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• Cannot start the unique virtual machine after you have patched ESXi to 4.1.0 800830

  I patched a standalone ESXi host yesterday, leading a successful ESXi 4.1.0 800830 upgrade.

  The majority of my virtual machines started very well but it fails to start with the following error (as the specified file does not exist (?)). As I've not met it before, and I'm running out of time, anyone would offer nuggets of wisdom while I continue to trawl the web / these forums for a response?

  

  Thank you

  Carl

  Can you browse the data store where is stored the than VM and check what files you see in the directory for this virtual machine? The error claimed that it cannot find a file of virtual disk for this virtual machine.

• Virtual machine communication interface [FAILURE]

  Hi, I try to reinstall vmwareworkstation 10 on my linux

  -> VMware-Workstation-Full - 10.0.4 - 2249910.x86_64.bundle
  

  
  

  Installation was successful, but I get this error prevents me to start a virtual machine.

  
  

  Please help to

  
  

  See you soon

  jko

  
  

  
  

  [root@JKOOEL ~] # /etc/init.d/vmware start

  Starting VMware services:

  Virtual machine monitor [OK]

  Virtual machine communication interface [FAILURE]

  VM communication interface socket family [OK]

  Block the system files [OK]

  Virtual Ethernet [OK]

  [OK] VMware authentication daemon

  [root@JKOOEL ~] # vmware - Installer - l

  Product product name version

  ==================== ====================

  VMware-workstation 10.0.4.2249910

  [root@JKOOEL ~] # uname - a

  Linux JKOOEL 3.8.13 - 68.el6uek.x86_64 #2 SMP kills Mar 10 15:26:36 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  [root@JKOOEL ~] # cat/etc/redhat-release

  Release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.6 (Santiago)

  Fixed with this: VMWare does not start after kernel update

  Thank you

  jko

• can not power on virtual machine after activating the VR

  This is the error I get after activation of the replication of Vsphere and turn on/off the machine. I say feeding because allowing the VR blocks virtual machine. If I disable the replication, the machine starts correctly. The Bayt thing is that I can reproduce a 80 GB drive on this machine, but the minute I have activate the duplication of a 2 TB drive, I have this problem.

  Any idea?

  "An error was received from the ESX host turning on VM Novastor.
  Unable to start the virtual machine.
  Power DevicePowerOn module has failed.
  Unable to create the virtual SCSI device for scsi0:1, ' / vmfs/volumes/4ffda1f1-22a39f8e-bd7d-e61f13f6d8ff/Novastor/Novastor.vmdk'
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  I guess that's under the limit of 2032GB of Vsphere replication then why make this mistake when I enable replication for this disc?

  2 TB is equal to 2 048 GB that exceeds the maximum size supported 2 032 GB (= to 1,984375).

  André

• State of the virtual machine after the host failure

  Hello

  If a virtual machine is running on a host and that host suddenly powers off dirty, like a power failure or a remote access card power the server due to a fault, overtemp etc., what happens to the virtual machine?

  My guess is the virtual machine is actually difficult, dirty off too and if HA is configured, etc it is going to do a full power on sequence. Or is it restart on a new server and be automatically in the same power state with the same States of memory and cpu until the host has dropped dead? So if I got a connection of the DRC in a vm of windows server and the host dies suddenly and it restarts, reconnect to the session even State immediately before the breaking of the host?

  Thank you

  When ESX\ESXi fails due to power failure:

  No configured HA:

  1. all virtual machines is also faces off against the sudden stop. SMV will lose data runtime and all communications (including the RDP connection) will be interrupted.

  Configured HA:

  1 VMs will be powered - on on a different host. However, its the same as a reset of the virtual machine, we will lose any unsaved data.

  VMware FT:

  We ensure 100% uptime for a virtual machine using VMware Fault Tolerance. In case of failure of the host, next time school resumes VM in FT. More details on IP are available at the following link.

  http://www.VMware.com/products/fault-tolerance/overview.html

• Unable to power on the virtual machine after phasing out: 'are there not enough licenses... ". »

  The topic explains quite well what is happening.  I am trying to feed a virtual machine that has been closed gracefully to add memory, and now we get an error with the status "there are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation.  I went to 'Licenses' under 'Administration' and it does not to be any shortage of licenses.  Can someone help me with this?    I'm dead in the water right now with an unhappy customer...

  Thanks in advance-

  Steve

  Maybe this article will be useful?

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/7114568

• Unable to start the virtual machine after restoration

  Guests including Test host: ESXi 5.1.0.1065491

  Vm problem: 32-bit, Server 2003

  I use Veeam Backup & Restore 6.5 to back up my vm.  I always do a test restore to ensure that my backups are good.  I'm having a problem with a restore.  The 32-bit Server 2003 vm starts just fine on the main host it runs on.  All the vm are 64-bit except for one who is a 32-bit Server 2003 vm.  Restoring the machine virtual and implemented on a host except the 32-Bit vm Server 2003 test.  After restoration and trying power to the top, I get the following error:

  Unable to start the virtual machine.

  Turn on VPCM module has failed.

  Viewed performance counters require version 3 or greater of architectural performance monitoring.

  Anyone know if there is a fix for this problem?

  TIA,

  Mux

  I assume you are using different hardware (CPUs, the BIOS settings) for VMS restored!

  The virtual machine has VPCM enabled, which causes the problem. You can either disable it in vSphere Web Client (you can do this in the vSphere Client Windows), or directly modify the .vmx VM by setting vpmc.enable to "FALSE".

  For how toggle this setting in the Web Client see allow virtual in the Web Client vSphere CPU Performance counters. If you want to edit the .vmx file manually, you need to delete/re-add the VM from the inventory or recharge (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026043)

  André

• Network down frequently on a virtual machine after the upgrade of computers host and vmware to win 10

  Dear all,

  A week ago, I upgraded both my two machines VMWare Win 7 to win 10, as well as the host operating system. also from 7 to 10.

  Now once every 1 or 2 days, one or both the two vmwares aura an esclamation mark on the network status icon in the lower right corner and West no connection.

  The host operating system is NOT having any problems with the network.

  The solution is to disable and reactive the adapter to virtual machines, or repair of running Network Diagnostics where she'll tell me that it s has reinstated the connection to the bridge. But obviously I´d prefer the VM´s to be on the internet 24/7 without my intervention.

  I have another computer on the same router on which I did the same thing, but with this I m not having these problems. A different and not connected equipment via the VPN running on the host OS, which is the case with the machine that s had questions.

  But even once, the host operating system is not having issues, the two VM´s aren´t always the two to have this problem, and this never happened when he was all Win 7.

  I ve disabled some nights windows defender analysis and TCP/IP V6, but neither helped.

  Want to see some of the information from the last network diagnostics / repair or some log file, or you already know what would be the solution to my problem?

  Thanks in advance!

  Best regards

  Jazzl

  Well, I thought that a vm was having this problem a lot more often than the other, so I looked for error messages in windows journal, showing that the network problem - have to with DHCP btw - always spent 2 minutes after an event regarding slui.exe, not found on the other machine.

  What I also noticed was that the problematic vm had lost its activation of windows with the upgrade to win 10 (win 10 has limits to how much the same license can be run as virtual machines), is is not the case for the more successful one.

  Then I copied the good machine, which contains the same as the other, changed mac and uuid and now it s showing that enabled, no problem so far.

• Re-create the virtual computer after the failure of the host

  Hi all

  Yesterday I encounter a questions that I struggle to deal with approprietly:

  Some old 3.5 host crashed and after reboot, one of the virtual machine (ubuntu) has been corrupted or issued in the inventory. Normally remove inventory

  and re - register always help again--this time, after removing the inventory - there is no vm file - only content on screen attached.

  I have searched for solutions, but since I did not compatible vmdk - I do not know what first?

  Prospects for some advice...

  Thanks in advance!

  

  I would start by searching other stores of data for the VMX file or in a directory with the same name that the VM - if you don't think I'd attempt to rebuild the virtual machine, but instead of creating a new virtual I slelect use an existing disk and point to the - delta file that is a snapshot.

• What is the best way to restore virtual machines after a refresh of the server

  Hi all

  First time poster here. A group of people at my work have their own VMWare environment which they install later. It has 3 virtual machines running on it, and they want to set up a fourth. Unfortunately the new machine, they want to put in place is going to be almost 1 TB in size, and they initially setup the VMFS datastore to 1 MB, which means that a machine can be as large as 256GB.

  Research, it seems that there is absolutely no way to work around this problem, except to redo the data store. Is this correct? If this is the case, I was looking at a way to save the three current machines and to reload them after it is updated. A way that I thought was to go browse the data store and copy all the files on my local machine to the virtual machine (.nvram, hard, .vmx etx... all the files), wipeout and redo the ESXi host with the correct setting of data store, build the machines VMS in vSphere, and then replace the files with those copied. This works perfectly? I don't see a lot of information out there about it and I want to make sure that I have not to spoil the VMs. This environment consists of 1 ESXi host with all the local storage (2 TB).

  Also, if anyone knows a better way to do this, please feel free to give your comments. I would really appreciate it.

  Thank you

  Hello

  Welcome to the community!

  Research, it seems that there is absolutely no way to work around this problem, except to redo the data store. Is this correct?

  Yes, unfortunately there no way to change the block size of the datastore to vmfs without reformatting.

  If this is the case, I was looking at a way to save the three current machines and to reload them after it is updated. A way that I thought was to go browse the data store and copy all the files on my local machine to the virtual machine (.nvram, hard, .vmx etx... all the files), wipeout and redo the ESXi host with the correct setting of data store, build the machines VMS in vSphere, and then replace the files with those copied. This works perfectly? I have

  Yes, it will work. You have just to copy all files in this VMFS datastore to a place safe and download once the block size has increased. Once the download is complete, navigate to the virtual machine, the virtual machine folder right click and save the VMX.

  You can find the steps to change the size of the block VMFS in this KB. VMware KB: block the size of a VMFS data store limitations

• Cannot depend on the virtual machine after reboot

  Hello world

  Thanks for reading this post.

  My version VM ESXI4.1.0, 348481.

  Here's my problem:

  One day my VM was hanged, and I tried to restart.

  After the reboot, it can be turn on. And I tried to remove the inventory and to recreate the virtual machine.

  However, I can't find the. VMX file in the data store.

  So I tried to create a new virtual machine and put the files in this folder, but it can also work.

  Please see the capture screen, (http://clip2net.com/s/2aNUG)

  Could someone give me guidance and advice how to solve?

  Thank you very much.

  According to the latest vmware.log file, you have tried to access one of the files base/flat with a wrong header file (40 GB)! This hopefully not bad data on the virtual disk. In any case, I've recreated the missing files (see attachment), so you should be able to redo the work of the virtual machine. Because the vmware.log file did not help, I've recreated the instant chain according to the timestamps of the delta file.

  Please follow it below mentioned steps exactly to avoid problems in case something does not work as expacted:

  • Make sure the flat files as well as files 2 6 delta are still in place (not renamed,...)
  • remove the virtual machine from the inventory of the host (right-click-> "Remove from inventory") ESXi
  • delete the temporary/second .vmx unless there is a special need for it
  • Download the files from the .zip file in the folder of the virtual machine on the data store
  • Click right newly downloaded virtual machine's .vmx file and choose "add to the inventory.
  • create a new snapshot (this is important!)
  • Turn on the virtual machine

  If something is not or you have questions, please send back before moving on to the other steps.

  If everything works as expected you should consider the 'Delete All' snapshots in snapshot Manager. This will release not only almost 200 GB of disk space, but can also improve the performance of the virtual machine. Because the size of the snapshot, remove snapshots may take some time, probably in hours!)

  André

• Could not start the virtual machine after you use vmkfstools to resize - HELP!

  I thought I knew what I was doing, but apparently not...

  I tried to increase the size of a VM over 36 GB drive and now I can not start the server. Here's the change front of directory list:

  -rw - 1 root root 16781312 Sep 20 19:46 PJAEast-DL01-000001 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 325 28 August to 01:52 PJAEast-DL01 - 000001.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 4096 9 February 14:55 PJAEast-DL01-000002 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 277 9 February 14:55 PJAEast-DL01 - 000002.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 28201 28 August to 01:52 PJAEast-DL01 - Snapshot1.vmsn

  -rw - 1 root root 28267 9 February 14:55 PJAEast-DL01 - Snapshot2.vmsn

  -rw - 1 root root 131604480 26 August at 08:04 PJAEast-DL01 - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 8684 25 August at 21:03 PJAEast - DL01.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 589 25 August at 15:18 PJAEast - DL01.vmdk

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 1042 28 August to 01:52 PJAEast - DL01.vmsd

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2779 Feb 9 15:10 PJAEast - DL01.vmx

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 267 Feb 9 15:10 PJAEast - DL01.vmxf

  -rw - 1 root root 9898631168 9 February 14:54 PJAEast-DL01_1-000001 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 331 28 August to 01:52 PJAEast-DL01_1 - 000001.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 73728 9 February 14:55 PJAEast-DL01_1-000002 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 283 9 February 14:55 PJAEast-DL01_1 - 000002.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 36322836480 28 August at 01:41 PJAEast-DL01_1 - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 597 25 August at 15:18 PJAEast - DL01_1.vmdk

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 78710 25 August at 16:06 vmware - 1.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 68108 25 August at 20:43 2.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 122302 28 August at 01:41 vmware - 3.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 90557 Sep 20 19:54 4.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 69453 9 February 14:54 vmware.log

  Then, I run the command:

  vmkfstools x 256g PJAEast - DL01_1.vmdk

  And now the virtual machine does not start, return an error: "the virtual disk parent has been changed since the child was created."

  The directory listing is now ("BOLD" indicates the change of information post-vmkfstools):

  -rw - 1 root root 16781312 Sep 20 19:46 PJAEast-DL01-000001 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 325 28 August to 01:52 PJAEast-DL01 - 000001.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 4096 Feb 9 16:12 PJAEast-DL01-000003 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 277 Feb 9 16:12 PJAEast-DL01 - 000003.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 28201 28 August to 01:52 PJAEast-DL01 - Snapshot1.vmsn

  -rw - 1 root root 28267 9 February 14:55 PJAEast-DL01 - Snapshot2.vmsn

  -rw - 1 root root 131604480 26 August at 08:04 PJAEast-DL01 - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 8684 Feb 9 16:12 PJAEast - DL01.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 589 25 August at 15:18 PJAEast - DL01.vmdk

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 1015 28 August 01:52 PJAEast - DL01.vmsd

  -rwx - 1 root root 2779 Feb 9 16:12 PJAEast - DL01.vmx

  -rw - 1 root root 267 Feb 9 16:12 PJAEast - DL01.vmxf

  -rw - 1 root root 9898631168 9 February 14:54 PJAEast-DL01_1-000001 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 331 28 August to 01:52 PJAEast-DL01_1 - 000001.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 73728 Feb 9 16:12 PJAEast-DL01_1-000003 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 283 Feb 9 16:12 PJAEast-DL01_1 - 000003.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 274877906944 28 August 01:41 PJAEast-DL01_1 - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 599 9 Feb 16:11 PJAEast - DL01_1.vmdk

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 68108 25 August at 20:43 2.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 122302 28 August at 01:41 vmware - 3.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 90557 Sep 20 19:54 4.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 69453 9 February 14:54 5.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 39510 Feb 9 16:12 6.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 39411 Feb 9 16:12 vmware - 7.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 39410 Feb 9 16:14 vmware.log

  I can't do anything else until I get comments. Can anyone recommend a way to solve this problem?

  I thought I knew what I was doing, but apparently not...

  I agree

  Two a problem with the new drive.

  1. You get the error message comes from the basic disk with a different size than the disks of the snapshot.
  2. With a size of 256 GB, you will not be able to create snapshots of the disk (on ESXi prior to 5.0 with a block size of 1 MB)

  What you can try to do is to edit the file PJAEast - DL01_1.vmdk :

  • 536870912 VMFS 'PJAEast-DL01_1 - flat hard' RW--> RW 70943040 VMFS 'PJAEast-DL01_1 - flat hard. "
  • DDB. Geometry.Cylinders = "33418'-> ddb.geometry.cylinders = '4416.

  After that, I would recommend to clone the virtual disk to a new one, replace the virtual disk in the virtual machine settings and resize it to a maximum of 254GB (see "calculates the time system required by the snapshot files" at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012384)

  • vmkfstools-i PJAEast-DL01_1 - 000003.vmdk PJAEast - DL01_1a.vmdk

  André

• Unable to start the virtual machine after failing to remove the snapshot

  Recently, I tried to delete a snapshot on a Windows XP virtual machine in VMware server 2.0. After a few minutes, the operation has failed, then the GUI crashed. I was not able to manage one of my virtual machines until I rebooted the server. My other virtual machines still work fine. I can't just run the virtual machine on which I tried to remove the snapshot. This virtual machine is very important to me and I would try to get it back. Does anyone have advice? Also, I upgraded this version of VMware server 1.x to 2.x, so please let me know if this may have something to do with this problem. Thanks in advance.

  An additional note. If the virtual machine starts, I suggest that you run chkdsk, just to make sure that there are no problems with the file system of the client.

  André

• Black screen on all virtual machines after software update

  I'm running 3.1.2 Fusion on a Mac Pro, which is running 10.6.7 and after a recent update all my virtual machines reach black screens when they run. If I suspend, I can see the screen, and it seems that everything works normally, but when I take the screen becomes black. I don't think that it is really a display problem: I can not ping the VM when it runs.

  The same thing happens when I create a new virtual machine, Windows or Ubuntu. Looking at the VM Ubuntu after that I created a new and he suspended definitely seemed to be running: frozen screen was part of the Ubuntu installation, so he had certainly run pending. The update of software in question was not an update of the OS from memory, I think I kept the machine more up-to-date than that, but I can't be sure.

  Any help is very appreciated, that completely prevent me from using VMware.

  Thank you very much!

  Heath

  Have you tried to uninstall/reinstall VMware Fusion to try to see which solves the problem?

• Random virtual machines after vMotion and Storage vMotion network loss

  Hi all -

  I have a couple of tickets open with VMware and our supplier of SAN, EqualLogic, on this issue.  Since the configuration of our production and DMZ clusters we noticed that the virtual machines will sometimes drop network connectivity after a successful vMotion and Storage vMotion.  Sometimes, although much less frequently, virtual machines also spontaneously lose network overnight.  What happened only a few times.  The strange thing is that the other guests on the VM host are fine - they lose any network.  Actually, I can do no more than 3 computers virtual host to another, and 2 of 3 can switch correctly, so that we lose the network.  The work around?  Simply 'disconnect' from the virtual NETWORK card 'reconnect' and the virtual machine will start the return packets.  I can also switch the VM troubled return to the host State and it will find the network.  I can it reboot and re - win network.  I can re - install the virtual card completely, and she re - win network.

  VMware has seen a lot of mistakes of SAN in our log files in order to update us our SAN firmware to the latest version.  That seems to have fixed that but we still have the issue.  Here are some of the specifications - all environments are virtually identical except for memory:

  Of PowerEdge R810

  NICs Broadcom 5709

  EqualLogic SAN running 5.0.5 F/W

  We use frames.  ESXi is fully patched.  I haven't seen a boss or not, it is only some guest operating system that loses the network, but we are a Windows environment.

  When a virtual machine loses the network, we can not:

  • Ping to it
    
  • Ping it
    
  • Ping him at the virtual machines on the same host or vSwitch
    
  • Ping outside our network
    
  • resolve DNS, etc..
    

  I followed some KBs VMware without success, including:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1003839
  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & externalId = 1002811 (port security is not enabled)

  -All the VMware tools have been updated to the latest version correct and corresponds to the ESXi host
  -Connected to the service ESXi console, I cannot ping the VM problem by name of host or IP address, but I can ping do not affected by the issue of the OTHER virtual machines.  I can also pings the service console.
  -Connected to the troubled virtual machine itself, I cannot ping other virtual machines, I can't resolve host names, I cannot ping by IP.  The machine virtual CAN ping itself by IP, but not hostname.  I cannot ping other virtual computers on the same virtual switch or network by either IP or host name.  I can't ping the vSwitch network management.
  -All vSwitches are configured in the same way and the same.
  -Notify the switches is set to yes
  -There are a lot of available virtual ports
  -We tried the E1000 and VMXNET virtual cards with no difference.
  -All cards are configured to negotiate, but we tried to force individuals speeds as well as with no difference

  I appreciate your help.  I have problems getting anywhere on this issue with the sellers.

  wkucardinal wrote:

  Still having the issue...

  Sometimes, it might be useful to really check that all uplinks VMNIC for all VLAN does work them. Try this is to create a new portgroup on the vSwitch used by your virtual machines on the host of the first, put a test VM on the portgroup, then go into the NIC teaming policy from the new portgroup and select "Override switch command failover."

  Then down vmnic all except one in unused, then only a single VMNIC is active. Then set the portgroup VLAN to a production of VLAN and try to see if we could ping some expected from the different addresses. If it works, then move VMNIC work until unused and move up to another asset. Try again, and this for all the vmnic. If it works, then you have verified that the configuration of VLANS and other settings are correct on the physical switch in the face of this host ports.

  If several VLANs, repeat the process for all other productions VLAN. Then repeat on the other hosts.

  While that may take some time, occurs if everything is properly configured on the physical switches. When occurs a vMotion virtual machine gets a new "Port code" and is assigned to a new outgoing VMNIC. If there is an error of configuration on one or more physical ports that might seem random, but may still happen on VLAN x on y VMNIC. Given that Port ID policy you use indeed spread randomly VMs on the vmnic these problems may be difficult to diagnose. (Make a disconnection of the VM vNIC gives the virtual machine a new port-ID, which it will move to a new outgoing VMNIC, which might seem to solve the problem.)