Hi All,

I recently moved our vCenter installation to another server "vCenterServer" from the original server "Win12-ban", I have left the database on "Win12-ban" and created a DSN on "vCenterServer" which tests successfully when connecting into the database from the "vCenterServer" database. When I originally set this all up it worked a dream, I was originally using my own domain account to start the service (rather than the local system account), but now none of these accounts will start the service. I really want to be using the local account as I want to be able to see performance stats within vcenter.

The error message I get when trying to start the service is:

Followed by this in the event viewer:

Task Category: None

The description for Event ID 1000 from source VMware VirtualCenter Server cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

Error getting configuration info from the database

I have tested the DSN from the machine with vCenter installed and it tests successfully, which suggests there is a connection from the vCenter Server to the database, has anyone encountered similar issues?

Can anyone please describe to me what the difference is between Health Status Changed and Health Status Monitoring?  They both seem to be alerts for vCenter "service".  Any help greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Health Status Changed

Default alarm to monitor changes to service and extension health status

Health Status Monitoring

Default alarm to monitor changes in overall health status. See vCenter Service Status on the Home view for more details.

BigD

Hello,

   I have been trying to power on a Nexus 1000V VM running on an ESXi 5.1 on a vSphere vCenter 5.5 and i keep getting an error message concerning available memory resources. I am running on a Virtual server with 10GB RAM and 60GB HDD. The Physical host machine has 16GB RAM and 320GB HDD. I am a beginner in this so please try to be clear. Thank you very much.

Hi All

I have a problem with the peformance tab not showing any data for VMs & hosts. I have done a fair bit of searching on this problem and not found an answer yet. My thoughts is that its a vCenter database problem because when I login directly to an ESXi host I can get the performance stats from the tab in question.

I have recently upgraded our three ESXi hosts from 5.0 to 5.1 build 838463 and created an new copy of vCenter 5.1 and connected the hosts to the new copy of vCenter. As far as I know the performace stats were working on 5.0 and looks like they have stopped working after the upgrade. I upgraded the hosts using update manager and installed the ISO image from Dell that included the VIB for hardware monitoring.

Environment:

3x Dell R710, 128GB RAM each

ESXi 5.1 Build 838463 Enterprise Plus

vCenter 5.1 build 880146 Standard

Please let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions, I have attached a screenshot of the graphs showing no data.

Regards,

Andrew

I've been spending lots of time working on the new vCenter 5.1.0A.

I have two vCenter environments in my test and dev.

vCenter1 = Windows 2008 R2 vCenter server. It has local domain Microsoft CA self signed certificates as per following Derek Seamans blog http://derek858.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/vmware-vcenter-51-installation-part-1.html. I can add ESXi hosts to this vCenter no problems. These ESXi hosts have local domain Microsoft CA self signed certificates.

vCenter2 = VMware vCenter Server Appliance. It has local domain Microsoft CA self signed certificates as per following Doug Baer's blog http://www.goitpartners.com/blog/?p=662. I CANNOT add ESXi hosts to this vCenter when they have local domain Microsoft CA self signed certificates. I CAN add an ESXi host only if I have NOT done anything with the certificates.

The error I get is:

License not available to perform the operation.
License file download from blade001.xxx.yyy to vCenter Server failed due to exception: vim.fault.SSLVerifyFault.

I've attached the screenshot "unable to add host to ESXi - custom cert.png" that shows this.

When I add an ESXi host that has NOT had the certificate replaced, I get prompted that it is unable to verify the authenticity of the host and asks me to veryify the thumbprint. I click yes to verify and the host is added successfully.

I've attached the screenshot "Adding host blade002 with default cert.png" that shows this.

So this is really puzzling. When a host has a replaced certificate, the thumbpring MUST be verified by the vCenter Appliance because I DO NOT get prompted about the authenticity of the host.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

The one thing I really want to make clear is:

• I can add the ESXi host with replaced certificates to a vCenter 5.1.0A server running on Windows 2008 R2 (vCenter1)
  
• This then confirms with me that there is nothing wrong with the certificate on the ESXi host
  
• I remove the host from vCenter1
  
• I try and add the host to vCenter2 (Appliance) and I get the error, the host never gets added to vCenter
  

I recently upgraded from vCenter 5.1 to 5.5. After the upgrade I began to get health warnings for the VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service that say "Service initialization failed". I have rebooted the vCenter server and restarted the services several times and that has not cleared the issue. When I look in the SMS.LOG file there is no activity in it since the date I did the upgrade (a week or more ago). All prior activity in the SMS.LOG looks to be fine up up until the upgrade occured though. I have found at least a half-dozen KB articles that describe various reasons why this error might occur but they all pertain to older versions of vCenter. Just to be thorough though I reviewed the symptoms in the articles and none of them really seem to be the same as what I am seeing. My one hypothesis is that perhaps the SMS didn't get properly re-installed during the upgrade because I don't see any SMS sub directory in the \Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\webapps directory but I'm not even sure if this directory should exist on a 5.5 installation.

Would appreciate if anyone has any troubleshooting advice for this type error.

Thanks,

Mike

I have two host running ESXi 5.0 which I have succesfully added to my vcenter (5.0 client and server).  However one of the hosts is missing 3 vm's from its inventory.  I can connect directly to the ESXi 5.0 server and see all vm's running.  I am sure it is not coincidence that these three servers are my only linux servers (canned Squid proxy servers).

1) I stopped and started the Vcenter server services.  same results.

2) I have removed and readded the host. same results, but I do want to note that during the add process I did see that all servers showed in the list of vm's running on the host.

Thanks for any help!

J

I am a VMWare Newbe.

I installed VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.0b released. (followed the TinkerTry instructions Deploy VMware's vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 in a home lab, without SSO errors - YouTube)

I could not configure a DataCenter over the WebClient, so I switch to vSphereClient.

Now I can't see the DataCenter (and all the inventory) in the WebClient (vSphereClient is fine).

If I try to create a DataCenter over the WebClient I get the message that "datacenter" is already there.

What could be the problem?

Hi,

Apologies if this isnt the correct place for this. Basically we are trying to sort out our licensing on our ESXI Cluster

We have 6 x ESXI Hosts with 4 Processors each (6 Cores)

Im being told by Software Provider that If I build a Windows 2008 Standrd Server and it has 1 vcpu and 1 core that I need to purchase a 4 processor license for it as its hosted an 4 Processor ESXI Host. Same can be said if I build a Virutal Machine that 4 vcpu and 6 cores i also need to buy a 4 PROC License,

Is your guys experience in this correct,

Any help greatly appreciated

Thanks

Tried connecting into the web interface and it states it cannot connect to the inventory server.  I see the service is stopped and when I try to start it, it fails.  Error message in event log: The VMware vCenter Inventory Service service terminated with service-specific error Incorrect function..

I have rebooted the server and had the same issue.  I have a backup of the SQL/server but I have never ran the backup.bat as referred to in here: VMware KB: vCenter Inventory Service fails to start and cannot back up the Inventory Service database

I cannot seem to find a great article on what will be impacted by resetting the service fresh?

When I click this Storage View<tab> from within vSphere client, I get this error all the time....anyone know a fix for this?

The server 'my.host.name' could not interpret the client's request. (The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable

Hi,

I have updated the vCenter 5.5 to the latest version that is available yesterday. It is linux appliance.

I was having problem to get in to web client after the update. I performed the "Regenerate SSL certificates" option thats located under Admin tab. Then the issue is resolved and I am able to get in to web client.

Now, I am seeing the different issue.

Unable to retreive health data from http://localhost/sps/health.xml

Unable to retreive health data from http://localhost/sms/health.xml

These 2 services are running but not able to load it. Also, I am seeing the following exceptions in the log.

From vpxd log:

--------------------

[7F4D4DD3A700 error 'HttpConnectionPool-000340'] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:00007f4cd40b2850, TCP:vc55mjl1.lab.equallogic.com:10443>; cnx: (null), error: N7Vmacore3Ssl18SSLVerifyExceptionE(SSL Exception: Verification parameters:

--> PeerThumbprint: 36:D5:B5:C2:8B:A5:A6:40:39:10:57:A0:0A:CF:B0:75:1B:62:31:1F

--> ExpectedThumbprint: 06:E3:CB:EB:48:12:59:47:1E:AA:05:69:B0:D5:42:14:AD:5B:63:85

--> ExpectedPeerName:xxxxxxxxxxxx

--> The remote host certificate has these problems:

-->

--> * unable to get local issuer certificate)

From vws log:

[2014-01-03 22:09:26,979 Thread-21  ERROR com.vmware.vim.health.impl.XmlUtil] Error retrieving health from url: http://localhost/sps/health.xml

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://localhost/sps/health.xml

        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.StreamValidatorHelper.validate(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.ValidatorImpl.validate(Unknown Source)

        at javax.xml.validation.Validator.validate(Unknown Source)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.XmlUtil.getDocumentFromUrl(XmlUtil.java:96)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec.retrieveHealthFromUrl(ComponentSpec.java:300)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec.retrieveHealth(ComponentSpec.java:266)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealthFromUrl(HealthPollerImpl.java:119)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:104)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.computeHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:203)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:102)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.pollHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:85)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.access$100(HealthPollerImpl.java:28)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl$PollerThread.run(HealthPollerImpl.java:55)

        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[2014-01-03 22:09:26,979 Thread-21  ERROR com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec] Unable to retrieve health for com.vmware.vim.sps from http://localhost/sps/health.xml

[2014-01-03 22:09:26,979 Thread-21  ERROR com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec] Unable to retrieve health for com.vmware.vim.sps from any of its health URLs

[2014-01-03 22:09:26,981 Thread-21  ERROR com.vmware.vim.health.impl.XmlUtil] Error retrieving health from url: http://localhost/sms/health.xml

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://localhost/sms/health.xml

        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.StreamValidatorHelper.validate(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.ValidatorImpl.validate(Unknown Source)

        at javax.xml.validation.Validator.validate(Unknown Source)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.XmlUtil.getDocumentFromUrl(XmlUtil.java:96)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec.retrieveHealthFromUrl(ComponentSpec.java:300)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec.retrieveHealth(ComponentSpec.java:266)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealthFromUrl(HealthPollerImpl.java:119)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:104)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.computeHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:203)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:102)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.pollHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:85)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.access$100(HealthPollerImpl.java:28)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl$PollerThread.run(HealthPollerImpl.java:55)

        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I have loooked at the hosts file and make sure DNS is right. Also, Performed Regenerate certificates on appliance. Any ideas where to look for to troubleshoot??

Appreciated ,

Thanks!!

The exact error I get when I attempt to deploy a template is "The virtualcenter server is unable to decrypt passwords stored in the customization specification."

I have found previous mention that when you uninstall VC and then reinstall it you can no longer use old customization specifications.  I have done this, but I have since DELETED all old specs.

I cannot even deploy a template with brand new customization settings (although I am assuming it saves those settings to a temp file for sysprep to use).  Have I fubarred myself completely by previously uninstalling VC server?

Any help is appreciated.  Thanks!

Hi,

we created a VM and when trying to start I get the following error:

An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM VGLI3.

Failed to start the virtual machine.

Failed to power on VM.

Could not power on virtual machine: msg.vmk.status.VMK_NO_SPACE.

Current swap file size is 0 KB.

Failed to extend swap file from 0 KB to 8385536 KB.

How can we fix that? Thanks.

Our environment is vCenter 4.1 U1 and ESXi 4.1 U1. We have a multi-tenant Lab environment where users are isolated with separate Resource Pools and separate VM, Storage, and Network folders. The users are administrators to all of these.

They want to be able to deploy OVA/OVF templates but, they get this error (attached image) at this point. I'd like to know the minimum permissions required to allow this without exposing other tenants resources.

I created a VM in VSphere Client and it does not appear in Horizon 7 administrator. What am I missing? When VM appears in Horizon?

My vmware webclient is working absolutely fine , but vi client is throwing error that i do not have permissions to login. Not only this, i can not login to any of the hosts individually using my domain credentials. Although i tried to connect host via root credentials and its working fine. From that i sense no issues with VI client.

But unable to catch missing part that why i am UNABLE to login to vcenter with my domain credentials using VI client.. But CAN LOGIN on vshpere web client using same domain credentials. If i am right, web-client using API integration only but works on same fundamental as vi client do. Am i missing anything here?

Please suggest, as this would be helpful to understand gap so that i can fix viclient issue.

I dont have vsphere.local credentials of environment. Somehow its lost.

Secondly, in vsphere web client roles field is showing blank.

After the installation of the Web Client Server on the vCenter Server (with no errors) the Web Client Service won't start.

In the windows log following error is reported

The vSphere Web Client service terminated with service-specific error Incorrect function.....

Event ID 7024

EventRecord ID 2655

The Server is a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Server with vCenter 5.0

Any Ideas why the Web Client Service does not start?

Thanks

I'm having problems getting the self signed certificates for vCenter v5.5 replaced with Enterprise CA certificates.  I am using the certificate replacement tool from VMware.  The SSO certificate is successfully replaced so I move on to having the Inventory service trust the SSO certificate.  They succeeds as well but I think all its doing is bouncing the Inventory service.  I then go to install the Inventory service certificate and get:

[Sat 03/15/2014 - 15:51:06.27]: The services that are restarted as a part of this operation are: vCenter Inventory Service.

Enter the location to the new Inventory Service SSL chain (default value is: c:\certs\Inventory\chain.pem):

Enter the location to the new Inventory Service private key (default value is: c:\certs\Inventory\rui.key):

Enter the Single Sign-On Administrator user (default value is: administrator@vsphere.local):

Enter the Single Sign-On Administrator password (will not be echoed):

[.] The supplied certificate chain is valid.

[Sat 03/15/2014 - 15:51:20.40]: Last operation update Inventory Service SSL certificate failed :

[Sat 03/15/2014 - 15:51:20.41]: Cannot determine if Inventory Service is registered with Single Sign-On - errorlevel is 1

If I look at the logs, I see the following:

[Sat 03/15/2014 - 15:51:15.43]: The Inventory Service is installed at "C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Inventory Service"

[Sat 03/15/2014 - 15:51:15.44]: Rollback path is "C:\ssl-certificate-updater-tool-1308332\backup"

[Sat 03/15/2014 - 15:51:15.45]: Rollback path is "C:\ssl-certificate-updater-tool-1308332\backup\IS"

[Sat 03/15/2014 - 15:51:18.03]: Determining whether Inventory Service is registered with Single Sign-On ...

Intializing registration provider...

Getting SSL certificates for https://FP-CSVC01.domain.loc:7444/lookupservice/sdk

com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.exception.CertificateValidationException: Server certificate chain not verified

Return code is: SslHandshakeFailed

1

[Sat 03/15/2014 - 15:51:20.39]: "Cannot determine if Inventory Service is registered with Single Sign-On - errorlevel is 1"

[Sat 03/15/2014 - 15:51:20.39]: Exiting Inventory Service update SSL certificate due to errors

Obviously there is something about the CA chain that it doesn't like.  If I look at my cert store on the vCenter server, I have my Root CA in the Trusted Root store.  In the Intermediate Store I have both the Root and Intermediate.  If I browse to the lookup service (https://FP-CSVC01.domain.loc:7444/lookupservice/sdk) from a web browser, the certificate shows as valid and throws no errors so there should be nothing wrong with the certificate.

The format of the chain.pem in the Inventory directory is correct as well.  It is the Inventory cert, followed by the Intermediate cert, followed by the Root cert.  No extra spaces anywhere.

I have also tried to manually replace the certificates and it essentially fails at the same spot.  SSO replacement goes fine then I go to unregister the Inventory service and the SSL handshake fails.

Funny thing is that if I am using vCenter 5.1, I get past this all without issue.

Thoughts??

Un-installing an re-installing of the VMWare tools on VCSA 5.5 worked. Followed vCenter Server Appliance update and VMware Tools

But i still see that the VMWare Tools for the Simulated hosts still show as "Not Installed". Looking for info/help for installing the vmware tools on simulated hosts as well.