I'm looking for the way to delete srm protection group using wsdl, please help me to find it out. I'm using SoapUI to execute SRM wsdl and I have MOB id of protection group.

Let me know if any way to delete protection group using its MOB id in SRM 6.0.

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 everybody:

I have a doubt, I have an infrastructure composed by two nodes of ESXi 5.1 and one vCenter Server 5.1 mounted on Windows Server 2008 R2 (The windows was located on a physical server) and runinng on them, I have installed a VSA Cluster 5.1 that controls HA and VMs storage distribution. Now, I have an issue... A big issue!!! because the physical server that contains the Windows Server, the vCenter Server and the VSA access suffers a damage and I loss the HDD and it was unrecovered.

Which procedure can I use to install the new vCenter Server on Windows Server 2008 or 2012 without generate downtime to ESXi nodes and making part of the new one???

Thanks for your help...

My inventory service is not coming up correctly, I have 1 master SSO site, with 5 linked. This 6th vcenter I am adding keeps getting the below error. I have re-added the domain and re-set it to default as well.

2015-12-09 07:10:28,443 INFO   [IdentityManager] Identity Manager initialized successfully

2015-12-09 07:10:29,676 WARN   [ActiveDirectoryProvider] There may be a domain join status change since native AD is configured. ActiveDirectoryProvider can function properly only when machine is properly joined

2015-12-09 07:10:45,802 WARN   [ActiveDirectoryProvider] There may be a domain join status change since native AD is configured. ActiveDirectoryProvider can function properly only when machine is properly joined

2015-12-09 22:30:31,678 WARN   [ActiveDirectoryProvider] There may be a domain join status change since native AD is configured. ActiveDirectoryProvider can function properly only when machine is properly joined

2015-12-09 22:30:33,191 INFO   [IdentityManager] Identity Manager initialized successfully

2015-12-09 22:30:34,423 WARN   [ActiveDirectoryProvider] There may be a domain join status change since native AD is configured. ActiveDirectoryProvider can function properly only when machine is properly joined

2015-12-09 22:30:51,252 WARN   [ActiveDirectoryProvider] There may be a domain join status change since native AD is configured. ActiveDirectoryProvider can function properly only when machine is properly joined

Hello all,

We have a problem with one of our hosts in our enviroment.

De host is disconnected, the vm's are still running on it, but we cant reconnect the host to vcenter.

We can't connect to the host anymore with ssh and if we use the ALT + F1 function then no prompt appears.

So if we have read all the articles correctly the only thing left for us to do is disconnect the host from vcenter (if this is still even possible) en then re-register the vms on a different host.

Our concern with this step is what will happen with the vm's that are running on the host when we say: remove in vcenter.

Will the machines keep on running? and even though they are running on the removed host can we re-register them on a host that is still in the cluster ?.

Cause we thought this should be the procedure:

1. remove the host from vcenter

2. re-register the vm's on different host(s)

3. Turn of the machine that is running on the disconnected host

4. Turn on the machine re-regsitered on the cluster host(s)

Can anyone have a read through this and give us a little hope that this will have a good percentage of succeeding..?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

While trying to Create a New Deploy Rule i am getting the following Error.

i have the File inside the ImageProfile Folder on the C:\ Drive.

Long time lurker first time poster.

So we were running through some dry run upgrades of vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 (U1). I have the latest installer downloaded. Our install goes great up until the point of importing data from 5.x. I keep getting the error of:

Error attempting Restore Authz data

Please check InvSvc upgrade logs for details

So I submitted a VMware ticket, and they told me this is due to having custom role definitions in vCenter, which we have. They said there is currently no workaround for this but it is a known issue, and we need to remove all of our custom roles, and go again. I did this in our dev environment (where we essentially clone our existing vCenter infrastructure and test the ugprade), and it seemed to work fine. So I go to do prod today, and it's failing with the same error, even though we've removed all of our custom role definitions. I've reopened my ticket with VMware, but in the meantime has anyone else seen this at all? I can't find any mention of this online anywhere, can I be the first person to experience this issue?

The specific line I find in the logs is here:

2015-12-03T16:33:27.433Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import: Caught exception while adding permission java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: (vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument) {

2015-12-03T16:33:27.433Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    faultCause = null,

2015-12-03T16:33:27.433Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    faultMessage = null,

2015-12-03T16:33:27.434Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    invalidProperty = Invalid role Ids [33554635]

2015-12-03T16:33:27.434Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import: }

2015-12-03T16:33:27.434Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import: Restore Assignment failed java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: (vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument) {

2015-12-03T16:33:27.434Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    faultCause = null,

2015-12-03T16:33:27.434Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    faultMessage = null,

2015-12-03T16:33:27.436Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    invalidProperty = Invalid role Ids [33554635]

2015-12-03T16:33:27.436Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import: }

2015-12-03T16:33:27.436Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import: Restore Authz failed

2015-12-03T16:33:27.437Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: (vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument) {

2015-12-03T16:33:27.437Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    faultCause = null,

2015-12-03T16:33:27.437Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    faultMessage = null,

2015-12-03T16:33:27.437Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    invalidProperty = Invalid role Ids [33554635]

2015-12-03T16:33:27.437Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import: }

2015-12-03T16:33:27.438Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:     at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.impl.BlockingFuture.get(BlockingFuture.java:70)

2015-12-03T16:33:27.438Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:     at com.vmware.vim.dataservices.RestoreAuthz.processItem(RestoreAuthz.java:322)

2015-12-03T16:33:27.438Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:     at com.vmware.vim.dataservices.RestoreAuthz.restoreAssignment(RestoreAuthz.java:247)

2015-12-03T16:33:27.440Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:     at com.vmware.vim.dataservices.RestoreAuthz.main(RestoreAuthz.java:695)

2015-12-03T16:33:27.440Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import: Caused by: (vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument) {

2015-12-03T16:33:27.440Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    faultCause = null,

2015-12-03T16:33:27.440Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    faultMessage = null,

2015-12-03T16:33:27.440Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import:    invalidProperty = Invalid role Ids [33554635]

2015-12-03T16:33:27.441Z INFO upgrade.states.component_states is:Import: }

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Hi all,

I use vCenter Operations Manager(5.8.x) and vCloud Director 5.6.4.

So, I am looking for Management Pack for vCloud Director 2.6.

However https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/management-pack-for-vcloud-director/files/24585 site provide MP for Windows and Linux, except appliance vCenter Operation Manager.

I can not find *.pak file for appliance update of vCenter Operations Manager(5.8.x).

Where is *.pak file of MP for vCloud Director 2.6 or another solution??

When we try to create a new virtual machine we are running into this error A general system occurred : FileIO error: no space left: /etc/vmware/hostd/vminventory.xml.tmp

i checked and all the data stores have plenty of room

Hi,

In my current environment we have boot from SAN configuration and we have entire storage coming from remote SAN (Multipath configured). I have tired VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.0 to migrate physical SUSE 11 to Virtual Machine but got error "FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion:'Partition number must be set for the boot volume'" at 97%.

While checking logs we found both the Physical Machine cloned successfully and got error while reconfiguring the destination virtual machine. Further digging into problem we have observed /boot volume is not visible at ‘Source Volume’ TAB in vConverter that means vConverter is not reading /boot volume information from the source Physical Machine. While checking at destination virtual machine we found error at console "Operating System not found".

In VMware vCenter Converter Standalone User's Guide if found "Linux volumes mounted by Device Mapper multipath" is not support for Powered On Machine.

Please help me to understand if vCenter Converter Standalone supports boot from SAN environment?

Hello

i have a esx that had an vcenter installed on it .I remvived the vcnter and now if i login to esx i am getting message saying that the ip adress 10.****133 is running vcenter for this esx even thought that i removed the vcenter from ther .

How can ifix it?

Thx

Hello,

I want a question about: Restore Individual Files Within a Virtual Machine

I need restore file and folder from backup image. But now I cannot connect Vsphere data protection restore client, with error: login fail, cannot locate vm in vCenter. I add new account in VM but remain error

Pls, help me, how to troubleshoot this problem?

Thanks

We are running vcentre v6 and everytime we power on a VM we get the message

'VMware Remote MKS has stopped working' and the console stops working

We then have to log out and log back to get the console to work

Any ideas?

The other day all my hosts on a distributed switch decided to PSOD in response to a network issue.

I rebooted all the hosts and everything came back up but in hindsight, I would like a little more control over the process (my vc server was taken out by this problem)

My question is in regards to controlling HA in such a case. If I set my external psc to high priority, my vcenter to medium and everything else to low, how long do I have between each level before it tries to start the next level?

What if I set these important vms with a "should" affinity rule to try and keep them on one host and in the event of a similar outage, I reboot only this host so I can get my virtual center back before everything. Will HA try and move all vms from the other 3 hosts onto one host and power them on? (I don't use any admission rules.) Or will HA be smart enough not to try and power 3-4 hosts worth of VMs onto a single host?

Finally, assume I was using a "should" rule to keep my virtual center on host A. DRS decided it needed to move the vm to Host B and sometime later, both hosts PSOD. If I power back on Host A (thinking that's where my VC is), will HA register the virtual center vm on host A and power it on before everything else if the vc vm was set to high priority? (Do I need to set the option described here: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2015/03/05/vsphere-ha-respecting-vm-host-should-rules/)

Thanks

Hi everyone i am using vcenter server 5.5 , i have created Windows 7 x64 Virtual machine and i have handed over to the client.

The client wants to install another virtual machine with Windows 2008 R2 OS on it using  vmware workstation for some testing propose.

But he  tries to install OS he gets error 64 bit OS is not supported and VTX enabled error.

I went to BIOS of the windows 7 VM but i cud not find this option. experts guide me

Hi guys, it is the second time I post this question culd someone help me??

I have a centOS 6.7 host machine, inside this machine somebody else has installed an HyperV (gen 1) virtual machine. Now I want to make this virtual machine compatibile for the Virtualizer VMware Tools 8389.

Than I have downloaded the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client, Now if I click convert machine I can reach this VM by his IP only with the option powered-on machine. Anyway, at the second step the client ask me to chose a WMware Infrastructure server. I don't have a WMware server I just want an image (maybe an .vmx file I don't know..) of the virtual machine converted.

What I have to do?? Can I create a WMware server locally on my machine maybe with WMware Player??

Can someone describe me the step to convert this machine and what I need to do this??

Thank you a lot

Bye

Hi all,

I have recently put in charge of a vBlock and my manager wants SRM installed and configured, I'm fine with SRM, have installed and configured it on other sites.

What I was hoping someone could help me with is the storage back end stuff.

I know SRM needs to replicated from the protected site to the recovery site, so what I am unclear on how the LUNS should be setup initially, then journalled and added to an RP consistency group.

Has anyone done this on a VNX storage array, any help, guidance, suggestions would be massively appreciated.

Thanks

Hello.  We had our vcenter vm rendered unusable a week and a half ago.  VMware support wasn't able to resolve the issue at the time after hours of troubleshooting so I decided to stand up a new 2012 R2 vcenter vm and do a clean install of vcenter.  I pointed it at our current ms sql db and our existing external psc.  The first install failed with a long error which I saved via screenshot.   Then VMware support suggested I re-run the install.  I was able to then install vCenter successfully.  I used the same IP and fqdn.

Here is what we had to do after the re-install.

1.  Re-apply all host licenses

2.  Connect all hosts back to vcenter

3.  Repair ha on all clusters

4.  Use the psc tool to remove an old service id for the previous vcenter.  This was a suggestion of the VMware engineer.

After doing this, we could manage our hosts once again. But...  there are some issues now.

1.  We were using tags heavily and they are all there now, but not associated to anything.

2.  We can only see real-time stats and we have an error when clicking on the Overview tab.

We are thinking about doing a fresh re-install and building vCenter from scratch.  We have about 55 hosts so this will take some work but at least we'll know it's all good(hopefully) after.

I have had this issue as a sev 1 initially and now it has been demoted to sev 2 and the VMware engineer has not been able to figure anything out in a week.

I figured I would post on here to see if anyone has any experience with a situation like this or has any suggestions to fix either the stats issue or get my tag associations back.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

PS...  We have already tried truncating the vpx stats tables and re-creating the vpx views as recommended by VMware.  We also manually ran all of the rollup jobs in the sql mgmt. studio manually.  We are ok with losing historical stats as long as it is collecting them again.

Thanks,

Jamey

Hello,

Does anyone know how to leverage the AD Plugin 2.0 to address setting the switches "Cannot Change Password" and "Password Never Expires" for a AD user account?  I noticed the plugin has a method associated with the scriptable object for setChangePasswordAtNextLogon but not the two referenced above.  Can it be done through the setAttribute method?

Thanks in Advance,

Mike

Hi,

I am trying to invoke insert operation from vRO and it says insert doesn't match an operation. Same thing is working with general SOAP UI.

Please help to to resolve this issue.

Thanks !!