Dear All,

as the topic mentions: I can not open the performance overview tabs within the vSphere client and the vSphere Client can not download the plug-ins (e.g. the vCenter Service Status plug in). After searching the web for a while I can not find anything wrong in my configuration. The root cause seems seems to be that the tomcat does not listen on port 8443. What could be the reason for this?

C:\Users\Administrator>netstat -ano | findstr .8005

  TCP    127.0.0.1:8005         0.0.0.0:0              ABHÖREN         101160

C:\Users\Administrator>netstat -ano | findstr .8009

C:\Users\Administrator>netstat -ano | findstr .8080

  TCP    127.0.0.1:8080         0.0.0.0:0              ABHÖREN         101160

C:\Users\Administrator>netstat -ano | findstr .8443

  TCP    0.0.0.0:18443          0.0.0.0:0              ABHÖREN         4

  TCP    [::]:18443             [::]:0                 ABHÖREN         4

The process behind port 18443 does not work, because it returns a 404 for every URL on that port.

I'll attach the server.xml from my tomcat conf. I'm running vSphere 4.1.0 on a Windows 2008 R2 Server.

Thank you in advance!

I've been fighting with this issue for a while now and haven't been able to find a solution - even with checking the posts on this forum.

I am running VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0.32743 on a Windows 2008R2 physical server (not on a domain). Whenever I make a hardware change (ie, adding a SCSI card) the VirtualCenter Server service (and also the VirtualCenter Management Webservices service) refuses to start.

When I remove the SCSI card the issue still persists and the only way for me to resolve so far is to restore the server from backup - obviously not ideal and I need to connect tape drives to this server.

I get the standard event 1000 in event viewer also.

I have tried changing the service startup types so that SSO service comes up first (as suggested in one of the KB articles) but this has no effect.

The back end of the vpxd-xx.log file shows this:

 

2012-11-22T12:35:51.780Z [00564 info 'vpxdvpxdMoOptionManager'] [OptionManagerMo] Invoking callbacks for key log.level, pre commit

2012-11-22T12:35:51.780Z [00564 info 'vpxdvpxdMoOptionManager'] [OptionManagerMo] Invoking callbacks for key log.level, pre commit

2012-11-22T12:35:51.780Z [00564 info 'vpxdvpxdMoOptionManager'] [OptionManagerMo] No change to log.level

2012-11-22T12:35:51.780Z [00564 info 'vpxdvpxdMain'] [VpxdMain] Setting OpenSSL verify locations CAFile=C:\ProgramData\VMware\SSL\ca_certificates.crt CAPath=C:\ProgramData\VMware\SSL

2012-11-22T12:35:51.780Z [00564 info 'Default'] Creating SSL Contexts

2012-11-22T12:35:51.858Z [00564 info 'utilvpxdDbParallelLoader'] Num rows: 6, num CPUs: 4, threads: 1, step: 6

2012-11-22T12:35:51.921Z [00564 info 'Default'] [VpxdResourcePoolHostMirror::SetRoot] root moref vim.ResourcePool:resgroup-8 in mirror for host vim.HostSystem:host-10

2012-11-22T12:35:51.921Z [00564 info 'Default'] [VpxdResourcePoolHostMirror::SetRoot] root moref vim.ResourcePool:resgroup-8 in mirror for host vim.HostSystem:host-13

2012-11-22T12:35:51.921Z [00564 info 'Default'] [VpxdResourcePoolHostMirror::SetRoot] root moref vim.ResourcePool:resgroup-53 in mirror for host vim.HostSystem:host-54

2012-11-22T12:35:53.028Z [00564 warning 'VpxProfiler'] Vpxd::ServerApp::Init [VpxdInvtHost::Init2(gDB)] took 1108 ms

2012-11-22T12:35:53.059Z [00564 info 'vmdasVm'] [VmMo::SetDesiredDasProtectState] desired protection state for VM vm-241 'unprotected' -> 'protected'

2012-11-22T12:35:53.059Z [00564 info 'vmdasVm'] [VmMo::UpdateActualDasProtectStateLocked] actual protection state for VM vm-241 'n/a' -> 'protected'

2012-11-22T12:35:53.059Z [00564 info 'vmdasVm'] [VmMo::SetDesiredDasProtectState] desired protection state for VM vm-61 'unprotected' -> 'protected'

2012-11-22T12:35:53.059Z [00564 info 'vmdasVm'] [VmMo::UpdateActualDasProtectStateLocked] actual protection state for VM vm-61 'n/a' -> 'protected'

2012-11-22T12:35:53.059Z [00564 info 'vmdasVm'] [VmMo::SetDesiredDasProtectState] desired protection state for VM vm-59 'unprotected' -> 'protected'

2012-11-22T12:35:53.059Z [00564 info 'vmdasVm'] [VmMo::UpdateActualDasProtectStateLocked] actual protection state for VM vm-59 'n/a' -> 'protected'

2012-11-22T12:35:53.059Z [00564 info 'vmdasVm'] [VmMo::SetDesiredDasProtectState] desired protection state for VM vm-60 'unprotected' -> 'protected'

2012-11-22T12:35:53.059Z [00564 info 'vmdasVm'] [VmMo::UpdateActualDasProtectStateLocked] actual protection state for VM vm-60 'n/a' -> 'protected'

2012-11-22T12:35:53.059Z [00564 info 'vmdasVm'] [VmMo::SetDesiredDasProtectState] desired protection state for VM vm-57 'unprotected' -> 'protected'

2012-11-22T12:35:53.059Z [00564 info 'vmdasVm'] [VmMo::UpdateActualDasProtectStateLocked] actual protection state for VM vm-57 'n/a' -> 'protected'

2012-11-22T12:35:53.106Z [00564 info 'dbdbPortgroup'] [VpxdInvtDVPortGroup::PreLoadDvpgConfig] loaded [0] dvpg config objects

2012-11-22T12:35:53.106Z [00564 info 'authvpxdMoSessionManager'] [SSO][SessionManagerMo::Init] Admin URI set to: https://10.105.110.110:7444/sso-adminserver/sdk

2012-11-22T12:35:53.106Z [00564 info 'authvpxdMoSessionManager'] [SSO][SessionManagerMo::Init] Downloading STS Root certificates ...

2012-11-22T12:35:53.122Z [00496 info 'Default'] Thread attached

2012-11-22T12:35:53.153Z [00564 error 'vpxdvpxdMain'] [Vpxd::ServerApp::Init] Init failed: Unexpected exception

--> Backtrace:

--> backtrace[00] rip 000000018018977a

--> backtrace[01] rip 0000000180100c98

--> backtrace[02] rip 0000000180101fae

--> backtrace[03] rip 000000018008aeab

--> backtrace[04] rip 0000000000514971

--> backtrace[05] rip 00000000004b1298

--> backtrace[06] rip 00000000004b16c9

--> backtrace[07] rip 0000000000420fae

--> backtrace[08] rip 000000014040bfb8

--> backtrace[09] rip 000000013f300078

--> backtrace[10] rip 000000013f30016a

--> backtrace[11] rip 000000013f300279

--> backtrace[12] rip 000000013f300609

--> backtrace[13] rip 000000013f642903

--> backtrace[14] rip 000000013fdee4b9

--> backtrace[15] rip 000000013fde835c

--> backtrace[16] rip 0000000140008a3b

--> backtrace[17] rip 000007fefecda82d

--> backtrace[18] rip 000000007764652d

--> backtrace[19] rip 00000000779dc521

-->

2012-11-22T12:35:53.153Z [00564 warning 'VpxProfiler'] ServerApp::Init [TotalTime] took 4353 ms

2012-11-22T12:35:53.153Z [00564 error 'Default'] Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down...

2012-11-22T12:35:53.153Z [00564 info 'vpxdvpxdSupportManager'] Wrote uptime information

2012-11-22T12:36:00.813Z [03108 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-eac14804] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms

2012-11-22T12:36:12.825Z [03108 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-63f9e37] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms

2012-11-22T12:36:24.837Z [03108 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-b155aed1] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms

2012-11-22T12:36:36.849Z [03108 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-7a9c1975] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms

2012-11-22T12:36:48.861Z [03108 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-a2d6fb25] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms

2012-11-22T12:36:49.126Z [00564 info 'Default'] Forcing shutdown of VMware VirtualCenter now

 

Interestingly (and this is where I cannot find anything online relating to this) discover-is from C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\SSOServer\utils\logs shows:

 

2012-11-21 16:15:07,110 - DDNBGF5J,,,,Executing action: 'discover-is'

2012-11-21 16:15:07,111 - DDNBGF5J,,,,Discovering identity sources

2012-11-21 16:15:08,022 - DDNBGF5J,,,,ERROR: Could not access HTTP invoker remote service at [https://10.105.110.110:7444/ims/CommandServer]; nested exception is org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException: Did not receive successful HTTP response: status code = 404, status message = [Not Found]

org.springframework.remoting.RemoteAccessException: Could not access HTTP invoker remote service at [https://10.105.110.110:7444/ims/CommandServer]; nested exception is org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException: Did not receive successful HTTP response: status code = 404, status message = [Not Found]

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.convertHttpInvokerAccessException(HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.java:212)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.invoke(HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.java:145)

     at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)

     at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)

     at $Proxy0.executeCommand(Unknown Source)

     at com.rsa.command.CacheableHttpInvokerTarget.executeCommand(HttpInvokerCommandTarget.java:261)

     at com.rsa.command.DelegatingCommandTarget.executeCommand(DelegatingCommandTarget.java:66)

     at com.rsa.command.TargetableCommand.execute(TargetableCommand.java:270)

     at com.rsa.authn.LoginCommand.execute(LoginCommand.java:612)

     at com.rsa.authn.AuthenticatedTargetImpl.login(AuthenticatedTargetImpl.java:161)

     at com.rsa.command.ConnectionFactory$ConnectionImpl.connect(ConnectionFactory.java:754)

     at com.rsa.command.ConnectionFactory.connect(ConnectionFactory.java:542)

     at com.rsa.riat.tools.internal.Utils.login(Utils.java:1050)

     at com.rsa.riat.tools.is.DiscoverIdentitySources.execute(DiscoverIdentitySources.java:81)

     at com.rsa.riat.tools.ConfigureRIATCmd.execute(ConfigureRIATCmd.java:192)

     at com.rsa.riat.tools.ConfigureRIATCmd.main(ConfigureRIATCmd.java:517)

Caused by: org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException: Did not receive successful HTTP response: status code = 404, status message = [Not Found]

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.CommonsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.validateResponse(CommonsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.java:214)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.CommonsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.doExecuteRequest(CommonsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.java:131)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.AbstractHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.executeRequest(AbstractHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.java:136)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.executeRequest(HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.java:192)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.executeRequest(HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.java:174)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.invoke(HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.java:142)

     ... 14 more

2012-11-21 17:20:55,979 - DDNBGF5J,,,,Executing action: 'discover-is'

2012-11-21 17:20:55,979 - DDNBGF5J,,,,Discovering identity sources

2012-11-21 17:20:56,884 - DDNBGF5J,,,,ERROR: Could not access HTTP invoker remote service at [https://10.105.110.110:7444/ims/CommandServer]; nested exception is org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException: Did not receive successful HTTP response: status code = 404, status message = [Not Found]

org.springframework.remoting.RemoteAccessException: Could not access HTTP invoker remote service at [https://10.105.110.110:7444/ims/CommandServer]; nested exception is org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException: Did not receive successful HTTP response: status code = 404, status message = [Not Found]

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.convertHttpInvokerAccessException(HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.java:212)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.invoke(HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.java:145)

     at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)

     at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)

     at $Proxy0.executeCommand(Unknown Source)

     at com.rsa.command.CacheableHttpInvokerTarget.executeCommand(HttpInvokerCommandTarget.java:261)

     at com.rsa.command.DelegatingCommandTarget.executeCommand(DelegatingCommandTarget.java:66)

     at com.rsa.command.TargetableCommand.execute(TargetableCommand.java:270)

     at com.rsa.authn.LoginCommand.execute(LoginCommand.java:612)

     at com.rsa.authn.AuthenticatedTargetImpl.login(AuthenticatedTargetImpl.java:161)

     at com.rsa.command.ConnectionFactory$ConnectionImpl.connect(ConnectionFactory.java:754)

     at com.rsa.command.ConnectionFactory.connect(ConnectionFactory.java:542)

     at com.rsa.riat.tools.internal.Utils.login(Utils.java:1050)

     at com.rsa.riat.tools.is.DiscoverIdentitySources.execute(DiscoverIdentitySources.java:81)

     at com.rsa.riat.tools.ConfigureRIATCmd.execute(ConfigureRIATCmd.java:192)

     at com.rsa.riat.tools.ConfigureRIATCmd.main(ConfigureRIATCmd.java:517)

Caused by: org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException: Did not receive successful HTTP response: status code = 404, status message = [Not Found]

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.CommonsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.validateResponse(CommonsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.java:214)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.CommonsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.doExecuteRequest(CommonsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.java:131)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.AbstractHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.executeRequest(AbstractHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.java:136)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.executeRequest(HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.java:192)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.executeRequest(HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.java:174)

     at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.invoke(HttpInvokerClientInterceptor.java:142)

     ... 14 more

 

If I try to go to that commandserver url in the log above in a browser, it also get a 404:

The only thing similar I can find online is here:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2036170

Very similar exception error but nothing similar in my discover-is.log file.

From that kb link above I have run the following command:

C:\Program  Files\VMware\Infrastructure\SSOServer\utils>ssocli.cmd configure-riat  -a discover-is -u admin -p <masterPassword>

And I get the following output which confirms the discover-is log:

Netstat shows that port 7444 is opened by Java and nothing else. The other potential problem port (443) is not in use by anything else that it shouldnt be.

I suspect this may be the cause of the problem but I have no idea where to go next. Any suggestions would be greatly appreiciated.

Many thanks,

Matt

Hello,

i'm running the VCSA since a couple of months and tried to update it to 5.0 Update 1a (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2031331). After 14 hours the Update was running, middle in database-upgrade, nothing happened anymore, that's why i've rebooted the Vcenter appliance. It never came up again

Well, then i've made a restore through Veeam and finally the Vcenter appliance is running again, with the old 5.0.03324 Build 472350.

Now i would to try to Update the Appliance to 5.0.0.5239 Build 759855 again, but the Update failed before it really starts

What can i do?

Error: Failed to install updates (Error while running installation tests and post-install scripts

Version - 5.0.0.3324 Build 472350
Description - VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Update to version 5.0.0
08/08/2012 05:48:35 18860 main:UA_CLI.cpp:187 (updatecli) [INFO] Starting Install
08/08/2012 05:48:35 18860 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Starting Install
08/08/2012 05:48:35 18860 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Running pre-install scripts
08/08/2012 05:48:35 18860 executeFile:UA_CLI.cpp:86 (updatecli) [INFO] Running /opt/vmware/var/lib/vami/update/data/job/38/pre_install '5.0.0.3324' '5.0.0.5239'
Installing update from version 5.0.0.3324 to version 5.0.0.5239
Stopping VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service...
Stopped VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service.
Stopping VMware Inventory Service...
Stopped VMware Inventory Service.
Stopping tomcat: success
Stopping vmware-vpxd: success
Shutting down ldap-server..done
VMware vSphere Client is not running.
08/08/2012 05:48:50 18860 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Done pre-install scripts
08/08/2012 05:48:50 18860 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Running installation tests
08/08/2012 05:48:50 18860 executeFile:UA_CLI.cpp:86 (updatecli) [INFO] Running /opt/vmware/var/lib/vami/update/data/job/38/test_command
warning: /opt/vmware/var/lib/vami/update/data/package-pool/package-pool/vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.2-292861.sles11sp1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 signature: NOKEY, key ID 66fd4949
Preparing packages for installation...
        file /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default from install of vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.2-292861.sles11sp1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package open-vm-tools-2008.09.03-5.45.x86_64
        file /etc/vmware-tools/poweron-vm-default from install of vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.2-292861.sles11sp1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package open-vm-tools-2008.09.03-5.45.x86_64
        file /etc/vmware-tools/resume-vm-default from install of vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.2-292861.sles11sp1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package open-vm-tools-2008.09.03-5.45.x86_64
        file /etc/vmware-tools/suspend-vm-default from install of vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.2-292861.sles11sp1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package open-vm-tools-2008.09.03-5.45.x86_64
        file /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf from install of vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.2-292861.sles11sp1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package open-vm-tools-2008.09.03-5.45.x86_64
        file /sbin/mount.vmhgfs from install of vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.2-292861.sles11sp1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package open-vm-tools-2008.09.03-5.45.x86_64
        file /usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient from install of vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.2-292861.sles11sp1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package open-vm-tools-2008.09.03-5.45.x86_64
        file /usr/bin/vmware-xferlogs from install of vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.2-292861.sles11sp1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package open-vm-tools-2008.09.03-5.45.x86_64
08/08/2012 05:48:55 18860 executeFile:UA_CLI.cpp:92 (updatecli) [ERROR] Failed with exit code 65024
08/08/2012 05:48:55 18860 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Running post-install scripts
08/08/2012 05:48:55 18860 executeFile:UA_CLI.cpp:86 (updatecli) [INFO] Running /opt/vmware/var/lib/vami/update/data/job/38/post_install '5.0.0.3324' '5.0.0.5239' 2
Failed with status of 2 while installing version 5.0.0.5239
VM version is still 5.0.0.3324
08/08/2012 05:48:55 18860 executeFile:UA_CLI.cpp:92 (updatecli) [ERROR] Failed with exit code 256
08/08/2012 05:48:55 18860 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Running VMware tools reconfiguration
08/08/2012 05:48:55 18860 executeFile:UA_CLI.cpp:86 (updatecli) [INFO] Running /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_reconfigure_tools
Configuring VAMI VMware tools service wrapper.
vmware-toolbox-cmd is /usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd
08/08/2012 05:48:55 18860 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Done VMware tools reconfiguration
08/08/2012 05:48:55 18860 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Error while running installation tests and post-install scripts
08/08/2012 05:48:55 18860 main:UA_CLI.cpp:223 (updatecli) [ERROR] Failure: updatecli exiting abnormally
08/08/2012 05:48:55 18860 main:UA_CLI.cpp:225 (updatecli) [INFO] Install Finished
Version - 5.0.0.3324 Build 472350
Description - VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Update to version 5.0.0

     Just upgraded from ver4.1 to 5.5 on vCenter and ESXi.   I'm trying to learn the new WebConsole and while I am able to make my way around most of the new Console, it is a bit of a pain.   Is there any documentation or Books that I could that focuses on the new Web Console so that I can use it as a reference rather than clicking around endlessly to find where the features I want are now in the Web Console?  For example, I can see all the virtual machine but I would like to also see what datastores each is listed in but it's not available in the view of Virtual Machines.  So, where is it?

Am I crazy or is it documented somewhere that applying an appropriately sized license to a cluster in eval mode can be done non-disruptively? Can't find that statement in Server and Host Management or Installation and Setup.

Hi Friends,

I have downloaded VMware vSphere 5.5. Last two days I was trying to install vCenter 5.5 but could able to do. Let me explain thoroughly.

Domain Controller - dc.company.pri (192.168.0.100) Windows 2008 r2

Member of the domain - vc.dc.company.pri (192.168.0.201) Windows 2008 r2  --> Here I am trying to install vCenter

I am using VMware Work-Station 10 evolution version. In my laptop I have got i5 with 16 GB RAM. Everything went smooth till "Select inventory size that best describes your devolopment" but in SSO registration I am struggling.

SSO administrator user name : administrator@vsphere.local

SSO administrator Password - Passw0rd

Lookup Service URL - https://<SSO Machine FQDN Or IP>:7444/lookupservice/sdk

Now if I press next button then I am getting following errors

"SSO registration failed. To remedy this:

- Verify that the certificate file specified in vcsso.properties is valied.

- Varify that the clock in the Single Sign In system and the vCenter Server system are in sync.

- Check the vm_ssoreglog in the system temporary folder for more details on the error.

Search the VMware knowledge base (http://kb.vmware.com) for "Error 29113" for more information"

I have no clue what should I do. Kindly help me regarding this issue.

Thanks a lot in advance !

Regards

Abhimanyu

vSPhere ESXi 4.1 U1

While trying to migrate suspended VMs to a new datastore, I very frequently receive the following error:

"An error occurred while communicating with the remote host"

Sometimes it does this 10 minutes in and sometimes it does it after 1+ hours.  The remote host keeps chugging along and there are no service interruptions that I can find.  How do I debug this?  I've searched these forums and the Internet in general without finding much to help myself fix this.  I'm currently running on a single-server RAID5 SAN with no failover and am trying ot migrate all my VMs to a dual-node HA RAID10 SAN.  SO far things are going great but the larger VMs keep dying during transit.  I don't have vMotion so I manually suspend the VM and then migrate it.

Any help would be appreciated.  I'm not sure if this is a vmware issue or a problem with my new SAN.

Dear all,

Hi I am working on Vsphere 5.5. My VMs are greyed out and are inaccessible, and my shared datastore is inactive, iscsi target server is up and working, all the paths and targets are visible, unable to find what's the problem. Kindly provide me a solution. Please find the attached screen shots.

I've been trying to publish the Web Client through our SSL VPN which has a nice workspace to publish web links.

Unfortunately, something in the vSphere web client breaks very badly if you do not connect directly to the application - it loads the background image but instead of displaying the login dialog it simply bombs out with an "Error #2032" message.

Anyone found a fix for this?

Hello,

we have been using vCenter server (5.0 and 5.1) on Windows Server 2003 for a long time. Now, with vCenter Server 5.5 there is a need for Windows Server 2008 64-bit and accompanying database requirements. We decided to test vCenter linux appliance, and get rid of Microsoft stuff. So far we've tried vCenter Server 5.1 and 5.5 appliance on 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 vSphere hypervisor with no luck. The problem is always the same: vpxd is interrupted because of segmentation fault, and this fault occurs in libvmomi.so. I've tried suggested network settings (correct IP, FQDN, and correct forward/backl resolving, etc.) and everything possible to be found on the internet.

The problem arises on fresh start, and running installation wizard:

Failed to execute '/usr/sbin/vpxd_servicecfg 'db' 'write' 'embedded' '' '' '' '' CENSORED':

/usr/sbin/vpxd_commonutils: line 910:  5898 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $VPXD "$@"

/usr/sbin/vpxd_commonutils: line 910:  5907 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $VPXD "$@"

/usr/sbin/vpxd_commonutils: line 910:  6276 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $VPXD "$@"

VC_DB_SCHEMA_VERSION=

VC_DB_SCHEMA_INITIALIZED=1

VC_CFG_RESULT=407(Error: Failed to initialize schema.)

This leads to segmentation fault, and in system log we can find:

vpxd[4422] general protection ip:7f3146a9d5df sp:7fff38f1bd88 error:0 in libvmomi.so

[7f31467b5000+41f000]

This clearly states problem in libvmomi.so, which is segfaulting somewhere. I did strace of vpxd:

futex(0x7f9247442f90, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0

brk(0)                                  = 0x7f925274f000

brk(0x7f9252770000)                     = 0x7f9252770000

futex(0x7f924e594018, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0

open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3

fstat(3, {st_dev=makedev(8, 3), st_ino=339728, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=2512, st_atime=2013/10/17-12:08:59, st_mtime=2013/03/18-21:30:01, st_ctime=2013/09/07-01:07:16}) = 0

mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f924e7ae000

read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2512

read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0

close(3)                                = 0

munmap(0x7f924e7ae000, 4096)            = 0

open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = 3

fstat(3, {st_dev=makedev(8, 3), st_ino=402782, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=176, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=512, st_size=256324, st_atime=2013/10/17-12:09:34, st_mtime=2013/03/18-21:30:39, st_ctime=2013/09/07-01:07:16}) = 0

mmap(NULL, 256324, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f924e5f5000

close(3)                                = 0

open("/usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3

fstat(3, {st_dev=makedev(8, 3), st_ino=402784, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=56, st_size=26050, st_atime=2013/10/17-12:08:59, st_mtime=2013/09/07-01:07:28, st_ctime=2013/09/07-01:07:28}) = 0

mmap(NULL, 26050, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x7f924e5ee000

close(3)                                = 0

futex(0x7f9246897f80, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0

mmap(NULL, 266240, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9244b83000

brk(0x7f9252793000)                     = 0x7f9252793000

brk(0x7f92527b4000)                     = 0x7f92527b4000

brk(0x7f92527d5000)                     = 0x7f92527d5000

brk(0x7f92527f6000)                     = 0x7f92527f6000

brk(0x7f9252817000)                     = 0x7f9252817000

brk(0x7f9252838000)                     = 0x7f9252838000

brk(0x7f9252859000)                     = 0x7f9252859000

brk(0x7f925287a000)                     = 0x7f925287a000

brk(0x7f925289c000)                     = 0x7f925289c000

brk(0x7f92528bd000)                     = 0x7f92528bd000

brk(0x7f92528de000)                     = 0x7f92528de000

brk(0x7f92528ff000)                     = 0x7f92528ff000

brk(0x7f9252920000)                     = 0x7f9252920000

brk(0x7f9252941000)                     = 0x7f9252941000

brk(0x7f9252962000)                     = 0x7f9252962000

brk(0x7f9252986000)                     = 0x7f9252986000

brk(0x7f92529a8000)                     = 0x7f92529a8000

brk(0x7f92529c9000)                     = 0x7f92529c9000

brk(0x7f92529ea000)                     = 0x7f92529ea000

brk(0x7f9252a0b000)                     = 0x7f9252a0b000

brk(0x7f9252a2c000)                     = 0x7f9252a2c000

brk(0x7f9252a4d000)                     = 0x7f9252a4d000

brk(0x7f9252a6e000)                     = 0x7f9252a6e000

brk(0x7f9252a8f000)                     = 0x7f9252a8f000

brk(0x7f9252ab0000)                     = 0x7f9252ab0000

brk(0x7f9252ad1000)                     = 0x7f9252ad1000

brk(0x7f9252af2000)                     = 0x7f9252af2000

brk(0x7f9252b13000)                     = 0x7f9252b13000

brk(0x7f9252b34000)                     = 0x7f9252b34000

brk(0x7f9252b55000)                     = 0x7f9252b55000

brk(0x7f9252b76000)                     = 0x7f9252b76000

brk(0x7f9252b97000)                     = 0x7f9252b97000

brk(0x7f9252bb8000)                     = 0x7f9252bb8000

brk(0x7f9252bd9000)                     = 0x7f9252bd9000

brk(0x7f9252bfa000)                     = 0x7f9252bfa000

brk(0x7f9252c1b000)                     = 0x7f9252c1b000

brk(0x7f9252c3c000)                     = 0x7f9252c3c000

brk(0x7f9252c5d000)                     = 0x7f9252c5d000

brk(0x7f9252c7e000)                     = 0x7f9252c7e000

brk(0x7f9252c9f000)                     = 0x7f9252c9f000

brk(0x7f9252cc0000)                     = 0x7f9252cc0000

brk(0x7f9252ce1000)                     = 0x7f9252ce1000

brk(0x7f9252d02000)                     = 0x7f9252d02000

--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---

+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++

And also did GDB and backtrace of vpxd:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

0x00007ffff27a25df in Vmomi::DynamicData::DynamicData() () from /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/libvmomi.so

(gdb) backtrace

#0  0x00007ffff27a25df in Vmomi::DynamicData::DynamicData() () from /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/libvmomi.so

#1  0x00007ffff5889e92 in Vim::HistoricalInterval::HistoricalInterval() () from /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/libtypes.so

#2  0x00005555574f2834 in ?? ()

#3  0x000055555833a3d6 in ?? ()

#4  0x00007ffff7dc95d8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/libtypes.so

#5  0x000055555833a320 in ?? ()

#6  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

(gdb)

So at the end, there is some problem in Vmomi::DynamicData::DynamicData() in libvmomi.so

Is there any resolution for this error in vCenter server appliance ? Any other operating system/appliance/anything runs on host machine for months without a problem. I did hardware checks of server hardware and tried everything I could to diagnose the problem. One thing never works on any host I have: vpxd, it segfaults on libvmomi.so

Thank you for any possible hint.

Best regards,

Pavel Komurka

I've just updated VCSA to 5.1.0.10000 Build 1065184. I had to uninstall VMware Tools first 'cause update failed with

"VMware Tools cannot install because it appears that another installation of

VMware Tools is already present. Please remove the previous installation and

then attempt to install this copy of VMware Tools again."

error in /opt/vmware/var/log/vami/updatecli.log (I had similar problem with previous update).

After update I can see in this log:

"22/05/2013 14:43:48 [INFO] Running /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_reconfigure_tools

VMware tools is not installed on this VM.

22/05/2013 14:43:48 [INFO] Update status: Done VMware tools reconfiguration"

Should I install VMware Tools via vSphere Web Client again? I supposed VMware Tools to be installed by VCSA update. I can see packages anyway:

vm-vcenter:~ # rpm -qa|grep -i vmware-tools

vmware-tools-vmmemctl-kmp-default-1.2.1.2_3.0.13_0.27-3

vmware-tools-vmxnet-kmp-default-2.0.14.0_3.0.13_0.27-3

vmware-tools-services-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-plugins-hgfsServer-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-plugins-vmbackup-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-vmci-common-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-vsock-kmp-default-9.3.3.0_3.0.13_0.27-3

vmware-tools-libraries-nox-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-vmmemctl-common-9.0.1-3

vmware-tools-core-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-plugins-autoUpgrade-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-plugins-guestInfo-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-plugins-powerOps-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-plugins-vix-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-esx-kmods-default-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-vmxnet-common-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-vmci-kmp-default-9.3.18.0_3.0.13_0.27-3

vmware-tools-guestlib-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-plugins-deployPkg-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-plugins-timeSync-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-esx-nox-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-vsock-common-9.0.5-1.sles11

vmware-tools-foundation-9.0.5-1.sles11

But I can't start daemon:

vm-vcenter:~ # /etc/init.d/vmware-tools-services start

   Starting VMware Tools guest operating system daemon:               failed

Have been searching for real world comparisons between AMD and Intel processors in a VMware environment.  I am currently running AMD opterons and have a chance to upgrade server hardware and I am considering Intel.   I assume Intel would perform better (and from what I have found this is true), but I am curious what everyone's own observations have been if you have run both AMD and Intel.

Any resources that show real world performance comparisons?  Which would you go with?

I've been testing template customization with a Win2k3 Enterprise 'gold' template.

Every time I deploy from this template, the newly created VM does not have its NIC set to connect at power on.

How do I fix this??

It does not seem to matter which kind of NIC -- flexible or enhanced vmxnet.

Having to reset the settings every time sort of ruins the whole idea of templates deployment.

VC 2.5 u4 and ESX 3.5 u3 -- VIC running on Vista...initial testing seemed to work, but today the NICs won't connect...

Thank you, Tom

Hi Team,

The VM is in Invalid state and if i try to power on the VM it's throw

"Failed to find a host for powering on the virtual machine.the following faults explain why the registered host is not available.

the operation not allowed in the current state"

Below step we tried,but still not working.

1.VM removed from the inventory

2.added to inventory [Different ESX ]

Thanks

Murali

I am a VMWare Newbe.

I installed VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.0b released. (followed the TinkerTry instructions Deploy VMware&amp;#39;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?

Hey all,

I just wanted to update a vCSA appliance. Unfortunately it hangs in the status "Checking for aivailable updates..." as has no internet access.

I changed the settings to CD-ROM  updates, mounted the update-repo iso and restarted the appliance, but no luck, it's still in the checking for updates mode.

Anyone has an idea how to stop this process? As the check and install update buttons are disabled during the update search.

Thanks

Tim

I deployed a whole new VCSA 5.5 to test its new feature. System joined AD successfully, and I can see and add users into data center using Web client. But if I want to login as AD user, Web Client always tells me "invalid credentials". Setting my AD domain as default domain does not work.

SSH into vcsa and examine SSO log in vmware-sts-idmd.log, it tells me:

2013-09-26 06:38:28,824 ERROR  [IdentityManager] Failed to authenticate principal [dhchen@example.com] for tenant [vsphere.local]

2013-09-26 06:38:28,825 ERROR  [ServerUtils] Exception 'com.vmware.identity.idm.IDMLoginException: Native platform error [code: 40067][LW_ERROR_STRING_CONV_FAILED][Failed to convert string format (wide/ansi)]'

com.vmware.identity.idm.IDMLoginException: Native platform error [code: 40067][LW_ERROR_STRING_CONV_FAILED][Failed to convert string format (wide/ansi)]

        at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdentityManager.authenticate(IdentityManager.java:2334)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Unknown Source)

        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(Unknown Source)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

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

2013-09-26 06:38:28,826 INFO   [IdentityManager] Authentication failed for user [dhchen@example.com] in tenant [vsphere.local] in [32] milliseconds

anothor log vmware-identity-sts.log says:

[2013-09-26 06:39:02,431 tomcat-http--39  DEBUG com.vmware.identity.sts.InvalidCredentialsException] About to censor authentication failure

com.vmware.identity.sts.InvalidCredentialsException: IDM rejected authentication by UPN

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.auth.impl.UNTAuthenticator.authenticate(UNTAuthenticator.java:72)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.auth.impl.CompositeAuthenticator.authenticate(CompositeAuthenticator.java:44)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.auth.impl.CompositeAuthenticatorPerformanceDecorator$1.call(CompositeAuthenticatorPerformanceDecorator.java:54)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.auth.impl.CompositeAuthenticatorPerformanceDecorator$1.call(CompositeAuthenticatorPerformanceDecorator.java:51)

        at com.vmware.identity.performanceSupport.PerformanceDecorator.exec(PerformanceDecorator.java:36)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.auth.impl.CompositeAuthenticatorPerformanceDecorator.authenticate(CompositeAuthenticatorPerformanceDecorator.java:51)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.impl.STSImpl.issue(STSImpl.java:126)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.impl.MultiTenantSTSImpl.issue(MultiTenantSTSImpl.java:50)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.impl.MultiTenantSTSImplPerformanceDecorator$2.call(MultiTenantSTSImplPerformanceDecorator.java:89)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.impl.MultiTenantSTSImplPerformanceDecorator$2.call(MultiTenantSTSImplPerformanceDecorator.java:86)

        at com.vmware.identity.performanceSupport.PerformanceDecorator.exec(PerformanceDecorator.java:36)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.impl.MultiTenantSTSImplPerformanceDecorator.issue(MultiTenantSTSImplPerformanceDecorator.java:86)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.ws.StsServiceImpl.issue(StsServiceImpl.java:148)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.api.server.InstanceResolver$1.invoke(InstanceResolver.java:250)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.server.InvokerTube$2.invoke(InvokerTube.java:150)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.server.sei.EndpointMethodHandler.invoke(EndpointMethodHandler.java:261)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.server.sei.SEIInvokerTube.processRequest(SEIInvokerTube.java:100)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Fiber.java:641)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Fiber.java:600)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Fiber.java:585)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Fiber.java:482)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.server.WSEndpointImpl$2.process(WSEndpointImpl.java:314)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter$HttpToolkit.handle(HttpAdapter.java:608)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.handle(HttpAdapter.java:259)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.ServletAdapter.invokeAsync(ServletAdapter.java:213)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletDelegate.doGet(WSServletDelegate.java:159)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletDelegate.doPost(WSServletDelegate.java:194)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet.doPost(WSServlet.java:80)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:641)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)

        at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)

        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99)

        at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:929)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)

        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)

        at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1002)

        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:585)

        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

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

Caused by: com.vmware.identity.sts.idm.InvalidCredentialsException: com.vmware.identity.idm.IDMLoginException: Native platform error [code: 40067][LW_ERROR_STRING_CONV_FAILED][Failed to convert string format (wide/ansi)]

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.idm.impl.AuthenticatorImpl.authenticate(AuthenticatorImpl.java:88)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.auth.impl.UNTAuthenticator.authenticate(UNTAuthenticator.java:64)

        ... 49 more

Caused by: com.vmware.identity.idm.IDMLoginException: Native platform error [code: 40067][LW_ERROR_STRING_CONV_FAILED][Failed to convert string format (wide/ansi)]

        at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.ServerUtils.getRemoteException(ServerUtils.java:97)

        at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdentityManager.authenticate(IdentityManager.java:2334)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Unknown Source)

        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(Unknown Source)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

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

        at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.exceptionReceivedFromServer(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(Unknown Source)

        at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at java.rmi.server.RemoteObjectInvocationHandler.invokeRemoteMethod(Unknown Source)

        at java.rmi.server.RemoteObjectInvocationHandler.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy97.authenticate(Unknown Source)

        at com.vmware.identity.idm.client.CasIdmClient.authenticate(CasIdmClient.java:913)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.idm.impl.AuthenticatorImpl.authenticate(AuthenticatorImpl.java:78)

        ... 50 more

[2013-09-26 06:39:02,433 tomcat-http--39  DEBUG com.vmware.identity.sts.ws.StsServiceImpl] com.vmware.identity.sts.InvalidCredentialsException: Invalid credentials

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.InvalidCredentialsException.buildPublic(InvalidCredentialsException.java:45)

        at com.vmware.identity.sts.ws.StsServiceImpl.issue(StsServiceImpl.java:152)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.api.server.InstanceResolver$1.invoke(InstanceResolver.java:250)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.server.InvokerTube$2.invoke(InvokerTube.java:150)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.server.sei.EndpointMethodHandler.invoke(EndpointMethodHandler.java:261)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.server.sei.SEIInvokerTube.processRequest(SEIInvokerTube.java:100)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Fiber.java:641)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Fiber.java:600)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Fiber.java:585)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Fiber.java:482)

        at com.sun.xml.ws.server.WSEndpointImpl$2.process(WSEndpointImpl.java:314)

Any Suggestions?

Does anyone know of a way to remove/delete old patches from the patch repository in Update Manager ?

I'm running all ESXi 4.1 and I want to remove all the old ESX 4.0 patches, and other os patches that we do not run to clean up the repository.

Any ideas ? maybe a utility or CLI that might do the trick ?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I've searched all over the internet and been working with VMware tech support, but I am unable to find a solution.  I am running vSphere 4.1 on Windows 2008 R2 and all is working well, except I am unable to import any physical machine into vCenter.  No matter if I use IP, host name, host:port, I always get the error "Unable to contact the specified host..." when trying to install the converter agent remotely.

If I use converter standalone or manually install the agent on the source, the conversion works fine.

Conversions worked fine in 3.5 but now on 4.1, it is broken.  I have verified that all the ports are open and I can connect to all shares on the source machine from my vCenter server.  UAC is off and the windows firewall is off.  Does anybody have any clues on what may be going on?

Thanks for any help you guys can offer.

Good Morning,

I utilise the VEEAM B&R tool to back-up my VMware enviroment, the back-up process nightly largely goes without issue but when backing up certain VM's on various differnet days (there is no pattern) the snapshot process locks at 99% and halts all network connectivity to that VM, i cant even console on to it.

The way i see it is :

1. VEEAM takes a snapshot of the VM.

2. VEEAM backs up the VM.

3. VEEMA removes the snapshot. (This is where it sits at 99% and looses network connectivity).

Now i understand that VEEAM is only an initiator and it only requests that vCenter takes a snapshot, I have spoken to VEEAM and provided them with VEEAM software logs and they can confirm that the issue isnt at their end.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, this issue is having an effect on downtime and i've tried pretty much everything i can think of.

Many Thanks,

San.