Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot

ent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:07 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot > > BTW... > > Damian and Klint and Karl: Thanks for your help on this. I really appreciate > it. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:39, Klint Pr

Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > In June 2009 a new IT manager came on board. One of his > first big pushes was to do a formal infrastructure review via an > outside consulting firm. I find out during the course of all this that > he's looking to outsource significant chunks of o

RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot

to call Veritas for support, and it would be 8-12 hours before they would call back just to assign an engineer. -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't

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Message- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 11:32 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot >> >> Correct - no support. Budget cuts ate that. >> >> On Fri, Apr 9

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Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot

uff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 12:40 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot > > Yup. > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 09:34, N Parr wrote: > > Maybe you should recalculate that ROI after this

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, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 12:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Yup. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 09:34, N Parr wrote: > Maybe you should recalculate

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iginal Message- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:05 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot >> >> You are reading my mind... >> >> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010

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Maybe you should recalculate that ROI after this incident. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Correct - no support. Budget cuts ate that. O

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Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:05 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot > > You are reading my mind... > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 17:01, Klint Price wrote: >> No problem I have had some 2950's on ESX go haywire with DAS whe

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issues as this they've been able to resolve it for me over a webex very quickly. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot You are reading my

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; > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:07 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot > > BTW... > > Damian and Klint and Karl: Thanks for your help on thi

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il 08, 2010 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot BTW... Damian and Klint and Karl: Thanks for your help on this. I really appreciate it. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:39, Klint Price wrote: > Remember to power off all guests, and put in mainte

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power-on so > you can bring them back online one at a time. > > -Original Message- > From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:38 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot > >

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times.  You may also want to shut off auto power-on so > you can bring them back online one at a time. > > -Original Message- > From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:38 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OTish: ES

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to shut off auto power-on so > you can bring them back online one at a time. > > -Original Message- > From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:38 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't bo

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erenced below? > > What is the output / top CPU utilization pct for the processes found by > running: > > #top (from SSH) > > (exit with CTRL-C) > > > > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:0

RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot

, April 08, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Ok, a 2950 has dual core Xeons. Don't worry about the 90% on Proc 0 as your average load is coming in around 60%. Let me know the results of your reboot process. -Original Message-

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Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Dual proc, dual core. Proc 0 = 90.72% avg Proc 1 = 50.18% avg Proc 2 = 49.49% avg Proc 4 = 49.74% avg Total is 59.74% avg But it's been higher than that all the time I've been troubleshooting this problem. Kurt On Thu,

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ing: > > #top (from SSH) > > (exit with CTRL-C) > > > > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:04 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot > >

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SSH) (exit with CTRL-C) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot In line... On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:40, Klint Price wrote: > 1) I wouldn&#x

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In line... On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:40, Klint Price wrote: > 1) I wouldn't expect a power on to work until you can get this command to > work: > > vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk > > The host needs to be able to read from the disk. Reasonable. > 2) Do you have an addit

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sus, and try powering the VM back on. > > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:13 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot > > Do you mean in the Events display on the

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eboot. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@zesx2 zsus]# vmware-cmd zsus.vmx start VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operat

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ill not down the guests, but might shutdown the Dell hardware agents if > you have them installed.. > > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:17 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 gu

RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot

:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Do you mean in the Events display on the VI client? If so, then what I see isn't much. Just the following couplet several times: Message on sus on esx2.mycompany.com in ha-datacenter: Could not p

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10 at 13:28, Damien Solodow >>> 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-

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ubject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot BTW: I've got a 'tail -f' going on /var/log/messages, and I'm seeing more and more of this kind of stuff: Apr 8 14:16:09 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 14:16:09 zesx2 cimserver: Canno

Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot

> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:58 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot >> >> [r...@esx2 root]# ps -lf -C cimserver >> F S UID        PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR

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gt;>> 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] >

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ch can consume your swap, can you restart the cimserver process, and try > powering on your VM again? > > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:58 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX

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Are there additional errors displayed on the console (not from SSH)? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot First: [r...@esx2 sus]

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dk and sus_1.vmdk files? They are just > text but provide config info for the -flat.vmdk files. > > > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:44 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest

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Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@esx2 root]# ps -lf -C cimserver F S UIDPID PPID C PRI NI ADDRSZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD 0 S root 1991 1984 99 7

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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&#x

RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot

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, w

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sday, April 08, 2010 4:34 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

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 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/vol

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NP - knew what you meant, On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:39, Damien Solodow wrote: > I mean sus_1.vmdk > Doh! > > -Original Message- > From: Damien Solodow > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:39 PM > To: 'NT System Admin Issues' > Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 g

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: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, 20

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I mean sus_1.vmdk Doh! -Original Message- From: Damien Solodow Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:39 PM To: 'NT System Admin Issues' Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Try running it for sus1.vmdk and see what you get. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff

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Try running it for sus1.vmdk and see what you get. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Yuck: [r...@zesx2 root]# vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes

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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]# vmkfs

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ail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:14 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,

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ge1\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..

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Do you have any files or folders on the datastore with a .lck appended to the end -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@esx2 root]# vmwar

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tate" 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

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ours apart, so I don't think that is the issue. Klint -Original Message- From: Karl Bickmore [mailto:k...@ccnsconsulting.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot This seems like a longshot, but th

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-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

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kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:03 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

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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

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Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:03 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

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ssage- > 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

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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 googlin

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 1336