Home > Blogs > VMware KB Digest > Monthly Archives: April 2011

Monthly Archives: April 2011

New Articles Published for week ending 4/23/11

VMware ESX
Installing and upgrading VMware Tools fails with the error: An error occurred while trying to access image file /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/linux.iso (1037405)
Date Published: 4/20/2011
Viewing performance data from vSphere Client fails with a HostCtl Exception (1037671)
Date Published: 4/21/2011
The Windows virtual machine with VMware Tools reports Event ID 105 in the Event Viewer tab (1037755)
Date Published: 4/18/2011
Powering on a virtual machine from a suspend state or reverting to a snapshot fails (1038218)
Date Published: 4/20/2011
Powering on the Linux virtual machine fails and displays GRUB _ in the screen (1032792)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Windows Performance Utility might contain incorrect minimum values for Limit in MHz or Memory Limit in MB data counters when they are set to Unlimited (1036102)
Date Published: 4/18/2011
Windows performance utility might contain Incorrect minimum Value for the Limit in MHz Data Counter (1036111)
Date Published: 4/18/2011
Windows Performance Utility does not show explanation texts for the VM processor and VM Memory counters (1036114)
Date Published: 4/18/2011

VMware ESXi
Scanning an ESXi 4.1 Update 1 host fails with error: The host returns esxupdate error codes: 10.. (1037190)
Date Published: 4/19/2011

VMware Fusion
Investigating Host Disk Errors in Mac OS (1037720)
Date Published: 4/18/2011
Installing VMware Tools fails with the error: Error 1935: An error occurred during the installation of assembly (1037872)
Date Published: 4/18/2011

VMware Service Manager
Unable to close incidents in VMware Service Manager (1037142)
Date Published: 4/20/2011

VMware ThinApp
When Avast Antivirus is running, applications captured by Thinapp do not run (1036913)
Date Published: 4/20/2011

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
P2V conversion of a Linux virtual machine fails with the error: mkdir: cannot create directory (1037350)
Date Published: 4/19/2011

VMware vCenter Lab Manager
When using IE 8, the datastore context view in Lab Manager appears blank (1033727)
Date Published: 4/19/2011

VMware vCenter Operations Standard
Username and password guidelines and restrictions in vCenter Operations Standard 1.0.x and vCenter Operations Enterprise 1.0.x VMware Adapter (1037850)
Date Published: 4/18/2011

VMware vCenter Server
Duplicate vSphere Client sessions appear in vCenter Server Sessions list (1031635)
Date Published: 4/21/2011
vCenter Server database operations take a long time to complete or fail intermittently (1031907)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Hardware status tab is blank when upgrading from vCenter Server 4.0 to 4.1 (1029916)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Performing vMotion between ESX/ESXi hosts fails with the error: VMotion is not licensed on this host (1030498)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Starting the VMware VirtualCenter Server Service fails with the error: Database version id ’410′ is incompatible with this release of VirtualCenter (1031719)
Date Published: 4/21/2011
SNMP alert is not sent when the disk usage status returns to Green (1038064)
Date Published: 4/20/2011

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
IP Customization of SUSE Linux virtual machines with vCenter Site Recovery Manager times out (1036310)
Date Published: 4/21/2011
Verifying connectivity between the primary and the recovery site in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (1036433)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Operating system compatibility for Storage Replication Adapter installation (1037429)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Verifying that VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager is installed and that the scripts\SAN sub-folder exists (1037431)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Storage Replication Adapter version compatibility (1037433)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Troubleshooting Storage Replication Adapter installation or upgrade failure (1037436)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Verifying ODBC connectivity to the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager database (1037438)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Verifying if the SRM vCenter Server account has been modified (1037439)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager service fails to start after an installation or upgrade (1037444)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Verifying the SRM vCenter Server extension registration (1037446)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager plug-in cannot connect to SRM or to the vCenter Server instance (1037448)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Ensuring that a protection group involved in a failover is valid (1037457)
Date Published: 4/21/2011
Configuring the array manager fails with the error: "Array script not found" or "XML document is empty" (1037458)
Date Published: 4/21/2011
Installing and upgrading VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager fails (1037583)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Troubleshooting pairing issues between primary and secondary sites in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (1037682)
Date Published: 4/19/2011
Virtual machines show a yellow triangle and cannot be protected with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (1037881)
Date Published: 4/18/2011
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager plug-in installation or upgrade fail to complete (1037447)
Date Published: 4/19/2011

VMware vCloud Connector
Copying a virtual machine template using the vCloud Connector plugin fails with the error: Error
in exporting <vmname> caused by <hostname deleted> (1037992)

Date Published: 4/20/2011

VMware View Manager
Installing View Connection server on Windows 2008 fails with the error: There was an error creating a MS Direct Service Instance (1038001)
Date Published: 4/21/2011

VMware VirtualCenter
Displaying the size of all tables on MS SQL server (1030182)
Date Published: 4/21/2011

VMware vSphere Management Assistant
Gathering ESX/ESXi or vCenter Server logs stored on a vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) appliance (1035911)
Date Published: 4/21/2011

VMware Workstation
Parallel Ports on a PCI card do not work (1037704)
Date Published: 4/18/2011

New Articles Published for week ending 4/16/11

VMware Data Recovery
Considerations while using CIFS Share as dedupe stores in VMware Data Recovery (1036622)
Date Published: 4/14/2011
Restarting the datarecovery service on a VMware Data Recovery appliance (1036768)
Date Published: 4/14/2011
Troubleshooting CIFS Shares issues for VMware Data Recovery (1037855)
Date Published: 4/14/2011
Troubleshooting VMDK and RDM dedupe datastore issues in VMware Data Recovery (1037920)
Date Published: 4/14/2011
Troubleshooting VMware Data Recovery connectivity (1037995)
Date Published: 4/15/2011
Troubleshooting VMware Data Recovery snapshot and VSS errors (1037997)
Date Published: 4/15/2011

VMware ESX
Powering off a virtual machine fails with the error: Performing disk cleanup, cannot power off (1037391)
Date Published: 4/11/2011
Inflating a virtual disk fails with the error: The disk is not thin-provisioned (1037619)
Date Published: 4/11/2011
During backup, snapshot creation fails if Windows 2008 has more than 30 virtual disks (1037754)
Date Published: 4/14/2011
How to install VMware Tools on a Windows Server 2008 Core virtual machine (1032639)
Date Published: 4/13/2011
Emplacement des fichiers journaux de l’ESX (1037341)
Date Published: 4/13/2011
Troubleshooting a failed vSphere/Virtual Infrastructure Client installation (1037551)
Date Published: 4/12/2011
Minimum system requirements for installing the vSphere/Virtual Infrastructure Client (1037552)
Date Published: 4/12/2011
Controlling the size and number of vmkernel logs in ESX hosts (1037645)
Date Published: 4/13/2011
Cloning a virtual machine in ESX 4.x fails with the error: Invalid configuration for device (1022106)
Date Published: 4/14/2011
Adding the ESX host to vCenter Server inventory fails and hostd reports the backtrace: Exception: Assert Failed: : "adapterServer != __null" (1022153)
Date Published: 4/14/2011

VMware ESXi
Remote query of NTP service on ESX/ESXi 4.0 (1036357)
Date Published: 4/11/2011
Checking your firmware and BIOS levels to ensure compatibility with ESX/ESXi (1037257)
Date Published: 4/13/2011
Microsoft Clustering on VMware vSphere: Guidelines for Supported Configurations (1037959)
Date Published: 4/15/2011

VMware Service Manager
Unable to create a SQL statement with HAVING clause in the VMware Service Manager Reporting wizard (1037539)
Date Published: 4/15/2011
When exporting a Service Manager report to Microsoft Excel, date fields in the spreadsheet do not have the Date data type (1037540)
Date Published: 4/11/2011
Cannot sort on a Count(*) field in the Reporting Wizard of VMware Service Manager. (1037811)
Date Published: 4/15/2011

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
P2V conversion using VMware Converter fails with the error: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible (1037507)
Date Published: 4/12/2011

VMware vCenter Operations Enterprise
Licensing VMware vCenter Operations Enterprise 1.0 (1034340)
Date Published: 4/13/2011
Changing debug logging settings in VMware vCenter Operations Enterprise 1.0 (1034978)
Date Published: 4/13/2011
Access requirements for the Oracle Enterprise Management Adapter in vCenter Operations Enterprise 1.0 (1037254)
Date Published: 4/13/2011

VMware vCenter Server
Performance charts show no data and vpxd log contains SQL execution failed messages (1032908)
Date Published: 4/11/2011
VMware VirtualCenter Server Service fails with the error: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint ‘PK_VPX_ALARM_REFRESH’. (1036902)
Date Published: 4/13/2011
A thin provisioned virtual machine copied using vCloud Connector 1.0.x with vCenter Server 4.0 becomes thick provisioned (1037711)
Date Published: 4/12/2011

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Unable to establish reciprocity between the primary and secondary site in vCenter Site Recover Manager (1037679)
Date Published: 4/14/2011

VMware vCenter Update Manager
The Edit Baseline option in vCenter Update Manager is greyed out (1030988)
Date Published: 4/14/2011
Minimum system requirements for installing vCenter Update Manager (1037494)
Date Published: 4/12/2011

VMware View Manager
Error messages from deletion scripts are not recorded in View Connection Server logs (1036748)
Date Published: 4/12/2011
View Connection Server instances should be patched with the Microsoft security update for MS10-068 (1036755)
Date Published: 4/12/2011
The VMware View 4.5 Admin Web interface shows duplicate entries for vCenter Server in the system health dashboard (1037506)
Date Published: 4/15/2011
Provisioning linked clones when using the French version of Windows 2008 64bit fails with the error: Selected parent VM is not accessible (1037379)
Date Published: 4/13/2011
Clients time out if the PCoIP Secure Gateway is enabled but has not been installed (1037116)
Date Published: 4/13/2011
View Agent fails to start after upgrading to View Agent 4.6 (1038014)
Date Published: 4/16/2011

VMware Workstation
Bridging to cellular/mobile broadband (EV-DO) cards fail (1037332)
Date Published: 4/14/2011

New Articles Published for week ending 4/9/11

VMware ESX
Mounting NFS datastore with Storage I/O Control enabled fails with the error: Can’t remove datastore (1037393)
Date Published: 4/7/2011
Copying a virtual machine between vSphere and vCloud environments (1037489)
Date Published: 4/8/2011
Changing the virtual machine monitor mode (1036775)
Date Published: 4/8/2011
Slow virtual machine storage when using HP Smart Array P410 with ESX 3.5 (1036961)
Date Published: 4/5/2011
Connecting virtual NICs to a vDS port group fails with the error: No free port is available in DVportgroup (1037531)
Date Published: 4/8/2011

VMware Fusion
Certifying hardware and software with VMware (1036525)
Date Published: 4/5/2011
Logging into the VMware Account Portal fails with the error: Authentication failed (1037104)
Date Published: 4/4/2011
Accessing VMware Private Beta Programs (1037387)
Date Published: 4/7/2011

VMware ThinApp
Troubleshooting Microsoft Office applications captured with VMware ThinApp (1037177)
Date Published: 4/5/2011
Troubleshooting virtual Internet Explorer issues (1037178)
Date Published: 4/6/2011
Cannot launch the ThinApp when a Sandbox resides in the network storage path (1037253)
Date Published: 4/8/2011

VMware vCenter Converter
The vCenter Converter 4.2 plugin installs, but the Import Machine wizard fails to start (1036967)
Date Published: 4/7/2011

VMware vCenter Operations Standard
Scalability limit for vCenter Operations Standard (1036806)
Date Published: 4/6/2011
vCenter Operations Standard freezes and stops collecting data (1037065)
Date Published: 4/6/2011

VMware vCenter Server
All actions on event based alarms are executed whenever one of the triggers fire (1029924)
Date Published: 4/8/2011

VMware vCloud Request Manager
VMware vCloud Request Manager auditing and logging (1033141)
Date Published: 4/4/2011

VMware View Manager
Installing the View Connection Server replica fails with the error: Error 28018 (1037179)
Date Published: 4/7/2011

New Articles Published for week ending 4/1/11

VMware Capacity Planner
The Capacity Planner 2.8 dashboard does not display the Logical Drive information (1036304)
Date Published: 3/29/2011

VMware ESX
Changes to columns displayed in the vSphere Client do not persist after restarting the client (1030614)
Date Published: 3/31/2011
Troubleshooting mode boots into the older version after upgrading and shows the error: Signature mismatch between vmkctl & VMkernel (1033276)
Date Published: 3/29/2011
Virtual machine fails to power on after migrating to ESX/ESXi 3.5 (1035794)
Date Published: 3/30/2011
Using the partedUtil command line utility on ESX and ESXi (1036609)
Date Published: 3/31/2011
Reloading a vmx file without removing the Virtual machine from inventory (1026043)
Date Published: 4/1/2011
Intel 82578DM Gigabit Ethernet device is not compatible with ESX/ESXi hosts (1035726)
Date Published: 3/31/2011

VMware ESXi
Installing ESXi fails with the error: Disk error 51, AX=4280, Drive 9F (1026588)
Date Published: 3/28/2011
Installing ESXi 4.1 fails with the error: Total number of sectors not a multiple of sectors per track! (1029670)
Date Published: 3/28/2011
Disabling hostd and vpxa output to /var/log/messages in ESXi (1030672)
Date Published: 3/30/2011
Installing or upgrading VMware Tools in ESXi 4.1 fails with the error: Call "VirtualMachine.MountToolsInstaller" for object "<vm name>" failed on vCenter Server "<vc name> (1036131)
Date Published: 3/28/2011
Unable to add permissions to an Active Directory user on an ESXi 4.1 host joined to an Active Directory domain (1036554)
Date Published: 3/29/2011
Identify a PCI device in ESX/ESXi 4.x and compare it with the VMware HCL list (1031534)
Date Published: 4/1/2011
Reverting to a previous version of ESXi after a failed upgrade (1033604)
Date Published: 3/30/2011
Refreshing port state information for a vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switch (1034326)
Date Published: 3/28/2011
Increasing the width of the device field in esxtop to show the complete NAA ID (1035989)
Date Published: 3/30/2011
Scanning ESX/ESXi hosts using Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker fails with the error: Connection Failed (1036848)
Date Published: 4/1/2011

VMware Service Manager
Last updated date is incorrect on a CI that was updated by a Update CMDB task in a request workflow (1035946)
Date Published: 3/29/2011
You are unable to make the Action Time field on a task screen as a required field (1036091)
Date Published: 3/28/2011
Cannot delete reports from the recycle bin in report designer (1036461)
Date Published: 3/28/2011
After upgrading to VMware Service Manager 9.x, the customized reports with Joins fail to run (1036737)
Date Published: 3/30/2011
When changing language of the system through the server console, you receive the error: Error Copying Titles (1036917)
Date Published: 4/1/2011

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Unable to discover vCenter properties from vCenter Configuration Manager running remote PowerShell command as a vCenter Configuration Manager job (1036281)
Date Published: 3/30/2011
Compliance rule does not save or execute in vCenter Configuration Manager (1036283)
Date Published: 3/29/2011

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
V2V conversion fails when using Paravirtual SCSI Controller (1036719)
Date Published: 3/31/2011
Enabling Logging in to Helper Virtual Machine During Conversion of Powered-On Linux Sources with Converter Standalone 4.3.x (1036746)
Date Published: 3/29/2011

VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Deploying a configuration in vCenter Lab Manager times out while gathering the requirements for virtual machines (1025673)
Date Published: 3/31/2011
When deploying Lab Manager Live Link, you see the error: Deploy time network fenced mode selection must be on either none or on all physical networks (1030722)
Date Published: 3/31/2011
Adding a physical network object in Lab Manager fails with the error: Physical network already exists (network name) Use unique name. (1032483)
Date Published: 4/1/2011
Lab Manager hosts disconnect from ESX but not from vCenter Server (1035418)
Date Published: 4/1/2011

VMware vCenter Operations Standard
Collecting diagnostic information for VMware vCenter Operations Standard (1036655)
Date Published: 3/29/2011

VMware vCenter Server
vpxd logs are not generated in the vCenter Server logs folder (1032606)
Date Published: 3/28/2011
vCenter Server reports an incorrect console memory for a host that was upgraded from ESX/ESXi 4.0 to 4.1 (1036750)
Date Published: 3/31/2011
Sysprep does not starting the customization for Windows 7 or 2008 virtual machine with error: A fatal error occurred while trying to Sysprep the machine (1026639)
Date Published: 3/28/2011
Setting user privileges to allow users to create virtual machines in vCenter Server 4.x (1027743)
Date Published: 3/30/2011
Migration options for a virtual machine are greyed out though vMotion is licensed (1029926)
Date Published: 3/29/2011
vSphere Client stops responding when trying to view custom performance charts (1030983)
Date Published: 3/30/2011
vCenter Server search, plug-ins, and performance charts do not work (1031849)
Date Published: 3/28/2011
Licensing vCenter Server 4.x fails with the error: Cannot complete the license assignment operation (1035951)
Date Published: 3/28/2011

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Running the vCenter Site Recovery Manager dns_update script fails with the error: \VMware\VMware was unexpected at this time." (1036097)
Date Published: 3/28/2011
Running the Site Recovery Manager dns_update script fails with the error: Can’t spawn c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe … Bad file descriptor (1036140)
Date Published: 3/29/2011
Using Windows remote server administration tools to run dns_update from the Site Recover Manager server (1036141)
Date Published: 3/29/2011

VMware vCloud Connector
Collecting diagnostic information for vCloud Connector 1.0.x (1036378)
Date Published: 3/29/2011

VMware vCloud Director
When customizing using vCloud Director, the RHEL guest operating system does not honor the DHCP_HOSTNAME entry (1034933)
Date Published: 3/29/2011
Accessing the vCloud Director user interface fails with the error: Cannot open connection – Too many open files (1036219)
Date Published: 3/28/2011

VMware View Manager
Single Sign On does not work over PCoIP when connecting to a Vista Desktop (1019466)
Date Published: 4/1/2011
Information on Disk Partition alignment on VMware View 4.5 desktops (1031462)
Date Published: 4/1/2011
Overview of VMware View USB redirection (1036200)
Date Published: 3/30/2011

VMware VirtualCenter
vCenter Server 4.x and VirtualCenter 2.5 show active paths in Stand By state (1032761)
Date Published: 3/29/2011

VMware vShield Endpoint
Preparing ESXi Embedded host with vShield Endpoint and Trend Micro Deep Security you receive error: DVFilter: 3516: DVFilter is not enabled due to missing license (1033252)
Date Published: 3/29/2011

VMware Workstation
Updated version of vmrun for VMware Workstation 6.5.x addresses security issue CVE-2011-1126 (1035509)
Date Published: 3/30/2011