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• Unable to restart or stop via vMA host

  Hi gurus,

  I play with vMA in my lab setup at home... I'm still a beginner at vMA and assocaiate with her orders.

  I'm still new at VMAs and orders

  I've added a vCenter Server using the vifp addserver command

  I can list servers too with the command vifp mailing lists

  Then I added the target of vcenter server

  All servers are running on ESXi5, vCenter 5.0 and 5.0 vMA

  No DRS or available under my object of Datacenter cluster

  I am trying to run the vicfg-hostops of command and get to the host localhost: the operation is not allowed in the current state.

  I tried to restart the agents of management on the host, but without success.

  > vicfg-hostops - Server 192.168.205.139 - restart operation

  Enter the user name: root

  Enter the password:

  To the host localhost: the operation is not allowed in the current state.

  Appreciate if you could let me know what I'm doing wrong here...

  Thanks in advance!

  I got it working;

  Through the command I am using

  vicfg-hostops - help

  It comes back to what I was looking for

  -force

  f

  "Optional for restart and shutdown operation. Flag to force the host which is not in maintenance mode

  to be rebooted / shutdown.  If not specified, operation will fail for host not in maintenance mode. »

  I replaced the command with:

  vicfg-hostops - vihost 192.168.205.139 o f restart

• I can't connect to the internet via my host after uninstalled antivirus software and restart

  I can't connect to the internet via my host after uninstalled antivirus software and restart it.

  I use windows xp on my host computer and all computers in my client. After that I uninstalled the free trial NIS version and restart my host, I lost the internet connection. Tried to restore with the restoration of the system, but when I restarted it, it said the system restore could not be made. I changed it then with my laptop and I can connect to the internet as the host.

  Hello

  This can happen if the uninstall process fails and leaves behind a Symantec registry value. See the following Symantec article.

  Unable to connect to the Internet after uninstalling Norton AntiVirus.

  http://Service1.Symantec.com/support/NAV.nsf/8d071816eedd7cac88256c0e005a96e5/751c3298ab99cf7188256d34006702e2?OpenDocument

  Important: This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  How to back up and restore the registry in Windows?

  322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/ )

• How to display /etc/resolv.conf and other files from the remote host to the vMA host ESX4i

  Hi all;

  I'm new at VMAs, I put it in place and adds 5 Server esxi 4 and I can list the fines using vifp lists broadcast and works, very well but my problem is I want to interrogate the remote servers for this vMA host for example I need to check the contents of these files

  cat /etc/resolv.conf

  cat/etc/sysconfig/clock

  tail/var/log/vmkernel

  Discovered the following

  esxcfg-firewall - q and esxcfg-vswif - l

  Can someone please help me on how to run these commands or another way on how to get this information above hosts and ESXi 4. I checked the forum, but I don't see anything similair nature! now, either I'm stupid full because it's as simple as drinking water and so no one asked or I am just lucky to ask the right question, so be it, I appreciate your time and effort

  Thanks in advance

  Esxlinux

  So its worth your time through the vMA documentation to understand how to manage your hosts and it's main use case. The operations that you are trying to accomplish cannot be done using vMA... at least in the way that you are hoping for.

  See my vMA article and some of the getting started guides.

  cat /etc/resolv.conf

  You will want to use esxcfg-dns to list the configured DNS servers

  cat/etc/sysconfig/clock

  This file does not yet exist on ESXi, if you try to set the time on ESXi host, you should use NTP and it is also important to note that single ESXi uses UTC and no other options are available.

  tail/var/log/vmkernel

  If you need to display the host logs, consider using vi logger on vMA OR configure syslog on your host to send to the centralized syslog server

  Regarding the last two commands, they do not apply to an ESXi host and therefore these commands are not available.

  There are certainly differences between ESX and ESXi, understand the differences and orders to ask for certain pieces of information is very important. vMA can help with this, but you must understand the use case of vMA and what tools are at your disposal. The best way to start is to take a look at the documentation, to jump it and try to jump in, will just be confusing.

  Good luck

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• Cannot upgrade to ESXi 4 Update 1 via vSphere Host Update Utility 4.0

  Hello

  can someone tell me why I can't update ESXi 4.0.0 build 219382 to ESXi 4 Update 1 via vSphere Host Update Utility 4.0? The doesn´t utility see the update.

  The problem is, I can't download the update on http://downloads.VMware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_4/4 because I always get the error

  "I'm sorry, at the moment you are not allowed to download VMware ESXi 4.

  Update 1 Installable.

  You have the following options:

  "

  How can I get the update or the update with the host update utility?

  I already have an activated ESXi 4.0 license!

  219382 is the latest version. You already update 1.

• Unable to stop comments and vMA host

  Hi all

  I installed ESXi 4 then vma on esix. Now I am trying to stop all the guest operating system and then host through vM.I am using the script ghettoUPSHostShutdown.pl (check the link http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11902.

  but when I am trying to run this script, I get following error-

  VI-admin@localhos $./ghettoUPSHostShutdown.pl--host_operation stop - stop - ups_vm MAS vm_operation - timeout 5

  = GhettoUPSHostShutdown.pl START =.

  Info: UPS_MONITORING: vMA

  Info: VM_OPERATION: stop

  Info: HOST_OPERATION: stop

  Info: HOST_LIST: AUTOMATIC

  info: ==========================================

  Info: found host: "IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE.

  Debug: Hand: Login by vi-fastpass at: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: start the stop on the VMS operation...

  Info: hard power off power Fedora12, no Vmware tools on...

  Info: unable to hard power off of the Fedora12!

  Info: closure of vSphere Management Assistant!

  Info: cannot stop vSphere Management Assistant!

  Info: shutdown complete operation!

  Debug: Hand: Disconnect: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: check all virtual machines are either suspended or powered-DELAY set on: 5 min

  Debug: Login by vi-fastpass at: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: host: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE has 2/5 VMs still lit!

  News: County: 1 - sleeping for 60secs...

  Debug: Login by vi-fastpass at: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: host: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE has 2/5 VMs still lit!

  Info: Count: 2 - sleeping for 60secs...

  Debug: Login by vi-fastpass at: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: host: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE has 2/5 VMs still lit!

  News: County: 3 - sleeping for 60secs...

  Debug: Login by vi-fastpass at: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: host: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE has 2/5 VMs still lit!

  Info: Count: 4 - bed for 60secs...

  Info: host: completed verification step!

  Info: put the hosts in "stop" mode

  use of uninitialized value in string on line 236 de./ghettoUPSHostShutdown.pl.

  Info: ERROR:

  SOAP fault:

  Error string: error. RestrictedVersion.summary

  Lack of details: RestrictedVersionFault

  Info: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE is now closed!

  Info: finally put UPS tracking VM host int o in "stop" mode

  Use of uninitialized value chain eq /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/VMware/VIFPLib.pm line 355.

  login_by_fastpass: host name can not be empty in line /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/VMware/VIFPLib.pm 355.

  Help, please...

  At this vMA 4.0 or 4.1 of vMA and you use ESX(I) 4.0 or 4.1? The script currently supports 4.0 only as it some major changes that currently breaks the script. Also the error tells me too that he is unable to identify targets for the table vi-fastpass... can you also run the following command and provides the output:

  vifp listservers
  

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• Connect NAS LAN device via ESXi host

  Hi all

  I am currently fighting to get my NAS device attached to my LAN. I drew my network physical configuration below. Currently, the NAS is directly connected to the second NETWORK card in my server ESXi host. The first NETWORK card is the host is connected to the router, which is attached to the rest of my network and NATs to the Internet.

  

  My design of virtual network looks like this right now.

  

  If I add the second NETWORK card to port VM group, the NAS is visible to the virtual machines; However he cannot understand how to access the outside via the map of others. And the NAS is not visible from the attached LAN devices. Of course the two vm gw is set to 192.168.2.1

  Basically I want the SIN to be on the same subnet as the all other devices on my LAN. Of course I could put in a physical switch between my router and the host of the virtual machine, but is it not possible to somehow the second NIC in the host 'transparent' or is he bridge on the first?

  Thanks in advance,

  Johan

  johanot wrote:

  But is not possible to software-ize/virtualize this behavior?

  It wouldn't be done by ESX (i).  You must have the bridge of the guest OS network cards.  Or you change the subnet of the second NETWORK card and configure routing in your guest OS.  Possible, but sounds like more complexity than really necessary.

  ... I mean... Physically, your suggestion means I have to buy an additional switch to put in front of my host.

  Unless you 'need' to a switch, a gigabit unmanaged switch is not so expensive and has no configuration.  (And if you need a bunch of ports, I had a switch to unmanaged gigabit 16 port d-Link for under $ 200 at Office Depot).  The "no configuration" section is worth the expense in my humble OPINION.

• Unable to connect to the Web comments via browser host server or by using NAT mode or bridge

  Guest operating system: RHEL 5.5 - 64 bit

  OS: Win XP SP3 (hardware is 64-bit capable... just running a 32-bit operating system for compatibility business app... ugh)

  VMWare Player 3

  I am running tomcat on my guest OS and connect via browser (IE 8/FF3.6.3) host operating system. I can't get the correct configuration at all. I tried NAT modes and bridge and doesn't seem to work. I tried VMware Player 2.5 and the last 3, but I can't hit my tomcat instance. I can access it from inside the virtual machine without any problem, so I know that my tomcat is running.

  Any help on where to start is appreciated.

  NAT mode worked fine on my old (also 64 bit) CentOS5 VM a year ago but I do not have access to this virtual machine more.

  Welcome to the forums!

  Disable all firewalls on the client and the host.

  Turn off TCP Chimney on the host:

  1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TCPIP\Parameters\DisableTaskOffload

  Set this value to 1 disables all unloading task since the TCP/IP transport protocol. Set this value to zero allows all unloading task.

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• Datastore vMA host access

  Hi guys!

  I have not found the way how can I access the datastore EXSi host and copy files there at the prompt of the vMA. Do you know something?

  Thank you

  RobertJ

  The vMA/remote CLI has a sharp tool called that you can use for the operations of file etc.

  Synopsis: /usr/bin/vifs OPTIONS []
  
  Command-specific options:
     --copy
      -c
         Copy a file or a directory to another location.
     --dc
      -Z
         The datacenter context. Not required in single-host operations
     --dir
      -D
         List the contents of a datastore or host directory
     --force
      -f
         Allows overwriting of destination file for a copy or move.
     --get
      -g
         Downloads a file on the host to a local path
     --listdc
      -C
         List the paths to all datacenters available in the server
     --listds
      -S
         List datastores available
     --mkdir
      -M
         Creates a directory.
     --move
      -m
         Move a file or a directory to another location.
     --put
      -p
         Uploads a local file to the directory on the host
     --rm
      -r
         Deletes a file or a directory.
     --rmdir
      -R
         Deletes a directory. Fails if directory is not empty
  

  It is based on an older Perl script: http://vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/esx_3i_rcli/vifs.php

• Download via FTP-host problems

  I have very often (most of the time in fact) a Web site through the host FTP download problems. I made changes are often not uploaded etc. It is a common problem or am I the only one?

  Please provide more details than what is not exactly up-to-date while ftp upload process, there is text, picture etc? is that what happens with a specific page or any page? The changes should get updated once you download the files to the same place, if there is no problem of synchronization with the server.

  Thank you

  Sanjit

• ifconfig via VMA

  Am I stupid but ifconfig does not work as expected when you use VMA 4.1?

  When I run it, it signals the detilas vnic unit VMA itself even if a server has been targeted properly.

  If that's the way it works now, there's a similar command for this? esxcfg-NICS - l does not give me the mac addresses of vnic than those of physics and does not even list detilas like what I'm looking for with ifconfig.

  Thank you

  So, you can use esxcfg-vmknic - l to extract the vmnic MAC + IP addresses and you can use vCLI for this.

  If you want to retrieve the MAC addresses of the virtual machines, this is a custom vSphere SDK for Perl script make - http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10490

• Cron via VMA 4.1

  I am trying to set up a cron job on vma 4.1 help lamw script hostOperations.pl but can not get the script to work without having to go to the credentials. If I use the s < servername vc > vifptarget on the command line and running the script without credentials hostOperations.pl it works fine.

  I suspect that the problem is the cron environment... I am running 2 separate orders in the cron 1 minute apart.

  30 12 25 01 *: name of the server root vifptarget s

  31 12 25 01 * root hostOperations.pl - Server < servername > - hostfile < hostfile-> operation exi_maint

  My knowledge of scripting is limited... is it possible to combine these 2 commands in a single script file that I could call from cron so that the environment is the same for both controls

  Thank you

  VMotioner

  Take a look at this blog post - http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/01/how-to-automate-cron-vi-fastpass.html, it goes into detail. I suspect that you are missing the path LD_SHARED_LIBRARY for shared libs

• Code editor - Navigation via Ctrl + &gt;, Ctrl + &lt;

  Hello

  Open the editor of Code or the SQL worksheet and paste the following line:

  "piRBDKBTabKnt piRBDKBTabKnt piRBDKBTabKnt".

  In SQL Developer version 3.2.2 when I move the cursor to the line by pressing Ctrl + > (right arrow) or Ctrl + < (left arrow) cursor then jumps over the whole words - and that's OK.

  (By pressing Ctrl + > three times is enough to move since the beginning of the line in the example at the end)

  But in the final SQLDeveloper version 4 it works different - cursor does not jump on whole words.

  Y at - it an option to change this behavior?

  Check if the following preference changed / have not migrated between your 3.2 and 4.0 installed:

  Tools > Preferences > Code Editor > use box change as word boundary

  Kind regards

  Gary

  SQL development team

• I can't download MUSE via FTP host.

  I'm desperate, I need to update a Web site, and I can't use the download by FTP

  He gives me advice that it exceeded.

  Alex.

  Hi Alex,

  also, look at this topic, ftp response timeout / overview of the browser does not work

• cannot remove vMA ESX hosts

  I added a few guests of the vMA and activate the newspaper collection.  It collects logs for the hosts with success.  I don't want to follow these with the vMA hosts more because they are in a remote location and that it would implement a vMA at the remote location.  I use the sudo vifp removeserver servername command to remove the ESX host and they are eliminated as appropriate.  I run the vifp order mailing lists and they appear more more.  The thing is that the newspaper collection is still happening against the machines on the vMA.  I'll look in the directory/var/log/vmware and the directory for the ESX host, I deleted is still there.  I removed the directory and they immediately come with newspapers.  I'm going to rerun the command to remove the host and he says that they are already removed.

  How get rid you of the machines out of the vMA?

  You must use vilogger to disable the first control, and then remove the targets of vMA. Looks like vilogger works regardless of what VMAs think its management.

  If you have removed the targets of MAS... should not be able to connect to your targets from a distance. Are you sure that the log data is always transferred or is it simply a directory being created?

  There is a local credstore that is stored in the home directory of vi-admin /home/vi-admin/.vmware/credstore, perhaps you may need to disable it (make a backup first and move or rename)

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