We are wanting to build a heatmap that shows the many different guest file systems usage %. We have built alerts based off of usage % with different thresholds, but building a heatmap has proven difficult. We have many SQL servers with upwards of 25 mountpoints that we would like to show in the heatmap.
And if a heatmap isn't the correct display choice, some suggestions would be great.
Thanks,
Christopher
Hi there,
when i try to take a snapshot of my File Server i get an error message:
" An error occurred while taking a snapshot: msg.snapshot.error-NOTFOUND.
An error occurred while saving a snapshot: msg.snapshot.error-NOTFOUND."
Why can't i take a snapshot?
any ideas?
Thanks
Hello,
I created a on Demand NAT and as part of it, an edge gateway is created. What is the default username and password to log into this edge appliance?
Thanks,
Pankaj
Hi All,
I'm looking to create a vmdk file from an iso file. Is there a command line option for the same. Can you please help. Thanks.
Hello,
Could some one please let me know the format for Version and Criteria fields in the vRA7 Register a System Workflow Subscription.
Thanks,
Pankaj
I am new to vmware, I want to learn the command lines.
To manage vcenter we use PowerCLI which is a software to be installed and we can manage vcenter and esxi hosts using this powercli
To manage esxi hosts we can also use SSH client putty. Am i right? Wht else we have more.
I want to shutdown all virtual machines by login to esxi console, Please provide me the command and how to run on the esxi console.
Hi
I doubt I'm the only one who has ran into this so far with PowerCLI 5.0.
With vSphere 4.1 (I think) one could start setting up Host groups & VM groups, and then used advanced DRS ability to pair them up with affinity or anti-affinity. I have found functions to create new groups & add to existing (thank you Arnim & Luc - http://communities.vmware.com/message/2040365 ) but I'm having a hard time finding a report that could give me the content of these advanced DRS rules (with groups & associated rule configuration) that we have in our environment.
I have had extremely bad luck with Onyx (it's always crashing on me) so I'm wandering in the dark about this. Thoughts?
On a datastore accessed via NFS from 4 ESXi 5.5 hosts members of a vSphere 5.5 infrastructure I see lots of "orphan" files and folders.
Each folder name is related to a VM that either:
Can I simply delete the folders (maybe after connecting to an ESXi host via WinSCP) or should I perform any additional check?
What damage can I cause besides maybe damaging a given VM if the files are not really orphan?
Is there any risk to damage the datastore itself?
Regards
Marius
Hi Laurent,
In 5.5, the class com.vmware.ui.lists.ColumnSetContainer is deprecated, so how could i change the datagrid column width or other setting in plugin.xml.
The chassis-app sample code in the SDK, only show add new column and get the data, can give some sample code to customize datagrid in 5.5?
I want to know how CPUs/vCPUs are allocated to the VMs. For example I have a single ESXI host having two physical sockets and two CPUs on these sockets 3GHz each. Each CPUs has 2 core.
I need to know :
- How much total GHz are available to provision VMs.
- How much VMs can be created on this host using 1 vCpu.
- How much VMs can be created on this host using 2 vCpu.
- How much total cores available for VMs to provision.
Thanks
HI .
I am setting up a home lab to build an NSX lab . I am currently running 3 Esxi hosts on VMware Workstation 11 . All the three esxi hosts are running 4 Ethernet adapters each on them .
To setup the VXlan setup for my home lab i have modified the .vmx file of the virtual machine and modified the device to vmxnet3 and it works .
ethernet1.connectionType = "custom"
ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
ethernet2.present = "TRUE"
ethernet2.vnet = "VMnet1"
ethernet2.connectionType = "custom"
ethernet2.virtualDev = "vmxnet3" --------------------- Changed to vmxnet3
VMxnet3 adapter type is not supported for VMware workstation and also one of my host has crashed multiple times with the below error message in the log file.
2015-08-02T13:37:48.254+10:00| vcpu-4| I120: Ethernet3 MAC Address: 00:0c:29:a4:7d:8c
2015-08-02T13:37:48.261+10:00| vcpu-4| I120: VMXNET3 user: Ethernet3 Driver Info: version = 16908544 gosBits = 2 gosType = 1, gosVer = 0, gosMisc = 0
2015-08-02T13:37:48.527+10:00| vcpu-5| I120: VMXNET3 hosted: Packet has no eop, scanned 1, tx ring size 512, txd valid 0.
2015-08-02T13:37:48.527+10:00| vcpu-4| I120: Ethernet3 MAC Address: 00:0c:29:a4:7d:8c
2015-08-02T13:37:48.536+10:00| vcpu-4| I120: VMXNET3 user: Ethernet3 Driver Info: version = 16908544 gosBits = 2 gosType = 1, gosVer = 0, gosMisc = 0
2015-08-02T13:37:51.436+10:00| vmx| I120: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2015-08-02T13:37:53.636+10:00| mks| I120: MKS-SWB: Number of MKSWindows changed: 1 rendering MKSWindow(s) of total 2.
2015-08-02T13:37:55.565+10:00| vmx| I120: VMXVmdbCbVmVmxExecState: Exec state change requested to state poweredOff without reset, soft, softOptionTimeout: 20000000.
2015-08-02T13:37:55.565+10:00| vmx| I120: Stopping VCPU threads...
2015-08-02T13:37:56.567+10:00| svga| I120: SVGA thread is exiting
2015-08-02T13:37:56.571+10:00| mks| I120: MKS-SWB: Number of MKSWindows changed: 0 rendering MKSWindow(s) of total 1.
2015-08-02T13:37:56.575+10:00| mks| I120: GDI-Backend: stopped by HWinMux to do window composition.
2015-08-02T13:37:56.575+10:00| mks| I120: MKS-SWB: Number of MKSWindows changed: 0 rendering MKSWindow(s) of total 0.
2015-08-02T13:37:56.575+10:00| vmx| I120: MKS thread is stopped
Can someone guide me how to setup an NSX lab on VMware workstation and use 1600 MTU for VXlan traffic. Any help is much appreciated .
Does anyone have virtual print (ThinPrint) running for a W2K guest?
I'm talking about the version of ThinPrint that comes bundled with the Player.
I can't seem to get it installed.
I'm using VMWare Player 12.1.0-3272444 and VMWare tools 10.0.5.520 and attempted a "Typical" VMWare Tools installation on a W2K guest under a Windows 10 64bit Intel host. I used admin on both sides. The W2K guest has UAC turned off and is always admin.
During the install I received the following error dialogs:
RUNDLL
Error loading tpvmmon.dll
the specified procedure cannot be not found
Printer User Interface
Printer rundll command failed.
Command: /ia /f "C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMWare\Drivers
\Virtual Printer\TPOG3\OEMPRINT.INF" /r "TPVM:" /m "TP Output
Gateway" /h "Intel" /v "Windows 2000"
I was asked to OK the lack of signatures on the ThinPrint stuff. After the VMWare Tools install I rebooted the guest.
The following log files resulted on the guest:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMWare\Logs
vminst.log_20160329_080638.log
vmmsi.log_20160329_080638.log
c:\WINNT\Temp\vmware-vmsvc.log
c:\WINNT\Temp\vmware-vmusr.log
Things I found troubling in the vminst.log_2016....
2016-03-29 07:50:43| tools-build-3228253| Attempting to launch "rundll32 tpvmmon.dll,InstHelper install -q"
2016-03-29 07:50:51| tools-build-3228253| Child exited with code 0
The above command is probably what caused the first error dialog during the install, however it really doesn't report the error to the
install program. If I try the command at the admin command prompt I get the same "procedure cannot be found" error.
I used an export dumper on the dll and the entry point is actually spelled InstHelperW. I tried with the extra W on the command
line but got the same thing.
2016-03-29 07:57:31| tools-build-3228253| Attempting to launch ""C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\TPAutoConnSvc.exe" -q -install"
2016-03-29 07:57:31| tools-build-3228253| Create Process failed: error 193
2016-03-29 07:57:31| tools-build-3228253| Attempting to launch ""C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\TPVCGateway.exe" -q -install"
2016-03-29 07:57:31| tools-build-3228253| Create Process failed: error 193
Trying the above commands from an admin command line results in "not a valid Win32 application".
Things I found troubling in the vmware-vmsvc.log...
[Mar 29 07:58:02.953] [ warning] [vmtoolsd] Opening plugin 'guestInfo.dll' failed: `C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\plugins\vmsvc\guestInfo.dll': The specified procedure could not be found..
...
[Mar 29 08:06:39.757] [critical] [Glib] file ..\..\..\glib\gmain.c: line 2849: assertion `loop != NULL' failed
I tried to install the printer via the Add-a-Printer wizard. ThinPrint is present in the list of printers. I give it COM1:, etc, but in the end is just declares "failed".
I if "install" from the context menu of the OEMPRINT.INF the system just blinks at me. No dialog. No errors. No printer.
The only thing left to try is to create a new W2K VM and see if the problem persists. I'll post back with the results.
Hello.
I'm using Avamar for backing up all the VMs in the datacenter dynamically, with quiescing enabled in the backup job.
A few machines were completing the backup successfully but with warnings, reporting not being able to quiesce the VM, thus proceeding with a no-quiesce backup.
I've identified that this issue is related with servers that has raw disks mapped, this is a VMWare known issue. Then I've disabled quiescing on these specific VMs. The method I used was the referred in the known case, which was setting disk.EnableUUID to FALSE.
This solution has worked for the majority of the VMs with this problem, but a few still report the same warnings. A few VMs are still trying to quiesce, disregarding the setting.
What can I do to enforce the setting?
Thank you.
Hi, i using next scheme:
vCD (Local IP = 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.2). My Public address: 99.99.99.99/98
NAT next port: 443, 80 for http and consoleproxy service.
When i upload new iso file from my pc i get error: failed to send http data. In wireshark log: First connect to 99.99.99.99, next connection to 1.1.1.1 (TCP retransmit).
How to fix this error? Using public address for http and consoleproxy services?
hello,I'm asking about vSphere Hypervisor.
when I fix two OS(Red hat and centOS) in vSphere Hypervisor,How to communicate with two OS(Red hat and centOS).What method is there
Коллеги, требуется помощь по vCloud director.
Есть следующая схема:
vCD (Local IP = 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.2). Публичный адрес: 99.99.99.99 и 99.99.99.98.
Сделан NAT по портам 80 и 443 до 1.1.1.1 через 99.99.99.99.
И сделан NAT по портам 80 и 443 до 1.1.1.2 через 99.99.99.98.
Когда загружаю ISO/OVF файл из внешней сети, соединение перекидывается на 1.1.1.1 и сюда происходит загрузка файлов.
vCloud Director secure public REST API base URL - не прописан. Если добавляю эту строчку: https://vcloud.domain.ru/api - происходит ошибка при нажатии на кнопку загрузка образа: Unable to perform this action. Contact your cloud administrator. Валидный сертификат стоит на http.
Для vCloud Director secure public REST API certificate chain - сертификат не устанавливал. Сертификат от http не принимает.
Могли бы подсказать, в каком направлении искать решение проблемы?
Dear all,
When I create a snapshot for VMs with many disks, the machines are paused (stunned) for up to 10 seconds depending on how many disks they have.
I know that consolidating a snapshot may take time depending on its size and data distribution, but our problem is not on snapshot consolidation, but snapshot creation. Something that to me, seemed to be almost straightforward and really quick to do (pause IO, stop CBT, divert IO to another set of files, start CBT, resume IO). But...
ESXi Enterprise 6 Update 2 (Build 3620759, but also with recent older ones), a VM with HW Version 11, 10 HDs SCSI Thick Lazy Zeroed (6.8TB in total) spreaded on 7 datastores, CBT active, shows this on the log when CREATING a snapshot from vSphere Client:
2016-03-30T06:34:48.000Z| vmx| I120: SnapshotVMX_TakeSnapshot start: 'test', deviceState=0, lazy=0, logging=0, quiesced=0, forceNative=0, tryNative=1, saveAllocMaps=0 cb=21A6BC00, cbData=3236ABD0
.....
2016-03-30T06:34:56.212Z| vcpu-0| I120: Checkpoint_Unstun: vm stopped for 8164504 us
So 8 pings lost, +1000 file handles closed (it is a file server) and clients complaining.
The snapshot removal takes more or less the same time of "stun", but it is spreaded over several pauses, one per vdisk, which doesn't affect production. (800ms pause is high but acceptable, 8'000 ms is not).
Our goal was to backup several VMs quite frequently (30 min - 1h) with Veeam Backup and Recovery, but with that kind of long pause it is really disruptive for servers: applications timing out, risk of cluster failing over, etc.
The host hardware is powerful enough: with only the file server running on the host, 1Ghz is used of 12x3.4Ghz and the VM uses 6GB of 512GB memory @2.1GT/s.
Regarding disks, the datastores seem OK. They have a latency ranging from 0 to 3ms (read and write, they are 2 IBM XIV with around 200 disks each) and once the snapshot is made, the Veeam server is able to pull a mean of 700MB/s from them (direct SAN mode) without a significant performance penalty.
I have not seen any difference if the disks are on VMFS3 or VMFS5.
It seems as if ESX made each disk snapshot sequentially event if they are on different datastores and took almost 0.75 second per disk. 10 disks = 7.5 seconds of pause. Not good. Our tests were done with an older version of ESXi6 and they were OK so I feel something changed (CBT bug patch? But I do not discard other settings modification meanwhile) .
Do you know how to speed up the snapshot creation?
What is that "tryNative=1" ? I don't feel like wanting to wait trying things .
Thanks!
Hi,
I need to run vCheck for multiple vCenters (18 to be exact) having one report per vCenter.
Can somebody suggest me how can I achieve this without creating separate directory with all vCheck plugins for each vCenter.
Thank you
Dear All,
A week ago I upgraded both of my two VMWare Win 7 machines to Win 10, as well as the host operating system; also 7 to 10.
Now once every 1 or 2 days, one or both of the two vmwares will have an esclamation mark on the network status icon in the lower right corner, and there´s no connection.
The host OS is NOT having any problems with the network.
The solution is to deactivate and reactive the VMs adapter, or run network diagnosis repair where it will tell me that it´s reestablished the connection to the gateway. But obviously I´d prefer the VM´s to be on the internet 24/7 without my intervention.
I have another computer on the same router on which I did the same, but with that I´m not having these issues. Different hardware, and not logged on via VPN running on host OS which is the case with the machine that´s got issues.
But again, the host OS is not having issues, the two VM´s aren´t always both having this problem, and this never happened when it was all Win 7.
I´ve disabled some nightly windows defender scan, and TCPIP V6, but neither of that helped.
Do you want to see some of the info from the latest network diagnostics / repair, or some log file, or do you already know what the solution could be to my problem?
Thanks in advance!
Best Regards
Jazzl
