i need to create script that connect to esxi or vcenter and import the csv and shutdown the vms without confirmation not gracefully required. Also need to delete the VMs from datastore
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VM shutdown script
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connection to physical switch
hi all of you
i build an ESXi and i build on a vDs and standard switch, but it can't join external network.
thanks
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ESXi 5.0, build 623860 support for windows 2012 R2
Hi
what version or build do I need to be on on to support windows 2012 R2 vms?
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Full system hang with vmware sync / quiescing
I've got two linux VMs, one with a modern Gentoo kernel, and one running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. They are both displaying some nasty behavior when snapshotting or backing up. Both machines are mounting the same set of NFS shares via nfs4 from a Synology NAS. When performing a backup via VMware Data Protection, or a snapshot with filesystem quiescing enabled, both machines hang completely. They don't ever seem to un-hang without a force reset of power. Switching virtual consoles is still possible once the machines are in this state, but that's about it. Logging in or attempting to access any binaries just hangs forever.
A few finds:
1) Switching to nfsv3 resolves the issue.
2) Disabling filesystem quiescing in vmware tools via adding the following to tools.conf fixes the issue.
[vmbackup]
enableSyncDriver=false
3) Snapshots including memory, or snapshots without memory but also without filesystem quiescing, work fine in all cases.
Anyone seen this before? I've worked around this for now by disable the sync driver, but that seems like it shouldn't be needed.
4) My guess is that this related to the FIFREEZE ioctl that the vmware tools source code shows is being used to do the freeze.
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MS Cluster with ESXi 5.5
I'm trying to set up a two node cluster with Windows Server 2012 and ESXi 5.5. What I want to know is this: Can I use VMDK disks for the cluster shared storage, and if so, how do I go about configuring them?
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PSOD Error for HP DL380G8
Hi All,
One of the HP server was hung with PSOD error. Hardware model is DL380G8. Any idea why this error showing up ?
thanks
vmk2014.
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PowerOnVM_Task - The file specified is not a virtual disk - Power On virtual machine with multiple failure messages
Try to power on a vm and I get the following error messages:
Failed to start the virtual machine
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/54945749-.../ADMIN2vm.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on
Failed to lock the file
Module DiskEarly power on failed
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/54d56373-.../ADMIN2vm_vmdk' or one of the snapshot disk it depends o.
The file specified is not a virtual disk.
When the virtual server stared to fail, I though if I rebooted it I could get what I needed. I know the reason it was failing ws because the CL drive was just about completely full. I had configured it for 75 GB but I see the file size is 78 GB now. I also discovered that I could not log in to the vSphere Client for the esxi server with my AD account. I could log in usin gthe IP of the esxi server and root password. I ended up rebooting the esxi server and then found out I could not start the vm server. I could now log in to the esxi with my AD account though.
I had 2 hard drives, the OS - 2018R2 was the C: and it was on the datastore drive. the DL drive was on the storage drive. It had plenty of space left.
I tried mounting the D: drive to a new vm as a second drive but I got a similar message that it was not a vm drive. When I browsed to it's location to add the second drive, even though it had the same vmdk extension, it would not see it.
Not sure how catastrophic the problem is, a little worried since I built another vm on the same esxi box. Box was new last summer and is running esxi 5.5 on sd card as a standalone.
Would be great if I can get both drives running but right now, I would be extremely appreciative to get the second drive open on either a new or different server. I see that the data drive is 209 GB but was configured for 200 GB. Both drives configured for Thin provisioning.
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ESXi 5.5 HCL for Supermicro server
Hi Everyone,
I am planning on buying a Supermicro server to run ESXi 5.5 on:
1027R-WRF
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/1027/SYS-1027R-WRF.cfm
However on the HCL it does not show ESXi 5.5 compatibility yet for this server. Is it because ESXi 5.5 is too new? It shows ESXi compatibility for ALL other versions.
Similarly, there are some Supermicro servers that ONLY show compatibility with ESXi 5.5. Like the
| SYS-1027R-WRFT+ |
Supermicro | Products | SuperServers | 1U | 1027R-WRFT+
AND
| SYS-6017R-TDF |
Supermicro | Products | SuperServers | 1U | 6017R-TDF
But the difference between these servers (ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 5.1 servers) is almost negligible. Any advice?
Also how stable has everyone seen ESXi 5.5 be? I am planning on running 2xE5-2690v2 Processors so I want to use the ESXi 5.5 release so I am not limited to how many vCPUs I can allocate to my VMs. But reliability to me is also a concern since this release is so new. What would you recommend?
Thanks
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backups fail due to VSS
I am not sure where to post this as it concerns multiple elements, but since the problem started when i upgraded VMTools on certain servers, I am starting with VMWare.
I moved some VMs from a downlevel VCenter to Vcenter 5.5, so they had the down-level VMTools version installed. The VM's came from several different versions of Vcenters. After the move, they ran with the old tools version for a few months with no issues.
We use Appassure for backups and all was working fine, again for several months.
As soon as I upgraded the VMTools on these servers, 5 of them failed their Appassure backups. This is the error on the job:
There was a problem with the VSS subsystem on <server>. The system was unable to flush I/O writes. This can be a transient problem. It is recommended to wait ten minutes and try again, up to three times.
I confirmed that the VSS driver was installed within the VMTools
When I run 'vssadmin list writers', various VSS writers show as Timed Out. All of the failing servers have some failed writers in common, but a few of the servers have additional failed writers.
A reboot fixes the issue, but only temporarily. I can get one backup, but the next backup will fail and the writers are Timed Out again.
I am not sure where to troubleshoot. I know VSS is an OS function, but it's really odd that as soon as i upgraded the VMTools, VSS broke.
I have uninstalled/reinstalled the VMTools, but nothing changed.
'VSSAdmin list providers' only shows Microsoft
The failing servers all have VSS events: 12289, 12297,12340,12341
The servers have plenty of drive space and are not taxed, resource-wise.
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ESXi 5.1 CPU Utilization at peak 100% Post update
Hi All,
I just did esxi 5.1 patch update and what i see post update all the host in the cluster is taking 100% CPU utilization.
Before update - ESXi 5.1.0 2323236
After Update - ESXi 5.1.0 2583090
Dell PowerEdge R720
BIOS Version - 2.4.3
Firmware version - 1.66.65 (Build 07)
when i see the VM's utilization, VM is not at all using the memory and CPU only the host shows as 100%.
Am i missing some thing , post patching is this kind of bug. does any one faced similar issue.
Thanks a ton in Advance
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What's the best way to setup this virtual server?
I have an old application (Solomon) running on a Windows 2003 terminal server. The server was a physical running on an HP BL20p G3 but was then P2V'd with VMware Converter and is a VMware virtual machine, VM version 8, with 4 CPUs, 2 cores each and 8GB RAM. In its virtual state, the server never runs more than 5% CPU. The underlying architecture is Cisco UCS blade server B200 M3 connected to EMC VNX5300 SAN.
The physical server never ran over 40% CPU cycles, but when the users log into the terminal server and run Solomon, it only uses one core of a multi-core processor. The problem was that although the CPU never went 100%, the core which was running that instance of Solomon did, and caused delays for the users, and is why we never got any alerts from our monitoring platform showing any issues.
So, no matter how many processors I add to the terminal server, it still uses 100% of one core of any processor and this is the issue which is causing slowness for our users. So my question is, how can I best setup this server so that the users get the best experience?
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Dell PowerEdge C6100 install VMware ESXi 5.5, can not recongnize raid5 disk.
I intend to ESXi installed on C6100 server. C6100 has three SATA hard drives, these three form a hard disk RAID5, BIOS version 1.7 (which should be Dell Inc 1.7, I guess). During the installation process, prompted me to select a disk to save the ESXi installation file, you can select the disk actually has three, which means that the current system does not recognize the disk RAID5
I tried to install on this server windows 2008 operating system, can identify RAID5 disk, rather than as three separate disks.
I also tried to install the same disk and RAID card on a R710, install ESXi 5.5, three disks can be identified as a RAID5 disk, rather than as three separate disks.
Has anyone encountered the same problem? Is there any solution?
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ESXI550-201504401-BG
In Update Manager i see a number of patches for ESXI550 released on 30/04/2015, but all the kb links are invalid.
Are these patches no longer valid?
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Moving VCS from one server to another along with DB
Hi,
I've just inherited a ESXi5 and Vcenter 5.5 environment.
Vcenter is running on a server 2008r2 server with an SQLexp Db, the server is very cluttered with other management tools and applications.
What would be the easiest way to move my VCS (and SQLexp Db) onto a new dedicated server? I would prefer if possible to not to have to start all the configuration from scratch.
Thanks
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Downloading VMDK files to external drive
Hello,
I need to download the VMDK files off of a bunch of our VM's so we can move it over to another physical location. What is the best way to accomplish this? I tried downloading them to a USB hard drive but it takes extremely long. Thanks in advance.
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vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and supporting VMware has turn to SH**!
Yes - that's what I said - this has gone far enough and its time the user community took a stand to let VMware know how horrible the web client is, it is tantamount to my worst user interface experience in 20 years of IT.
Attention VMware - this is really simple - all the money you wasted developing this could have been spent in other areas. you are forcing GARBAGE on your customer base, and for that you will eventually crash and burn, its only a matter of time. Hasn't the thousands upon thousands of posts about this sunk in yet?? Hello?
Purpose of this post is simple and obvious... please refrain from your A** kissing pitch about cloud this and that... don't need to hear it. and I could care less about managing a complex infrastructure from an android or ipad, its ridiculous to expect someone to squeeze the mountains of information that needs to be at your finger tips quickly to efficiently manage a VMware infrastructure on a tiny screen...
If I wasn't totally pissed off with having to use this client I wouldn't have posted this VENTING..
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Automate the creation of OVA
Hi,
One of our engineers wrote a quick and dirty script that creates a VM, runs it with install media, installs the OS then stops the VM and creates an OVA, then the OVA gets extracted so some of the configuration options can be changes and then repackaged. The script is run on the ESXi host.
Surely there is a better way of doing this via the API's, I have seen perl scripts for creating machines etc, but thus far I can't see much for creating OVAs with custom configurations. I have googled, unless I'm using the wrong search terms I haven't found anything useful.
How can I automate the creation of OVA post install of the VM, can this be done via APIs ?
Thank you.
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Snapshot issue
Good day all,
I am having a serious issue with my VM. In fact i accidentally reverted to a snapshot dated 4 or 5 month back. As consequences i lost all data on the VM.
My configuration is VMware VSphere 5.0, Windows server 2008 R2 on servver HP Proliant DL380P G8.
Is there any possibility to come back to the situation where i was before this?
Regards,
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Esecuzione ghettoVCB lentissima
Buongiorno a tutti.
Scenario: server esxi 5.5 con diverse vm (su datastore locale) collegato a nas esterno, realizzato con FreeNas, utilizzato come datastore per i backup.
Per i backup delle vm utilizzo ghettoVCB.
Le prime volte che lo utilizzavo i backup venivamo eseguiti in tempi rapidi mentre ultimamente, pur non avendo le vm subito modifiche, l'esecuzione di ghetto è lentissima. Ad esempio il backup di una vm di 15Gb che inizialmente impiegava circa 10min, ora impiega diverse ore.
Quale potrebbe essere la causa?
Grazie.
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VM contention within a resource pool
- I have 3 VMs.
- Each VM needs to be guaranteed 2GHz, but I don't want per-vm reservations.
- I created a cluster resource pool with a 6Ghz reservation.
What happens if there is contention and the reservation kicks in, but then within the resource pool these VMs compete for the 6GHz available to the resource pool?
Do they get assigned shares of the available 6GHz based on the number of vCPus they have (1000 shares per vcpu)?
If so I can't guarantee them each 2Ghz - but I need to avoid per-vm reservations.
Ideas? Thanks!
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