We have a problem currently where a user account from a person that has left the company is trying to authenticate every 5 minutes to vCenter. The problem is the logs doesn't show you where the account is trying to authenticate from. I suspect it's possibly a script or an applet that's configured to run somewhere...

All that the logs show are:

Error 1331 authenticating user %username%.

Failed to authenticate user <%username%>

Anyone have any ideas on how I can try and trace where the authentication attempts is originating from? Is that possibly hidden away in some other logs?

Cheers,

Hanré

I have a system with 4 intel x520-t2. I'm currently having issues with ESXI seeing the correct advertised speed for these nics.

I have contacted Intel and there is no firmware available for cards

Card are working but only giving me 1gb as displayed in ethtool. I have upgraded vm drives to current to no avail.

I have tried driver version ixgbe-3.19.1 and ixgbe-3.15.1.8 both break the cards. Current version that im using is ixgbe 3.7.13.7

Also have bypassed one of the nics to direct access to a 13.4 ubuntu vmmachine and nic were seen correctly by the vmmachine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

lspci show the following:

0000:82:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection [vmnic2]

0000:82:00.1 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection [vmnic3]

0000:84:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection [vmnic4]

0000:84:00.1 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection [vmnic5]

~ # ethtool -i vmnic5

driver: ixgbe

version: 3.7.13.7.14iov-NAPI

firmware-version: 0x80000135

bus-info: 0000:84:00.1

~ # ethtool vmnic5

Settings for vmnic5:

        Supported ports: [ TP ]

        Supported link modes:   1000baseT/Full

        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes

       Advertised link modes:  1000baseT/Full

        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

        Speed: Unknown! (10000)

        Duplex: Full

        Port: Twisted Pair

        PHYAD: 0

        Transceiver: external

        Auto-negotiation: on

        Supports Wake-on: d

        Wake-on: d

        Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)

        Link detected: yes

Hello,

Does somebody know how long it approximately take to move a 512GB VM disk file to another datastore? I will be a cold migration since we don't have vmotion storage yet. The move will be on the same SAN (iSCSI SAS disks) just another datastore

It would be helpful to get an estimate in hours.

Thanks,

Edy

Hi,

After upgrading vCSA to 5.5.0a and Windows AD to 2012 R2, AD logins to vCSA no longer work.

sso/vmware-sts-idmd.log shows:

2013-11-05 17:08:57,135 WARN   [LdapErrorChecker] Error received by LDAP client: com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.LinuxLdapClientLibrary, error code: 1

2013-11-05 17:08:57,135 ERROR  [LinuxLdapClientLibrary] Exception when calling ldap_search_s: base=DC=example,DC=org, scope=2, filter=(&(userPrincipalName=user@example.org)(objectClass=user)), attrs=[Ljava

.lang.String;@3463048e, attrsonly=0

com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.OperationsErrorLdapException: Operations error

LDAP error [code: 1]

        at com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.LdapErrorChecker$1.RaiseLdapError(LdapErrorChecker.java:32)

        at com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.LdapErrorChecker.CheckError(LdapErrorChecker.java:826)

        at com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.LinuxLdapClientLibrary.CheckError(LinuxLdapClientLibrary.java:743)

        at com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.LinuxLdapClientLibrary.ldap_search_s(LinuxLdapClientLibrary.java:414)

        at com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.LdapConnection$3.call(LdapConnection.java:334)

        at com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.LdapConnection$3.call(LdapConnection.java:331)

        at com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.LdapConnection.execute(LdapConnection.java:65)

        at com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.LdapConnection.search(LdapConnection.java:330)

        at com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.LdapConnection.search(LdapConnection.java:299)

        at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.activedirectory.ActiveDirectoryProvider.findAccountLdapEntry(ActiveDirectoryProvider.java:1346)

        at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.activedirectory.ActiveDirectoryProvider.findUserByLdap(ActiveDirectoryProvider.java:2263)

        at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.activedirectory.ActiveDirectoryProvider.findUser(ActiveDirectoryProvider.java:320)

        at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdentityManager.findPersonUser(IdentityManager.java:3063)

        at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdentityManager.findNestedParentGroupsInternal(IdentityManager.java:3968)

        at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdentityManager.findNestedParentGroups(IdentityManager.java:3928)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Unknown Source)

        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(Unknown Source)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

tcpdump shows that the vCSA does an ldapsearch on the AD without any authentication, the 2012R2 server rejects that with:

000004DC: LdapErr: DSID-0C090728, comment: In order to perform this operation a successful bind must be completed on the connection., data 0, v2580

A kerberos request right before the search to the AD is successful, also the AD join was successful.

Any ideas how to debug this? Why isn't the vCSA using an authenticated search?

Andreas

Hello Community,

Is there a way to export the Custom Attributes for vCenter directly from SQL?

I have a client that we just completed a migration from one vCenter to another.  The custom attributes were never mentioned in the project to myself nor to the Project Manager.  Of course once on the new system, the OPS and SUPPORT teams asked where are all their Custom Attributes. So....

I have a P2V backup of the old vCenter with old SQL Database before the migration, in theory it should contain all the vCenter tables as they were. Does anyone know of a method or point me in a direction of where I might be able to export the SQL Tables related to the Custom Attributes?

Thanks,

BostonTechGuy

I was able to view the console from the appliance in all three OS X browsers.  Can't seem to do it any more, just get a can not connect error.  Has anything changed in the last few days?

I have already modified the wrapper.conf and it worked for awhile, but also upgrade to 10.9.1 so that could have broken something.

Hi Friends,

What's the data flow for the VDP backup ?

thanks.

Can I connect more than one uplink to iSCSI storage?

Been a long while since I last installed vCenter.  I installed v5.5 it on a fresh Windows 2008 server.  I open the web client and login, but there's nothing in the inventory.  No vCenter servers, no hosts, no VMs.  Can't see where I can add them.  I'm checking the docs but it looks like something like the vCenter server I'm on should show up in inventory.  Need a little help getting started.

Dear all,

Hi I am working on Vsphere 5.5. My VMs are greyed out and are inaccessible, and my shared datastore is inactive, iscsi target server is up and working, all the paths and targets are visible, unable to find what's the problem. Kindly provide me a solution. Please find the attached screen shots.

Hi,

I have upgraded our vCenter from 5.5a to 5.5b and now every "old" system-domain user is having an empty inventory in the web client. In the standalone client everything is fine.

When I create a new user, everything is fine.

I have noticed an error message on top of the web client after log in with an old user: "Failed to initialize start-up services."

On the getting started screen of the home screen there is following information: "To get started, either install a vCenter Server system, or obtain access permission to an existing vCenter Server system."

Again, when I log in with a new created user, everything is fine.

old users are having "xxx@system-domain", new users "xxx@vsphere.local"

How can I get the old users back to their servers using the web client?

TIA

Sascha

Hi,

Very strange error.

Unable to activate services on VMKernel adapter when using a custom TCP/IP stack.

Added custom stack using this command :  esxcli network ip netstack add -N="10GB"

Using the GUI, to add the adapter to a normal vswitch.   When choosing the new stack,  all services are greyed out.  (when choosing them first on the other stack, then changing to new stack, it shows in the overview before pressing finish)

running on vcenter appliance 5.5 build 1440531

ESX 5.5.0 1439689   (VSAN release)

Any idea what could be wrong? 

As reported in http://communities.vmware.com/message/2020222 we are still experiencing the issue with vpxd consuming huge amounts of RAM and causing severe vCenter slowness.  This has gotten much worse recently.  We are hoping to renew the conversation on this, as it is becoming intollerable, and our efforts have so far failed. 

Configuratoin: VMware vCenter Server 5.0, update 1, version 5.0.0 build 623373.  Running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard SP1, in a virtual machine with 4 vCPUs and 8 GB of memory, SQL database on same machine.

When the issue opccurs, the main vCenter executable, vpxd.exe uses up all available memory, causing severe vCenter slowness, to the point where vSphere Client cannot connect, tasks fail due to timeouts, remote desktop to the machine are extremely slow and almost completely unusable.  After stop/start of vpxd.exe service, or restart the Windows VM, the issue initially clears, but then returns later. We are now seeing this more than once per day, sometime 3 - 4 times in a single day.

In more detail:

- Windows task manager reports 99% of  memory is consumed.  Typically, this is around 6.5 GB of memory consumed  by vpxd.exe.

- Before the issue occurs, vpxd is typically consuming around 330 MB memory (reasonable)

- Other large consumers are sqlservr.exe around 1.0 GB, java.exe around 820 MB + 380 MB (there are two processes), tomecat6.exe 690 MB.  We think these are probably normal, and they do not grow out of control like vpxd does.

- During the issue, CPU also becomes very high, near 100%, as seen through vSphere Client performance

- VM is running current VMware tools (8.6.5, build 652272)

Things we have tried:

- Upgraded to vCenter Server 5.0u1

- Rebalanced vCPUs (as suggested in other thread).  Initially was 4 CPUs on 1 socket, changed to 2 CPUs on 1 socket, now 4 CPUs split across 2 sockets.

- Moved to VM version 8

- Set service to autostart, delayed

- General cleanup -- removed a bunch of servies we are not using (Orchestrator, Update Manger...)

Any further suggestions, known issues, FIXES, whatever would be helpful! 

-- PeterB

Database logs below
[4/15/2013 10:58:28 AM] Info: Beginning upgrade process....
[4/15/2013 10:58:28 AM] Info: VMware VirtualCenter has been detected as a SQL server.
[4/15/2013 10:58:28 AM] Info: DSN=VMware VirtualCenter UID= LOGFILE=VCDatabaseUpgrade.log SERVICE=vctomcat;vpxd HELPPATH=null QUIET=true
[4/15/2013 10:58:28 AM] Stopping service vctomcat.
[4/15/2013 10:58:29 AM] Stopping service vpxd.
[4/15/2013 10:59:15 AM] Original recovery mode is SIMPLE
[4/15/2013 10:59:15 AM] Successfully run: alter database [VIM_VCDB] set recovery bulk_logged
[4/15/2013 10:59:15 AM] Preparing upgrade.
DELETE FROM VPX_TABLE
[4/15/2013 10:59:15 AM] Error in RunSqlScriptNonQuery(): Got exception: ERROR [42S02] [Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'VPX_TABLE'.
DELETE FROM VPX_INDEX_COLUMN
[4/15/2013 10:59:15 AM] Error in RunSqlScriptNonQuery(): Got exception: ERROR [42S02] [Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'VPX_INDEX_COLUMN'.
DELETE FROM VPX_SCHEMA_HASH
[4/15/2013 10:59:15 AM] Error in RunSqlScriptNonQuery(): Got exception: ERROR [42S02] [Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'VPX_SCHEMA_HASH'.
[4/15/2013 10:59:15 AM] Done preparing upgrade.
[4/15/2013 10:59:15 AM] Info: Initiating progress bar
[4/15/2013 10:59:15 AM] Total lines to execute: 0
[4/15/2013 10:59:15 AM] Info: Upgrading database from version 4.1 to version 5.0
[4/15/2013 10:59:15 AM] Upgrade-v410-to-vMN\MSSQL\upgrade_mssql.sql
[4/15/2013 10:59:16 AM] Error while upgrading: The device is not ready.

[4/15/2013 10:59:16 AM] Info: Exiting Upgrade Wizard
[4/15/2013 10:59:16 AM] Successfully run: alter database [VIM_VCDB] set recovery SIMPLE

Hello,

I can't telnet vCSA v5.1 U1c on port 902. No Firewalls involved.

How can I check, which service failed via SSH?

Thanks,

Thorsten

Just curious,

Is it documented somewhere that its good to plan the maintenance window or is it just one of those unwritten rules(read common sense) that we don't have any unwanted services/tasks running etc during the planned maintenance window. I know we never mess with PROD.. but how about DR/a test lab?

Regards

Girish

Hi, Experts

Sooner or later, we are going to deploy vSphere and vCenter to LTE Datacenter server so that I'd like to self-experiment on its function(HA, vMotion) in VMware Workstation

because I , sadly , don't have enough equipment on the hands. Welcome any technical advice~!!!

[Status]

Notebook has 8GB memory now.

I allocated 4GB on ESXi_1 and 2GB on ESXi_2 vm and installed vCneter Server Appliance on ESXi_1.

By installing vSphere(vCSA) client on host computer, conneting to vCSA encountered with some below issues.

[Obstacle]

[1]. Error message when I tried to connect vCenter

Could Not Connect:vSphere Client could not connect to "172.17.9.100".

An unknown connection error occurred.(The request failed because the remote server took too long to respond. (The operation has timed out)

[2]. Ping to vCenter from Notebook(Host) sometimes showed fluctuation of response time. Is it the root cause?? I wish I don't think so.

[Details]

vCenter Server Appliance Image

VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-5.1.0.10200-1235310_OVF10.ovf

VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-5.1.0.10200-1235310-data.vmdk

VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-5.1.0.10200-1235310-system.vmdk

ESXi Image

VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0.update01-1065491.x86_64.iso

VMware Workstation

9.0.0 build-812388

Physical Notebook

Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit 6.1.7601, Service Pack 1(8108 MB)

Assigned IP address (STATIC)

ESXi_1 : 172.17.9.10

ESXi_2 : 172.17.9.20

vCenter : 172.17.9.100

Notebook : 172.17.9.1

Warmest Regards,

Happy New Year!!!

Jeff

Not sure if I should have posted this in the ESXi 5 forum, so my apologies if this is the wrong place.

I have a four host (all ESXi 5.0) cluster in my vCenter (5.1) that has intermittent network issues. Each host is configured with a standard switch and identical vlans that all work. On occasion, and most notably after I've vmotioned vm's to different hosts, "some" virtual machines have the network cut out. There's no visible host issues, and the vm's operating systems are all still up when this happens, but they become unreachable. (no ping, no rdp, etc.) A quick fix is to toggle the network adapter by un-checking "Connected", then going right back in and re-checking "Connected" and the network instantly comes back.

I experienced this long ago and was able to fix it by adjusting the number of vSwitch ports on the hosts. Apparently I had more vm's in the cluster than I did vSwitch ports on each host, and I was told this can cause this exact problem. Unfortunately this is no longer the case as I have my hosts port number set much higher than my vm count in the cluster.

Does anyone know what I can do to test, investigate, or troubleshoot the issue? I'm not a network guy, so I'd like to do all I can on my side before engaging another team.

Thank you very much.

I migrated my databases to a new SQL server successfully.  I am now recreating the SQL jobs per article 2006097.  All worked except for the following:

I am getting error:

Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Line 36 (lines very depending on the job)

Invalid object name 'vpx_job_log'.

Thoughts?

We have vSphere Essentials using the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with two Dell PowerEdge R805 hosts. Both have identical hardware configurations and are generally working fine. Because these systems don't include the full Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC or iDRAC) option, we'd hoped to utilize the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) for IPMI feature set for remote power controls from within vSphere client, rather than some third-party Windows-based IPMI utility we'd never use otherwise.

I've confirmed they are both configured correctly and I can connect using a third-party IPMI utility to both.

On one host, I was able to fill out the settings under Host -> Configuration tab -> Software -> Power Management and when clicking Properties provide the Username, Password, BMC IP Address, and BMC MAC Address, and was able to save when I clicked OK.

On the other host, I get a "Connection Error" dialog and it states the request failed because the remote server took too long to respond.

Any ideas?