Hello,

my last successful appliance backup was at the 22.06.2020, after updating from 7.0.0a to 7.0.0b no backup was started because the vmware-sps isn't running.

Even when i reboot the VCSA the service don't came up. In the sps.log i found this errors:

ERROR opId=W2 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.VmodlErrorStrings - ProviderLoader initialization is ongoing.

ERROR opId=W2 com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl - [queryProvider] Failed with exception.

ERROR opId=sps-Main-978725-506 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.kv.KvDefaultValueMarshaller - Unable to unmarshal stream to object.

ERROR opId=sps-Main-978725-506 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.kv.LocalKvReaderWriter - Failed to get values for the key prefix '' from the provider '[Name:providerInfoKvProvider Optimistic locking:]'.

ERROR opId=sps-Main-978725-506 com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl - Exception while loading providers!

This is going into the direction, but i can't access the sps web page, because the service isn't running: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78900?lang=en_US 

Has anyone a hint for resolving that issue?

Stefan

Hello, i need to repair component of the Vcenter 6.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Can i reinstall all the components with an existing installation ?

The DB is UP but some components are with problems ?

D:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\bin>service-control --status

Running:

VMWareAfdService VMWareCAMService VMWareCertificateService VMWareDirectoryService VMwareDNSService VMwareIdentityMgmtService VMwareSTS content-library rhttpproxy vPostgres vmon vmonapi vmsyslogcolle

tor vmware-autodeploy-waiter vmware-cis-config vmware-psc-client

Stopped:

EsxAgentManager VMwareComponentManager VServiceManager mbcs vapiEndpoint vimPBSM vmware-imagebuilder vmware-license vmware-network-coredump vmware-perfcharts vmwareServiceControlAgent vpxd vpxd-svcs

vsan-health vsphere-ui vspherewebclientsvc

D:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\bin>service-control --start vmware-license

Perform start operation. vmon_profile=None, svc_names=['vmware-license'], include_coreossvcs=False, include_leafossvcs=False

2020-07-17T09:36:47.850Z   Service cis-license state STOPPED

Error executing start on service cis-license. Details {

    "resolution": null,

    "detail": [

        {

            "args": [

                "cis-license"

            ],

            "id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",

            "localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'cis-license'",

            "translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"

        }

    ],

    "componentKey": null,

    "problemId": null

}

Service-control failed. Error {

    "resolution": null,

    "detail": [

        {

            "args": [

                "cis-license"

            ],

            "id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",

            "localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'cis-license'",

            "translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"

        }

    ],

    "componentKey": null,

    "problemId": null

}

Thank you.

Alessandro

Hello

Our customer has a vCenter server with the hostname 'vcenter'. I've upgraded to 6.7.0.42000 so that I can rename it, but the process (as outlined in Changing your vCenter Server's FQDN - VMware vSphere Blog)) produces the error:

"The SSO username does not have administrator privilege."

Obviously I've checked that administrator@vsphere.local is indeed an administrator and everything looks OK. I've tried to create another user, but this process only accepts administrator@vsphere.local.

Google draws a blank on that error.

Any ideas?

I'm looking for the best strategy for moving our vCenter Appliance to a new management subnet (subnet B), and that VCSA is currently on the same subnet as the hosts in the cluster (subnet A).  Our setup is below.

Environment (1 cluster):

3 ESXi 6.5 hosts on subnet A

1 VCSA 6.5 on subnet A

Management (subnet B) is firewalled/routed from subnet A

Questions:

How do I change the IP/Hostname of the VCSA to one in subnet B, and still manage the hosts in subnet A?  What ports are required for a firewall for the VCSA to manage them, and if I want to change the hosts to subnet B, will I need to remove them from the cluster, change their IPs/hostnames and then add them back?

Can't download VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2. Error message : We cannot complete your request at this time. We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

Hello guys, I have one OVH server with ESXI Vsphere 6.5U2 and I recently bought a new server on OVH and I installed same ESXI also there.

Now, there is a problem.

I need to migrate 1 VM from Server A to Server B.

The VM is a Centos 64 bit based.

I originally created it as a big thick disk (750GB, used only 206GB...).

Now, my new server has one 800GB SSD.

So the problem is that I have to shrink the source virtual disk to a value like 350G about.

I tried to use VmWare vCenter Converter Standalone, but when it creates the converter helper, it cannot communicate anymore with the VM to be copied (there is no assigned IP).

I get this error :

FAILED: Unable to obtain the IP address of the helper virtual machine.

I don't know how to do...

Do you have any suggestion, please?

Thanks

good afternoon,

If I give a host in vmware disconnect, the vm that are in that host, continue to work without problems correct?, and then give it a reconnect.

The host is in a cluster with HA enabled, and with the host error option to restart the vm.

What occurs to me is:

Disable HA.

Disconnect the Host and then reconnect again.

I listen to opinions.

Does anyone know if there is a way to view all Scheduled Tasks of all VMs from vCenter? Is there potentially a PowerCLI command that could be used to gather this information?

I got into this chicken egg scenario: My vCenter certificate was expired. I tried to regenerate the certs by following this VMware Knowledge Base

But the regeneration failed with error "lstool get failed: 1", looks like the Nimble storage plugin is causing the problem. According to this VMware Knowledge Base just remove the plugin, all should be good. But I cannot remove it from vCenter portal as its down due to certificate expiry!

Anyone know a way to remove the plug other than the MOB url suggested in this VMware Knowledge Base ?

I have created a new host upgrade baseline using Lenovo ESXi 6.7U3 custom image and now when I try to update the host I get error message - "Cannot copy files to host data.host. Check the management service status, network connectivity with vCenter and disk space on the host.".

I checked the vpxa logs on the host and update manager logs in vCenter and I see the following warning

2020-03-27T08:02:05.112Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx: Setting TCP timeouts: keepIdle 60 keepIntvl 6 keepCnt 8

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFileLocalizePath: Translated ./ssl/rui.crt -> ./ssl/rui.crt

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Open: Local filename = './ssl/rui.crt'

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFileGetOpsReal: using raw fns

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFileRawOpen: Opening file './ssl/rui.crt' access 1 action 0

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: start

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcReserveStreamMem: Allocated stream memory of size 262144

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFileRawRead: Got EOF, while 1428 left to read

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: about to send 1428 bytes from file

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFileRawRead: Got EOF, while 0 left to read

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: about to send 0 bytes from file

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: got eof

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: apparently file was succesfully sent

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcUnreserveStreamMem: Freed stream memory of size 262144

2020-03-27T08:02:05.231Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcSendFileInt: Waiting for file put to complete on peer

2020-03-27T08:02:05.234Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_DestroyHandle: returns

2020-03-27T08:02:05.234Z warning vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs] [NFC ERROR] NfcSendFile: Failed to get sidecar paths: NFC_SUCCESS (The operation completed successfully)

2020-03-27T08:02:05.262Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] Using proxy/session authentication, sessionId=52 84 63 da c2 d2 a3 45-7d b4 40 1f 27 e6 39 cf, useSSL=1

2020-03-27T08:02:05.901Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx: Setting TCP timeouts: keepIdle 60 keepIntvl 6 keepCnt 8

2020-03-27T08:02:06.027Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFileLocalizePath: Translated ./docroot/vci/vua/eesx6/vua.sh -> ./docroot/vci/vua/eesx6/vua.sh

2020-03-27T08:02:06.027Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Open: Local filename = './docroot/vci/vua/eesx6/vua.sh'

2020-03-27T08:02:06.027Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFileGetOpsReal: using raw fns

2020-03-27T08:02:06.027Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFileRawOpen: Opening file './docroot/vci/vua/eesx6/vua.sh' access 1 action 0

2020-03-27T08:02:06.027Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: start

2020-03-27T08:02:06.027Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcReserveStreamMem: Allocated stream memory of size 262144

2020-03-27T08:02:06.027Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: about to send 262144 bytes from file

2020-03-27T08:02:06.049Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: about to send 262144 bytes from file

2020-03-27T08:02:06.064Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: about to send 262144 bytes from file

2020-03-27T08:02:06.073Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: about to send 262144 bytes from file

2020-03-27T08:02:06.080Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: about to send 262144 bytes from file

2020-03-27T08:02:06.085Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: about to send 262144 bytes from file

2020-03-27T08:02:06.093Z info vmware-vum-server[100798] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [,0] [NFC DEBUG] NfcFile_Send: about to send 262144 bytes from file

The update process goes till 92% and then it fails with error - "Cannot copy files to host data.host. Check the management service status, network connectivity with vCenter and disk space on the host."

How to fix it?

I am using evaluation edition and am unable to add host (ESXi 6.0) in datacenter in VCenter using VMware web client 6.5. Getting below while while adding the host using IP:

"vCenter does not support hosts of this type (VMware vCenter Server 6.5.0)"

Host: ESXi 6.0

VCenter/VMware vsphere Webclient: 6.5

VMware webshere Webclient logs (C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\logs\vsphere-client\logs\vsphere_client_virgo.log) show following details on VCenter server:

[2017-07-02T11:13:59.899-07:00] [ERROR] -0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1-9090-exec-1 70000176 100002 200004 com.vmware.vsphere.client.host.impl.HostMutationProvider          Error when validating host connection com.vmware.vim.binding.vim.fault.NotSupportedHost: vCenter does not support hosts of this type (VMware vCenter Server 6.5.0).

Hi All,

I've spend more than two days on this already and I'm absolutely clueless by now. Was hoping someone here can help.

I have one vCenter in my home lab with one ESX. Bought a second ESX and I'm trying to add it to my vCenter without success.

I already deployed a new vCenter installed different versions of ESX no luck.

Right now I have a vCenter 7 and the ESXi host I'm trying to add is running 6.7.

When I try to add the host to the vCenter I see the folloing in the vmauthd.log of the ESX host:

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: Msg_SetLocaleEx: HostLocale=UTF-8 UserLocale=NULL

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: Could not expand environment variable HOME.

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: Could not expand environment variable HOME.

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/config": No such file or directory.

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "~/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "~/.vmware/preferences": No such file or directory.

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: lib/ssl: OpenSSL using FIPS_drbg for RAND

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: lib/ssl: protocol list tls1.2

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: lib/ssl: protocol list tls1.2 (openssl flags 0x17000000)

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: lib/ssl: cipher list ECDHE+AESGCM:RSA+AESGCM:ECDHE+AES:RSA+AES

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: lib/ssl: curves list prime256v1:secp384r1:secp521r1

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: Connect from remote socket (192.168.2.45:58542).

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: Connect from 192.168.2.45

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: recv() FAIL: 1.

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: VMAuthdSocketRead: read failed.  Closing socket for reading.

2020-07-20T13:59:17Z vmauthd[2102937]: Read failed.

ON the vCenter side I see those errors in the vpxd.log

2020-07-20T15:59:27.291+02:00 info vpxd[14503] [Originator@6876 sub=InvtHostCnx opID=kcuf2q8s-2242-auto-1qc-h5:70001655-75-StartHostSync-61f79812] Connect in progress; [vim.HostSystem:host-2021,esxi-nuc.flammi.home]

2020-07-20T15:59:27.299+02:00 error vpxd[13388] [Originator@6876 sub=TrustedInfrastructure.HostConfig] [VapiBaseClientwrapper] failed: Error:

-->    system_error

--> Messages:

-->    vapi.invalid.result.code

-->

2020-07-20T15:59:27.300+02:00 warning vpxd[13499] [Originator@6876 sub=TrustedInfrastructure.HostConfig opID=kcuf2q8s-2242-auto-1qc-h5:70001655-75] [AcquireJWToken] Host 'esxi-nuc.flammi.home' is missing trusted VAPI service. Exception: N4Vpxd7Langley29BadVapiConfigurationExceptionE(Error:

-->    system_error

--> Messages:

-->    vapi.invalid.result.code

--> )

-->

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot fellas!

Hi everyone

I am looking to find a way in vcenter 6.7 to alert us via email when a single datastore has:

While searching in alarm definition section , i found one "Datastore Disk usage alarm" but it is showing options with 75 % or any other percentage of memory left .

I am wandering if we can have any other option or alarm where i can define the threshold in terms of TB or GB space left ?

Thanks

i am trying to convert a old windows server to virtual machine.

but when i run the convsersion process, i encounter the following error

"Failed to connect to VMWare vCenter Convertor Standalone server at 10.XX.xx.xx on port 443.

Check your network connection and try again.

Hello,

I'm trying to do a p2v with vmconverter 6.2.0 from a Redhat 7.4 server. All goes well but at startup between the bios and grud I have the message:

error: can't find command ':'

I press the spacebar several times to get to the grub menu. Then the start of the vm is happening normally.

I'm using vCenter server 5.5.0 build 2183111

Where can this error come from?

Hi All,

I have a vCenter Server Appliance and it has syslog forwarded to a syslog server. The following log is being flooded to the server like for every 30 seconds.

cli: root Error in executing command: 8002: Can't serialize output: cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled

May I know which process is causing this to be logged and how to stop this log?

Edit the Firewall Settings of the vCenter Server Appliance
well, where has these gone my dear (removed) from VMware
it was there, it is configured, it works
but well, due switch from OpenVPN to Wireguard i need to add two new IPs

Hello,

i'm using VMware ESXi 6.7 and at every login i get the following message:

Sorry, the VM '10' was not found.

Anyone knows why this is happening and how to fix?

Thank you in advance!

Hello Team VMware,

today, I want to try the new vLCM in combination with HPe iLO Amplifier to firmware patching my ESXi hosts.

I successfully installed the HPe iLO Amplifier appliance and let it communicate with the vCenter.

I also uploaded the 3 latest HPe SPP firmware into the appliance but I can´t use it in the vCenter.

When I press "Add" for the Online Software Depot I get the following error:

Fetching of online depot URL failed. Depot URL not found in the SPP details.

Is somebody aware about that or got the HPe iLO Amplifier with VUM to fly?

vCenter 7: 16386335
ESXi 7: 16324942
Amplifier: 1.70

I really appreciate your help in advance.

Greetings

KKvss

Hello.

I'm facing a strange problem on my vCenter. The message "Failed to request health status from URI..." is shown as Health Message while configuring a vCenter node. Also, I can't see status and other information about most of the vCenter services as can be seen in the following image:

When I try to change anything in Manage tab, I get the following error message:

I have already followed the instructions in KB 2089949, without success.

Has anyone faced with this issue?

Thanks!

André