Can you run this command and tell me what the results are: ps -lf -C cimserver
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot It's a Dell 2950, with a pair of 500gb SATA drives in a RAID1 array. According to the Dell site it's a CR679 Assembly, Card, SAS6IR, Integrated, Sled Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:36, Klint Price <kpr...@arizonaitpro.com> wrote: > What model controller is this disk attached to? Disk type? Server model? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:34 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot > > Yuck: > > [r...@zesx2 root]# vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk > Could not get volume attributes (rv -1) > Error: Connection timed out > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:28, Damien Solodow > <damien.solo...@harrison.edu> wrote: >> That's a positive sign. >> Try this: "vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1\sus\sus.vmdk" >> This will query the disk information. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:14 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot >> >> [r...@esx2 root]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmx >> getstate >> getstate() = off >> >> Kurt >> >> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:10, Damien Solodow <damien.solo...@harrison.edu> >> wrote: >>> From the ESX host run "vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/VOLNAME/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmx >>> getstate" and reply with the result. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:03 PM >>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>> Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot >>> >>> Some are on the SAN, some are direct attached, I haven't seen issues with >>> any of the other VMs yet. >>> >>> Kurt >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:57, Damien Solodow <damien.solo...@harrison.edu> >>> wrote: >>>> Do you have other guests on the same storage as the misbehaving guest? Are >>>> they working ok? >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:54 PM >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot >>>> >>>> I'm googling like mad, and not finding a lot. Our ESX infrastructure >>>> is primitive - it's two purely standard (not enterprise, so no >>>> vmotion, etc.) ESX boxes running a number of guests, some of which >>>> are on a SAN, some of which are on direct attached (internal) disk. >>>> >>>> ESX is Version 3.5.0 Build 133630 - the VI client is 2.5.0 103672 >>>> >>>> The guest that's misbehaving is our Win2k3 R2 SP2 WSUS server (also >>>> running our VIPRE enterprise console), and it's on direct attached >>>> disk. It started hanging, so I initiated a shutdown. After 15 minutes >>>> at the 'shutting down' dialog box without any movement, I asked ESX >>>> to power the box down. >>>> >>>> I then tried to start it, and got a popup from the VI client saying >>>> >>>> Error: Could not power on VM : Metadata write error. Failed >>>> to power on VM. >>>> >>>> I also tried starting it from the command line, and got the following >>>> error: >>>> >>>> VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation >>>> failed unexpectedly. >>>> >>>> The ESX host contains a number of production machines, so I can't >>>> simply reboot in the middle of the day. >>>> >>>> I've cruised through /var/log/messages, and found messages like this: >>>> >>>> Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for >>>> ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information >>>> from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: >>>> storelib-GetLDList-ProcessLibCommandCall failed; rval = 0x8017 Apr 7 >>>> 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Volume Cannot get logical disk data from >>>> controller 0 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get >>>> pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot >>>> get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 >>>> cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 7 >>>> 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 >>>> phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Read config >>>> failed >>>> 0 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from >>>> controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: >>>> storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 07:03:00 >>>> zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device >>>> 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor >>>> for ctrl 0, dev 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get >>>> information from controller 0 logical device 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 >>>> cimserver: >>>> storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 >>>> zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device >>>> 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor >>>> for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get >>>> information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: >>>> storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 >>>> zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device >>>> 2 >>>> >>>> Any thoughts and pointers much appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Kurt >>>> >>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >>>> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>>> >>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >>>> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >>> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >>> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
