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• who can help me with "insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for vSphere HA.

  Hello world

  We tried to gif a 14GB of ram and make server complete a booking for her.
  This is a server for the exams and the vendor told us to do.

  I can't any more then 5500MB reservation on it, when I anymore that I get
  "Insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for vSphere HA.

  We have:

  2 X 5.1 ESXi hosts
  Each host has
  2 x processors (8 Cores each) with HT active.
  255,75 GB of Ram

  vSphere HA has been activated.
  Admission control policy is enabled and that the ability to failover is 1 host.

  What is the problem here?

  Thank you
  Ernst.

  
  

  Admission control policy is all about to give you the kind of guarantee that if the host failure happens then there will be enough resources to perform the successful failover.

  in simple terms, it comes to reserve the resources of failover.

  I would recommend going through the notion of vSphere HA, reduced control policy the following document.

  https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-60/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-60-availability-Guide.PDF

  From the Page number 22, the details that you need to study is given. Focus especially on part calculations Slot size of it.

  in your case you HA vSphere with number of failure of host to tolerate as admission control strategy defined.

  This means system will calculate CPU and memory slots out of the resources in your cluster, and the total number of units, it will keep some resources like reserved for failover, and others will be available to be used. It all depends on how much failure of hosts that you want to tolerate.

  now in your case, if you try to increase booking one of the virtual machine, which will then affect the number of locations in your environment, and so reserved ability to failover is violated, the system will not let you do what you want to do. As the energy on a virtual machine, or growing booking a powered VM etc..

  If you find that you have enough resources in your cluster and due to some virtual machines with very large cpu or memory reservation, number of places is less than you can still manage the settings some advanced in vSphere HA configuration, but I strongly recommend, try to take the help of someone who has done it before.

  also try to go through other admission control strategies which are explained in the document for more inputs.

• Not enough resources to meet the level of failover configured for vSphere HA

  I have a cluster of vSphere based 5.0 based on ESXi 5 knots 2.

  When I try to start a virtual machine, I get an error saying that there is "insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for vSphere HA.

  If I turn off an another VM the problem disappears and I can turn on my VM.

  If I try to turn on the virtual machine, I have already turned off, I get the error again.

  It seems obvious that there is a lack resources or some setting is misconfigured, but even after reading the forums and manuals, I am unable to locate the critical resource or parameter that is not correct.

  Based on my experience or vSphere server and ESXi servers are overloaded.

  I have an another similar cluster of hosting a larger number of virtual machines with no similar problem.

  This performance counter and this setting should check to identify the bottleneck?

  Concerning

  Marius

  To check reservations for virtual machines, I would select the Cluster in your vCenter inventory, then select the resources"" tab.  Which displays the child objects of the bunch (VMs, Resource Pools, vApps).  There you can watch settings of CPU resources and memory.  You'll want to watch the column of "Reserves".

  To find the size of the slot and places available, look at the tab "Summary" of your cluster.  There is a tile marked "vSphere HA.  In this mosaic, there will be a link for "Advanced Runtime Info" which will open a new window with the location information.

  When the Admission AP policy is set to "Number of failures of host cluster will tolerate", HA has a very pessimistic view of your resources, since it must be able to handle all the possibilities.

  Another option would be to change the admission control strategy in settings of Cluster HA to "percentage of resources reserved for failover.  It reserves a part of the resources for use by HA in the case of a failover, rather than trying to calculate the size of the individual virtual machines.  With a 2 cluster nodes, I think it a relatively safe bet to set these values to 50%, as your worst case scenario HA would be losing a single host on 2.

• Do I need two AIP - SSM modules if I'm failover configuration?

  Is it possible to use a single module AIP - SSM in two ASA that is configured in active / standby?

  I would like to configure the module in the first ASA with the relief setting.  Then, if the ASA first fails, I could physically remove the module AIP - SSM and place it in the second ASA.

  Would there be problems, configure it in this way?

  Would be the active / standby ASA complaining that there is that one module AIP - SSM?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  You must have an AIP - SSM on two SAA in order to be able to run the failover, without it failover will not come to the top (because of incompatibility of hardware)

  Kind regards

  Julio

• Problem with VPN L2L and RA in a failover configuration

  I use two ASA 5540 in failover active-standby configuration. These boxes (primary and secondary) are used to establish some L2L and VPN RA (remote access). The active area run the OSPF process.

  The problem is when the failover (blocking just to the bottom of the active area, or "active failover" running in a secondary zone) all L2L be restored in a secondary zone. The only way I can do this (re-connect) removes the configuration of IPP (Reverse injectable way) (for example. ("no card crypto rprbbe_map 3 don't set reverse-road") and the configuration of IPP ("card crypto rprbbe_map 3 Road opposite the value"). After this the connection is re-established.

  In RA guests the session persists on a failover event, but the customer loses access. To resolve this problem, the customer needs to disconnect and reconnect.

  Anyone has any experience with this kind of (L2L and RA) VPN configuration using failover?

  Behavior seems buggy.

  What version do you use?

• ESXi 5.1 - insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for vSphere HA

  Hi, I tried to understand why there are insufficient resources to supply an only little VM in my vSphere cluster.

  2 X 5.1 ESXi hosts

  Each host has

  2 x processors (8 cores each) with HT active

  192 GB OF RAM

  vSphere HA has been activated.

  Admission control policy set to "tolerate failures of the host in the cluster" with the value 1.

  With 2 GB of vRAM and 1 vCPU has created a virtual machine.  No memory and CPU Hotel booking.

  I put one of the host in maintenance mode and try to turn on the virtual machine, but it failed to power upward with the error "insufficient resources to meet the configured switch level for vSphere HA.

  Am I missing something?

  Thank you

  Alex

  I put one of the host in maintenance mode and try to turn on the virtual machine, but it failed to power upward with the error "insufficient resources to meet the configured switch level for vSphere HA.

  When having two hosts only no host doesn't stay for failover when one of these hosts are in maintenance mode... That is why it gives you this message...

  / Rubeck

• HA failover configuration host

  Hi guys,.

  I was wondering if anyone knew if a way to get the hostname of CAC HA failover.

  I looked at the property below:

  $cluster = get-cluster test01

  $cluster. ExtensionData.configuration.dasconfig.admissioncontrolpolicy

  The value of this property is the ESX host MoRef. Is it possible to get the hostname of this MoRef?

  Thank you

  Douglas

  Hello, dcoz-

  Yes, once you have the host MoRef, you can use the cmdlet Get-View to get all the Info for the host.  To get the name of the host, it would be like:

  (Get-View -Id $oHostMoRef -Property Name).Name
  

  You can get all the .net display the properties of the object with Get-view just, but the above line uses the "-property" parameter to extract only the "Name" property, for the sake of speed.

• ASA-SSM-20 on the active failover configuration

  You can synchronize configuration between two IPS systems data?

  I have two ASA-SSM-20 (6.1.1 E3) one in each of my the SAA. Of the SAA is the shift in assets. During the configuration of the IPS module I always make these same changes also in the standby unit. Is it possible to synchronize to the top of these two survey periods, so when it is configured the other is updated?

  Thank you very much

  Unlike the SAA, there not an automatic function to preserve the configuration synchronization through SSMs 2.

  A few options:

  You can use the command copy to copy the configuration of a sensor to a ftp/scp server.

  Then use the copy on the second sensor command to copy the configuration on the second sensor. During the copy, it will ask whether to change the IP of the probe to what is in the configuration file. You will need to tell it to NOT change IP of the probe, otherwise you end up with 2 SSMs with the same IP address and are struggling to connect to them.

  Another option is to use the CSM. CSM has configuration that applies to simple sensors, but also the group configuration that can be applied across multiple sensors.

  If you have used the group configuration, then you could make one change to the configuration of the Group and apply it in all the sensors in the Group (you will place your SSMs 2 in the same group).

• Active/active failover configuration LAN-based PIX / ASA

  Hi all

  I would like to ask, if there is a restriction of length between the two ASA5510 in a LAN failover? Should not be, or I'm wrong?

  Thank you

  Norbert

  Hello

  normal duration of 100 m Ethernet. Or you can use the switches between them. I do not have a direct link.

  Best regards, Celio

• Not enough resources to meet the level of failover configured for HA

  Hello!

  This error message is pretty well documented on the VMware site and elsewhere. It is received when it exceeds the capacity of (CPU and RAM) calculated the HA cluster resources.

  That said, despite what I understand, I can't understand why I runner of am limited to VMs than 6 (otherwise, the I get message error en the title) on cluster of United Nations HA (FT not DRS) of 2 servers, while the alors que les ressources resources averages used are about 10 to 20% only of those available for.

  I have 40GB of RAM and 19.2 GHz per server. I calculated according to the method explained here: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/vmware-high-availability-deepdiv/.

  Maximum reserve of United Nations I 2 GB and 2.2 GHz on VMS (less pay some), but the limits are left in general 'Unlimited '. The 'Actions' are 'Normal '.

  In short, here are the numbers that vSphere client gives me pour the cluster:

  CPU:

  Total capacity: 37440 MHz

  Reserve capacity: 27424 MHz

  Available capacity: 10016 MHz

  Memory:

  Total capacity: 74009 MB

  Reserve capacity: 27865,88 MB

  Airline booking: 0 MB

  Available capacity: 46143,12 MB

  What Miss me?

  How about you? You drive your virtual machines with what reservations? (I tried to roll them up to 0, but some virtual machines (originally imported from GSX in ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0) won't roll or plant.)

  P.S. Yes! I know that I can from this error by clicking "Allow VMs to be powered even if they violate the constraints of availability", but I like to keep the option of 'prevent' up to ' that I understand better what happens... or doesn't.

  Thanks in advance...

  Hello

  I have one exception that has a reservation... others are not and everything works fine.  I suggest you check your VMs.  There the maid to do following an import.  The exception is pour terminal type servers or in some circumstances you can have some problems.

  Jeff | VCP4 | VCDX

• Remove the Configuration of failover on the 4.0 unit (3)

  Is there a way to delete unity 4.0 failover configuration (3), any ideas?

  See the chapter on "Just uninstall failover Cisco Unity Servers"

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/products/SW/voicesw/ps2237/products_upgrade_guides_chapter09186a0080205a85.html#wp1229056

  Conversion of a secondary server to a server of the unit of Cisco for 60 days without a backend

  Conversion of a secondary server to a regular Cisco Unity server permanently without failover

  Conversion of a primary server to a regular Cisco Unity server permanently without failover

• How to check if the remote VPN failover is configured

  Hello world

  We have two sites and have both remote access VPN configured.

  IF a VPN site fails users automatically fail over to another site.

  Need to know what that orders can I run on ASA to check if remote VPN failover is there?

  Also what lines by running config shhould I seek?

  Thank you

  Mahesh

  Based on your configuration, it can vary, below link has someVPN failover configurations, you can find a few commands to check redundancy on your network:

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/iOS/12_2/12_2y/12_2yx11/feature/guide/ft_vpnha.html#wp1093554

  What you should look at your config running is also based on your configuration, it should be something like: main, standby or emergency.

  HTH

• Failure of SQL replication for failover Unity4.03

  After 4.03 failover configuration, no SQL replication was the installation of the FOW. We have tried to re - run the FOW on the primary failover server but now always get the following error:

  has failed to remove the cisco unity objects that are associated with the secondary server of trhe dirctory - DETAILED INFORMATION: iavrdbconnection::initialize () method returned [0 x 80048807].

  Cannot progress any more away and the unit does not start.

  After looking at diag_failoverconfig_xx the file registers several failures at the end ' could not connect to the underlying database to aid: provider = sqloledb; driver = {sql server}; DataSource = ... etc"

  Here are the steps that I found to work to solve this problem.

  Secondary Failover Setup Wizard fails to complete on Windows

  2003 (WS03). A popup is produced and says:

  "Cannot remove objects from Cisco Unity regarding the secondary server from the directory.

  DETAILED INFORMATION:

  "Method IAvRdbConnection::Initialize () return [0 x 80048807]:

  Conditions:

  Environment - 4.0 (4) unit on a Windows 2003 server with failover

  Workaround solution:

  In SQL Server Enterprise Manager delete "(local) (Windows NT)" record from SQL Server. Create a new record of SQL Server that is associated with the server.

  1. open SQL Server Enterprise Manager on the secondary server.

  2. expand the tree for SQL server (it should be labeled as (local) (Windows

  NT)

  3. right click and select "Unregister SQL Server"

  4. check that the Registion server is deleted.

  5. Select and right click on SQL Server group.

  6. Select "new SQL Server Registration.

  7. Select the associated Active Server.

  8. Select the default settings.

  9. Repeat for the primary server.

  10 restart the primary and secondary server.

  11 rerun the Configuration Wizard of failover to the secondary server by the documentation.

• ASA status interface failover: Normal (pending)

  I've been struggling with this, I have two ASA running 8.6 that show the interfaces being monitored as well.

  I'm under 9.2 on these and tell waiting interfaces. Also can I disable SPI monitored? I ask only the cause at the time where the IPS is a module of the SAA, if I had to restart, the units would be tipping. I don't know if it's the same now with the IPS is a software based inside the ASA running on a separate hard drive.

  ASA5515-01 # show failover
  Failover on
  Unit of primary failover
  Failover LAN interface: FAILOVER of GigabitEthernet0/5 (top)
  Frequency of survey unit 1 seconds, 15 seconds holding time
  Survey frequency interface 5 seconds, 25 seconds hold time
  1 political interface
  Watched 3 114 maximum Interfaces
  MAC address move Notification not defined interval
  Version: Our 9.2 (2) 4, Mate 4 9.2 (2)
  Last failover at: 03:55:44 CDT October 21, 2014
  This host: primary: enabled
  Activity time: 507514 (s)
  slot 0: ASA5515 rev hw/sw (1.0/9.2(2)4 State) (upward (Sys)
                    Interface to the outside (4.35.7.90): Normal (pending)
                    Interface inside (172.20.16.30): Normal (pending)
  Interface Mgmt (172.20.17.10): Normal (pending)
  Slot 1: IPS5515 rev hw/sw (N/A 7.1 (4) E4) State (to the top/to the top)
  IPS, 7.1 (4) E4, upward
  Another host: secondary - ready Standby
  Activity time: 0 (s)
  slot 0: ASA5515 rev hw/sw (1.0/9.2(2)4 State) (upward (Sys)
                    Interface (0.0.0.0) outdoors: Normal (pending)
  Interface (0.0.0.0) inside: Normal (pending)
  Interface (0.0.0.0) Mgmt: Normal (pending)
  Slot 1: IPS5515 rev hw/sw (N/A 7.1 (4) E4) State (to the top/to the top)
  IPS, 7.1 (4) E4, upward

  Failover stateful logical Update Statistics
  Relationship: unconfigured.

  ASA5515-01 # poster run | failover Inc.
  failover
  primary failover lan unit
  LAN failover FAILOVER GigabitEthernet0/5 interface
  failover interface ip FAILOVER 10.10.1.1 255.255.255.252 ensures 10.10.1.2
  ASA5515-01 # ping 10.10.1.2
  Type to abort escape sequence.
  Send 5, echoes ICMP 100 bytes to 10.10.1.2, time-out is 2 seconds:
  !!!!!
  Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = ms 02/01/10
  # ASA5515-01

  ------------

  I read also not to use a design where a cable is directly connected to each unit, and instead each interface must connect on a downstream switch port so that the status of the link is still up to a firewall interface if the other firewall interface fails. Otherwise, the two units detects a link down condition and assume that their own interface is down. Never really thought about it in that sense. Anyone use a direct attached cable and have problems?

  Hello

  I rarely troubleshoot failover configurations so I am little rusty with associated with these problems.

  First thing that comes to mind is that configurations under interfaces has "standby" configured IP address? I wondered as the changeover seems to be configured and the link between the units is fine but the unit ready standby shows just 0.0.0.0 for each interface.

  -Jouni

• "Move" failover to different / interface port

  Sorry if this is in the wrong place, we had if rarely to issues which were not covered otherwise I frequent this area.

  How is it difficult to change the interface used for active failover / standby? This is a pair of work, already configured with standby, but I need to move the cable crossed and tell them to use a different interface.
  Pair of ASA 5510, already put in place and work with failover, which was originally set on Ethernet port 0/3 by senior network administrator. It seems that its use of interfaces or ports he used things straight out of the examples on the web, including the interfaces used.
  The admin network senior retired last spring and left me "supported", gee, thanks.
  I need to make some changes and Ethernet port need for an important new project.
  The management interface 0/0 is unused and shut down. We manage by inside the interface from a specific inside subnet so do not need the interface dedicated management.
  I want to spend the shift IN management TO Ethernet 0/3 0/0

  * This is the current configuration:

  Output of the command: "sh run failover.

  failover
  primary failover lan unit
  failover failover lan interface Ethernet0/3
  failover failover Ethernet0/3 link
  failover interface ip failover 169.254.255.1 255.255.255.252 ensures 169.254.255.2

  * And it's the current 0/3 interface and management configuration:

  interface Ethernet0/3
  STATE/LAN failover Interface Description
  !
  interface Management0/0
  Speed 100
  full duplex
  Shutdown
  nameif management
  security-level 0
  no ip address
  OSPF cost 10

  I know that it can work on the management interface 0/0 because I see a lot of 'how to configure' as if the SAA is brand-new and several examples there indeed be setup on the management.

  I'm looking to find out how to take a pair of ASA is currently configured and has a functional work and all failover configuration simply "tilting move" to a different hole, or change the interfaces used for the 'heartbeat' somehow.

  I guess that's not difficult - but I also assume that there is a specific sequence of events that must occur in order to prevent the pair to enter the failover and switching of the main roles...
  For example - would have turned off or turn off the power switch and if so, how and on what ASA (frankly, I don't know how to access education secondary or standby if it needs to be done, suspended or on the rescue unit, because I never did that 'deep' a before config)
  CLI is very well - I'd be too comfortable in ASDM or cli.

  I really hope this makes sense - I have more than one convenience store and fixer than a designer or network engineer...
  And thank you very much - get this moved will release the interface I need and can really make a big bump in my list of project while the project manager is on vacation this week! I'd love to have done this and before his return.

  Oh, in case it is important as I said, it's running license and version shown here:

  Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 4,0000 1
  Version 6.4 Device Manager (7)

  Updated Friday, June 14, 12 and 11:20 by manufacturers
  System image file is "disk0: / asa844-1 - k8.bin.
  The configuration file to the startup was "startup-config '.

  VRDSMFW1 141 days 4 hours
  failover cluster upwards of 141 days 4 hours

  Material: ASA5510, 1024 MB RAM, Pentium 4 Celeron 1600 MHz processor
  Internal ATA Compact Flash, 256 MB
  BIOS Flash M50FW080 @ 0xfff00000, 1024 KB

  Hardware encryption device: edge Cisco ASA - 55 x 0 Accelerator (revision 0 x 0)
  Start firmware: CN1000-MC-BOOT - 2.00
  SSL/IKE firmware: CNLite-MC-Smls-PLUS - 2.03
  Microcode IPSec:-CNlite-MC-IPSECm-HAND - 2.06
  Number of Accelerators: 1

  0: Ext: Ethernet0/0: the address is 0024.972b.e020, irq 9
  1: Ext: Ethernet0/1: the address is 0024.972b.e021, irq 9
  2: Ext: Ethernet0/2: the address is 0024.972b.e022, irq 9
  3: Ext: Ethernet0/3: the address is 0024.972b.e023, irq 9
  4: Ext: Management0/0: the address is 0024.972b.e01f, irq 11
  5: Int: not used: irq 11
  6: Int: not used: irq 5

  The devices allowed for this platform:
  The maximum physical Interfaces: unlimited perpetual
  VLAN maximum: 100 perpetual
  Guests of the Interior: perpetual unlimited
  Failover: Active/active perpetual
  VPN - A: enabled perpetual
  VPN-3DES-AES: activated perpetual
  Security contexts: 2 perpetual
  GTP/GPRS: Disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Premium peers: 2 perpetual
  AnyConnect Essentials: 250 perpetual
  Counterparts in other VPNS: 250 perpetual
  Total VPN counterparts: 250 perpetual
  Shared license: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect for Mobile: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Cisco VPN phone: disabled perpetual
  Assessment of Advanced endpoint: disabled perpetual
  Proxy UC phone sessions: 2 perpetual
  Proxy total UC sessions: 2 perpetual
  Botnet traffic filter: disabled perpetual
  Intercompany Media Engine: Disabled perpetual

  This platform includes an ASA 5510 Security Plus license.

  Cluster failover with license features of this platform:
  The maximum physical Interfaces: unlimited perpetual
  VLAN maximum: 100 perpetual
  Guests of the Interior: perpetual unlimited
  Failover: Active/active perpetual
  VPN - A: enabled perpetual
  VPN-3DES-AES: activated perpetual
  Security contexts: 4 perpetual
  GTP/GPRS: Disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Premium peer: 4 perpetual
  AnyConnect Essentials: 250 perpetual
  Counterparts in other VPNS: 250 perpetual
  Total VPN counterparts: 250 perpetual
  Shared license: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect for Mobile: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Cisco VPN phone: disabled perpetual
  Assessment of Advanced endpoint: disabled perpetual
  Proxy UC phone sessions: 4 perpetual
  Proxy total UC sessions: 4 perpetual
  Botnet traffic filter: disabled perpetual
  Intercompany Media Engine: Disabled perpetual

  This platform includes an ASA 5510 Security Plus license.

  Serial number: ABC12345678
  Running permanent activation key: eieioandapartridgeinapeartree
  Registry configuration is 0x1
  Last modified by me to 15:03:07.132 CDT MON Sep 15 2014 configuration

  Disconnect an interface monitored on your rescue unit that will ensure that it does not take as active. Then cut the failover link and modify its failover parameters. (You will need to first remove the nameif for M0/0).

  Then, make the changes on the primary unit similar free game active. Reconnect the failover link, confirm the synchronization of the units and finally reconnect the interface of production on the rescue unit.