Getting a bit bored during the Christmas holiday? I’m going to show you how to manually create kernel panic on your vSphere 4 ESXi server using the vsish shell. First a warning, don’t use the following how-to in a production environment! You probably know how to get access to the ESXi busy box and enable SSH, if you don’t just Google for it. After getting access to the ESXi command line type vsish. You just opened an interactive shell which can be very useful for trouble shouting or making trouble. :-) To view a list of available commands, type help. Navigate to reliability and crashMe. Type set /reliability/crashMe/Panic and take a look at your ESXi console screen, pretty isn’t it.
Continue reading "Lets create some Kernel Panic using vsish" »Monday, December 28. 2009
Web Access Service fails to start after vCenter install
VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices fails to start after installing or updating the vCenter server. Error messages similar to the following might be written to the Windows System Event log.
The VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices service terminated with service-specific error 0 (0x0). After some investigation, I’ve found the following error in the Apache Tomcat log at C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\logs
[2009-12-27 20:57:15] [info] Procrun (2.0.4.0) started
[2009-12-27 20:57:15] [info] Running Service...
[2009-12-27 20:57:15] [info] Starting service...
[2009-12-27 20:57:15] [994 prunsrv.c] [error] Failed creating java
[2009-12-27 20:57:15] [1269 prunsrv.c] [error] ServiceStart returned 1
[2009-12-27 20:57:15] [info] Run service finished.
[2009-12-27 20:57:15] [info] Procrun finished.
When you’re encountering this error, just run "C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\bin\tomcat6w.exe" //ES//vctomcat
If the path to the Java.dll is empty and C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\jre is empty, download the Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment (JRE), release JRE 6 Update 17 or later from http://java.sun.com/j2se. Change the install path to C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\jre\
After that you have to select the option “Use default” in the Java tab at the VMware Virtual Management Webservices Properties and the service will start and function like a charm.
Friday, December 25. 2009
Spiderwebs - Elastic Sky live - VMworld 2009
The VMware band Elastic Sky opens for Foreigner at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco. Arisa Amano on lead vocals for this song.
Continue reading "Spiderwebs - Elastic Sky live - VMworld 2009" »Thursday, December 24. 2009
NGN Interview: Ruben Spruijt and Gabrie van Zanten
During the Dutch VMUG 2009 event NGN’s Community Master, Melle Gloerich has recorded a conversation between Ruben Spruijt and Gabrie van Zanten. They are talking about VMware View 4 and PCoIP, damaged sectors in a virtual machine, project Virtual Reality Check and the differences between VDI and terminal servers.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I just wanted to send everyone a bit of Christmas Cheer!
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeest
English: Merry Christmas
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
French: Joyeux Noel
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Wednesday, December 23. 2009
VCP3 to VCP4 Certification Extension
In order to meet the December 31st 2009 deadline, many people recently scheduled (and hopefully passed!) the exam with their local testing partner. In fact, so many of you scheduled exams that some of the VCP3 professionals were unable to find a testing center with available seats prior to the December deadline.
VMware's Melissa Tuite:
In order to accommodate participants that despite best efforts were unable to schedule their exam prior to the deadline, VMware will continue accepting the VCP3 certification as a qualification to take the VCP4 exam without requiring attending the 'What's New" class through January 31st 2010. We fully expect that the additional four weeks will allow remaining participants ample time to find a testing center with available seating, and will NOT be extending the deadline any further, so please take advantage of this opportunity!