Re: esxi 'loses' a guest after a reboot, guest has...

vperris · ‎03-31-2009

we are using esxi 3.5.0, build 143129, and after rebooting, one of the guests was no longer

registered. We were able to manually register it, however we are concerned about why it

was 'lost'. This guest is one which was converted, using the converter, from physical to

virtual. The guest is a standard microsoft windows 2003 server, nothing odd about the

definition.

Anyone seen this before?

Dave_Mishchenko · ‎03-31-2009

Your discussion has been moved to the ESXi forum

Dave Mishchenko

VMware Communities User Moderator

vperris · ‎03-31-2009

Dave,

Where is the main page for the esxi forum? When I log into vmtn, I see esx 3.0 but not esxi.

I am looking at: http://communities.vmware.com/index.jspa

When I look in esx 3.0, I don't see my question.

Vicki

Victoria Perris

SVL SDS VMware and Storage Environments

IBM Silicon Valley Lab

Email: vperris@us.ibm.com

Phone: (408) 463-3516, t/l 8-543-3516

http://w3.svl.ibm.com/sds

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03/31/2009 12:56 PM

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Dave_Mishchenko · ‎03-31-2009

Click on the All Communities tab and it'll be under datacenter products. You can also click on Edit My Communities to add ESXi to your list. Here's the direct link. http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vi/esxi3.5

Dave_Mishchenko · ‎03-31-2009

Was this the last VM to be added before the reboot and what was the reason for the reboot. If it was the last VM added there may have been a problem with saving of the ESXi configuration files.

vperris · ‎04-01-2009

Dave,

I think I figured out what happened. The user had just suspended, the vm's, and the one that got

'lost' at reboot was the last one suspended. When I looked in /var/log/messages, I saw good 'suspend'

messages ( State Transition (VM_STATE_INITIALIZING -> VM_STATE_SUSPENDED) for the first

three VMs but not for the one that disappeared.

The user says the gui said the suspense was complete for all of them, but after booting when he went

to reregister the disappeared one, he got this sequence of messages:

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this is after the reboot and after he reregistered the vm

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00096be64cab/hypercube/hypercube.vmx' 131081 info] State Transition (VM_STATE_INITIALIZING -> VM_STATE_SUSPENDED)

Mar 31 18:14:43 Hostd: [2009-03-31 18:14:43.217 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/4977535c-fa49c3fc-2476-

00096be64cab/hypercube/hypercube.vmx' 49156 info] State Transition (VM_STATE_SUSPENDED -> VM_STATE_POWERING_ON)

So it looks like he rebooted before the suspense was complete, and vmware somehow didn't see the system (hypercube) after

it came up. I have asked him to repeat this, suspending all four, waiting at least two minutes after the last suspense

message in /var/log/messages, and try again.

Victoria Perris

SVL SDS VMware and Storage Environments

IBM Silicon Valley Lab

Email: vperris@us.ibm.com

Phone: (408) 463-3516, t/l 8-543-3516

http://w3.svl.ibm.com/sds

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suneels781 · ‎04-19-2009

Hi,

I have exactly same problem but i could not able to register manually, could you please help me to di this.

Thanks

Sam

Dave_Mishchenko · ‎04-20-2009

Hi Sam, welcome to the VMware Community forums.

but i could not able to register manually,

If you browse the datastore are you able to see the VMX file for the VM? If so, what happens when you try to add it to inventory?

suneels781 · ‎04-20-2009

Hi Dave,

I did not know the way but it works now, do you have any idea why all virtual servers disapperars if i restart the vmware ESXi server.

Sam