This issue is really bugging me
When I log in to the management tab for my vCSA 6.0U1 appliance I see this:
N.B. this screenshot was taken a few days ago hence the timestamp shown. I still have the issue.
I have reboooted vCSA and this has not resolved the problem.
What is vCSA looking for to determine its health? I have an identical instance at another site with a health status of 'Good'.
Any advice appreciated.
It seems as though the Content Library Service has up and vanished from my vCenter Services. I created a content library back in April. I went to delete and add an online library I built and it wouldn't work. I dug around and did some homework and found where the core services were. I used a BASH shell command to try and start it. I figured it wouldn't work, but here is what it spit back.
Has anyone had issues with their content library before?
service-control --start vmware-vdcs
INFO:root:Service: vmware-vdcs, Action: start
Service: vmware-vdcs, Action: start
2015-12-30T00:00:40.321Z Running command: ['/sbin/chkconfig', u'vmware-vdcs']
2015-12-30T00:00:40.362Z Done running command
2015-12-30T00:00:40.363Z Running command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vdcs', 'status']
2015-12-30T00:00:40.453Z Done running command
2015-12-30T00:00:40.454Z Running command: ['/sbin/chkconfig', '--force', u'vmware-vdcs', 'on']
2015-12-30T00:00:40.486Z Done running command
2015-12-30T00:00:40.486Z Running command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vdcs', 'start']
2015-12-30T00:00:56.294Z Done running command
2015-12-30T00:00:56.294Z Invoked command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vdcs', 'start']
2015-12-30T00:00:56.294Z RC = 1
Stdout = Starting VMware Content Library Service...
wrapper | An encoding declaration is missing from the top of configuration file, /etc/vmware/wrapper_common.conf, trying the system encoding.
wrapper | An encoding declaration is missing from the top of configuration file, /etc/vmware/wrapper_linux.conf, trying the system encoding.
wrapper | Spawning intermediate process...
Waiting for VMware Content Library Service..................
WARNING: VMware Content Library Service may have failed to start.
Last login: Tue Dec 29 23:04:21 UTC 2015 on console
Stderr =
2015-12-30T00:00:56.294Z {
"resolution": null,
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"Command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vdcs', 'start']\nStderr: "
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.command.errinvoke",
"localized": "An error occurred while invoking external command : 'Command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vdcs', 'start']\nStderr: '",
"translatable": "An error occurred while invoking external command : '%(0)s'"
}
],
"componentKey": null,
"problemId": null
}
ERROR:root:Unable to start service vmware-vdcs, Exception: {
"resolution": null,
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"vmware-vdcs"
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",
"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vdcs'",
"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"
}
],
"componentKey": null,
"problemId": null
}
Unable to start service vmware-vdcs, Exception: {
"resolution": null,
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"vmware-vdcs"
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",
"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vdcs'",
"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"
}
],
"componentKey": null,
"problemId": null
}
I have received an error
ntevl:ESENT (482 - General): Directory (1120) An attempt to write to the file "\\?\Volume{0c788ce3-c42a-11e5-8e64-005056af0000}\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\VMwareVCMSDS\edb.log" at offset 8014336 (0x00000000007a4a00) for 512 (0x00000200) bytes failed after 0 seconds with system error 19 (0x00000013): "The media is write protected. ". The write operation will fail with error -1032 (0xfffffbf8). If this error persists then the file may be damaged and may need to be restored from a previous backup.
Can any one help me to find resolution for this error ?
Thank you
Got one VCenter 5.5 and a new one, VCenter 6.0. For migrating purposes I would like to share a NFS disk between one host from each VCenter. Is that possible?
I've shared NFS disk between hosts in different clusters but that was in the same VCenter, that worked fine. But maybe not between hosts in different VCenters?
Got the NFS share up and running and connected to one server in VCenter 6.0 environment, and I can create folders. Using NFS3. On host in VCenter 5.5 I have connected the share but get error when I try to create a folder.
Hello.
Have big problem with vSphere client
Today i press button Clear SSL certificate in IE on my Windows 7 OS
Then i faced with strange issue
I'm trying connect to vm console (client connected to vCenter) and i have an error ssl verification failure for "ip" due to a host thumbprint mismatch.
It's happend again then i trying to connect directly to ESXI
vCenter version 5.0,ESXi 5.0
What I tried to do - clear SSL ignore by regedit, reinstall vSphere client - it's not resolve a problem
I'm still not able to connect to any VM console
I'm trying connect from websphere - no luck,same error
Then i install client on different machine - all running ok
I recently upgraded from vCenter 5.1 to 5.5. After the upgrade I began to get health warnings for the VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service that say "Service initialization failed". I have rebooted the vCenter server and restarted the services several times and that has not cleared the issue. When I look in the SMS.LOG file there is no activity in it since the date I did the upgrade (a week or more ago). All prior activity in the SMS.LOG looks to be fine up up until the upgrade occured though. I have found at least a half-dozen KB articles that describe various reasons why this error might occur but they all pertain to older versions of vCenter. Just to be thorough though I reviewed the symptoms in the articles and none of them really seem to be the same as what I am seeing. My one hypothesis is that perhaps the SMS didn't get properly re-installed during the upgrade because I don't see any SMS sub directory in the \Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\webapps directory but I'm not even sure if this directory should exist on a 5.5 installation.
Would appreciate if anyone has any troubleshooting advice for this type error.
Thanks,
Mike
Hello,
I am currently on my evaluation period to get a better idea of the features around VMWare. I just started an evaluation and setup the VCenter web client. I was able to add the first host and when trying to add the second host I get an error message that the license has expired on host 2. When connecting to host2 on VSphere client, under Configuration shows the expiration as 4/30/2016.
Hi Guys,
Hopefully something you can assist me with to stop me from ripping anymore of my hair out For the last few days, I have been trying to add our VCSA to our domain so that I can setup the SSO domain.
This is a brand new deployment - 6.0 all around. We are using the embedded VCSA with an embedded deployment. When I go to join the domain, I get the following error:
Idm client exception: Error trying to join AD, error code [11], user [Administrator@mydomain], domain [mydomain], orgUnit []
I have replaced our domain name with 'mydomain' above - any ideas?
I received this alarm as datacenter target but how can I know more details?
I don't understand what means OR in the alarm definition because there are twice RED status, 1 GREEN status and 1 YELLOW status
ALARM:
Target: Datacenters
Previous Status: Green
New Status: Red
Alarm Definition:
([Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Red] OR
[Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Green] OR
[Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Red] OR
[Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Yellow])
Event details:
vCenter Service overall health changed from 'green' to 'red'
Bom dia a todos,
Como faço para adicionar um DataStore para todos os hosts que tenho no meu vCenter? Quando estou adicionando um DataStore, ele me permite escolher apenas um Host, não deixa eu selecionar mais que um host:
Isso tem me causado um problema, porque eu tenho outros Datastores em meu ambiente, e quando eu vou buscar uma ISO por exemplo no host01, se a máquina não estiver no datastore que esse host01 enxerga, eu não consigo usar a ISO. Aí eu tenho que fazer migrate do host para o mesmo DataStore que está a ISO. Por isso, eu preciso que todos os hosts do meu vCenter enxergue todos os DataStores. É possível?
Espero ter sido claro em minha dúvida. E desde já agradeço as respostas.
After upgrading vcenter 5.5 and his components from build 2646481 (VC 5.5 U3a) to build 3254792 (VC 5.5 U3b), it gives error starting vCenter Server service and Management Web Services., giving timeout.
A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the VMware VirtualCenter Server service to connect.
I searched KBase but I didn't any issue related regarding this. I already opened a SR for this with the log attached for analysis.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Hi
I have Vcenter Server 6 and all host use ESXI 6 u1 and above (3host 6u1 -1host is ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 5 and 2 host ESXi 6.0 Update 1b )
im using LACP for all host (6 host)
All the Adapter is E1000 and E1000E for Linux and Microsoft Server
some Vm have show Metric for Network in Performance and the some one has No Metric
why should i do ?
1. High Balloon memory utilization
Memory Balloon Percent (55%)is above a defined threshold (50 %)
I am getting above warning message
on the VM settings: Options
Memory : i checked the box (Reserve all guest memory(All Locked))
Then the warning disappeared. Is this the right way to approach.
Will i face any issue with VMotion or any other isses by doing this.
2. How to solve the below warning message for a virtual machine.
VM Screenshot HA reset
Failed by event : VmDASBeingResetWithScreenshotEvent
Event description : MyVM on MYESXi in cluster MYCluster in MYDC reset by vSphere HA. Reason: VMware Tools heartbeat failure.
I was able to generate a new password last week for the Vcenter Server Appliance (5.5U2) and it worked for logging in so I made note of it and I came in today ready to upgrade to Vcenter 6.0 only to find out it won't accept the password again. I figured no big deal, I'll just reset it again but I've tried 4x newly generated passwords (none with a "!") but it won't let me login. I'm following the instructions I followed last week to generate them using Putty:
Any idea why it's not working? I can't upgrade it without those creds.
I mean the PW seems to reset but still won't let me login using the newly generated PW
Having some strange behavior accessing the vSphere Web Client from Windows 8.1 using IE11 from laptop systems.
vCenter version is 6.0 update 1b
We re-imaged a laptop and a desktop both with the exact same base image, no additional drivers or configuration settings, both are using a wired connection on the same network., etc... Upon first bootup of the OS we attempt to access the web client from IE11 (desktop browser, not the metro app browser) The desktop machine works while the laptop does not. Symptoms are immediately after providing login credentials, the laptop just sits there with the blue web client background with the clock icon spinning. The desktop displays the web client interface as expected.
I'm at a loss as to what may be causing this and was looking to see if anyone had any suggestions as to why the laptop would fail but the desktop would connect.
thanks for any insight.
First vCenter installed at site A. Second vCenter Server installed with multisite configuration option with new SSO setup in new site (site B). New SSO in new site (site B) registered to first SSO at site A. Other components of vCenter such as Inventory service and vCenter server registered to local SSO at site B whereas Web client registered to primary SSO at site A. SSO at site A and site B belongs to same domain account with same username and password.
I already can see both the vCenters in single pane of window.
Does it require any changes to point all the vCenter server components such as Inventory service, Web client and vCenter server register to primary SSO at primary site A ?
In short, Site B has SSO register to primary SSO of site A, domain is vsphere.local
Site B has Inventory service register to local SSO of site B, domain is vsphere.local
Site B has vCenter server register to local SSO of site B, domain is vsphere.local
Site B has Web client register to primary SSO of site A, domain is vsphere.local
If all the above components to be registered to primary SSO of site A, please kindly advise on how the Inventory service and vCenter server can be re-registered to primary SSO of site A with no down time.
I recently moved from a Windows based vcenter 5.1 install on a physical server to the virtual appliance for 6.0. In the past if I wanted to use a plugin, I'd either install it right on the Windows vcenter server, or on it's own server and connect to vcenter via the install settings. But now that I'm on version 6 and the appliance, I'm not exactly sure how the whole plugin set up works. I found this in the docs about deploying a plugin package, but it was a bit confusing. Any help would be appreciated.
This wasn't even what I started working on to get here. I was looking for documentation on updating Qlogic FC HBA's via command line from vib as I did in earlier versions, but couldn't find much information on it. The one thing I did find was to install the Qlogic vcenter plugin and update them via he GUI, but then I realized I had no idea how to connect a third party plugin to this appliance.
And here I am.
VMware vCenter Server Appliance Deployment has been stuck on "Powering on appliance" for nearly an hour. Please advise?
Update: After 4 failed attempts on the same host (ESXi-10), I tried the install on another ESXi (ESXi-1) host and installation completed successfully. I'd still like to figure out what caused the Power On to hang with ESXi-10 though. Any ideas as to cause?
I have installed a new vSphere 6 environtment.with external Platform Services Controller. There was no error or warning during the installation. But, when I connect to the vCenter server with the Web client, I cannot see the Licensing part of the Administration menu. I use the Administrator@vsphere.local account, so the permissions are ok. When I want to add a host to the vCenter, I also get an error message related to license management:
The class com.vmware.license.client.cis.components.AssignLicenseFormFactory is not exported by any plugin.
I installed the newest version of vCenter.
Thanks in advance for any tips or help.
Zoli
I am attempting to access vSphere API method CreateVvolDatastore in list of Managed Object "HostDatastoreSystem" methods.
New CreateVvolDatastore method should be available in HostDatastoreSystem since vSphere API 6.0:
However method CreateVvolDatastore not showing up as an option. Note latest vijava pom.xml dependency entry is version 5.1:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vmware</groupId>
<artifactId>vijava</artifactId>
<version>5.1</version>
</dependency>
Can anyone please advise how to successfully find / interface with vSphere 6.0 API class HostDatastoreSystem, method CreateVvolDatastore() ?
Is there any vijava SDK jar available containing this new method?
Thanks,
Elaine