I am trying to solve a problem, We are looking to move virtual VCenter Server and DB server to a new physical datacenter without moving physical host or storage or using SRM. Anyone can help solve this problem.

I'm not sure where to post this so if this is the wrong area, please move it.

I'm having a problem with my vsphere 5.5 vcenter client. When I try to log in to our server it sits at "Connection..." in the lower left of the window. If I right click on the shortcut and run as a different user, the logon works fine. I ran Process Monitor but don't see anything out of the ordinary that would be causing the issue. Does anyone have any suggestions? BTW, I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling but get the same result.

Hi -

I would like to know how Datastore heart beat is used to facilitate HA in a Vspehere clusters.

If I have isolation response set to "leave powered on" will management network unavailability restart the Virtual machines in the cluster?

Can we boot from SAN for Multiple ESXi host from a single LUN?

Can we have shared ESXi hypervisor installation for multiple Host with CISCO UCS or any platform?

Can we have a single datastore with multiple ESXi hypervisors installed for more than one host?

Just had to stand up a fresh VCSA - 5.1 U2.

SSO has been configured to use secure LDAP and works fine in that I can login via the web client or with VI Client using DOMAIN\Username or Username with my domain password.

However if I check the box to "Use Windows Session Credentials" I simply get a "A general system error occurred: gss_acquire_cred failed".

Googling doesn't throw up much - would anyone have any ideas before I log a ticket please?

Thanks

Hi

I was wondering if anyone could help me with an issue that I am having please, I have a physical server running esxi with 4 virtual servers on it

3 of these are used daily in our work operations, the fourth is solely for vCenter, on this server we have all the vCentre applications installed (SSO, web client, vcenter  etc)

when I attempt to log into the web client I enter the credentials and it attempts to authenticate with the following message

Failed to connect to VMware lookup Service -

https://10.1.10.14:7444/lookupservice/sdk

which is correct because... we aren't using the IP address 10.1.10.14, this server address is 10.1.10.10

as the web client is using the address https://localhost:9443/vsphere-client/

I would assume the program would point to 10.1.10.10 instead

So I have two questions arising from this

1) Can anyone tell me how to get the web client to access 10.1.10.10 instead of 10.1.10.14

2) if that's not possible if I uninstall all the vcenter applications and reinstall them will it cause users to be unable to access the other servers whilst I'm doing that?

Thanks for reading

We recently upgraded from vCenter 5.5 U1 to vCenter 5.5 U2.  I didn't notice till several days afterward that plugins in the Web Client were completely not-functional.  We had the Networker plugin that has disappeared and cannot be reinstalled.  I upgraded Infrastructure Navigator to the latest version and it failed.  I worked with VMware support on unregistering the Infrastructure Navigator extension through the mob and redeploying the vm.  The functionality from it won't reappear in the Web Client.  The EMC VSI client will not show up in the Web Client and the Cisco UCS plugin will not function.  These are just the plugins that I have noticed so far.  When I look in the C# client I see that the plugins are there in the Available Plug-ins without any errors.  All the plug-ins in the Available Plug-ins say No client side download is needed for this plug-in and I presume that is because they are all part of the Web Client and not the C# client.  Additionally, the plug-ins show up in the mob.  Presently, I've been working with VMware support for over two weeks with no results.  Has anybody experienced a similar issue before and could you fill me in on the fix?  Thanks for your help.

I upgraded my vCenter to 5.5 from 5.1 and it works except the Web Client has incorrect inventory data.  It is missing some VMs and has some ghost VMs that don't actually exist.  There aren't any error messages that suggest the server is malfunctioning.  The really strange thing is that when I connect with the vSphere Client on Windows, everything is correct there.  Also Veeam shows all the correct inventory when it connects to the vCenter server.  So its only the Web Client that is wrong.  Has anyone experienced this or have any ideas on how to force the Web Client to refresh?

edit: forgot to mention this is VCSA

I deployed win7 vm through Temp when i am login in to the machine gets automatically log off screen appearing. Any one can guide me to solve the issue.

Hi,

When installing vCenter server update 2d, the database Options are greyed out for DB User Name and Password.

Hi,

I just installed vmware vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012 but Vmware services not started so I cannot connect to the vcenter via vClient.

When I try to start VMware services manually I get an error "Error 1075: The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion."

Please help

Thanks,

Hello everyone,

I try to export VM to OVF located to local disk hit an error  "Failed to Export Virtual Machine: The Operation has Timed Out."

Repro ENV:

VM size: C disk 2TB with 200GB used,D disk 2TB with 600GB used

vSphere Client :5.5.0

VMware vCenter Server:5.5.0

VMware Server:5.5.0

Repro Steps:

1.Shutdown the VM and export OVF template to local storage with size 1TB.

2.About 5 mins later, an error message shows "Failed to Export Virtual Machine: The Operation has Timed Out."

Did anyone hit the issue an get resolved? Pls share it to me , it would be an big help to me, thx ahead..

Hi,

I tried install VMware Client Integration Plugin 6.0 for deploy new vCenter Server VA and I received this error:

There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.

A program run as part of the setup did finish as expected.

Contact your support personnel or package vendor.

On the background is a window with status:

Installing certificates and starting services...

In folder %TEMP% is log file vmmsi.log_<date_time>_Failed.log

Key data:

14:24:29:296]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=CsdServiceInstall,Description=Installing certificates and starting service...,)

Action 14:24:29: CsdServiceInstall. Installing certificates and starting service...

MSI (s) (60:34) [14:24:29:306]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=CsdServiceInstall,ActionType=3090,Source=C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Client Integration Plug-in 6.0\vmware-csd.exe,Target=--install,)

CustomAction CsdServiceInstall returned actual error code 3 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)

MSI (s) (60:34) [14:24:29:936]: Note: 1: 1722 2: CsdServiceInstall 3: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Client Integration Plug-in 6.0\vmware-csd.exe 4: --install

MSI (s) (60:34) [14:24:29:936]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: Error

MSI (s) (60:34) [14:24:29:936]: Note: 1: 2228 2:  3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1722

Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.  Action CsdServiceInstall, location: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Client Integration Plug-in 6.0\vmware-csd.exe, command: --install

MSI (s) (60:34) [14:24:32:005]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: Error

MSI (s) (60:34) [14:24:32:005]: Note: 1: 2228 2:  3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1709

MSI (s) (60:34) [14:24:32:005]: Product: VMware Client Integration Plug-in 6.0.0 -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.  Action CsdServiceInstall, location: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Client Integration Plug-in 6.0\vmware-csd.exe, command: --install

Unfortunately I couldn't find out the reason of error from this log.

After my extremely long researching I find out

that subprocess vmware-csd (creating keys and certificetes) logs into the folder C:\ProgramData\VMware\CIP\csd\logs

Example of the log file (csd_000x.log) in troublefree installation:

[2015-03-16 16:30:39] [INFO] Certificate registered!!!

[2015-03-16 16:30:39] [INFO] Changes to the hosts file were successful.

[2015-03-16 16:30:39] [INFO] Changes to the hosts file were successful.

[2015-03-16 16:30:39] [INFO] Successful install of CSD protocol handler.

In my case log file ended:

[2015-03-16 16:30:39] [INFO] Certificate registered!!!

There were missing records about some modification of file hosts.

Reason:

Installer will fail, if the file hosts.bak exists there before running installation of VMware Client Integration Plugin 6.0 !

Solution:

Rename or delete file hosts.bak in folder C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\

Good Luck.

P.S.

Deacivate any antivirus before starting the installation of VMware Client Integration Plugin 6.0

OK, I've done much testing on this and it works.

Now, I have a VM with an attached iSCSI LUN. Is there any way to configure the Flash Read Cache to cache the iSCSI disk blocks?

I ask because typically our SQL Servers will use all iSCSI disks through a dedicated set of switches for backend traffic.

I would like to take advantage of the SSD Flash caching if possible.

Thanks

After spending time getting a DNS server running in the lab at home I end up stuck here. I'll probably just skip the upgrade and re-install the new version, but on the off chance there's an easy fix to this I thought I'd post it. I'm able to get the log bundle from the web admin side of my current vcsa, so I know it works. Not sure what the migration tool might be doing that prevents it from getting the logs. Not even sure why it's necessary. I've unchecked the box for performance data migration just in case that was it, but it didn't make any difference.

Hi all,

Wow I can say I have had the worst experience with 5.1 upgrade.

I have never had an issue upgrading of vSphere since v3.0.2 but I guess I was bound to hit a snag eventually

I had planned to upgrade my environment of 200 hosts and 4000 virtuals from 5 to 5.1. Made sure all pre reqs were meant and then proceeded with the first vCenter which is about 60 hosts and 2000 virtuals.

SSO installed fine,

vCenter inventory service upgraded fine,

vCenter Server upgraded bummed out with the 26002 error not being able to register with inventory service. then rolled back... they should of called it completely uninstall, not roll back.

Proceeded to install again from scratch... same error.

Removed the SSL folder install worked fine but profile storage service bummed out,

Finally got the install working and the vcenter database was screwed.

so thought I would quit while I was down and rolled back the snapshot of the vcenter and asked the DBAs to restore the database.... DBAs oops we over wrote the backup and we only keep one day.... WTF!!!!

So I bite the bullet and spent 2 days without sleep and rebuilt everything from scratch. new vcenter, new database, new inventory install, new SSO install. and then attached the 60 ESXi 5 hosts.

Now everything looked to be running ok but I have an issue, the ESXi hosts will all disconnect then reconnect seconds later everytime this happens causes the vcenter to hit 100% cpu and become unresposive untill all the ESXi hosts have reconnected, this is annoying as things like vmotions etc will fail due to the disconnects.

I am getting some SSL EOF/ backtrace in the VPXD logs, I currently have my VMware TAM taking it back to the Engineers but thought I would post to see if anyone has seen this. I dont use CA certs just the standard self signed per default install.

My plan is to upgrade the Hosts to 5.1 but just want to make sure the vCenter is fine first.

I cant upload logs or anything due to the secure site But I will attach below a snippet of the errors seen when the disconnects happen. I have seen similar errors but they dont fit with what im seeing.

 
2012-09-29T00:04:54.345+10:00 [04556 error 'Default'] SSLStreamImpl::DoClientHandshake for SSL(TCPClientSocket(this=00000000ae5ef0b0, state=CONNECTED, _connectSocket=TCP(fd=-1), error=(null)) TCPStreamWin32(socket=TCP(fd=66872) local=vcenterIP:3758,  peer=hostIP:443)): SSL_connect failed with Unexpected EOF
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [06624 error 'Default'] SSLStreamImpl::DoClientHandshake for SSL(TCPClientSocket(this=00000000ae5fa0f0, state=CONNECTED, _connectSocket=TCP(fd=-1), error=(null)) TCPStreamWin32(socket=TCP(fd=67984) local=0.0.0.0:3757,  peer=hostip:443)): SSL_connect failed with Unexpected EOF
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [04556 error 'HttpConnectionPool-000000'] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:0000000081188820, TCP:host4.local:443>; cnx: (null), error: class Vmacore::Ssl::SSLException(SSL Exception: Unexpected EOF)
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [06624 error 'HttpConnectionPool-000000'] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:000000008ac4bab0, TCP:host13.local:443>; cnx: (null), error: class Vmacore::Ssl::SSLException(SSL Exception: Unexpected EOF)
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [11868 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=HB-host-310@1498093-59042227] [VpxdHostSync] GetChanges host:host1.local (IP Address) [GetChangesTime] took 42281 ms
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [11868 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=HB-host-310@1498093-59042227] [VpxdHostSync] DoHostSync:000000000A1D5660 [DoHostSyncTime] took 42281 ms
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [11868 warning 'vpxdvpxdInvtHostCnx' opID=HB-host-310@1498093-59042227] [VpxdInvtHostSyncHostLRO] DoHostSync failed for host host-310
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [11868 warning 'vpxdvpxdInvtHostCnx' opID=HB-host-310@1498093-59042227] [VpxdInvtHostSyncHostLRO] Host sync failed to host-310
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [11868 error 'vpxdvpxdInvtHostCnx' opID=HB-host-310@1498093-59042227] [VpxdInvtHostSyncHostLRO] FixNotRespondingHost failed for host host-310, marking host as notResponding
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [07776 error 'Default'] SSLStreamImpl::DoClientHandshake for SSL(TCPClientSocket(this=000000009f5e2a20, state=CONNECTED, _connectSocket=TCP(fd=-1), error=(null)) TCPStreamWin32(socket=TCP(fd=63436) local=vcenterIP:3763,  peer=HostIP:443)): SSL_connect failed with Unexpected EOF
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [10592 info 'vpxdvpxdVmomi' opID=HB-host-1772@1212909-1f45a976] [ClientAdapterBase::InvokeOnSoap] Invoke done (host14.local, vpxapi.VpxaService.retrieveChanges)
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [07776 error 'HttpConnectionPool-000000'] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:0000000089de4520, TCP:host10.local:443>; cnx: (null), error: class Vmacore::Ssl::SSLException(SSL Exception: Unexpected EOF)
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [02892 error 'vpxdvpxdVmomi' opID=HB-host-1884@255600-2cfa0bd7] [VpxdClientAdapter] Got vmacore exception: SSL Exception: Unexpected EOF
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [02892 error 'vpxdvpxdVmomi' opID=HB-host-1884@255600-2cfa0bd7] [VpxdClientAdapter] Backtrace:
--> backtrace[00] rip 0000000180100c98 
--> backtrace[01] rip 0000000180101fae 
--> backtrace[02] rip 000000018008aeab 
--> backtrace[03] rip 0000000180004eb4 
--> backtrace[04] rip 000000018011fea2 
--> backtrace[05] rip 000000018005d1fc 
--> backtrace[06] rip 00000001800523dc 
--> backtrace[07] rip 000000018011a0e5 
--> backtrace[08] rip 00000001801a9668 
--> backtrace[09] rip 00000001801a9aed 
--> backtrace[10] rip 00000001801ab260 
--> backtrace[11] rip 000000018019b62a 
--> backtrace[12] rip 0000000078622fdf 
--> backtrace[13] rip 0000000078623080 
--> backtrace[14] rip 0000000077d6b71a 
--> backtrace[15] rip 0000000000000000 
--> 
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [08720 error 'Default'] SSLStreamImpl::DoClientHandshake for SSL(TCPClientSocket(this=00000000a2a7fa70, state=CONNECTED, _connectSocket=TCP(fd=-1), error=(null)) TCPStreamWin32(socket=TCP(fd=62428) local=vcenterIP:3766,  peer=hostip:443)): SSL_connect failed with Unexpected EOF
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [08720 error 'HttpConnectionPool-000000'] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:000000000997f640, TCP:host16.local:443>; cnx: (null), error: class Vmacore::Ssl::SSLException(SSL Exception: Unexpected EOF)
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [07920 error 'vpxdvpxdVmomi' opID=HB-host-1740@75877-52bb6b88] [VpxdClientAdapter] Got vmacore exception: SSL Exception: Unexpected EOF
2012-09-29T00:04:54.361+10:00 [07920 error 'vpxdvpxdVmomi' opID=HB-host-1740@75877-52bb6b88] [VpxdClientAdapter] Backtrace:
--> backtrace[00] rip 0000000180100c98 
--> backtrace[01] rip 0000000180101fae 
--> backtrace[02] rip 000000018008aeab 
--> backtrace[03] rip 0000000180004eb4 
--> backtrace[04] rip 000000018011fea2 
--> backtrace[05] rip 000000018005d1fc 
--> backtrace[06] rip 00000001800523dc 
--> backtrace[07] rip 000000018011a0e5 
--> backtrace[08] rip 00000001801a9668 
--> backtrace[09] rip 00000001801a9aed 
--> backtrace[10] rip 00000001801ab260 
--> backtrace[11] rip 000000018019b62a 
--> backtrace[12] rip 0000000078622fdf 
--> backtrace[13] rip 0000000078623080 
--> backtrace[14] rip 0000000077d6b71a 
--> backtrace[15] rip 0000000000000000 
--> 

 

Any ideas?

Bonjour,

Après la migration de qlq machines virtuel vers une autre banque de données , je remarque qu'il sont tjr affiché dans l'onglets de machines virtuel de leur ex-banque données et dans la nouvelle banque de données aussi !! mais quand je fais parcourir la banque de données , je trouve la VM dans la nouvelle banque et non pas pour l'ancienne ! 

j'ai actualisé la page et tjr mm affichage  ,

c'est une erreur d'affichage dans vCenter 5.1 ??

A plus

Greetings,

I have 2 vCenter servers - PROD / DR
Both are currently vCenter 5.5 2b - Windows 2008 R2

When updating to 5.5 Update 2d from 2b - I got the message that I need to upgrade via Custom Install.

I updated vCenter Server and / Web-Client / Inventory. Do I also need to update Single Sign-On?

As when I do it's requesting I chose: Standalone / High Avail or Multisite.

Which should I chose if this is the DR to another vCenter instance?

Email events sent out from system defined notifications contain a body with missing info:

Previous Status: Yellow

New Status: Green

Alarm Definition:

([Event alarm expression: Hardware Health Changed; Status = Green] OR [Event alarm expression: Hardware Health Changed; Status = Yellow] OR [Event alarm expression: Hardware Health Changed; Status = Red])

Event details:

Health of  changed from  to .

Anyone else seeing this?

Thanks!

New to the VMware server system, have used workstation many times before but this is a different game.  Our company is moving to virtual, we purchased a new server which is now set up with ESXi5.5. I am running vSphere and working with VMware support on installing vCenter server. We have two more hosts that will be incorporated in, both running windows os  (2008R2 and 2012R2) with hyper-v machines running essential services. My question is has anyone migrated hyper-v servers and was it a good process? Also, based on installing ESXi on this server (wiped out the installed os) will this have to be done on each server, causing substantial changes to our system? I understand we can move all the services/functions of each host into new VMs but does that have to be done?

Thanks,

Marc