Hello,
I'm in the last step of hardening our domain network to use LDAPS rather than LDAP and the only thing left I need to reconfigure is the vCenter Identity source.
But, when I change the settings to use LDAPS, I get this error:
Check the network settings and make sure you have network access to the identity source.
Where can I look (logs etc) to see why this is failing?
I've searched high and low but can't find any solution to this and have updated vcenter to latest version (6.7.0.42100)
I recently migrated to Virtual Distributed Switches. Ever since then, the 'Recent Tasks' section in the vSphere Client on vCenter displays the following message:
Look up portgroup based on portgroup key - target name X
This message is displayed every few seconds and is causing very high CPU utilization on the vCenter Server Appliance (6.7.0.42000). I searched around and was unable to find anything that would tell me the reason this is happening.
The value for the target name varies depending on the portgroup in question.
I only have 2 ESXi servers in the environment:
One server running 6.7.0 - 13981272
One server running 6.5.0 - 13932383
Thanks in advance!
I am a developer working for a storage provider, we have a plugin for vcenter and want to do some health checks on the ESX hosts from the plugin.
Is there a way I can do things like vmkping and so on from the vcenter context?
I know the VSAN plugin does things like this, but it is provided by VMware and may have access to things us 3rd party developers don't.
This happened to me a few months ago on a fresh install of the vcenter appliance 6.5. It just stopped working a week or two after applying an update. Services would not start and there was no indication as to why. It wasn't a space issue, it wasn't that other issue with a duplicate value in the vpostgres database I read about either. I finally gave up and wiped it out to redeploy from scratch.
Well low and behold, sometime last night vcenter stopped working again. This time it wasn't even a full week after having applied the 6.5.0c patch. Only two services start, none of the others will. My deployment is two appliances, a PSC and the vCenter. The PSC appears fine and the services are showing healthy. The vCenter turned to garbage again. Here's an output of service-control:
root@mp1vsivcs501 [ ~ ]# service-control --status Running: lwsmd vmafdd Stopped: applmgmt vmcam vmonapi vmware-cm vmware-content-library vmware-eam vmware-imagebuilder vmware-mbcs vmware-netdumper vmware-perfcharts vmware-rbd-watchdog vmware-rhttpproxy vmware-sca vmware-sps vmware-statsmonitor vmware-updatemgr vmware-vapi-endpoint vmware-vcha vmware-vmon vmware-vpostgres vmware-vpxd vmware-vpxd-svcs vmware-vsan-health vmware-vsm vsphere-client vsphere-ui
Trying to start any service produces a similar output:
root@mp1vsivcs501 [ ~ ]# service-control --start vmware-vpxd-svcs
Perform start operation. vmon_profile=None, svc_names=['vmware-vpxd-svcs'], include_coreossvcs=False, include_leafossvcs=False
2017-04-24T19:36:49.136Z Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'set-environment', 'VMON_PROFILE=NONE']
2017-04-24T19:36:49.140Z Done running command
2017-04-24T19:36:49.143Z Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'daemon-reload']
2017-04-24T19:36:49.222Z Done running command
2017-04-24T19:36:49.222Z Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'set-property', u'vmware-vmon.service', 'MemoryAccounting=true', 'CPUAccounting=true', 'BlockIOAccounting=true']
2017-04-24T19:36:49.227Z Done running command
2017-04-24T19:36:49.231Z RC = 1
Stdout =
Stderr = Failed to execute operation: Unit file is masked
2017-04-24T19:36:49.231Z { "resolution": null, "detail": [ { "args": [ "Stderr: Failed to execute operation: Unit file is masked\n" ], "id": "install.ciscommon.command.errinvoke", "localized": "An error occurred while invoking external command : 'Stderr: Failed to execute operation: Unit file is masked\n'", "translatable": "An error occurred while invoking external command : '%(0)s'" } ], "componentKey": null, "problemId": null
}
2017-04-24T19:36:49.231Z Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'unset-environment', 'VMON_PROFILE']
2017-04-24T19:36:49.235Z Done running command
Error executing start on service vpxd-svcs. Details { "resolution": null, "detail": [ { "args": [ "vmware-vmon" ], "id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart", "localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vmon'", "translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'" } ], "componentKey": null, "problemId": null
}
Service-control failed. Error { "resolution": null, "detail": [ { "args": [ "vmware-vmon" ], "id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart", "localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vmon'", "translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'" } ], "componentKey": null, "problemId": null
}
The first thing that pops out for me is line 11, "Failed to execute operation: Unit file is masked". I get that on every service I attempt to start and I'm not finding anything in VMware's knowledge portal about it. This is extremely frustrating.
**Additional info**
Running a search on just unit file is masked took me to a generic ubuntu thread about systemctl showing masked unit files. Here's the output of the systemctl list-unit-files:
root@mp1vsivcs501 [ ~ ]# systemctl list-unit-files | grep vmware vmware-bigsister.service static vmware-cm.service masked vmware-content-library.service masked vmware-eam.service masked vmware-firewall.service enabled vmware-imagebuilder.service masked vmware-mbcs.service masked vmware-netdump.service masked vmware-perfcharts.service masked vmware-rbd-watchdog.service masked vmware-rhttpproxy.service masked vmware-sca.service masked vmware-sps.service masked vmware-statsmonitor.service masked vmware-updatemgr.service masked vmware-vapi.service masked vmware-vcha.service masked vmware-vmon.service masked vmware-vmonapi.service masked vmware-vpostgres.service masked vmware-vpxd-svcs.service masked vmware-vpxd.service masked vmware-vsan-health.service masked vmware-vsm.service masked vmware-bigsister.timer disabled
Not sure if that's normal or not, but it appears to be what the error message is complaining about?
Message was edited by: jhboricua
Hello community,
I trying to install from cero (I was a problem updating) vCenter v6.7 last release (9232925) but, in the second stage at 60% crash with the message:
Error: VMware VirtualCenter failed firstboot. The instalation of vCenter Server failed due to an internal error.
Resolution: Please serach for these symptoms in the VMware Knowledge.....
I try to retry, but the error still there...
Error: A problem ocurred during setup. Services might not be working as expected.
I was download the logs....But I don't undertand the logs.... are attached in this post... please can some one help me?
PS. I trying to install without DNS Server with a static IP address.
Hi sir/madam,
Please help me solve this problem, many thanks. The problems as picture.
I see service vpxd auto stop when i run command fix, the problems still orcus.
cd C:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\bin
|
service-control --status --all
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service-control --start vpxd
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Log: C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\logs\vmware-vpx
I send to you for refer, please help me.
So instead of doing an upgrade we want to do a fresh install of 6.7 and I am hoping to just migrate things like Roles, Permissions, Folder Structure. Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks.
Hello there,
I know vcenter way of handling permissions is really weird (I'm being nice) but I can't get it to work correctly with tags...
From what I understand, users need the assign tag permission on vcenter level but then are able to edit tags on any objects... Even objects where they have specific role "read only" they still can add or remove tag on this object.
There is also an option to "add permission" on categories and tags, but you can't display thoses "added" permissions and still does not correct the main problem : if a user has right to assign/remove a tag on an object, it has right to do so on any object.
The use case is we have Veeam and use tags to select which VMs are being backed up. We have different teams and each team have its own VMs.
It is not acceptable that member of Team A can modify tags of VMs belonging to Team B.
But I don't find a way to do so, if anyone could give me some hints about that...
Thanks !
I read an article. microsoft will release an update i could not fully understand if i should make a change to my system. ı use 6.5 u2 vCenter so What should I do to the system after microsoft update, or should I do any vcenter upgrade. Can you help with this ?
VMware vSphere & Microsoft LDAP Channel Binding & Signing (ADV190023) - VMware vSphere Blog
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/ADV190023
Hello,
I have problem with vCenter HA setup through HTML5 client (FLEX client is working).
Once I start setup on first step I want to select vCenter HA network but browse window is blank - see picture.
I don't know what's the reason of this situation.
My vCenter is using a shared Datastore and that datastore got full recently and my vcenter started throwing this error in UI.
Once i tried to cleanup some space and start the service's back, i am getting this error while starting vpxd:
Operation not cancellable. Please wait for it to finish...
Performing start operation on service vpxd...
Successfully started service vmware-vmon
Error executing start on service vpxd. Details {
"resolution": null,
"componentKey": null,
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"vpxd"
],
"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'",
"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",
"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vpxd'"
}
],
"problemId": null
}
Service-control failed. Error: {
"resolution": null,
"componentKey": null,
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"vpxd"
],
"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'",
"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",
"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vpxd'"
}
],
"problemId": null
}
Any help would be appreciated!!
Thanks
My company has a number of different VMWare licenses for different environments, from Essentials all the way up to Enterprise Plus.
We are currently decommissioning one environment that is running vCenter/vSphere Standard, and I would like to decommission an instance of vCenter/vSphere Essentials Plus and move that environment to the now unused Standard licenses. Both instances are currently under VMWare support.
Is there any way to do this that doesn't involve moving the hosts to standalone, nuking the vCenter server, changing the host licenses to standard, building a new vCenter server on the standard license and adding the hosts to the new vCenter server? I've read that in times past, you could join Essentials plus hosts to a standard vCenter server, or vice versa, but now, it won't let you do it, and I believe that trying to upgrade any license will fail due to mismatches between the host and vCenter license levels.
Hi.
Someone knows of some application similar to ITQ VLan and Portgroup Manager for VCSA 6.5??.
It allows you to easily setup all portgroups and VLan IDs on all your ESX Servers.
Hello, experts,
I'm going to proceed to migrate a vcsa 6.0 to a 6.7.
My question is, how can I protect the vcsa 6.0 in case the upgrade fails to reverse?
Would a snapshot work?
I work with Veeam backup
Following the latest patch, I can no longer utilize NTP servers for time through appliance management. I can put them on the host and use host option on the appliance, but I cannot directly connect to any of the pool.ntp.org sites.
Thanks in advance,
Adam
Hello All,
I plan to move existing ESXi hosts from an old VCSA to a new VCSA.
I would like some clarification, I have seen where it is suggested to log in to the old VCSA,
and disconnect the host to move, remove it from inventory, and then:
go to new VCSA and add the host to the inventory - I will assume it connects when added, or
do I have to "connect" it?
Also - do I need to put the host in maintenance mode before disconnecting?
We are using vSphere 6.0 - the new host will either be 6.0 or 6.5u2.
Thanks,
Oliver G.
I tried to configure VCenter server 6 to send email notification using gmail account, but unfortunately can not send email as shown below
May any one have solution for that?
Hello,
I would like to get a tracking of TAG assign/unassign done by users, so I was thinking using alarms with send mail action.
But I can't find a trigger with the GUI corresponding to that, any ideas ?
Thanks
I'm doing a fresh install on a Windows 2019 server of Vcenter 6.5d.
The installation keeps failing at the VCSServiceManager with a 1603 error.
I've seen lots of posts on this before with upgrading Vcenter, but not on clean installations.
The last steps I did was start from scratch with a new OS (with .net 3.5), new SQL build and a new Vcenter ISO download, but I'm still getting that 1603 error on VCSServiceManager.
I then installed VCSSServiceManager.msi first, then did the Vcenter installation and that completed "successfully" but not all services were installed and there was no Vcenter web client.
So now I'm back to square one.
I opened a support case and they mentioned it was because of a firewall rule. I checked, I didn't install any of our antivirus software yet and the Domain/Public/Private Windows firewalls are on disabled. I'm still working with support, but getting no where as far as a solution goes.
I have a 6.0 vCenter appliance and a few esxi 6.0 hosts, and I started an upgrade to a new vcsa. Update Manager was running on a Windows 2012 server, but I managed to hose it because I misinterpreted some instructions about migrating during the upgrade. I made a snapshot of my vcsa but not the windows vm with Update Mgr.
Is it possible to do my vcenter upgrade without migrating the windows update manager and start with a fresh update manager on the new appliance? I don't care about the old update manager information, and I've probably wiped it out anyway.
Thanks.