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• Virtual MACHINE starts in EFI environment after crash

  Hello world

  I'm breaking my head on something that looks like a bug to me.

  A few weeks ago, the ESXi host on that I was running VMs crushed (power fail) and after powering back and from virtual machines on this stand-alone host, one of the virtual machines did not start correctly.

  This machine virtual runs Windows Server 2012 and booted up this time in the EFI environment.

  After some research, the EFI configuration is gone. When opening the Boot Manager Maintenance upward and choose 'Start configuration Options', no options are listed. When you add a new boot option and using the backup function, the settings are lost instantly. When comparing the parameters with any other SMV 2012 I have running, Miss me a lot of configuration such as startup options and some driver options.

  These two options will not save after closing the menu for adding these options. When you choose 'Start from a file' I can start the virtual computer by using the 'VOLUME LABEL\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi No.' file. After the virtual machine restarts, it will be to the EFI environment.

  It is very difficult to find information about the EFI BIOS so I hope anyone here have experience with it.

  I even tried to restore the VM about 2 weeks before the accident, but even with the files of the virtual machine will start in EFI environment with no settings at all. So maybe the problem caused earlier; very weird! Also not to be able to save the new settings in the environment EFI seems very strange to me.

  Thanks for the replies! =)

  Hi René,.

  Hmmm... There is something of very, very wrong with this file NVRAM.  Looks like that the power failure has corrupted the file NVRAM in a way that confuses the firmware irreparably.  I consider this new next week (next year!) when I'm back in the office and will introduce an internal bug report if I find something that we can make it more robust.

  Although I generally recommend it not for VMS EFI, in your situation, your best course of action is probably the virtual computer power off, remove the file .nvram to the directory of the virtual machine (or rename it to something else, if you want to be extra careful), and power then it powered.  A fresh .nvram file will automatically create the virtual machine starts.  For the most part, reasonably normal Windows installations, the virtual machine must then be started automatically in the operating system installed.

  (For the benefit of other readers of the forum who may come across this thread, I repeat: do not delete a virtual machine EFI NVRAM memory, unless you understand the consequences!)  "It seems that there is rather than remove the NVRAM in this particular situation and very few others.)

  Please let me know if that gets things going again!

  And I'm going to one of our regulars of the forum, WoodyZ, avoid having to make his regular situation comment: If you haven't already done so, you can consider investing in an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to keep your system running through power cuts or to allow at least a normal instead of a hardware failure stop.

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\VMware vCenter Server Appliance.

  Hello gentlemen,

  I can not only save this virtual machine with Backup Exec 2014 for a long time.

  They are there was no snapshot in snapshot Manager.

  Could you help me?

  A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\VMware vCenter Server Appliance.

  V-79-57344-38260 - failed to create a snapshot of the virtual machine. The virtual machine is no longer exist, or may be too busy to pause to take the snap.

  A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\FRPA111PRIM01.

  V-79-57344-38299-\vm\FRPA111PRIM01 ha-data center (DC) VMVCB::\\192.168.204.42\VCGuestVm\ (DC). To try to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it could not be suspended in a file system.

  Hello

  I found the solution.

  I disabled the JOB BE general relativity.

  and the host where the virtual machine belong was not the right time. No Ntp server has been configured.

  I did and now there works.

  I think that the problem can come from this.

• Virtual MACHINE starts automatically after a power outage of the entire site?

  Hello

  We use ESXi 5.5.

  If there is a power for the datacenter failure, ESXi hosts must be restarted when power is resumed.

  We wonder if VMs will be launched automatically to the top?   If not, this means that we must allow the "starting the Virtual Machine / stop option.

  If we put a number of virtual machines in "automatically start", such as VM1, VM2, VM3 on ESXi Server one, VM4 VM5 ESXi Server b.   Virtual machines are migrated between ESXi servers and how they can keep the boot sequence?

  Your opinion is requested.

  Dear Tony,

  I ask you to create a vApp and configure accordingly on your vCenter boot order.

  https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-55/index.jsp#com.VMware.vSphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-0FAB05D4-22F7-4665-B42A-0FA4B360B398.html

  See you soon,.

  Billon Manogaran

• Will be the virtual machine starts on another host (during the blackout) if he can't switch to Maintenance Mode?

  Hello

  We use a cluster with 2 5.1 ESXi hosts.  When attempting to place an ESXi host in Maintenance mode, he failed and said "not enough resources to satisfy configured level of failover for HA.

  We would like to know, just in case where one of these ESXi hosts failed, VMs will be start on another ESXi host (at least some) or all of them will be down (i.e. None of them start)?  If no virtual machine will be migrated, we will change our level of failover for HA.

  Thank you

  This occurs when you enable admission control on your HA cluster. When the failure of the host occurs and you have Admission control is enabled, it will let all market on the other host machines because it violates the constraints of availability.

  If you turn this off all VM is switched even if you do not have enough resources to accommodate all the s VM on a single host. On a long term, I would say that you have sufficient resources to allow this to happen. But for now, you can turn it off and try.

  

• How to make the virtual machine starts automatically after power is declining for all ESX host?

  We meet just power down and lost electricity ESX host.

  When we start the ESX host, we can on each individual virtual machine.

  Y at - it a setting that we can put in place for these VMs critics may start se?

  Your opinion is requested.

  Thanks for your advice. He agrees with your saying that the start / stop sems to be buggy.

  It's only disable it every time that you enable VMware HA.

  But it works (if enabled) and may be useful to define how the system starts up.

  André

• Activate the Virtual Machine start and stop

  Hello

  I'm not activate Virtual Machine Startup and shutdown I don't know what is right.

  

  Hello

  This is the VMware KB which provide a workaround to enable this option for VMs on ESXi hosts in cluster HA active.

  VMware KB: Automatic Virtual Machine Startup / Shutdown in ESXi hosts in a cluster VSA is turned off

  Last time (couple of years back), when I was researching on this topic, I found that these settings are applied only when the virtual machine is on the same host ESXi, and once his migrated to another ESXi host for this VM autostart option is lost and needs to be reconfigured again. I don't know if this behavior changed with new versions of vSphere.

  I hope this helps.

  Arun-

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• Students who need assistance for a virtual machine to run on hyper-v inside vmware workstation 12

  OK sorry first time here. I am currently a student and I have windows running R2 server 2008 as a Workstation VM. I activated the Hyper-v technology and got of no problem, the question I meet is that when I go to start a virtual machine, hyper v, I get the error failed to initialize. Initially, I had a mistake before, who told me he failed because he would not score, I think I've fixed this error by changing the. VMX file. I need to be able to start these machines virtual hyper-v because I am doing some laboratories for a class. Ideas, suggestions or help would be appreciated.

  Thank you for taking the time to read. I have attached a few screenshots of the error.

  Your processor is a Haswell, that supports AVX.  This problem occurs because Windows Server 2008 R2 does not support the AVX feature. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2517374 for a fix or a workaround.

• I can't create a new virtual machine, for the error "invalid state" of vmware

  Hi, I have an esx server with some production virtual machines vmware;

  Yestarday I made a new VM, suse linux, froma cdrom; but the file system broke down, it has been altered, I don't know why,

  and I had to cancel the machine using the "remove disc";

  After that I could read "a system general error occurred" and when I click on create a new virtual machine (ctrl + n), I can't because the answer is "invalid state".

  When I click on each virtual machine in 'events', I do not see the logs, I see this error "system general error occurred.

  can someone help me? , should I restart the service mgmt-vmware?  (init.d) on the host server?

  Thanks in advance, best regards

  Toscano Max

  If you use Virtual Center, rebbot VC server and try again. If this does not work, you may have to restart the ESX host.

• The Virtual Machine start/stop

  Is it possible to script the configuration of start/stop VM on an ESXi host?

  Thank you

  There are scripts out there that can do this, but I think it can help you:

  http://ICT-freak.nl/2009/06/09/PowerCLI-set-VM-startup-policy/

  Remember that this will not work if you use a cluster HA as already mentioned.

• Snapshoting a virtual machine (Windows or Linux) before a upgrade VMware Tools as a precaution

  Our company has standardized on the use of VMware snapshoting than a level 1 to save uninstall mechanism possible to issues related to the updates / patches.  It works very well for Windows updates on our Windows guests, as well as the updates I YOU on our Linux guests.

  My question is if anyone thinks that there is a risk associated with the use of this process to guard against a possible problem that might occur after an upgrade VMware Tools.

  The process would be: Patch ESX host, migrate a guest to host newly patched, instant, prompt, install VMware Tools update, restart, test and certify, delete the snapshot.

  Since you're snapshoting a system that has an older version of VMware Tools, it's a bad idea to rely on this snapshot in a recovery scenario?  Use the VMware Tools as part of the process of snapshoting a guest?

  Thank you all for any advice you may have!

  Matt Heldstab

  Yes, you can snapshot before the upgrade tools and come back if something don't jive.  To take it even further, you can snapshot before the hardware upgrade of the v7 and return to v4 if it does not work.

  Seems like a lot of works well, but it does not offer a good backup method.

• Windows 7 a vmdk file not found, cannot open the file '... Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7. VMDK

  Could not open the file ".../Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7.vmdk:

  Help, please. I copied this over from a backup and it does not open. I joined the collection of support...

  Thank you very much!

  B

  it2webber wrote: could not open the file ".../Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7.vmdk:

  Help, please. I copied this over from a backup and it does not open.

  How the Virtual Machine has been backed up and restored?  If Time Machine then...

  It is a known fact that Time Machine is not 100% reliable backing up/restoring VMS in all circumstances/conditions.  Also back up Virtual Machines via Time Machine of disk/time intensive and wastes a lot of space for something that may be corrupted and worthless time to restore it.  At least I would exclude the Virtual Machines with virtual machines and Time Machine shutdown, not suspended and VMware Fusion closed and then manually copy the VMS to another location, preferably on a different physical hard drive.  So keep the user data stored in the virtual machine saved out of the Virtual Machine on a regular basis in order to always have a backup of the current user data.  If you need to restore a properly saved by VM is not as common at least you will have a virtual working Machine and data user to go forward with when you find out your Time Machine backup of the virtual machine fails.  Also take a look at: best practices for backup of virtual machine (programs and data) in VMware Fusion (1013628)

  That said, if you don't have a copy of the file "Windows 7 - f004.vmdk" and then to try to retrieve the data from the user, you can try the following:

  Download then unzip it (double-click on) the joint "Windows_7 - f004.vmdk.zip" file that contains the file "Windows 7 - f004.vmdk ' an empty logical binary measure that has been created on the metric of the existing drive and add to the Package of the Virtual Machine.  This should allow the VHD to be considered as a virtual hard drive, assuming that there is no damage to the extent of the binary left headers.  Take a look on: work with Virtual Machine packages

  At this point, that the VHD has the scope necessary to show as a full disk, assuming that it is not corrupt the header in other binary extensions and can now attempt to access for the recovery of user data.

  There are several ways to try to retrieve user data.  The easy, although not necessarily work properly according to what now lack us due to replace the missing binary extensions with a logical empty measure, is trying to start the VM normally.  If the virtual machine starts up on the desk and VMware Tools load properly you should be able to copy your data to user off on a USB or slip and fall on the side of Mac or if you have a configured VMware folder then copy the files through it.

  Other methods involve starting the Virtual Machine with a Live OS ISO Image and copy files from a USB key or temporarily assemble the VHD to another Virtual Machine work.

  With the right tools installed the virtual hard disk could also be mounted as another accessible Volume through Finder.

• 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.

• What concurrent virtual machines are launched to start the failover or failover test

  Hi friends,

  What the simultaneous virtual machines are started when the failover or failover test is started?

  6 virtual machines are cocurrently recovered or the number can be configured?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  The number of virtual machines simultaneously recovered was 2 virtual machines per host up to a maximum of 20 virtual machines with MRS. 4.x ( http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-vCenter-SRM-WP-EN.pdf document "Best Practices" 18 States, but I have seen 20 myself several times).

  With SRM 5 the number is unlimited by default (http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/srm5-perf.pdf, page 13), but can be changed (overall or specific cluster): http://blogs.vmware.com/uptime/2011/10/working-at-the-edge-of-srm-5-limits.html

  Michael.

• Virtual machine does not start the Server Windows 2003 Std ISO file?

  Hello

  I am trying to create a virtual Windows 2003 machine, I created the ISO file, downloaded on my ISO library and connected the CDROM drive for the ISO file.

  When I boot the maching, I select the start menu and select the CDROM drive the virtual machine starts the ISO?

  The continuous boot just on the network card boot.

  It's as if the virtual machine does not see the CDROM drive?

  I use folder2iso

  To me, it sounds as if the ISO created may not be bootable! How did you create the ISO file?

  André