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Hello, Trying to run the dr-ip-reporter command on an SRM appliance.  When I type the command the system returns "-bash: dr-ip-reporter: command not found".  If I attempt to run as sudo and enter the admin password says the password is incorrect. Sadly Linux is just one more skill I have not mastered. What am I doing wrong? 

Hi, I am trying to track down which log and possibly what entry would show the move of a vm from one vmnic to another.  We are trying to pin down an issue with particular application that drives high network use from time to time and think the move from one vmnic to another vmnic may be the issue.  But would like to correlate the LBT action with the issue on the vm if at all possible. So again looking for the log or logs that would indicate LBT has moved a vm from one vmnic to another vmnic ... any ideas?

Hi, This may be answered else where but could not find anything definitive.  We are planning to migrate to 5.5.  Right now we have all components (with the exception of the web client service) on separate virtual machines.  For our upgrade process we planned on consolidating. If the 5.5 sso is installed on the same Windows virtual machine as the Virtual Center, at what point do we shut down the existing separate 5.1 sso virtual machine?  Is it even relevant? The plan, if all goes well is to install all of 5.5 in one continuous operation...that is install sso, then the   5.5 web client, then the Inventory Service, vCenter server and finally VUM. Am I over thinking this? Any ideas thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

I was not sure if this fell under vCops or Infrastructure Navigator so thought I would start here...some preliminaries...vCops 5.8.0, build 1537842, License mode:Advanced Infrastructure Navigator 2.0.0.398, Build 890698 Based on what I read in the ... vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide, there should be an Application group populated by the discoveries made by VIN. However, I do not have an Application folder as you can see above. In the latest log in /data/vcops/adapters/VinAdapter on the Analytics vm the following is recorded: 014-04-27 10:35:30,827 ERROR [Collector worker thread 8] (5411) com.integrien.adapter3.vin.VinAdapter.onCollect - OnCollect failed java.lang.RuntimeException: Check vin enabled failed     at com.integrien.adapter3.vin.InventoryServiceHandler.checkVinEnabled(InventoryServiceHandler.java:308)     at com.integrien.adapter3.vin.VinAdapter.onCollect(VinAdapter.java:150)     at com.integrien.alive.common.adapter3.AdapterBase.collectBase(AdapterBase.java:644)     at com.integrien.alive.common.adapter3.AdapterBase.collect(AdapterBase.java:457)     at com.integrien.alive.collector.CollectorWorkItem3.run(CollectorWorkItem3.java:47)     at com.integrien.alive.common.util.ThreadPool$WorkerItem.run(ThreadPool.java:239)     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) I am not real sure what I missing or doing wrong...the documentation for troubleshooting these issues is very limited. Any ideas?  Thoughts?

Thought this would be an easy one but as usual I was wrong! I would like to create a two 2-column dashboard for all of one specific type of storage (in this case by the name we labeled we the datastore...) First, I want to create a resource type widget for all of the datacenters Second a heat map widget that will show when commands per second is good trending to not so good. The heat map widget should be a receiver from the Resources widget so when I select datacenter A the status of the datastore will be a displayed in the heat map widget For the Resources widget I have filtered by Resource Kinds Cluster Compute Resources Changed the interactions so that Resources is the Providing Widget to the heat map (receiveing widget) For the heat map widget I have s selected group by cluster compute resource then by datastore, mode is instance, resource kinds is cluster compute resources, attribute kind is comands per second      So the first issue...when I select on any cluster in the resources widget, all of the clusters show up not just the one of intrest Second I only want a specifc type of storage so I thought I could go in and manually select to filter on just the datastores (Select which tags to filter |DataStores| specifc datastores) and when I save it in the heat map widget "No data available" shows up...regardless of which clustert I select in the resources widget! If I remove the tage which I am filtering on then all of datastores show up in the heatmap (cps_fail_less) Any ideas a) how to get the interaction to work correctly so just a single, interesting cluster shows up in the heat map b) how to filter for just the interesting datastores not all of the datastores in the cluster Let me know if I need to provide more info for you you to help me out!  Thanks!

We are currently using vCops 5.8.0 Build 1537842.  While following Sunny Dua's excellent posts on "http://vxpresss.blogspot.in/2013/05/part-1-using-vcops-super-metrics-custom.html I discovered 10s of thousands of resources under Resource Kinds | Datastore.  Our Backup team uses Commvault through a esxi proxies to snap luns to protect the LUNs in one of our data centers.  The snapped LUNs are mounted on the proxy and then unmounted when the backup is complete.  Unfortinately, vCops has collected these as resources and needless to say with our protection cycle there are many,many of these reources left with the lovely white question mark on the blue background My question then is...is there an easy way to set an exclusion for anything with the name GX_BACKUP?  This would prevent the collection of these temporary objects? Also as an extra added bonus if anyone knows of a quick easy way to delete over 16000 resources all with that name...well that would be a bonus! Please let me know if I can provide any further info that may help you help us out!

Two strange occurrences on a Sunday evening...I am never doing maintenance on a Sunday evening again... We have a cluster of 4 - HP BL 680c G7 blades.  I am attempting to put hosts in maintenance mode to remediate them to the current patch level. We are using esxi 5.1.0 trying to move all hosts to build 1063671 On each host the vms will evacuate, and the enter maintenance mode operation will get to 83% and stall.  After sometime the operation will time out in vCenter.   If I attempt to place the host into maintenance mode again, the host very quickly with complete the operation and enter maintenance mode. This error messages shows up in the hostd.log of the affected host...not sure what they mean, but looks interesting (this error repeated multiple times) 2013-05-06T02:59:58.200Z [5454DB90 info 'Vmomi'] Activation [N5Vmomi10ActivationE:0xffdbc1b8] : Invoke done [waitForUpdates] on [vmodl.query.PropertyCollector:ha-property-collector] 2013-05-06T02:59:58.200Z [5454DB90 verbose 'Vmomi'] Arg version: --> "583" 2013-05-06T02:59:58.200Z [5454DB90 info 'Vmomi'] Throw vmodl.fault.RequestCanceled 2013-05-06T02:59:58.200Z [5454DB90 info 'Vmomi'] Result: --> (vmodl.fault.RequestCanceled) { -->    dynamicType = <unset>, -->    faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null, -->    msg = "", --> } 2013-05-06T02:59:58.201Z [54DD8B90 error 'SoapAdapter.HTTPService'] HTTP Transaction failed on stream TCP(error:Transport endpoint is not connected) with error N7Vmacore15SystemExceptionE(Connection reset by peer) 2013-05-06T03:05:02.700Z [54DD8B90 verbose 'Default'] CloseSession called for session id=79256627-c45a-0d32-bcfc-5c8acd7fa76f 2013-05-06T03:05:02.702Z [54DD8B90 info 'ha-eventmgr'] Event 448 : User vpxuser@127.0.0.1 logged out (login time: Thursday, 01 January, 1970 17:09:00, number of API invocations: 0, user agent: VMware-client/5.1.0) 2013-05-06T03:05:10.597Z [FF906D20 verbose 'Locale' opID=f3b563dc-a6] Default resource used for 'counter.sys.resourceMemConsumed.summary' expected in module 'perf'. 2013-05-06T03:05:10.601Z [544CBB90 verbose 'Locale' opID=f3b563dc-b3] Default resource used for 'counter.sys.resourceMemConsumed.summary' expected in module 'perf'. 2013-05-06T03:05:19.246Z [5446AB90 verbose 'SoapAdapter'] Responded to service state request 2013-05-06T03:09:04.093Z [54D80B90 error 'EnvironmentManager'] Unable to obtain the default HW version 2013-05-06T03:09:04.114Z [54922B90 verbose 'DvsTracker'] FetchSwitches: added 1 items 2013-05-06T03:09:04.114Z [54922B90 verbose 'DvsTracker'] FetchDVPortgroups: added 21 items 2013-05-06T03:09:04.114Z [54922B90 info 'DvsTracker'] FetchUplinkDVPortgroups: Appended uplinkPg for dvs bf d4 29 50 a8 e0 28 cb-aa 05 76 62 56 c9 9a 2a portgroup dvportgroup-31 2013-05-06T03:09:04.114Z [54922B90 info 'DvsTracker'] FetchUplinkDVPortgroups: added 21 items Nothing useful shows up in the vCenter Task & Events Tab.  Is there a better place to look for errors or issues?

I have a very curious situation...at one time, I am sure I was getting 8 live vmotions at a time when I would put a host in maintenance mode.  Now I am only getting 4! We 4 H- BL 680c G7 blades connected to 2 - HP Flex10s.  We are not using external connections on the last Flex10 ports so we have 10 GbE connections between both Flex10s. The vmnics show 10000 for connection speed.  We are not throttling on the Flex10 nics at all. We are currently at 5.1, build 1063671 We have also set up multi nic vmotion on a dvs using KB 2007467 as a guide. My question is, where to I even start to attempt to figure out why I am only getting 4 vmotions max versus 8. Please let me know if you need any further info to help us  out!  Thanks!

OK so we attempted to remediate several hosts using update manager.  Initially one team member did an update based on the three patches that VUM showed as applicable. After remediation the attached baseline "Upgrade from esxi 4.0 to 4.1 changed from compliant to Incompatible. If I select the baseline, then select the "upgrades" in the bottom part of the pane there is a yellow bang on the upgrades.  If I select the upgrade the error pops up with this info.  ...The upgrade has a missing package for host...of type embeddedEsx. Has anyone else seen this?  Is it really an issue?  The host seems like it is running correctly.  But would perfer to find out now rather than later. BTW we are running ESXi 4.1.0, 320137...patching from 260247.  This is an issue with those hosts that were upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1 as well as clean installs of 4.1 260247.

I am sure this question has been answered before, however I have not found an answer yet...we are setting up a new vm on an esxi 4.0 host. We are using the software iSCSI initiator. Our customer has requested we place the os drive on one Lun and the data drive on another lun. His rationale is this will allow for better performance. Our team's rationale is since this both LUNs are on the same aggregate; performance will not be greatly increased. Also, it this may make general housekeeping less efficient. Is there a best practice concerning the placement of the vmdks? I did some Google searches and couldn't really find an unequivocal answer.

I am sure this has been discussed in the past but I am either to stoopid or lazy to find the correct answer...flame me if you must but hopefully someone else will find you assistance helpful! With that said here is my situation... We have two vCenters set up. I have linked the vCenters and I can see inventory and manage resources on both. However I was hoping there was some way the permissions would link across the vCenters so we would not have to set the permissions for major objects separately. That is if the domain\usergroup has the administrator role on vCenter A, and vCenter B was linked, then domain\usergroup would also have the same role on vCenter B. Does that follow? Am I missing something? Is there any easy way to propagate these roles from one linked vCenter to the other? Any help is appreciated!

I am a n00b to VMWare and really the entire virtualization world...flame me if you must since the (RT)FM left me more confused than confused. Regardless here is my situation, we have two hosts with the same storage presented to them. One of the hosts got creamed and had to be re-initialized. Some of the storage shows up with the correct name, however some of the LUNs show up prefaced with snap-xxxxxxxx-(the real name of the storage). I read through the SAN configuration guide and it seems if I disable (1 to 0) the LVM.DisallowSnapshotLun under LVM in the Advanced Settings selection, and rescan the storage, all of the LUNs should show with the correct name with no loss of data, correct? BTW LVM.EnableResignature is set to 0 and I assume, I would leave it set this way for the rescan. Am I on the right track? I know if I lose the data on these LUNs, I would lose my job and times are really, really tough for n00bs and fools...I have proven to be both in the past and would! Any/All help is appreciated!