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vCenter cannot start the Fault Tolerance Secondary VM

January 27, 2016, 5:54 pm
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I am running vSphere 5.1 on a cluster of 4, identical Cisco B200 M3 blade servers, each with the same number of cores (12) and amount of memory (160G).

 

I am attempting to enable Fault Tolerance for one of my virtual machines: a 1 vCPU, 4GB memory, Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine.

 

When I initially enable Fault Tolerance, all goes as planned. The secondary VM is created and powers up as expected on another blade (host) in the cluster.

 

When I test FT fail over, the secondary quickly assumes "primary" status and takes over processing. The "new" secondary, however, is in a powered-down state which does not provide a method or the menu options to power on. I would expect that the new secondary VM would be created in the powered on state, or quickly transition to the powered on state.

 

Also, if I've just enabled FT, and I attempt to "Test Restart Secondary", that operation fails. The secondary will shut down, but won't start back up. The following error messages are issued in vCenter:

 

vCenter cannot start the Fault Tolerance Secondary VM. Reason: Cannot complete login to secondary host

 

vSphere HA agent failed to start Fault Tolerance secondary VM. (filename.vmx) Reason: The operation is not allowed in the current state


The only way to get the secondary to power up is to disable FT on the primary, and then re-enable FT.

 

I don't understand how vCenter can "login to the secondary host" in order to create and power up the secondary VM when FT is first turned on, but can't login to restart the secondary VM.

 

I've scoured Google and haven't found anything helpful yet.

 

I restarted management services on all of the hosts, but that did not clear the problem.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thank you.

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vCenter unable to add host.

January 27, 2016, 1:26 pm
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***** Resolved... esxi 5.5 u3 is not compatible with vCenter 5.5 u2. should have checked the HCL. *****

 

 

Hi.

 

 

I have a vcenter with auto deploy. Version 5.5.

 

 

It is running fine with my "old" host.

I just plugged my new blade enclosure. The blade picks up the new image, boots, it pings. But when com.vmware.rbd tries to add it to the vcenter it fails with the error:

 

 

Add standalone host Cannot contact the specified host (esx.blabla). The host may not be available on the network, a network configurati-on problem may exist, or the manageme-nt services on this host may not be responding. com.vmware.rbd

 

 

I tried switching the host profile. same thing.

 

 

The host still ping, it answers on the 443 port, I can connect to it from my vsphere client.It is also on the same network as all my other esx hosts, so vCenter can ping and access this host.

 

 

Any ideas?

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Re: REST -> VCO

January 27, 2016, 6:33 pm
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Thanks for that Ilian!! Must of been that .rtf format from copy/pastes from my scratchpad ;-)

 

So, I'm further now getting:

 

  1. Status Code: 202 Accepted
  2. Content-Length: 0
  3. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 02:09:55 GMT
  4. Location: https://vcohost:8281/vco/api/workflows/3ed1d470-5e44-4082-a4fb-1c445de19d9c/executions/8a979f89528 0238b015285fe840300b1/
  5. Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

 

from RESTClient but on VCO is still erroring out with the following:

 

[2016-01-27 18:20:49.083] [I] TypeError: Cannot find function reconfigVM_Task in object notfound. (Dynamic Script Module name : changeVMRAM#2)

 

I google'd around for this exact error but not finding much yet...

 

Here's my real simple workflow that has one action task:

 

 

Is there something I'm missing here?

thanks..

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Re: App Volumes upgrade 2.9 to 2.10

January 27, 2016, 7:12 pm
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Re: Unexpected requirement for upgrading VCP5 to VCP6

January 27, 2016, 7:31 pm
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Hello, I have noticed the same thing. However if you select the option 'New VCP6-DCV with current VCP5-DCV certification' it will only list one exam as a requirement - either 2V0-621D or 2V0-621:

 

2016-01-28_03-26-21.png

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Re: Logs to remote syslog server

January 27, 2016, 7:36 pm
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I will try to answer to your questions:

 

1) I wasn't aware that there was a specific required format.  I just changed it, and get the same error.

 

Could you tell us more about your environment? All your ESXi hosts are connected to vCenter? Which version (vCenter and ESXi hosts)?  Which Edition of vSphere are you running in your environment? Did you implement host profiles?

 

2) I'm not sure what you mean by, "Does your user have the rights on the ESXi host?"  I can log in as an administrator.  If I couldn't, I'm not sure how I could modify parameters and attempt to (re)start services.  Am I missing something else you mean?

 

Which user did you use to change the settings of your host? root user? Did you try with another user which have the full privileges on your host?

 

3) I don't know what you mean by, "Check if the ESXi host vmkernet port have an access to the syslog server"

 

Sorry I was not clear! Could you check if your esxi host can reach the syslog server via the vmkernel IP which is the IP that is registered in vCenter, if you use it? Basically run a telnet from the CLI of the ESXi host to your syslog server on port 514 (if you use the default one)

 

4) The syslog server allows all inbound UDP traffic to port 514  Dozens of hosts use it successfully.  And that wouldn't explain the error I get.

 

OK. You're true!

 

5) I'm using rsyslog that ships with CentOS 6.  It's a standards-compliant syslog server used by millions.  And, again, this shouldn't explain the error I get on the ESXi host.

 

Could you check that you checked this option on the ESXi host: "Syslog.global.logDirUnique" as explained in this VMware KB: VMware KB: Configuring syslog on ESXi 5.x and 6.0

 

Regards,

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Are we just ignoring the potential death of workstation

January 27, 2016, 7:44 pm
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The entire workstation team is gone and they are moving things to China, without a knowledge transfer. I'm going to go with death of workstation or at the very best maintenance mode.


I love workstation and I loved the developers that worked for the UI team. This blows.

 

Are there similar alternatives except for server-based stuff like esx, hyper v (i know not server, but doesn't have a real console)?

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Re: A general system error occurred: Unable to get root certificates from VECS

January 28, 2016, 10:36 am
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We are still working with VMware, the weird thing is we also have a lab and it all works fine as it supposed to, must be something simple that the process is missing the root VMCA certs

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Re: vSphere Web Client integration plugin problems in Windows 8.1

January 28, 2016, 10:36 am
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Hi,

I am switching from W8.1 to W10

On w8.1 I use vSphereClient. Didn't try web client.

 

1. on W10 there is no go for the Client (Desktop install) - an error during installation pop up (didn't check if the fix is available)

 

2. would like to go with the web client.

I am accessing vCenter web page then hit Log in to vSphere Web Client and get: the page could not be displayed.

 

I tried what is suggested above : added the FQDN of vcenter to  Local Intranet and Trusted zones. Not helps.

People talking about PLUGIN... Please point me to the download link for the plugin.

 

vSphere in use - 5.1

 

Thanks.

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Re: How to list all VMs in a cluster along with number of snapshots and space consumed by the snapshot?

January 28, 2016, 10:42 am
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Thanks for the reply! I've attached what I'm getting for an output. What I'm looking to get is a report that shows the following:

 

VM name, Cluster, the number of snapshots, age in days of the snap shot and the storage consumed by the snapshot. My output is Cluster without data, VM name, size in Gb which is fine because the snap shot is small (lab testing) and the date created. From what I have gotten so far, I think I just need to figure out how to convert the Created property into a calculation but I don't think I can  and get data from the Cluster Property.

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disk latency

January 28, 2016, 10:43 am
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Hi i am new to vmware,

I can see error VM total disk latency for a VM.

What could be the possible reasons for this error to occur.

1. For example any activity like backup or antivirus scanning going on.

2. Database (for ex:SQL) running on the VM

3. Not having enough RAM for the VM can cause the OS inside the VM to page a lot, which will increase disk IOPS

4 If Vmware tools are not updated.

5 If VM has snapshots

 

Experts guide me.

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Re: Automate install of embedded host client fling, how?

January 28, 2016, 10:46 am
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ok, maybe I'm a n00b then

I thought the same thing you're saying, I am trying to access a VMFS datastore, so the parameter should reference that and not NAS.

However, my understanding of how to remedy that is where I'm lost.

I added

[VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.DatastoreManagement.VmfsDatastoreImpl]

to InstallHostClient.ps1 imported that as a module and tried it again, but got the same error now referenceing VMFS not being able to be processed;

install-HostClient : Cannot process argument transformation on parameter

'Datastore'. Cannot convert the "DATASTORE01" value of type "System.String" to

type

"VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.DatastoreManagement.VmfsDatastoreImpl".

At line:1 char:1

+ install-HostClient

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [install-HostClient], Parameter

   BindingArgumentTransformationException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentTransformationError,install-Hos

   tClient

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Re: Query about Adding RDM Luns for two virtual machines

January 28, 2016, 10:44 am
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Hi LucD

 

I am not working on any code right now but with little curious I need to know on below query and I posted on vmware esxi discussion but no answer so I moved here.,It could be helpful if I get answer here..

 

I am trying to add a Raw Lun as below is it correct way? Will it works as per cluster requirement(ex:windows cluster)

 

Added a Lun as RDM from Vcenter to one of the virtual machine node

&  inspite of adding that same lun as use existing to seconda vm I added same Lun as RDM to other virtual machine node by accessing Esxi Host through Viclient where that secondary vm resides.

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Re: Adding memory to host

January 28, 2016, 9:12 am
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npadmaninpadmaninpadmaninpadmaninpadmaninpadmani,

 

Thank you for taking the time to provide me with the details.  Yes, we have DRS turn on.


So in practice, If we don't shutdown any VM machines and put a host into maintenance mode, it will start to move all powered on VMs to other hosts?  But if I shutdown the VMs, DRS will not move the off machine to other hosts? 


Can you explain why HA is disabled. I read here on the monitoring part.  I guess HA will cause a lot of issues with resources not met, alerts.


http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2033543



I am in the middle of rebuilding my test VMware environment so I am asking here.




Thanks again.

 

TT

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Re: Future of Fusion after team layoff?

January 28, 2016, 10:53 am
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It does look interesting.  However for me the lack of USB support makes it useless (need to

connect Windows only devices like emulators, debug pods, USB based Oscopes, FPGA

programmers, etc.).  However, for those only interested in running the likes of Office,

Quicken, etc., it would be quite viable.

 

Fusion and that "other company" are the only ones that can reliably run my devices I need.

Really don't want to go back to "that other company" as there latests policies and direction

created a bad taste which prompted me to move to Fusion.

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Unable to clear out all unmapped VMs

January 28, 2016, 10:53 am
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We have always relied on the unmapped vms view to tell us when we have VMs that are not mapped by a rule. Since 3.4 we can't get all the VMs to map to a rule.   There are VMs that no matter what we do we can not get them to map, even with a VCenter, datacenter or VM DNS Name rule.   How do I get help or support on this? 

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vsphere client crashes after several hours of use. On restarting the vsphere client wont display the VM (ie black screen)

January 28, 2016, 10:53 am
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Hi Guys,

 

My vSphere client crashes at least once a day (error message attached)

On trying to restart the client, the console screen of my vm stays black. I can open a new console window and after clicking in that window the screen appears and I can work in that window.

 

On searching for the error, I haven't found anything useful. (certainly not esxi 6 related)

 

This is a new install on a Win 10 Pro Host and I'm running ESXI 6.

 

I've checked the log file and it appears to look for ini files on startup that it cant find.

It runs for several hours then I get the attached error message.

I've attached the log file in hopes it'll make sense.

 

Please let me know if I can provide any more info.

 

Thanks for your help

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Re: Is vRealize Operations Manager Appliance Version 6.0.2 open to the Grub2 Authentication Bypass 0-Day vulnerability, please?

January 28, 2016, 10:54 am
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The vuln impacts GRUB version 1.98 to 2.02. I'm not running vROps v6.0.2 anymore and can't look myself, but you should be able to check what GRUB version the v6.0.2 appliance is running (should be pretty quick to check) to see if the CVE is even applicable. Mind you, v6.0.2 is from mid 2015, and these are the types of things we patch as we do our updates to newer versions. The easiest way to stay on top of these things is to stay current with our product version, which also include OS-level updates.

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Re: Help!  Vertual machine will not open

January 28, 2016, 11:00 am
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The VM is update are running now!  Last step was to remove the locks

 

Remove lck dir.JPG

 

I would like to thank Ulli Hankeln for all his help... He is true a life save...  God bless you my friend.

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Re: A general system error occurred: Unable to get root certificates from VECS

January 28, 2016, 11:01 am
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Interesting, I finally managed to work around it...

 

First, some background...   This is what vpxd log looks like form e

 

2016-01-28T13:59:53.695-05:00 error vpxd[05400] [Originator@6876 sub=Main opID=cadf1119-5c98-45bd-89db-d4b6149faa04-738-ngc-28] [Vpxd::VecsUtil::GetCertsFromStore] Unable to enumerate trusted roots from VECS localhost. error: 87

2016-01-28T13:59:53.695-05:00 error vpxd[05400] [Originator@6876 sub=certManagerMo opID=cadf1119-5c98-45bd-89db-d4b6149faa04-738-ngc-28] CertManagerMo::SignCertificate Unable to get a root certificates from VECS xerxes.ad.heurekasoftware.com.

2016-01-28T13:59:53.700-05:00 error vpxd[05400] [Originator@6876 sub=hostInvtOps opID=cadf1119-5c98-45bd-89db-d4b6149faa04-738-ngc-28] [HostInvtOps::AddHostToContainer] Failed to add host as connected, cleaning up

2016-01-28T13:59:53.701-05:00 error vpxd[05400] [Originator@6876 sub=hostInvtOps opID=cadf1119-5c98-45bd-89db-d4b6149faa04-738-ngc-28] [HostInvtOps::AddStandaloneHost] Caught an exception while attempting to add standalone host: vmodl.fault.SystemError

2016-01-28T13:59:53.706-05:00 error vpxd[05496] [Originator@6876 sub=HttpConnectionPool-000001] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:000000000925a120, TCP:172.17.10.14:443>; cnx: (null), error: class Vmacore::Ssl::SSLVerifyException(SSL Exception: Verification parameters:

--> PeerThumbprint: 80:CE:73:2F:6D:EB:DD:F5:9C:03:FF:0E:21:8F:C8:E6:02:57:92:11

--> ExpectedThumbprint:

--> ExpectedPeerName: 172.17.10.14

--> The remote host certificate has these problems:

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--> * A certificate in the host's chain is based on an untrusted root.

-->

--> * Host name does not match the subject name(s) in certificate.)

2016-01-28T13:59:53.706-05:00 error vpxd[05400] [Originator@6876 sub=InvtHost opID=cadf1119-5c98-45bd-89db-d4b6149faa04-738-ngc-28] [VpxdInvtHost::HandlePreRemovalCleanup] Failed to reconnect to cleanup before host removal : class Vim::Fault::SSLVerifyFault::Exception(vim.fault.SSLVerifyFault)

2016-01-28T13:59:53.706-05:00 error vpxd[05400] [Originator@6876 sub=Iofilter opID=cadf1119-5c98-45bd-89db-d4b6149faa04-738-ngc-28] iofilter: IoFilterVasa::HandleHostRemove: host [vim.HostSystem:host-635,172.17.10.14] has NULL config

 

 

However, using the vecs-cli command I was able to enumerate certificates just fine.  After some playing around, I looked at my vCenter node in the web client -> manage -> active certificates, where I noticed that there was in fact a certificate created each time I tried to join a host to the cluster... interesting.  So, I SSH'd to the ESXi host in question.  vCenter apparently installed the new certificate just fine, but stopped short of restarting the management daemons on that host.  I restarted the management daemons (vpxa & hostd) from the command line on the host and re-added the host in the web UI.  Everything worked at that point.

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