Hi

I need to consolidate a VM but when I try get this error:

This virtual machine has 255 or more redo logs in a single branch of its snapshot tree. The maximum supported limit has been reached, creating new snapshots will not be allowed. To create new snapshots, please delete old snapshots or consolidate the redo logs.

but the snapshot console is empy this cause faild Backup with Veeam

In Veean get this error: Creating snapshot
Error: Snapshot hierarchy is too deep.

I've WMware vsphere 5.1

Thanks in advance

Max

Hi all,

Sorry...I posted this originally under ESXi4, which is not correct.

Ok....for whatever reason today all hell broke loose on my VMWare Cluster.

vCenter 5.1

3 Hosts connected, at least they were on Friday (HP Gen8 DL380p, 2 x Xeon, 128Gb Mem)

Today I come in and low and behold, two of three hosts are no longer connected.

Follow a few KB articles. One says to log in locally to Host,

remove vpxuser:Done.

Restart MGMT agents:Done

Re add host back into venter.

Fail fail fail.

Error is: Failed to configure the VIM account on host.

Submit Error Report link on same error popup takes me to the KB 2004667, which tells me to do exactly what I just did. This still fails.

Cannot "putty" in..."Server unexpectedly closed network connection" I assume this is because there is no longer a vpxuser account????

I have VM's running on this host that I CANNOT......lets reiterate....that I CANNOT SHUT DOWN.

We run 24/7/365 and I do not have the luxury of stopping and starting VM's at will. I cannot reboot this Host...unless I can vmotion these VM's off, which is not an option because of these 2 Hosts NOT being in the cluster anymore.

Going back into the console to look at logs. pressing numeric keys for log files....does nothing, screen flashes thats about it.

So I am hooped.

On the second host, I have not yet removed the vpxuser account, so when I try an add this Host back into the Cluster I get this error: (Image attached)

But this still has the VIM account issue.

Why or how can this happen??

Any assistance would be grateful.

Hello everybody,

We have a strange problem since we migrated some hosts in ESX 5.5...

On our cluster, 14 hosts are in 5.5 and 2 are still in 5.1 (we stopped the migration when we stumbled on this problem... Here it is :

Our biggests vm (> 500 Gb provisionned) are reporting incorrect "Used Storage" (and "Not-Shared Storage btw). These vms are in thin provisionning.

The datastores they are located in are all in VMFS 5.54 (this problem is on all our datastores, not just only one)

If we perform a vmotion to an ESX 5.1 host, this problem disappear, but it's back with a vmotion back to 5.5...

Our storage is provided by 2 datacore hosts, San-Symphony V 9.0 PSP3.

I attached 2 screenshots showing my problem...

anybody here already experienced this problem ?

Thanks, and best wishes to you all,

V-

Damian Karlson created a great script to download the 2013 vmworld videos (including PowerCLI ones of course) with powershell.

Has anyone come up with a modified version for 2014 yet?

Here is the original posting

Automate All The VMworld US 2013 Session Downloads

Thanks!

Hi there,

for monitoring vSAN I tried to login to RVC on a VC-Appliance (Name: vcva2, Version: 5.5.0 Update 1c). So I log into vcva2 with ssh and issue the command "rvc root@localhost". I'm asked for a password - I enter my root-PW and after a while the prompt for the password reappears. No error message, no successful login.

On another VC-Appliance (Name: vcva1, Version: 5.5.0 Update 1c) login to rvc after ssh to vcva1 works without a problem.

Now I've no idea how to troubleshoot this problem. Is there any logfile? Or can I turn on debug mode? Unfortunately I'm completely unfamiliar with Ruby... I assume, that RVC uses the standard way of authentication and authorization as all other tools in vSphere - correct?!?

BTW: Authentication in the environment controlled by vcva2 is OK, I can e.g. administer my infrastructure with user root via the web client (I've assigned this user the Administrator-Role in the inventroy).

Any help very appreciated.

Best regrads,

Christian

Hi everyone,

I am looking for power Cli script for Standard sw Please assist me with the PowerCLi script to be executed against one VCenter server to gather each VMHost (ESXi) Networking configuration as in Configuration tab | Networking | View: vSphere Standard Switch

Note :- We are using  standard Swtich configurations in our vcenter.Also is it possible to list which vms are particular vlan id.

For Example here as follows:

Standard Switch:vSwitch0

VMkernel port

vmk1 10.1.1.x  | Vlan 160

Management Network

vmk0:10.1.1.x  | Vlan 130

ESX01

  vSwitch0, vmnic3, vmnic4

  Service Console 2

  vmk2: 10.1.1.4 | VLAN 1

  Management Network

  vmk1: 10.1.2.1 | VLAN 2

  VMotion

  vmk2: 10.1.3.1 | VLAN 3

  vSwitch1, vmnic2, vmnic1 vmnic0

  VLAN 45

  VLAN 12

  MS Cluster Heart Beat Network

  VLAN 8

ESX02

  vSwitch0, vmnic3, vmnic4

  Service Console 2

  vmk2: 10.2.1.4 | VLAN 1

  Management Network

  vmk1: 10.2.2.1 | VLAN 2

  VMotion

  vmk2: 10.2.3.1 | VLAN 3

  vSwitch1, vmnic2, vmnic1 vmnic0

  VLAN 45

  VLAN 12

  MS Cluster Heart Beat Network

  VLAN 8

...

Any type of format will do in CSV as long as the information can be used to create the vSwitch manually on each ESX host.

This is just in case I need to rebuild one of the ESX / ESXi host in the event of the ESX to ESXi upgrade went wrong which requires me to rebuild the server from scratch.

Thanks

vm2014

Sorry but I accidentally marked my previous discussion as answered and I can't figure out how to undo that. The problem has not been solved yet so I'm reposting:

I need to get my ubuntu vm connected to the network. This is my first foray into using vmware and virtualization in general. I really have no clue what I'm doing here.

I have an esxi 5.5 server running bare metal on a xeon server, and using the trial version of vSphere client 5.5 on my Windows laptop I've created and deployed my first vm using an ubuntu 12.04 LTS iso image.

I've installed the vmWare tools using default setting on the ubuntu guest vm. It complained about no X support but seemed to install alright since the vmware-toolbox-cmd command seems to function.

The esxi server has an ip address of 184.164.130.34, and the network admins have provided the ip range 184.164.130.34 to 184.164.130.38 to use. So I configured ubuntu to use an ip address of 184.164.130.35.

What am I missing here? Must I assign that vm ip address 184.164.130.35 somewhere in the vSphere client?

Here is a picture of my network config in vSphere:

Here is the pic of the ifconfig output from the ubuntu guest vm:

here is the pic of /etc/network/interfaces:

here's what happens when I try to ping the host esxi server from this guest vm:

Any help here is much appreciated! Thanks!

What is this message in my Event Log telling me?   Can it be fixed?

The application (VMware Player, from vendor VMware, Inc.) has the following problem: To function properly, VMware Player must be reinstalled after you upgrade Windows.

This is a simple deployment.

Single IBM x3500 host with internal storage.

(2) RAID 5 Arrays - a 3-disk SAS array, and a 3-disk SATA array.

24GB RAM

2x 4-core CPU

(2) Windows VM's - each has 4 vCPU, 12gb RAM.

The Windows SBS2011 VM has disks on the SAS and (user data) on SATA arrays.

The vCenter/Veeam VM (2008r2) is completely on the SATA array.

I have been experiencing deteriorating performance over months now, and I can't find the cause.  It seems to be getting worse, and affecting user perception.

VMware logs (and events in the vSphere console) suggest a disk issue.  I've talked to IBM and submitted several diagnostic logs with do not show any hardware failure.

Symptoms are intermittent:

- take a snapshot.  Completes in < 2 minutes

- delete snapshot immediately.  takes 2 hours.

- take snapshot. completes in 2 minutes

- delete snapshot.  takes < 3 minutes.

- take a snapshot.  completes in 1.5 hours

- delete snapshot.  takes 15 min.

When the process is taking a long time, I get VMware latency warnings.

VMware events:

Device

naa.600605b00227fbb015464114391b9a36

performance has deteriorated. I/O latency

increased from average value of 14051

microseconds to 893995 microseconds.

warning

10/14/2014 2:42:26 PM

Device

naa.600605b00227fbb015464114391b9a36

performance has improved. I/O latency reduced

from 893995 microseconds to 174626

microseconds.

info

10/14/2014 2:42:27 PM

Just installed October 14th Windows patches on Win 81 64 bit.

After that and several reboots I get the error below

when trying to launch any of my VM's with VMWare Player 6.03.

The host has 6 GB of memory of which  4 GB is available and the guest memory is set to 700  - 1200 MB.

The log contains

2014-10-14T21:41:34.975+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: Msg_Reset:

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini": Unknown error 2 (0x2).

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: ----------------------------------------

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: ConfigDB: Failed to load C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: Msg_Reset:

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini": Unknown error 2 (0x2).

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: ----------------------------------------

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: ConfigDB: Failed to load C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)

2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)

Restoring Windows to the state prior to the updates without any other action allows to start the VM's

Doe not happen on WIndows 7 64 bit.

My conclusion is that the patch breaks VMWare Player or the Windows configuration VMWare player is using.

All,

  I am researching VCAC and also have it partially working in my lab.  What I am trying to figure out is what exactly are the different use cases for vco vs designer.  Are they both used?  Is one replacing the other?  When would one be used as opposed to another?

I have an HP Pavilion g6.

8GB RAM

Intel HD 4000

i3 3110 m 2.4GHz processor.

Best settings for MAC OS X 10.8.3?

Thank you.

I am running VMware installed from VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-1331820-HP-5.72.27-Feb2014.iso on a USB stick -- in an HP N54L Microserver.

Everything works fine -- except this image has the annoying trait of not updating certain hardware status sensor information correctly, so I am trying upgrade to a more recent one.

I have tried a number of different, more recent HP-specific images, and all of them are doing the same thing -- they are saying that there is no ESXi installation on the USB stick, and they therefore do not offer me the option to upgrade my installation.

They all see the stick, and appear to identify it correctly, but they all say that ESXi is not there.

This is clearly not the case, because I can then remove the CD and boot to the USB stick and it and all of my VMs operate normally.

Does anyone know what might be causing this?

Thank you!

Hello,

I'm seeing an issue with Windows 8.1 VM I'm publishing in using PCoIP. The Metro Start Screen renders very slowly. Curious if anyone else has expericed this and has found a fix. The Hosts we are using are Cisco UCSB-B200-M3. I have tried increasing the vRAM, but that has not resolved the issue. I have used the VMware OS Optimzation tool to Optimize the OS. Any advise would be apprciated.

I am working in an environment where the OS support is a seperate group from the vCloud support group.  One of the items I have been asked to research is what access a vCloud or Virtual Server support person would need to be able to properly administer a RHEL based vCD cell.  The thought is that when the cell was setup, the vCloud person had root, but now that the OS support is not the same group as the vCloud group, the vCloud group will use sudo for its support functions...

I've not been able to find anything on the web about which commandsets are required if one has sudo access instead of root to properly administer a cell server...

Anyone?  Thanks in advance,

Roger

Given the kind of requirements below…...

Can I just install only the free base hypervisor i.e

ESXi 5.5

on the 6 different servers.

Without the need to purchase other products i.e V Center, essential kits etc

Hello all,

I've recently started the evaluation period for vSAN and have it configured as follows:

4 Host Cluster (Dell PE R720):

2 Hosts w/ 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670 & 160GB RAM

2 Hosts w/ 1x Intel Xeon E5-2670 & 112GB RAM

All four of the hosts have:

Dell H710P Mini RAID Controllers

1 DiskGroup (1x 400GB Intel S3700 & 4X 600GB 10K SAS)

I've configured a single Windows 7 64-bit VM (CE-TEMPPC04) with:

• 4vCPU
• 4GB RAM
• 2x PVSCSI Controllers
• 4x 8GB VMDKs on each controller (8x vmdk's total)

Storage Policy for those VMDKs is:

• stripe width = 2
• failure to tolerate = 1
• read cache reservation = 10%

IOMeter Configuration:

• 8 Worker Threads
• Each thread uses entire 8GB un-formatted disk
• Each thread runs 67% read, and 70% random workload
• 4K IOs aligned at the 4K boundary
• 8 OIO

Before running the test the host is sitting at around 10% Core Utilization

A few moments later, we are already at 70% host utilization (I've seen it go over 90% utilization with only this VM running on the host):

A few other noteworthy things:

• VM's IOPS push 40k at 1.7ms (so it is working hard, but at so much CPU cost?)
• The Guest OS on the VM is only using 20% of it's own resources
• This VM is on one of the single pCPU hosts in our cluster

Is this what I should expect for a normal operation, where vSAN could eat so much host CPU (well over the 10%  claim)? I can't imagine this is normal, but I'm not able to open a support case because this is in evaluation (we haven't purchased it). Though I don't know if we can purchase it after seeing this.

If there were a failure to happen or a storage policy change it seems like it would lock up all the VMs as there would be no CPU cycles available.

Any ideas?

Hello,

I am wondering if anyone has a solution to getting the View client to play nice with high DPI screens, such as those with 3200x1800 screen resolution, or Apple's 2880x1800 screen resolution on the Macbook Retina 15". The View client doesn't seem to scale properly, and the only fix seems to be changing the desktop screen resolution and then logging into view. I don't think this is a very graceful fix, and my user's aren't too happy about it either.

Thanks,

Ryan

Salve a tutti.

Sto testando un software per l'analisi del traffico di rete (ntopng).

Le domande sono due:

1) è possibile "simulare" su Esxi un hub (e non uno switch) ovvero un dispositivo "vecchio stile" che ritrasmette su tutte le porte i pacchetti anche se destinati ad un host specifico (unicast)?

2) in alternativa, è possibile avere su un normale vSwitch una "Monitor port" che ascolta tutto il traffico?

Grazie anticipate a tutti

So I'll provide a lot of pictures for this topic, but essentially we have one host that sees higher latency and I'm trying to figure out why. I think I've narrowed it down to one VM that is getting a lot of read cache misses.

In the above picture you can see that it isn't "bad" but is definitely worse than the other hosts. (This is the VSAN Client view).

This above view doesn't really show any issues at all. Now for the VM I "think" could be making the host look bad:

The above image is just one of the vmdks on the VM, this particular one is only taking microsoft VSS snapshots of some CIFS shares. Below is the image for the data stored in the CIFS share:

I've circled the RC Hit Rate for this vmdk, which seems quite poor compared to all of the other VMs in our environment.

The one thing that sets the VM asside from the others is that I have specified a "Read Cache Reservation" of 2% = 6.3GB (315GB VMDK). So here are my main questions:

1. Does the "Read Cache Reservation" act as some kind of limit, where it will never go above that 6.3GB?
2. Does the "Read Cache Reservation" have an impact on write performance/latency? For example, is the write cache for this VMDK limited to 30% of the value specified? (6.3GB x 0.3 = 1.89GB for write cache?)
3. Am I approaching this the wrong way, and/or should I just be happy with what I'm getting?

My main reason for asking #2, is that I'm seeing pretty high write latencies for this VM. It has 100% space reserved, combine that with all writes are supposed to hit an SSD it seems like write latency should be pretty low. Here is an image of the latencies:

It may be worth noting this VMDK is used by a 2012 server running deduplication.