Consolidation Tool in Virtual Center 2.5: Preparing for analysis takes a long time without any progress

[GuillermoBest]

Hi everyone,

Again, I'm triying to use this tool and after lots of issues regarding installation and configuration now I've 51 (fifty one) servers just discovered by Active Directory. The new problem is that after 24 hours of starting work the results are very dissapointing and, off course, I need to know what's happening with it. As a resume I can say that up to now I have only 3 servers to work with consolidation:

34 servers in the state of "Preparing for analysis"

4 servers in the state of "Analysis stopped due to incorrect credentials of insufficient privileges" Note: I'm using the same account for all server that is "MYDOMAIN\vcenter".

1 server in the state of "Host is down"

6 servers in the state of "Bad host name or the host canot be resolved by either DNS or NetBios"

3 servers in the state of "Collecting system information"

3 servers in the state of "Analyzing"

I will appretiate some help or knowledge about the Consolidation process that is not well documented in the manuals nor the online helps. If someone did it completly and succesfully, please give me some guidelines to understand how it works in general. I'm going to consolidate about 120 servers in the next 3 months and I think that this tool can help me, but it takes a long time to do activitities without progress information and some message errors are a kind of ambiguous (not to clear). Someone knows where are located the logs or xml's about the process?

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

Guillermo

[ThommiM]

I too am having this issue. Did you ever find a resolution?

[gregchait]

Just upgraded to VC2.5 Update 2... experiencing the same issue... may have to open a support case on this...

~grc

[gregchait]

I was having the bad authentication issue, and I realized that I had not set the Default Credentials of the Consolidation Configuration to a service account I had created for this in my previous virtual center. I had just actually migrated my virtual center from one application server and database to another.

What I did to make this change was the following:

• Administration > Consolidation Settings

• Default Credentials --- select CHANGE

• Assuming you use Active Directory in your environment, create a service account to use here, which will have administrative privileges to all servers in your environment (perhaps a backup or monitoring service account will do)

May not fix all the issues you encountered, but hopefully some...

~grc

[MorDrakka]

Hi,

I have the same problem. I am using a domain account whic is admin on the target machines. I am even logged on to these machines. I enabled auditing, nothing is logged on the target machine, you would expect a failure of some kind.

I set the credentials in all possible way (mentioned above and right click set authentication. The consolidation tool is able to get CPU info + Memory info, after this it says preparing for analysis. Then it end with Analysis stopped diue to incorrect credentials or insufficient priviliges. I have even used the target's local administrators account.

I am thinking this might be caused by a setting in the 'local' security policy on the target computers. So far I have enabled:

- Log on as a service.

- Log on as a batch job

- Act as part of the operating system.

Nothing helps. Anybody some more idea's? I am posting this here since this seems related and the question was not yet answerred.

[berrosch76]

Hi.

Just check if you have set locales of your windows (server) to English (United States). I have english windows server, but with czech locales and i had the same issue as described here. Changing locales to English (US) solved my problem.

Cheers,

Berrosch

[Texiwill]

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[harunsahiner]

Hi,

I have the same this problem. Du you resolved this problem ?

best regards

[harunsahiner]

Hi,

Change "Log on as" account on the VirtualCenter machine than in

services , "Vmware Capacity Planner Service" and "Vmware Converter

Enterprice Service" with which use remote login account.

Harun Sahiner

[MedMutualofNC]

My issues ended up being a permissions issue with the Remote Registry service. Make sure that "LOCAL SERVICE" has Read permissions from the following registry keys.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\winreg

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\winreg\AllowedExactPaths

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\winreg\AllowedPaths