We just purchased and installed a new R820 that has four 10Gbps adapters and two 1Gbps adapters. We have a three host cluster and an Equallogic iSCSI SAN. We have configured three vSwitches, one for management (two 1Gbps adapters), one for iSCSI / vMotion, and one for VM traffic. We added this new R820 in as the fourth host and configured it identically as the other three including on the physical switch side. When we move VM's to it the vMotion takes way longer than normal and network connectivity with the VM is disrupted. Once the migration is complete the VM is pingable but we are getting 1 to 2 ms ping times instead of less than 1 ms which is the behavior on all the other hosts. We have stared at the configuration for a couple of days now and cannot see any difference in configuration with the first three hosts. We have checked power management settings in the BIOS. We have quadruple checked the physical switch side of things. We have tried assigned one adapter to each vSwitch and then switching which physical adapter is assigned to see if it was a particular adapter. Running out of ideas.

Hi,

I just face a event log as below:

Warning message from localhost.localdomain:

The guest OS has reported an error during

quiescing. The error code was: 5 The error

message was: 'VssSyncStart' operation failed:

IDispatch error #8449 (0x80042301)

warning

it caused the Acronis Backup software fail to backup

In Communities information, it seem relate to disk space and i/o speed.

For disk space, we should have enough disk space for OS.

Also i trust it is not heavy duty when backup, i/o should be enough

In knowledge base 1018194, resolution is reboot the virtual machine.

is it reboot the acronis appliance or our production os?

Any method to prevent the same?

Existing our version is EXSi 5.1 built 799733.

Thank you

Rgds,

Sun

Having some random disconnects for some of our VDI zero clients.  We have a small environment that consists of all Wyse PS25 zero clients connecting over WAN links.  Randomly, different users are reporting that they will be working on their client/VM or the client/VM is sitting idle and they will receive a message that their session has been disconnected. The user is forced to log back in all the way through Horizon View and then Windows. The VMware logs on the ViewConnect server states that the client has been disconnected, but does not offer any further details. If I open the Windows event viewer for the VM that was disconnected, every instance of this type of disconnect has the following events in the Windows Application Event Log. The source for all the events is listed as VMware Tools and the Windows Event ID is 1000.

[ warning] [vmusr:hgfsd] Setting HGFS server capability failed!

[ warning]

[vmusr:vmtoolsd] Error sending capability unity: (null)

[ warning] [vmusr:vmtoolsd] Error sending capability unity.taskbar: (null)

[ warning] [vmusr:vmtoolsd] Error sending new-style capabilities: (null)

I have tried to uninstall / reinstall VMware Tools on the VM that gets disconnected, but it does not seem to help. I don't think its the Wyse Client or Horizon View, but maybe the VM machine itself?? Has anyone else ran into this issue?

After setting up a vCO 5.5 appliance and integrating with VMWare vCenter 5.5 (all working correctly) - I have added the Powershell plugin so that Powershell scripts can be used within vCO (would be much easier if this was native functionality as PowerCLI is generally the default scripting language used to manage vCenter).

After the installation of the plugin and setup the krb5.conf file on the vCO appliance for kerberos authentication, I am now running the Add Powershell Host workflow using the however am receiving the below output:

Input:

Name: ServerName

Host: FQDN

Port: 5985

Remote Type: WinRM

Transport Protocol: http

Authentication: Kerberos

Session Mode: Shared Session

Username: username@domain.com

Error:

send message on http://servername.domain.win:5985/wsman error , document in <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">

  <env:Header>

    <a:To xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing">http://utvisrm001.uatdetnsw.win:5985/wsman</a:To>

    <a:ReplyTo xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing">

      <a:Address mustUnderstand="true">http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing/role/anonymous</a:Address>

    </a:ReplyTo>

    <w:MaxEnvelopeSize xmlns:w="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd" mustUnderstand="true">153600</w:MaxEnvelopeSize>

    <a:MessageID xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing">uuid:5464C7BC-6C13-47D3-8830-BDB4D887F7F1</a:MessageID>

    <w:Locale xmlns:w="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd" mustUnderstand="false" xml:lang="en-US"/>

    <p:DataLocale xmlns:p="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd" mustUnderstand="false" xml:lang="en-US"/>

    <w:OperationTimeout xmlns:w="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd">PT180.000S</w:OperationTimeout>

    <a:Action xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing" mustUnderstand="true">http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/transfer/Create</a:Action>

    <w:ResourceURI xmlns:w="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd" mustUnderstand="true">http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/windows/shell/cmd</w:ResourceURI>

    <w:OptionSet xmlns:w="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd">

      <w:Option Name="WINRS_NOPROFILE">FALSE</w:Option>

      <w:Option Name="WINRS_CODEPAGE">437</w:Option>

    </w:OptionSet>

  </env:Header>

  <env:Body>

    <rsp:Shell xmlns:rsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/windows/shell">

      <rsp:InputStreams>stdin</rsp:InputStreams>

      <rsp:OutputStreams>stdout stderr</rsp:OutputStreams>

    </rsp:Shell>

  </env:Body>

</env:Envelope>

, document out [EMPTY], (Dynamic Script Module name : addPowerShellHost#16)

Please note that I am able to successfully connect to the winrm server using the 'winrm identify' command from another machine successfully.

I have tested connecting both to a Windows Server 2012 (running powershell 4 - which I found an article is not supported) and also a Windows Server 2008 R2 server (running Powershell 2.0) - both receive the above error.

From what I can see the Kerberos authentication is working, because if I enter an incorrect user or password I receive a different error to the above.

Unauthorized Access. Authentication mechanism requested by the client may not be supported by the server. (Dynamic Script Module name : addPowerShellHost#16)

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Hi,

     I tried removing a datastore which our SAN folks had removed the LUN from prematurely, and I'm getting the "Not a known device" message.  Is there any way to remove the reference of the datastore without that LUN being reattached (which, in this case, is not possible)?

     Thanks!

          NYSteve

When I install the replication server through SRM things work fine until I reboot the appliance. After that I get the error TCP connection to server at 127.0.0.1:8123 failed.

The detail is:

VRM Server generic error. Please check the documentation for any troubleshooting information. The detailed exception is: 'org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connection to https://127.0.0.1:8123 refused'.

All the settings in the web UI look correct, networking and everything else works great until the appliance is rebooted. I've saved and verified all the configs. I can even login to the appliance as root and ping the vcenter. I read somewhere that adding the vcenter to the hosts file helps but that didn't help either.

Any ideas?

I have been fighting a problem for a couple of days now that doesnt make any sense.  All of the clocks on my blades are showing 4/7/2014 as the date.  If I override ntp and set it to 4/29/2014, it will stay there for about a minute or so and will then revert 4/7/2014.  I have tried turning off the NTP client on a particular blade with the same result.  I have changed the NTP server on another blade and had the same problem.  If I enable SSH and ESXi shell, each blade reports the correct date and time but a client session on the blade reports 4/7/2014 just like the vSphere client GUI shows.

I have a case open with Cisco TAC (since we are running the Cisco UCS chassis, that is where the support is handled from).  They looked at it and couldnt find a problem on the hardware.  They have opened a case with VMware and I am waiting to hear back from them at this point.

Anyone seen this problem ?

Hi.

I have around 10 servers (VM-Ware images in Virtual Hardware Version 4) virtualized on
an old VM-Ware platform (VM-Ware Server 2.0.2).

I need to move the servers (Images) to a new VM-Ware server on a MS WS 2012 Server. Which
VM-Ware solution can solve my problem?,  and can it host the old server images?

Best Regards

Claus Heegaard Poulsen, e-Boks.dk

I am currently having a strange issue with a 5.1.0 Host running build 799733.

Every now and then we have our vSwitch1 that is setup via NIC Teaming with vmnic1&2 stop sending and recieving data all together. VM's stay up and working, but have no network connectivity.

Our setup is;

Management

vSwitch0

vmnic0

Trunk Networks

vSwitch1

vmnic2

vmnic1

When this happens, the way I have been resolving the issue is to SSH to the host. (( We can do this, as  the Management NIC is not affected )) I then need to manually bounce the nics using the following commands;

esxcli network nic down -n vmnic1
esxcli network nic down -n vmnic2
esxcli network nic up -n vmnic1
esxcli network nic up -n vmnic2

My question is-
Has anyone else seen this type of behavior before? Host is running on a Dell PE R720? I am aware that the build is rather old and outdated. I am havign trouble trying to find out if this is/was a bug that was addressed in any of the updates.

Follow up question.
If I was to patch & bring this host up to date - what file would I need to obtain?
When I go to look at the available patches for 5.1.0 I see the most recent is ESXi510-201404001 Will this guy bring me up to date with the update02 as well? Or do I need to apply the update-from-esxi5.1-5.1_update02 first?

Thanks for your assistance in advance.

Mark K~

Hello,

I've set up a Windows 7 host with VMware Workstation 10.  I'm running 3 guests: 2 Linux and 1 Windows XP.  These guests are tied together with LAN segments.  One of the Linux hosts (call it "A") brudges 1 network interface to a USB-Ethernet adapter attached to the host.

The other Linux guest (call it "B") bridges 4 network interfaces to the Win 7 host.  I do this by setting up VLANs on B (eth2.29, eth2.30, eth2.60, eth2.220) and bridging eth2 to the built-in interface on the Win 7 host.  I had to create a 'MonitorMode' registry entry (http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-005897.htm) on the Win 7 host in order to pass tagged frames between the guest and the outside world (Win 7 strips incoming tags by default).  The built-in NIC on the Win 7 host is connected to a Cisco switch as an 802.1Q trunk.  Other hosts are connected to the switch via these VLANs carried on the trunk.  Apps on these hosts communicate with the guests on the Win 7 host on the applicable VLAN.

This works fine until I try to pass frames through the VMnet bridge that have an MTU greater than 1496.  Such frames are dropped whehter they are inbound or outbound.  I suspect that the reason for this is that a normally acceptable 1500 byte frame is, when tagged, 1504 bytes and so is dropped by the VMNet bridge.  I tried adjusting the MTU on the host NIC and on the guest eth2 to both 1504 and 1496.  No effect, as I expected.  Packet captures on either side of the vmnet bridge show these large MTU frames are dropped at the bridge.

I have control over some of the external systems (and of course on all the guests) and I have adjusted the MTU on those systems to 1496 bytes.  This works fine for those systems.  But, for traffic originating from the external hosts that I cannot modify, 1500 (1504 with tag) frames are dropped at the vmnet bridge.

I've read that I need jumbo frames support in order for this to work.  I found documentation that says jumbo frames are not supported in Workstation 7.  I assume that has not changed in WS 10.

I've tried an alternative approach:  Creating VLANs on the Win 7 host using the Intel PROset tool, removing the eth2 VLANs from the Linux guest and instead creating multiple virtual NICs (eth2, 3, 4, 5) and bridging each virtual NIC to a Win 7 host VLAN.  Although the VMWare network editor lets me create these bridges, I can't pass any traffic through them regardless of the MTU.

So, on to my questions:

1) Are jumbo frames supported in Workstation 10?  If so, how do I enable them?

2) Should I be able to bridge from a guest virtual NIC to a host VLAN interface?

3) Is there another way to do this?

Thanks and regards,

Steve

Hello Gurus,

Offlate i noticed an event log entry in vSphere client twice in short span of less than a day related to local storage as follows:

Lost access to volume

4f4c8bc0-4d13eab8-c8fc-5cf3fc09c3fa (vms-1)

due to connectivity issues. Recovery attempt is in

progress and outcome will be reported shortly.

info

8/18/2013 2:01:22 AM

vms-1

and immediately

Successfully restored access to volume 4f4c8bc0-

4d13eab8-c8fc-5cf3fc09c3fa (vms-1) following

connectivity issues.

info

8/18/2013 2:01:22 AM

nesxi1.x.x

The event details itself recommends "Ask VMware" link leads to VMware KB: Host Connectivity Degraded

and

this VMware KB: Host Connectivity Restored

As per the KB VMware is referring to SAN LUN, but in our case its the local storage, kindly shed some info as to why the local storage would lost its connectivity.

Note: all the local disk are on RAID-10.

thanks

I moved to 5.72 Foundation with vcenter 5.5 (vc appliance) both as clean installs. I'm not seeing the integration in VC that I had with vc 5.1 with prior version of vCOPs. Previously I was able to go to the MONITOR tab of an object and get a HEALTH tab showing vCOPs data. Now all I have is a vCOPs icon in the Home view. I select this and have to authenticate to vCOPs.

In vCOPs Administration my status is shown as connected and registered with vcenter with valid domain\account. Foundation does not require a license key to my knowledge. Oh and I'm using the 5.5 vc web client. I've never seen good integration with the fat client.

Any thoughts?

I know how to check if a HP Server make/model is compatible with versions of ESXi but any idea on Firmware levels of a server against ESXi?

Application Director appears to be modifying vmxnet3 to e1000 when VMs are deployed into a vCloud Director Cloud Provider. I'm using AppD 5.2 deploying a hardware version 10 VM (Windows Server 2012 R2), with a vmxnet3 adapter configured in template.

Is there any way to specify which NIC type to use to override the default of e1000? Clearly modifying the template does not work (vmxnet3 is replaced at provisioning time!), and reconfiguration after provisioning is more difficult, and a highly manual operation.

Thanks for your help,

I am trying to add a Windows Server 2012 PS host to vCO 5.1.1 appliance. I am using domain account. All WinRM and Kerberos settings are done. WinRM identify works fine with domain credentials.

But I am getting this error message. Any help on this ?

Error:

send message on http://servername.domain.win:5985/wsman error , document in <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">

  <env:Header>

    <a:To xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing">http://utvisrm001.uatdetnsw.win:5985/wsman</a:To>

    <a:ReplyTo xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing">

      <a:Address mustUnderstand="true">http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing/role/anonymous</a:Address>

    </a:ReplyTo>

    <w:MaxEnvelopeSize xmlns:w="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd" mustUnderstand="true">153600</w:MaxEnvelopeSize>

    <a:MessageID xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing">uuid:5464C7BC-6C13-47D3-8830-BDB4D887F7F1</a:MessageID>

    <w:Locale xmlns:w="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd" mustUnderstand="false" xml:lang="en-US"/>

    <p:DataLocale xmlns:p="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd" mustUnderstand="false" xml:lang="en-US"/>

    <w:OperationTimeout xmlns:w="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd">PT180.000S</w:OperationTimeout>

    <a:Action xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing" mustUnderstand="true">http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/transfer/Create</a:Action>

    <w:ResourceURI xmlns:w="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd" mustUnderstand="true">http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/windows/shell/cmd</w:ResourceURI>

    <w:OptionSet xmlns:w="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd">

      <w:Option Name="WINRS_NOPROFILE">FALSE</w:Option>

      <w:Option Name="WINRS_CODEPAGE">437</w:Option>

    </w:OptionSet>

  </env:Header>

  <env:Body>

    <rsp:Shell xmlns:rsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/windows/shell">

      <rsp:InputStreams>stdin</rsp:InputStreams>

      <rsp:OutputStreams>stdout stderr</rsp:OutputStreams>

    </rsp:Shell>

  </env:Body>

</env:Envelope>

, document out [EMPTY], (Dynamic Script Module name : addPowerShellHost#16)

Olá amigos, pretendo começar o curso oficial para VCP 5.5, é online e começa agora no dia 24/05 por esta empresa www.telecon.com.br, mas gostaria de saber quem aqui já fez o curso por este site e se vale mesmo a pena.

Obrigado !

Hi I'm working on a thin-app project
the original version of the application has a an executable file and a couple of folders containing dll files and some folders containing .bmp files and a folder for extra languages as well
these .bmp files are used for applications extra themes.

I successfully portablized my application and it works normally BUT

I discovered that when I PLACE AND LAUNCH my app from the ROOT of any drive those extra themes and languages DO NOT load in my app !

in fact when I launch the app from the root of any drive the only thing loaded in app memory is the primary executable file itself !!!
Is this my fault in capturing the project or what ? cause all of these folders (containing languages and .bmp files) have the "writecopy" attribute.
I've tried changing writecopy in "##Attributes.ini" file to "merged" and "Full" status but it not worked.

I'm using VMware ThinApp v4.7.2.
Thanks in advance...

hello all

will there be support for hyperic for Weblogic 12c?

thanks

Hello everybody,

We have a strange problem since we migrated some hosts in ESX 5.5...

On our cluster, 14 hosts are in 5.5 and 2 are still in 5.1 (we stopped the migration when we stumbled on this problem... Here it is :

Our biggests vm (> 500 Gb provisionned) are reporting incorrect "Used Storage" (and "Not-Shared Storage btw). These vms are in thin provisionning.

The datastores they are located in are all in VMFS 5.54 (this problem is on all our datastores, not just only one)

If we perform a vmotion to an ESX 5.1 host, this problem disappear, but it's back with a vmotion back to 5.5...

Our storage is provided by 2 datacore hosts, San-Symphony V 9.0 PSP3.

I attached 2 screenshots showing my problem...

anybody here already experienced this problem ?

Thanks, and best wishes to you all,

V-

Ok, im a little confised.

I used to use consolidated backup a few years back which was great for the occasions VM backup to SMB and then on to some removable media.

I thought id look at VDP but it appears its limitations are that it can only backup to the appliance its self (or another LUN). so in a small business environment where only one SAN is present. whats the point of it? I'm simply backing up to production SAN.

Sure i understand i can restore if something happens software wise but if my SAN fails I'm screwed.

Just wondering what people do to mitigate this without purchasing more expensive backup software.

Thanks