I tried to clone a virtual machine from one datacentre to another datcentre.
While selecting the clone location and chossing the destination data centre , it shows a warning mesage the Migration uses the network which is not accessible.
As it is only warning message , i ignored that and started the clone opreation of a Linux machine which is occupying 200Gb space.
The clone status is showing progress and it is 89%
The cloning is at 90% for more than 15hours.
I checked the datastore and found that clone has all files copied except the .vmx file .
Can anyone suggest , how to proceed further

Hi,

I am aware that there is a vStorage component in ESX 3.5. However, I can't find any info on it. I would like to know how can I design and implement it.

Can someone point me to a website or document about this?

Thanks.

Best Regards,

WY

I have 3.5 update 5a. two Esx Server IBM 3950 using dual HBA Qlogic connect to IBM DS4800 Storage. sometime the two ESX server have a very poor perfomance at the esx lost access to mapped volumen. The ouput from the command vdf -h show the following

/vmfs/volumes/49b71265-8e6b4548-826b-00145ebb0074
117G 116G 643M 99% /vmfs/volumes/san-vmware-gestionfs-ld1
Could not open /vmfs/volumes/49c2fd51-e23588a2-3ffe-00145ebb0074.
Error: No such file or directory

and the vmkernel y vmkwarning logs show the following

Jul 6 06:15:43 XXXXX-2 vmkernel: 0:11:28:00.728 cpu4:1051)FS3: 4915: Reclaimed timed out heartbeat [HB state abcdef02 offset 4172800 gen 63 stamp 41266462
212 uuid 4c326156-b2205384-9d26-00145ebb0074 jrnl <FB 119982> drv 4.31]

Jul 6 06:30:37 XXXXX-2 vmkernel: 0:11:42:54.329 cpu6:1051)WARNING: FS3: 1053: Corrupt heartbeat detected at offset 4172800: [HB state 300030 offset 135110
05043687472 gen 13511005043687472 stamp 13511005043687472 uuid 00300030-00300030-0030-300030000000 jrnl <FB 0> drv 16121872.1

the error occurs at random and you lose access to any LUN mapped

First had ESX 3.02 and version 3.5 was settled for trying to solve the problem but still remains. it was a clean install not upgrade

The output showing the Path installed
esxupdate -l query
Installed software bundles:
Name

• Install Date --- --- Summary ---

3.5.0-64607 09:54:13 06/14/10 Full bundle of ESX 3.5.0-64607
ESX350-200802303-SG 09:54:13 06/14/10 util-linux security update
ESX350-200803212-UG 09:54:14 06/14/10 Update VMware qla4010/qla4022 drivers
ESX350-200803213-UG 09:54:14 06/14/10 Driver Versioning Method Changes
ESX350-200803214-UG 09:54:14 06/14/10 Update to Third Party Code Libraries
ESX350-200804405-BG 09:54:14 06/14/10 Update to VMware-esx-drivers-scsi-megara
ESX350-200805504-SG 09:54:15 06/14/10 Security Update to Cyrus SASL
ESX350-200805505-SG 09:54:15 06/14/10 Security Update to unzip
ESX350-200805506-SG 09:54:15 06/14/10 Security Update to Tcl/Tk
ESX350-200808206-UG 09:54:16 06/14/10 Update to vmware-hwdata
ESX350-200808218-UG 09:54:16 06/14/10 Security Update to Samba
ESX350-200808406-SG 09:54:16 06/14/10 Security Update to Perl
ESX350-200808407-BG 09:54:16 06/14/10 Updates Software QLogic FC Driver
ESX350-200811406-SG 09:54:17 06/14/10 Security Update to bzip2
ESX350-200903203-UG 09:54:17 06/14/10 Updates RPM Components
ESX350-200903210-UG 09:54:17 06/14/10 Updates Driver for HP SAS and CISS
ESX350-200903213-UG 09:54:18 06/14/10 Updates Hardware Detection Utility
ESX350-200904406-SG 09:54:18 06/14/10 Updates vim-common, vim-minimal RPMs
ESX350-200904408-SG 09:54:19 06/14/10 Security Update to the openssl Package
ESX350-200905404-BG 09:54:19 06/14/10 Update to tzdata package
ESX350-200906407-SG 09:54:19 06/14/10 Updates krb5 and pam_krb5
ESX350-200910406-SG 09:54:20 06/14/10 Updates Service Console DHCP Client
ESX350-200911201-UG 09:54:20 06/14/10 Updates VMkernel, Service Console, hostd
ESX350-200911202-UG 09:54:21 06/14/10 Updates ESX Scripts
ESX350-200911203-UG 09:54:21 06/14/10 Updates bnx2 Driver for Broadcom
ESX350-200911204-UG 09:54:21 06/14/10 Updates forcedeth Driver for Nvidia
ESX350-200911205-UG 09:54:21 06/14/10 Updates igb Driver for Intel
ESX350-200911206-UG 09:54:22 06/14/10 Updates tg3 Driver for Broadcom
ESX350-200911207-UG 09:54:22 06/14/10 Updates MegaRAID and mptscsi Drivers
ESX350-200911209-UG 09:54:22 06/14/10 Updates Qlogic Driver
ESX350-200911210-UG 09:54:22 06/14/10 Updates CIM and Pegasus
ESX350-200911211-UG 09:54:23 06/14/10 Updates Driver for NetXen NIC
ESX350-200911212-UG 09:54:23 06/14/10 Updates Aacraid Driver
ESX350-200911214-UG 09:54:23 06/14/10 Updates e1000 Driver for Intel
ESX350-200911215-UG 09:54:23 06/14/10 Updates ixgbe Driver for Intel
ESX350-200911217-UG 09:54:24 06/14/10 Updates bnx2x Driver for Broadcom
ESX350-200911219-UG 09:54:24 06/14/10 Updates e1000e Driver for Intel
ESX350-200911221-UG 09:54:24 06/14/10 Updates Emulex Driver
ESX350-200911222-UG 09:54:25 06/14/10 Updates VMware-esx
ESX350-200911223-UG 09:54:25 06/14/10 Updates VMware ESX Docs
ESX350-Update05a 18:39:42 07/05/10 ESX Server 3.5.0 Update 5

New packages:
VMware-aam-haa-2.2.0-1
VMware-aam-vcint-2.2.0-1
VMware-vpxa-2.5.0-227637

any ideas???

I put a host into maintenance mode in a fairly small cluster: 4 hosts, going down to 3, because of critical hardware concerns on one. One of our big Exchange 2007 mailbox server VMs (18 gb RAM hosting 2400 mailboxes) was the last to VMotion off the host. When it did, it stopped responding to clients. Everyone's Outlook was disconnected. The operating system (Windows 2008 x64) seemed to be functioning fairly well, though a little slow. Store.exe was taking almost all of the CPU. From a VMware perspective, there was a small amount of ballooning and swapping for a little bit until memory sharing relieved that.

Rebooting the VM resolved the issue.

Has anyone seen anything like this with Exchange, or can I write it off as Exchange being very sensitive to memory balloon, and should create a reservation?

hi

Howto import physical freeBSD 7.0 into ESX 3.5?
Can I convert it using VMware Converter?

hi

I'd like to convert Acronis tib file into ESX 3.5 using VMware Converter.

Which Acronis versions support VMware Converter 3.0.3 ?

hi

Is it possible to import AS/400 (Release: V4R4M) into ESX 3.5 or 4.0?

Hi All,

One of my 2 ESX 3.5 host is having a wired network issue.
It stated last weekend, after I disconnect and connected the network cables. It has 2 NICs, connected with 2 diffecrent swtich and in the same LAN. I have
verified both NICs are working fine.

The wired thing is about VMkernal, it is unable to talk to any other place except the console port and VMs in the same host. I tried vmkping but no response. But the console port and VM have no problem to ping the network. I double checked the VMkernal is connected to the same virtual switch as the console and VMs do. Actually there is only one virtual switch and it's connected to 2 physical NICs.

I also tried delete the VMkernal and recreate it again. But it didn't help. I upgraded the ESX machine the latest version, it didn't help. Reboot
didn't help.

The other ESX has no this issue. Both are same HP DL 385 serverwith same hardware.

It drives me crazy. By the way, the current version I am running is VMware ESX 3.5.0 259926.

I will appreciate it if anybody shed any lights on.

Hi,

This should be an easy one for someone. I am a VMWare beginner, needing some advice re upgrades.
Our setup is:
2 x host - ESX 3.5 Update 4
Virtualcenter 2.5 Update 4 running on physical server (DB connects to local SQL Exp. License Mgr)
20 VMs approx stored on separate SAN
Fibre link between servers and SAN

Looking to upgrade to versions mentioned in subject. Here is what I think I need to do, can somebody please confirm I have my steps in order? Please correct me if wrong..
Planned to do an in place upgrade, server downtime not an issue, planned to upgrade at weekend.
-Upgrade VirtualCenter
-Shutdown VMs, boot from update5 CD (created from ISO download) and I assume here I can update hosts individually
-Then update SAN datastores - how do I do this?
-Then update VMs
-Then update VMware tools on VMs
-Upgrade templates
-Other stuff like Update Mgr upgrade an other plugins etc

Also, how important are backups for an update like this, which is not a major version update (i.e. 2.x to 3.x) ??
Help is much appreciated!

Hi,

I have a HP DL585 G5 server that won't boot to ESX after a fresh install. It has 4 x Opteron 8354 quad processors and as soon as the server starts and attempts to boot ESX, I get the following errors.

"WARNING: VMK: 538: Initialization of vmkernel failed, status 0xbad001e"
and..
"Mounting root failed. Dropping into basic maintenance shell"

I've tried the following steps to troubleshoot.

1. Test/User/Install with different media (both U4 and U5)
2. Check/Verify HCL - Opteron 8354 / P400 Array Controller / & everything else on the DL585 seems to have no conflicts.
3. Disabled/Enabled memory interleaving "AMD's NUMA"
4. Disabled/Enabled AMD's virtual support in BIOS.
5. Ran the vmware cpu boot CD to check each CPU.
Results: All CPUs are identical
Family: 1f
Model: 02
Stepping: 2
Vendor: AMD
Processor Cores: 4
SSE Support: SSE3
Supports NX / ED: No
Supports 64-bit Longmode: Yes
Supports 64-bit VMware: No <-------------"Is this my problem???"
Then after it completes, it says "PASS: Test 56903: CPUID" this makes me think everything's OK.
6. Tried disabling half the cores per CPU in the BIOS.
7. Verified that the server has 32GB of RAM evenly distributed between 4 memory banks & installed to HP's spec (start furthest away from CPU.)
8. Enabled a processor option in the BIOS that I don't remember exactly. It had something to do with modifying the IRQ routing to work around an issue where a kernel panic may occur in 64-bit linux OSes.
9. Insured that the DL585 had the most current firmware (this was updated from the the beginning.)
10. Boot to debug mode and get a similar error. "VMK: COSVMNIXSyscall_LoadVMKernel :538: Initialization of vmkernel failed, status 0xbad001e"

I'm completely stumped. I've read that 0xbad001e is an "Unsupported CPU" error message but I'm not sure what else I could do besides run the boot CD to check. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

Ok. So I have a Vm with multiple disks (VMDK's) attached to it, the order list goes as follows:

Hard Disk 0 - Contains Drive C
Hard Disk 1 - Contains Drive D
Hard Disk 2 - Contains Drive E
Hard Disk 3 - Contains Drive F

Now, say for that particular VM, I remove all of the disks from this Vm but do not delete them. Then, I add them back but not in the order they were before. Instead, I put them in the following order: 2, 3, 0, 1

From a VMware perspective, does this really matter? Should this be a concern or is not not relevant?

The Virtual Machine boots up fine with no problems but I was just curious to know what type of impact if any this has on a VM that has the VMDK's out of order in terms of how they are configured within the OS. Realistically speaking, this should not have any impact what so ever other than a cosmetic change and a preference to have them appear in order in the VM configuration. I can format any disk at anytime and assign it a different drive letter.

Just wondering if this is something to take into consideration or whether its a no brainer and has no impact?

Thanks for all those that respond!

Hi

Does anyone know if it is possible to fully update and patch ESX 3.0 and 3.5 hosts through vSphere Update Manager when the hosts are all being managed through the new vShpere vCenter Server (Version 4.0)?

Thanks in advance

cnibbles

I'm trying to install SLES11-64bit SP1 as a guest on esx3.5 U5 from VCenter Server 2.5 U6.

About installing VMwareTools-3.5.0-259926.i386.rpm I'm getting the error Message:
Your compiler "/usr/bin/gcc" version "gcc-Version 4.3.4 gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973 (SUSE Linux)"
is not supported by this version of VMware Tools.

gcc, binutils, make and the kernel sources are installed on the VM

Hi,
I have a problem with an ESX3.5 host being able to ping an NFS storage device which holds the datastores. I have two NFS NetApp storage devices S100 and S101, the ESX host can vmkping S101 ok but cannot ping S100. I have done some quite detailed investigation into this and it seems that the ESX host is not updating the vmkernel arpLookup table. using tcpdump i can see the arp request and the arp reply however the mac address is not stored in the arpLookup by the ESX host.
Also sometimes the vmkping gives the following error

sendto() failed (Input/output error)

has anyone seen this kind of behaviour or could anyone give any advice, on the ESX side i have a vSwitch configured containing a vmkernel and service console both using multiple physical interfaces with ip hash selected. These are connected to a cisco switch with a port channel configured. I have discussed the issue with the network team who cannot find a problem and since the arp reply gets back to the ESX host then i tend to agree with them.

Thanks,
Martin.

What is the difference between WSUS server and Vmware Update manager?
Which one is best suited for VMware ESX 3.5 environment.

After rebooting one of my server, it can't getting up. Screenshot of the server has been attached here. Please let me know, what kind of problem it is? and how to resolve it?

Thanks in advance.

Has anyone else run into this? Is there a setting on the esx server that you need to turn on in order for it to record the CreatedOn date?
If you go to the Virtual Machine tab on an esx server you can see the CreatedOn date. Some of the hosts are reporting the correct dates and others aren't recording anything at all. Even VM's I've created in the past 2 days.

Hi,

if I have a little space and want to do a lun Increase, I use another lun to another storage?

My problem: I need to put 400 GB of space for a machine that is in vm3.5, but this does not see the DS4700 storage. If I expand a lun's DS8000 DS4700 with the space I can see there?

Taking into account that we have a Storage midrange and high end, I believe that first is not recommended, so far ok!

Regards!

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hi

Howto import physical SCO Unix 5.0.6 server as a guest into ESX3.5 Update2?

HI,

I have question:

In my office we have 4 servers with VMWARE ESX 3.5
The servers are connect to EVA 4400 (one disc 800GB).

I wont add disc space. How do I do this?
Add discs and space to an existing disk? Nothing breaks down?
or
Add another vdisc? How?

Reagards
Sawinio