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Re: "Unable to connect to vCenter Inventory Service" in Web Client. I have tried resetting Inventory service database, with no change.

by Contributor in vCenter™ Server Discussions
‎03-20-2018 02:59 AM
‎03-20-2018 02:59 AM
I looked at that article and it says that it's pyurpose is for when the ?Inventory Service failes to start. However, our Inventory Service is started OK, yet vSphere Web Client still shows the Un... See more...
I looked at that article and it says that it's pyurpose is for when the ?Inventory Service failes to start. However, our Inventory Service is started OK, yet vSphere Web Client still shows the Unable to connect error. So I have not reset the Inventory database as I didn't think the article applied in our situation. What do you think ?

Re: "Unable to connect to vCenter Inventory Service" in Web Client. I have tried resetting Inventory service database, with no change.

by Contributor in vCenter™ Server Discussions
‎03-16-2018 08:45 AM
‎03-16-2018 08:45 AM
OK, done...vsphere_client_virgo.log attached
vsphere_client_virgo.log.zip

Re: "Unable to connect to vCenter Inventory Service" in Web Client. I have tried resetting Inventory service database, with no change.

by Contributor in vCenter™ Server Discussions
‎03-16-2018 08:27 AM
‎03-16-2018 08:27 AM
Yes, we get the same situation...I have attached a screen shot showing this.

Re: "Unable to connect to vCenter Inventory Service" in Web Client. I have tried resetting Inventory service database, with no change.

by Contributor in vCenter™ Server Discussions
‎03-16-2018 03:27 AM
‎03-16-2018 03:27 AM
I have attacheed the inv-svc.log file. Any help ?
inv-svc.log.zip

"Unable to connect to vCenter Inventory Service" in Web Client. I have tried resetting Inventory service database, with no change.

by Contributor in vCenter™ Server Discussions
‎03-15-2018 07:18 AM
‎03-15-2018 07:18 AM
We are on V6.0 U3 with TLS1.2 enabled only. In the Web Client, selecting "Edit Settings" on VMs shows the same message and no options. Using vSphere client is ok. The vCenter is an appliance.

Getting a Dr Watsons error on IE with what appears to be a Java error on IE6 and IE8 but cannot recreate it on physical machine

by Contributor in Virtual Machine, Guest OS and VM Tools Discussions
‎07-06-2010 05:27 AM
‎07-06-2010 05:27 AM
All , I am hoping you can help. We have an issue been raised by one of our applications team trying to port their application from a physical server to virtual server. We are running Windows... See more...
All , I am hoping you can help. We have an issue been raised by one of our applications team trying to port their application from a physical server to virtual server. We are running Windows 2003 VM's running on VI3 ESX 3.5 update 5. The issue is below At first it appeared to be a JAVA error as IE's failure was accompanied by a 4097 Dr Watson event in the server's application log containing this text: " The application, C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe, generated an application error The error occurred on 06/07/2010 @ 11:13:39.608 The exception generated was c0000005 at address 6D4AC3A0 (jvm!gHotSpotVMIntConstantEntryValueOffset) " The "jvm" is the Java clue. After a quick Google, this page - http://java.itags.org/java-desktop/2328/ - amongst others hinted at a possible mismatch between Java SDKs. We assumed this was a JAVA issue and tried several combinations of Java <> Jinitaitor versions to no avail. After much analysis and rebuilding with IE6 as the original browser (instead of our standard build which is IE8 by default and is rewound back to IE6 by uninstalling IE8), We finally found that the only difference was that we were only getting this failure on IE6 / IE8 running on a VM. It never happens while running on a physical box. IF anyone has had this problem or one like it and has resolved it, please could you let us know Thanks

Re: Upgrade / Downgrade licences

by Contributor in vSphere Upgrade & Install Discussions
‎02-04-2010 12:36 PM
‎02-04-2010 12:36 PM
Slightly confused - We have downgraded our V4 licences to V3 as per your example in kb1010533 but when we go to the VI3 licences they do not appear. How long does this process normally take to co... See more...
Slightly confused - We have downgraded our V4 licences to V3 as per your example in kb1010533 but when we go to the VI3 licences they do not appear. How long does this process normally take to complete. We have waited around 3 hours but they have still not appeared Thanks in advanced for any help

Re: Patches not being seen when trying to do ESXUpdate scan

by Contributor in VI: VMware ESX™ 3.5 Discussions
‎06-15-2009 01:43 AM
‎06-15-2009 01:43 AM
All - Thank you for your replies. Being new at this I dont if Iam doing this correctly or not. We have setup an NFS share available to all the ESX servers. This share has all the patches in th... See more...
All - Thank you for your replies. Being new at this I dont if Iam doing this correctly or not. We have setup an NFS share available to all the ESX servers. This share has all the patches in the following file stucture :- ESX350-200808201-UG ESX350-200808202-UG ESX350-200808218-UG ESX350-200808217-UG ESX350-200808203-UG ESX350-200808401-BG ESX350-200808402-BG ESX350-200808408-BG ESX350-200808205-UG ESX350-200808413-SG ESX350-200808405-SG ESX350-200808406-SG ESX350-200809404-SG ESX350-200808407-BG ESX350-200808409-SG ESX350-200808411-BG ESX350-200808412-BG ESX350-200810201-UG ESX350-200810202-UG ESX350-200810203-UG ESX350-200810204-UG ESX350-200810205-UG ESX350-200810206-UG ESX350-200810207-UG ESX350-200810208-UG ESX350-200810209-UG ESX350-200810210-UG ESX350-200810212-UG ESX350-200810214-UG ESX350-200810215-UG ESX350-Update03 ESX350-200811401-SG ESX350-200811402-SG ESX350-200811405-SG ESX350-200811406-SG ESX350-200811408-BG ESX350-200811409-BG ESX350-200901401-SG ESX350-200901402-SG ESX350-200901404-BG ESX350-200901405-BG ESX350-200901406-BG ESX350-200901407-BG ESX350-200901408-BG ESX350-200901410-SG ESX350-200802303-SG ESX350-200802305-SG ESX350-200802408-SG ESX350-200803212-UG ESX350-200803213-UG ESX350-200803214-UG ESX350-200804405-BG ESX350-200805504-SG ESX350-200805505-SG ESX350-200805506-SG ESX350-200905405-BG ESX350-200805507-SG ESX350-200808206-UG ESX350-200903201-UG ESX350-200903202-UG ESX350-200903203-UG ESX350-200903204-UG ESX350-200903206-UG ESX350-200903209-UG ESX350-200903210-UG ESX350-200903211-UG ESX350-200903212-UG ESX350-200903213-UG ESX350-200903215-UG ESX350-200903216-UG ESX350-200903217-UG ESX350-200903218-UG ESX350-200903219-UG ESX350-200903220-UG ESX350-200903221-UG ESX350-200903223-UG ESX350-200903224-UG ESX350-200903225-UG ESX350-200903226-UG ESX350-200903227-UG ESX350-200903228-UG ESX350-200903229-UG ESX350-200903230-UG ESX350-200903232-UG ESX350-Update04 ESX350-200904201-SG ESX350-200904409-BG ESX350-200904408-SG ESX350-200904407-SG ESX350-200904406-SG ESX350-200904405-BG ESX350-200904404-BG ESX350-200904403-BG ESX350-200904402-SG ESX350-200904401-BG ESX350-200905401-BG ESX350-200905402-BG ESX350-200905403-BG ESX350-200905404-BG contents.xml.sig Copy of contents.xml Copy of contents.xml contents1.xml.sig contents1.xml contents.xml When I run ESXUPDATE SCAN the following patches do not show up in the scan ESX350-200905401-BG ESX350-200905402-BG ESX350-200905403-BG ESX350-200905404-BG And hence I cannot run the updates for these fixes Thanks Paul

Re: esxupdate patch script

by Contributor in VI: VMware ESXi™ 3.5 Discussions
‎06-09-2009 10:26 AM
‎06-09-2009 10:26 AM
Andre, Sorry a bit of a newbie at this - We have a depot with the following in ESX350-200810201-UG ESX350-200903212-UG ESX350-200810202-UG ESX350-20090321... See more...
Andre, Sorry a bit of a newbie at this - We have a depot with the following in ESX350-200810201-UG ESX350-200903212-UG ESX350-200810202-UG ESX350-200903213-UG contents.xml ESX350-200810203-UG ESX350-200903215-UG contents.xml.sig ESX350-200810204-UG ESX350-200903216-UG ESX350-200810205-UG ESX350-200903217-UG ESX350-200810206-UG ESX350-200903218-UG ESX350-200802303-SG ESX350-200810207-UG ESX350-200903219-UG ESX350-200802305-SG ESX350-200810208-UG ESX350-200903220-UG ESX350-200802408-SG ESX350-200810209-UG ESX350-200903221-UG ESX350-200803212-UG ESX350-200810210-UG ESX350-200903223-UG ESX350-200803213-UG ESX350-200810212-UG ESX350-200903224-UG ESX350-200803214-UG ESX350-200810214-UG ESX350-200903225-UG ESX350-200804405-BG ESX350-200810215-UG ESX350-200903226-UG ESX350-200805504-SG ESX350-200811401-SG ESX350-200903227-UG ESX350-200805505-SG ESX350-200811402-SG ESX350-200903228-UG ESX350-200805506-SG ESX350-200811405-SG ESX350-200903229-UG ESX350-200805507-SG ESX350-200811406-SG ESX350-200903230-UG ESX350-200808201-UG ESX350-200811408-BG ESX350-200903232-UG ESX350-200808202-UG ESX350-200811409-BG ESX350-200904201-SG ESX350-200808203-UG ESX350-200901401-SG ESX350-200904401-BG ESX350-200808205-UG ESX350-200901402-SG ESX350-200904402-SG ESX350-200808206-UG ESX350-200901404-BG ESX350-200904403-BG ESX350-200808217-UG ESX350-200901405-BG ESX350-200904404-BG ESX350-200808218-UG ESX350-200901406-BG ESX350-200904405-BG ESX350-200808401-BG ESX350-200901407-BG ESX350-200904406-SG ESX350-200808402-BG ESX350-200901408-BG ESX350-200904407-SG ESX350-200808405-SG ESX350-200901410-SG ESX350-200904408-SG ESX350-200808406-SG ESX350-200903201-UG ESX350-200904409-BG ESX350-200808407-BG ESX350-200903202-UG ESX350-200905401-BG ESX350-200808408-BG ESX350-200903203-UG ESX350-200905402-BG ESX350-200808409-SG ESX350-200903204-UG ESX350-200905403-BG ESX350-200808411-BG ESX350-200903206-UG ESX350-200905404-BG ESX350-200808412-BG ESX350-200903209-UG ESX350-200905405-BG ESX350-200808413-SG ESX350-200903210-UG ESX350-Update03 ESX350-200809404-SG ESX350-200903211-UG ESX350-Update04 If I run ESXUPDATE SCAN on the above it does not pickup the updates I have added eg 5402 ,5403,5404,5405 Not sure what Iam doing wrong Thanks Paul

Patches not being seen when trying to do ESXUpdate scan

by Contributor in VI: VMware ESX™ 3.5 Discussions
‎06-06-2009 02:34 AM
‎06-06-2009 02:34 AM
Dear all, This my first time using ESXUPDATE as my colleague normally does the patching but is away at present. I am trying to use ESXUPATE to run patches ESX350-200905401-BG throug... See more...
Dear all, This my first time using ESXUPDATE as my colleague normally does the patching but is away at present. I am trying to use ESXUPATE to run patches ESX350-200905401-BG through to ESX350-200905405-BG. I have downloaded these patches , unzipped them and copied them into the patching depot. My colleague documents that once copied over I should copy over the contents.xml and contents.xml.sig to the root of the depot. But these files are different from the current contents.xml and contents.xml.sig files. The current contents.xml has multi entries like below &lt;folder bundleID="ESX350-200904409-BG" name="ESX350-200904409-BG" /&gt; I attempted to update this file with the new patches and run the ESXUPATE SCAN but it fails with a compatibility error. Am I doing this right or not . Can someone give me some guidance Please ?

Re: Maint mode not evacuating machines

by Contributor in VI: VMware ESX™ 3.5 Discussions
‎05-21-2008 04:26 AM
‎05-21-2008 04:26 AM
Can confirm that all CD's are not connected. But I have now got further and corrected the problem but I cannot explain how it happened. I removed DRS and HA and just added DRS back in. Put one ... See more...
Can confirm that all CD's are not connected. But I have now got further and corrected the problem but I cannot explain how it happened. I removed DRS and HA and just added DRS back in. Put one machine into Maint mode and it worked !!!!!!!!! All machine evacuated. Took it out of Maint mode and DRS load balanced. Put another ESX in maint mode and all worked. Added HA back in and it is still working. I dont know if that was a mis-config or just a quirk/ Bug but it now appears to be working ........ Thanks

Re: Maint mode not evacuating machines

by Contributor in VI: VMware ESX™ 3.5 Discussions
‎05-20-2008 11:31 PM
‎05-20-2008 11:31 PM
All, Thanks for your responses. The manual migrations work fine everytime. We have checked all our VM's and all the CD's are connected as "device type" Client device". As I said mi... See more...
All, Thanks for your responses. The manual migrations work fine everytime. We have checked all our VM's and all the CD's are connected as "device type" Client device". As I said migrations validate ok . We can even manually migrate all the VM's off the host manually and it will go into maint mode. With regards to the patching we were going to try Update01 if we could not fix the problem. We are reasonably new to the product and thought we were doing something wrong.

Re: Maint mode not evacuating machines

by Contributor in VI: VMware ESX™ 3.5 Discussions
‎05-20-2008 08:50 AM
‎05-20-2008 08:50 AM
William, Thanks for the response. We have tried DRS in fully automatic with it both set to conservative right the way to aggressive and it does not seem to make any diffrence.

Maint mode not evacuating machines

by Contributor in VI: VMware ESX™ 3.5 Discussions
‎05-20-2008 05:26 AM
‎05-20-2008 05:26 AM
We are hoping someone can help. We are currently running VI 3.5 with VC2.5. DRS in full or Semi automatic mode appears to be working fine.We appear to have an issue with DRS when we put ESX ser... See more...
We are hoping someone can help. We are currently running VI 3.5 with VC2.5. DRS in full or Semi automatic mode appears to be working fine.We appear to have an issue with DRS when we put ESX servers into maint mode. It does not evacuate the running or powered off machines. After an hours wait we them move them manually via Vmotion and they move with no issue and the machine goes into maint mode. We assumed that in fully automatic mode the VM's would evacuate but it just doesnt seem to happen. Has anyone got any suggestions ? Thanks

Re: Customisation file / Sysprep issues

by Contributor in Virtual Machine, Guest OS and VM Tools Discussions
‎04-07-2008 07:41 AM
‎04-07-2008 07:41 AM
HappyHammer...... We are prompting the user for the IP address as part of the customisation. If we manually log the machine on it will start the sysprep process with the correct IP address and... See more...
HappyHammer...... We are prompting the user for the IP address as part of the customisation. If we manually log the machine on it will start the sysprep process with the correct IP address and the domain adding works. But this only works if we use the VMware customisation file and not a manual sysprep or Windows sysprep'd as part of the template. I believe the sysprep for VMware customisation are held in the VC database. If that is the case we need to edit those files somehow. Thanks

Customisation file / Sysprep issues

by Contributor in Virtual Machine, Guest OS and VM Tools Discussions
‎04-07-2008 12:59 AM
‎04-07-2008 12:59 AM
Iam hoping someone can help here. We are new to VMware and are currently deploying Windows 2003 server via templates. VC version 2.5. We dont appear to be able to get a customised S... See more...
Iam hoping someone can help here. We are new to VMware and are currently deploying Windows 2003 server via templates. VC version 2.5. We dont appear to be able to get a customised Sysprep to get the machines to join the domain. We believe the reason for this is we dont have DCHP assigned in our data centres. So we have to assign a static IP address to each machine we build. As we dont currently use Sysprep this has been a challenge in itself. We are relying on the VMware customisation file to create the sysprep as this appears to be only way we can get the domain join to partially work. I say "partially work" because we cannot get the autologon to work so the machine will not join the domain. In a W3K build process we re-name the admin ID to something else. Hence we believe VMware customisation is trying to use the adminitrator ID and password and cannot due to it being renamed. But we cannot seem to find where the sysprep file that is being generated by VMware customisation. If we could find this we may be able to edit it. Hope Iam making sense ?

Re: Windows 2008 64 bit and problems with network drivers

by Contributor in Virtual Machine, Guest OS and VM Tools Discussions
‎03-14-2008 09:11 AM
‎03-14-2008 09:11 AM
Erik , Thanks very much for the info will try this

Windows 2008 64 bit and problems with network drivers

by Contributor in Virtual Machine, Guest OS and VM Tools Discussions
‎03-14-2008 06:27 AM
‎03-14-2008 06:27 AM
Hope someone can help. We are trying to load Windows 2008 server 64 bit on a VM and we cannot get the network drivers to load. We have installed and re-installed VMtools. As per the proce... See more...
Hope someone can help. We are trying to load Windows 2008 server 64 bit on a VM and we cannot get the network drivers to load. We have installed and re-installed VMtools. As per the procedure in http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119774. We have also tried removing and adding the NIC but with no joy. We are running VC 2.5 and ESX 3.5 hope someone can help