Category: VMware

Could not connect to vmware console https://vcenter_address:7331/

This usually happens from the vSphere web client while opening a console session with virtual machine. and the log (/var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/logs/vsphere_client_virgo.log) shows something like: [ERROR] Thread-42 System.err INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.e.j.w.WebApp Context{/console,file:/tmp/jetty-0.0.0.0-7331-console.war-_console-any-/webapp/},/usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/server/work/tmp/console-distro/webapps/console.war To fix this set the environment variable VMWARE_JAVA_HOME to proper path: – SSH to vcenter # vi /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/server/wrapper/conf/wrapper.conf – Under Environment variables add: set.default.VMWARE_JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre-vmware – Restart…
February 10, 2014
Convert Linux Physical Server to VMware virtual machine

Download and install vCenter Converter on a windows machine. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter Unfortunately this tool does not have a Linux / MAC version. vCenter Converter In case you see an error: “Permission to perform this operation was denied”, right click and run the program as Administrator. Provide the source and destination information, the source is the physical…
January 18, 2014
ESXi host fails with a purple diagnostic screen PSOD

This happened while converting KVM VMs to VMware and power them on (method used: http://arunnsblog.com/2013/06/10/migrate-kvm-virtual-machines-to-vmware-esxi/) . It works for a while but then the ESXi crashes with PSOD. Version : 5.1.0-799733 There were two sort of PSOD messages observed: 1) Crashed while the VM was running VMware NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/vmkernel/sched/memsched.c:17724 Code start: 0x41802b200000 VMK uptime: 10:19:25:27.335…
June 10, 2013
Migrate KVM virtual machines to VMware ESXi

– Shutdown the KVM guest – convert the QCOW2 or RAW format to VMDK format # qemu-img convert image.img -O vmdk image.vmdk – Upload this image to datastore – Create a new virtual machine with this disk image – There might be issues with network interface mapping, fix the network mapping at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
June 10, 2013
Create NAS/SAN storage with openfiler, work with VMware ESXi as shared storage

– Download the openfiler installation ISO , download link I have downloaded the Installation ISO image (x86/64). Basically we need to create open filer as a virtual machine with say 20 GB thin provisioning, and attach another disk/datastore to the virtual machine to configure it as SAN. – Download and install the Installation ISO image…
February 18, 2013