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Re: A bit of encouraging words for the VMware Data Protection appliance

November 30, 2013, 1:45 pm
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Hi,

I m using VDP in a production environment. And I faced a lot of problems:

1. VMs became inaccessible during snapshot.

2. Quiescing snapshots failed in almost Windows and Linux machines.

3. Backup job do not save all VMs: it starts making snapshots and after that anymore feedback.

I don't think I m the only one having those issues with our VDP implementation. But nobody wrote about best best pracitices and prequisities of a good implementation of VDP in a production environment with big VMs and a large amount of IOs.

 

Just a question, did you get 0 failed backups from the first backup?

Regards,

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Re: IOmeter on Server 2008 - excessive error count

November 30, 2013, 1:54 pm
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Sorry for responding to such a old inquiry.

 

I ran into the the same problem today running Iometer2006 under  Windows Server 2008 R2 VM with fresh set of RDMs from SAN.

The Dynamo.exe screens shows that all Writes are failing:

DynamoError.png

It turned out that Windows2008R2 places all new disks in Offline and uninitialized mode after initial discovery.

You can use the DiskManagment GUI to Initialize and place the disks online by right clicking on eash Disk.

 

DynamoError.png

 

Alternatively you can use DiskPart to repeat the following operation on each disk:

select disk=<n>

attributes disk clear readonly

online disk noerr

convert mbr....

(reference:  Initializing disks from command line or DISKPART in Win 2008? )

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Re: rest plugin usage

November 30, 2013, 2:08 pm
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Correct. But you don't need XML plug-in to parse the response from your GET operation.

 

The easier way is to use the native E4X XML object.

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Re: Migracion VCenter Server Appliance

November 30, 2013, 2:19 pm
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Re: Booting VM from USB stick: USB not detected/locked by hostOS

November 30, 2013, 2:41 pm
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Will it only boot UEFI-bootable USB drives, or any bootable USB stick? (For example sticks created in the Win XP days require setting the BIOS of a modern physical Windows 8 machine to "legacy mode" to boot properly.)

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Re: ESXi 5.5 Free Hypervisor Web Console

November 30, 2013, 2:44 pm
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I had to Google my problems in order to find this forum.

 

 

 

We have a few hosts on 5.0.  Everything runs great.

 

 

 

I had been using Veeam 6.5 to Live Migrate VM's back and forth between hosts, as well as offsite full snapshots.

 

 

 

This was all free product.

 

 

 

One of my vendors requires VMware 5.1 for one of their Virtual Appliances.  Ok.  So I Veeam across all my workloads and have one box empty of VMs.  We run the 5.5 ISO installer (There seems to not be any type of vSphere Client option for Host upgrades.  Citrix has this with their free product.  Why is this missing?)  After the install, runs, magically I don't have a network card.  That NIC worked in 4.x and 5.0.  Now?  Who knows.  So I order an Intel card for $30.  It comes in the mail, I install, and run the installer again.

 

 

Good news - if can Upgrade my install.  Hooray!  So I let that run, and reboot, and it comes up.

 

 

 

I am looking forward to this new Web Client I'm hearing so much about.  So I punch the IP into Chrome.  Hmm. Standard splash page.  I read through it all the links.  Looks just like normal 4.x verbiage.  I see the link to the 5.5 vSphere Client, so I download and install.

 

 

Punch in the IP and log into my 5.5.  I hit the Datastores and poke around for a minute.  All looks OK.

 

 

I log into my Veeam machine, since upgraded to Veeam 7.0, and refresh inventory.  Servers all show OK.  New 5.5 box shows empty.  Great!  Let's start migrating workloads back in.

 

 

 

ERROR - License not supported!

 

 

 

Well that's strange.  I don't remember seeing any type of yearly key like I did with 4.x.  I log into my VMware account and start poking around.  I see my key.  I hit the Resources tab on the Client for the Host.  Keys match.  I see I have 50 days left on my trial.  Which is weird because the free product is a yearly refresh cycle.

 

 

 

So.. I start Googling, and now I'm here.

 

 

 

I'm taking full snapshots to disk of my VM's via Veeam.  I will try to upload them to the new 5.5 box.  If that doesn't work, then I'm wiping the box and going Hyper-V.

 

 

 

We really don't enjoy these kid's games.  I would think about the Essentials License a little more positively if I didn't think VMware would pull the rug out from under me again in a year.

 

 

Thank god I Live Migrated my VMs to a 5.0 box that's working perfectly.

 

 

 

I would have been better off spending the $600 on a new kit that I could load Hyper-V on, then use Veeam to Live Migrate and test.

 

 

I'll review the Essentials Kit benefits.  I could probably make use of 6 CPU slots.  But it says 3 servers.  What happens if I want six single CPU machines?  I already have three machines for free that I can Live Migrate all day long with Veeam 6.5 and 7.  What's my benefit?

 

 

 

I see that it's a yearly $560.  With Microsoft giving away Hyper V 2012.. VMware may have just giving me a nice new empty box to trial Hyper-V on.  Either that or dig up my Vmware 5.0 installer and drop the box back down.  If I can't move my VMs from 5.0.0 469512 to 5.5.0 1331820 then this is worth less than free, because now it's a liability.

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iSCSI datastore connectivity issues after upgrade to vSphere 5.5

November 30, 2013, 3:03 pm
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Has anyone encountered datastore connectivity issues after upgrading their ESXi hosts?

 

Upgraded 3x DL360 G7 servers last week from vsphere 5.1 to 5.5, and now they're experiencing loss access to their datastore volumes due to connectivity issues (see attached image for the event details).

These servers are currently attached to a VNXe3300 and I thought initially it could be because the software version on the array did not match the compatibility matrix. However, still have issues after upgrading the array today to 2.4.1......

 

None of these connectivity issues occurred when they were running 5.1, and only started occuring after the upgrade to 5.5......!

It's got so bad that it's dropping and reconnecting every minute, causing the VMs to freeze!

 

Using hardware iSCSI as the DL360s have two NC382i LOMs which supports TOE and iSCSI...... wondering if it's a problem with the NIC drivers that VMware have packaged into their image?

 

Anyone experienced these types of iscsi connectivity issues before?

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Configuração de Rede Workstation

November 29, 2013, 6:55 am
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Ola  Pessoal!

Sou estudante de desenvolvimento web tenho duvidas com virtualização para fins de segurança

pretendo usar o windows 8.1 com a Workstation 10.1 na máquina virtual vou instalar o SO Ubuntu

e pretendo colocar apenas a vmware em rede (wireless) no caso o acesso rede mundial será apenas através do ubuntu virtualizado e o Windows ficará em of e só colocarei

em rede quando for necessário!

Qual seria configuração de rede neste caso?

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Duvida de um Iniciante!!

November 30, 2013, 1:47 pm
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Ola  Pessoal!

Sou estudante de desenvolvimento web tenho duvidas com virtualização para fins de segurança

pretendo usar o windows 8.1 com a Workstation 10.1 na máquina virtual vou instalar o SO Ubuntu

e pretendo colocar apenas a vmware em rede (wireless) no caso o acesso rede mundial será apenas através do ubuntu virtualizado e o Windows ficará em of e só colocarei

em rede quando for necessário!

Qual seria configuração de rede neste caso?

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Re: VMWare Tools update problem

November 30, 2013, 4:14 pm
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If you  have VMware 10 installed just download 10.01 and run the installer.  I will detect that WS 10 is present and uninstall it before proceeding to install WS 10.01.

 

My hosts  that use WS (instead of Hyper-V) are excursively Linux and I  run Windows 7 and  8.1 as full screen VMs.  Thus I can provide the MD5 and SHA1 hashes for WS 10.01 for Linux.  Almost all Linux hosts have programs to check the validity of your  programs against the hashes below (64-bit).  You can  find them on your Download page in My VMware.or on the trial    download page (you only need the has - if you have bought    WS just download from the palesd area.   Somebody else will need to  point you to Windows instgructions - there are many   free programs  available that can do the same in Window.  If  by chance you  do not  or understand what I am saying it will be a good exercise e to Google the information. Keep in mind that the         MD5 and SHA for Windows are different than Linux.

 

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10.01 hashes for WS 10.01. 

 

MD5SUM: de8ed8e33142f48e5b0eccb520918494
SHA1SUM: 2c10d7d13e41765f2a4e949f6bd8c0df7bebafbe

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Re: New to Vmware : Confused between relation of ESX/vSphere/Vcenter

November 30, 2013, 4:16 pm
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hhhm lets see .. else i will drop plan to upgrade ..

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Re: VDP 5.5 - unexpected error 10058

November 30, 2013, 5:17 pm
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Most common resolvable issue I've seen is that snapshots aren't cleaned up after backup. Either the disk wasn't removed from VDP, or the snapshot wasn't deleted, or the snapshot was deleted on the VM, but the files weren't deleted on disk, on a VM consolidation is needed. In all of these cases, getting rid of all snapshot files (by deleting snapshots, consolidating redo logs, and checking that no orphaned VMNAME-000002.vmdk files exist on disk).

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Prevent VDP from deleting only recovery point

November 30, 2013, 5:25 pm
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We have extremely short retention policies for some jobs - effectively, I just need the latest copy of a VM stored as a backup (1-day retention if you will). However, if a job or backup of a VM fails, that causes VDP to destroy the only recovery point and the next backup is a full resulting in longer backup times, increased IO, etc. I tried to accomodate this by increasing the retention to 2 days for these jobs, but I can't go any more than that because of the data change rate and 2TB limit of the VDP appliance. That helped some, but still, jobs will fail and all recovery points will be expired before a new backup is taken. Is it possible to prevent VDP from deleting/expiring a recovery point if it's the only one for a vm?

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Shared iSCSI SAN design

November 30, 2013, 5:42 pm
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We are looking for advices on shared iSCSI SAN storage among 3 hosts. We have 3 Dell PowerEdge R620 and Dell Equallogic PS4100E storage. We know about VMWare storage vMotion which allows us to shared this iSCSI SAN and moving VMs among the hosts. From the licensing point, VMWare Essential kit will work for our HW infrastructure (3 hosts). We will host about 15 2nd tier VMs so the infrastructure will have some capacity for future expansion. Because these VMs are 2nd tier, the service level allows for an hour disruption if we have to transfer the VM image over to other host. These 3 hosts have very minimal internal storage because we hope to host all the VMs on the shared storage.

 

At the moment, we are looking for advice on storage setup so we can share this Dell PS4100E among the 3 hosts. We will discuss about the missing features in the Essential kit vs Enterprise one later.

 

Thank you for the advice,

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Re: UNable to power onVM

November 30, 2013, 5:44 pm
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Hi Tom,

 

The VM is FC SAN Storage. There are no internal vSwitches. Cluster does not report any error and has lot of free space available.

What I am unable to understand is I would vmotion the VM (in powered off state) to another host and then when I try to power on it --- it will come back to the same Host.

 

Re-registering the VM on a different host resolved the issue

 

 

Thanks

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Mware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-4): vcpu-4:Invalid VMCB.

November 30, 2013, 5:47 pm
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Running VMware® Workstation, 10.0.1 build-1379776 with VMware ESXi 5.5.0 VMKernel Release Build 1331820, 8xAMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor, 24 GiB Memory.  ESXi crashes within 24 hrs.  I get an error message:

 

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-4)

vcpu-4:Invalid VMCB.

A log file is available in "E:\Virtual Machines\vmware.log".  (attached)

 

Any ideas of how to correct this issue?

 

thank you

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Spice with Openstack Instance and vSphere

November 30, 2013, 6:47 pm
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I have followed multiple guides on how to properly setup the Spice protocol to use in place of VNC, but for some reason I can not get it to work. I have configured my my nova.conf like so:

 

(Only putting in the relevant parameters)

 

#vncserver_proxyclient_address = my controller IP

#vncserver_listen = 0.0.0.0

vnc_enabled=false

#novncproxy_host = 0.0.0.0

#novncproxy_port = 6080

#novncproxy_base_url = http://mycontroller:6080/vnc_auto.html

 

[spice]

agent_enabled = True

enabled = True

keymap = en-us

html5proxy_base_url = http://mycontroller:6082/spice_auto.html

server_listen = 0.0.0.0

server_proxyclient_address = my controller IP

 

I've restarted the appropriate services, and rebooted my controller/compute node... I'm wondering if this is something vSphere related? Just an FYI, VNC works just fine when I uncomment the settings and set to true. Does it have anything to do with ports open on the hypervisor?

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Re: No file preview on Windows 8

November 30, 2013, 6:57 pm
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On Win 8 tablet, you are just using the browser, right? We don't have a native app for it.

If so, which browser are you using?

 

Also, does the preview work fine on a regular windows 8 desktop?

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Re: Workstation 10 blue screen of death!

November 30, 2013, 7:27 pm
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Hi Gregusdu50,

 

The issue is not with a driver in the guest but a driver installed in the host as a part of workstation. You will not hit the specific issue being discussed in this thread when using a USB mouse or a keyboard (unless you pass it through to the guest which I doubt is what you are doing). you will hit the issue when you pass through a USB flash drive or a USB network adapter to the guest.

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Re: Resolution in Ubuntu 13.04 (Retina Display)

November 30, 2013, 7:28 pm
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Does anyone know if the issue was fixed in VMware Fusion 6?

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