2 ESX shows Red

[mokarrom]

Dear all

i have 4 esx server (total 64 processor/187Ghz 192 GB ram ).

38 VM Run on this

from some days my VI client shows two ESX Red.

current failover capacity 1 hosts (but it was 3 hosts)

configured failover capacity 1 hosts

fully automated

admission control: Don`t allow constraint violations

VI client screen shot attached in this.

My fqdn is 12 chars

VC already restarted by admin.

pls help about this issue.......

thanks

mcseiu

[Troy_Clavell]

check the specific errors under the summary tab for each ESX Host, they may be HA agent errors. A reconfigure of HA may fix it. Without seeing the specific error on the Hosts in question, I can only assume what the error may be related to.

[NWhiley]

Without a bit more info it is tricky. But as Troy says, check the summary tab. You could also look at the "alarms" and "tasks & events" tabs to see what info is there.

HA is very sensitive to DNS, if it is an HA error, check /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf on affected hosts to make sure they match hosts that are OK. Make sure the affected hosts have the correct gateway and that it can be reached and check the firewall. HA needs a few ports open to work. Make sure all hosts have the same Firewall settings.

[JarrettCampbell]

Have you tried bouncing the Virtual Center box? What does the specific alarms on the 2 ESX hosts say?

[mokarrom]

Dear all Boss, thanks for answering my post. Now i facing new problem to configuring VCB.

my work and problem is follows...........

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38 VM

4

ESX 3.5 and 8 LUN each lun 800GB

1 VC 2.5 with VI Client 2.5

1 Proxy (Windows 2003 Standard Edition

SP1) with 1.5 TB D drive with one HBA

Install VCB v1.1

Then….

• diskpart to execute auto mount disable

and auto mount scrub

• SSL disable

1. Loginto the backup proxy .

2. change directory to D:\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework

directory.

3. Used vcbVmName tool to enumerate

virtual machine identifiers. At the command prompt,

*vcbVmName &lt;IPornameofVirtualCenter&gt; -u &lt;username&gt; -p

&lt;password&gt; -sipaddr:&lt;IPaddressofvirtual machinetobackup&gt;*

4. From the results of running thevcbVmName tool, select which identifier

to use (moref, name, uuid, or ipaddr)

in the vcbMounter command.

5. At the command prompt,

VcbMounter -h

&lt;IPornameofVirtualCenter&gt; -u &lt;username&gt; -p &lt;password&gt; -a ipaddr:&lt;IPaddress

of virtual machine to backup&gt; -t fullvm -r &lt;VCBproxy backup directory&gt;

After this command I the output is

following ……………

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

D:\VMware\VMware Consolidated

Backup Framework&gt;*vcbmounter -h 10.20.X.25

-u vcb -p 12345678 -r F:\ -a ipaddr:10.20.Y.40 -t fullvm -L 6*

[2009-11-11 20:50:13.937 'App' 916

info] Current working directory: D:\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework

[2009-11-11 20:50:13.937

'BaseLibs' 916 info] HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1

numThreadsPerCore 2.

[2009-11-11 20:50:13.937

'BaseLibs' 916 info] HOSTINFO: This machine has 2 physical CPUS, 2 total cores,

and 4 logical CPUs.

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.281

'vcbMounter' 916 info] Connecting to host 10.20.7.25 on port 443 using protocol

https

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.281

'vcbMounter' 916 trivia] Initializing SSL context

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.281 'BaseLibs'

916 info] Using system libcrypto, version 90709F

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.296 'App' 916

info] Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.296 'SOAP'

916 trivia] Sending soap request to : retrieveContent

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.312

'BaseLibs' 916 warning] SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch:

VMware vs 10.20.X.25

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.312

'BaseLibs' 916 warning] SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host

certificate has these problems:

• The host name used for the

connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.312

'BaseLibs' 916 warning] SSLVerifyIsEnabled: failed to read registry value.

Assuming verification is disabled. LastError = 0

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.312

'BaseLibs' 916 warning] SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate

verification is disabled, so connection will proceed des

pite the error

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.515 'SOAP'

916 trivia] Received soap response from : retrieveContent

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.515

'vcbMounter' 916 info] Connected using API Namespace

vim25.

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.515

'vcbMounter' 916 info] Authenticating user vcb

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.515 'SOAP'

916 trivia] Sending soap request to : login

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.531 'SOAP'

916 trivia] Received soap response from : login

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.531

'vcbMounter' 916 info] Logged in!

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546

'vcbMounter' 916 info] Performing SearchIndex find.

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546 'SOAP'

916 trivia] Sending soap request to : retrieveContent

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546 'SOAP'

916 trivia] Received soap response from : retrieveContent

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546 'SOAP'

916 trivia] Sending soap request to : findByIp

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546 'SOAP'

916 trivia] Received soap response from : findByIp

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546

'vcbMounter' 916 info] Got VM

MoRef

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546

'vcbMounter' 916 info] Got access method

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546

'vcbMounter' 916 info] Got coordinator object

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546

'vcbMounter' 916 info] Attempting data access.

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.562

'vcbMounter' 916 error] Error: F:: Is not a writeable directory.

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.562

'vcbMounter' 916 error] An error occurred, cleaning up...

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.562 'SOAP'

916 trivia] Sending soap request to : logout

D:\VMware\VMware Consolidated

Backup Framework&gt;pause

Press any key to continue . . .

N.B. I am using “Sybex Mastering

VI” and “vcb_partner_integration_guide.pdf”

and “vi3 backup guide.pdf”.

*Please Help me

Step by Step procedure or any correction…………..*

thanks

mcseiu

[AndreTheGiant]

As written before, the attachment is not very usefull.

You have to watch into the summary tab or the alarm tab on the ESX that are red.

Usually the problem could be or a HA misconfiguration or some triggered alarm.

Probably you have some trigger on memory or CPU overload alarm.

Andre

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[mokarrom]

Dear Boss

now i am sent another attachment regrading this issue. pls help me

mcseiu

[AndreTheGiant]

Please, send the triggered alarm view, not the definition view.

Thanks

Andre

[mokarrom]

Thanks ALL GURU,

i recover from this problem. I Just restart this two ESX server then it is working state. Problem was hardware related.

again thanks to all people

mcseiu

[mokarrom]

cluster resource show esx3 server not responding. and host status show : inactive

but esx login window is shown, but cannot conect this server via http.

please help me and please say the step of shutdown process for VMWare

i have four esx one VC and san attached storage

thanks

mcseiu

[weinstein5]

You might try removing the inactive ESX hosts form the inventory and readding them -

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