Hi Everyone,

I'm getting a strange error after using VMware converter to move a server running Windows 2003 R2 from Vmware Server to ESXi 4. All I get is a solid white cursor and nothing else happens. Also if I try to boot from the 2003 .iso I get a blue screen with an error as it loads.

The only thing I did that could cause this during the transfer was to shrink the size of the two partitions, however I did this on the original conversion from physical host to vmware server without error. Ideas?

Hi,

I've been scratching my head now for a while.

We are running EXSI 4.1.0 update 1 (348481), and I can't manage to customize the charts for my VM:s.

Wherever I look, documentation, forums, youtube etc. it says/shows  two buttons "overview" and "advance". I don't have them under my performance tab.

My main goal is to show statistics for 24-h and not 1h which is default. Bu they are all greyed out.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Daniel

I have a probleminvmwaremigrationofSymantecendpointserverintoVMwarevCenterConverterStandaloneviaVMWareClient.

I've donea variety ofwayssuch asP2Vconvertererrorappearslikethis:
Failed:Ageneral systemerror occurred:
No connectioncould bemadethe targetmachineBecause Theactivelyrefusedit.

Another waytoV2V, Itry tobackup firsttarget serverusingHiren'sbootCDv.15withAcronisbackup tooltoafileextension*.tib, whenthere is an errorconvertingprocesslikethis:
FAILED: Ageneralsystem erroroccurred: The serverclosedthe connectionafter0responsebytesread; <io_obj p: 0x012260ac, h: 1004,<pipe '\\. \pipe \vmware-converter-worker-soap'>, <pipe '\\. \pipe \vmware-converter-worker-soap' >>

SurprisinglytheC driveis alwayssuccessfulincloning, but theE drivealwaysfailed. E drivecontentscontainedsymantecendpointinstaller. Been triedscandiskdrive E, the result iszrerobad sectors.

anyone can help?

When I try to install VMware ESXi 4.1 from CD onto our server at our office, it fails with the error "vmkctl.HostCtlException Unable to load module /usr/lib/vmware/vkmod/vmfs3: Failure".  I get as far as accepting the license and seeing a progress bar move across the screen, but as the bar finishes, it dies.

The server is a PC with a Gigabyte P45 based (ICH10) motherboard and Intel Q9550 (45nm Core 2 Quad).  The BIOS has settings to turn AHCI on and off, as well as switching ports 0-3 between native and legacy mode.  I have tried all combinations, and none of them work.  If I turn of AHCI, the install CD often does not boot at all, just giving me a disk error.

I was switching from VMware Server to ESXi because Server 2.0 only has a non-functioning web interface, with well documented fatal bugs.  However, it's beginning to look like the better option of the two.  I may have to abandon VMware.

Hello,

I'm getting the error message below when i try to connect to esxi hosts.

"A communication error occurred while sending data to the server. (the underlying connection was closed: an unexpected error occurred on a send)"

I have two esxi hosts and i have this problem on both. I can ping them but i can't connect. There is no firewall between hosts and clients. After i restart the hosts, i can connect, but after a couple of days the problem occurres again.

Version informations are below:

ESXI 4.1.0 Build 348481

Vsphere client 4.1.0 Build 345043

Do you guys have any idea about this problem?

Thanks in advance.

I use Veeam Backup & Replication to backup our VMs and I've been having an issue backing up 1 VM for the past week or more. It has always backed up with no issues in the past and all of my other VMs are backing up just fine. However, after less than a minute, this VM always fails and I get an error that says, "Creating VM snapshot | Error: A snapshot operation cannot be performed." Trying to rule out Veeam as the issue, I just tried creating a snapshot of the server in vSphere and I got the error, "The virtual disk is either corrupted or not a supported format." After looking around, it appears that error usually has something to do with a correct snapshot or an issue after trying to delete a snapshot but this is the first one I've ever done, so I don't think that's the issue. Anywhere else I can look?

Thank you.

I know there's different advice and methods for growing disks.

I'm looking for specific advice on growing the C: system drive of a Windows 2003 SP2 server guest VM.

It's on an ESXi 4.1 U2 host.

Thank you, Tom

I'm testing vRanger and Veeam as an option to backup our VMs. I've done a backup and restore using vRanger and now I'm attempting it with Veeam. I've done the backup of my test machine and I was going in to delete the VM so I could test the restore. However, When I right-click on the VM, Delete from Disk and Remove from Inventory are greyed out. I've tried it in vSphere remotely and locally on the vSphere server. Is there something I can look for that's causing this?

One thing that's changed recently. I was testing the HA of our cluster over the weekend and when I powered one of our hosts back on and tried to power up some of the VMs, I was getting the error that's attached. I made some changes to the HA settings after searching around for a while and was then able to power on the machines. I am still getting an error in vSphere that says "Configuration Issues: HA agent on <host> in cluster <org> HA Cluster in <org> Datacenter has an error: Cannot complete the HA configuration." I have no idea if this has anything to do with not being able to delete a VM but thought I'd include it.

Thanks.

Hi All,

I'm having problem with my Windows Server 2003 x86 VM, in the middle of installing IIS server, What I did is that i insert the CD into the ESXi host and then from

my VSphere client I point to use the host CD-ROM drive and it hangs,

What I've done:

1. Force restart the VM and it stuck in 95% of restart process.

2. in the SSL console of ESXi: services.sh restart

3. re-register the VM from datastore view into the VCenter (with the same name VMWS05) and it hangs with Status "In Progress", after 20+ minutes it came with the following error:

     An error occurred while communicating with the remote host.

   and the VM is not registered in the VCenter.

4. tried to kill the process like the following but still stuck ?

*     ~ # ps -ef | grep vmws05*

*     3854821 14064 Worker#0:Win2003x86_vmws05 /bin/vmx*

*     14071      vmm0:Win2003x86_vmws05*

*     ~ # kill -9 14071*

*     ash: cannot kill pid 14071: No such process*

*     ~ # ps -ef | grep vmws05*

*     3854821 14064 Worker#0:Win2003x86_vmws05 /bin/vmx*

*     14071      vmm0:Win2003x86_vmws05*

*     ~ # kill -9 14064*

*     ash: cannot kill pid 14064: No such process*

*     ~ # kill -9 3854821*

*     ash: cannot kill pid 3854821: No such process*

*     ~ # ps -ef | grep vmws05*

*     3854821 14064 Worker#0:Win2003x86_vmws05 /bin/vmx*

*     14071      vmm0:Win2003x86_vmws05*

5. I also unable to delete the swap file of this particular VM:

     Cannot delete file Win2003x86_vmws05/Win2003x86_vmws05-301abb4a.vswp

any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.

Note:

VMware ESXi 4.0.0 build 244038

VMwre VCenter Server 4.0.0 build 208111

Kind Regards,

AWT

Hello,

I kept receiving "Error opening the remote virtual machine http://...Permission to perform this operation was denied" when a user try to connect through vmware-vmrc.exe

- I've got this error ONLY when using vmware-vmrc.exe. If I connect through the vSphere client, everything works as expected

- The user receiving this error have VM->Interaction, and Datastore->Browse rights. I tried to change this user group to localadmin, set rights to administrator with and without propagation to no avail.

- I've tried multiple versions of vmware-vmrc.exe (2.5.0.1064 and 2.5.0.671)

Any ideas what could cause this problem ?

We are having a reasonably serious issue where we lose communication with our ESXi server via the client.

None of the VM’s inside the ESXi server are affected, only the ESXi server itself.

- I still do not think that there is anything wrong with ESXi server itself, mainly because if we change external factors, the problems go away.

- Am able to always connect no matter what - a spare notebook directly into the back of the server to the network card on the back of the server.

- Am able to always connect no matter what by connecting the network card off the back of the server directly into five Port Cisco dumb switch and then plugging the notebook into the Cisco switch also.

- If I plug a spare PC directly into the Cisco switch or directly into the server, I am also able to connect through the ESxi client even when it will not work via other means.

- If I remove all network cables from the Netgear switch except for the server and either the notebook or spare machine, I am able to connect through to the ESXi client, so long as the problem has not already occurred.

- If the problem has already occurred, then no matter what I do on the Netgear switch, it times out with the 443 error.

- If I then reset the Netgear switch with only the server and either the notebook or spare PC then most of the time the client will be available again and will be consistently available.

- While it is working, if I then plugged our router back in to the Netgear switch. The client will continue to work for a short period of time. However after about 30 seconds to a minute, it then starts to time out.

- At this point even if I pull out the router network cable, I cannot get the client to work again without either plugging the cables back into the isolated five Port Cisco switch, plugging directly into the back the server with the notebook, or unplugging all equipment and restarting Netgear switch.

- This problem occurs on multiple switches inside our rack.

- Currently the server has an IP address of 192.168.7.155, it used to have two network cards. At present it only has one and the only address is the .155 address.

- We are currently seeing the error at this present moment in time and from the terminal server when I try and access the client through IP address 192.168.7.155, I see the following entry in the router each time, and I think that there is some form of interference that is causing this problem.

ROUTER ENTRY - Jul 28 02:47:08 last message repeated 1 time(s)

Jul 28 02:47:08 kernel: PF Accept crey_sec_mail: IN=ppp0 OUT=eth0.3 SRC=192.168.7.156DST=192.168.7.120 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=1468 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=62439 DPT=443 WINDOW=8192 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

Jul 28 02:47:14 httpd: Authentication successful for root from 192.168.7.170

.120 is our domain controller & exchange server.

The esxi server used to be setup with 192.168.7.156 but was reset and is currently 192.168.7.150 so I am unsure why the router is picking it up that way.

- I have disabled all Creydall rules and port forwards, however this did not resolve the problem.

I have a Netgear ReadyNAS 1100 NAS

where I have set a NFS share so I can add a Datastore on my ESXi 4.1, I

used the following instructions in their site: http://www.readynas.com/?p=3030

Every

time I try to attach the NFS share through the GUI i get the following

message: "Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable to complete

Sysinfo operation.  Please see the VMkernel log file for more details."

I

have also tried through the SSH console by using the command:esxcfg-nas

-a -o 10.0.0.10 -s /share/mynfs mynfs and I get the error:

"Connecting to NAS volume: mynfs

Unable to connect to NAS volume mynfs: Unable to complete Sysinfo operation. Please see the VMkernel log file for more details."

the Kernel log details are:

Aug 19 14:37:36 Hostd: Failed to read header on stream TCP(local=127.0.0.1:60962, peer=127.0.0.1:0): N7Vmacore15S                   ystemExceptionE(Connection reset by peer)

Aug 19 14:37:47 Hostd: PersistAllDvsInfo called

Aug 19 14:37:51 Hostd: Ticket issued for CIMOM version 1.0, user root

Aug

19 14:37:59 Hostd: [2010-08-19 14:37:59.311 2AAA3B90 info 'TaskManager'

opID=993D2353-0000037C] Task Created : haTask-ha-host-vim.host.DatastoreSystem.creat                   eNasDatastore-1124

Aug 19 14:37:59 Hostd: 2010-08-19 14:37:59.312 FFFB0B90 info 'Hostsvc::DatastoreSystem' opID=993D2353-0000037C Creating datastore test

Aug 19 14:37:59 Hostd: AddNasVolume called

Aug

19 14:37:59 Hostd: [2010-08-19 14:37:59.312 FFFB0B90 verbose

'FSVolumeProvider' opID=993D2353-0000037C] LookupVmfs: Cannot find VMFS

volume with id &lt;unset&gt;,path, &lt;unset&gt;, or name test

Aug 19

14:37:59 Hostd: [2010-08-19 14:37:59.312 FFFB0B90 verbose

'FSVolumeProvider' opID=993D2353-0000037C] LookupNasByName: Cannot find

NasVolume with volume n                   ame test

Aug 19 14:37:59

vmkernel: 0:23:10:59.338 cpu0:5299)NFS: 149: Command: (mount) Server:

(10.250.50.93) IP: (10.250.50.93) Path: (/esx) Label: (test) Options:

(Non                   e)

Aug 19 14:38:29 vmkernel: 0:23:11:29.669

cpu2:5299)WARNING: NFS: 946: MOUNT RPCfailed with RPC status 13 (RPC was

aborted due to timeout) trying to mount Serve                   r

(10.250.50.93) Path (/esx)

Aug 19 14:38:29 vmkernel: 0:23:11:29.669 cpu2:5299)NFS: 160: NFS mount 10.250.50.93:/esx failed: Unable to connect to NFS server

Aug 19 14:38:29 vobd: Aug 19 14:38:29.727: 83489529043us: http://esx.problem.vmfs.nfs.mount.connect.failed Failed to mount to server 10.250.50.93 mount point /esx. E                   rror: Unable to connect to NFS server.

Aug

19 14:38:29 Hostd: [2010-08-19 14:38:29.727 FFFB0B90 error

'FSVolumeProvider' opID=993D2353-0000037C] VmkCtl mount or ProcessNas

failed: Unable to completeSysinfo operation.  Please see the VMkernel

log file for more details.

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd: [2010-08-19

14:38:29.727 2AA15B90 info 'ha-eventmgr'] Event 79 : Failed to mount to

the server 10.250.50.93 mount point /esx. Unable to c                  

onnect to NFS server

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd: [2010-08-19 14:38:29.740

FFFB0B90 info 'App' opID=993D2353-0000037C] AdapterServer caught

exception: 2a6fb460

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd: [2010-08-19 14:38:29.740

FFFB0B90 info 'TaskManager' opID=993D2353-0000037C] Task Completed :

haTask-ha-host-vim.host.DatastoreSystem.cre                   ateNasDatastore-1124 Status error

Aug

19 14:38:29 Hostd: [2010-08-19 14:38:29.740 FFFB0B90 info 'Vmomi'

opID=993D2353-0000037C] Activation N5Vmomi10ActivationE:0x2a761010 : Invoke done on vim.host.DatastoreSystem:ha-datastoresystem

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd: Arg spec:

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd: (vim.host.NasVolume.Specification) {

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    dynamicType = &lt;unset&gt;,

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    remoteHost = "10.250.50.93",

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    remotePath = "/esx",

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    localPath = "test",

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    accessMode = "readWrite",

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    type = "nfs",

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    userName = &lt;unset&gt;,

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    password = &lt;unset&gt;,

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd: }

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd: Throw vim.fault.PlatformConfigFault

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd: Result:

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd: (vim.fault.PlatformConfigFault) {

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    dynamicType = &lt;unset&gt;,

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:       (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) {

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:          dynamicType = &lt;unset&gt;,

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:          key = "com.vmware.esx.hostctl.default",

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:          arg = (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) [

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:             (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:                dynamicType = &lt;unset&gt;,

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:                key = "reason",

Aug

19 14:38:29 Hostd:                value = "Unable to complete Sysinfo

operation.  Please see the VMkernel log file for more details.",

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:             }

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:          ],

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:          message = &lt;unset&gt;,

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:       }

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    ],

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    text = "",

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd:    msg = ""

Aug 19 14:38:29 Hostd: }

Hello there,

First off let me say ESXI is amazing and flat out works awesome!  I'm a nub when it comes to vmware and I just finished upgrading/migrating our entire company from a SBS2000 shop to Server 2008 standard VM's hosted in ESXI.  Let me tell you, setting up the ESXI hosts was the easiest part of that whole ordeal lol.  I'm looking for a tool that can monitor ESXI hosts and send alerts via email/sms and or potentially shut down VM's.  For example:  Say the AC unit dies on an extremely hot day on the weekend and our machines are overheating.  Is there a tool that will alert via smtp/sms and initiate a shut down command to our VM's and then the host PMs?  I'm finding it hard to grasp how this is possible because I don't see how software could run in a VM and be able to "access" the actual ESXI host hardware conditions..  At a minimum I'm looking for a tool that can send alerts via email/sms if there is a problem so I'd be able to address the issue before any damage occured.

We currently have two ESXI 4.0 hosts on Dell PowerEdge T610 Servers.  I used the ESXI version specifically for Dell servers (if that helps).  

Three virtual machines, two Server 2008 Standard and one Server 2008 R2.  If you know of any tools that would help me achieve what I've mentioned above I would greatly appreciate it.  I did a fair amount of searching on the web but did not find a solution to fit all our needs yet.  It can be open source or payware.

Thanks for your time,

Dustin

Hello community!

I've got 4 vmware esxi 4.1 servers with vCenter:

- 2 running on ProLiant DL380 G5 - theese are OK

- 2 running on ProLiant DL380 G6 - here are random reboot problem.

Randomly once per 2 weeks one of two ProLiant DL380 G6 servers goes unnormal reboot. Monitoring system HP SIM says only "host x.x.x.x unreachable" then when machine boots it says "host x.x.x.x reachable". I've updated all firmwares on servers, run several stress tests, updated vmware - nothing solved problem.

Logs are clean, exept iLo 2 log:

Informational	iLO 2	09/27/2011 09:36	09/27/2011 09:36	2	Server power restored.
Informational	iLO 2	09/27/2011 09:36	09/27/2011 09:36	1	Server power removed.
Caution	iLO 2	09/27/2011 09:36	09/27/2011 09:36	2	Server reset.

That's all.

How can I catch a cause of this problem?

Point me to the right direction, I've got no ideas what to look at.

I have an IBM BladeCenter S chassis with three HS22 blade servers, each with embedded hypervisors that have been upgraded to ESXi 4.1, 260247.

I'm running vCenter 4.1, 258902

When adding hosts to vCenter, each of them appears with a Red Alert, which seems to be related to these Events.

Alarm 'Host IPMI System Event Log Status' on server changed from Grey to Red

Alarm 'Host IPMI System Event Log Status' on server triggered an action

Alarm 'Host IPMI System Event Log Status': an SNMP trap for entity server was sent

How can I find out further information about what these messages mean?

Thanks,

k.

I am using 5.0 ESXi, i am trying to deploy a OVA file for solarwinds.  I keep getting this message:  Unable to access file:\Documents and Settings\username\desktop\solarwinds     Unalbe to load DLL'zlib1.dll.  The specified module could not be found.  Exception from HRESULT:  0x8007007E.

The install folder is on the desktop of the workstation with vsphere.  Also everyone has access to all items in that folder.

Hi Everyone,

New user to VMWare vSphere.  I'm having trouble booting the install CD that i've downloaded.  The server is a Dell R710 and when i tell it to boot from on-board optical drive it just seems to skip by it and continuing to the next option (raid array or NIC), i don't even see a flash from the DVD ROM drive...

I've tried burning the ISO on a Mac, on a Windows 7 Workstation with different burning programs, tried burning at faster speeds and slower ones, tried different media such as CD-RW or just CDR, getting no joy!

I have gotten it to boot once to ESXi during my early testing phase, but the disk I used then is no good now (it was ESXi 4.1, same version, but has a lot of scratches and stuff on it now, just gets to the ISOLINUX text and stops)

Any advice?

Thanks, Mike

I have single datastore with 3 thin provisioning partion....

use for SQL 2012 database. suddenly datastore shows zero free space, but partion shows  free space.

We have had some discussions concerning the performance impact of installing vmware tools on a vm.

Are their any comparison's between a system running vanilla versus one running with the vmware tools installed?

Obviously I think the system will run faster with the vmware drivers installed.