Here is a bit of interesting evidence to help you get to the heart of
the problem. I took your command and changed the variables to match a
configuration in the lab, here is the command I used:
./vmcontrol.pl --server 152.14.17.230 --username root --password
password_here --operation poweroff --vmname vdc
This command successfully turns on a host when executed on a linux box
wit viperl installed and running from the /usr/lib/vmware-viperl/apps/
vm/ directory.
Here's another consideration, when I look at at the Licensed Features
of my ESX 3i servers, I don't have any "Add-Ons," but I notice that
yours have VMware Consolidated Backup which is installed with the
"Evaluation License," when one first turns on an unlicensed ESX 3i
box. When the license file from vmware.com is installed, it removes
this Add-On capability. Yours is not removed, so this leads me to
believe that your license configuration is not correct.
Have you reproduced the problem on a different physical hypervisor?
When licensing an ESX server, what exactly is your procedure?
There is a prompt you are asked for during the licensing process, what
is your response to that?
In short, take another look at it, because that command works great on
our end, and we're using commodity ESX 3i with a license from vmware.com
Best,
Brian
Brian Bouterse
Secure Open Systems Initiative
919.698.8796
On May 17, 2009, at 9:22 AM, 杨杰 wrote:
There are two conditions:
1. The free license is installed correctly( which has been confirmed
today).
When checking the licensed features, i get the information as follows:
Licensed Features
Licensed Source
Serial Number: [the SN got from the website]
ESX Server Edition
ESX Server Standalone Licensed for 2 CPUs
NAS Usage
iSCSI Usage
Up to 4-way virtual SMP
SAN Usage
Add-Ons
[Nothing here because no addons are installed]
On the condition, the CMD i typed and the ERROR is:
[r...@management vm]# ./vmcontrol.pl --server 192.168.4.202 --
username
root --password xjtudlc --operation poweroff --vmname Redh5
Error in 'Redh5' under host esxi2.p12.edu.cn: VM 'Redh5' can't be
powered
off
SOAP Fault:
-----------
Fault string: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
2. No license is installed:
After the former operation, i deleted the license and checked the
licensed
features, i get the information as follows:
Licensed Features
Licensed Source
Evaluation 30 day(s) remaining
ESX Server Edition
ESX Server Standalone Licensed for 2 CPUs
NAS Usage
iSCSI Usage
Up to 4-way virtual SMP
SAN Usage
Add-Ons
VMware Consolidated Backup Licensed for 2 CPUs
Then i started the vm with the VIClient and executed the same cmd
through
the remote command console. The operation is successful without any
error or
warnings. The target vm is also stopped as the cmd.
We have checked the installation of the license and the error is
indeed
here. i dont know how to solve it.
virtual machine 'Redh5' under host esxi2.p12.edu.cn powered off
2009/5/16 Brian Bouterse <[email protected]>
The ESX 3i license given to you from the website, is that
installed? You
can check under Configuration -> Licensed Features to make sure you
have
your stuff licensed for N CPUs.
I've used vmcreate and vmcontrol operations with the ESX 3i and it
worked
fine for me. Could you provide the commands which are
problematic? I don't
see them in the e-mail thread below.
Best,
Brian
Brian Bouterse
Secure Open Systems Initiative
919.698.8796
On May 15, 2009, at 11:11 PM, 杨杰 wrote:
HI, I have one more question, which is a problem in our experiment.
We are
now using the esxi with free license. When trying to take the
operations
like vmcreate or vmcontrol, we receive an error command saying
that we are
trying a restricted operation. The cmds are as shown:
Error in 'Redh5' under host esxi2.p12.edu.cn: VM 'Redh5' can't be
powered
off
SOAP Fault:
-----------
Fault string: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
The question has been submitted to the mailing list some days
before. As
the reply, we confirmed the reason on the both conditions of non-
license
and
free-license, but the operations still succeeded without license and
failed
with a free license. Some discussions in the vmware official forum
show
that
the free license is restricted from modification operations.
Have you encountered the problem ? And is there any way to solve the
problem
?
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Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong
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Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong
University
TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24
MSN: [email protected]
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