I've been working with a severely hacked up VCL installation. I've had an up and down relationship with it. Ten minutes ago, it was "up", and now it's sort of "down".
I was able to load images not too long ago (read: 10-20 minutes ago), and now I can't get them to load at all. VCLd says the images are failing. A closer look shows that the images aren't getting registered, mainly because of a sudden "invalid datastore path" error: 2010-07-07 03:14:49|28692|127:130|new|esx.pm:load(381)|Register Command: /usr/lib/vmware-viperl/apps/vm/vmregister.pl --server 'vmware1' --username vcl --password 'noc!vc1n0de' --vmxpath '[VCL]/inuse/host10/vmwareesxwinxp-base14-v3.vmx' --operation register --vmname host10 --pool Resources --hostname 'vmware1.ivcl.soe' --datacenter 'ha-datacenter' 2010-07-07 03:14:49|28649|vcld:main(164)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2010-07-07 03:14:49 2010-07-07 03:14:49|28649|vcld:main(183)|number of requests assigned to management node 1: 17 2010-07-07 03:14:49|28649|vcld:main(358)|there are 0 block requests assigned to management node 1 2010-07-07 03:14:51|28692|127:130|new|esx.pm:load(384)|Registered: |28692|127:130|new| Invalid datastore path: [VCL]/inuse/host10/vmwareesxwinxp-base14-v3.vmx 2010-07-07 03:14:51|28692|127:130|new|esx.pm:load(393)|Power on command: /usr/lib/vmware-viperl/apps/vm/vmcontrol.pl -- server 'vmware1' --vmname host10 --operation poweron -- username vcl --password 'noc!vc1n0de' 2010-07-07 03:14:53|28692|127:130|new|esx.pm:load(396)|Powered on: Virtual Machine host10 not found. No recipient addresses found in header 2010-07-07 03:14:54|28692|127:130|new|utils.pm:mail(1348)|SUCCESS -- Sending mail To: , PROBLEM -- esx.pm |28692|127:130|new| ---- CRITICAL ---- |28692|127:130|new| 2010-07-07 03:14:54|28692|127:130|new|esx.pm:load(429)|Could not query for VM in VI PERL API |28692|127:130|new| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 730) |28692|127:130|new| (-1) esx.pm, load (line: 429) |28692|127:130|new| (-2) new.pm, reload_image (line: 665) |28692|127:130|new| (-3) new.pm, process (line: 266) |28692|127:130|new| (-4) vcld, make_new_child (line: 594) |28692|127:130|new| (-5) vcld, main (line: 341) |28692|127:130|new| ---- WARNING ---- |28692|127:130|new| 2010-07-07 03:14:54|28692|127:130|new|new.pm:reload_image(670)|vmwareesxw inxp-base14-v3 failed to load on host10, returning |28692|127:130|new| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 730) |28692|127:130|new| (-1) new.pm, reload_image (line: 670) |28692|127:130|new| (-2) new.pm, process (line: 266) |28692|127:130|new| (-3) vcld, make_new_child (line: 594) |28692|127:130|new| (-4) vcld, main (line: 341) 2010-07-07 03:14:54|28692|127:130|new|utils.pm:insertloadlog(4212)|insert ed computer=10, loadimagefailed, vmwareesxwinxp-base14-v3 failed to load on host10 |28692|127:130|new| ---- WARNING ---- |28692|127:130|new| 2010-07-07 03:14:54|28692|127:130|new|new.pm:process(313)|failed to load host10 with vmwareesxwinxp-base14-v3 |28692|127:130|new| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 730) |28692|127:130|new| (-1) new.pm, process (line: 313) |28692|127:130|new| (-2) vcld, make_new_child (line: 594) |28692|127:130|new| (-3) vcld, main (line: 341) I am going to have to check the management nodes to see if something happened to the NFS server. Is there any other reason this might have happened when everything seemed to be working well not 20 minutes ago? Thanks. - Cliff