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Monthly Archives: July 2011

New Articles Published for Week Ending 7/23/11

VMware ESX
Installing ESX 4.1 Update 1 fails at the loading VMNIX state (1034614)
Date Published: 7/19/2011
A Linux virtual machine on vSphere 4.1 configured with clock=pit hangs at initrd/boot/initrd-2.6.16.60-0.21-smp (2003458)
Date Published: 7/18/2011
Understanding the ESX/ESXi log message: SCSILinuxAbortCommands (2000641)
Date Published: 7/18/2011
Guest OS unable to acquire IPv6 address during default installation on RHEL 5.6, CentOS 5.6, or OEL 5.6 (2001653)
Date Published: 7/21/2011
StorMagic iSCSI devices appear with zero size after reboot of an ESX server (2002883)
Date Published: 7/21/2011

VMware ESXi
Adding an NFS datstore to an ESX/ESXi host fails with the error: unable to complete sysinfo operation (2002957)
Date Published: 7/18/2011
vSphere ESX/ESXi 4.x stops during start up at the step: multiextent loaded successfully (2003424)
Date Published: 7/18/2011
Configuring the host-local swap directory for an ESX host fails with the error: Invalid path specified for host-local swap directory (2003536)
Date Published: 7/20/2011

VMware Fusion
Installing or uninstalling VMware Fusion fails with the error: The installation failed (2003451)
Date Published: 7/19/2011
Modifying the subnet range of the NAT network in a Fusion guest (2003463)
Date Published: 7/19/2011
VMware Fusion 3 support for Mac OS X Lion (10.7) (2003715)
Date Published: 7/21/2011

VMware Service Manager
VMware Service Manager knowledge base template default values (2003001)
Date Published: 7/20/2011

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Changing a UNIX Password (2003485)
Date Published: 7/18/2011

VMware vCenter Orchestrator
Uninstalling a plug-in from VMware vCenter Orchestrator (2003386)
Date Published: 7/21/2011

VMware vCenter Server
vCenter Server fails when a vCenter database is deployed in a virtual machine due to a quiesced snapshot operation (2003674)
Date Published: 7/21/2011
vCenter Service Status shows blank screen (1031470)
Date Published: 7/22/2011
Migrate objects from DBO schema to custom schema and add new roles instead of db_owner in MSDB and VCDB (1036331)
Date Published: 7/19/2011
Applied host profile is non-compliant due to non-existent NICs (2000144)
Date Published: 7/20/2011
Changing SQL server file sizes without access to the vCenter Server database properties (2000328)
Date Published: 7/18/2011
Performing an operation on a virtual machine in vCenter Server causes the VMware VirtualCenter Server service to fail (2003476)
Date Published: 7/18/2011
Reinstalling vCenter Server 4.x (2003493)
Date Published: 7/19/2011

VMware View Manager
Provisioning View desktop pool fails with the error: View Composer agent initialization state error (-65535) (2002096)
Date Published: 7/21/2011

New Articles Published for Week Ending 7/16/11

Apache Tomcat 7
Determining Tomcat/tcServer installation vulnerability to CVE-2011-2204 (2002171)

Date Published: 7/13/2011

Spring Framework
Instrumenting the Spring Pet Clinic example application (2001728)
Date Published: 7/13/2011

Spring Security
Downloading the Instrumented Spring Libraries (2001874)
Date Published: 7/13/2011
Performing an AJAX login with Spring Security (2002229)
Date Published: 7/13/2011

VMware ESX
VMware ESX 4.1 Patch ESX410-201010407-SG: Updates OpenLDAP and OpenLDAP-client (1027018)
Date Published: 7/14/2011
Dell PowerVault MD3600i/MD3620i/MD3600f/MD3620f storage arrays configured with VMware ESX/ESXi fail (1037925)
Date Published: 7/14/2011
The vpxa agent fails and sets host in a non-responding state when browsing the VMFS datastore with NFS share (2003217)
Date Published: 7/15/2011
Backup software shows error: Disk does not have a UUID (1033370)
Date Published: 7/14/2011
Virtual Machine Looses Connectivity After vMotion on Cisco Nexus 1000v DVS (1037931)
Date Published: 7/13/2011
Virtual machine fails when configuring Broadcom BCM57712 NIC (2001150)
Date Published: 7/13/2011

VMware ESXi
ESXi 4.1.x ramdisk mainsys use is at 100% (2001457)
Date Published: 7/13/2011
The vifp command fails while adding ESXi server to vMA (2003313)
Date Published: 7/15/2011 
An incorrect block size is shown when mounting a snapshot LUN (2001079)
Date Published: 7/11/2011
iSCSI SAN boot support (2002384)
Date Published: 7/13/2011
Powering on the virtual machine fails with the error: Invalid memory setting for FPT: memory reservation (sched.mem.min) should be equal to memsize(2048) (2002779)
Date Published: 7/12/2011
Using the local debugger to review logs after an ESXi host fails with a purple diagnostic screen (2003067)

Date Published: 7/14/2011

VMware Service Manager
Inbound emails in VMware Service Manager report the error: Email sender is not a valid user to process request (2003318)
Date Published: 7/15/2011
Unable to remove customer, organization or location with the Update CMDB task (2003387)
Date Published: 7/15/2011
Unable to clone a call in VMware Service Manager (2003034)
Date Published: 7/14/2011

VMware ThinApp
ThinApp projects containing oleaut32.dll do not execute across all Windows operating systems (2002674)
Date Published: 7/14/2011

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
CapacityIQ does not collect data when you register vCenter Server with a short name (2001367)
Date Published: 7/14/2011

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager SQL server maintenance plan fails (2003233)
Date Published: 7/15/2011
Copying a single large file to multiple Windows agent machines using the vCenter Configuration Manager Windows Remote Command functionality (2002224)
Date Published: 7/13/2011
Active Directory collections in vCenter configuration Manager do not populate the AD GUID and AD DN Name columns in the Machines node (2002248)
Date Published: 7/13/2011
Increasing stale job time out settings (2002437)
Date Published: 7/14/2011
Manually rebooting agents in vCenter Configuration Manager fails (2002621)
Date Published: 7/13/2011
Configuring email notifications for SQL reports in vCenter Configuration Manager (2002929)
Date Published: 7/13/2011
vCenter Configuration Manager collections fail with the error: Error reported by agent: m_spiConnectionMachineHttpStartup HRESULT 0xc4000004 (2003125)
Date Published: 7/14/2011

VMware vCenter Server
Adding an ESX host to vCenter Server fails with the error: IP Address of the host changed (1035944)
Date Published: 7/13/2011
Understanding Space Utilization Graphs in Datastore Performance Charts (2003090)
Date Published: 7/15/2011
The Storage View tab in vCenter Server does not display anything (2003454)
Date Published: 7/15/2011

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Site Recovery Manager Test Failover involving NFS datastores fails with the error: Failed to prepare shadow vm for recovery (2000464)

Date Published: 7/15/2011

VMware vCloud Director
BIOS UUIDs in vCloud Director are not unique when virtual machines are deployed from catalog templates (2002506)
Date Published: 7/13/2011

VMware View Manager
Some USB device forwarding disabled by default in View 4.5 (2002448)
Date Published: 7/11/2011
VMware View Composer Guest Agent service fails with the error: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime error (2002765)
Date Published: 7/12/2011

New Articles Published for Week Ending 7/9/11

Spring Framework
Converting an existing EJB-based application to a Spring-based application (2001172)
Date Published: 7/7/2011

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for VMware
Installing development versions of software packages for Suse Linux Enterprise Server for VMware (2002272)
Date Published: 7/5/2011

VMware Converter
Locations of sysprep log files (2001932)
Date Published: 7/4/2011

VMware Data Recovery
VMware Data Recovery backup fails with the error: Task terminated at specified stop time (2000106)
Date Published: 7/4/2011

VMware ESX
After applying a host profile, starting or shutting down the ESX 4.1 host reports the error: /etc/sysconfig/network: line 1: .encoding: command not found (2002354)
Date Published: 7/6/2011
Cannot log in to the ESX 4.1 host using NIS authentication (2001119)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
VMware Tools incorrectly reports the message: VMware Tools can be up updated (2001382)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
ESX host disconnects continuously from vSphere Client connected to vCenter Server (2002056)
Date Published: 7/6/2011
Converting between CPU summation and CPU % ready values (2002181)
Date Published: 7/9/2011
Making ESX-controlled storage available to Windows servers to facilitate backups (2002227)
Date Published: 7/10/2011
Gathering logs to troubleshoot VSS failures (1037376)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
Powering on a virtual machine from the command line when the host cannot be managed using vSphere Client (1038043)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
Unable to add iSCSI datastore to ESX/ESXi hosts (2000286)
Date Published: 7/7/2011
Cannot add IBM servers to an EVC enabled cluster (2000546)
Date Published: 7/5/2011
Cannot configure HA for a new ESXi host added to a cluster of ESX hosts (2000907)
Date Published: 7/8/2011
Adding an ESX host to vCenter Server with old LSI processes running fails (2001366)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
Output of esxtop defaults to non-interactive CSV with unknown TermInfo (2001448)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
Identifying virtual machines with Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) using PowerCLI (2001823)
Date Published: 7/5/2011
ESX host fails due to service console file system corruption (1037945)
Date Published: 7/8/2011
Windows 2008 R2 disk volume becomes read-only and fails to boot (2001611)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
Event Logs display the warning message: The description for Event ID ( 105 ) in Source ( VMTools ) cannot be found (2001657)
Date Published: 7/4/2011

VMware ESXi
Upgrading from ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.1 Update 1 fails with the error: No Bulletin or VIB found with ID ‘ESXi410-GA’ (1034672)
Date Published: 7/7/2011
Growing a local datastore from the command line in vSphere ESXi 4.x (2002461)
Date Published: 7/8/2011
Are virtual machines migrated to other available hosts when HA conditions are satisfied? (1038032)
Date Published: 7/7/2011
An ESXi host fails to boot with the purple diagnostic screen error: Two filesystems with the same UUID have been detected (2000476)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
Frequent APD vmkernel messages are reported even when all paths to the LUNs are not down (2000835)
Date Published: 7/5/2011
iSCSI storage adapter rescan using a NetApp array reports 0 Targets, Devices, and Paths (2000946)
Date Published: 7/7/2011
Migrating a virtual machine from ESX/ESXi host 4.1 to older versions of ESX/ESXi hosts in an EVC enabled cluster fails (2001373)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
The performance counter of Avg. Disk sec/Transfer in Windows 2000 virtual machines spikes (2001655)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
The ESX/ESXi console reports the alert message: Kernel module hpilo was loaded, but its signature does not come from a trusted certificate (2001682)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
Enabling WriteCache on LSI RAID adapters (2001946)
Date Published: 7/7/2011

VMware Service Manager
Escalation Recipients option under VMware Service Manager IPK Groups is greyed out (2002298)
Date Published: 7/7/2011
"Check spelling" system window appears behind the application window (2001903)
Date Published: 7/7/2011
Query in VMware Service Manager is missing NOLOCK configuration (2001905)
Date Published: 7/7/2011
Pasting graphical data into the VMware Service Manager tool produces error: Unsupported clipboard format (2001906)
Date Published: 7/9/2011

VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager
Unable to detect TDS or TNS traffic on non-standard ports in VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager (1036190)
Date Published: 7/7/2011

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
Unable to assign a per VM license to CapacityIQ (2000206)
Date Published: 7/4/2011

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Adding virtual machines manually from vCenter Configuration Manager fails with the error: Cannot locate Discovery Files directory on the server (1025743)
Date Published: 7/4/2011

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
Physical to virtual (P2V) conversion fails with the error: A general system error occurred. Found dangling SSL error (2002296)
Date Published: 7/6/2011

VMware vCenter Lab Manager
VMware vCenter Lab Manager web interface fails with the error: HTTP Error 404.3 (1038556)
Date Published: 7/7/2011
Creating a Lab Manager instance using an existing database (2002282)
Date Published: 7/5/2011

Creating a Lab Manager instance using an existing database to test the upgrade (2002283)
Date Published: 7/6/2011

VMware vCenter Server
Deploying custom vpxa.cfg on new ESX hosts (2000850)
Date Published: 7/5/2011
VMware VirtualCenter Server service fails periodically after upgrading from vCenter Server 4.0 to 4.1 (2000960)
Date Published: 7/5/2011
Performance chart overview tab does not show any data (2000961)
Date Published: 7/8/2011
Installing vCenter Server 4.1 Update 1 fails with the error: Error 2932 Could not create file (2001475)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
The SQL.log file consumes all the disk space (2002395)
Date Published: 7/8/2011
Powering on a virtual machine fails with the error: memoryAllocation.reservation (1036914)
Date Published: 7/5/2011
The vCenter Server Events log reports the message: Maximum (3) number of hosts allowed for this edition of vCenter Server has been reached (1037876)
Date Published: 7/6/2011
Viewing vCenter Server Performance Data and Storage View fails with the log error: Invalid chunk ignored (2000273)
Date Published: 7/5/2011
vCenter Server setup/configuration fails with the error: Setup cannot join vCenter Server to the linked mode group (2001468)
Date Published: 7/5/2011

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
SRM Failover and TestFailover operations fail with the error: Failed to resolve 2 device locators for shadow VM (1036802)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
Migrating SRM during a vCenter Server migration and upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit (2000539)
Date Published: 7/8/2011

VMware vCenter Update Manager
Downloading patches from repository in VMware Update Manager fails with error: Cannot import patch definitions and patches from the incompatible source (1031722)
Date Published: 7/5/2011
Update Manager is not available in a vCenter Server configured in linked mode (2001536)
Date Published: 7/5/2011

VMware vFabric Enterprise Ready Server
Using your own version of PHP with vFabric Enterprise Ready Server (ERS) under Windows (1038993)
Date Published: 7/8/2011
Enabling the YourKit Profiler with ERS Tomcat (2000744)
Date Published: 7/7/2011
Using your own version of PHP with vFabric Enterprise Ready Server (ERS) under Linux/Unix (2001316)
Date Published: 7/8/2011

VMware View Manager
Recomposing Windows XP pool to a new image that contains Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating system fails (2001964)
Date Published: 7/6/2011
Kiosk mode View desktop session is in console mode after failed connection (2001965)
Date Published: 7/7/2011
Possible issues when disabling or modifying the Terminal Server service on VMware View issues (2002014)
Date Published: 7/4/2011
View Composer fails with the error: Disk management service is not available (2002051)
Date Published: 7/5/2011
Known issues when creating a master image for Windows XP linked clones using typical settings (2001966)
Date Published: 7/4/2011

VMware VirtualCenter
VMware VirtualCenter Server Service fails when accessed via the vSphere Client using Active Directory Credentials (2000934)
Date Published: 7/7/2011

New Articles Published for Week Ending 7/2/11

Apache Tomcat 7
Enabling the YourKit Profiler with Apache Tomcat (2000747)
Date Published: 6/28/2011

Grails
Determining the license being used by a specific Grails plugin (2000583)
Date Published: 6/27/2011

VMware ESX
Logging in to Windows 2000 virtual machines running VMware Tools using RDP fail with the error: VMwareTray.exe – Entry Point Not Found (2001747)
Date Published: 6/27/2011
Applying vSphere host configuration changes after an unclean shutdown (2001780)
Date Published: 6/27/2011
The ESX/ESXi host logs report the message: IPMI message handler: BMC returned incorrect response (2001933)
Date Published: 7/1/2011
Installing VMware Tools in RHEL 6 using the Yum repository fails (1036099)
Date Published: 6/29/2011
Cannot increase the size of the virtual disk hosted on an ESX/ESXi 3.x host beyond 1024GB (2000507)
Date Published: 7/1/2011
ESX Server 3.5 June 2011 Rollup CD image (2000591)
Date Published: 7/1/2011
Generating an ESX log bundle fails with the errors: "Status: missing" or "Have you run out of disk space?" (1033234)
Date Published: 6/29/2011
Powering on virtual machines on available ESX hosts after ESX host failure without HA configured (1038033)
Date Published: 6/29/2011
Integrating vSphere 4.x into Microsoft Active Directory (2002054)
Date Published: 6/29/2011

VMware ESXi
ESXi Server 3.5 June 2011 Rollup CD image (2000593)
Date Published: 7/1/2011
Determining which storage or network driver is actively being used on ESXi host (1034674)
Date Published: 6/29/2011
Taking a snapshot of Symantec Messaging Gateway Virtual Appliance fails when the option "Quiesce guest file system" is enabled (2000681)
Date Published: 6/29/2011
Virtual machines might stop responding on AMD systems with more than 256GB memory (2000963)
Date Published: 6/29/2011
Using hardware-assisted virtualization in Windows Server 2003 32bit virtual machines (2001372)
Date Published: 6/28/2011
vMotion fails with the error: The processor does not support a required feature for this virtual machine (2002076)
Date Published: 6/29/2011
The vmimages folder contents are not accessible through the datastore browser (2001650)
Date Published: 6/27/2011

VMware Service Manager
VMware Service Manager 9.x Quick Solutions do not populate calls (1029724)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
Incorrect status settings on bulk forward screens (2002038)
Date Published: 6/29/2011

VMware ThinApp
Finding the externalCOM object for applications for use with ThinApp (2000521)
Date Published: 6/27/2011
VMware ThinApps fails to send mails in Lotus Notes (2002002)
Date Published: 6/28/2011
ThinApped Java does not load on Windows 64-bit operating systems (2002157)
Date Published: 6/30/2011

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
Changing CapacityIQ’s registered vCenter Server information (1037742)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
Upgrading CapacityIQ using the command line interface (2000391)
Date Published: 6/30/2011

VMware vCenter Chargeback
vCenter Chargeback Storage Syncronization fails or servers show 0 MB storage consumed in Reports (1039224)
Date Published: 6/27/2011

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Updating missing RHEL patch bulletins (2000858)
Date Published: 6/28/2011
The basicimport command fails after mounting the Windows ISO on a OSP Linux server (2000992)
Date Published: 6/27/2011
Accessing the vCenter Configuration Manger console fails with the error: HTTP Error 500.19 (2001827)
Date Published: 6/27/2011
Group membership in Active Directory not updating in vCenter Configuration Manager (2000064)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
HTTP agent collections in vCenter Configuration Manager fail with the error: Failed to initialize credential with principal tls (2002100)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
Searching for patches with vCenter Configuration Manager fails with the message: Not Found (2002101)
Date Published: 6/30/2011

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
Virtual machine fails to boot with a blue diagnostic screen stating: 7B Stop Code after using VMware Converter (2002106) Date Published: 6/30/2011

VMware vCenter Operations Standard
VMware vCenter Operations Standard shows a 100% workload for networking (1036734)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
vCenter Operations Manager dashboard is grayed out with question marks (1038994)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
Unable to connect to vCenter Operations appliance (2000208)
Date Published: 6/28/2011
vCenter Operations Standard 1.0 displays licensing error after changing or updating the license key (2001466)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
vCenter Operations plugin is stuck on initialization (2001998)
Date Published: 6/28/2011

VMware vCenter Server
Triggered datastore alarm does not get cleared (2001034)
Date Published: 6/27/2011
Active Directory account locks out due to repeated failed login attempts from vCenter Server (2001703)
Date Published: 6/27/2011
Changing the default log location for vCenter Server (2002125)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
How to find the appropriate value for the ‘String specifying the time zone’ option of Host Profiles (1027572)
Date Published: 6/29/2011
VMware VirtualCenter Mana
gement Webservice cannot connect to the Oracle 10g database (1030533)

Date Published: 6/30/2011
Average memory usage on a cluster in vCenter Server 4.x is incorrect (1031282)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
Understanding db_owner permissions and scripting for the vCenter Server database (1036206)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager placeholder virtual machines and datastores show high provisioned space (2000585)
Date Published: 6/29/2011
The vCenter Service status, Licensing Reporting Manager and vCenter Hardware Status plug-ins fail with the error: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. (2001986)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
Accessing the Storage View tab in vCenter Server fails with the error: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory ([Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Invalid string or buffer length) (2001363)
Date Published: 6/27/2011

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
Installing VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat on Windows Server 2008 fails with the error: This action cannot be completed because the other program is busy (2001908)
Date Published: 6/30/2011
Migrating vCenter Server Heartbeat 6.3 Update 1 and later from identical nodes to non-identical nodes (2002112)
Date Published: 6/29/2011
Migrating vCenter Server Heartbeat 6.3 Update 1 and later from identical nodes to non-identical (Updates MS DNS) nodes (2002117)
Date Published: 6/29/2011

VMware vCenter Update Manager
VMware Update Manager fails to start after a fresh install (2000615)
Date Published: 6/28/2011

VMware vCloud Connector
Location of vCloud Connector log files (2002152)
Date Published: 6/30/2011

VMware vCloud Director
Logging in to vCloud Director using an LDAP user account that is a member of more than 200 Active Directory groups fails (1037308)
Date Published: 6/27/2011
Customizing a guest operating system in vCloud Director fails with the error: Guest OS customization is not supported for this OS type (1039045)
Date Published: 6/27/2011
VMware vCloud Director cells shut down after 15 minutes (2000087)
Date Published: 6/27/2011
VMware vCloud Director Cell fails to start with the error: CacheException while starting the cell (2002155)
Date Published: 6/30/2011

VMware vFabric Enterprise Ready Server
Installing VMware vFabric Enterprise Ready Server on Linux (2001867)
Date Published: 7/1/2011
Installing VMware vFabric Enterprise Ready Server on Windows (2001977)
Date Published: 6/30/2011

VMware vFabric Hyperic Agent
Setting the HQ_JAVA_HOME system environment variable for a vFabric Hyperic Agent in Windows (2001730)
Date Published: 6/27/2011

VMware View Manager
Creating or provisioning a VMware View desktop pool fails with the error: View Composer Fault: VMware.Sim.Fault.VcDatastoreInaccessibleFault (2001736)
Date Published: 6/28/2011
View Composer service fails to start after changing the vCenter Server password (2002004)
Date Published: 7/1/2011
Moving videos across the screen fails when using Bloomberg’s software with Multimonitor setup (2002009)
Date Published: 6/29/2011
High CPU utilization on Windows XP View Agent when Smartcard service is not running (2002109)
Date Published: 6/29/2011

VMware VirtualCenter
Shrinking the size of the vCenter Server SQL database (1036738)
Date Published: 6/30/2011

VMware vShield Edge
Cannot establish a vShield Edge VPN connection (2000168)
Date Published: 6/29/2011