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• HA restarts the virtual machine if the storage connectivity is lost? If how is HA needs to be configured?

  We plan to go forward with a single dual-port HBA in each of our ESX servers. My concern is that the HBA becomes a single point of failure. HA supports restarting the virtual machine which lose connectivity to back-end storage. We did some testing and it does not appear that HA does not handle this. Even when 'enable us VM monitoring' the machine virtual do not restart on other ESX servers in the cluster that they hang just basically. I've read a few articles which seem to indicate that it should work, but I'm not able to get there. Any thoughts there?

  HA checks the availability of default ESX host. There is an option to monitor the heartbeats reviews, as well. Maybe this will do, but sometimes a guest still works for awhile even if the disk is lost. And as for a long time VMware tools send heartbeats...

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• Monitoring VM - how to restart the virtual machine

  Hi all

  Hit a problem in our environment that can not be solved, but wanted to tender hand to people and see if they have found a way to replace.

  Currently have followed vm enabled in our cluster. Thing is watching us to restart the virtual machine VMware tools demonstrated to a status of "not running" - now, the key is to most of the definitions, the system is available in this case, can be crazy, RDP'ed etc, but we here again them restarted as he finally solves the issue we see (for example unable to connect via citrix for the machines in question)

  Duncan in the post below highlights in order to avoid false positives any i/o to storage/network activity will be verified after that heatbeats failed to "double check" there is a problem with the virtual machine

  Favorite VM monitoring (aka VM HA) - yellow bricks

  What I asked is it possible to replace verification of network storage/IO activity and then restart the virtual machine VMware tools on them stops as soon as?

  Many tx for all thoughts

  «.. . is there a way to replace check network activity of storage/IO and then restart the virtual machine of VMware tools on them stops as soon as...? »

  You can always use a supervision-process inside the virtual machine for this tool (perhaps more followed VM). It acts independently and allows much finer control, i.e. it can try first (re) start vm-tools before restarting. Same BSOD /-kernel panic can be dealt with by VM itself. It can actually be even more robust, not dependent on VMware infrastructure.

• Block of VMWare workstation to restart the virtual machine

  Hi all...

  I use vmware workstation 9.0.2 on a machine running windows 7 Professional (64 bit) on any domain.

  the problem is that: when I reboot whole VM (windows/linux), vmware stop working a present the home screen (with options F2, F12, ESC)... at this time, all orders (average, suspend, reset) does not work... I need to manually complete the vm procecess - ware.exe, remove *.lck items and restart the physical machine...

  If I stop the virtual machine, all work without problems...

  any ideas?

  Hi riccimaticand welcome to the VMware communities!

  Try disconnecting the virtual CD/DVD drive.  It seems that there are situations in which problems arise to restart a guest, operating system while its virtual optical drive is connected.  The most common cause is using MagicDisc/MagicISO on the host, which is known to cause exactly the problem you describe.

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• Stop and restart the virtual machines in the remote server

  I need to close virtual machines running guests 4 1 ESX from a remote server (IBM System i).

  The remote server in fact control the storage used by ESX and VM OS, so I'll have to scripts running on the remote server that:

  Stop the virtual machine

  Performs maintenance

  Reboot the virtual machine

  I tried to understand the big picture of the reading discussions here, but I'm still confused.

  VMA is to provide the best way for the virtual machines of withdrawal from a script running on a remote server?

  Scripts can I use SSH to connect to the vSphere environment to run scripts or issue the command?

  Thank you.

  vCLI (really its vSphere SDK for Perl), PowerCLI, VI Java, etc are all vSphere SDK to correct and they are a of the client-side bindings different scripts and programming languages which bind to the vSphere API. When I say 'API', I mean using one of these SDK is you use the vSphere API to perform the work.

  The SDK is initiated on the remote server, this can be windows, linux, etc as long as it supports one of these boxes to tools. In general, for admins, you will use either vCLI (vSphere SDK for Perl) that supports Linux and Windows, or if you are more windows-oriented, you can use PowerCLI.

  Documentation has been referenced in my first post, please take some time the documents because they provide much more detail on the use cases for each + a lot of examples with orders. Yet once, there no involved SSH if you use the vSphere API. As I told, vMA is a virtual appliance, you can download and start using if you do not want to install vCLI or PowerCLI on a remote system, this is assuming that you are comfortable in a Linux environment. If you're not, then I highly recommend using PowerCLI, who will need a remote server for Windows.

  Here are a few started getting additional resources:

  vSphere SDK for Perl + vMA:

  Getting started with vSphere SDK for Perl

  Introduction to the vMA (tips/tricks)

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• Error occurred by restarting the virtual machine after instant collection

  Configuration:

  2 X ESX 3.5 U3 in cluster (Enterprise license) + Virtual Center 2.5 update 3

  18 customers running Win2k3 servers and Oracle on RHEL 3 servers

  2 X SAN DELL MD3000i with two controllers (active / active).

  Question: Last night, when the backup of VCB, we lost the SAN n ° 1 completely (two controllers at the same time).

  We have a few customers with Microsoft Raid 1 (1 on San 1 and 1 drive on San 2).  guests in mirror mode survived 40 minutes after the San n ° 1 crashed.

  After checking saves files I found that: ESX shutdowned guests due to a problem with the snapshot.

  I feel really bad this morning... because I told my boss we're safe if we lose 1 SAN because we are mirrored on 2 SAN.

  Why stop ESX invited after problems with snapshots. Also, we received a lot of Virtual Center with false alert alarms (virtual machine does not).

  ESX filled 800 megs of log files in a few minutes with the same message (path fails, try another a blabla).

  What the purpose of putting my guests in mirror mode stop ESX if my guests after losing the path during backup?

  Hello

  Conclusion?

  If SAN #1 accident during the VCB backup, you're dead?

  If you use software raid within the virtual machine is then SAN1 dies, the VM will crash because the Bank of support file (this case a delta) is no longer available and there is no way to read or write data even.

  Software RAID does not apply to things outside of the virtual machine. A solution would be to have a device that can do Raid through mirroring without.

  Best regards

  Edward L. Haletky

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• Spontaneous restarting the virtual machine after migration

  Hello

  I had a problem today: I was going to my 3.5u3 patch ESX servers with December 2 patches, so I migrated (vmotion) my VM to host another of my cluster 2 on 6 machines spontaneously restarted moments after the migration. The same penalty was described here:http://www.ivobeerens.nl/?p=180 someone faces (and solved) this problem?

  Thanks in advance,

  Nicolas

  You use VMM in HA?  If so, this is a known issue and if you use 3.5.0U3, you must have obtained an email about this issue.

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1007899

• Persistent routes no longer work after the virtual machine restarts

  Hello community.

  I was hoping that someone can shine a light on a problem I have experienced. I have a virtual machine that multiple network cards. Some are exposed to the Internet, some are just private and some are B2B connections. Now, I put the roads for a particular to Adapater it limits by using this command: route add 13.x.x.x mask 255.255.255.255 if0x10005-p 10.x.x.x. I could pinch the IP address once I put it but once I restart the virtual machine of the road is still there, but I can no longer to pinch the INVESTIGATION period. This happens in several environments I.

  I am running windows 2003 which has been recently patched with the latest

  I'm running the latest ESX3 and VC 2.5

  Any help would be great.

  FYI - Pinch is another form of Ping.

  Set the gateway on the roads. Both that the getway is only not shared by any other way on the same system your traffic should go out any interface is associated with the network which is located in the gateway. in this way, you don't have to worry about the interface.

• If the virtual machine is restarted during SVmotion...?

  Hello

  During the SVmotion if I try the scenarios below would be the SVmotion fail or still work?

  Say if I trigger a SVmotion when the virtual machine is powered off and then during the migration, if I try to turn on the virtual machine what?

  If I trigger a SVmotion on a virtual machine under tension and during the migration, if I restart the virtual machine what will happen?

  Deepak

  Storage VMotion is process for powered on VM - it's migration transparent disk online. So if you want to restart the computer during Storage VMotion virtual it will be restarted. SVMotion care VM do inside.

  But when you migrate powered off the computer virtual you just will not be able to turn on.

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• Move the virtual machine in another data store

  I don't know what's going on, I have two data warehouses and I moved my vm from one to the other, I had to create a new virtual machine to import the files migrated, when I opened the store of data for import only saw two files vmdk files, the first 00001 others a single vmdk file that contains 00 001 not opened when you import the second succeeded, but when the server starts, it goes up a very old version, as if it was newly installed windows 2003, I saw in the dishes, delta files files but don't know what to do, I tried to check the Snapshot Manager, but did not find anything there.

  Have you ever tried to fix things? The attached .vmx file points to the correct instant hard file (scsi0:0.fileName = "Cezzanne - 000001.vmdk"), but the parentCID in this hard file is not correct!

  In any case, after replacing "Cezzanne - 000001.vmdk" with that of archive attached, you should be able to restart the virtual machine. BTW. You can delete the file «.lck...» ». This is necessary on a NFS datastore.

  Next time you copy a VM, do not create a new virtual machine. Only delete the virtual machine to inventory before moving and after moving it, click right the VM .vmx file and choose "add to the inventory.

  André

• Could not start the virtual machine: "the specified file is not a virtual disk.

  Hi, I have a problem from a guest vm-workstation.

  Details below - I've done some reading here for some other "the file specified."

  is

  not a virtual disk' messages and I suspect that I am out of luck

  but I have

  wanted to ask just in case there was something miss me

  Here I tried to gather records / logs that other threads

  mentioned - I

  Welcome to all the tips on the revival of the guest, or a

  pointer to a how-to on recovering the files of a given snapshot.

  Thank you

  John

  Summary:

  VMware workstation: 7.0.1 build 227600

  host of os: Vista sp2, 64-bit

  (16 GB of ram)

  guest operating system: sles10 sp2 64-bit (4 GB ram)

  the virtual machine folder:

  drive eSATA (samsung 320, blacx attachment)

  symptom: guest vm

  does not start: says "the specified file is not a virtual disk.

  history: this particular comments works fine; I've done about 30 shots

  during the last 2 months.  The guest is not a copy - even if she did start life as a full-clone

  another linux-client with or without an operating system installed.  In any case, I've used it to very good

  effect for 2 months now.

  So last night I wanted to power off of the host, while I lived my usual steps:

  (1) stop my os of burst (# shutdown - h now)

  (2) even worksation vmware (file - & gt; exit)

  (3) stop start vista (not "suspend" but the real stop turn off the power).

  (4) visa bluescreened.  Now she is doing this every so often, so I thought that it would be

  a big deal.

  (5) this morning I tried to turn on the virtual machine and I got the 'not a virtual disk' error.

  My best guess at this point is the bluescreen stopped some write cache to be

  flushed to disk.  The funny thing is, after the previous bluescreens 3 or 4, the

  Comments to restart without a hitch.

  shrug In any case, just to be weave, I disabled write Vista for outside cache

  device (set to security policy / deletion in Device Manager).  Seems smarter to

  an external device.

  Spare part

  Attached is a file cant_start.zip (191KO) containing:

  dircontents.txt - directory of the client's file listing
  sles10_sp2. NVRAM
  sles10_sp2.vmsd
  sles10_sp2.vmx
  sles10_sp2.vmxf
  VMware.log - other requests asked for *.log files, so I thought
  VMware - 0.log - I should send him these as well.
  VMware - 1.log
  VMware - 2.log
  \ui-logs - 2 IU-logs from C:\Users\jgreve\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware-jgreve
  \vmdk_files - subdirectory of *.vmdk files, light, & can be useful
  -end-

  I checked the VMDK and newspapers - and the VMDK all look great.

  Last departure also seems to succeed?

  As it seems that instant 36 is not used so far - I was just going to throw it away and try again.

  To do this, you would change the line vmx file

  scsi0:0. FileName = 'suse11.2_x64 - cl1 - 000036.vmdk.

  TO

  scsi0:0. FileName = 'suse11.2_x64 - cl1 - 000035.vmdk.

  and then try to restart the virtual machine. If that works then remove all the

  suse11.2_x64 - cl1 - 000036-* files

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• I've set up the virtual machine in win 7 Ultimate and put some data. Now when I try to connect it asks password and does not accept any password.

  Default password Machine virtual XP Mode

  I've set up the virtual machine in win 7 Ultimate and put some data. Now when I try to connect it asks password and does not accept any password. Please giveme the default password

  If you're talking about XP Mode the default password is XPMUser.  In general you can not use Windows without a password in Windows Virtual PC that you can with Virtual PC 2007 and before.  XPMUser is used only with the XP Mode virtual machine.  All other virtual machines requires a user created password.  If you have changed the password in XP Mode and forgotten, then you have to start over.

  Windows Virtual PC is based on virtual server rather than VPC and all virtual machines need a password.  If necessary, uninstall the integration features, start the virtual machine and create a password for the admin user.  Restart the virtual machine, and then reinstall the integration features.  You will not be able to access a virtual machine created by the user that has no password, while the integration features are installed.  Once you have everything right, that a virtual machine will not be asked a password if you are the admin user in Windows 7.

  @george1009,.

  Everything got?  :)

• How to make a virtual computer to connect to a CD player with an ISO mounted when you start the virtual machine?

  I am the creation of virtual machines using PowerCLI 5.5 on vSphere 5.0; and while the virtual machine is turned off, I am able to mount an ISO on a CD player and change the boot order to boot from the CD-ROM (for another post).  I have the flag startConnected set to true, but am not having much luck getting the virtual machine to connect to the CDDrive

  $cdObj = $Vm | New-CDDrive - IsoPath $isoPathName - StartConnected: $true

  If ($cdObj - no $null)
  {
  #Power off VM if it is on
  $VmState = $Vm.PowerState
  
  If ($VmState - eq "Receptor")
  {
  $Vm | Stop-Vm-confirm: $false - ea 0
  }

  $BootHardDiskName = 'disk 1 '.
  $VmView = get - VM $VmName - Server $serverObj.Name | Get-View
  $HardDiskDeviceKey = ($VmView.Config.Hardware.Device |) Where-Object {$_.} DeviceInfo.Label - eq $BootHardDiskName}). Key

  $BootableHardDisk = new-Object - TypeName VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineBootOptionsBootableDiskDevice - property @{'DeviceKey' = $HardDiskDeviceKey}
  $BootableCDRom = new-Object-Type VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineBootOptionsBootableCdromDevice
  
  #Set for CDRom boot order
  $BootIso = new-Object VMware.Vim .VirtualMachineConfigSpec - property @ {}
  "BootOptions' = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineBootOptions - property @ {}
  BootOrder = $BootableCDRom
  }
  }
  
  #Set VM from the start settings at the start of the first CD and forces the display to update (sometimes delayed)
  $VmView.ReconfigVM_Task ($BootIso) | out-null
  $VmView.UpdateViewData ("Config.BootOptions.BootOrder")
  
  #Power on VM
  $Vm | Start-VM-confirm: $false - ea - global 0EV: vmOpsError | out-null

  When I start the VM, it does start the ISO.

  If I go to vCenter, the CD is pointing to the ISO file, but the 'Connected' to change settings option is not checked;  I can restart the VM of vCenter and then the VM restarts the ISO, but not in the script.

  I even put code to add a lead time of 5 to 10 seconds; I restart the virtual machine twice in the script and I can't CD to connect to start the virtual computer.

  Appreciate any suggestions.

  Maureen

  Have you tried to do a

  Game-CDDrive - CD $cdObj - connected - confirm: $false

  immediately after the start-VM?

• Details of the data of the virtual machine store

  Hi all

  Thank you is advanced.

  I'm trying to get the details of the virtual machine and its data store name, freespaceGB to n csv file. After excuting it I'm getting only the out put of the VM last on my list. Hope that I missed something in the addition of the output. Can someone please help.

  Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
  SE connect-VIServer 192.168.1.125

  #VMname.csv list of MV #.
  $vm = import-csv c:\scripts\vmname.csv
  {foreach ($line in $vm)
  Get-vm datastore - $line.name. Select-Object $line.name, name, FreeSpaceGB. Export Csv c:\scripts\ds.csv - NoTypeInformation
  }

  The result is that I'm looking is something like that.

  Virtal FreeSpace DS machine name

  VM1 DATA1 13 GB

  The virtual machine should be a calculated property, I've updated the code above.

  Give him another chance.

• No network on the virtual machine after the use of converter

  I was running a basic vm (WinXP) on an esxi4.1 host running short of disk space.

  So I ran the vCenter Converter Standalone client to copy the original VM on a new - the only thing that I changed the size of the disc thin provisioned avaiable.   The copy/convert seemed to work your.

  I started in the new virtual machine, and it came exactly as the old one (with the largest disk).

  ... but the network on the works of more than vm.

  I can still use vSphere to connect to the esxi server and bring up the VM console (which tells me that the network the server works very well).  When I look at the configuration of the virtual machine, it looks exactly like the old (complete with a network powered).   But on the virtual machine, I can't even ping the router, much less get to the dhcp server.

  I even went so far as to stop the virtual machine, remove the network card, restart the virtual machine (if the network has been removed from the virtual machine), stop the virtual machine again, add a NEW network adapter.

  Still the problem remains.  The virtual machine has a network card - but has no network.

  A few thoughts:

  You use a managed physical switch? If so, check if the MAC address of the VM is seen on one of the uplink ports.

  The network management and the virtual machine using the same IP subnet? You could probably try (if possible) is to create an another vSwitch and attach the XP VM to it to see if there is a problem with the virtual machine and the management on the same vSwitch network.

  André