Greetings,
I am having numerous vCenter 5.0 (Appliance) issues and I am having strong considerations on returning to vCenter 4.2 even though it will be painful as most machines are running VM Verison 8 and VMFS 5.
There are two issues currently plaguing my new environment:
- I am unable to migrate a live virtual machine from one datastore or host to another. The process is able to reach 21% upon which I received an "Operation timed out." error. From migrate to error message takes approximately one minute. If the virtual machine is powered off I am able to migrate the machine without issue.
- I am unable to power on virtual machines on random a random chassis because of a unexpected stack error: I patched ESXi to 504890 surpassing the Sept. patch for this issue however the issue is still present. The only solution is to reboot the physical chassis upon which I am able to power on machines for a limited time before the issue reoccurs.
/var/log/vmkernel.log (shows)
2011-11-14T18:05:26.394Z cpu9:9018)Config: 346: "SIOControlFlag2" = 1, Old Value: 0, (Status: 0x0)
2011-11-14T18:05:29.435Z cpu12:9289)VmkAccess: 637: hostd-vix-worke: access denied:: dom:appDom(2), obj:forkExecSys(88), mode:syscall_allow(2)
2011-11-14T18:05:29.435Z cpu12:9289)VmkAccess: 320: VMkernel syscall num 1
2011-11-14T18:05:29.436Z cpu6:9018)Config: 346: "SIOControlFlag2" = 0, Old Value: 1, (Status: 0x0)
/var/log/hostd.log (shows)
2011-11-14T18:09:02.568Z [51F99B90 info 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/4ebd2cac-0318e7bb-390c-984be104fb1e/BCSRAD01/BCSRAD01.vmx'] VMHS: Exec()'ing /bin/vmx
2011-11-14T18:09:02.568Z [51F99B90 info 'Libs'] VMHS: VMKernel_ForkExec(/bin/vmx, detached=1): rc=195887383 pid=-1
2011-11-14T18:09:02.568Z [51F99B90 warning 'Libs'] VMHSHostExecVMX: unable to spawn /bin/vmx: Operation not permitted
2011-11-14T18:09:02.568Z [51F99B90 warning 'Libs'] VMHS_LaunchVMCb failed: Failed to launch peer process
2011-11-14T18:09:02.568Z [51F99B90 info 'Libs'] FoundryVMDBPowerOpCallback: VMDB reports power op failed for VM /vmfs/volumes/4ebd2cac-0318e7bb-390c-984be104fb1e/BCSRAD01/BCSRAD01.vmx with error msg = "The virtual machine could not start. Make sure VMware ESX is installed correctly and you have rights to run the software and to access all directories it uses, including directories in which the software is installed, directories containing the virtual disk and configuration files, and directories for temporary files." and error code -46.
Any assistance would be great. Thanks.