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• vCenter shows all virtual machines and the host is disconnected

  Hello

  I have a two nodes in the cluster ESXi6 U2 (recently updated to 5.5) running on hp dl380p gen8. For some reason all the virtual machines are running on host A (HA and DRS are enabled).  vCenter shows all virtual machines and host A is disconnected. Cannot connect to A host using vSphere client or web client. Cannot vMotion the VMs. Impossible to activate SSH. Connection DCUI works very well. Cannot perform any action VM

  All virtual machines are in place are running at this point. I don't want to restart the virtual machines. Can you help me please?

  Thank you

  AJ

  Frozen screen DCUI came back to life. The active SSH access, killed the running process. The host of running backs.

  See you soon,.

  AJ

• Access to the network in all virtual machines lost after that put 8.1 to level.

  Today, I upgraded my host computer to Windows 64-bit Pro 8.1. I did the upgrade through the Windows store. There are no errors or problems during the upgrade.

  However: The host machine equipped with a Qualcomm E2200 network adapter, and it runs the 'Killer' Network Manager software called at startup. After the 8.1 update, when the machine did its last restart, Qualcomm Network Manager opened with a message that the LSP has not mapped correctly. I clicked 'YES' to remap it. Probably a stupid move on my part.

  Thereafter, I lost all network connectivity in all my virtual machines. I have virtual machines for Windows 8, Windows 8.1 RTM (not the preview) and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. ALL of them have lost the network.

  The host computer has no network problem and works well after the upgrade.

  Any ideas or suggestions to reset network connections in virtual machines?

  All virtual machines are set to use NAT.

  Oh I have to say also that the host computer is running VMware Workstation 10 and everything was fine and dandy, has never had problems at all until this upgrade/LSP remap thing. I have install VMware Tools in the VM of Windows 8.1, with no effect at all.

  Thank you.

  -J

  Two things, I'll try:

  1. go in the virtual network editor and restore settings. The culprit is probably the VMNet to NAT configuration.

  2. If this does not work, it seems that the virtual card for NAT does not somehow. The simplest workaround is to uninstall and reinstall the workstation.

• Close all virtual machines on ESXi

  Hello

  I'm new in the administration of vSphere. I would like to raise our ESXi servers due to updates, but I've read that you shut down all virtual machines that are on it. You have something better to do then close VMs one? I expect a powershell script, but I have found none so far.

  Thank you

  Kralijir, you can do it from the console GUI.

  In the left pane, select the ESX host.

  In the right pane, click the tab "virtual machines". Now, you can select block all virtual machines here and simply right-clicking them stop all, or make other changes in bulk.

  Some changes via selection bulk require all virtual machines to be in the same State; Turned off the power, power, etc.

  If it works for you, please mark this answer as the 'response '.

• Several virtual machines are running, but are not in stock

  Hi all

  I hope that someone has experienced this condition and can help.

  Here's what I have.

  I have 13 VMs (Windows-based) I did some tests with the help of EMC RP DR. All servers in a group to ensure consistency with the two LUNs. I was able to failover of the environment on the site of copy and then restore to the original location.

  However, today when I didn't return the case I lost 4 virtual machines.

  -J' have 9 virtual machines I see in vCenter Server

  -The virtual machines that I've "lost" are running, and I can connect using RDP, but they do not appear in vCenter Server

  -Virtual machines are in their records in their data warehouses. When I find the appropriate folder and try to add to the inventory, the option is grayed out. Which suggests that the VM is saved, but when I search I do not see the instance.

  PowerCLI command revealed that the two Mas I have 9 powered on virtual machines. Like I said all 13 virtual machines are running.

  I asked each his vmInventory.xml of the host in the cluster file servers registered on all hosts are 9 instead of 13.

  I have not disassembled the DS during operations of RecoverPoint failover, power off just the virtual machines.

  Fortunately, this environment is not in full production, but which is the right thing.

  Someone at - he encountered this rather odd situation.

  If relevant, Bay storage is EMC VNX and access is any block.

  Kind regards

  no problem you are welcome!

• ESXi 4.1 upgrade to ESXi 5.5 while all virtual machines and data warehouses

  We have two servers ESXi 4.1.0 348481 (Essentials) and we need to upgrade to ESXi 5.5 for support of Windows Server R2 2012. We intend to use the interactive upgrade. We want to ensure that the virtual machine is preserved. More precisely VMFarm001 where ESXi is installed in the same data store as VMServer1. VMServer1 is our largest server and cannot be migrated to another data store easily because we are not allowed for vMotion.

  The following layout

  VMFarm001

  Dell PowerEdge R710

  Data store:

  Storage1 - 1.36 TB

  VMServer1 - MS Server 2003

  Install ESXi

  Storage2 - 1.82 TB

  VMServer2 - MS Server 2008 R2

  VMServer3 - MS Server 2008 R2

  VMFarm002

  HP ProLiant ML350 G5

  Data store:

  Storage1 - 95GB

  Install ESXi

  ISOs

  Storage2 - 1.82 TB

  VMServer4 - MS Server 2008 R2

  VMServer5 - MS Server 2008 R2

  I have a feeling I'm worried for nothing given that option during the ESXi upgrade and keep the VMFS datastore.

  Thank you

  Yes, that's correct.

  I recently finished the upgrade of lots of stand-alone hosts ESXi 4.1 (with local storage only) to 5.1 and all were successful. The same process applies to 5.5, so you shouldn't have a problem with preservation of VMFS data warehouses (and all virtual machines).

• All virtual machines to an ESXi Server ping

  Hi all

  For a project of mine, I need to create a script that asks for the ESXi server host name,

  and after that start ping all virtual machines that are on the ESXi server.

  I tried to do without success up to now.

  Help will be appreciated.

  Thank you!

  What follows is based on the fact that the VMware tools are installed.

  If they are not installed, you could adapt the script to try and ping displayname VM.

  $esxName = "MyEsx".

  Get-VMHost-name $esxName | Get - VM | %{

  $hostnamePresent = $_. Guest.HostName - don't $null

  {if ($hostnamePresent)}

  $pingable = test-Connection - ComputerName $_. Guest.HostName - count 1 - calm

  }

  else {}

  $pingable = $false

  }

  Select - InputObject $_ - the property name.

  @{N = "This Hostname"; E = {$hostnamePresent}},

  @{N = "responding"; E = {$pingable}}

  }

• Is no vmdk file, but the script says, all virtual machines backed up Ok!

  Hello everyone;

  Please excuse any lack of details because this is the first time that I write. I've scoured internet for days now trying to find no matter how much detail that could help me solve the problem. I'm new in the world of script ESXi and ghettoVCB.

  My intention is to run several tasks on a schedule. Each type of backup (quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily and multiple) runs at a specific time. The planning section works very well.

  I'm hoping to solve this urgent backup, I should be able to solve reboot.

  Here is the command I use:

  /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ghettoVCB.sh w /tmp/ghettoVCB-work.multiple f/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/vmlist-Multiple g/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/vmconfig-DataSet1-multiple-l /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ghettoVCB_logs/ghettoVCB.Multiple_Backup.log

  vmconfig-DataSet1-multiple contains:

  # Multiple backups - rotation County 6

  #

  VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = / vmfs/volumes/Vault2-DataSet1/URANUS/Multiple

  DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT = thin

  VM_BACKUP_ROTATION_COUNT = 6

  POWER_VM_DOWN_BEFORE_BACKUP = 0

  ENABLE_HARD_POWER_OFF = 0

  ITER_TO_WAIT_SHUTDOWN = 4

  POWER_DOWN_TIMEOUT = 5

  SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT = 15

  ENABLE_COMPRESSION = 0

  VM_SNAPSHOT_MEMORY = 0

  VM_SNAPSHOT_QUIESCE = 0

  VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP =

  Vmlist-multiple contains 1 server is listed:

  # List all virtual machines that are backed up several times a day

  HEAT

  The log indicates that the backup was successful - but it has not been the case. Backup size should be approximately 8 GB. However, when you look at the output folder, only the following files are here:

  
  

  HEAT.vmx

  STATUS.ok

  Question is now - where are the vmdk files that should be present?

  Output (-d debug) can be found here: http://pastebin.com/hMGphTL3

  So, here is what I observed:

  When you run the script, the snapshot only takes a few seconds to create and delete then. I'm seeing happens on the list of the tasks of vSphere Rencent (screenshot attached).

  If I create a snapshot manually - it will take much more time to create and delete a snapshot. The difference here is 6 minutes, and 4 seconds using the script create a snapshot manually.

  So my presumption is that he is not actually create the snapshot, although vSphere said it is being created. So why is it the case?

  Help, please.

  ADDENDUM:

  If I run the following:

  ./ghettoVCB.sh m HEAT

  The backup is successful.

  Your said he clearly did not config file to back up all files hard.

  VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP =

  I expect to see something like this if you want all the hard files

  VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP = "all".

• Virtual machines are stored, but the workload is not started

  I use Scheduler display 2.1 on vSphere 5.1 and 5.2 of the view. Try to start the load of local work on WIndows 7 32 bit.

  When I run the test, Planner is VM, it restarts and shows that VM is saved, but nothing happens after that. For hours, I can see only

  Status: [IP recorded: 1] [the workload began on machines 0] [Uploaded results-> desktop: 0]

  On the virtual desktop, I see this error:

  SvcRun() of the instance method failure
  Traceback (most recent call changed):
  File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32serviceutil.py", line 806, in SvcRun
  cottages. SvcDoRun()
  File "C:\Package\serviceagent.py", line 32, of SvcDoRun
  IOError: (4, "Interrupted function call")
  2%: %3

  Device in viewplanner.log I find this errors:

  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 918 INFO-
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 918 compliance INFO
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 919 INFO-
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, INFO 919 checking in the ad group: local
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 919 thinktime verification INFO: not OK
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 919 INFO verification of iterations: OK
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 919 applist verification INFO: not OK
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 919 audit INFORMATION for the Protocol (PCoIP): not OK
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 919 audit INFORMATION for (remote) mode: not OK
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 919 audit compliance for vm INFO: Image-Planer
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 991 INFO No. audit. of vcpu: OK
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 991 INFO allocated virtual memory verification: not OK
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 991 audit INFORMATION for the guest operating system: OK
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 991 WARNING compliance failed for this virtual machine: Image-plane (jump..)
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 991 INFO =.
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 991 INFO 5 compliance violations have been
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 992 INFO =.
  2013-04-30 09:06:26, 992 INFO waiting for virtual machines to settle and sleep during the time scale
  2013-04-30 09:06:52, 988 INFO Running query: INSERT INTO testinfo (test_name, ClientIP_FK, ServerIP_FK, Protocol, username, password, test_state, start_time, type) values ('Temp', '192.168.147.100', '192.168.147.100', "RDP", "local_1", "passw0rd", "waiting", "2013-04-30 09:06:52", 0)
  2013-04-30 09:06:52, 999 INFO Running query: SELECT * from testinfo where test_name = 'Temp' and test_state = 'pending' and ClientIP_FK = '192.168.147.100' and ServerIP_FK = '192.168.147.100. '
  2013-04-30 09:06:53, 000 INFO-
  2013-04-30 09:06:53, 000 INFO launch the execution plan for the run profile
  2013-04-30 09:06:53, 000 INFO-
  2013-04-30 09:06:53, 000 information from local workload for all virtual machines funds...
  2013-04-30 09:06:53, 000 NEWS Running query: SELECT * from testinfo where ServerIP_FK = '192.168.147.100' and test_state = 'waiting '.
  2013-04-30 09:06:53, the id of the test server INFO 001 is 7
  2013-04-30 09:06:53, 001 INFO Running query: UPDATE hostinfo SET state = 'Busy' where IPADDR = "192.168.147.100."
  2013-04-30 09:06:53, 002 INFO Running query: UPDATE testinfo test_name SET = "Adobe", Protocol = "RDP", username is "local_1", password = "passw0rd", test_state = "Running", start_time is "2013-04-30 09:06:53" where test_id = 7
  2013-04-30 09:06:53, 004 config of workload INFO pushing to the virtual machine: 192.168.147.100
  2013-04-30 09:06:53, 004 INFO running commands remotely with args: server: 192.168.147.100, test_name: Adobe
  2013-04-30 09:06:53, INFO 004 adding the callback function to get the object root remote to ipaddr: 192.168.147.100
  Error unhandled offline:
  Unhandled error
  Traceback (most recent call changed):
  Failed: twisted.internet.error.TCPTimedOutError: TCP connection has expired: 110: connection timed out.
  Error unhandled offline:
  Unhandled error
  Traceback (most recent call changed):
  Failed: twisted.internet.error.TCPTimedOutError: TCP connection has expired: 110: connection timed out.
  2013-04-30 09:23:58, register a new server 305 information: 192.168.147.100

  Any idea what could have gone wrong? Thank you in advance for your help!

  There are only these three things, you can see again:

  -The agent see Planner service is running in the desktop

  -All the firewall, including the domain firewall is disabled

  -The harness is able to ping the virtual desktop computer

  Can you check and also download the viewplanner.log?

• All virtual machines with VLAN

  I'm trying to get a list of all virtual machines in a given VCenter, with their VIRTUAL networks. Can anyone help?

  If your virtual machines are connected to dvSwitches instead of ordinary vSwitches?

• Virtual machines are not able to access the network after you have moved the host

  We moved our 4 ESX host to a different physical switch and now our VMs cannot access the network.

  I can access the host via client vsphere.  Our host has 2 network cards.  They are both members of the vSwitch0.  I have 1 VM network defined, and they are both members of it.  The network adapters, vmnic0 and vmnic1 are also part of my VMkernel which I do not know that I need because I have 1 ESX Server and do not use iscsi or NFS.

  the two cards are also part of my service console.

  According to my host "configuration / display: vitual switch, it looks like all my virtual machines are defined to use the vswitch."

  the two physical network adapters is connected to the same switch.  I did not go to any configuration on the switch.

  

  The steers would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Paul

  

  Welcome to the community,

  It sounds as if the physical switch ports are not configured correctly. Please check that port security is disabled on the switch (switchport mode access) ports and spanning tree portfast is (if any).

  André

• How can I pay for the reservation of memory on all virtual machines to "0"?

  I am trying to write a script that will pay for the reservation of memory on all virtual machines that are invited in a cluster to '0 '.  We have book too much memory, and this setting should allow VMWare facilities manage reserves memory for me.  I have hundreds of virtual machines to update, so I can't do it by hand.  I hope that it is possible via the CLI.

  Can someone help me with this please?

  Matt example work certainly, and I'm sure that he was going to follow up with something similar to this after having confirmed if it worked or not because it is much more serious on the optimization of code for speed, but I'll (try to) save the effort. To test its extract on a cluster of 45 VMS, it took more than four minutes to complete.  The excerpt below took about 25 seconds.  The difference is of course to use the cmdlet "Get-View" and that it can run asynchronously so (it begins a vCenter task and immediately passes the following).  Of course, this will also put more of a strain to your vCenter server, so keep that in mind.

  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
  $spec.memoryAllocation = New-Object VMware.Vim.ResourceAllocationInfo
  $spec.memoryAllocation.Reservation = 0
  Get-Cluster "YOUR_CLUSTER" | Get-VM | Get-View -Property Config.MemoryAllocation | %{$_.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)}
  

• Resources to completely migrate all virtual machines

  I have 2 ESX4 hosts in a cluster.  Each has 32 GB of memory and 2 Quad Core 2.0 GHz processors.   The host has 22VMs with 20 GB of memory and 3 GHz committed treatment while the other has 21 virtual machines using 18 GB memory and committed treatment of 5 GHz.   Now, although a VMworld to which I attended some time ago, I remember a discussion about memory "slots" and if I remember well, to migrate all my VMs from one host to another, there must be sufficient memory and CPU on the host resources 'accept' to allow all the VMS to be propelled to the top... is this correct?   In other words, if I had to migrate all my virtual machines from the host that currently has 22 VMS (20 GB / 3 GHz treatment), the other host must have at least 20 GB and 3 GB treatment yet available for these virtual machines in a State "lit.

  I ask this question especially for purposes of Manager update that I intend to each of these host ESX patch... because, as I do the correction, the virtual machines will be transferred from one to the other.

  Is this correct?  If so, I won't be able to patch hosts, UNLESS some of the virtual machines are turned off (and therefore stay in the host that is being patched)

  Slots are for admission control VMware HA.

  If you disable this feature, you can approve the memory.

  André

• Run a Windows command on all virtual machines

  Using PowerCLI, is it possible to run a Windows command on all virtual machines?  I would like to hiberbation disabled on all my servers as it is unnecessary and take up disk space.  Running powercfg-h off will do, but I really want to do it on all 200 of my VM.

  I can't seem to find the option in group policy, so I was hoping that this could be an option.

  The above posts are excellent resolutions. Here is another possible approach.

  You can do this with a Powershell script. Something like this should work:

  1. The list of virtual machines:

  SE connect-ViServer here VCenter server name

  $vms = get - VM

  1. If you have installed Powershell and PSRemoting enabled on each virtual machine, run the following:

  $vms | foreach-object {Invoke-Command - ComputerName $_.} Name - ScriptBlock {powercfg - h}

  1. If you have not installed Powershell and PSRemoting on each virtual machine, use WMI:

  foreach ($vm to $vms)

  {

  $vmName = $vm. Name

  (\[WMIClass\] ")
  (' $vmName\ROOT\CIMV2: Win32_Process "). Create ("cmd /c powercfg - h)

  }

  You should probably use the WMI method since it is unlikely that all of your virtual machines have Powershell installed and configured for remote access.

• CentOS 5.4 + vmware server 2.0.2 - virtual machines are switched off automatically

  Hello

  I have a centos 5.4 with server 2.0.2 vmware server installed on it. I am running two virtual machines on it: Microsoft windows xp pro sp3 and Centos 5.4 (the two 32-bit).

  I have the last time, my virtual machines are automatically shut down, for example: I start the two vm at night and in the morning they are turned off.

  Often happens that vmware-mngm service is not accessible, I'm trying to access on browser, but is not accessible. After I restarted the service vmware-mngm, it works, but aflte some operations with virtual machines, it gives me an error and stop responding again.

  SELinux is disabled

  1. getenforce

  People with disabilities

  After I log in Panel of vmware server I get this error:

  The server cannot complete a request (HTTP 0).

  Ok

  The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented him from meeting the demand. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator.

  After the mgmt-vmware restart I can connect. I have attached the log files in a zip archive.

  Help, please!

  Thank you

  Hello

  first of all, check the host with a tool like memtest memory. Maybe the RAM is not ok.

  After that, perhaps your problem is this one: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1326842#1326842

  In above discussion, the solution is the following: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1431577#1431577

  Let me know if it works for you.

  A saludo/best regards,.

  Pablo

  Please consider providing any useful answer. Thank you!! - Por favor considered premiar las useful responses. MUCHAS gracias!