I am having trouble with getting accurate hardware monitoring with ESXi 5.1 on an HP (ProLiant DL380p Gen8) server. The build installed is 799733 (HP version, with HP Tools installed)

I am using this server as an example, however we have other servers that don't appear to be showing correct hardware information either. We use N-Able for our RMM software, and I noticed that it detected 5 power supplies for this server (4, 5, and 6 showed normal while 1 and 2 showed a failure). Also, all of the fans were showing a failed status for health state as well. I called N-Able and they looked into it and basically told me that the UI was displaying the information given by VMware, and I would need to contact VMware to see why it wasn't giving out the correct health information.

When I vSphere directly to the Hyper Visor I can see that N-Able may be correct. Under Power it shows the following information:

In N-Able it detected power supply 1-2, 4,5, & 6. 1 & 2 show failed, the rest show that they are fine. There are not 5 power supplies in this server. Also, N-Able detected 6 fans and shows the following for all of them.

N-Able pulls Fan and Power Supply status directly from the ESXi via

https://<insert_IP_address_of_ESXi_server_here>/mob/?moid=ha-host&doPath=runtime.healthSystemRuntime.systemHealthInfo.numericSensorInfo

Dear Friends

I'm using VMWare Server 2.0 on a debian linux server.

I need to be able to refresh the datastore from the command line, this because I need to put the refresh command inside a bash script.

Obviously I know how to do it from the web management, but as you understand, I need to do it from the console.

Thank you for any answer, help or tip

Robert

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Okay, I am getting a replacment for my little 4 core 1U machine that I have run for the last 18 months and getting a large 16 core 48G machine, and now I have to figure out how to best utilize it.  Here is the issue, and I am interested in what people think. 

The machine is supported with ESXi (in fact could have been purchased with it preinstalled) and comes with 500+G of SAS storage.  The virtual machines I am moving however are on VMware Server 2.0 RC 1, which means I will have to rebuild all them as they are HW Type 7, which isn't supported on ESXi.  I have 14 virtual machines today, and this represents several weeks of rebuilding if I have to start from ground zero.  Understand that the new server was sort of a surprise to me, I thought I was just going to be geting 2 more 1U pancake servers, so I hadn't been planning for this change. 

The PROs for ESXi is the performance characteristics and bare metal install, but the big CON for ESXi is I have no Windows in my arsenal.  My two workstations are pure Linux machines, 13 of the 14 virtual machines are Linux and the 1 Windows virtual machine is fully taxed and belongs to another team who will likely be taking their license when their project ends.  I have no money to buy additional licenses but may be able to get buy with a trial license till the beginning of the year when I may be able to acquire a Windows license.  I know that next year some time VMware is supposed to have a control center for Linux for ESX, but I have to do something this year and would hate to have to do it twice.

Does it really make that much difference in performance, given that I am going from 4 cores to 16 cores, to jump to ESXi find a way to wrangle up the Windows license to manage it temporarily until the Linx client comes along and I can hopefully hook that into IBM System Director (the literature on IBM System Director seems to indicate that I need the VMware console as well as IBM Director).  What do you all think?

Did I miss something?  I used to down a VM and then mount its virtual disk in order to do a direct backup instead of a .vmdk backup.  That doesn't seem to be possible with VMware Server 2?  I even found and installed the Virtual Disk Development Kit, which got me vmware-mount back, but I get the following error:

Unable to mount the virtual disk. The disk may be in use by a virtual

machine, may not have enough volumes or mounted under another drive

letter. If not, verify that the file is a valid virtual disk file.

It definitely is not running (vmrun list shows 0 vm's running).  Interestingly, vmware-mount /p does show that the virtual disk has 1 volume.  Is this because VMware Server 2 upgrades the virtual hardware?  Do we have to change the command line similar to how vmware run was changed compared to the old vmware-cmd (using the storage notation instead of local drive/path)?

After upgrading to vmserver 2.0.1 from 1.0.  The hostonly network cannot ping each other.  Also, I am upgraded the linux kernel from 2.6.25 to 2.6.29 and compile the patched vmware modules flowing around so that I can compile against 2.6.29.

I have rolled back to 2.6.27 and the same patched vmserver 2.0.1 works fine.  Thus, the non-working combination is kernel 2.6.29 and patched vmserver 2.0.1

the setup is like this:

Setup:

=====

vmware-server-2.0.1 build 156745

Host kernel: 2.6.29-gentoo-r1

Host dhcpd: off

Host machine vmnet1 (HostOnly mode): 192.168.32.1

Guest eth0: 192.168.32.2

Guest system: FC 9

Whening pinging from host to guest: ping 192.168.32.2

PING 192.168.32.2 (192.168.32.2) 56(84) bytes of data.

From 192.168.32.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.32.1 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.32.1 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

tcpdump at Host (192.168.32.1):

========================

kafai-desk linux # tcpdump -i vmnet1

tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode

listening on vmnet1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes

10:43:21.307387 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1

10:43:22.311382 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1

10:43:23.316244 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1

10:43:25.325525 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1

10:43:26.329455 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1

10:43:27.334308 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1

10:43:29.345045 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1

Another point, if I turned on the dhcpd on vmnet1, the guest does get the IP 192.168.32.128 (the first one setup in dhcp conf).  It means the dhcp is working but not ping, ssh...etc traffic

I am running out of clues.  Any help will be appreciated.

Hello! I am running VYATTA open source router in a virtual machine (vmserver 2) running on a LInux OS and I have following problem: vyatta is operating very slowly, it works

all in all fine, but slow, above all when "telnetting" to it, I mean,

the terminal (in LInux) stays a long time sort of idle waiting for the

interfaces's (or vyatta's) reply.

Also  starting up vyatta lasts long, and launching the virtual machine too.

Apart from this when accessing remotely, vyatta's console sometimes

does prompt a messge saying somebody's configuring the router remotely

and sometimes it does not (see image attached). Also at a moment telnet sessions where

denied (sort of I could not access ethernet interfaces at all) until I

restarted the virtual machine.

I used vyatta's appliance ( an already configured virtual machine)

instead of creating a new virtual machine and installing vyatta there

from the iso image, so it uses hardware version 4 and I did not yet

install vmware tools.Also: I am using for vyatta 700 MB memory amount, 2GB hard disk,

and at vmware server, 1GB maximum RAM reserved for virtual machines and

"middle swaping" ( a bit swapping, a bit RAM, second option at Host

editing vmware server 2.2).

Is this why vyatta is operting so slowly? Did someone had similar experiences?

Thanks!!

I have an Intel DG31PR motherboard with an Intel e4600 CPU.  I'd like to install a 64-bit OS in VMWare Workstation 6.5, but it says my host is not capable.  I've read that I need to enable the VT option in the BIOS, but I do not see it.  I've updated the BIOS to version 0064 (PRG3110H.86A.0064) but do not see anything about VT.  Any ideas? Thanks.

OK

This has got to be the most simple task and I obviously am a stupid person for not being able to find this in any of the help manuals.  I have Ubuntu 8.10 64bit and running vmware server 2.0 with a host OS win XP.  I posted a help on here to ask why, every time I start vmware I have to delete my vm and datastore, then remake them both.  One answer I got back was maybe the hard disk that the vm was kept on is not starting or mounting before vmware is, therefore it does not know it exists.  This I can understand, it's almost obvious. 

So all I need to do is to restart vmware server and it should find my mounted disk with my vm on yes?

For the life of me I cannot find how to do this, I've read loads....obviously all in the wrong place, I can't find a command that simply restarts vmware server 2.0 in linux!  I can find loads of vmnet....vm*** processes running but I don't want to end them as I don't know how to start them unless I reboot, then I'm back to square one.

So what is the command to restart vmware?   somthing like vmware -restart?

Si

I've been having this problem for a while. Sometimes when I try to login or even after I login I get kicked out of the web GUI with "web service not available" message. I've seen this posted all over when doing a google search and seems like the problem existed even in beta before 2.0 was released.

The hostd.log was useless. But, I did find the following entries in proxy.log at the moment this failure happens:

Updates thread error notification. PrevError=null, NewError=RuntimeFault, NewErrorMessage=spec

Error processing action request /view/fetch : spec

Fetching propertySet failed for id = 2120

Error processing action request /view/fetch : javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Number of parameters passed in (3) doesn't match the number of IN/INOUT parameters (2) frm the addParameter() calls

The last line to me seems to hint at a possible bug? Anybody know of a resolution to this problem? I'm on VMware Server 2.0.1, running on CentOS 5.3/x86_64.

TIA

I have a host server running Server 08 and VMWARE Server 2.0.0

There is a VM on the host running Server 2003. It's been running for about 6 months great. No one has touched it. Recently, only the VM has started to have an extremely slow internet connection. Downloading a 1 MB file from the internet takes about 15 minutes. A 15 MB file takes 4 hours. About a month ago I could restart the VM and it would be good for about a week, then start slowing down more and more every day until it's just unusable.

I ran pings from the host machine's nic to the VM's NIC and attached as txt files. You'll see that on the host machine, 172.16.4.200 is the host IP assigned to the NIC I'm pinging from, and 172.16.4.101 is the VM's IP that is running on the host. It will succeed in pinging .101 sometimes, but frequently returns:

REPLY FROM 172.16.4.200: TTL Expired in transit.

Sometimes it even gives a request timed out, but it mostly alternates back and forth between replies from .101 (the VM) and TTL's from .200 (the host).

Sometimes it will just give pages of TTL's from .200 then eventually start replying from .101 as well.

The VM NIC is configured in Bridged mode. Like I said, it had been working fine for months, then this starts happening suddenly.

Since I know a 1 MB file from the internet takes 15 minutes on the VM to download, I tried copying files between the Host and the VM by browsing network shares between the boxes. Transferring from the VM to the Host over windows network shares takes about 1 minute for a 40 MB file. It's operating at about 1.2 megabytes per second on LAN file transfers. I tried it both ways, from the VM to the host and from the host to the VM. Same results.

It's strange that a direct file copy works MUCH faster than an internet download.

Downloading from the internet on the Host server for a 1 MB file takes about 15 seconds and is on a T-1 line. The default gateway for both the host and the VM is a Cisco 2900 series router that's working fine.

Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? My Microsoft Server event logs on the VM and Host are clean, I'm not seeing any errors there.

I've tried researching this on my own and forgive me if I missed an obvious how-to but I'm attempting to enable direct3d acceleration on vmware server 2 beta.  I see experimental support for VMW but not for VMS2... can anyone confirm its not supported so I can try a different route? 

I havre debian lenny (amd64) as my host and xp 32 bit as the vm (missed the article on getting 64bit on as vm through bios... next time)

thanks for any help!

I have vmware server 2 installed on Windows 2008 host.  There are a few windows 2003 enterprise guests and they all have poor utilization of my host network.

My host has 1Gbps connection and it is right now using less than 1% of that connection.  If I start a large file copy on that host from another physical server it will use close to 100% of the connection.  If I try to copy the same file to a guest running windows 2003 it will go waaaaay slower and only bump my host total network usage up to 2%!  I would like my guests to utilize as much network as they can when it is available. 

Any tips?

Hi,

I have a PC with Windows XP SP3. I installed VMware Server 2 and setup a Debian GNU/Linux VM. I want to use the VM as router between internet (UMTS USB stick) and local network.

When I now add the VM as default gateway to the host (or any other machine on the network) I can't connect to the internet. When I do a tracert, from the host, the VM is not even displayed.

Here some more details:

• Network is bridged

• VM can reach all hosts on the local network and the internet

• VM is also reachable from the local network

• Same configuration on real hardware is working

• No firewalls active

• Also tried VMware Player and Workstation on Windows XP and Windows 7

Edit: I just setup a VM with VirtualBox and this one is working. So it is a problem with VMware and not with the linux configuration.

Hello,

I've installed VMWare Server 2.0.0 build 128374 (32-bit) on a Windows 7 Pro x64 host. Guest is Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.7 Lenny.

The guest is setup to be bridged on the host's network adapter. I'm having a very weird problem. It seems like the host has problems accessing the guest over the network only when it's the "first time in a while" ("a while" being maybe 30-60 seconds, I didn't really test), and then there are no problems unless I don't access it within that (very short...) while. Here's what ping'ing the guest from the host gives:

C:\>ping 192.168.0.7

Pinging 192.168.0.7 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.2: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.0.7: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.7: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.7: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.7:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

I'm not having this problem from other computers on the network. The host's IP is 192.168.0.103 (DHCP-assigned), and the guest is 192.168.0.7 (static). Now the really weird thing is that the first reply is from some IP that doesn't exist on the network! Also weird is that it says no packets were lost. Pinging that IP (192.168.0.2) from any computer on the network (including the guest) says that it doesn't exist, but pinging it from the host gives this:

C:\>ping -a 192.168.0.2

Pinging HOST [192.168.0.2] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.2:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Which is very strange, seeing that it says that it's itself (the host), although that is not it's IP address.

Does anyone have a clue how to fix this? It's getting really annoying, especially since the host will run headless and only provide network services, which will be used mostly by the host...

Thanks a lot in advance for any help!

Hi

I have several dell servers running VMware server 2.0.2 on Windows server 2008 R2

On each of these servers I have three or four guests, some guests are running windows server 2003 and others running windows server 2008.

We remote administer the Dell physical host servers using terminal services.

Frequently when we log into the host servers we get the following issue

1 – The terminal server session will wait for up to 60 seconds with the message “Please wait for the user profile service”

2 – While the terminal server session to the host has the message, all network connectivity to the guest machines on the host is lost.

3 – When the terminal server session finally logs on to the hosts, network connectivity to the guests resumes.

There are no events or errors in the logs to indicate where the problem may lay.

We have many physical servers that reside in the same domain, both server 2003 and server 2008, but none of them ever experience any issues with terminal services. Only VMware host servers behave this way, and all of them behave the same.

Any suggestions please?

Hi I am new to oracle. I have just started studying for my AD exam so decided to follow train signal and set up a network. I have 2 DC set up both speaking to one another and updating through active directory. I have now set up Vista client and it will not join the domain I get the following message

Note: This information is intended for a network administrator.  If you are not your network's administrator, notify the administrator that you received this information, which has been recorded in the file C:\Windows\debug\dcdiag.txt.

The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller for domain globomantics.com:

The error was: "This operation returned because the timeout period expired."
(error code 0x000005B4 ERROR_TIMEOUT)

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.globomantics.com

The DNS servers used by this computer for name resolution are not responding. This computer is configured to use DNS servers with the following IP addresses:

192.168.5.3
192.168.5.2

Verify that this computer is connected to the network, that these are the correct DNS server IP addresses, and that at least one of the DNS servers is running.

For more information on how to correct this problem, click Help.

I have been looking now for about 5 days and have tried every single answer solution I have found on the net but I get the same error, I have even tried a windows 7 client and have had the same result.

the 2 DC I have are set up as follows
NY-DC1
IP 192.168.5.2
default gateway 192.168.5.1
preferred DNS 192.168.5.2
alt DNS 192.168.5.3

NY-DC2
IP 192.168.5.3
default gateway 192.168.5.1
preferred DNS 192.168.5.2
alt DNS 192.168.5.3

client Wins Vista
preferred DNS 192.168.5.2
alt DNS 192.168.5.3
I am also getting a message now to update my Ethernet but have no idea how to get onto the internet from the VM. I have dropped the driver into the VBOX folder but it will not work. I have also installed Guest additions which I thought was the updated drivers.

this is becoming a pain can somebody help

Hi friends ;

Host : windows 7

Guest : Linux 5.5

I am using virtual machine version 9 (brigged n/w)
I want to connect my vmware machine from putty without LAN connection.
I strongly believe it is possible. I dont know how can i do that ?
Always i am facing 'network unreachable'
Please help me ..

Good morning all. I was wondering if there is a way I can connect an .iso file to my host os (win xp pro 64 in this case) so that I can save files dorectly to the .iso. Is there a way I can make the .iso be emulated as either a harddrive, or perhaps turn my 'cd rom' into a cd-rw to where i can just keep 'burning' my RW disc with new software? Thank you for your assistance!

I am receiving the following error when trying to start any vm through the webui. Vm Server 2.0 on SUSE ent.

These have been working fine for weeks

Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.

I am a newbie to the whole env, but there is no vmmon dir in  /dev

Hi!

I have strange issue, and i didn't find any answer. I installed VMware Server 2.0.2.203138 on Linux x64 and i experience a "sticky key" issue. I typing normally, but sometimes random key will be sticky, and i cannot release focus from console. I can just reset my box, what isn't a very good workaround. Is there any tip/fix/patch/something to solve it? This is a very big problem, i cannot use console because of this. Please help me!

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

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Gabor Garami

hrgyster@gmail.com