Hi Guys,

We are in the process of upgrading  ESXi from 5.0 to 5.5 u2

Current ESXi 5.0 OS resides in local disk (datastore) , this hosts contains 5 VMs on the same local disk (datastore ) and will be upgraded to esxi 5.5 on a new different Hitachi SAN(datastore).

During the upgrade process, it will show two VMFS storage partitions one the existing and other will be newly configured one.

Uur query is, if we select the newly configured datastore to store the ESXi 5.5 OS and I guess it will prompt as follows

Which of the above option do we need to select so that all the vmdks of the VMs will be there and also the VMs in the inventory

Thanks in advance

Vignesh

ESXI 5.1

Vcenter 5.1

VDP 5.1

Can't consolidate virtual machine disk files, unable to access file<unspecified filename> since it is locked,  I checked virtual machine datastore, I found some VM_00001.vmdk,VM_00002.vmdk,VM_00003.vmdk,

recently, I delete my vdp server and reinstall it, I think it's root cause, and the virtual machines no snapshot,, But How to solve this issue,

Now consolidate and Migrate virtual machines will failed.

Hi,

I have created a service blueprint to power off the VM and delete it from the vCenter.  The workflow works fine, but it does not seem to released the resources from vRA.

So it said, the VM has actually deleted from vSphere, but from the vRA admin portal, Managed machines, I found the VM that I have decommissioned using the mentioned service blue print now shows as "Missing"

My question is how do I decommission the VM and also removed its reserved resources properly?

Thanks,

Jimmy

Hi

I tried downloading the vSphere Hypervisor 5.5 and 6.0 revs as ISOs and in booting both on my system neither would show HDDs in the systems.

The systems are HP DL380 Gen9 servers which I know are on the HCL.

Is it permissible to use a vendor customized OEM image with the vSphere Hypervisor (Free) key ?  Or is that not OK to do legally ?

In other words - must I take the vSphere Hypervisor ISO and Customize it by injecting the proper drivers into it so it will work to use the Free Key ?

Thanks

Big_Daddy68

In our datacenter we had a few customers where their vCenter database filled up at an alarming rate. After checking in MSSQL what table was the culprit, we found out the VPX_EVENT and VPX_EVENT_ARG tables kept growing. Sure enough, in vCenter we saw a constant flow of these alerts:

Also in the vmkernel.log file we saw similar messages:

2014-11-18T22:52:03.354Z cpu40:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 1 log messages

2014-11-18T22:52:03.355Z cpu40:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 1 log messages

2014-11-18T22:55:03.383Z cpu42:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 756 log messages

2014-11-18T22:55:03.384Z cpu42:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 1 log messages

2014-11-18T22:55:03.386Z cpu42:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 1 log messages

2014-11-18T22:55:03.395Z cpu37:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 852 log messages

2014-11-18T22:58:03.419Z cpu44:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 991 log messages

2014-11-18T22:58:03.422Z cpu37:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 992 log messages

2014-11-18T22:58:03.424Z cpu37:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 2 log messages

2014-11-18T23:01:03.454Z cpu44:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 1090 log messages

2014-11-18T23:01:03.467Z cpu36:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 1102 log messages

2014-11-18T23:01:03.468Z cpu36:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 3 log messages

2014-11-18T23:04:03.482Z cpu44:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 1073 log messages

2014-11-18T23:04:03.494Z cpu38:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 1153 log messages

2014-11-18T23:07:03.521Z cpu38:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 525 log messages

2014-11-18T23:07:03.532Z cpu38:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 893 log messages

2014-11-18T23:10:03.554Z cpu37:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 718 log messages

2014-11-18T23:10:03.566Z cpu37:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 796 log messages

2014-11-18T23:10:03.568Z cpu37:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 1 log messages

2014-11-18T23:10:03.568Z cpu37:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 1 log messages

2014-11-18T23:13:03.589Z cpu44:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 939 log messages

2014-11-18T23:13:03.595Z cpu40:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 987 log messages

2014-11-18T23:16:03.628Z cpu46:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 811 log messages

2014-11-18T23:16:03.629Z cpu44:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 926 log messages

2014-11-18T23:19:03.659Z cpu38:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 844 log messages

2014-11-18T23:19:03.670Z cpu46:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 846 log messages

2014-11-18T23:19:03.671Z cpu46:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 1 log messages

2014-11-18T23:22:03.690Z cpu42:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 868 log messages

2014-11-18T23:22:03.691Z cpu42:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 1 log messages

2014-11-18T23:22:03.704Z cpu36:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 948 log messages

2014-11-18T23:25:03.723Z cpu42:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 609 log messages

2014-11-18T23:25:03.741Z cpu46:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 585 log messages

2014-11-18T23:28:03.760Z cpu42:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 756 log messages

2014-11-18T23:28:03.774Z cpu40:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 790 log messages

2014-11-18T23:31:03.794Z cpu42:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 882 log messages

2014-11-18T23:31:03.806Z cpu40:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 963 log messages

2014-11-18T23:31:03.808Z cpu40:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 1 log messages

2014-11-18T23:34:03.828Z cpu42:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 719 log messages

2014-11-18T23:37:03.851Z cpu39:3167699)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.71:514 lost 1616 log messages

2014-11-18T23:37:03.862Z cpu36:3167700)ALERT: vmsyslog logger 10.122.126.5:514 lost 761 log messages

...

An issue with vmsyslog so it seems. Our syslog configuration however was perfectly fine:

(/etc/vmsyslog.conf)

[DEFAULT]

loghost = <none>

default_timeout = 180

logdir_unique = false

rotate = 8

logdir = <none>

size = 1024

[vmsyslog]

loghost = tcp://10.122.126.71:514, tcp://10.122.126.5:514

rotate = 8

size = 1024

Digging a bit deeper into the syslog error log revealed this:

(/var/log/.vmsyslogd.err)

2014-11-18T23:37:03.861Z vmsyslog.msgQueue        : ERROR ] 10.122.126.5:514 - lost 761 log messages

2014-11-18T23:37:03.866Z vmsyslog.loggers.network : ERROR   ] 10.122.126.5:514 - socket error : [Errno 32] Broken pipe

2014-11-18T23:40:03.895Z vmsyslog.msgQueue        : ERROR ] 10.122.126.5:514 - lost 1045 log messages

2014-11-18T23:40:03.899Z vmsyslog.loggers.network : ERROR   ] 10.122.126.5:514 - socket error : [Errno 32] Broken pipe

2014-11-18T23:43:03.933Z vmsyslog.msgQueue        : ERROR ] 10.122.126.5:514 - lost 661 log messages

2014-11-18T23:43:03.937Z vmsyslog.loggers.network : ERROR   ] 10.122.126.5:514 - socket error : [Errno 32] Broken pipe

2014-11-18T23:46:03.969Z vmsyslog.msgQueue        : ERROR ] 10.122.126.5:514 - lost 761 log messages

2014-11-18T23:46:03.973Z vmsyslog.loggers.network : ERROR   ] 10.122.126.5:514 - socket error : [Errno 32] Broken pipe

2014-11-18T23:49:04.002Z vmsyslog.msgQueue        : ERROR ] 10.122.126.5:514 - lost 573 log messages

2014-11-18T23:49:04.006Z vmsyslog.loggers.network : ERROR   ] 10.122.126.5:514 - socket error : [Errno 32] Broken pipe

2014-11-18T23:52:04.036Z vmsyslog.msgQueue        : ERROR ] 10.122.126.5:514 - lost 665 log messages

2014-11-18T23:52:04.040Z vmsyslog.loggers.network : ERROR   ] 10.122.126.5:514 - socket error : [Errno 32] Broken pipe

At this stage, I was starting to wonder if the other side was actually working fine. We use VMware Syslog Collector to capture these logs and although the service was running fine, we noticed this in the debug log:

2014-11-19 06:26:27,345 - sc.twisted - Log observer <bound method DefaultObserver._emit of <twisted.python.log.DefaultObserver instance at 0x01095F80>> failed.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "twisted\python\context.pyo", line 59, in callWithContext

  File "twisted\python\context.pyo", line 37, in callWithContext

  File "twisted\internet\selectreactor.pyo", line 154, in _doReadOrWrite

  File "twisted\python\log.pyo", line 221, in err

--- <exception caught here> ---

File "twisted\python\log.pyo", line 292, in msg

  File "twisted\python\log.pyo", line 623, in _emit

1. exceptions.IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

2014-11-19 06:26:27,348 - sc.core - TCP connection lost from 192.168.243.200:49420

2014-11-19 06:26:27,348 - sc.log - Error cleaning up state: '192.168.243.200'

2014-11-19 06:26:47,546 - sc.core - New TCP connection from IPv4Address(TCP, '192.168.243.1', 58438)

2014-11-19 06:26:47,549 - sc.twisted - Unhandled Error

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "twisted\python\log.pyo", line 84, in callWithLogger

  File "twisted\python\log.pyo", line 69, in callWithContext

  File "twisted\python\context.pyo", line 59, in callWithContext

  File "twisted\python\context.pyo", line 37, in callWithContext

--- <exception caught here> ---

File "twisted\internet\selectreactor.pyo", line 146, in _doReadOrWrite

  File "twisted\internet\tcp.pyo", line 455, in doRead

After some digging around so see how this service actually works (it basically is a Python script), I've noticed the Twisted framework being used is actually quite old (v8.2). I've then replaced SyslogCollectorLibrary.zip (the whole Python 2.6 environment compressed) with a version in which I've included the latest version on Twisted for Python 2.6 (v12.0). I stopped the service, replaced the zip file and restarted the service and almost immediately the flow of events stopped.

I've attached this modified zip file so other people can see if it helps if they encounter this issue.

I need to upgrade my vSenter v. 5.0 to VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2e.

The vCenter is a VM running Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 10.50.1600.

The VM is not member of Active Directory.

• What should I consider before performing the update?
• Where can I locate a detailed documentation of the upgrade process and a list of questions I'll have to answer?
• During the update the ESXi hosts will go on working as well as the guest VM.
• Should I try to power off as many VMs as I can?
• Should I do anything at the SQL side?
• Should I take a snapshot and/or make a (Veeam) backup of the vCenter VM in case anything goes wrong with the update?
• Given something goes wrong during the update, can I just revert to the snapshot?
• Is there anything else I can do to ensure a successfull update?

Regards

Marius

VM only responsible except VC and ESX. i could not connect VC as well as esx.

please let me know how to troubleshoot in that case and how to find in which esx host vm is running on?

Regards

Maniee.

This is getting to be the longest lab installation ever.

vRA CAFE appliance is no longer connecting to Postgres (it was previously)

"NOT Connected: Error connecting database on jdbc:postgresql://<HOST>:5432/vcac as user vcac: Connection refused. Check that the hostname and port are correct and that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections., Embedded DB is disabled"

vRA Postgres appliance however has the database as "Connected" when shouldn't it be disconnected there and have in the status that it is listening on all ports? How does one make it disconnect?

Attempt to log in to the vRA Console yields "Login failed. Please contact your System Administrator and report error code ixR1rJUa" since of course the appliance can't get to Postgres.

Anyone know of any way to get this back to functioning? We have no additional tenants at this point, just the default. Two appliances set up and have been working through some issues with the IaaS install so nothing done there yet.

We are trying to provision new virtual machine using clone from image/template operation. When vm is provisioned on host with less resources, and when we try to power on the VM, its migrating to new host (As DRS and HA is enabled) and customization is not happening. Sometimes customization is happening and sometimes its not happening. Can someone help if this is a known issue or if we are missing anything. During vm provisioning if i look at vcenter status (customization is actually getting pushed during 90% to 97% status).  Below is the further description of the issue.

Guest customization is not successful when the VM migrates between the hosts in a cluster. 

The issue is that the cluster in vCenter has 3 hosts out of which one of the host has less resources. When a VM provisioning with jumbo configuration (8 vCPU, 64 GB Ram & 40 GB) is triggered, if the resource allocation selects the host with least configuration then after VM provisioning is completed when the VM is powered on the VM is moved to other host with good configuration because of the DRS configuration.

we are using vcenter 5.5 version for this. Appreciate your help on this issue.

Thanks,

Ravi

I upgradedmyWindows8.1fromtheBootCamppartition, it is activated.NowwhenI create a new Boot Camp virtualmachine andproceed toactivateI havethe following error:

Error 0xc004c003

"The activation server determined the specified product key has been blocked."

On my Boot Camp partition, Windows 10 it's activated. This error activation only happens on Boot Camp VM.

PD: my Windows 8.1 license is a Retail MSDN (Dreamspark).

Installed Windows 10 EFI in Bootcamp mode successfully and upgraded+activated (upgraded from Win8.1 Pro), then did a clean install.  Still activated.  All good.

But after setting it up in Fusion and booting successfully, it broke activation.  Windows refused to re-activate in both environments after that, saying the product key was invalid or blocked.

Thankfully I was able to use WinClone to bring my activated copy back for Bootcamp/EFI mode, but now I can't use Fusion without breaking activation.

In the past I would activate Windows over the internet in Bootcamp and by the telephone method for Fusion, but the "free" upgrade thwarts that strategy.

Any advice, or is this a known issue?

I have 14 ESXI 5.5 servers running 2718055 and on only 1 of them, running Get-Stat reports NO output. Can't figure out why this is happening as all servers *should* have the same configuration.

Here is the .ps1 script I am running:

$vis = Connect-VIServer -Server <hostname> -username root -password <password>

Get-Stat -Server $vis -Start (Get-Date).AddHours(-4) -Finish (Get-Date) -stat cpu.usage.average -MaxSamples 1

Output is completely blank.

If I change my hostname to any of the other 13 servers, I get the complete stat ouput...

..snippet..

I have tried rebooting the problematic ESXi server to no avail.

Please help!

Greetings all-- Please forgive me if this seems like a silly question.  We are new to vROPS (vROM?) and I'm working on trying to build a report that will show me a report of VMs with Snapshots over "x" days.  Does anyone know if this is possible?

I've seen and built ones that show will show diskspace used of a snapshot-- but nothing were I can simply have a report that says, "hey-- you've got a snapshot older than 7 days"...

Greatly appreciate any help here in advance.

Thanks!

On cluster one of the ESXi 5.5 host went in to not responding status on vCenter and we tried to restart the management server it's stuck up in middle and also reconnect the host to vCenter but failed.

Unable to connect the host through vSphere client

In vmkernal log it's showing the below error message

ALERT:hostd detected to be non-responsive

World: 14302: VC opID hostd-6e72 maps to vmkernel opID 6e44ae8a

)WARNING: MemSched: 15647: Group snmpd: Requested memory limit 0 KB insufficient to support effective reservation 7368 KB

Dear All,

I am having some performance issues copying folders in a VM. A 50GB folder takes more that 6 hours to copy to a new folder in the same directory. All H/W components are okay. We only have 1 VM running.

I came upon this article:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2091600

We are using,  2 x HARD DRIVE, 500G, S3, 7.2K, 512E, TSH-MARS (Raid 1).

Could this be an issue??

Thanks

Ken

Hi.

we have one RHEL VM installed on Vmware  ESXi 5.5

we could see from RHEL console that there is a service running named "vami-sfcbd"  on port 5488/5489.

Our Security  team raise a query  on the usages of these ports.

Like to  know what are the dependencies  on this service to run RHEL VM. If we stop this , what will be the impact.

FYI, this VM is built by VMstudio and later deployed on Vcenter from OVA.

Thanks is advance.

I upgraded a Windows 8.1 virtual machine using the windows 10 iso method. Now my screen resolution is stuck at 1152 x 864 max.I tried reinstalling the WMWare tools but got this error:

The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. .. enter an alternate path to folder containing the installation package 'VMWare Tools64.msi" in the box below C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Temp\{EC7A4BA8-3A3E-4BC2-910E-2B2B4CD6B4E7}~setup\

Any suggestions?

Hi Team,

I have tried to install Vcenter 6 but i am getting this problem , can you pls help me to solve this out .

according to this matter do i need to remove my vcenter server on domain .

I got a serial cable connected to another device plugged into my dell esxi server.

on my win7 vm, I added a serial port using serial port on host connection

after powering up the win7 vm, I do not see any com ports available in device manager

any idea?

I have installed  ESXi5.5 in a server with Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NICs.

I have installed the last driver for this nic - elxnet-10.0.575.9-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib.

After some network activity of virtual machines, the interfaces go down, even the switch ports are up.

vmnic4  0000:05:00.00 elxnet      Down 0Mbps     Half   00:00:c9:e4:13:16 9000   Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC

vmnic5  0000:05:00.01 elxnet      Down 0Mbps     Half   00:00:c9:e4:13:18 9000   Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC

Here is the logs

2013-11-19T15:49:12.395Z cpu2:33376)WARNING: elxnet: elxnet_detectDumpUe:238: 0000:005:00.0: UE Detected!!

2013-11-19T15:49:12.396Z cpu2:33376)elxnet: elxnet_detectDumpUe:249: 0000:005:00.0: Forcing Link Down as Unrecoverable Error detected in chip/fw.

2013-11-19T15:49:12.396Z cpu2:33376)WARNING: elxnet: elxnet_detectDumpUe:257: 0000:005:00.0: UE lo: MPU bit set

2013-11-19T15:49:12.892Z cpu5:33377)WARNING: elxnet: elxnet_detectDumpUe:238: 0000:005:00.1: UE Detected!!

2013-11-19T15:49:12.892Z cpu5:33377)elxnet: elxnet_detectDumpUe:249: 0000:005:00.1: Forcing Link Down as Unrecoverable Error detected in chip/fw.

2013-11-19T15:49:12.892Z cpu5:33377)WARNING: elxnet: elxnet_detectDumpUe:257: 0000:005:00.1: UE lo: MPU bit set

Anyone have a similiar trouble?