I just installed the VCSA 6.0 without any problems. Only issue is that the customer told me the wrong default gateway. I'd rather not redeploy the appliance. How do I go about changing the default gateway?

We are a small school with a small tech staff and no VMware experts, so I really hope someone can help us out.

Our VCSA 6.0 was doing fine but recently rebooted after a power failure.  I realized something was wrong when I got the following when trying to connect with my browser:

503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http16LocalServiceSpecE:0x7fa482aaf3a0] _serverNamespace = /vsphere-client _isRedirect = false _port = 9090).  Our backups are also failing with a 503 error.

Here are some notes of interest that I typed while watching the server reboot:

Init SMTP port (sendmail) failed

Waiting for VMware Service Control AGent... OK

Starting VMware vPostgres: Starting VMware Inventory Service...

Waiting for VMware inventory service...

Warning: VMware inventory service may have failed to start

sed: couldn't flush /etc/vmware-vpx//sedGKgW32: No space left on device

sed: couldn't flush /etc/vmware-vpx//sedFjrhvy: No space left on device

vmware-vpxd: VC SSL Certificate does not exist, it will be generated by vpxd

Waiting for the embedded database to start up...........failed

Executing pre-startup scripts...

vmware-vpxd: Starting vpxd by administrative request.

success

vmware-vpxd: Waiting for vpxd to start listening for requests on 8089

Waiting for vpxd to initialize....

VPXD is not running.  Cannot collect live core dump....

Warning: VMware ESX Agent manager may have failed to start

Warning: Vmware vsphere profile-driven storage service MHFTS

I've dealt with issues of /storage/log running out of space in the past, and I suspect that some element of the server's storage is either full or needs fsck.  However I can't get to bash to check these things.  Typing "shell.set --enabled True" from the appliance shell results in "Unknown command: 'shell.set'".  Trying to enable bash from the server console results in "DCUI aborted by exception".  I also tried booting directly to bash from GRUB, but when I tried to fsck /dev/mapper/log_vg-log, which I'd read about somewhere, I was told that checking a mounted volume could cause severe damage.  I umounted it, but then I couldn't figure out how to to fsck it.

I've reached the limit of my knowledge and would appreciate any assistance.  Thank you!

Hi there,

I have 10 VM templates on a datastore and would like to move all templates to a different datastore. What is the Best way to move templates between datastores?

Thanks.

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.

Physical Server 2012R2 VCenter 6 server was cleanly shutdown for some hardware maintenance and booted up fine afterwards.

During shutdown this event was logged in the Application log:

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:

Initiating VMware VirtualCenter shutdown

the message resource is present but the message is not found in the string/message table

After boot most of the Vcenter services had not started, nor could they be manually started.  I traced it back to the first failure logged in the System log:

The VMware HTTP Reverse Proxy service terminated with the following service-specific error:

Incorrect function.

I cannot start this service manually it fails with the same error.  All other services fail with a dependancy error.

This is extremely frustrating because we upgraded this server from Server 2008R2 for the same reason, Services would fail to start.  When it had Server 2008R2 its was running 5.1, we tried upgrading to 6 but it failed and we could not resolve it, so we completely removed Vcenter and tried a fresh install, this failed until I managed to "trick" the installer by altering the VMware vCenter workflow manager service to run as local system otherwise it always failed.  So we got it installed and running, then after the first reboot just failed to start the services!!!  So we fresh installed Windows 2012R2, installed VCenter without any AV or other "cruft" to ensure it would work, which it did.  Now the darn thing just fails like this again!

DNS is functiong fine and the server has survived a number of restarts yesterday, No idea why it would just fail now!

James

I have been having phantom alarms lately. Virtual machines will show the red alert icon with no alarms triggered. I checked the VM, the host, the cluster, the folder, the datacenter, and vcenter but none of those objects have any triggered alarms either. The cluster does not have HA or DRS enabled.

I had several VMs in this condition so I restarted vCenter server, which usually solves the problem for a while. However, this time two of the VMs have retained their alert state through the vCenter server restart.

I ran this powercli script on the trouble VMs and every alarm state was either gray or green. How can I find out what is causing the VMs to red exclamation point alert symbol?

  I recently removed a physical host from a vCenter Server virtual appliance and am not able to add it back to vCenter Server because I get an error about the datastore already existing.  I am running a simple vCenter Server environment with two physical hosts and shared storage.  I have only been administering vCenter for a few months, so I am relatively new to the technology and processes.  I have searched the Internet for a few days now, but have not found any documentation of anyone experiencing the same problem as I (which I find odd considering how simple my configuration and problem), so I wanted to get some help from the VMware community.

  I got an error message one day that vCenter Server couldn't connect to one of the two hosts so I removed the host (instead of disconnecting and connecting as I should have done).  Now I am not able to connect the host to vCenter server because the shared storage datastore conflicts with the same datastore used by the existing host in vCenter Server.  The error message I get is ""Datastore 'datastore_name' conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter that has the same URL (ds:///vmfs/volumes/UUID/), but is backed by different physical storage."  I try to unmount the datastore from the host, but get the following error message: "The resource 'Datastore Name: datastore_name VMFS uuid: UUID' is in use."  The error stack says, "Call "HostStorageSystem.UnmountVmfsVolume" for object "storageSystem" on ESXi "IP address" failed.  Cannot unmount volume 'Datastore Name: datastore_name VMFS uuid: 'UUID' because file system is busy. Correct the problem and retry the operation."  I have tried removing all virtual machines from inventory, putting the hosts in maintenance mode, rebooting the physical hosts, but none of my troubleshooting is helping.

  I am not sure what steps to take to get this datastore unassociated with the host so that I can add it back into vCenter Server.  Any help you can provide me is appreciated.

Hello,

I cannot seem to find a way to change the way how the web client (6.5) opens the remote console by default. It has defaulted for the web browser but I would like to change it to VMRC. When i right click the virtual machine and select "Open Console" it open the RDP to web browser and does not let me choose the VMRC application. Any help?

Thanks in advance!

Juuso

I have the vCSA ISO extracted to local drive and am running it from Internet Explorer as Administrator mode. After allowing the plugin, I click Install.

I click Accept, then Next.

At this point, I am unable to proceed past 2. Connect to target server step.

This is the error code which I can not get past no matter what I try:

"Cannot connect to target server. Invalid FQDN or IP address."

I can enter FQDN, IP address, root or domain accounts and nothing works. I even tried connecting to a virtual ESXi 5.5 u2 server with nothing configured but IP address and root password.

I've tried from utility servers, and from my user workstation, no luck -> same error.

The ESXi hosts are not in lockdown mode or in maintenance mode. I've tried all of about 30 different IP addresses and FQDNs for the various ESXi 5.5 hosts.

The hosts do have new ECA-signed ssl certificates, and i thought this might be an issue, but the virtual ESXi server i deployed didn't work either, and that had the default VMware certs.

I've tried reinstalling the Client Integration 6.0 plugin, restarting workstation/utility servers.

I've tried Firefox and IE 11 but nothing appears to work.

I've verified that the FQDN or IP and username/password works when connecting via the vSphere Client so I know I'm not fat-fingering it into the setup wizard.

What gives? What am I missing? Has anyone experienced this problem? Is there a way to collect logs for this? I tried looking for them but also couldn't find anything.

Hi

I have installed vCenter Server 6.0 for a customer today, which completed fine - however  I now have issues getting permissions i vCenter Web Client - even when using the SSO administrator login.

I can manage the environment from the legacy vSphere Client, however when logging into the Web Client i get the "You do not have permission to view this object or this object does not exist". and this even goes for the SSO administrator login. I cannot add global permissions or administer roles.

see screeenshots attached.

anyone had this issue before? and maybe a solution?

I came in today and have no access no to the vCenter Host with my normal Windows Authentication, though I can login with my Windows creds. just fine. I can login to the IP of ESXi with root and password, but not with the vSphere Client nor Web Client.

Any ideas?

Web Client I get this.....

Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems:

https://NNN.vCenter.local:443/sdk

vSphere Cleint gives me this.....

In the Events tab on a VM that got hung this afternoon, we see these messages:

Alarm 'Virtual machine cpu usage' changed from Gray to Green

Migration from host

hostname.aaa.bbb.ccc completed

A ticket of type mks has been acquired

A ticket of type mks has been acquired

A ticket of type mks has been acquired

Migrating off host

hostname.aaa.bbb.ccc

Migrating VM from

hostname.aaa.bbb.ccc to

hostnamexx.aaa.bbb.ccc

Task: Migrate virtual machine

Alarm  'Virtual machine cpu usage' changed from Red to Yellow

Can someone explain what "A ticket of type mks has been acquired" means?

Thanks.

Hi All,

Has anyone managed to get guest customization of Windows Server 2012 working?  From what I can tell it doesn't work at all.

I am running the latest version of everything (vCenter 5.1, ESXi 5.1).  I created a brand new VM, chose Windows Server 2012 as the guest type (which automatically makes it EFI instead of BIOS) and installed Windows Server 2012 and the guest tools - all working OK.  I then shut down the guest and converted it to a template.

I am then deploying a new guest from the template and using a guest customization specification which I also created from scratch - the guest customization is very simple doing the standard stuff (like naming the OS the same as the guest, setting our company name and prompting the user for an IP address).  Nothing fancy.

The new guest is created as expected and then I power it on.  VMware obviously "injects" something into the OS at this point (like the sysprep file) and what is meant to happen is the OS boots up and then a minute or two later it reboots and does the sysprep routine with the injected sysprep file.  This works fine with Windows 2008 R2.

With Windows Server 2012 it just sits there forever and never reboots - the guest customization simply doesn't run.  If I logon to the server I can see that VMware has successfully created c:\sysprep and injected sysprep.xml and guestcustutil.exe into the folder.  It just never actually uses them.

Any ideas?  Is this working for anyone else?

Cheers,

David

Dear Team,

In vcenter server inventory list, VM Tools status is displayed as "Out of date", just want to know what does it mean (vmware tools functions will work or not),

regards

Mr VMware

Windows 10 v1607

Chrome 58
Firefox 53

vSphere Server Appliance 6.0.0.30200 Build Number 5326079

Used to be working but ever since browser updates, I am unable to get CIP working. It's either not recognized as being installed or if it does try to run it crashes. Also triggers additional popup regarding updating SSL cert in Firefox.

vmware-csd.exe - Application Error

The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000018). Click OK to close the application.

The VMware Client Integration Plugin has update its SSL certificate in Firefox. Please restart Firefox

I've tried to install different versions of the CIP (obtained from the link from within vCenter --> About, from VMware website), and have also tried installing plugin by the direct installer (extracted from the parent installer), can't seem to get anything to work.

Also can't find any recent threads on this, only from a while ago. (I can't be the only one!)

Would gladly use the HTML5 client but haven't upgraded to 6.5 yet.

Hi Guys,

I am running vcenter version 5.1 and my esxi servers are also 5.1.
Now, obviously the vcenter server is joined to the domain.

As we are upgrading the entire infrastructure, the old DC must be decommissioned and hence it is currently shut-down. All FSMO roles etc. have been transferred to the new DC and also the new DC is acting as DNS/DHCP server for the entire network.

We have got 50 PCs running in the network along with exchange server etc. and so far no signs of any glitches anywhere else

Now the issue I am having is that as soon as I shutdown the old DC, I can no longer access the VCENTER server using domain credentials. When I turn it on I can login fine.
The error I receive when I can't login -

1.  A general system error occured: Authorize Exception or
2. Access to VCENTER server was denied.
3. Taking too long to respond.

I followed the steps here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1015639 i.e. unjoined vcenter server from domain and rejoined to domain whilst having old DC shutdown as well as turned on but absolutely no luck.

I can still log into VCENTER server using local admin login and password but teh issue is that my VEEAM backup is failing as well. It says "Task failed Error: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password." which is the whole reason I discovered this issue was related to VCENTER login via Vsphere client.

Kindly help

Hello

I have two vCenter Servers, Production and Recovery Site, both Windows boxes, apart of same SSO domain, in linked mode and both at the latest build of 5.5. I am trying to upgrade my recovery site first to 6.0U2 using the migration assistant to create an appliance. The upgrade is failing in the pre-upgrade checker with the below errors in the migration-assistant.log:

2016-11-02 13:16:27.406Z| migration-assistant-4191364| E: LaunchUpgradeRunnerCommon: Failed to run pre-upgrade phase: "C:\mig58D2.tmp\PFiles\VMware\CIS\python\python.exe" "C:\mig58D2.tmp\PFiles\VMware\CIS\cis_upgrade_runner\UpgradeRunner.py" --mode=requirements --configFile="C:\Users\MS_VCE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\UpgradeRunnerInput.json" --logDir="C:\Users\MS_VCE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\vcsMigration"  --locale=en --outputFile="C:\Users\MS_VCE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\UpgradeRunnerPreupgradeOutput.json"

2016-11-02 13:16:27.406Z| migration-assistant-4191364| I: RemoveDirectoryIfEmpty: Successfully deleted empty directory C:\mig58D2.tmp.

2016-11-02 13:16:27.407Z| migration-assistant-4191364| I: LaunchUpgradeRunnerCommon: Successfully deleted file: C:\Users\MS_VCE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\UpgradeRunnerInput.json

2016-11-02 13:16:27.407Z| migration-assistant-4191364| I: Leaving function: LaunchUpgradeRunnerCommon

2016-11-02 13:16:27.407Z| migration-assistant-4191364| I: ParseExportEstimatesFromPreUpgradeOutput: Component 'upgrade_framework': Export disk req [0 MB], Export time estimate [0 mins] and Import time estimate [0 mins].

Error: Failed to discover a system name that is compatible with both your VMware vCenter Server certificate and your VMware Single Sign-On certificate that can be used to migrate to a VMware vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded Platform Services Controller.

2016-11-02 13:16:27.439Z| migration-assistant-4191364| I: ParsePreUpgradeOutput: Resolution: Regenerate your VMware vCenter Server SSL certificate and your VMware Single Sign-On SSL certificate to have a common system name that can be used to migrate your system to VMware vCenter Server Appliance with Platform Services Controller. DHCP IP Address cannot be used as a system name to migrate to a VMware vCenter Server Appliance.

So I have done my due diligence and replaced the certs on the vCenter (Embedded deployment with external/remote SQL DB) but I am still getting the same error. I can confirm the certificates have been regenerated and applied successfully. Also did a complete uninstall and re-install to no avail.

Thoughts?

Hi, all

I want to understand "Status: degraded".

But I can not see an explanation on CLI manual.

[FYI]

It state can see "esxcli storage core device list" command.

naa.60060480000290105757533030363837:
   Display Name: EMC Fibre Channel Disk (naa.60060480000290105757533030363837)
   Has Settable Display Name: true
   Size: 2
   Device Type: Direct-Access
   Multipath Plugin: NMP
   Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60060480000290105757533030363837
   Vendor: EMC    
   Model: SYMMETRIX      
   Revision: 5773
   SCSI Level: 4
   Is Pseudo: true
   Status: degraded <-----Here!!!!!
   Is RDM Capable: true
   Is Local: false
   Is Removable: false
   Is SSD: false
   Is Offline: false
   Is Perennially Reserved: false
   Thin Provisioning Status: unknown
   Attached Filters:
   VAAI Status: unknown
   Other UIDs: vml.0200fa00006006048000029010575753303036383753594d4d4554

Thanks

hi

Can someone pls explain where can I download or post a link of “Cold Clone” bootable ISO converter?

I have a license to Virtual Center 5.1 and the other VI stuff.

Hi!

I have a problem deleting some files of an already destroyed virtual machine. This is what I get when attempting to delete the folder:

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root@xxx yyy_zzz# rm -rf VM/

rm: cannot remove `VM//VM_2-flat.vmdk': Device or resource busy

rm: cannot remove `VM//VM-flat.vmdk': Device or resource busy

rm: cannot remove `VM//VM_1-flat.vmdk': Device or resource busy

rm: cannot remove `VM//VM-53afe79d.vswp': Device or resource busy

root@xxx yyy_zzz# cd VM/

root@xxx yyy_zzz# vmkfstools -U VM_1-flat.vmdk

Failed to delete virtual disk: Device or resource busy 1048585

#######################

The files are located on a LUN shared by seven ESX 3.02 Servers. What can I do to find out which process/system is locking those files? And how can I finally remove this folder?

Any help appreciated. Thanks!

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