vmmark 2.1.1 issue

[iinfi]

hi all,

i v been running vmmark 2.1.1 for quite some time now without any major issues.

but now i have hit a roadblock with this error

Error : Deploy Not Enough VMs

Error : Deploy Not Enough OS customizations

the only diff in my setup is i added two servers to the cluster. so a total 4 nodes now with just 4 tiles.

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20120612-17:23:45	ListVMs already done
20120612-17:23:45	Found ALL needed VMs for Storage VMotion : Powered On VMs : ['DS2WebB0', 'DS2WebA0', 'mailserver0', 'DS2DB0', 'OlioWeb0', 'Standby0', 'OlioDB0', 'DS2WebC0', 'CLIENT0', 'CLIENT1', 'CLIENT2', 'CLIENT3', 'DS2WebC1', 'mailserver1', 'OlioDB1', 'DS2WebA1', 'Standby1', 'DS2WebB1', 'DS2DB1', 'OlioWeb1', 'OlioDB2', 'DS2WebA2', 'DS2WebB2', 'mailserver2', 'Standby2', 'DS2DB2', 'OlioWeb2', 'DS2WebC2', 'DS2DB3', 'DS2WebA3', 'DS2WebB3', 'OlioDB3', 'mailserver3', 'olioweb3', 'Standby3', 'DS2WebC3']
20120612-17:23:45	sVMotion VMs : ['Standby0', 'Standby1', 'Standby2', 'Standby3']
20120612-17:25:37	Storage vMotion TargetLUN located and all VMs are on different LUNs
20120612-17:25:55	Storage vMotion TargetLUN located and all VMs are on different LUNs
20120612-17:25:55	ListHosts already done
20120612-17:25:55	gHostNames : ['192.168.20.21', '192.168.20.22', '192.168.20.23', '192.168.20.24'] :: NumHosts 4
20120612-17:25:55	Error : Deploy Not Enough VMs
20120612-17:25:55	Calculated DeployBurstQueueSize = 2
20120612-17:25:55	UserSpecified: NumVMs : 1 : DeployVM(s) = '['DeployVM1']'
20120612-17:25:55	Error : Deploy Not Enough Templates
20120612-17:25:55	UserSpecified: NumTemplates : 1 : Deploy Template(s) = '['StandbyTemplate']'
20120612-17:25:55	Error : Deploy Not Enough OS customizations
20120612-17:25:55	UserSpecified: NumOScustomizations : 1 : Deploy OScustomization(s) = '['joinDomain']'

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[jpschnee]

As you scale up the number of hosts, the number of simultaneous infrastructure operations also increases. 

In the benchmarking guide, see the section "Prepare the vSphere vCenter Server for the Deploy Infrastructure Operations", item 6 for instructions on how to setup your environment (both your VMmark2.config and additional OS customizations).

[iinfi]

thanks for ur prompt response

i was going thru the doc thinking about other possible scenarios.

why has the product been made with so many pre-reqs and any slight deviation results in errors thrown during the run itself.

[lroderic]

> why has the product been made with so many pre-reqs and any slight deviation results in errors

> thrown during the run itself.

As described at http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/overview.html:

VMmark is a free tool that hardware vendors, virtualization software vendors and other organizations use to measure the performance and scalability of applications running in virtualized environments.... [Use it to] view and compare the performance of different hardware and virtualization platforms.

Settings in the server BIOS all the way up to application tuning add variables. Adding variables to the benchmark - no matter how slight those changes are - makes it impossible to compare how different platforms perform. It must truly be apples-to-apples to be meaningful.

Lisa