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Allowing Update Manager to reach vmware

April 27, 2015, 11:03 pm
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Hi all, I have a vCenter 5.5 Update Manager which is unable to reach vmware.com

On the firewall we have allow the traffic to the below on port 80 & 443. So far we don't see any traffic blocked, except the connection attempt is incomplete

204.51.149.4

208.91.0.132

 

On telnet, we are able to successfully telnet most except vmware.com port 443.

I have log 3 cases with vmware support but till now they still insist that it's the firewall that's blocking. Both sites are not loading also on IE & Chrome.

 

The server's firewall is disabled and no settings on IE LAN settings.

We notice that xml.shavlik.com IP do change to 204.51.149.5, does anyone know the range IP for xml.shavlik.com ?

 

Please let me know if I miss out anything on troubleshooting

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VUM for vSphere 6 questions and best practise....

May 27, 2015, 2:46 am
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Hi All


Question on VUM for vSphere 6.


Our environment is


Windows Server 2008 R2 with vCentre 5.0 using SQL 2008 Standard - Live Server (configured with all hosts) with VUM install, VUM on a seperate DB

Windows Server 2012 R2 with vCentre 6.0 using SQL 2012 Standard - Will become new server soon (no hosts currently added)


As a department we made the decision to go to vSphere 6. Currently I have setup a new VM and the vCentre part of it is installed alongside SQL Server 2012 Standard. I have opted to install vCentre with the Embedded platform services controller. As we are only a small to medium size organisation I was wondering if there is a better way around this? We have 5 hosts and approx 150 VMs and unlikely to grow this as our hosts have plenty of resource both in terms of CPU and memory and have been recently commissioned.


 

I have now got up to the Update manager component but have a few questions regarding VUM for vSphere 6.


 

Am I right in saying we now need 2 separate servers to administer VUM? One has the Update Manager Server role and the other needs to just have the download service? Both services cannot sit on the same server?


For VUM can I also use a separate DB on the existing SQL 2012 standard server rather than an embedded SQL express DB. This is the setup I had when we had 4.0 and 5.0 and it worked well.

 

How are others using VUM with the non appliance version of vCentre?

 

Thanks

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Update Manager - Error connecting to VMware vCenter Update Manager - Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

June 1, 2009, 1:51 pm
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I have uninstalled and reinstalled, I've triple checked that I can log on to the VCenter server using the Update Manager account that is DB Owner on the Update Manager database. I can connect to SQL using the ODBC SQL 2008 native client under that same account. But we get the same error from multiple machines when we install and run the VCenter plugin.

 

Any Ideas?

 

 

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How to work with UPM

June 11, 2015, 3:07 am
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I would need assistance in configuring userdefined taskschedules for downloading latest pathes and bug fixes using UPM. Kindly share the best work design procedure would be really appreciated.

 

Thanks in Advace!!

 

 

 

Best Regards,

Swamy Naveen,

+91-9985549073

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Forcing down a VA that won't shutdown on Maintenance Mode for Host update...

June 16, 2015, 4:24 am
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Morning All,

 

This has been bugging me for some time, and the time has come to ask for assistance... Common scenario. Lots of ESX 5.5 hosts to update automagically. vCenter Update Manager is installed. I run 2 pinned virtual appliances on each host for platform applications, let's call them A and B, and each VA requires to remain pinned to the host. When I put a host into maintenance mode, the 'other' virtual machines on each host migrate off, leaving these 2 VA's. VA 'A' that requires to go down last is waiting for VA 'B' to go down, but 'B' doesn't go down. VA 'A' WILL shut down when it see's it's the last entity on the host, but because 'B' won't shut down, it's left in a state of limbo. It's a missing feature in the product and a product enhancement request is in place but...

 

The fact that VA 'B' won't shut down means I'm unable to automate this process, usually it would be a case of setting VCUM in motion and letting it do it's thing across the hosts, but this niggle is causing a major issue in this process.

 

Is there any way, via perhaps CLI, that this requirement can be included in the update process? Something sent to VA 'B' on each host as VCUM moves across the hosts to shut it down, instead of having make this whole update process manual?

 

I'm struggling to visualise what this might look like, whether the whole process becomes a CLI script or if it can be added/injected in some manner to the process.

 

If I've failed to explain the situation properly, feel free to ask, but I'm banging my head against the wall on this. Any guidance appreciated.

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Errors after change vmwareadm password

June 16, 2015, 1:12 pm
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Hello guys, I´ve a noobie question.

For some reason someone changed the password of my vmwareadm (used only on vcenter, I think...) and I cannot rollback it because I really don´t remember the last password, so, after that now I´m having some troubles like

 

trying to use webclient

1 )  ErrorMessageCouldNotConnect

 

2) when I try to configure some virtual machine, there´s an erro:
integrity.fault.NoVcConnection.summary

 

Do you know what to do to try to resolve it ? I don´t know where I have to start to check.

 

Thanks

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Installing VUM on Production vCenter Server

June 18, 2015, 7:56 am
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Hello,

 

The person who set up vCenter prior to me taking it over, never installed VUM. I am wanting to install it to ensure my esxi hosts are patched and up to date, but was wanting to know if there was any danger in installing it on the vCenter server when it is already in production?

 

Thanks.

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Vendor specific patches

July 2, 2015, 11:50 am
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We just implemented a Cisco UCS blade system. I have a question about patching them with update Manager.

All our other hosts are HP. I download updates from their depot which automatically get put in the Non Critical Patches baseline.

Will Update manager apply vendor specific patches to any host regardless of the actual vendor?

Do I need to put these into a separate baseline and remove them from the Non Critical Host Patches baseline?

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VMware vSphere Update Manager notification alert: (critical): 1(1)

June 10, 2015, 12:19 am
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How can I disable this alert?

VMware vSphere Update Manager notification alert: (critical): 1(1)


The number of notifications downloaded:

Critical/Total notifications: 1/1

 

ID: ESXi550-201505101-BN

Impact: Critical

Release date: 2015-05-05

Summary: VMware advises not to upgrade to ESX 5.5 Patch Release ESXi550-201504002 released on 4/30/2015.   Refer to KB#2116370 for details.

Description: VMware advises not to upgrade to ESX 5.5 Patch Release ESXi550-201504002 released on 4/30/2015.   Refer to KB#2116370 for details.

 

When I clear this alarm in vcenter, it will appear again after restarting update manager service.

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There are conflicts from the patches

August 8, 2015, 11:30 pm
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I get this err for 5.1 patches

 

There are conflicts from the patches ESXi510-201304103-SG, ESXi510-Up

date01, ESXi510-Update02, ESXi510-Update03 selected for staging or remediation.

Check the events for conflict details and possible resolution.

 

 

Anyone has any clue on this ?

 

Thanks

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UMDS Shared Repository with IIS Virtual Directory

August 17, 2015, 4:35 am
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Hi All,

 

I have a question regarding UMDS

 

I have a network which is not connected to the network and has a high number of virtual centers running on it.

 

I'm going to build a server with IIS, create a Virtual Directory website and have all my VUMs connect to the virtual directory as a shared repository.

 

I will be exporting the patches from a UMDS server that IS connected to the internet & dumping them on the IIS Servers Virtual Directory using physical media.

 

My question is, even though my IIS server won't have internet access and I won't be downloading pacthes from it, will I still need UMDS installed on the IIS Server for it to function as my Shared Repository Source?

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VUM 6.0 service monitoring causing [VMware vCenter - Alarm alarm.HealthStatusChangedAlarm] status changed from green to gray and then gray to greeen

April 6, 2015, 8:09 pm
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I am working with vCenter 6.0 in a TEST/LAB environment to mimic what I plan to do in production at some stage; I completed an in place upgrade from an existing 5.5 update 2 already running VUM on the same windows 2008 r2 virtual server. I have also upgraded the VUM component to 6 and it appears to be working correctly.

 

What's happening is that at random times I start to received alerts from vCenter Health Service monitoring as per the title of this post with the following detail -  9BED25BE-9530-4445-8A9D-B675904EFE0B_com.vmware.vcIntegrity status changed from gray to green or the other way depending - when I get these alerts I check in the web client and see that the VMware vSphere Extension is listed in the unknown section of the services health, then a little while later it returns to good.

 

having a look in the c:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Logs folder at the stderrout.log files I can see the following is being logged at around the same time as the alerts are being generated

(actual ip address is replaced with <my server ip>)

 

2015-04-07 10:15:51.866:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64118

2015-04-07 10:16:23.124:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64157

2015-04-07 10:17:25.663:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64233

2015-04-07 10:18:28.228:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64332

2015-04-07 10:18:59.498:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64493

2015-04-07 10:20:02.099:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64558

2015-04-07 10:21:04.501:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64668

2015-04-07 10:21:35.798:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64802

2015-04-07 10:22:37.234:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64897

2015-04-07 10:23:08.495:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64958

2015-04-07 10:23:39.737:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:65029

 

Just wondering if anyone else has seen something similar, or if it is an issue with my installation, or a problem running vcenter server and vum on the same machine? I have reinstalled VUM and restarted the VM with no change to the behaviour; I have checked the performance of the VM and the host and nothing looks out of the ordinary...any ideas?

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Patch Cisco Custom Image

March 18, 2015, 6:04 am
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Hi,

 

I've installed a Cisco Custom ESXi 5.5 Image in a UCS C220 M3 and i would like to know if i can install the patches using Update Manager as i do with a default image. I'm not sure if i'll have any problems because some patches update the ESXi drivers and could for example overwrite the Cisco enic and fnic.

 

I know HP and Dell have their repositories that i can use with Update Manager, but cannot find anything like that for cisco.

 

Thanks

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Password with or without special characters...?

September 11, 2015, 5:15 am
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Hi,

 

Environment: VSphere ESXi 6.0 recently updated.

 

I have just moved to the VCenter Server Appliance (from windows based VCenter server).  The v6 VCenter Server Appliance version required me to use server password WITH special characters.

 

Now I wanted to install the VUM Server in a regular Win2012R2 server and the installation ofMS SQL Server 2012 empedded completed successfully.  Then I was required to enter the vcenter server name and login creds.  I entered it, using the password with the required special characters.  Bummer.  Immediately after clicking 'Next' the error 'Setup failed with an unknown error.  vCenter server credentials could not be validated.'  The log displays error 199.

 

After some googling I find that this error is caused by using special characters in the vcenter server password.  I tried to proceed by omitting the special character in the password.  Then it displayed an expected  'invalid username or password' dialog.

 

So I cannot install the vcenter server appliance WITHOUT using special characters in the password, AND the update manager server cannot be connected to a vcenter server WITH special characters in the password.  Mission impossible unless you have a clever workaround..?

 

Thanks for help on this issue.

 

Tor

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Update Manager VCenter Web Client Plugin

September 17, 2015, 8:06 am
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I have Vcenter installed as an appliance and the update manager installed on a windows 2012 server.

 

When I go to the web client for VCenter I cannot see the Web plugin for the Update Manager, how do I get it installed?

 

John.

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Configure update manager 5.5 to use a different version of MSXML for security reasons

August 10, 2015, 11:14 am
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Versions:

vCenter 5.5

Update Manager 5.5

Esxi 5.5

 

Hello.  It looks like update manager 5.5 uses C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msxml4.dll which is flagged as a critical vulnerability.  We need to remediate to the most recent version.  Updating the dll is no problem but what do I need to do to get Update Manager to look at the newly deployed MSXML dll?

 

Thanks in advance for any info you can provide,

Jamey

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Disk Space is growing day by day in GBs of Drive D where VMware Update Manager Service is installed

October 2, 2015, 11:50 pm
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vCenter Server 6.0  disk space is growing automatically on daily basis in GBs. On which disk, vCneter Update Manager is installed. Size of this particular Drive is 50 GB in which only 4 GB data is reside however its space has been consumed 43 GB.

 

When all space has been occupied of this Drive  ( Drive D) then vCenter Server Services goes stop. I have no idea where is the problem and could not find out the root cause. Secondly, other-than vCenter Update Manager Server Services, all vCenter Server 6.0 related services are installed on Drive C. 

 

Internet Services are enabled on vCenter Server but i have disabled the option on Update Manager configuration Tab for auto downloading VMware patches. Please help out.......

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com.vmware.vcintegrity alert

October 9, 2015, 7:11 am
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Hi,

 

i moved my vcenter 5.5 to a different server (2003 -> 2008r2) while upgrading from 5.1 caused by os incompatibility.

everything works fine but the vcenter shows an com.vmware.vcintegrity alert.

Error Message is that i cant receive systemstate of https://vcsernameOLD:9084/vci/downloads/health.xml.

By the fact that i do not use the update manager i did not move the update manager to the new server i just deleted the old server after i reinstalled the vcenter on my new server with the old database.

 

Can anyone tell me how can i let the vcenter forget that their was a update manager and fix the alert?

 

i tried to access the https://venterip/mob website but the plugin is not registered, so might be a config xml entry or a database entry which is still wrong.

 

Or am i just wrong in my opinion, that the error tell me he cant contact the no longer existing update manager??

 

 

Thanks for your help

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VMware vSphere Update Manager extension

October 9, 2015, 5:44 am
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Hello community!

I have a VMware vSphere Update Manager 6  installed in my vSphere6 env.

Update manager is working fine and updates hosts, but in WebClient in "System configuration" tab in services health status I observe "VMware vSphere Update Manager extension" in critical status.

When I open it I see following:

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I checked the update manager and vpxd logs and found nothing suspicious.

Any idea what might it be?

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Remove imported bnx2 driver

October 3, 2015, 8:12 pm
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Hello,

 

I imported a bnx2 driver into my Update Manager and now I want to remove it, but cannot figure out how.

 

Any ideas?

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