Hi,

Our old vCenter server (v5.5) was on a VM and unfortunately that was damaged beyond salvage, and is now gone. The old vCentre 5.5 server controlled 3 ESXi 5.5 hosts, all with 5.5 licences.

We have now built a new vCentre server (v 6.0) with the same IP address as the old vCentre 5.5 (again as a VM).

When trying to add a host (one of the 3 existing 5.5 hosts) to the new vCentre 6, we get these two warnings:

• The selected license is part of the inventory of another vCenter Server system. Assigning this license will make it part of the inventories of multiple vCenter Server systems resulting in a non-compliant licensing configuration.
• To restore the compliance, remove the license from its original vCenter Server system after you complete this wizard.

We also get this message:

• Cannot decode the licensed features on the host before it is added to vCenter Server. You might be unable to assign the selected license, because of unsupported features in use or some features might become unavailable after you assign the license.

Question: should I proceed to add the existing 5.5 hosts and their 5.5 licences to the new vCentre 6 server, or is that not advisable?

Basically we’re stuck at the point where we’re not sure whether to add the 3 existing 5.5 hosts for fear of losing data by invalidating the licences somehow – please advise!

Many thanks!

I'm trying to P2V an old 2003 SP2 server with 4gb of ram. We have no other option than to P2V for various reasons...

The server is SQL and has the /3gb option set in the boot.ini, it physically has 4gb of ram.

I'm hitting this bug VMware KB: VMware vCenter Converter fails at 98% with the error: unable to create which ok I can take the option out but can I put it back after the P2V?

It links to another article VMware KB: Running Microsoft Windows 2003 32-bit guest operating systems with the /3GB switch in boot.ini results in… but is for ESX 4 and we're on 5.5.

Can I just add the option back and no more need for the fix or is there another way to give the memory back after the P2V, apparently it already struggles with the amount of ram available.

Hello,

I've been trying to run this snapshot powercli script and it has been working, but recently stopped.  We get the email, but no body in the email.

##These are the properties assigned to the table via the ConvertTo-HTML cmdlet

$tableProperties = "<style>"

$tableProperties = $tableProperties + "TABLE{border-width: 1px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;}"

$tableProperties = $tableProperties + "TH{border-width: 1px;padding: 5px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;}"

$tableProperties = $tableProperties + "TD{text-align:center;border-width: 1px;padding: 5px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;}"

$tableProperties = $tableProperties + "</style>"

##The script automatically connects to the server if needed. The $server variable needs to

#be changed if the server name changes. (Change <yourServerName> to the name of your

#vSphere server!)

$server = "svr-vcenter-01"

If (!(connect-viserver $server -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).IsConnected)

{

Write-Host "Connecting to server:" $server

connect-viserver $server -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ErrorVariable err

If($err)

{

Write-Host "Error in connecting to server, please check server name." -ForegroundColor Red

break

}

Write-Host "   Complete" -ForegroundColor Green

}

##Main##

Write-Host "Looking for snapshots"

$date = get-date

$datefile = get-date -uformat '%d-%m-%Y-%H%M%S'

$filename = "C:\vmware\powercli\reports\VMwareSnapshots_" + $datefile + ".htm"

##Get VM's, look for snapshots on those VM's. This takes a while because the get-vm cmdlet

#is not quick.

$ss = Get-vm | Get-Snapshot

Write-Host "   Complete" -ForegroundColor Green

Write-Host "Generating snapshot report"

$ss | Select-Object vm, name, description, created | ConvertTo-HTML -head $tableProperties -body "<th><font style = `"color:#000000`"><big><b>VMware Snapshots</b></big></font></th>"  | Out-File $filename

Write-Host "   Complete" -ForegroundColor Green

Write-Host "Your snapshot report has been saved to:" $filename

##Send email with generated report attached##

Write-Host "Sending email with report:" $filename + "attached"

Send-Mailmessage -from "vmware-reports <vmware-snap-reports@exterionmedia.co.uk>" -to "test <test@mycomapnay.co.uk>" -subject "Virtual Machines with snasphots" -body "VMware report attached: VMs with snapshots" -Attachment $filename -priority High -dno onSuccess, onFailure -smtpServer smtp.test.local

if I run in powercli  the error is:

Send-MailMessage : Error in processing. The server response was: 4.7.0 Temporary server error. Please try again later. PRX4 At C:\VMware\powercli\get-snapshot-script.ps1:46 char:17

This 46:char:17 relates to just before -from:

Send-Mailmessage (here)-from

The version of PowerCLI on the view connection servers only have view related cmdlets, Is there a reason a full version of PowerCLI is not installed by default? I've looked around and have not been able to find anything on this... could we install the latest PoweCLI 6 Release 2 on our connection servers and it not effect the current view snappin?

HI all

I wonder if someone could assist. Lot of out VM's have large VMDKs and VSWPs. Is there a way to shrink these or lower the size of them

going further is there something we can do to prevent this from happening when creating a new VMs

thanks in Advance

Hi,

I have installed the trial for vm workstation pro 12 on a lenovo desktop with windows 7 enterprise.

This device has a working parallel port that we use for parallel license dongle.

However, after I added the parallel port to the vm that I installed (also win 7 enterprise), when starting it says:

"Cannot connect the virtual device parallel0 because no corresponding device is available on the host."

Please assist since this is stopping us from successfully testing and purchasing the software.

Thanks.

Hi, I got a problem with ussing Shared Virtual Disk in Win 7 64 Virtual Machine. (Esxi 6.0)

- I have a SSD storage (450Gb), and i creat 2 VM ussing Win 7 64 on it. (40Gb for 2 VM , and ~400Gb not ussing)

- I creat a virtual disk (A disk) with Thick Provision Eager Zeroed option (400Gb). Set SCSI controller to "Virtual" in both VM.

- Add "A disk" to VM 1, power on VM1 and Format "A disk" as "D:" volume (NTFS).

- Add "A disk" to VM2, power on VM2 and i see "A disk" as "D:" too. That's ok, im making D Volume as a share Folder where both VM can read and write so fast, no need through Ethenet.

- BUT, i got a proplem here, when i make a new Folder("Test Folder") in D volume in VM1 , it not show in VM2 (the same when i try with VM2) , but when i restart VM2 , i see "Test Folder" here.

- i tried to Set SCSI controler to Physic, add SCSI(x:y) = multi writer .... but it not work correctly. (I hope it work like a share volume in windows).

Please,give me any help. Thanks so muchhhh. I tried it in 1 week, seem its too difficult for me.

Hello, we have about 100 VMs replication using SRM and VR 5.1. Is there a way to track how much changes are being replicated daily per VM basis? The SRM UI shows the last sync size but I'm looking for aggregated daily transfer amount. Any help appreciated.

Hi,

I've been using "vmrun" for some time now to launch my VM non-interactively using VMware Player under the non-commercial license.  I normally launch my VM with:

vmrun start my-vm.vmx nogui

I recently upgraded to VMware Workstation Player 12.0.1 and VIX 1.15.1.  Now when I try to start it using VIX 1.15.1, I get the following error output:

Error: The operation was cancelled.

When I look in the VMware log, I see the following text:

2015-11-05T17:39:45.687Z| vmx| I125: [msg.License.no_valid_license_see_website] Cannot find a license key to unlock this version of VMware Workstation.
2015-11-05T17:39:45.687Z| vmx| I125+ Go to our web site at "http://vmware.com/info?id=27&build=3160714" to obtain a valid license key.
2015-11-05T17:39:45.687Z| vmx| I125: ----------------------------------------
2015-11-05T17:39:45.696Z| vmx| I125: LICENSE no valid one found
2015-11-05T17:39:45.696Z| vmx| I125: Module 'License' power on failed.

However, I have already completed the license dialog box shown when VMware Player was first launched, and provided my email address.  Launching VMware Player no longer how the license dialog and the application operates fine.

If I execute the "vmrun" command with the "gui" argument instead, it starts VMware Player propertly and my VM runs fine.   However, I don't *want* the VMware Player interface to appear - the VM is a server VM.

Is this change intentional or a bug?

TIA,

James Bray

After upgrading from ESXi 5.5 Update 2 to Update 3, deleting snapshot randomly crashed virtual machines.  Updating VMware tools didn't help.  No crashing problems before with snapshots on the same server for the last ~3 years.  Problem started with Update 3.

So far, this has happened with Windows XP, 2003, 2008R2 OS with updated VMware Tools.

Here is an example of one of the systems that just crashed right after a snapshot delete:

2015-09-20T07:02:51.386Z| vcpu-0| I120: SnapshotVMXConsolidateOnlineCB: nextState = 4 uid 0

2015-09-20T07:02:51.386Z| vcpu-0| I120: Closing disk scsi0:0

2015-09-20T07:02:51.388Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Shutting down change tracking for untracked fid 4858240.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.388Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Successfully disconnected CBT node.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.394Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002-delta.vmdk" : closed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.394Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000001-delta.vmdk" : closed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.394Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-flat.vmdk" : closed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.395Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002-delta.vmdk" : open successful (24) size = 16912384, hd = 1909127. Type 8

2015-09-20T07:02:51.395Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "es-1.company.local-000002-delta.vmdk" (0x18)

2015-09-20T07:02:51.395Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LINK  : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002.vmdk' (0x18): vmfsSparse, 134217728 sectors / 64 GB.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.395Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain: numLinks = 1, numSubChains = 1

2015-09-20T07:02:51.395Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(0) fid = 1909127, extentType = 0

2015-09-20T07:02:51.396Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Resuming change tracking.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.396Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Initializing ESX kernel change tracking for fid 1909127.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.396Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Successfuly created cbt node 16218d-cbt.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.396Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Opening cbt node /vmfs/devices/cbt/16218d-cbt

2015-09-20T07:02:51.397Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Opened "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002.vmdk" (flags 0x18, type vmfsSparse).

2015-09-20T07:02:51.397Z| vcpu-0| I120: SnapshotVMXNeedConsolidateIteration: Size of helper disk '/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002.vmdk' = 17825792 bytes, approx. time required for consolidating helper disk = 0.447157 sec.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.398Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Shutting down change tracking for untracked fid 1909127.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.398Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Successfully disconnected CBT node.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.406Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002-delta.vmdk" : closed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.406Z| vcpu-0| I120: SnapshotVMXNeedConsolidateIteration: Another iteration of helper branch is not needed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.407Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002-delta.vmdk" : open successful (17) size = 16912384, hd = 0. Type 8

2015-09-20T07:02:51.407Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Resuming change tracking.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.414Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002-delta.vmdk" : closed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.414Z| vcpu-0| A115: ConfigDB: Setting displayName = "es-1.company.local"

2015-09-20T07:02:51.422Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000001-delta.vmdk" : open successful (1041) size = 16912384, hd = 0. Type 8

2015-09-20T07:02:51.422Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Resuming change tracking.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.433Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000001-delta.vmdk" : closed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.450Z| vcpu-0| I120: SnapshotVMXConsolidateOnlineCB: nextState = 1 uid 0

2015-09-20T07:02:51.450Z| vcpu-0| I120: Closing all the disks of the VM.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.450Z| vcpu-0| I120: Closing disk scsi0:1

2015-09-20T07:02:51.453Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Shutting down change tracking for untracked fid 1646984.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.453Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Successfully disconnected CBT node.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.483Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local_1-000001-delta.vmdk" : closed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.483Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local_1-flat.vmdk" : closed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.483Z| vcpu-0| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotCombineDisks: Consolidating from '/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002.vmdk' to '/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local.vmdk'.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.485Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-flat.vmdk" : open successful (24) size = 68719476736, hd = 1581449. Type 3

2015-09-20T07:02:51.485Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "es-1.company.local-flat.vmdk" (0x18)

2015-09-20T07:02:51.485Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LINK  : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local.vmdk' (0x18): vmfs, 134217728 sectors / 64 GB.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.485Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Resuming change tracking.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.485Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Initializing ESX kernel change tracking for fid 1581449.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.485Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Successfuly created cbt node 182189-cbt.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.485Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Opening cbt node /vmfs/devices/cbt/182189-cbt

2015-09-20T07:02:51.486Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Opened "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local.vmdk" (flags 0x18, type vmfs).

2015-09-20T07:02:51.487Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002-delta.vmdk" : open successful (24) size = 16912384, hd = 1843596. Type 8

2015-09-20T07:02:51.487Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "es-1.company.local-000002-delta.vmdk" (0x18)

2015-09-20T07:02:51.487Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LINK  : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002.vmdk' (0x18): vmfsSparse, 134217728 sectors / 64 GB.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.487Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain: numLinks = 1, numSubChains = 1

2015-09-20T07:02:51.487Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(0) fid = 1843596, extentType = 0

2015-09-20T07:02:51.488Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Resuming change tracking.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.488Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Initializing ESX kernel change tracking for fid 1843596.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.488Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Successfuly created cbt node 1b218d-cbt.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.488Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Opening cbt node /vmfs/devices/cbt/1b218d-cbt

2015-09-20T07:02:51.488Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Opened "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002.vmdk" (flags 0x18, type vmfsSparse).

2015-09-20T07:02:51.490Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Shutting down change tracking for untracked fid 1843596.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.490Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Successfully disconnected CBT node.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.492Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Shutting down change tracking for untracked fid 1581449.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.492Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Successfully disconnected CBT node.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.500Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain: numLinks = 2, numSubChains = 1

2015-09-20T07:02:51.500Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(0) fid = 1581449, extentType = 2

2015-09-20T07:02:51.500Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(1) fid = 1843596, extentType = 0

2015-09-20T07:02:51.500Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Initializing ESX kernel change tracking for fid 1843596.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.500Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Successfuly created cbt node 1d218d-cbt.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.500Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Opening cbt node /vmfs/devices/cbt/1d218d-cbt

2015-09-20T07:02:51.732Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Upward Combine 2 links at 0. Need 0 MB of free space (4680409 MB available)

2015-09-20T07:02:51.736Z| vcpu-0| I120: DDB: "longContentID" = "aa8be979a63829fd10c5231db538b5bf" (was "523aed1c88135605b76574b6933eceb3")

2015-09-20T07:02:51.777Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CTK   : End Combine

2015-09-20T07:02:51.783Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CTK   : Unlinked /vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-ctk.vmdk, tmp file: /vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-ctk.vmdk-tmp

2015-09-20T07:02:51.849Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CTK   : resuming /vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-ctk.vmdk-tmp

2015-09-20T07:02:51.850Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CTK   : Renaming: /vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-ctk.vmdk-tmp -> /vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-ctk.vmdk

2015-09-20T07:02:51.851Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CTK   : Attempting unlink of /vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-ctk.vmdk-tmp

2015-09-20T07:02:51.853Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Shutting down change tracking for untracked fid 1843596.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.853Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT   : Successfully disconnected CBT node.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.861Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002-delta.vmdk" : closed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.861Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-flat.vmdk" : closed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.861Z| vcpu-0| A115: ConfigDB: Setting displayName = "es-1.company.local"

2015-09-20T07:02:51.862Z| vcpu-0| A115: ConfigDB: Setting scsi0:0.fileName = "es-1.company.local.vmdk"

2015-09-20T07:02:51.875Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002-delta.vmdk" : open successful (1041) size = 16912384, hd = 0. Type 8

2015-09-20T07:02:51.875Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Resuming change tracking.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.885Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/es-1.company.local-000002-delta.vmdk" : closed.

2015-09-20T07:02:51.890Z| vcpu-0| A115: ConfigDB: Setting displayName = "es-1.company.local"

2015-09-20T07:02:51.897Z| vcpu-0| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotDiskTreeFind: Detected node change from 'scsi0:0' to ''.

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| W110: Caught signal 11 -- tid 35868 (addr 98)

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: rip 0x18e79357 rsp 0x3fffb14f910 rbp 0x3fffb14fa00

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: rax 0x3236cc40 rbx 0x32356140 rcx 0x50 rdx 0x32356140 rsi 0x3236cc40 rdi 0x325ec4a0

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120:         r8 0x3fffb14f66b r9 0x6f72662065676e61 r10 0x0 r11 0x0 r12 0x3236cc40 r13 0x325ec4a0 r14 0x325e58b0 r15 0x0

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 3FFFB14F910 : 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000010

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 3FFFB14F920 : 0x000003fffb14f9c0 0x0000000000000000

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 3FFFB14F930 : 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 3FFFB14F940 : 0x0000000000000000 0x00000000325a9ea0

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 3FFFB14F950 : 0x000003ff00000000 0x0000000018c66278

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 3FFFB14F960 : 0x000003fffb14f9a8 0x000003fffb14f9d8

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 3FFFB14F970 : 0x00000000325e58b0 0x0000000032596930

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 3FFFB14F980 : 0x000003fffb14f9c0 0x0000000018c66534

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace:

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace[0] 000003fffb14f430 rip=0000000018e934fe rbx=0000000018e92cd0 rbp=000003fffb14f450 r12=0000000000000000 r13=000003fffb150680 r14=000003fffb14f990 r15=000000000000000b

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace[1] 000003fffb14f460 rip=000000001899770c rbx=000000000000000b rbp=000003fffb14f630 r12=0000000000000003 r13=000003fffb150680 r14=000003fffb14f990 r15=000000000000000b

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace[2] 000003fffb14f640 rip=000000000036c00f rbx=0000000032356140 rbp=000003fffb14f880 r12=000003fffb14f6c0 r13=00000000325ec4a0 r14=00000000325e58b0 r15=0000000000000000

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SymBacktrace[0] 000003fffb14f430 rip=0000000018e934fe in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000001873f000

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SymBacktrace[1] 000003fffb14f460 rip=000000001899770c in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000001873f000

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: SymBacktrace[2] 000003fffb14f640 rip=000000000036c00f

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+0.000]| vcpu-0| I120: Unexpected signal: 11.

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.088]| vcpu-0| W110: A core file is available in "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/vmx-zdump.000"

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.088]| vcpu-0| W110: Writing monitor corefile "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/vmmcores.gz"

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.093]| vcpu-0| I120: Counting amount of anonymous memory

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.106]| vcpu-0| I120: Total Count of Anon Pages and CR3 pages 20226

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.113]| vcpu-0| W110: Dumping core for vcpu-0

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.113]| vcpu-0| I120: CoreDump: dumping core with superuser privileges

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.113]| vcpu-0| I120: VMK Stack for vcpu 0 is at 0x4123af755000

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.113]| vcpu-0| I120: Beginning monitor coredump

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.949]| vcpu-0| I120: End monitor coredump

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.949]| vcpu-0| W110: Dumping core for vcpu-1

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.949]| vcpu-0| I120: CoreDump: dumping core with superuser privileges

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.950]| vcpu-0| I120: VMK Stack for vcpu 1 is at 0x4123afc15000

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+3.950]| vcpu-0| I120: Beginning monitor coredump

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+4.756]| vcpu-0| I120: End monitor coredump

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+4.756]| vcpu-0| W110: Dumping extended monitor data

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.169]| vcpu-0| I120: CoreDump: ei->size 133267456 : len = 133267456

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.172]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace:

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.172]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace[0] 000003fffb14ef30 rip=0000000018e934fe rbx=0000000018e92cd0 rbp=000003fffb14ef50 r12=0000000000000000 r13=000003fffb150680 r14=000003fffb14f990 r15=000000000000000b

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.172]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace[1] 000003fffb14ef60 rip=00000000188b57c5 rbx=00000000198a98a8 rbp=000003fffb14f450 r12=0000000000000001 r13=000003fffb150680 r14=000003fffb14f990 r15=000000000000000b

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.172]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace[2] 000003fffb14f460 rip=0000000018997766 rbx=000000000000000b rbp=000003fffb14f630 r12=0000000000000003 r13=000003fffb150680 r14=000003fffb14f990 r15=000000000000000b

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.172]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace[3] 000003fffb14f640 rip=000000000036c00f rbx=0000000032356140 rbp=000003fffb14f880 r12=000003fffb14f6c0 r13=00000000325ec4a0 r14=00000000325e58b0 r15=0000000000000000

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.172]| vcpu-0| I120: SymBacktrace[0] 000003fffb14ef30 rip=0000000018e934fe in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000001873f000

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120: SymBacktrace[1] 000003fffb14ef60 rip=00000000188b57c5 in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000001873f000

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120: SymBacktrace[2] 000003fffb14f460 rip=0000000018997766 in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000001873f000

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120: SymBacktrace[3] 000003fffb14f640 rip=000000000036c00f

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120: Msg_Post: Error

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120: [msg.log.error.unrecoverable] VMware ESX unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120+ Unexpected signal: 11.

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120: [msg.panic.haveLog] A log file is available in "/vmfs/volumes/526bda53-1f2b17a6-2ebf-001b21a44f80/Virtual Machines/Production/es-1.company.local/vmware.log".

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120: [msg.panic.requestSupport.withoutLog] You can request support.

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120: [msg.panic.requestSupport.vmSupport.vmx86]

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120+ To collect data to submit to VMware technical support, run "vm-support".

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120: [msg.panic.response] We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.173]| vcpu-0| I120: ----------------------------------------

2015-09-20T07:02:51Z[+9.179]| vcpu-0| I120: Exiting

I currently have a Cisco UCS C210 running firmware 1.4.3U. Can I upgrade to ESXi6 using the current Cisco UCS firmware?

First time with VSAN

If I have 6 hosts with a mix of SSDs and rotating drives, is it possible to force specific VMs to use the SSDs or do I need to create a separate VSAN cluster?

6 hosts:

Host 1-3 has 1 SSDs and 8 rotating each

Host 4-6 has all SSDs

Thanks

We are creating a SuSe appliance using VMware studio. After the ova is created, we deploy it and select the power on after deployed option.

The issue we are facing is when user goes away from the console and comes back later, the console screen is timed out (empty black screen). It requires the user to click the console to bring back the screen. Simply opening the console and hovering over the console doesn't fix it.

Is there any way to stop this behavior?

Appreciate the help!

I am using the vSphere 6.0 Java SDK, and I know when running the Java SDK examples it is possible to make it ignore certificates by passing the --ignorecerts on the run.sh command line. I presume com.vmware.common.Main.java takes that and performs some operation to do the trick before running the example code, but it is not clear to me how. I was hoping com.vmware.common.Main.java was avail, but only the compiled file is. I tried running Main.trustAll() in my test code, but it did not seem to do anything.

Any suggestion?

Hi All,

I'm trying to determine how to configure vRealize Operations 6.1 to monitor the same service "ie Antivirus" against all servers which will have the End Point Operations Management agent installed. 

Is this something that is possible?

Thanks

Hello,

I'm getting this error with a clean install of CentOS 6.7

ACPI:memory_hp:Memory online failed for 0x10000000 - 0xc0000000

ACPI:memory_hp:Memory online failed for 0x100000000 - 0x140000000

I tried setting memory less and more than 4G also tried adding iommu=soft in kernel parameters as some link suggested and I can't seems to get rid of this error

Workstation 12 Pro 12.0.0 build-2985596

/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd -v

10.0.0.164 (build-2977863)

Thanks

Hi,

I would like to know the free space of VM, I am able to get the Provisioned Space and Used Space but I am not sure, how to get free space.

Please help

Get-VM | Get-HardDisk |

Select @{N='VM Name';E={$_.Parent.Name}},

@{N="IP Address";E={@($_.Parent.guest.IPAddress[0])}},       

@{N="VM PowerState";E={@($_.Parent.PowerState)}},

@{N='VM Provisioned Space';E={$_.Parent.ProvisionedSpaceGB}},

@{N='VM Free Space';E={$_.Parent.FreeSpaceGB}},

Has anyone ever come across the "VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder" being visible in VCenter? We have 2 VCenters and 2 View Composer instances, 1 linked to each (we call them DC1 and DC2). In DC1, VMs and Templates view, the folder is visible in VCenter, in DC2 it isn't. I've checked my client setting and "Show View Composer virtual machines" is indeed unchecked. I checked with a co-worker's machine, to make sure it isn't something unique to me, and he sees it as well.

What's odd is, in the thick client, DC1 shows the folder and DC2 does not. When I go in through the Web Client, both DCs show the folder.

It's not a problem really, just kind of weird. I think it may be linked to some work support did with me on orphaned Composer VMs, but, I'm not sure which. If someone's see this behavior before and has something I could use to look further into it, that would be great.

Thanks.

-Ed

I have been working all day on a single machine standard and clean MS Windows 7 64bit enterprise.

This OS is not uncommon but spells a world of trouble for VMWare Converter standalone 6.0.0.

To the point that makes me wonder if this production software. I'm just posting in the many many error messages I have seen throughout the day.

I managed to find workarounds for most of the issues untill I hit

FAILED: Unable to create '\\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-C37ABC700000F015000000000C00

This turns out to be a show stopper. There is no way of fixing this.

Which made me wonder. What OS is VMWare Converter supposed to support? It is not MS WIndows 7 for sure.

Is this maybe only for server OS software? Not desktop OS.

Insufficient permissions to connect to '192.168.1.142\ADMIN$'

A specified parameter was not correct. spec.synchronizeImmediately

A general system error occurred: Unexpected element tag "converterManager" seen while parsing serialized DataObject of type converter.AgentInstanceContent at line 7, column 63 while parsing return value of type converter.ServiceInstanceContent, version converter.version.version3 at line 7, column 0 while parsing SOAP body at line 6, column 0 while parsing SOAP envelope at line 2, column 0 while parsing HTTP response for method retrieveContent on object of type converter.ServiceInstance at line 1, column 0

FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'BlockLevelVolumeCloneMgr::CloneVolume: Detected a write error during the cloning of volume Disk#1_Partition#5. Error: 209 (type: 1, code:

13)'

FAILED: Unable to create '\\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-C37ABC700000F015000000000C00

Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine.

Having trouble installing VMware Tools on a Win10 Enterprise VM (vSphere 5.5). Install initiates then never reports anything beyond that. Is there something special that needs to be done to make this work?

-Thanks

Also have installed the Update Manager plugin which is reporting compliance state incompatible.