This is the vSphere Web Client which is a part of the vSphere installation CD. You are in the wrong forum. Moderator, can you bump him to the right one?
I've done a lot of searching on this and found that this is a known issue. However the VMWare provided work around is to change the Scsi.CRTimeoutDuringBoot value to 10000. I have done this but...
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I've done a lot of searching on this and found that this is a known issue. However the VMWare provided work around is to change the Scsi.CRTimeoutDuringBoot value to 10000. I have done this but it does not fix my issue. I found this thread very helpful as it sounds like many others have this issue: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/279042?start=15&tstart=0 However it doesn't fully explain, or resolve, my issue. I have a very simple setup. I have a mobile lab that I use to demostrate ESX technologies. I had this all booting off a ESXi 4.0 USB stick and it worked fine. After upgrading to ESXi 4.1 its not stuck at "cbt loaded successfully". I do not have shared storage, I just have an internal SATA drive that is my datastore. So, ESXi resides on the USB stick and the SATA drive is the datastore. Nothing shared. If I unplug the SATA it boots ups (a bit slow but it boots). When I plug it back in, it just hangs there, I left it on this screen for hours and it never moves. I changed the value listed above and I get the same results. I'd really like to demo ESXi 4.1 but apparently ESXi 4.0 is the only working version for my lab. Is there a solution to this problem yet? -Gunnar
I need to backup a single directory off of a VM using a script that I would write (my third party backup software does not support VCB). This is on a Windows VM. Can anyone help me with the syn...
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I need to backup a single directory off of a VM using a script that I would write (my third party backup software does not support VCB). This is on a Windows VM. Can anyone help me with the syntax of this script? -Gunnar
Did you ever come up with a solution to this problem? I'm in the process of writing a script for this but would be interested in how other people solved it. For my script all i want to get in e...
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Did you ever come up with a solution to this problem? I'm in the process of writing a script for this but would be interested in how other people solved it. For my script all i want to get in email is Succes or Failure followed by the server name. Looking at the log file I think this is doable. What did you end up with? -Gunnar
I just figured this out in a pretty cool way so I made a blog about it: http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gunnarb/2009/12/10/how-to-upgrade-the-firmware-on-a-dell-2950-running-esxi-with-no-p...
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I just figured this out in a pretty cool way so I made a blog about it: http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gunnarb/2009/12/10/how-to-upgrade-the-firmware-on-a-dell-2950-running-esxi-with-no-physical-floppy-drive
Thanks for the input. I have setup a new role that only has the access needed for backup, however I'm still lost on the Groups. What groups would this person need to be a member of? Gunnar
I've been going onto each of my ESX hosts and creating a new account called "backup" that I then use in a --config file to backup that host using the vicfg-cfgbackup.pl script. Just to get it to...
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I've been going onto each of my ESX hosts and creating a new account called "backup" that I then use in a --config file to backup that host using the vicfg-cfgbackup.pl script. Just to get it to work they way I created this users was to add him to both "root" and "localadmin" groups. Then I went to the permissions tab and added that user to the "Administrator" role. This is obviously an overkill in permissions. I was wondering if someone had experimented with the minimum permissions necessary to backup the config on an ESXi server. -Gunnar
Is there any way to have a session file remember it's credentials? I like that those files don't have the password in clear text, as oppposed to the .config file.
Well I just learned that session files expire. I'm trying to back up my servers on as a scheduled task, my script looks like this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin\vicfg-...
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Well I just learned that session files expire. I'm trying to back up my servers on as a scheduled task, my script looks like this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin\vicfg-cfgbackup.pl" --sessionfile C:\esx\esx01.session --save server\Backups\ESX\ESX01-Backup It worked great initially but on the second pass an hour later it failed with this error: Error: The session is not authenticated. I need a way to run this every day but don't like that the config file stores the password in clear text. -Gunnar
Okay I figured out the session file as well, heck that was easier than the config file and at least that gives you a way of storing a password without it being in clear text. Still would like to...
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Okay I figured out the session file as well, heck that was easier than the config file and at least that gives you a way of storing a password without it being in clear text. Still would like to find a way to use domain credentials though.
This forum is extremely buried so I'm not sure how active it is, but I've been scouring the vCLI reference guide trying to figure out a way to run vicfg-backup.pl with domain credentials. From m...
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This forum is extremely buried so I'm not sure how active it is, but I've been scouring the vCLI reference guide trying to figure out a way to run vicfg-backup.pl with domain credentials. From my understanding I can use a session file or a config file to simply the login process. I have figured out the config file but not the session file, but I'm only able to use accounts local to the esx server. I'm assuming I need to first connect to the vCenter server then from there connect to an ESX server but I'm not sure. Whatever works is cool with me. Any help would be appreciated. -Gunnar
It's just an annoyance right now, so I'm skip opening a Service Request. I'm sure they'll get it figured out, I know DPM just exited experimental stages so they probably have some bugs left to f...
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It's just an annoyance right now, so I'm skip opening a Service Request. I'm sure they'll get it figured out, I know DPM just exited experimental stages so they probably have some bugs left to fix. Thanks for your feedback! Gunnar
I agree, my rule is designed to keep them on seperate boxes, however that doesn't make sense if two boxes are already powered up. THis is an exact scenario I had: 2 Hosts running with more th...
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I agree, my rule is designed to keep them on seperate boxes, however that doesn't make sense if two boxes are already powered up. THis is an exact scenario I had: 2 Hosts running with more than enough power to handle DC2 on either box. DC2 is not running I power up DC2 a 3rd ESX host powers up. DC2 waits for the third host to power up then powers on on this third host. Now here is the fun part, after DC2 is powered up, DRS migrates all the VMs off of the 2nd host and powers it down. This is what I find weird. Its not a problem, it's just weird and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this.
I've been using DPM and DRS for a few months now and just love watching my servers power on and off as resources are needed. I was trying something new the other day and I was wondering if anyon...
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I've been using DPM and DRS for a few months now and just love watching my servers power on and off as resources are needed. I was trying something new the other day and I was wondering if anyone else has seen this. I created a rule to seperate two servers lets call them DC1 and DC2. I power on DC1 and it goes to the single ESX that is running (there is only one host running becuase only one host is needed presently). WHen I power DC2 on the second ESX has to come out of standby, once it is out of standby DC2 powers up... in a word, perfect. When you power down DC2 all VMs will evacuate the host (DRS put the VMs there to keep it load balanced). Oh that reminds me I ignore HA requirements to allow DPM to power off all but one ESX host, I know this means in a failure it will take longer for the servers to post but I've tested this and the difference is 3 minutes (with two hosts) verse 10 minutes with one host. 10 minutes meets SLA so I'd like to conserver power as I'm a treehugger. In any case, all my VMs evacuate the host and go onto one ESX host. This would be fine if I wanted the server down for any extended period of time but I've see it do this on a reboot. I've seen it where 3 hosts are running and regardless it will boot a fourth ESX host just to but DC2 on it. It seems no matter what, after a shutdown of DC2 the VM will not power back up unless it manually boots its own server, as if the rule stated to boot on a host with no VMs running. Has anyone experienced something like this? I know I'm pushing DRS and DPM here but my results have been great, this is my first weird issue, and it's not show stopping its just weird. Gunnar