HA agent has an error : Failed to send initial message to the rule : Unknown...
I've been building a new 8 node cluster running vSphere 4.1 Update 1 and one of my servers will not do HA.I've tried reconfigure for HA, tried restart vmware-vpxa and mgmt-vmware, rebooting,...
View ArticleUnexpected Shutdown Of Guest - Legacy API Shutdown
Hi, We currently have 8 ESX servers with vSphere 4.4.0/vCenter 4.0.0 One of our guests unexpectedly shut its self down. I got the following error in the event viewer. The guest is running Server 2008...
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Get all VMs with "vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms"
hello! I have following problem.I have a shell-script and want to get all IDs and Names of virtual machines: for i in `vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | sed '1d' | awk '{print $1":"$2}'` all is fine,...
View Articlevmware vcenter 5.1 converter plugin
hii upgraded vcenter from 4.1 fo 5.1a , hosts still running esx4.1 i dont see the vmware converter plugin anymore cant p2v within vsphere client ? is it still there or do i have to use the standalone...
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Error: Unable to mount this VMFS volume due to duplicate extents found
Posting this here in the hopes that someone, by some stroke of luck, has a workaround while I twiddle my thumbs and wait for VMware to actually get back to me with the details of my support entitlement...
View Articleadd to inventory greyed out - no lck file?
I have a VM that following an ESX ungraceful power off can no longer be added to the inventory. It now doesnt show but I can browse the datastore where it is saved. The is no lck file suggesting the...
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How can I correlate a spike in datastore latency to an event or trigger?
I notice once in awhile on one of my NFS file systems I will see a random spike in datastore latency. Like 1739 ms write latency was the spike on filesystem vm4-sas at 8:30:20 AM. However its just a...
View ArticleDisk out of space - best practices
Hi, running vspher 4.0 update 2 - windows 2008R2 enterprise guests. the log drive 100GB e:\ is quickly running out of disk space and I need to grow it larger.The e: drive LUN is presented by a dell...
View ArticleHosts disconnect/reconnect in vCenter within a few seconds
I have 70 ESX hosts in vCenter on several different continents running ESX 3.0.1 to 4.1 with patches. I reciently edited the vpxd.cfg file and added: <heartbeat>...
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Does RDM UUID changes in Windows VM?
Hi All, I did the testing on Linux VM and was able to check that RDM UUID get changes in Linux VM. Below is the link to document which will help in getting full...
View ArticleNeed help related to FC card of esx
Dear Team, we are providing support 500+ esx servers remotely, i just want to know the FC card details. in other words is there any commands from that we will know this fc is single port or dual port...
View Articleneed help identify inbuilt an pci nic cards
Dear team, i have 8 ports on one of the esx host and we don't have acess to datacenter , is there any way we can find it out which vmnic is inbuilt and PCI slot nic.... regardsMr VMware
View ArticleStorage vMotion + vmdk files in different folders
Hello, Will storage vMotion move the vmdk files [in 2 different folders on the same datastore at the moment] into the same folder while migrated into the different datastore? Why the vmdk files are in...
View Article"Operation timed out:The VM failed to resume on the destination during early...
During migration to another host I came across 2 Vms that gave an error :" Operation timed out:The VM failed to resume on the destination during early power on". Restarting management agents on the...
View ArticleESX4 + Nehalem Host + vMMU = Broken TPS !
Since upgrading our 2 host lab environment from 3.5 to 4.0 we are seeing poor Transparent Page Sharing performance on our new Nehalem based HP ML350 G6 host. Host A : ML350 G6 - 1 x Intel E5504, 18GB...
View ArticleWindows Guest disk defrag necessary? VSphere 5.x
Is there a recommended solution for defragging disks on Windows guests in this type of environment? --- VSphere, ESXi, Version 5, using iSCSI SAN environment (both RDM and LUN to LUN utilized), Windows...
View ArticleTime in ESX and Vcenter
Hi all.Time synchronisation the big problem in my organisation. Windows 2003 server configured as NTP Server, DST is turned off, zone gmt +6:00. On ESX server after synchronisation time is established...
View ArticleMultipathing Status
Hello, I have 2 HP DL380G6 servers connected to a HP MSA 2312i san. The controllers are active/active and work with ULP. I have 2 separate HP switches (Procurve 1800) on separate networks dedicated to...
View Articleautomation win xp VM from win xp template & sysprep
Hi, I've template ready for WINXP, the only problem is when I deploy another WINXP-VM from this template , I need to manually change a hostname of each machine & for that I need to take the...
View ArticleNetwork Uplink Redundancy Lost
I have 3 ESX 4.0 servers in a cluster and one of them is reporting "Network Uplink Redundancy Lost". 2 NICs one the server are configured as a DMZ vswitch. One of the NIC's (vmnic6) "Observed IP...
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