topic Re: Does VMM 3.7 support ESX4 in Operating System - VMware

Does VMM 3.7 support ESX4

Nicolai Rasmussen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:10:55 GMT

I can't seem to get the VMM agent running on ESX4. It dies with the following error messages:

ERROR - Failed to get license key information
ERROR - ESX Server Standalone can not be managed by VMM
VML -2: VMM does not manage ESX Base license edition!

Re: Does VMM 3.7 support ESX4

Nicolai Rasmussen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:12:08 GMT

I forgot to mention that I AM running a full licensed version of ESX4.

Re: Does VMM 3.7 support ESX4

Niels Vejrup Pedersen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:23:53 GMT

Hi,

According to the QuickSpecs it is supported on ESX 4.

Which version of SIM are you using ? (You need to be on 5.3.1)

Regards

Re: Does VMM 3.7 support ESX4

Nicolai Rasmussen — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:17:45 GMT

I am on SIM 5.3.1, but so far I don't think SIM has anything to do with it, since the agent wont even run on the host.
These are btw. the installed hp rpms on my hosts:

vmware-esx-drivers-ata-pata-hpt3x2n-400.0.3-1.0.4.164009
vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-hpsa-400.3.6.14.24vmw-1.0.4.164009
hp-snmp-agents-8.2.5-50.vmware4x
hp-agents-config-8.2.5-24
hpilo-400.1.1.1.1VMW-00001
hpvmmagent-4.7.0.1069-esx
hp-health-8.2.5-50.vmware4x
hpsmh-3.0.1-73
hp-smh-templates-8.2.5-51

Re: Does VMM 3.7 support ESX4

Adrian Clint — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:49 GMT

When you say you are fully licensed do you mean you have an ESX enterprise license loaded?

Re: Does VMM 3.7 support ESX4

Nicolai Rasmussen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:08:01 GMT

No, I have a "vSphere Advanced license".

I've got HP software support working on this issue, as I was instructed to upgrade from VMM 3.7 to 3.7.1 on the sim server, but now the installation prompts me for ORACLE db cridentials, and I'm NOT running an oracle db...
They've been ad it for about a month now, and I'm starting to lose my patience :S

Re: Does VMM 3.7 support ESX4

Diogo_Conrado — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:14:26 GMT

Do you know where I can find the version 3.7.1 to download?

Thanks.

Re: Does VMM 3.7 support ESX4

Nicolai Rasmussen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:08:57 GMT

As far as I can understand 3.7.1 isn't officially available yet. Release should be November 2009 - which is now I guess.

Anyway, I got 3.7 running by adding dbType=MSSQL in sims globalsettings.props file (sim-install-dir/config/globalsettings.props).

I installed hpvmmagent-4.8.0.1047-esx on the ESX servers, and it appears to run just fine now :)

Re: Does VMM 3.7 support ESX4

Nicolai Rasmussen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:11:50 GMT

3.7 is required for ESX 4. The install/upgrade problems from 3.6 to 3.7 was solved by adding dbType=MSSQL to the globalsettings.props file.