WesTopping's Posts

here is a bit from my hostd.log when I restarted it. Storage data synchronization policy set to invalidate_change undoAttempts(15), timeoutMsec(2000) Resource pool configuration... See more...
here is a bit from my hostd.log when I restarted it. Storage data synchronization policy set to invalidate_change undoAttempts(15), timeoutMsec(2000) Resource pool configuration: /etc/vmware/hostd/pools.xml Datastore auto-refresh is disabled. Datastore alias configuration file is /etc/vmware/hostd/datastores.xml VM autostart configuration: /etc/vmware/hostd/vmAutoStart.xml A vmkevent client is already registered with the channel 'hostd'
Here is the error message: Unable to access the specified host. It either does not exist, the server software in not responding, or there is a network problem. Also una... See more...
Here is the error message: Unable to access the specified host. It either does not exist, the server software in not responding, or there is a network problem. Also unable to directly connect with the virtualcenter client or open the webpage to the box.
Double checked my DNS settings. All looks good.
Tried to reinstall the VC agent. Still no Dice.
This weekend I updated all of my ESX servers to build 84374. The last one I did now refuses to connect back to virtualcenter. I am able to SSH to the box and I have tried rebooting, restarting th... See more...
This weekend I updated all of my ESX servers to build 84374. The last one I did now refuses to connect back to virtualcenter. I am able to SSH to the box and I have tried rebooting, restarting the VC agent and restarting hostd. Any ideas?
Has anyone else seen this? Its only happening on workstations with a certain image.
I tried to restart the vpxa service, still no good. I really would perfer not to have to do the other things you suggested but if I need to it will have to be late at night.
I have 4 Servers in my cluster. I used the VC client to open each and I only see them on the one box. When looking at them on the box they show up as Unknown(invalid) and Unknown1(invalid).
I only had one at first. I tried to do "service mgmt-vmware restart" and when it came back in VC I had 2. The odd thing is that both VM's are still up and running.
Here is the full error. Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT:0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)) This is only happening to desktops at my site with the same image.... See more...
Here is the full error. Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT:0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)) This is only happening to desktops at my site with the same image. Works fine on my laptop and the server. Tried a full uninstall and reinstall but same error comes up.
I resized the parent disk without realizing that the VM had a snapshot. Now I am getting this error when I try to power on the VM. The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was ... See more...
I resized the parent disk without realizing that the VM had a snapshot. Now I am getting this error when I try to power on the VM. The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created. This is on ESX 3.0.2 any ideas on how I could recover from this? Wes
I double checked the DNS, host file and FT_HOSTS file and they all looked good. I then tried disable HA for the whole cluster and reenabling it. Now I only have 1 server that is doing it but as... See more...
I double checked the DNS, host file and FT_HOSTS file and they all looked good. I then tried disable HA for the whole cluster and reenabling it. Now I only have 1 server that is doing it but as far as I can see everything is correct on it. Wes
I have just put 2 new hosts in my cluster and I keep getting the "HA agent has an error" on them about every 15 minutes. It is not telling me what the error is and it corrects itself within a f... See more...
I have just put 2 new hosts in my cluster and I keep getting the "HA agent has an error" on them about every 15 minutes. It is not telling me what the error is and it corrects itself within a few minutes. Any Ideas? Wes
I found the answer to my own question. Here it is If anyone else needs to know. 1. Change directories to /etc/vmware/ssl 2. Create backups of any existing certificates by executing the follo... See more...
I found the answer to my own question. Here it is If anyone else needs to know. 1. Change directories to /etc/vmware/ssl 2. Create backups of any existing certificates by executing the following commands: mv rui.crt orig.rui.crt mv rui.key orig.rui.key 3. Enter the following command to restart the vmware-hostd process: service mgmt-vmware restart 4. Confirm that the ESX Server host generated new certificates by executing the following command comparing the time stamps of the new certificate files with orig.rui.crt and orig.rui.key: ls -lha.
I can't find any documentation on doing this. Does anyone know the procedure for 3.01? Wes
Check your VM and make sure that you do not have the wrong Windows HAL. I believe I saw that behavior before when I had a 2000 VM with a multiprocessor HAL and only 1 VCPU assigned to it. Wes
I have done it a number of times durring Disaster recovery exercises. I just brought up a base Image VM with Veritas client software and did a restore like normal. After the restore was done I us... See more...
I have done it a number of times durring Disaster recovery exercises. I just brought up a base Image VM with Veritas client software and did a restore like normal. After the restore was done I used Ultimate P2V to inject the VMware SCSI drivers. http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?page_id=174 Wes
Let me see if I can answer those. 1.How can i change the ESX3 Standard license to ESX Enterprise ? I believe that you can just purchase an upgrade from Standard to Enterprise. 2.Can i mo... See more...
Let me see if I can answer those. 1.How can i change the ESX3 Standard license to ESX Enterprise ? I believe that you can just purchase an upgrade from Standard to Enterprise. 2.Can i move the Virtual Machines from ESX 3.0 to the SAN and start them under ESX 3.0.1 without any problems ? Yes, The will start up under 3.0.1 just fine. You will just need to upgrade the VMware Tools on the VM's after they are on the new version. 3.Is it better to connect the SAN via iSCISI or FC ? I would go with FC for production equipment. I have only used iSCSI for test but I have heard of others using it for production. If I were to use it for production I would get a hardware iSCSI initiator card rather than using the VMkernal's software initiator. Wes
Here is the tool I used to do this. http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vmtools.html#vmw Just copy the vmw.exe to a location in the system path of your VM Template. I created a grou... See more...
Here is the tool I used to do this. http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vmtools.html#vmw Just copy the vmw.exe to a location in the system path of your VM Template. I created a group policy in AD that would shutoff w32time service and run a startup script with this command in it "vmw option +t" Wes