts?
Do I need to uninstall vCenter first or will it recongnize that I already have one and then upgrade. I really don't want to loose all my configs...
thanks!
Update 2 for the hosts is build 914586, no need to apply any updates/patches on them. The vCenter Server Upgrade should be an in-place upgrade. However, this depends on e.g. the language (i.e. non-English versions) you use. Please check the release notes and the upgrade documentation for further details.
André
Thanks! Great, I will download vCenter update and try to upgrade and hopefully everything will go smooth we're using English version.
If everything go well we will plan to apply Update 2 on the hosts as well.
As mentioned before, there's no need to patch the hosts, they are already running on the latest available patch/build.
André
Ok, thanks! So when I used the update manager I've been able to update the hosts to update 2 + some extra patches but vCenter wasn't update 2?
Yes, that's correct. Please take a look at the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix for supported combinations.
André
Lovely thank you very much!! I'm not getting the error message anymore.