Hi everyone,
I have a question; I'm trying VSAN (I think is a very good product), but at the moment I have 3 hosts with 2 disk SATA 3TB and 1 SSD 256 GB for each Host..Yesterday I've add 2 SAS 15k 146 gb 2,5 and 1 ssd 64 GB for each host. In vSphere Datastore I'll see 2 vSAN datastore or extend actually datastore ?
In the second case, can I move vmdk on SATA or SAS datastore ?
Thank you so much
Leonardo
I have a pretty straightfoward setup. Thinkpad T430 running XP SP 3. Used standalone converter to convert to VM and also resized it down onto a USB hard drive. When given the choice of export formats I chose VMware player 5.0.
Installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Installed VMware Player 5.0. Opened saved VM. Keyboard AND mouse (trackpad) don't work in guest. Work fine in OS, I click in guest, and nothing, stuck at XP login screen.
Ok so I then installed VMware Workstation 9.0 (since updated to 9.0.2). Opened same VM. This time mouse works fine. No keyboard. I checked in Device Manager, It's "Standard PS/2 Keyboard". Can't install tools because I can't log in. I even setup a bluetooth keyboard, then clicked the setting to pass Bluetooth keyboards over. I can click in the guest, try to type on the Bluetooth keyboard, and nothing happens. But I can hit ctrl-alt, get focus back, and alt-tab away so I know my keyboard is working.
This is absurdly simple compared to what VMWare products are capable of. What is going on? I have googled endlessly and found NOTHING of assistance other than checking my device manager on the host.
Please someone help me, this is driving me insane. I've spent hours on what should be a straightforward operation. And I need to get back into that XP Machine!
\Edit: I want to add that when I select the boot into BIOS option I do have keyboard usage. It's something in the virtual machine for XP. But I don't know how to fix it and re-building is not possible.
Just endured the time-wasting experience of installing Fusion 7, only to find the video performance renders it, no pun intended, unusable.
I would like some guidance around what mess I may have with VMWAre Tools now.
But - do I need to do anything to VMWare Tools? (Because when I 'upgraded' to 7.1, I 'upgraded' the VMWare Tools)
Thank you
Hi Guys,
I have an ESXi 5.5 installed on HP BL460c server. I am getting alarm on ESXi host "Host IPMI System Event Log Status" continuously. I have gone through VMware KB 1033725 but the logs are not clear. Please suggest if anything else need to be done.
regards
VK
I'm running a free vSphere Hypervisor on a DELL Poweredge R420.
And in irregular intervals the network connection goes down !
The Windows 2012 domain controller VM shows limited connection and is not longer availible in the network.
When i restart the VM everything is fine for some days. (The other VM's also go offline...)
At first all VMs shared one phyiscal NIC, then the problems occurs once a day (not at a special time).
Later i moved the DC to the 2nd NIC, now the problem occurs approximately once a week.
I checked mac-adresses, IPs, energy and network settings...changed switches, cables...
May it be a NIC driver-problem ?
Does somebody has any ideas ?
THX
stulli
Hi,
We have 4 VMs running on ESXi 5.0 right now on a DL380g5. All is good. The problem is, space is at a premium on this server, it's been this way for a while. So this week, we ordered and they came in larger drives for this machine. ESXi runs off the internal drive.
The VMs are backed up 2-3 times a week(with Acronis) but, I wanted to see if I can shut them down, move them to a temp location from the datastore (say a USB 3.0 drive), replace the drives, setup the raid, etc, then install ESXi 5.5, then move the VMs from a usb drive to the new data store. The VMs will NEVER be run or turned on via this USB drive (just temp storage)
I was wondering, what is the best way to do this ?
Would it be better to upgrade 5.0 to 5.5 and then just backup my ESXi config to restore on the new drives after the reinstall, if so, how do I do this?
What is the best way to get these VMs off onto a USB drive ?
Trying to do this with a minimum down time if possible. Changing the drives/raid should only take a 1/2 hour max and installing ESXi should not take more than that, just wondering what is the BEST method to do this with out any other software packages.
Thanks in advance !!!
Hi community,
I have serious problems with windows server 2012 and ESXi 5.1. Windows server keeps rebooting several times per week, and sometimes it does it several times per day too. Errors seems to point to netio.sys and ntoskrnl.exe, also ndis.sys and vmxnet3n61x64.sys are mentioned in bugcheck. Bugcheck refers to system_service_exception and kmode_exception_not_handled.
To my knowledge, nothing special software are installed, just normal domain controller settings with dns and dhcp-services.
In same host, I have ubuntu server and windows 2003 server running too, and they have been up and running without any problems from the start (about 1month now)
When Windows server 2012 crashes, nothing appears to esxi event log.
Before I went to ESXi world, I had this same computer running Windows 2008 for about two years without problems, so I doubt it would be hardware failure.
Host specs:
VMware ESXi 5.1.0,799733
Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H motherboard
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T processor
16G of ram
Is there some special tuning/driver that I haven't installed? VMware tools have been installed and reinstalled just to make sure but seems that its not the problem.
Any help would be appreciated.
We have a relatively simple network setup where we have a VM running on a HP DL380 G6 host with VMware ESXi 5.5 (build 2068190) installed, that is communicating with several physical servers connected on the same switch (Cisco 2960X stack).
The NIC teaming mode has been reduced to basic level (ESXi: originating port id + 1 vmnic uplink, Switch: regular trunk port) to pinpoint the root cause of the issue.
The host has multiple networkcards:
~ # esxcfg-nics -l
Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
vmnic0 0000:02:00.00 bnx2 Up 1000Mbps Full d8:d3:85:ad:4b:7c 1500 Broadcom Corporation NC382i
Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter
vmnic1 0000:02:00.01 bnx2 Up 1000Mbps Full d8:d3:85:ad:4b:7e 1500 Broadcom Corporation NC382i
Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter
vmnic2 0000:03:00.00 bnx2 Down 0Mbps Half d8:d3:85:ad:4b:80 1500 Broadcom Corporation NC382i
Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter
vmnic3 0000:03:00.01 bnx2 Up 1000Mbps Full d8:d3:85:ad:4b:82 1500 Broadcom Corporation NC382i
Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter
vmnic4 0000:0f:00.00 e1000e Down 0Mbps Full 00:15:17:aa:1b:7d 1500 Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (Copper)
vmnic5 0000:0f:00.01 e1000e Up 1000Mbps Full 00:15:17:aa:1b:7c 1500 Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (Copper)
vmnic6 0000:10:00.00 e1000e Down 0Mbps Half 00:15:17:aa:1b:7f 1500 Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (Copper)
vmnic7 0000:10:00.01 e1000e Down 0Mbps Half 00:15:17:aa:1b:7e 1500 Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (Copper)
vmnic8 0000:0a:00.00 sfc Up 10000Mbps Full 74:46:a0:72:7e:ac 1500 Solarflare SFC9020 [Solarstorm]
vmnic9 0000:0a:00.01 sfc Up 10000Mbps Full 74:46:a0:72:7e:ad 1500 Solarflare SFC9020 [Solarstorm]
~ # esxcfg-vswitch -l
vSwitch1 1536 5 128 1500 vmnic8,vmnic9
PortGroup Name VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
Production 4095 0 vmnic8,vmnic9
Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports MTU Uplinks
vSwitch2 1536 11 128 1500 vmnic5
PortGroup Name VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
BE001-Public 999 2 vmnic5
We encountered some strange network behavior when the VM (.13) was communication with a host (.1) over vSwitch2 using a uplink nic with the e1000e driver.
As verification we used ICMP packets, which gave us an error the packet was changed on the way. Tcpdumps on the different hosts show that:
- the ICMP Request is arriving correctly at the destination host.
- the ICMP Responds is correctly sent at the destination host
- the ICMP Responds has been modified when arrived on the VM
Ping cmd and output on the VM (.13)
Tcpdump on the VM (.13) - initiator of the ping:
Tcpdump on the destination host (.1) - responder to the ping:
Tcpdump on another VM on the same vSwitch using promiscuous mode - just a witness:
However this does not prove anything, we see perfect communication when switching the uplink port for vSwitch2 to vmnic3, which is using the bnx2 driver.
Next step would be to trace the communication on the egress side of the switch to see if the packets are correctly sent to the VMware host, but a switch should not interfere on that level.
Leaving me with the idea that the network card / e1000e driver is corrupting the inbound packets on this VMware host, however it's listed in the VMware HCL...
Has anyone seen this behavior before with the e1000e driver or Intel 82571EB network card?
Windows 2012 vm are rebooting after regular interval.
Event type kernel-power was found in event viewer.
After we re-installed the vmware tools and monitored the server we found the win 2012 vm is not rebooting.
Has anyone faced such issue. ??
Hi,
Does anyone know how to affectively determine which RDM on a paravirtual adapter relates to which disk within the OS. I have noticed that this is extremely more complicated with this adapter as the logical location is now completely mixed and i have 30 DB's of identical size so i need to be able to identify which is which.
thanks in advance
Hi all
Ive had issues for a while with my Visio 2013 thinapp not always launching correctly due to licencing issues.
Ive been doing some more digging and see that the Exe file for the thin app launches twice on clicking the icon(Seen in taskmanager.
It then launches the .dat file.
When the thinapp works as expected it opens and 1 of the .exe files has gone if it crashes both remain running in task manager.
I take it with everyone elses thin app you should only see 1 of the exe files on launch ?
Regards
Sam
hi,
I think the disk r/w in guest OS is still cached by host OS,
So I can disable the disk cache in guest OS to save more guest memory,
Is it correct?
hi all
I have configured cisco CSR 1000v to have two interfaces, gig 1.1 (vlan 1) and gig 1.2 (vlan 2)
of course using command encaps dot1q 1 and encaps dot1q 2
now I want to configure one of my windows 7 machine to be in Vlan 2 broadcast domain !?
how to do this !?
thanks,
Hi,
I have followed the vova documentation and deployed openstack in a testing environment.
I have created ubuntu images and using that I can launch new instances which seems to be working well. After launching the instance, I can see a folder with their id on the datastore which is defined in vcenter.
But when I create a new volume in openstack, I cannot see anything on the datastore or in the cinder-volumes?! I wonder if the creation of a volume without an instance is being done on the local disk of the vova vm? Also attaching a volume to an existing instance seems not doing anything.
Is there anyway to make sure where a volume has been created? and how can I make it to create the volume on the defined datastore which is being used for vm objects?
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
I have the following problem with VMware Workstation 10:
I have several VMs running with enabled restrictions and the default
vmware restriction server (https://rvm.vmware.com)
Until recently, that worked fine, but yesterday I tried to import a new
restricted VM, and I get the error message when trying to start the VM:
"The restrictions management server must be accessible when this
restricted virtual machine is used for the first time on this host.
Check your network connectivity and try again." (see screenshot)
I have internet connectivity and no firewall (interal, or companywide)
enabled, and I am able to ping rvm.vmware.com, so I guess the connection
is fine.
Running a tcpdump while starting the VM reveals the error "Handshake
failure". (attached wireshark dump)
Right now I am unable to use ANY new restricted VM!
Is there any problem known with the restriction server? Any ideas how to
fix this severe problem.
Thanks for you help!
Best regards,
Dennis
Приветствую всех! Прошу помощи/совета. Сломал себе уже весь мозг.
И так. Есть VMware ESXI 5.1.0 Build 1065491. Поставили задачу: Отправлять алармы на почту.
Порывшись в инете нашел скрипт (http://www.0dm1n.ru/2014/07/vcenter-email-vmware-enable-all-alarm.html), и несколько других похожих.
Поскольку в esx/esxi новичек, то, порывшись опять в инете нашел как его запустить. Установил VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.8 Release 1.
При попытке запустить - ошибка (ниже будет какая). В итоге все свелось к команде Get-AlarmDefinition.
При выполнении команды Get-AlarmDefinition -Server Server1, Server2 получаю ошибку:
PowerCLI H:\Adm> get-alarmdefinition -server 192.168.255.255
Get-AlarmDefinition : 27.01.2015 19:39:21 Get-AlarmDefinition Значени
е не может быть неопределенным.
Имя параметра: moRef
At line:1 char:20
+ get-alarmdefinition <<<< -server 192.168.255.255
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-AlarmDefinition], ViError
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_AlarmServiceImpl_GetAlarmDefinition_ViE
rror,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.Alarm.GetAlarmDefinition
Ума уже не приложу куда копать.
П.с.: перед выполнением данной команды был выполнен коннект к висерверу. 192.168.255.255 - для примера.
I'm trying to set the VM Startup/Shutdown order in vSphere Web Client. On 2 of my 3 hosts, there is an edit button and everything works. On one host, there is no edit button; however, I can edit the order using the old thick client and the changes are reflected in web client. Running 5.5.
All suggestion appreciated.
I have an interesting issue which is very random, users are complaining their profiles are getting deleted. Upon opening the users directory in the repository we typically find the only thing in there is the folder {d24f2895-651a-40cc-8e5c-c037b9994104}, which from what I understand is the folder which is created for the vss snapshot when replicating the changes. There are some instances where there is nothing at all but that is less frequent. We have multiple pools in which this occurs, and we have not been able to replicate the issue using test accounts because it is just so random. A case is open but no progress has been made at this time. There is no antivirus on the repo, we are running trend deep security on the desktops and have attempted to disable it as a test but this still popped up. All pools are linked clones with refresh immediately on log off configured. Permissions have been verified according to documentation. We do use the redirection feature for My docs, music, pictures, videos to other file servers but that appears to be functioning properly. Our desktops are windows 7 sp1, we recently recomposed after re-running and verifying the optimization scripts and all services are set properly. I am not familiar enough with the actual process to "roll-up" the snapshot to narrow down where the issue may actually reside.
Hey All,
This may seem like an obvious question but I have noticed that when I do not have my vSphere Client open, the vCenter Update Manager "Check new notifications" and "Download Patch definitions" tasks get queued.
As soon as I open the vSphere Client, which has the VMWare vSphere Update Manager Extension Plugin installed, the queued tasks are processed and cleared.
Since VMWare is "encouraging" us to start using the Web Client, is there a way to setup these tasks so that they can run without having the "fat" vSphere Client running?
Thanks in advance,
Sean
I have seen several places that vROPS can intiate workflows in vRO but I have yet to see how to connect them. I searched the solution exchange and didn't see an adapter and I did not see anything in the documentation for vROPS unless it is using the REST notification plugin. Thanks!