Hello Folks,
I am having a couple of problems with my VMware infrastructure and I would appreciate if you could share some of your knowledge with me.
Problem 1:
We have a cluster made up of 4 blade servers as:
Occasionally an error pops up saying "Unable to apply DRS resource settings on host "pblade4" in Datacenter, Reason (insufficient CPU resources). Pls view screenshot.
DRS error:
please view image: DRS error.jpg
The error disappears after a couple of minutes and it appears on more than one host.
It does not effect the virtual machine operation in any way but it is still bothering me.
Here is the resource pool information in the following screenshot:
Resource pool layout:
please view image: all pools.jpg
As I said the error gets resolved on its own but it appears quite a number of times during the day and I think it is worth looking into.
Problem 2:
I needed to restart each host to enable a bios setting (for 64 bit virtual machine operation). So I tried to put the servers in maintenance mode.
A timeout error pops up immediately (after one or 2 seconds). Normally timeout errors only happen after the default allocated time for the particular operation is exceeded. A 1-2 second timeout is very strange.
I had to manually move the virtual machines from the host and power it down.
This happened on all the 4 hosts. Any idea what could be the cause?
Problem 3:
Guided consolidation does not detect all the available servers.
There is network connectivity between them, I can see all the servers from "view entire network" option in windows but guided consolidation will view (roughly) only ¼ of the available servers. Any idea how I can see them all?
Thanks for your time in advance,
Regards,
Stephen.
