Hi,

I have a cluster with 4 hosts with differences in in regards to resourcegroups in esx.conf. The values in bold differs from host to host

/resourceGroups/version = "6.0.0"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/child[0000]/cpu/units = "mhz"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/child[0000]/cpu/shares = "1250"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/child[0000]/cpu/maximum = "unlimited"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/child[0000]/cpu/minLimit = "unlimited"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/child[0000]/cpu/minimum = "0"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/child[0000]/mem/units = "mb"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/child[0000]/mem/shares = "52318"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/child[0000]/mem/maximum = "unlimited"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/child[0000]/mem/minLimit = "unlimited"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/child[0000]/mem/minimum = "23187"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/child[0000]/name = "pool0"

/resourceGroups/root/child[0000]/name = "user"

During a upgrade from 5.5 I was called in to take a look why DRS acted strange on one of the hosts. What I found was above mentioned differences in the host configs. Could these values be relevant? The numbers above are from the failing host. Other hosts had both higher and lower numbers than this. Not much can be found regarding resourcegroups in esx.conf at our friend Google.

There is a resource pool and also VM's with reservations.

After resetting the reservation settings(without doing any actual changes) the problem went away and after a reboot of the host all above lines in esx.conf disappeared except for the first and the last one.

Is anyone able to clarify this?

Reg's

Per

HI All,

i am getting a strange error which i can not pin point.

503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x7fdca3f35df0] _serverNamespace = / _isRedirect = false _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe)

I have checked services and VPXD doesnt seem to be able to start.  Nothing has changed in the environment.

Strangly i am still able to login to VCenter but nothing appears as the page can not find a vcenter server

i have check vpxd logs and i dont really get any thing relevant.  not sure if im looking in the wrong place

Running VMRC 8.0 Build 3250412 and vSphere Web Client 6.0U1

When using the "Launch Remote Console" link from the VM Summary page I get this error.

vmrc.exe - Entry Point Not Found

The procedure entry point Unicode_Free could not be located in the dynamic link library vmwarebase.DLL

This occurs every time the VMRC is launched, even if there is an existing VMRC still running.

Hi guys, i was wondering if someone has a solution to the following problem:

i am trying to create a RT application that handles network traffic using 10Gbps interfaces, in order to achieve max performance i have to "pin" the vCPUs of my VM to the physical cores/threads, the only option that i could find is the "Affinity options" where you can assign the HW thread numbers that will be used by my VM, the problem is that it only creates a pool of threads, and what ESXI does is constantly moves the vCPU among the list of HW threads that were chosen, i can see that via esxtop where the same vCPU is moved between the allocated HW threads, this can be seen in the two attached screenshots.

Does anyone now if it's possible to "pin" the vCPU of the VM to constant HW thread and force them to stay ON THE SAME HW THREAD ?

Thanks a lot in advance

Hi all,

We are currently using VCD 5.5 and we are experiencing issues with deploying large vApps.

I've noticed that when the creation task takes more than 5 Min it fails with the following error:

- Internal Server Error

- java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

I'll appreciate your assistance

Please forgive typos

This is the Debug:

com.vmware.ssdc.library.exceptions.MultipleLMException: One or more exceptions have occurred - Multiple Exceptions follow: [com.vmware.vcloud.api.presentation.service.InternalServerErrorException: Internal Server Error, com.vmware.vcloud.api.presentation.service.InternalServerErrorException: Internal Server Error]

  at com.vmware.ssdc.library.ExceptionFactory.createFromMultiple(ExceptionFactory.java:35)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.AbstractVdcService.waitForFabricVmFutures(AbstractVdcService.java:902)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.AbstractVdcService.copyVAppContents(AbstractVdcService.java:638)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.AbstractVdcService.copyVAppContents(AbstractVdcService.java:291)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.instantiateVAppTask(ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.java:1332)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.executeTask(ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.java:1769)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase$2.doInSecurityContext(TaskActivity.java:427)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase$2.doInSecurityContext(TaskActivity.java:421)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$SecurityContextTemplate.executeForOrgAndUser(TaskActivity.java:674)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase.execute(TaskActivity.java:421)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase.invoke(TaskActivity.java:354)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.activity.executors.ActivityRunner.run(ActivityRunner.java:109)

  at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

  at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Subexception: com.vmware.vcloud.api.presentation.service.InternalServerErrorException: Internal Server Error

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.foundation.futures.FutureUtil.convertExecutionException(FutureUtil.java:198)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.AbstractVdcService.waitForFabricVmFutures(AbstractVdcService.java:837)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.AbstractVdcService.copyVAppContents(AbstractVdcService.java:638)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.AbstractVdcService.copyVAppContents(AbstractVdcService.java:291)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.instantiateVAppTask(ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.java:1332)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.executeTask(ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.java:1769)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase$2.doInSecurityContext(TaskActivity.java:427)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase$2.doInSecurityContext(TaskActivity.java:421)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$SecurityContextTemplate.executeForOrgAndUser(TaskActivity.java:674)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase.execute(TaskActivity.java:421)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase.invoke(TaskActivity.java:354)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.activity.executors.ActivityRunner.run(ActivityRunner.java:109)

  at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

  at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.exception.ConnectionException: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.ResponseImpl.setError(ResponseImpl.java:224)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpExchange.run(HttpExchange.java:131)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpProtocolBindingImpl.send(HttpProtocolBindingImpl.java:98)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl$CallExecutor.sendCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:526)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl$CallExecutor.executeCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:507)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.completeCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:295)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.invokeOperation(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:265)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.invoke(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:169)

  at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy1146.recommendDatastores(Unknown Source)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.placement.impl.StoragePodPlacementManagerImpl.getDatastoreFromSDRS(StoragePodPlacementManagerImpl.java:266)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.placement.impl.StoragePodPlacementManagerImpl.recommendDatastore(StoragePodPlacementManagerImpl.java:124)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.placement.impl.PlacementManagerImpl.selectDatastoreInPod(PlacementManagerImpl.java:379)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.placement.impl.PlacementManagerImpl.selectDatastore(PlacementManagerImpl.java:168)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.storedVm.impl.CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity$CreateStoredVmInVcPhase.selectDatastore(CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity.java:769)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.storedVm.impl.CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity$CreateStoredVmInVcPhase.findOrCreateSourceVm(CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity.java:631)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.storedVm.impl.CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity$CreateStoredVmInVcPhase.copyVmWithLinkedCloneFromTemplate(CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity.java:579)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.storedVm.impl.CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity$CreateStoredVmInVcPhase.invoke(CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity.java:265)

  ... 7 more

Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

  at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)

  at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)

  at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)

  at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.readFully(Unknown Source)

  at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.read(Unknown Source)

  at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)

  at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readDataRecord(Unknown Source)

  at sun.security.ssl.AppInputStream.read(Unknown Source)

  at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.fillBuffer(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:166)

  at org.apache.http.impl.io.SocketInputBuffer.fillBuffer(SocketInputBuffer.java:90)

  at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.readLine(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:281)

  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpResponseParser.java:92)

  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpResponseParser.java:62)

  at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractMessageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.java:254)

  at org.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractHttpClientConnection.java:289)

  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(DefaultClientConnection.java:252)

  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractClientConnAdapter.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractClientConnAdapter.java:219)

  at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doReceiveResponse(HttpRequestExecutor.java:300)

  at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:127)

  at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryExecute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:713)

  at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:518)

  at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:906)

  at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:805)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpExchange.run(HttpExchange.java:111)

  ... 22 more

Subexception: com.vmware.vcloud.api.presentation.service.InternalServerErrorException: Internal Server Error

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.foundation.futures.FutureUtil.convertExecutionException(FutureUtil.java:198)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.AbstractVdcService.waitForFabricVmFutures(AbstractVdcService.java:837)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.AbstractVdcService.copyVAppContents(AbstractVdcService.java:638)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.AbstractVdcService.copyVAppContents(AbstractVdcService.java:291)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.instantiateVAppTask(ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.java:1332)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.executeTask(ResourceEntityLifeCycleImpl.java:1769)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase$2.doInSecurityContext(TaskActivity.java:427)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase$2.doInSecurityContext(TaskActivity.java:421)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$SecurityContextTemplate.executeForOrgAndUser(TaskActivity.java:674)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase.execute(TaskActivity.java:421)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase.invoke(TaskActivity.java:354)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.activity.executors.ActivityRunner.run(ActivityRunner.java:109)

  at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

  at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.exception.ConnectionException: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.ResponseImpl.setError(ResponseImpl.java:224)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpExchange.run(HttpExchange.java:131)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpProtocolBindingImpl.send(HttpProtocolBindingImpl.java:98)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl$CallExecutor.sendCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:526)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl$CallExecutor.executeCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:507)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.completeCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:295)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.invokeOperation(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:265)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.invoke(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:169)

  at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy1112.recommendDatastores(Unknown Source)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.placement.impl.StoragePodPlacementManagerImpl.getDatastoreFromSDRS(StoragePodPlacementManagerImpl.java:266)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.placement.impl.StoragePodPlacementManagerImpl.recommendDatastore(StoragePodPlacementManagerImpl.java:124)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.placement.impl.PlacementManagerImpl.selectDatastoreInPod(PlacementManagerImpl.java:379)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.placement.impl.PlacementManagerImpl.selectDatastore(PlacementManagerImpl.java:168)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.storedVm.impl.CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity$CreateStoredVmInVcPhase.selectDatastore(CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity.java:769)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.storedVm.impl.CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity$CreateStoredVmInVcPhase.findOrCreateSourceVm(CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity.java:631)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.storedVm.impl.CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity$CreateStoredVmInVcPhase.copyVmWithLinkedCloneFromTemplate(CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity.java:579)

  at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.storedVm.impl.CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity$CreateStoredVmInVcPhase.invoke(CreateFromExistingStoredVmActivity.java:265)

  ... 7 more

Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

  at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)

  at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)

  at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)

  at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.readFully(Unknown Source)

  at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.read(Unknown Source)

  at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)

  at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readDataRecord(Unknown Source)

  at sun.security.ssl.AppInputStream.read(Unknown Source)

  at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.fillBuffer(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:166)

  at org.apache.http.impl.io.SocketInputBuffer.fillBuffer(SocketInputBuffer.java:90)

  at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.readLine(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:281)

  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpResponseParser.java:92)

  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpResponseParser.java:62)

  at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractMessageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.java:254)

  at org.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractHttpClientConnection.java:289)

  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(DefaultClientConnection.java:252)

  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractClientConnAdapter.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractClientConnAdapter.java:219)

  at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doReceiveResponse(HttpRequestExecutor.java:300)

  at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:127)

  at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryExecute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:713)

  at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:518)

  at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:906)

  at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:805)

  at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpExchange.run(HttpExchange.java:111)

Hi!

I bouhgt adaptec 5445 raid sata controller for small esxi host.

This controller included in hardware compatibility list for esxi v.6

But I was surprised -  I can't check raid volume health from cli or from VMware vSphere Client

And more - if raid volume rebilding in progress it stop under ESXi control.

Rebuild can perform only when raid BIOS openned.

Please tell me can I start rebuild under ESXI and get status of RAID volume?

Thank you

D.

Has anyone compiled one from the ADM files yet that would care to share it?

Secondly, why still to this day, does VMware not provide VDMX files?

Thanks,

-Matt

Hi everyone,

As we're winding down the year, planning is well underway for the next big releases of Fusion and Fusion Pro.

With me being new to the role of being responsible for the entirety of the Fusion experience, all the way from initial awareness to buying, using and getting support, I'm working on a multi-year plan of how we're going to take Fusion into the future.

I personally think it would be wrong of me to do this without hearing from our users and the community.  I've always wanted to do right by our users, and I hope that giving you a forum to voice your thoughts underscores our commitment to 'do the right thing'.

The world has been changing since Apple first brought OS X to x86, allowing us to do this amazing thing called Virtualization. But with changing times people are using Fusion for a variety of different reasons that we may not have originally thought of.

So, I'd like to use this thread as a forum to get direct feedback from you on what you think Fusion could do next.

Let's hear about how you use Fusion and what else might help make that experience even better.

Let's hear about what Fusion doesn't do today that would make your lives easier.

Let's hear about what Fusion does that drives you crazy!

Do you deploy Fusion en-masse in the office? What can we do better for this use case? (and did you know about Horizon FLEX??)

Do you build software using Fusion? How can we make that a more productive and joyful experience?

Lastly, I just want to say thank you to all of our users.  It's been a great year for us, and for me personally. I'm immensely proud of what the team here has been able to deliver over the years, and we couldn't be more excited to take things to the next level with you by our side.

Happy Holidays!

-Mike

We have HP Gen9 with Emulex 10Gb (Driver v10.5.121.7) running latest ESXi 6.0 and experience high latency of above 50ms to 1.5 seconds with LDAP queries between Windows DC to DC or VM to DC.   However, moving the DC to a ESXi 5.5/6.0 with 1Gb network latency is down to below 50ms.  If you just ping the two servers, ping response is <1ms.

Anyone else experiencing such issue? It appears to happen with ESXi 6.0 with 10Gb Networki.   ESXi 5.5 on 10Gb appears to work fine. 

>50ms up to 1.8 seconds in query time

ESXi6 DC VM to ESXi DC VM on the same host, 10Gb DSwitch

ESXi6 DC VM to ESXi DC VM on different host, 10Gb DSwitch

<50ms

Physical DC to Physical DC

ESXi5.5/6.0 DC VM to ESXi5.5/6.0 DC VM on 1Gb Network (Ping is <1ms, FIle copy is > 100MB/sec)

I've checked packet drops with esxtop with network view, no packet drops.

I used the following script for measurement which does 10 queries for a user and takes the average time.

The result is fairy consistent.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/26227.how-to-measure-the-response-time-of-your-domain-controllers-when-running-an-ldap-query.aspx

I have tried to create a virtual machine from my physical machine and have failed yet again. I continue to receive the following pop up message box.

"A general system error occurred: unknown internal error."

Hi,

I have been trying to run a VMware virtual machine on an Amazon machine with CentOS 6.5 (kernel 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64), and I get the following error when launching:

Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.

Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.

Also, I cannot manage to start the services properly. When running sudo service vmware start I get the following:

Starting VMware services:

  Virtual machine monitor                                [FAILED]

  Virtual machine communication interface                [  OK  ]

  VM communication interface socket family                [  OK  ]

  Blocking file system                                    [  OK  ]

  Virtual ethernet                                        [  OK  ]

  VMware Authentication Daemon                            [  OK  ]

I have tried many solutions I have found in the Internet, like running vmware-modconfig --console --install-alland the one written in 15.04 VMWare Player "unable to start services" error - Ask Ubuntu but nothing succeeds.

I would really appreciate a solution to this problem, thank you!

Richard

Hi,

Wanting to add a server with a K1 gpu card to my cluster.

Wondering if I'm using vGPU, and in event of server failure, can HA power on VM's configured to used the K1 on another server(without having a K1 installed)?

thanks

Sam

I want to use the VCS to VCVA converter to migrate my vCenter 5.5 U3 off windows to the linux appliance. I have checked all of the requirements and my environment is ok except for SSO. I am running 2 vCenter servers, one test and one production. They are both connected to the same SSO instance running on a separate server.

The converter requires that SSO be running on the same server as vCenter. I would like to try this on my test vCenter to document the steps before moving production, but I'm not entirely sure of the sequence of the steps. There is so much disparate information out there on the subject.

So has anyone done this before?

I am thinking I have to:

Install SSO on my test vCenter server.

Un-Register my test vCenter server from the old standalone SSO and re-register it to the new SSO just installed.

Then at this point I have my test environment in the correct configuration for using the fling to migrate it to linux appliance and once done I could do the same on production vCenter.

These steps sound simple enough but I'm not sure how to go about them. Would I have to unregister test vCenter from old SSO first?

My thinking is that I'm going to run into problems when I try to install SSO when vCenter is already registered. Will I have to bring vCenter down before doing this?

All of these servers are virtual machines running on my production vCenter server by the way, and all are at 5.5 U3.

Any clarification and or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Hello everyone !!

I'm new on this forum and thanks in advice for the....

I've on my enterprise a three-cluster DC, divided by purpose, with about 400 VM's with an average allocation of 4 vCPU (min 1 vCPU - max 8 vCPU).

What's the best "aggregation" policy about vCPU ?

- small vm with big vm

- small vm with small vm & big vm with big vm

Thanks a lot.

Bye

Good morning.  I have a support ticket open with VMware:  15834814212

I was doing some routine host maintenance so I was using vMotion to evacuate VMs.  I got an error on one particular host:

Migrate virtual machine GVMon Failed waiting for data. Error 195887167. Connection closed by remote host, possibly due to timeout.

Most information for the error points to a vMotion networking problem, but since the other VMs migrated w/o issues, I decided this was not the cause.

I powered the VM down and was able to move it to another host.  However, when powering it on I got this error:

Power On virtual machine GVMon File GVvCenter_2.vmdk was not found.

Sure enough, when browsing the datastore, that file does not exist.

Support says that the file has been missing for a few weeks,crazy that the VM continued to run.  They do not have an explanation for why it happened.  No orphaned objects were found and all troubleshooting points to everything being OK.  I'm told that the .vmdk descriptor file needs to be re-created, but that would require a UUID that is not available because the .vmdk descriptor file is not accessible.  Catch 22!

Any ideas?  Thank you, Zach.

For the sake of argument, "what ifs?" and engineering-level assessments, I'm presenting this question hypothetically

...can it be done...and if so, how?

If you have an operational VSAN implementation, and for whatever reason, you have to swap out the vCenter server VM (vcenter001) that manages the current VSAN cluster, with a separate newly built vCenter Server VM (vcenter002), how would you go about swapping out the vCenter servers while also doing the following:

• VMs in infrastructure don't experience downtime (unless they absolutely have to)
• VSAN cluster does not have to be rebuilt (hard requirement)
• Pre-existing VSAN cluster becomes managed by new vCenter Server (vcenter002)
• VSAN datastore is kept intact (hard requirement)
• swap is permanent...meaning that the swap can be left in place permanently without any future roll back needed (ideally...not a hard requirement)
• A little downtime in the process, if needed, is understandable and not a hard requirement
  

Extra details regarding VSAN infrastructure:

• vcenter001 is on same subnet as vcenter002
• vmkernels and every other requirement is in place and setup properly
• vCenter server Windows edition is installed on BOTH vcenter001 and vcenter002 using the manual individual method (not quick method)
• both vCenters as well as the VSAN are functioning 100%
• vcenter002 is running newer upgraded OS (2012 R2) (on VMware compatibility matrix)
• both vCenter servers are running vSphere 5.5u1
• both vCenters are VSAN licensed
• SSO, web client, SQL Server 2012R2 SP1, vCenter server and inventory service are installed on single server
• both vCenters are 100% operational...regardless of reason why vCenter needs to be swapped out

Going through the motions, I have tried this situation before with exact same environmental details and continued to get UUID mismatch errors when trying to move the VSAN ESXi hosts from vcenter001 to vcenter002. And to elaborate a little more to avoid people having to ask some of the core expected questions, I tried migrating the ESXi with maintenance mode, without putting into maintenance mode, disconnecting (vcenter001) then connecting to new vCenter (vcenter002), I've tried with old vCenter server still running or with it shutdown.

Attached is a generic diagram that I put together real quick in mspaint to help visualize the infrastructure layout. In advance, I'd like to thank all you who will take the time to try and answer my question.

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Looking for a little bit of help here, please:

We have several hundred Windows 2012 servers in our environment and are having issues with the vShield driver bug in ESX 5.1 that causes a memory leak. I have been tasked with removing the vShield driver from all of the W2012 servers and I would like to avoid doing them one-by-one. Below is the idea I came up with... if there are better ways of doing this, I am open to suggestions. Thank you in advance for any guidance you can offer!

I am using "get-vmguest" to identify the W2012 servers:
get-vmguest * | Where-Object {$_.OSFullName -like "Windows Server 2012"}

I would then like to pipe that in to an "update-tools" (if that is the right cmdlet to use) command that would accomplish the same thing as doing as the following command that uses the setup.exe on the VMTools CD:
setup64.exe /S /v "/qn REBOOT=R REMOVE=VShield"

I know that you can do the update-tools -noreboot to suppress the reboot, but is it possible to feed "advanced options" like the ones above in to the update-tools command to have it remove the vShield driver?