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• Service mgmt-vmware restart causes the virtual machine downtime

  I'm looking in the configuration of SNMP on our ESX for Solarwinds alert guests, and is the last step I have to restart the service mgmt-vmware.

  I looked around online and have been unable to find confirmation that it will not have all the time with the virtual machines running on those hosts, as production machines.

  
  We run ESX v4.1.0

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello and welcome to the Forums!

  Restart management agents will have no negative impact on your guests.

• ESXi host goes to the State and the virtual machine does not restart on other host does not

  Hi all

  I'm looking for a solution, in which case the host goes to the State and the virtual machine on it does not restart on a different host (they'll just gray) does not not what could be the problem here and how to fix it

  later when the failed host returns upward machines either go to motor off the coast of the State, or they show that under tension

  While the host is down or not responding do not I am able to ping the host ESXi (5.5) and able to ping the default gateway and the DNS servers of the host itself

  Yes AF, the answer to all these questions is Yes, it is a HA and DRS cluster active, I tried restarting mgmt service, we use a shared storage (storage iSCSI HP 3PAR and left hand)

• 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

• Is reset or restart the virtual machine should all expanding vmdk size?

  Hi all

  While extending the size of 20 to 28 GB GB vmdk I can extend when the VM is in poweron State, but he didn't think inside the virtual machine. The disc is resized when the virtual machine won reset or reboot.  I would like to know if the reset or restart that virtual computer is must have for resizing vmdk. If it is then what is the use of expansion of disk while the VM is in poweron State?

  Thank you

  Vijaya

  Yes with windows 2008, you can extend the OS disk to create a new drive letter instead.

  Here is a tutorial: http://www.petri.co.il/extend-disk-partition-vista-windows-server-2008.htm

• 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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• 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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• 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.

• HA does not restart the computer from the virtual machine

  Hello

  I have two ESX in a cluster.  ESX 1 have an XP machine. When I stop esx 1, the machine automatically goes to ESX 2 and has not restarted?

  I though that the machine needs to be restarted, but it does not restart. Is it supposed to the case that it does not restart?

  TKS

  Hello

  The virtual machine power on or off the power on esx2?

  What will HA is to turn off the XP on ESX1 when it is isolated from the network (which means unable to ping the default gateway) then ESX 2 will import and turn it on. Therefore, this

  will require a reboot. You must set the response of isolation to "turn off" so that it works. The easist HA of test is to unplug the network cable from the service console. This

  will trigger the isolation.

  Best regards

  Frank Brix Pedersen

• The virtual machine failover and restart with vSphere HA time

  Hello

  What factors would affect the time required for vSphere HA to computers failover virtual to a host failed to another active host in the cluster? It would be important how much space drive by using virtual machine is or how big it is? Or who should not matter?

  Thank you

  It should not matter. HA initiates the failover and the powers on the virtual machine regardless of size. Note, however, that there could be a delay in time OS/App.

  Another parameter that can affect the failover time is the number of virtual machines being switched at some point. If you have more healthy hosts in the cluster, then VM failovers happen simultaneously reduce the failover time.

• 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)

  PowerCLI:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/developer/windowstoolkit/

  http://www.virtu-al.NET/2009/11/10/PowerCLI-where-do-i-start/

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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

  VMware communities user moderator

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• Automatic deletion/removal of the virtual machine to inventory

  Hello

  I need to create a clone of a virtual machine once a month on the storage separate from the original machine. Before that the time has come for the next monthly clone I have to delete the virtual machine but also to remove the inventory. I need to do without leaving the clone deleted in an orphaned State as the next clone turns out to be defective for the double.

  I set up a scheduled task to clone the machine then next month a cron job to run a vmware-cmd - s unsubscribe & lt; path to vmx & gt; followed by an rm - r & lt; path to vm & gt;. It does everything I need except remove the virtual virtual machine inventory.

  Did someone knows a way to remove it completely (as if to make a destroy) or cloning without adding it to the inventory (this is not really a need for us).

  Any help would be great,

  Mick

  With the command: vmware-cmd - s unregister

  You will need to restart the mgmt-vmware and vmware-vpxa service in order for the front end to pick up the change.

  Or you can use VC SDK.

  For VI Perl Toolkit:

  http://www/support/developer/viperltoolkit/viperl15/doc/vmregister.html

  Perl vmregister.pl - url https://vchost/sdk/vimService - username - Word blah administrator password - transaction undo - vmname TESTVM

  PowerShell (but in this example, the virtual machine is removed):

  http://myitforum.com/CS2/blogs/yli628/archive/2008/08/19/PowerShell-script-to-remove-virtual-machine-from-VMware-infrastructure.aspx

  André

• Alarm, based on the State of the virtual machine

  Hello

  I just started to evaluate the vFoglight to monitor our infrastructure VMware and so far, I really like the product, but there are a lot of things to take.

  Y at - it a predefined alarm that will enhance and alert and send me an email if a virtual machine crashes or goes offline? The default rule "VMW Virtual Machine power status change" will do that?  I feel that this will tell me if the virtual computer is shut down or restarted, but could not workout if it marked the top if a virtual machine has frozen or crashed.

  In the past I did using the base "no heartbeat Mike" in vsphere.

  Any help would be appreciated

  Thank you

  Dan

  Hi Dan,.

  The Virtual Machine VMW power state change will do as below:

  Goal
  This rule triggers an alarm if a virtual machine has been suspended or powered down recently.

  The rule definition
  Conditions                                                                                           State   Action
  The virtual machine was not suspended or updates turned off recently.     Normal no
  The virtual machine has been suspended recently.                               No warning
  The virtual machine has been powered down recently.                                Reviews email VMware admin

  Maybe you can add, action of e-mail to the severity of the warning from the rule.