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Monthly Archives: December 2010

New articles published for week ending 12/18/2010

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for VMware
Error when attempting to update SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for VMware: No update repository configured (1031668)
Date Published: 12/15/2010

VMware Consolidated Backup
File level backups fail if a BCD store exists on the Windows 2003 virtual machine (1031734)
Date Published: 12/17/2010

VMware Data Recovery
VMware Data Recovery backups do not start on time (1019139)
Date Published: 12/14/2010

VMware ESX
What is the syntax for vmware-cmd createsnapshot? (738107)
Date Published: 12/16/2010
Poor disk write performance to VMFS filesystems (1001793)
Date Published: 12/15/2010
ESX 3.0 encounters an exception type 0 purple diagnostic screen (1004083)
Date Published: 12/15/2010
How to create a VMware Data Recovery backup on an external location (1014785)
Date Published: 12/14/2010
The vix-async-pipe process in an ESX 4.x host is using high CPU in the service console (1030894)
Date Published: 12/15/2010
Running the esxupgrade.sh script fails with the error: too many arguments given (1031254)
Date Published: 12/18/2010
VMware support for the StorMagic iSCSI Storage Virtual Appliance (SvSAN) (1031319)
Date Published: 12/13/2010
Poor performance and high disk latency with some storage configurations (1031773)
Date Published: 12/16/2010
VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1 host with Broadcom bnx2x driver version 1.60.50.v41.2 experiences intermittent loss of network connectivity on HP Blades with Virtual Connect (1031805)
Date Published: 12/17/2010
Datastore creation error: VmkfsLib_ScanAdapter: Failed to do a volume cache rescan Status: 0xbad003f (1008094)
Date Published: 12/16/2010
CPU shows up as Dormant on the Health Status tab (1023032)
Date Published: 12/15/2010
Using ESX installation media for access to virtual machine files (1030778)
Date Published: 12/15/2010
Quiesced snapshots fail for Windows 2008 R2 guests (1030943)
Date Published: 12/15/2010 
Shutting down a Windows 2000 guest fails when the screen saver is active (1031748)
Date Published: 12/17/2010

VMware ESXi
Using vicfg-cfgbackup to reset an ESXi host may result in an SSL read timeout error (1010937)
Date Published: 12/17/2010
SATA/AHCI and ATA/IDE controller support in ESX 4.0 (1013115)
Date Published: 12/13/2010
Virtual machine conversions on ESX/ESXi 4.0 hosts with Broadcom cards are unstable (1031587)
Date Published: 12/15/2010
vMotion fails with the error: problem detected at CPUID level 0×80000001 (1031744)
Date Published: 12/17/2010
Configuration commands added to the %post section of the installation script do not persist in ESXi 4.1 hosts after reboot (1031414)
Date Published: 12/16/2010

VMware ThinApp
Unable to license VMware Thinapp Starter Edition (1031255)
Date Published: 12/13/2010

VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager
VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager Windows Collector stops running (1031667)
Date Published: 12/13/2010

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Editing an imported filter fails with the error: Index out of Bounds (1029066)
Date Published: 12/15/2010

VMware vCenter Server
Cannot ping or RDP a Windows 7 virtual machine with Wake on LAN enabled (1030415)
Date Published: 12/15/2010
vCenter Service status reports the error: Unable to retrieve health data from https:///converter/health.xml (1031568)
Date Published: 12/17/2010
Defragmenting clusters for VMware High Availability (1031703)
Date Published: 12/13/2010
Installing or upgrading vCenter Server fails with the error: Error 25017 – Set up has detected that there is a system reboot (1015150)
Date Published: 12/17/2010
Email notification not sent after an alarm state returns to normal (1018607)
Date Published: 12/15/2010
VMware vCenter Converter fails at 98% with the error: unable to create (1030145)
Date Published: 12/16/2010
vMotion of a virtual machine fails with error: Insufficient capacity on each physical CPU (1031306)
Date Published: 12/17/2010
VirtualCenter Server service fails to start with the error: Diagnostic server root (<location>) does not exist! (1031720)
Date Published: 12/15/2010
Linking two vCenter Servers that are split from a single vCenter Server 4.x using a copy of the same database fails (1031846)
Date Published: 12/16/2010

VMware vCenter Update Manager
Replacing SSL certificates for VMware vCenter Update Manager (1023011)
Date Published: 12/17/2010

VMware vCloud Director
Changing the MTU size on a VLAN backed network pool fails with the error: Cannot set MTU on vNetwork Distributed Switch which is not enabled for Host Spanning (1031510)
Date Published: 12/17/2010
Powering on a virtual machine or starting a vApp in VMware vCloud Director fails with an Internal Server Error (1031617)
Date Published: 12/17/2010
Virtual machine fails to power on with the error: Code: 70556 (1031618)
Date Published: 12/17/2010

VMware View Manager
Recomposing and refreshing virtual machines fails after adding a new ESX host into a cluster (1018947)
Date Published: 12/16/2010
Dual monitors configured using PCoIP does not span both the monitors (1027899)
Date Published: 12/13/2010
The Event log on the View Connection Server contains the error: Problem processing HTTP connection (1020304) />Date Published: 12/16/2010
Troubleshooting Conflicting vCenter Unique IDs (1029897)
Date Published: 12/16/2010

VMware Virtual Desktop Manager
Removing cached user logins from View desktop sessions (1017992)
Date Published: 12/16/2010
Pool Creation fails with a No datastores found error (1021813)
Date Published: 12/13/2010

VMware vShield Manager
Error when viewing the vShield tab of an ESX host in vSphere Client: Operation for this portgroup is not supported (1031400)
Date Published: 12/13/2010

VMware vSphere CLI
About the -Start parameter in the Get-VIEvent cmdlet (1030958)
Date Published: 12/16/2010

VMware vSphere Web Services SDK
MAC address for a host in a Distributed Virtual Switch environment (1030957)
Date Published: 12/16/2010

New articles published for week ending 12/11/2010

VMware Alive Enterprise
VMware Alive Enterprise 7.x (1030180)
Date Published: 12/10/2010

VMware Capacity Planner
VMware Capacity Planner Assessment Report showing 0TB for Total Storage Required (1031250)
Date Published: 12/7/2010

VMware Consolidated Backup
When backing up large virtual machine disks using VMware Consolidated Backup monolithic (-M 1), the backup performance is slow (1012610)
Date Published: 12/10/2010

VMware Data Recovery
Downloading VMware Data Recovery (1029800)
Date Published: 12/9/2010

VMware ESX
Powering on the Windows virtual machine fails with the error: NTLDR is missing, press any key to restart (1002949)
Date Published: 12/7/2010
Setting up sysprep for use with VMware in Windows Server 2008 (1014791)
Date Published: 12/8/2010
The vCloud Director Web UI reports the error: ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number with name "" too small (1030054)
Date Published: 12/10/2010
Adding an existing virtual disk to a virtual machine fails with the error: An internal error occurred in the vSphere Client (1031166)
Date Published: 12/10/2010
Restarting the ntpd service fails with error: Failed to synchronize with time server (1005295)
Date Published: 12/7/2010
Unable to see the shared LUN presented from the EqualLogic iSCSI array (1016381)
Date Published: 12/9/2010
Unable to remove the network card associated with the iSCSI VMKernel (1019071)
Date Published: 12/9/2010
vmk0 management network MAC address is not updated when NIC card is replaced (1031111)
Date Published: 12/6/2010
Real-time configuration/parameter changes that can be made to the running QLogic FC HBA driver (1031199)
Date Published: 12/8/2010
Resource usage by health monitoring and third-party extensions in ESX (1011616)
Date Published: 12/6/2010
Virtual machine becomes unresponsive with the log error: Couldn’t allocate journal. Garbage collect on volume (1017802)
Date Published: 12/8/2010
Only one vCenter Server instance is visible in an environment configured using the vCenter Server Linked Mode feature (1031167)
Date Published: 12/6/2010
Configuring SAS Attached Fujitsu tape drives and tape libraries on ESX/ESXi 4.x (Partner Support) (1031497)
Date Published: 12/8/2010
Host profile compliance check fails with the error: NIC speed is not at least 1000 Mbps (1030879)
Date Published: 12/9/2010
Virtual machines configured with CPU limits running on ESX/ESXi 4.x hosts experience performance degradation (1030955)
Date Published: 12/6/2010
Users with read only permissions are unable to sort or search virtual machines in vSphere 4.1 (1031144)
Date Published: 12/6/2010
Frequent HBA link events on IBM Blade Center when Fabric speed is set to a value greater than 2Gb (1031279)
Date Published: 12/7/2010
Creating a virtual machine snapshot fails with the error: A general system error occured: Exceeded the maximum number of permitted snapshots (1031280)
Date Published: 12/9/2010

VMware ESXi
Hardware health status of a group shows blank or unknown status (1011619)
Date Published: 12/6/2010
Datastore missing after rebuilding the RAID disk/LUN (1020140)
Date Published: 12/8/2010
VMware ESXi 4.1 log message: WARNING: UserObj: 3053: Unimplemented operation on 0x41000d01a240/FILE (1031354)
Date Published: 12/10/2010
Configuring Coraid EtherDrive SAN appliances and deploying with ESX/ESXi 3.5 and 4.x (Partner Support) (1031322)
Date Published: 12/7/2010
Booting the ESX host fails with the error: initialization of module dvfilter failed (1031044)
Date Published: 12/7/2010
Enabling Windows 2008 application-consistent quiescing on ESX 4.1 (1028881)
Date Published: 12/8/2010
Adding or connecting an ESXi 4.1 host to vCenter Server fails with the error: Permission to perform this operation was denied (1030982)
Date Published: 12/7/2010
Capturing a network trace in ESXi 4.1 in Tech Support Mode (1031186)
Date Published: 12/6/2010

VMware Fusion
Graphics in PowerPoint 2010 do not display properly in a Windows virtual machine: black boxes (1031650)
Date Published: 12/10/2010
The Fusion installer’s Upgrade Now button allows you to purchase a new license code (1031639)
Date Published: 12/10/2010

VMware Service Manager
Fields deleted from the email template in Designer continue to appear at the bottom of the email (1031331)
Date Published: 12/6/2010
Monitors in dashboards are not refreshing automatically in VMware Service Manager (1031434)
Date Published: 12/8/2010
Person searches based on the Default IPK Group search criteria exclude officers with this group configured in the IPK role in VMware Service Manager 9.0 (1031438)
Date Published: 12/7/2010
Message ID: 621 when downloading a public evaluation of VMware products (1031472)
Date Published: 12/8/2010
Escalation recipients based on Assigned to Group are not receiving the escalation emails in VMware Service Manager 9.0 (1031600)
Date Published: 12/10/2010
Tasks are slow to complete in VMware Service Manager 8.0 (1031531)
Date Published: 12/9/2010
Action escalations on OLAs in VMware Service Manager 9.x are computed incorrectly (1029797)
Date Published: 12/6/2010
What action or event triggers email templates / message types 132 and 133? (1031359)
Date Published: 12/8/2010
When a scheduled report in VMware Service Manager 9.x is configured to email a group, the email does no
t contain the report attachment (1031428)

Date Published: 12/7/2010
The Request Type field is still selectable and editable after the field is set to Read Only via Designer. (1031435)
Date Published: 12/7/2010
Users are unable to take action on their own requests if they do not have Take Over rights in their Workflow Management role in VMware Service Manager 9.0 (1031602)
Date Published: 12/10/2010

VMware ThinApp
Troubleshooting problems with AppLink (1031629)
Date Published: 12/10/2010
VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Template Library might affect Lab Manager Web Consoles (1016788)
Date Published: 12/6/2010

VMware vCenter Server
Port 8085 in VMware vCenter Server (1030246)
Date Published: 12/8/2010
Defining alarms on datastore folders can cause vCenter Server 4.x to becomes unresponsive (1031225)
Date Published: 12/10/2010 
The storage service fails to initialize and the performance charts report an internal error (1030085)
Date Published: 12/7/2010
Cannot remove the license key from vCenter Server (1015268)
Date Published: 12/8/2010
Cannot take a quiesced snapshot of Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine running vCenter Server 4.1 (1031298)
Date Published: 12/9/2010
Searching for a specific user in the Active Directory of vCenter Server 4.1 does return expected results (1031328)
Date Published: 12/8/2010

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
When using EMC Clariion storage arrays, configuring array manager fails with the error: XML document empty (1019202)
Date Published: 12/9/2010
VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.0.x test failover fails with the error: Failed to prepare shadow vm for recovery when using Compellent iSCSI storage (1024029)
Date Published: 12/9/2010
Configuring array managers within Site Recovery Manager fails with the error: XML document is empty (1028364)
Date Published: 12/9/2010

VMware vCenter Update Manager
Determining which guest operating systems can be scanned and remediated with Update Manager 4.x (1030595)
Date Published: 12/9/2010

VMware vCloud Director
Accessing the Organization URL fails with the browser error: Error 404 not found (1031616)
Date Published: 12/10/2010

VMware Workstation
Microsoft Outlook stops responding in a virtual machine in Workstation after the host network connection changes (1031303)
Date Published: 12/6/2010
Troubleshooting an MSI error during a VMware Workstation installation (1031302)
Date Published: 12/7/2010

New articles published for week ending 12/4/2010

VMware Data Recovery
VMware Data Recovery reclaim job fails to run (1031220)
Date Published: 12/2/2010

VMware ESX
VMware ESX 4.1 Patch ESX410-201011402-SG: Updates vmware-esx-vmx and kernel (1029397)
Date Published: 11/30/2010
VMware ESX 4.1 Patch Release ESX410-201011001 (1029400)
Date Published: 11/30/2010
Virtual machine freezes during snapshot removal on the NFS datastore in a ESX/ESXi 4.1 host (1031106)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
IBM HX5 server fails to boot VMware ESX or ESXi 4.0 with the error: No usable memory below 4GB (1031213)
Date Published: 12/3/2010
Transaction Logs getting filled in VC DB after upgrading from 3.5 to vSphere (1017266)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Network file copy from a Windows 2008 virtual machine is slow (1030906)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
vmotion fails at 10% with the error: cannot start pre-copy (1018278)
Date Published: 12/3/2010
IPv6 configuration file is deleted after being edited manually in ESX 4.x (1031252)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
VMware ESX 4.1 Patch ESX410-201011401-BG: Updates vmware-esx-drivers-net-bnx2x (1029394)
Date Published: 11/30/2010
ESX/ESXi 4.1 Express Patch rollback instructions for the bnx2x driver (1031240)
Date Published: 12/1/2010

VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi 4.1 Patch ESXi410-201011401-BG: Updates Firmware (1029398)
Date Published: 11/30/2010
Windows 2003 logon screen appears black (1031061)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Failover fails when the LUN is configured on a SUN 6180 storage array (1024004)
Date Published: 12/1/2010
The ESX/ESXi 4.x host fails to detect the Intel Quad Port Server Adapter I340-T4 card (1030952)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Qlogic HBA logs drop frames (1031078)
Date Published: 11/30/2010
Disabling specific VSS writers with VMware Tools (1031200)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
VMware ESXi 4.1 Patch Release ESXi 410-201011001 (1029401)
Date Published: 11/30/2010

VMware Service Manager
VMware Service Manager appearance settings are incorrect (215058)
Date Published: 12/2/2010

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
CapacityIQ performance data is outdated or fails to appear in the interface (1020898)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
CapacityIQ stops collecting performance data or fails because of vCenter Server clock (1030946)
Date Published: 12/2/2010

VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Lab Manager Uses Username Attribute When Searching for LDAP Users (1031146)
Date Published: 11/29/2010
SOAP API Behavior in Lab Manager has Changed (1031149)
Date Published: 11/29/2010

VMware vCenter Server
Linking two vCenter Servers fails with the error: Error 28039.Setup cannot join vCenter Server to the linked mode group (1026087)
Date Published: 12/2/2010

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
When the SRM dns_update.cmd command is run with the skipmode parameter, the DNS records are added or removed in both testFailover and Failover operations (1031095)
Date Published: 12/1/2010

VMware vCenter Update Manager
Enabling verbose logging in VMware Update Manager (1031115)
Date Published: 12/1/2010

VMware vCloud Request Manager
Why is an IPK group's mailbox receiving an email when a Request is forwarded to a (different) Workflow group? (233001) Date Published: 12/2/2010
License keys for VMware vCloud Request Manager 1.0 (1030056)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Configuring the database for VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031060)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Configuring Active Directory for VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031066)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Active Directory synchronization with VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031086)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Configuring an incoming email server on VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031090)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
About VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031097)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Users and roles in VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031098)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Modifying existing workflow approval emails in VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031130)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Overview of VMware vCloud Request Manager log files (1031137)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Deploying Virtual Applications using VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031143)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Setting up license quantity and tracking licenses in VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031147)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Organization provisioning with VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031154)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
VMware vCloud Director synchronization with VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031089)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Installing VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031100)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
VMware vCloud Request Manager installation prerequisites (1031117)
Date Published: 12/2/2010
Modifying email content in VMware vCloud Request Manager (1031128)
Date Published: 12/2/2010

VMware vShield App
Upgrading from vShield 1.0 to vShield 1.0 Update 1 (1030683)
Date Published: 12/2/2010

VMware vSphere PowerCLI
How to find the version of PowerCLI (1031259)
Date Published: 12/2/2010